Once when I was little this is what I was told.
There is only one way to find solid gold.
Ye have to go to a wise man whose one hundred years old
Ye have to give him a snail whose shell is crisp and cold
Ye have to make your way to yonder mountain tops.
Ye have to be brave and ye have to keep going and ye must not stop
Scratch away the rock with a blade that’s rusty with mould.
BEHOLD!
Only then only then will you find solid gold…
By Eugene
It was solid gold. Everything that was there was gold here, and there and over there. One day there was a volcanic eruption and the magma fell into the ancient treasury but the gold did not melt, in fact diamonds and emeralds started growing on the walls.
After a while a man started mining it without permission so the villagers got angry when there were no riches left so they had him hung drawn and quartered but that was the wrong person! When the man was found the riches were gone he said they were melted down. They brutally murdered him.
One day I had a horrifying dream and this is how it began:
I was in a lovely palace and everything was going very well until a heard a young lady scream. I ought to know was going on… the guard rushed to see what was going on. The people of the palace were panicked. The guards got the person or thing and I saw it in my eyes with horror. We asked her what she wanted from us, she said it was solid gold and I thought what was gold. Suddenly I woke up and that was the mystery.
The gold was pure and gleamed in the sun as Tom put it up to reflect on it.
Tom was an ordinary boy aged 10 and lived in the country side next to an old mine.
He was hiding in the mines when his mum called out,
“Tom, it is lunch time!”
Tom called back he was coming but noticed something gleaming on the floor. He picked it up and rushed home for lunch. At the dining table, he asked his father what it was. His eyes stared at the stone and whispered,
“Son,’ he said ‘that is pure gold!”
“Wake up”, said Zack’s best friend. “We are going to Eldorado!” Zack woke up with a start. He went out of the tent they were sleeping in and rushed down the hill to meet the other explorers. They walked day and night and finally got to a village. They asked for the way to Eldorado. One man knew. He said, “walk through the jungle and you will find what you are looking for.” So they went through the jungle and finally came to a café: the Eldorado. “We only sell sausages, eggs, and bacon,” said the manager. “And chocolate coins.”
There was once a small village in South America where everyone liked to mine for gold. One day Carlos found the biggest, smoothest chunk of solid gold ever. Everyone was jealous. They told him that a map to the mythical Lost City of Gold could be inside it. Carlos did not believe them and did not want to break it apart. But soon he became greedy and thought about finding a golden city. So he took a huge hammer and broke the piece of gold into tiny bits. There was no map there. Carlos was heartbroken. The End. By Luc.
Once upon a time there was a boy called Tom. One might think he was an ordinary boy. But when he grew older he became Capitan of a fine ship called the ‘SOLID GOLD’ it was as fast as any beast. One stormy day a boat was insight and then they saw the pirate flag go up and a canon shot. Tom said “all hands on deck” the crew fought hard, the pirates eventually surrendered and gave us all there gold. It was not just gold it was solid gold, now Tom lives happily ever after on his gold boat.
Sincerely Tom. D Williams
It was gold, solid gold, and this is how we found it. It all began when my brother Robert and I went to the capital in search of work, but we could not find any. So we left the capital and headed north. We found a small village and joined a group of grave robbers. They were on the hunt to find the grave of the Inca in South America. We all left in search of the magnificent grave. It took months until we found it. We stepped inside; all we saw was gold, lots of gold, tons of gold!
Incas loved the sun god, they gave gold to the lake because they thought it would open the city of gold. They would cover someone in gold dust, then jump into the middle of the lake. They would wear gold helmets because the sun would reflect off of it, they thought that it was giving them powers! The Spanish armies heard about this so immediately they went in search for the city of gold…they searched day and night for many weeks, eventually desperately needing water they found the lake shimmering with
Solid gold but never found the gold city !!!
It was slimy mould
It was very old
It was icy cold
It was a perfect fold
It was cheaply sold
It was extremely bold
It was thinly rolled
It was very much told
It was perfectly bowled
It was down in the hold
It was given a big scold
Along it was polled
It was stone cold
It was a blindfold
It was enrolled
It was given a remould
It was a marigold
It was a big foothold
It was broken and uncontrolled
It was majestically foretold
It was unsold
It was a small toehold
It was solid gold
It was little
it was cold
it was shiny
it was solid
it was yellow
it was hard to break
it was heavy
it was down in the hold
it was valuable
it was bright
it was unsold
it was very old
it was very much told
it was very clean
it was long life
it never changes
it was famous
everyone wanted it
it was beautiful
it was most wanted
it was yellow as a sun
it was proud stone
it was expensive
it was spiky
it was good looking
it was king of stone
it was a solid gold
Another great week, we seem to have some real budding writers in year 5! This week I was particularly impressed by Arnold’s poem and Peggy’s wishful hopes that the tooth fairy deals in gold. It was also great to see Subeer posting something and really getting creative with his writing. I look forward to next week’s responses as always, as do Miss Thompson and Ms Stevenson!
