Contributed Stories
The following are stories written by
children following the Amazon Adventure:
Life in the Rainforest
When I go to school I go on a water lily. We read
aloud and talk lot about how to keep safe in the
jungle.
When I go home I go on the water lily and tie it
up at my house.
My house is made of wood and hay. We have open
doors on the sides because it is so hot.
We eat a lot of mushrooms. Macaws are in the trees
by our house.
By Blair
Polley
St Joseph's School
Morrinsville
I live right by the river and I am 7 years old,
sometimes I need to look after my two year old
brother.
We cut down the trees around us so that we can build
a house. With the sticks we built stilts. I eat
piranhas and make necklaces from their teeth.
When my dad and me go fishing I catch fish and Mum
gives me a sugar cane to eat. I love going hunting,
fishing and swimming.
I wear only a pair of shorts because it is so hot.
By Trent Te Wharau
St Joseph's School
Morrinsville
I live by the Amazon and sometimes I play in the
trees. My name is Nicoma. I have a big house, I have
a big brother and two little sisters and a big sister
too.
When we go hunting we hide behind a bush or on a
tree and when we see food we shoot it with our bows
and arrows with poison on them. We go home to our
house feeling happy because we have shot a nice piece
of food that we can eat.
We eat the food for dinner and in the morning we
go for a ride on the Lily pads. We play games on them
and then with my pets we will explore the rainforest.
Our pets are monkeys, snakes and dogs. It is so cool.
By Alicia Miller
St Joseph's School
Morrinsville
Ronnie and the Red-Eyed Tree Frog
Ronnie sat on a leaf with Mabel and two toucans
sat on a branch beside them. He had heard that the
rainforest was getting cut down. A bird came and told
Ronnie that Tree Frog  Island
would be next.
He set off for a journey to find the Oracle toad
in the Amazon Rainforest. On the way he met scarlet
macaw and the harpy eagle. Harpy took him down river
into the Amazon. After crossing the Andes mountains
he met some guinea pigs. His feet were frozen. He
carried on his way to find Oracle toad.
By Ash Tracy
St Joseph's School
Morrinsville
 I am
a Rain Drop
It was raining and a group of people came walking
beside the Amazon River. A man opened his back pack
to set up his tent and I fell inside the tent. The
man shook his tent and out I fell into the Amazon
River.
I started traveling down the river and saw some
pink dolphins. They were splashing about in the river
beside me. One of them dived under the water beside
me and I fell on his back. It started traveling down
the river diving up and down ... oh what a ride.
I thought I was going to me a gonna. When the pink
dolphin did his last dive I landed on a giant lily
pad. I was shouting "Hurrah, hurrah." I was
so relieved I was running around in circles on the
lily pad.
I felt a cloddish, warmish breeze on my face. The
sun came out and a big rainbow was over my head. I
was so amazed by the beautiful colours I decided to
jump off the lily pad and go for an adventure in the
rainforest.
Suddenly I saw a tapir, it looked so thirsty with
its trunk swinging from side to side. I was sliding
along the ground as fast as I could.
Then I saw an anaconda snake coming the other way.
I was so worried I didn't know what to do. I had an
idea. I would go the other way they weren't going and
I did just that.
The sun was about to shoot out. I ran as fast as I
could slithering along the ground heading straight
for the ground. I touched water again.
Lucky me ... I was beginning to get dry
By Haley Te Wiatia
St Joseph's School
Morrinsville
Samantha Gentry from Homeschool Motueka
sent us this great story:
We had just arrived at the rain forest.
 "Come
on lets set up camp" I said. So we set up the
camp. I got the firewood and got the food ready,
Billy put the tent up, and Catherine unrolled the
sleeping bags and hung up the big torch.
Once the fish and rice that I was cooking was
ready we ate it and then went to bed.
The next morning when I got up I went for a walk.
While I was on my walk I heard strange voices. I
looked through the trees and saw some strange people.
I listened to them for a while writing down some of
the things they said.
Then I went back and looked at a book of different
languages and looked up undiscovered tribes and
looked at the words. Then I named them
"Toha". I went back to the tribe and
started to talk to them and tell them their new name.
They were very friendly and quite soon we were
friends.
By Samantha Gentry
Homeschool, Motueka
And here are some great new poems:
At the Amazon the
Most exciting thing could
Always be coming back to New
Zealand, but
On a river boat all day,
New and exciting things must come your way.
At the Amazon
Desperate animals like
Vultures must give you the
Everyday willies, remember to
Never
Turn your back on a crocodile
Until you're
Right off the river.
Everyone will be happy when you get home!
by Cassandra McTavish, Glen
Oueroa School
Always waiting
Night
And day waiting for prey
Can be in water
Or on ground
Night and
Day
Anaconda waits.
by Adam, Oueroa School
Frogs in the Amazon
Running from snakes
Only singing songs
Great Hoppers
by Alex Johnson, Oueroa School
Tropical bird
On a tree
Usually live together
Colourful bird indeed
Angrily looking for food
Never in a good mood
by John Murdock, Oueroa School
Toucan is colourful bird.
On the tree it plays.
Under the leaves it stays.
Can be dirty some times.
Amazon bird that flies in the sky up high.
No one to talk to in the sky.
by Margaret Hapuku, Oueroa School
Monkeys are cheeky
Occasionally happy
Naturally sneaky
Kind of sad
Eating heaps of fruit
Yelling when they're mad
Sometimes really cute even cuter than my Dad.
by Jasmine Chambers, Oueroa School
Jaguar lives in the jungle
Alway's hunting for food
Growling at the enemies
Usually in a bad mood
Abundant of the forest
Runs with the best
by Penny Higgins, Oueroa School
Inside the trees iguana sleeps
Green is his usual shade
Unlike others they eat their vegies
And never eat their meat
Now and then they have a flight
And only then do they scratch and bite.
by Laura Dooney, Oueroa School
Macaws are good at .......
Annoying tourists,
Cracking nuts
And have ..........
Wonderful colours on their feathers.
by Craig Holder, Oueroa School
Jaguars most attack humans
Always on the run
Going from place to place
Using every claw
Always look out for jaguars
Running for their prey
by Matthew Cheer, Oueroa School
Macaws make aloud noise
And they take along time eating
Calling for their babies
Away from home
Waiting by the riverbank licking clay.
by Michelle, Oueroa School
Ocelots are very shy.
Clawing and Pouncing.
Eating little bugs and meat.
Likes to be tough.
Old and Young
Tiny and big.
by Erin Johnson, Oueroa School
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