My Winter Wonderland.

One morning I woke up and the light was different. What could have happened during the night? Gently I put my warm feet to the ground. The tingle of the cool floor felt like a thousand pins. As I got out of my bed I felt an ice-cold breeze. I ran to my window and pushed away my soft curtains and peeked out. I thought I was dreaming so I pinched myself - but I wasn’t dreaming, it was real! A white frosty wasteland. It was like I was looking at Antarctica. The icicles were twinkling in the winter sun. The snow-covered grass was covered in the robins’ footprints. A robin appeared, crunching through the snow, and started to tweet a little tune, so I joined in but I added lyrics of course. The trees were bare except for icing sugar coating. When I looked at my driveway it was blocked with ice – no school today! Yippee!!!

Isla quickly got dressed in her pink t-shirt, warm woolly jumper and her waterproof trousers.  She went to wake her younger brother Josh. She helped him dress in his winter clothes.  They dashed downstairs and put on their hats, scarves, gloves, wellies and jackets.  Isla opened the door and they ran outside.  They started making snowballs and threw them at each other.

“This is fun!” said Isla  “Would you like to make a snowman Josh?”

They made a big ball of snow and then they made another one which was a bit bigger.  Then they made a small one.  They sat them on top of each other. They put on stones for the eyes and mouth, a carrot for the nose, then added bigger stones for buttons.  Josh got a hat and scarf to put on him.  Just then, Dad opened the door.

“Do you want to go skating on the pond?” Dad asked.

“Oh yes please!” the children replied.
The children collected their ice skates and walked to the Kay Park. When they got there, their cousin Lynsey was already skating.
“Come on!  This is fun!” she called.

Dad helped Isla and Josh to get their ice skates on.  They started skating round and round the pond.  Suddenly Isla lost her balance and bumped into Josh.  Josh fell over and Isla fell on top of him.  Josh was badly hurt and couldn’t stand up.  Dad picked him up and took him to a bench.  Then Dad called 999, but the ambulance couldn’t come because it was too icy.  About ten minutes later they heard a big wavy noise.  It was the air ambulance…

When the air ambulance arrived there was a sudden gush of wind, which blew Isla’s red bobbled hat onto the dangerous ice. Isla skated with great speed towards her hat, which was now blown half way across the frozen lake.

Suddenly the ice cracked slowly, making shapes like lightning. Isla let out a huge scream and yelled, “help Daddy!”

Meanwhile Josh was getting treatment from the paramedics who had lifted him onto a stretcher bed. Dad was busy helping Josh, and convincing him that he would be ok.  “The ambulance men will take care of you” he said.  He didn’t hear Isla scream because of the deafening noise coming from the helicopters propellers, which were like a herd of elephants stampeding. Luckily Lynsey had heard the terrified screams of Isla and she ran to tell the adults . . .     

“HELP, HELP!” Lynsey shouted. ”Please help. A wee girl is on the ice and it’s cracking.”

The mums and dads all looked at Isla, she was screaming but no-one could hear her because the helicopter was making so much noise.

All of a sudden there was a big BANG! Out of nowhere something magical happened… on the side of the pond appeared a familiar looking snowman! Isla recognised the snowman as the one that she and Josh made earlier in the day.

Isla started slipping towards the big hole in the pond that was filled with freezing cold water. She was chittering and terrified.

Lynsey’s dad had run around to let Isla’s dad know what was happening. He was really worried, Josh was crying and even the ambulance men were ready to help.

Suddenly the snowman dived through the ice and jumped up next to where Isla was slipping. He gave Isla his scarf to cling on to and helped her climb on to his back. With a huge bounce he landed back on safe land at the side of the pond, right next to Josh, dad and the ambulance men. She was safe and the snowman disappeared. Nobody could believe it.

Dad, Josh and Isla went to hospital and it turned out that Josh had a broken leg and got it plastered up. When they got home the magical snowman was still in the garden where they had left him. Josh was sure he saw him move as they walked past!

The next day, when the children woke up, the snowman was gone!

By P6G, P2S, P4M, P1P