My Home

I will tell you about my home.

I live on G**** and L***** Street. I live in the % % on the 3rd floor. My room number is 308. I hear fire engines and police car's sirens all the time. If I don't hear that, well , it's still pretty noisy.

I have to admit, I like to play connect five with my dad or my mom. I beat them a lot. My dad likes to play over and over again until he wins. If I win, I run out of the door of the room and yell "I won!" If my dad loses, he always says "I didn't see." And I would prance out of the room.

My favorite parts of my home is the living room and my room (which is my desk at home). My dad likes to watch television and play ping-pang ball, and get coupons. Okay, back to talking about my desk. My desk is a shade of dark brown. It has four drawers. The left drawer on the top is my toy drawer. The one next to it is my private drawer. And the one under it is my backpack drawer. I put all the backpacks I don't use right now. And the one to its left is my roller skate and safety drawer.

That is all I can think of today. Bye!

Dear Santa Claus,

It was hard to make my decision. But, I finally made it. I want the whole colcetion of the Secrets of Droon Books except for number one and super edition number one because I already have those. Please put my gift in the stocking.

Sincerely,

A.T

The Book Series That I Like

My favorite book series are: A-Z Mysteries, Encyclopedia Brown books, The Secrets of Droon, Bailey School Kids, The Boxcar Children and Goosebumps.

My favorite book from the A-Z Mysteries book was The Talking T-Rex. Someone stole Jud's money he raised! I didn't read all of it. I only read to number twelve, chapter four.

I didn't read all of The Bailey School Kids except so far, my favorite one was: Sea Serpents Don't Juggle Water Ballons. Melody and Lisa think Eddie's math tutor is a sea serpent!

I don't know about The Boxcar Children and Goosebumps.

Happy Reading!

P.S.- I love to read!!!

The Soldier Meets His Horse

This is a short story about a soldier who sees a horse. Once, a soldier went inside the forest and saw a horse behind a tree. Since the soldier didn't have a horse, he decided he should get one. So he talked to the horse in a soothing voice and he and the horse galloped off.

THE END

What I Would Do If Today Was My Birthday

If today was my birthday, I would like to go to the library and check out all of the books I wanted. And, I don't even have to look for them. I imagine that they would be right there waiting for me to check them out. I would also like to have wonderful meals. Also, I would......

The Hillsdale Mall

Yesterday, I went to the hillsdale shopping mall. First, I went to a lego store. the legos weren't as good as last year's......

Halloween Poem II

It's Halloween,
Beneath the gray clouds,
There's a big crowd!
And what was the crowd doing?
My, my, they are trick-or treating!
After they finish doing tricks,
They do the eating!
Tricks,
Treats,
Oh,
Whatever!
At least,
They have a hapy Halloween!

The Abby and the Twenty-six Witches ---- a Story Retold

Once upon a time, on clear full moons, twenty-six witches flew on their brooms gliding high over the village making horrible sounds. The village people wanted to see the full moon, but they couldn't, and they hid under their beds. But, on rainy full moons, the witches did not come.

One night, an old woman and her husband couldn't stand it, suffering under their beds. They went to see the Abby. The old woman told the Abby, "Can you get rid of the witches?" The Abby nodded his head and replied, "I'll try."

The Abby held a meeting of the village. He thought for a moment and asked for twenty-five of the bravest men in the village to get their white robes and keep them in a tight clay pot, and wear some rain coats on October 31st.

When October 31st came, the Abby met the men at the entrance of the mountains. They all wore black raincoats and they carried their clay pots with their robes inside. The Abby and the brave men hiked up and down mountains and hills but they finally got to the witches' cave. (Some say the Abby looked scared in the front.)

The Abby and the twenty-five men heard wicked laughter from inside the cave. Many men shivered. The Abby explained he would go in first and if he whistled once, they will put on the white robes in the clay pots. If he whistled twice, that means they run into the room and grab a witch and dance.

