Why are there Pinnacles in Australia ?
A long time ago in the dreamtime, when there was nothing on earth, the sun was suddenly hotter than other days.
A star, which was next to the sun, began to warm up.
When the temperature came to 19 million degrees, the star began to crack.
When the temperature was approximately 1oo million degrees the star exploded and the parts fell like spears onto the earth and into the sea.
That is why today, there are lots of rocks in Australia which look like big posts. They are called the Pinnacles.
Adeline & Sylvain .
Why is a platypus half duck half beaver?
A long time ago, during the dreamtime, in the forest, not all the animals were friends. An example is the beaver and the duck. The beaver hated the duck and the duck hated the beavers. One day, the other animals were fed up with their war and tried to find a witch.
They wanted to turn the beaver into an animal which is half beaver half duck. To do this, the witch needed a hair of the two animals to bewitch them.
Two days later, there was a strange animal with a flat tail like a beaver and a beak like a duck in the forest.
This animal still exists today and is called the platypus.
By Frédérique and Marine
A long time ago, during the dreamtime, in the forest, not all the animals were friends. An example is the beaver and the duck. The beaver hated the duck and the duck hated the beavers. One day, the other animals were fed up with their war and tried to find a witch.
They wanted to turn the beaver into an animal which is half beaver half duck. To do this, the witch needed a hair of the two animals to bewitch them.
Two days later, there was a strange animal with a flat tail like a beaver and a beak like a duck in the forest.
This animal still exists today and is called the platypus.
By Frédérique and Marine
THE KING OF THE SEA WHO HAD BLUE BLOOD
A very long time ago in the dreamtime, the sea was transparent. The king of the sea was the biggest whale.
This whale was as big as Uluru and his blood was blue. He was a good whale so, all the fish liked him!!!
One day, he wanted to see the Aborigines. He came near the beach but the Aborigines didn’t know what this blue mountain was. They were scared and they decided to attack the whale! The poor whale bled into the sea. The king whale decided to return to the middle of the sea and his blood colured all the oceans and all the seas blue.
That’s why today fish are scared of humans and that's why the sea is blue!
END
By Suzon and Elodie
A very long time ago in the dreamtime, the sea was transparent. The king of the sea was the biggest whale.
This whale was as big as Uluru and his blood was blue. He was a good whale so, all the fish liked him!!!
One day, he wanted to see the Aborigines. He came near the beach but the Aborigines didn’t know what this blue mountain was. They were scared and they decided to attack the whale! The poor whale bled into the sea. The king whale decided to return to the middle of the sea and his blood colured all the oceans and all the seas blue.
That’s why today fish are scared of humans and that's why the sea is blue!
END
By Suzon and Elodie
Our Dreamtime stories
Why the echidna has spikes
A long time ago, in the dream time, there was an incredible animal. It was very small and looked like a mole. It lived in caves in the night and in the day it travelled everywhere. But one night, this incredible animal came to a cave but it didn’t know that there was a volcano above this cave. In the middle of the night, the volcano erupted. On the ceiling, there were stalactites, and when the floor stared to move, all stalactites falls on the poor animal and it was covered with spikes.
And now this strange animal with spikes is called the echidna.
By Gérald and Loïc.
A long time ago, in the dream time, there was an incredible animal. It was very small and looked like a mole. It lived in caves in the night and in the day it travelled everywhere. But one night, this incredible animal came to a cave but it didn’t know that there was a volcano above this cave. In the middle of the night, the volcano erupted. On the ceiling, there were stalactites, and when the floor stared to move, all stalactites falls on the poor animal and it was covered with spikes.
And now this strange animal with spikes is called the echidna.
By Gérald and Loïc.
Why some black mice have wings and hang from trees?
A long time ago, in the dreamtime, in the tropical forest, a strange black mouse was very sad because he had two ridiculous wings. He had no friends and felt so alone. But this day, a little white mouse cried under his tree. The back mouse heard her and consoled her. They fell in love and they were happy again. The black mouse looked at her all the morning and all the afternoon. But, when the night came, he was sad because he couldn’t see his loved one. So at night, he decided to sleep upside down with his head, hanging from the tree so he could see his loves one all the time. They were lovers forever and they had lots of black mice with wings who slept head upside down hanging from the tree. To this day you can see this strange animal in Australia, they are call flying foxes.
By BLOCH Margot
And DONATH Marion
A long time ago, in the dreamtime, in the tropical forest, a strange black mouse was very sad because he had two ridiculous wings. He had no friends and felt so alone. But this day, a little white mouse cried under his tree. The back mouse heard her and consoled her. They fell in love and they were happy again. The black mouse looked at her all the morning and all the afternoon. But, when the night came, he was sad because he couldn’t see his loved one. So at night, he decided to sleep upside down with his head, hanging from the tree so he could see his loves one all the time. They were lovers forever and they had lots of black mice with wings who slept head upside down hanging from the tree. To this day you can see this strange animal in Australia, they are call flying foxes.
By BLOCH Margot
And DONATH Marion
Why does the sun go to sleep?
In the Dreamtime, the sun shone on only part of the north.
Animals were sad because it’s was dark all day long.
Then the kangaroo jumped and pushed the sun very hard and the sun fell down.
The sun went to the other side of the earth.
So the animals of the south were happy! After that the animals of the south asked the sun to alternate between the South and the North part of the earth.
Since then, the sun agreed to alternate and the two parts of the earth are now sunny.
By Constance and Anaïs.
In the Dreamtime, the sun shone on only part of the north.
Animals were sad because it’s was dark all day long.
Then the kangaroo jumped and pushed the sun very hard and the sun fell down.
The sun went to the other side of the earth.
So the animals of the south were happy! After that the animals of the south asked the sun to alternate between the South and the North part of the earth.
Since then, the sun agreed to alternate and the two parts of the earth are now sunny.
By Constance and Anaïs.
The 2008 Olympics
The Olympic Games
The olympic Games were founded by the Greek in 776 BC but they stopped. The Olympic Games were reinvented again by a Frenchman, Pierre de Coubertin. The goal of the Olympic movement is to contribute to building a peaceful and better world.
In 2008 the Olympic Games were in Bejiing (China). The winners were the Chinese with 51 gold medals, 21 silver medals and 28 bronze medals (a total of 100 medals). They were good in gymnastics. The second was the USA with 36 gold medals and a total of 110 medals. They won lots of medals in swimming. Third was the Russians with 72 medals and the fourth was Great-Britain (47 medals). In these Olympic Games there were 204 countries.
The next Olympic Games will be held in London in 2012 – see you there!
Loïc HERMANN
http://results.beijing2008.cn/WRM/ENG/INF/GL/95A/GL0000000.shtml
http://www.olympic.org/uk/passion/studies/index_uk.asp