WRiting Contest #5

Primary Category Winning SUbmissions

HOW TO MAKE ROCK ART
By Jasmine Azbair
First Place, Primary Category

I like to get rocks from different places I visited and when I’m bored I pick one and paint on it. I usually paint a cute happy face then take them to school to play with friends. I’m trying to promote rock art to other children to make them happier as it’s fun and creative. I am going to explain how I do rock art and why YOU should do it too.

Rock art is a good activity to do when you’re bored and will get children away from computers, Ipads and phones.

This is also a really great activity to do to recall memories, this can then spark creative play with other children which means you can make friends with Rock Art!

Rock art is a good gift for friends, you can scatter them around school and the home for your family and friends to find.

Now I will explain how to make rock art

First find a rock, pick a rock that looks like a good luck pebble, but it doesn't have to be, make sure it is smooth and round. If it’s not smooth then the paint will look bad on the rock. Second find your favorite colour paints, but if you don't have any paint you can draw with a black crayon or sharpie. Draw a face or any butterfly, flower or anything that will make you happy. Lastly you must wait for it to dry then you can share with your friends or play with it. You can also leave it in the street for strangers to see and make them smile.

Good luck on your rock art adventures and make sure you make yourself smile- and other people.

How to Catch a Leprechaun
By Cadence Liang
Second Place, Primary Category 

How would you like to see a leprechaun in real life?  Well, let me tell you all about it.

The first step is to grab some glitter, if you have some, but don’t grab it just yet! I haven’t finished! It has to be green glitter. Now you can go grab it. The next step is to go to any of your house’s rooms and open all of the windows. Now I must warn you! If you only open one single window, the leprechaun will not come. The next step is to grab a green bowl, a green spoon and a green place mat. You need these materials because Leprechauns’ eyes are attracted to the colour green. 

Now, let me tell you some facts about  leprechaun. Firstly, a leprechaun eats with its feet - it sounds gross, right? But not to a leprechaun. I even try to eat with my feet. But it is too, too hard. Secondly,  Leprechauns are basically small, old men that have beards.  Usually they are no taller than three feet. And lastly, if you see the end of a rainbow, you could find them hiding with a pot of gold.  If you manage to catch the leprechaun, they will want to go.  So, if you let them go, they will grant you three wishes.

Now, back to the steps. The last but not least step - when you go to bed, make sure in the morning, you check if the leprechaun is there. If it's not, then there’s nothing I can do about it! Sorry ! Too bad, too sad!!!

Now, from my tips, I hope you know how to catch a leprechaun!

How To: Play Minecraft
By Charles Guo
Third Place, Primary Category

I feel happy when I play Minecraft. My favorite thing about Minecraft is Creative Mode. I am good at Minecraft. When I first started, I didn’t know that punching trees was the first step, so I was killed by mobs. And then I switched into Creative Mode and flew around and found a tiny village. I found a spot to build a city. Then I played for 283 days, and then I switched back to Survival Mode. I learned the skills in Creative Mode, so when I was back in Survival Mode, I survived 20 nights, and mobs didn’t spawn, so I put spawners around. If you want to get good at Minecraft, first you need to go into a world and then collect resources like wood, stone, iron, redstone, diamonds, and coal. After that, you make armor! You need armor to go to the Nether. In the Nether, you have to beat an enemy called a Blaze and an Enderman. The Blaze will drop Blaze Rods, and the Enderman will drop Ender Pearls. You have to make the Blaze Rods into Blaze Powder. Then you have to put the Blaze Powder with the Ender Pearls together and make Eyes of Ender. Then you have to throw one, and it will go in a direction, and then you have to follow it. When it goes down, you have to dig down and go to a place called the Stronghold, which is a maze. In the maze, there is an End Portal! Then you have to go in the portal and go into a place called the End. Then there are Endermen and the Ender Dragon. Beat them! And win! After that you can go to the End City and find an Elytra and fly back to the Overworld. Then you have to go to the Nether again. Then you can mine something called Ancient Debris. Then you have to mine it and make a Netherite Ingot. You have to make Netherite armor and throw away diamond armor because you don't need it anymore. Then you have to go back to the Overworld, and then you get rich!!!!

How To: Annoy Your Teacher
By Sophia Ma 
Honourable Mention, Primary Category

Okay, it might be a bit strange that I'm writing this, but let's do it. Here is an easy one you can do. You don’t need anything. You can say “guess what” multiple times, and then after that, say “I forgot.” If you can handle the dizziness, just spin around and keep doing that (but you can stop whenever you want). For fun, just ask a bunch of questions. Or you can do what I’m doing (writing how to annoy your teacher). But if you are a good student, you have the wrong thing in your hands. Don’t worry if you're not a good annoyer, but if you are really smart, like teacher smart, or even smarter than the teacher, then correct them*.

I will give you one last move: sending notes to them and not signing your name or anything. Whatever you pick, just be good and don’t turn into a troublemaker.

*Don’t be rude.