The Abby set his plan to work. He walked into the cave wearing his dry, white robe. One of the witches asked, "Are you a witch?" The Abby said, as he tried to sound like a witch, "Yes, I am!" Another witch asked, "how did you get here without getting wet?" "I walked between the raindrops!" he announced, "and I will make twenty-six men, including me, dance with you." He whistled once, and whistled twice, and twenty-five men ran into the room in their white robes and grabbed a witch and the Abby grabbed a witch himself.

They all danced for a while and the witches cried out, "I haven't danced in twenty-six years!" Then they had a big feast. The Abby and twenty-five men announced, "We will teach you how to dance between the raindrops," and they all grabbed a witch again and led them outside the cave. The Abby and the men let go of the witches and they began to shrink. "You tricked us!" the witches shrieked. And the witches were never heard from again.

Now on full moon nights, people can go out and enjoy the Moon.

THE END

Halloween Poem

Once I saw three ghosts sitting on posts,
Eating buttered toasts,
Dripping down their chins,
Getting sticky on their fins,
Sticky,
Sticky,
Sticky,
Sticky,
What slobs!

When Ms. Thayer Wasn't Here

When Ms. Thayer wasn't here, at math time, Ms. Juri had the second graders on the back table and the third graders mostly on the rug! When Ms. thyer was not here, Ms. Juri told us about the pumkin party points. If we get twenty pumkins,......

Silly Story

One day, while Sherlock Holmes was chasing a robber, he accidentally crashed into our classroom. He investigated and then he explained silly things about crime. Finally, my teacher made him go outside and go back to his agent office.

When Sherlock Holmes went back, his partner Dr. Watson was waiting for him. Dr. Watson said, "You have a cold, Sir." So Sherlock Holmes stayed in bed for the rest of the week!

THE END

If I Had a Million Dollars

If I had a million dollars, I could buy a lot of stuff if I wanted to, but I would save it instead.

If I wanted to buy stuff, I would take ten dollars and use it for my book fair money. If I didn't want to do that, I would go and buy ten great chapter books with twenty-seven dollars.

Or, I could buy a pair of ice-skates for ice-skating, or I could buy a detective halloween costume with thirty dollars. Or I could buy a box of legos for fifty-two bucks! Or I could buy a emerald diamond ring for my mom. And I could buy a cell phone for six thousand and fifty bucks!

That's all I could think of for now.

THE END

Crab Fishing

It was a sunday morning. I got up late but I was going to catch crabs with my mom and dad and my grandmother.

We caught for about twenty-eight crabs. Our ice box was nearly filled up! We had to catch crabs that was longer than 4 inches plus or 4 inches.

Each net, we catch nothing, or one or two right sized crabs and plenty of small crabs. Some were really yummy but we couldn't catch it. It was against the law.

(Now I have to eat dinner. Bye-bye!)

(Hi again! I finished the best meal I had in two months. I'm going back from talking about my first crab catching adventure.)

To pull up the rope attached to the net, you have to pull it up quickly. Or else the crabs inside the net will escape. When we take out some crabs from inside of the net, we have to use oven mitts because if you don't, the crabs sometimes will pinch you. I put two crabs in the ice box and it didn't pinch me! Oh yeah!

I forgot to tell you guys how you throw the net back down again. Make sure the end of the rope is tightly tied to something. And then grab both ends of your net and throw it into the water but try to make it spin a little bit. But don't throw it too far because if you do, the net won't reach the bottom and the crabs couldn't get in.

When we got back home, we planned to eat the crabs. My dad was washing the crabs. When he was about to kill one, the crab pinched him on the third finger. He got one of those tiny bandaids to put on his finger. We had a great dinner. I ate the biggest crabs. My dad ate the crab who bit him. I guess he got revenge.

THE END

Halloween

It's almost Halloween! It's just sixteen days till Halloween. I'm gonna be a detective for Halloween and my friend Lucy is gonna be a vampire.I'd go and investigate her to see if, she stole anything. Just kidding!

