Despicable Me: Movie Review

The story: Gru, the world's greatest criminal, wants to steal the moon. But bank won't give him the money he needs for it because he didn't have the shrink ray he needed to steal it. He decides to steal it from another criminal. To do this he needs three orphans who sell cookies. But the orphans want a home and a family, even if it means turning Gru into a dad.

It was a very exciting movie because things keep going wrong and Gru has to try and fix it.

My favourite part was when Gru was trying to explain to the bank his plan for getting the moon and the three orphan girls mess it up for him.

My favourite character is Agnes, the smallest orphan. She loves unicorns. When she sees a really, really fluffy unicorn toy, she just has to have it.

I really liked the movie. I want to watch it again.

My Afternoon with Mum

Every Wednesday Imogen goes to work. Mum always takes one of us younger girls shopping with her. We do the shopping, then we have some afternoon tea.

This week it was my turn to go with Mum. First we dropped Imogen off at work, then we went shopping. I saw some really cute bags. They were pink. One had an 'M' on it. Both bags were very small.

After shopping we went for afternoon tea. Mum got a hot chocolate. I chose a strawberry slushie. I've been wanting one of those for a long time. I also had an iced eclair. It was really nice. I've never had one of those before.

My slushie was so thick that I had trouble sucking it up the straw. I had to drink it so slowly, that I had to finish it in the car. But my cake was all gone.

I had a wonderful trip out with Mum.

Scooters Round the Lake

My sisters and I are the Speed Angel Sisters. The Speed Angel Sisters ride their scooters all together. We ride single file, having fun together.

Yesterday the Speed Angel Sisters went to the park with their scooters. It was the first time we had all ridden our scooters together. We were extremely excited.

When we had put up our scooter we ran to the path and scootered off. Gemma-Rose was in the lead. Charlotte was at the back. We rode round the lake. I was happy because we were all together on our scooters.

We had to keep on jumping off the scooters when people walked by. Then, once we were past them, we jumped on and zoomed off again.

In the middle we stopped for some afternoon tea and a drink. I didn't expect afternoon tea. It was a big surprise when Imogen pulled the food out of her bag. After we had eaten we were ready to go again.

When I was too tired to scooter any more, Gemma-Rose and I went to play on the play equipment. It was crowed with mothers and children come to play in the park in the holidays. We still managed to have fun.

Then Imogen and Charlotte came on their scooters to get us. They had continued going round the lake. We jumped off the play equipment and ran to the picnic table where Dad was waiting for us.

I really liked going to the park with my sisters. I like riding scooters with them. Go the Speed Angel Sisters!

Going to Camp

This week we went to a homeschoolers' camp. I like going to the camp because I get to see all my friends. The campsite is in the bush. It is nice, peaceful and quiet. I like walking through the bush.

On Tuesday we had a bishop come to the camp. He talked to us about his vestments, why he has a staff, and how they elect popes. He has a staff because he is like the good shepherd. A shepherd needs a crook to pull sheep out of holes and mud.

On Wednesday we had an athletics carnival. I was in a relay race. We came second. We had sprints too, and a cross country race. In the cross country I raced against the other girls my age and I won! I went in the long jump too, and the high jump. In the high jump we had ink on our fingers and had to see how high we could put the ink.

One of my friends had a birthday that day. We brought a big chocolate cake for her. We sang happy birthday and then ate the cake. It was yummy.

On Thursday we were consecrated to Our Lady. We said a prayer that was written by St Maxamilian Kolbe. In this prayer we promised to be obedient to Mary and do what she wanted us to do. Then we were given big miraculous medals to wear. I wore mine all day. We brought some home for the rest of the family too.

I really enjoyed the camp because there were lots of people to play with and I made some new friends. I like making new friends.

The Annunciation

In the morning Gemma-Rose and I made vanilla cakes for the Annunciation. They were very quick and easy. I had a lot of fun. When we had finished the cakes we made yes cards. Yes cards are little hearts with yes written on them for Mary said yes to God and so should we. 

How to make the yes cards

1.                  Find two heart shaped things to draw around, something to colour them in with and some glitter if you have any.

2.                  Draw around the bigger heart shaped thing on to a piece of card and then around the smaller heart shaped thing twice and write yes on them. When we made them Charlotte wrote in fancy writing that came from a book.

3.                  Colour in the writing.

4.                  Then decorate with flowers, hearts or whatever you think would make them            

look nice.

5.                  Put some glitter on them and let them dry.

6.                  Draw around the little heart shaped thing a few more times.

7.                  Then write yes on them.

8.                  When you are done with the big one and the two small hearts put a hole at the top of the hearts and at the bottom off them and string them up together with some beads at the bottom of the last one.

9.                  When the little hearts are done, string them up too with beads at the bottom.

Thank you for reading, Sophie

The Rainbow Fairies

Gemma-Rose and I love to read The Rainbow Magic Fairies some of the books have pictures of the fairies in side them in black and white and I photocopy them to colour in. Here is a story I made up about them.

Once upon a time in a palace made of gold lived the King and Queen of Fairyland.

They were very worried because nasty Jack Frost had just taken all of the Rainbow Magic Fairies magic.

“Rachel we are almost there” said Kirsty Tate to her best friend Rachel Walker. They were going to a party at Rachel’s school. “I can not wait to see your friends for I have not seen them for months”

“I know” said Rachel.

At the party there was a lot of loud music playing. Just as Kirsty and Rachel had started dancing seven magic fairies bumped into them

”Sorry,” the red one said.

“Are you the Rainbow fairies?” said Rachel

“Yes,” said the Red fairy

“So what can we do to help?”

“Can you help us get back our magic wands,” said Ruby for that was the name of the red fairy.

“We will, we will,” said Rachel.

“What can we do to help?” said Kirsty

“Well first of all we need to go to Jack Frost and ask for the wands back that’s what”.

When they got to the castle they saw that the King and Queen of Fairyland.

“Give back the wands now Jack Frost,” the Queen was saying.

“NO” yelled Jack Frost.

“Give them back now” shouted Amber the orange fairy.

“I said No” yelled Jack Frost and with that he lifted his wand and muttered some magic words. Then some of his goblin servants floated through the air with the magic wands.

“What now?” asked Kirsty.

“We have to get the goblins to the Fairy Godmother of Fairyland,” said the King

“We will,” said Rachel and Kirsty at the same time.

The next thing they knew was they were being whisked home by a big wind. When they landed they went to the window

“If you do not know how to work it, the magic colour of the wand will come out,” said Inky the Indigo fairy.

“Ah, that makes our job easier,” said Kirsty.

“Yes it does, but it also means that they are more noticeable,” said Heather the Violet fairy

“At least we have the magic wands that the Fairy Queen gave us,” said Rachel.

After a little while a rainbow appeared in the sky

“Now!” shouted Sky the Blue fairy and with that the girls turned themselves into fairies. They flew to the rainbow where there were seven goblins with the seven wands

“Don’t worry,” said Sky. “There are more of us”.

The goblins were all fast asleep and so it was not hard for the girls to wave their magic wands over the goblins and take them to the Fairy Godmother. When they woke up they said, “Ah, it’s the Fairy Godmother.”

“What have you been doing to the Rainbow Fairies?” said the Fairy Godmother

“We stole their wands,” said the Goblins.

“And will you do again?”

“No, we will not.”

“Good. Now fairies, here are your wands.”

And with that she gave the fairies back their wands.

                                          The End