It was solid gold and gleaming in my hand. Like a fallen star it shone, never stopping to catch its breath, just glowing on and on.
” Are you sure I’m the one?” I asked my voice wavering a little.
” You have waited all your life for this moment it is now or never,” replied the looming figure. ” It is time. Go, go now before it is too late.”
It was just as I was nearing the valley, when I began to wonder what my life would be like if I hadn’t been chosen for the task that shaped my life.
King Richen-ardenflonkerrabcrandoblanker was greedy. In fact, He was so greedy that he insisted everything in his kingdom was made from gold. Even his robotic slaves.
One-day king Richard (which was what everyone called him) was walking in his stupendously huge, solid gold garden when he saw a rabbit eating a solid gold apple off his solid gold apple tree. Of course the king was angry at the rabbit so he held his neck against the tree but realized his hand was turning gold! In the next minute he was solid gold and he’s still there to this day.
We were alone. Just me Lily, Rose and Bluebell.
As you’ve probably guessed we’re flowers. All of us just sitting by the graves. My name is Tulip. I love my friends very much. Rose is in a bad mood since her mum (the white orchid) passed away last week.
So, as I said, we were bored by the graves and something caught my eye. A small gold thing peeping out behind Snowdrop. ‘Hey guys’ I whisper, trying to to wake my mum, Iris. ‘Look!’ Scurrying over to where the metal lay. I wiped away the dirt with my leaves, ‘ow!’ I exclaimed as Rose pricked me to get a better look. Lily lifts up the glimmering object and examines it. We all gasp. It was pure gold!
“Mum my tooth has fallen out,” yelled Sophie down the stairs.
“Oh great” said mum, “put it under your pillow now and then PLEASE GET TO BED!” It was Sophie’s birthday and nearly half past eleven. So she brushed her teeth and traipsed up to bed. The next morning mum was having breakfast when she heard Sophie waking up. “Oh no” she whispered, “I didn’t put a coin under Sophie’s pillow;” but even as she spoke Sophie came running down the stairs yelling – “look what the tooth fairy put under my pillow it’s solid gold!!” “But how?” gasped mum, alarmed.
How to find solid gold
Once when I was little this is what I was told.
There is only one way to find solid gold.
Ye have to go to a wise man whose one hundred years old
Ye have to give him a snail whose shell is crisp and cold
Ye have to make your way to yonder mountain tops.
Ye have to be brave and ye have to keep going and ye must not stop
Scratch away the rock with a blade that’s rusty with mould.
BEHOLD!
Only then only then will you find solid gold…
By Eugene
It was solid gold. Everything that was there was gold here, and there and over there. One day there was a volcanic eruption and the magma fell into the ancient treasury but the gold did not melt, in fact diamonds and emeralds started growing on the walls.
After a while a man started mining it without permission so the villagers got angry when there were no riches left so they had him hung drawn and quartered but that was the wrong person! When the man was found the riches were gone he said they were melted down. They brutally murdered him.
Sounds messy!
One day I had a horrifying dream and this is how it began:
I was in a lovely palace and everything was going very well until a heard a young lady scream. I ought to know was going on… the guard rushed to see what was going on. The people of the palace were panicked. The guards got the person or thing and I saw it in my eyes with horror. We asked her what she wanted from us, she said it was solid gold and I thought what was gold. Suddenly I woke up and that was the mystery.
The gold was pure and gleamed in the sun as Tom put it up to reflect on it.
Tom was an ordinary boy aged 10 and lived in the country side next to an old mine.
He was hiding in the mines when his mum called out,
“Tom, it is lunch time!”
Tom called back he was coming but noticed something gleaming on the floor. He picked it up and rushed home for lunch. At the dining table, he asked his father what it was. His eyes stared at the stone and whispered,
“Son,’ he said ‘that is pure gold!”
“Wake up”, said Zack’s best friend. “We are going to Eldorado!” Zack woke up with a start. He went out of the tent they were sleeping in and rushed down the hill to meet the other explorers. They walked day and night and finally got to a village. They asked for the way to Eldorado. One man knew. He said, “walk through the jungle and you will find what you are looking for.” So they went through the jungle and finally came to a café: the Eldorado. “We only sell sausages, eggs, and bacon,” said the manager. “And chocolate coins.”
There was once a small village in South America where everyone liked to mine for gold. One day Carlos found the biggest, smoothest chunk of solid gold ever. Everyone was jealous. They told him that a map to the mythical Lost City of Gold could be inside it. Carlos did not believe them and did not want to break it apart. But soon he became greedy and thought about finding a golden city. So he took a huge hammer and broke the piece of gold into tiny bits. There was no map there. Carlos was heartbroken. The End. By Luc.
100-word challenge It Was Solid Gold
Once upon a time there was a boy called Tom. One might think he was an ordinary boy. But when he grew older he became Capitan of a fine ship called the ‘SOLID GOLD’ it was as fast as any beast. One stormy day a boat was insight and then they saw the pirate flag go up and a canon shot. Tom said “all hands on deck” the crew fought hard, the pirates eventually surrendered and gave us all there gold. It was not just gold it was solid gold, now Tom lives happily ever after on his gold boat.