I would need lots of dark clothes to be a detective. Dark everything! I would also need a magnifying glass. Plus, a notebook with a pencil. Oh, yeah! I would also need a badge. I'm not gonna try to look suspicious. That's all I could think of.

Happy Halloween!

My Favorite Book Series

My favorite book serie is A to Z Mysteries written by Ron Roy. The A to Z Mysteries are really fun to read. They are fun and exciting. I read most of them. Yesterday, I checked out twenty two books. I read all the A to Z Mysteries I checked out. My favorite one was The Empty Envelope because Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose found a really valuable upsie down Jenny stamp. It costs for five thousand dollars!!! Otto Bird stole it from Clementine, a famous painter from New ?York. Otto B. tried to mail it to Doris Duncan but he mailed it to Dink. Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose found the Jenny Stamp under three sunflower stamps. At the end of the story, Otto B. and Doris D. got put to jail.

The Mummy's Curse

Characters: John, David, Kenzo, Terri, Gina, Betsy, Museum Manager, Bob

Setting: Museum, Outside, Home and Bob's diner

Problem: a mummy put a curse on Kenzo and Gina

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Once upon a time, Terri and gina went to Betsy, John, David and Kenzo's house. Gina's dad gave Gina six tickets to go to the new museum on Washington Boulevard and Virginia Street.



So they all rode their bikes to Bob's diner for some ice-cream sundaes. When they got in the store, David and Betsy greeted Mr. Unkenholz hello. Terri ordered a strawberry sundae with chocolate dippings on the top. Kenzo ordered a vanilla sundae with some cherries on it. Gina ordered a lueberry sundae with sprinles. David ordered a orange sundae with whipped cream and sunflower seeds.



David is very weird, thought terri. Betsy ordered a small chocolate sundae with small toosie rolls on it. After they finished, they went to the new museum. When they go to the museum, the museum manager, Mr Frank Paskey greeted them with a little wave. John suggested that we should..................



TO BE CONTINUED

Holidays

I like holidays. My favorite holidays are Halloween and Christmas. In halloween, my favorite part was when we go trick-or-treating. My favorite part of Christmas is because I get a lot of presents. I like it because Santa Claus zooms around.

Day 6, Lake Tahoe, Califronia

I am now back in Lake Tahoe, California. I'm in the Highland Inn.

Before I came back here, I was in Salt Lake City, Utah. I figured out how it got its name. When on the highway, I saw patches of white, sparkly salt dried from lakes. I also saw the factory that makes the Morton salt.

I'll bet that the Morton salt that we eat and pour on our food came from there. My mom told me that she thinks that that's the use. They dry out lakes near the factory, but I don't think so. I think that the factory guys can't really control it because I think the sun's shine makes 'em dry 'cause it's hot there.

We all got off at a rest station. It still had salt all over it. But, it was better than the salt we touched last time, My dad and I saw a land sail-boat driving through the great whit land of salt. My dad took a few pictures. And then I walked in the salt with my grandmother. After that, my grandmother sprayed the ground with a hose.

The I put my feet in it. It'll clean my feet before we get into our Idaho license plate rental car that my dad rented. Before that, I licked the salt. It tasted salty. But, guess what, I've got to go.

THE END

Day 5 Salt Lake City, Utah

I am in Salt Lake City, Utah again. Before I came back, we went to another national park.

But first we have to cross Yellow Stone Park to get there. We saw bisons crossing the street agian. Those bisons looked like, well, buffalos. They had hair on them on the front side of their bodies. The back side of their bodies are like shaved off. There were little bisons too. Two were chewing on an old tree trunk.

After we left the bisons, not after a while, we got to a place called "Jenny Lake". We had lunch there on a picnic table. After lunch, we went hiking. My mom found a stick for me to use, like a hiking stick.

When we got to the pond, we took lots of pictures and shooted lots of videos. My grandmother and I compared throwing rocks into the pond to see who threw the furthest. It was like a tie. Everyone who came with us washed our hands in the clean water.

