5-7-10 | Lightning never strikes twice, does it?

LI: To use 5 - 7 - 10 to write creatively.

This week for writing, using our imagination we made a story by getting an idea from a scene picture. In pairs Sulia and I worked collaboratively to help each others writing. We had 5 minutes to write the begginning of the story, 7 minutes (x2) to chat with your partner and talk about how we could make our story better and 10 minutes to finish off the writing. The story we made was based on the picture below. 

                                         

Fear of lightning

Lightning never strikes twice, does it? That was the question that occupied the frightened minds as they crouched, huddling beside each other , next to the pile of dusty sacks in the base of the windmill. KAPOW! The lightning growled with rage. “I don’t think we’ll get back home in time, Margaret” Julie worrily mumbled. 

4 hours earlier…

“Julie! Julie! Let's go for a run around the reserve!” Margaret exclaimed, “Yup! Sure!” Julie replied. “Mum, we’re off!” Margaret shouted. Margaret and Julie arrived at the reserve, they were surprised that they couldn't see another person in sight as the reserve is always full of people. As we arrived at the reserve the sky started to overrun with grey and dark clouds, we never thought much of it and continued running around the fields. We ran about 3 laps, after an hour we started to get tired and looked for a resting place. We sat against a tall oak tree, the rain started pouring down so we rushed towards shelter inside a windmill. 

The rain poured down violently from the gloomy sky, “Margaret! If the rain keeps up then we’ll never get back home on time and it might even become a thunderstorm!” Julie cried, “Awh! Noo!” Margaret exclaimed. There were stairs in the windmill that lead to a small room, Julie and climbed up the stairs curious to what might we’ll find. As we entered the small room there were 2 windows, one , we thought we could stay in there until the rain cleared up. 

About half an hour passed and the rain wasn’t stopping. All of a sudden “KAPOW!” A strike of lightning soared across the sky, Margaret has astraphobia. She has a fear of lightning, her fear of lightning appeared when she was the age of 5. The sound of thunder and lightning makes Margaret tremble with fear. Due to the lack of reception Margaret or Julie couldn’t call anybody to come and rescue them. 

Julie and Margaret huddled together until the storm stopped. Luckily the storm stopped before night fell, so Julie and Margaret headed back home with relief.