Sincerely Tom. D Williams
It was gold, solid gold, and this is how we found it. It all began when my brother Robert and I went to the capital in search of work, but we could not find any. So we left the capital and headed north. We found a small village and joined a group of grave robbers. They were on the hunt to find the grave of the Inca in South America. We all left in search of the magnificent grave. It took months until we found it. We stepped inside; all we saw was gold, lots of gold, tons of gold!
Jude, can you give me the directions to this place?
Incas loved the sun god, they gave gold to the lake because they thought it would open the city of gold. They would cover someone in gold dust, then jump into the middle of the lake. They would wear gold helmets because the sun would reflect off of it, they thought that it was giving them powers! The Spanish armies heard about this so immediately they went in search for the city of gold…they searched day and night for many weeks, eventually desperately needing water they found the lake shimmering with
Solid gold but never found the gold city !!!
Gold is a lot softer than many other metals.
Gold is one of the least reactive metals.
1 gram of 24-carat gold can cost around £24!
Very few chemicals can attack gold, so that’s why it keeps its shine even when it’s been buried for 1000’s of years.
Did you know that gold is AU on the periodic table because it comes from the Latin word aurum?
The biggest gold nugget that has ever been found was 90 kilograms! It was unearthed in Australia.
Out of 1 ounce of gold you could make a wire that was 100 kilometers long!
It was slimy mould
It was very old
It was icy cold
It was a perfect fold
It was cheaply sold
It was extremely bold
It was thinly rolled
It was very much told
It was perfectly bowled
It was down in the hold
It was given a big scold
Along it was polled
It was stone cold
It was a blindfold
It was enrolled
It was given a remould
It was a marigold
It was a big foothold
It was broken and uncontrolled
It was majestically foretold
It was unsold
It was a small toehold
It was solid gold
It was little
it was cold
it was shiny
it was solid
it was yellow
it was hard to break
it was heavy
it was down in the hold
it was valuable
it was bright
it was unsold
it was very old
it was very much told
it was very clean
it was long life
it never changes
it was famous
everyone wanted it
it was beautiful
it was most wanted
it was yellow as a sun
it was proud stone
it was expensive
it was spiky
it was good looking
it was king of stone
it was a solid gold
Another great week, we seem to have some real budding writers in year 5! This week I was particularly impressed by Arnold’s poem and Peggy’s wishful hopes that the tooth fairy deals in gold. It was also great to see Subeer posting something and really getting creative with his writing. I look forward to next week’s responses as always, as do Miss Thompson and Ms Stevenson!
This is absolutely brilliant – well done Arnold!
It was solid gold and gleaming in my hand. Like a fallen star it shone, never stopping to catch its breath, just glowing on and on.
” Are you sure I’m the one?” I asked my voice wavering a little.
” You have waited all your life for this moment it is now or never,” replied the looming figure. ” It is time. Go, go now before it is too late.”
It was just as I was nearing the valley, when I began to wonder what my life would be like if I hadn’t been chosen for the task that shaped my life.
It was Solid Gold…
By Louis Sayers
King Richen-ardenflonkerrabcrandoblanker was greedy. In fact, He was so greedy that he insisted everything in his kingdom was made from gold. Even his robotic slaves.
One-day king Richard (which was what everyone called him) was walking in his stupendously huge, solid gold garden when he saw a rabbit eating a solid gold apple off his solid gold apple tree. Of course the king was angry at the rabbit so he held his neck against the tree but realized his hand was turning gold! In the next minute he was solid gold and he’s still there to this day.
It was in the graveyard where it started.
We were alone. Just me Lily, Rose and Bluebell.
As you’ve probably guessed we’re flowers. All of us just sitting by the graves. My name is Tulip. I love my friends very much. Rose is in a bad mood since her mum (the white orchid) passed away last week.
So, as I said, we were bored by the graves and something caught my eye. A small gold thing peeping out behind Snowdrop. ‘Hey guys’ I whisper, trying to to wake my mum, Iris. ‘Look!’ Scurrying over to where the metal lay. I wiped away the dirt with my leaves, ‘ow!’ I exclaimed as Rose pricked me to get a better look. Lily lifts up the glimmering object and examines it. We all gasp. It was pure gold!
“Mum my tooth has fallen out,” yelled Sophie down the stairs.
“Oh great” said mum, “put it under your pillow now and then PLEASE GET TO BED!” It was Sophie’s birthday and nearly half past eleven. So she brushed her teeth and traipsed up to bed. The next morning mum was having breakfast when she heard Sophie waking up. “Oh no” she whispered, “I didn’t put a coin under Sophie’s pillow;” but even as she spoke Sophie came running down the stairs yelling – “look what the tooth fairy put under my pillow it’s solid gold!!” “But how?” gasped mum, alarmed.