At The Zoo

On one sunny Wednesday morning, when the sun was shining and the sparrows were singing, our class and I went to the zoo.  

I walked into an amazing palace of nature. The trees were waving in the breeze as if a giant hand was waving to me. 
“Can we go and see the red pandas first?“ I said to Janene. 
“Sure,” replied Janene. 
Step by step, we walked over to the red panda. At first, we could not see them. I looked into the tree. There was a big box that had a plastic container with food in it. The foods were cutup apple, grapes and oranges. Soon I saw its white and maroon face. I reached into my pocket and pulled  out my phone and took a few photos. The red panda was so cute.

Next, we saw the meerkats. There was only one of them. It poked its little head up to look for danger. Soon, there was another one, digging into the sand, then it climbed onto the large old log. It jumped onto the side and back to the ground, then it stood on two legs.

Finally, we went to see the giraffe. It was eating the hay, then it started to walk over to us. It stretched its long neck up above us then another one came to us. Just in time, I took a photo. 
“Say cheese," I thought to myself. 
I hope I can go to the Hamilton Zoo again.

The Horse Party

On one windy Friday afternoon, when the wind was a breeze, we went to a horse party in Hamilton.
First, Bianca and I got our helmets. Mine was a black one with some white stripes on it and, at the front, was a silver horse that looked like it was galloping.
Before we got to ride the brown horses, we had a lolly scramble. There were milkeys and fruit bursts. I got three milkeys and five fruit bursts.After the lolly scramble, we had to ride the horses, I was first in line so I walked over to the horse and got on it. At first, it was lumpy. Soon it had started to trot forward. Next, the trot was a gallop. It ran in and out of the cones and back to the beginning again.I got off and walked to the back of the line. I could not wait to go again.

Tiger

One sunny afternoon, in the school holidays,  Michael and Amanda went to the zoo.

“Can we go to the tiger enclosure, first, Dad?”  asked Michael.

“Sure,” replied Dad, with a smile.

Michael and Amanda walked along the wooden steps hoping to see the tigers.

“See you there!!” yelled Amanda running toward the tiger cage.

When Michael started to run to catch up to her, he heard a loud Rooaaarrr.

“Could that be the tiger?” he thought. 
Michael caught up to her and told her what he had heard. When they got to the tiger enclosure, they saw that the cage door was open. Their mouths dropped open with terror.

“We’ve got to tell Mum and Dad.” 
Step by step, they ran through the trees to where Mum and Dad were standing. They saw some material lying on the ground. Then they heard Mum’s whisper coming from the tree. 
“Mum where are you? We’ve been looking for you.” “Ssshhhh,” Mum grumpily said, with her finger up to her lips.

Then they saw the tiger! 
“That must be why she shhd at us.”         

The material that they had seen had been ripped off Dad's shorts!”

“Then where is he? Yeah, come on Mum. What about that tiger? Let's find Dad first. He might know. Of course, great idea.”

Mum carefully climbed down from the tree looking at the tiger. “What if it wakes up and moves to another place? Like the office? Lots of other people might not know about it out of its cage. Come on, quick now.“

They ran to the office and told the zoo keepers that the tiger had got out of its cage. Lots and lots of zoo keepers came together.

”I've got an idea!” announced Amanda. “We can get a large piece of meat and get the tiger to chase us and get into one of the carts and back to where it belongs in its cage.”

“But what about the others in the zoo?“

“We can tell them all to leave the zoo,” so all the zoo keepers ran around the zoo to tell the other people to leave the zoo. 
Soon there were no other visitors in the zoo and the zoo keepers had got the meat, then they were in the cart getting the attention of the tiger to chase them. 
Finally, they were at the tiger cage. They got off as fast as they could and threw the large piece of meat into the cage. The large cat pounced into the cage and started to eat happily. The zoo keepers closed the gates, and one of them said, ”Thank you. I guess that you have earned a reward and that is to pat the tiger cubs.”