My dad went away with the video camera to shoot videosl of the waterfall, but instead of getting the waterfall in, he got a picture of a bear climbing on the mountains!

While I was playing by the water and my grandfather was sliding a stick against a big, gray rock, a little wave from the lake came upon the shore, I quickly climbed on the rocks back to the shore. My grandfather gave the stick for me to use as a hiking stick.

When I went back to the path to the parking lot, I went to the bathroom. I met my dad coming out from the men's bathroom. My mom brough me, my grandmother and herself ice-cream. I got a M-n-M one. My mom got a strawberry shortcake one and grandmother got a drumstick popsicle.

But I gotta go!!!

THE END

P.S. Our hotel's name is Homestead

Day 4 West Yellow Stone, Montana

Hi! I'm still in the same hotel and place as yesterday, you remember? Well, as I said yesterday, I was gonna go to the Old Faithful. Everyone else calls it the "the Old Faithful", but I call it "the Old Playful". The Old Playful I mean the Old Faithful. The Old Faithful can go higher than a small mountain!!! Actually, many can. I also admit that many can be higher than two trees. Today, not very long after noon, I watched the Old Playful I mean Faithful explode, I saw a spring called "Chinese Spring". I think it should be called "Chinese Pot" instead of "Chinese Spring" because it bubbling inside the hold and there's a small hole for the handle.

Before we were about to go back to the huge inn, it snowed!!! The road was covered with snow and so were the car's windows. After we got a little further away from the top of the mountain, it didn't snow anymore. But some of the snow fell from the Idaho car we rented.

When we got back to the inn, we had pizza for dinner! But, now bye!!

THE END

Day 3 Yellow Stone, Montana

I am in West Yellow Stone, Montana.

Today, I went into the mountains. I saw lots of animals. Even a moose crossing the street!!! We saw many bisons. In the car, we saw a small coyote beside the road. We saw two black bears. In the car, we also saw three deers beside the road.

When we got to the geysers, they smelled like rotten eggs. Geysers have a mineral inside them called "sulphur". Sulphur is liquid yellow stuff. I saw'em.

There's a geyser called "Old Faithful". It's the world's most famous geyser. I'm gonna see it tomorrow. Geysers look like clouds of steam. My mom touched the geyser water. My mom said that the water is hot. I observed that the entrance of the geysers are pretty small. Sometimes when steam comes out of the hole, water shoots out of the hole along with the steam. Some geysers can be taller than two trees stacked together.

When we got back to our Inn which is called Days Inn, the room was really big. I like it. I need to go now.

THE END

Day 2 Salt Lake City, Utah

Bingham Copper Mine

I am at Salt Lake City, Utah. Today I went to the Bingham Copper Mine! I fell asleep during the way after lunch on the highway. My dad knew how to get there because we borrowed a street pilot.

When we got there, we followed a path to get a better view of the mine. We took lots of pictures. I took three small copper rocks. I compared my biggest one to the labels of a real big copper rock. It was almost as tall as me!!! I found two things that were the same. A clay something and something black. Then we went to the visitor center by the mine. I found some cool stuff and we watched a movie about copper. I thought it was cool. And then, we took pictures with one of those giant wheels of the huge truck that can carry three-hundred tons of stone! It was about two times taller than my dad!!!!

When we went back, we ate at a restaurant called "Kowloon Cafe". I ate some veggies, and eight potstickers. We all drank ice water. I drank the fastest because I was thirsty. And we drove to our hotel called Homestead Hotel. It was really cool. I found an iron and an ironing board in the closet! When we come back from Yellow Stone Park, we're gonna stay here again.

I had lots of fun today.

THE END

Day 1 Yellow Stone Park

I am at Reno, Nvevad right now. It's time for bed (almost), but I haven't even brushed my teeth yet. When I just go here at the Inn, I explored the room. Our Inn is called Days Inn.

After I watched television for a little while, we went to Circus, Circus - a bad place for me. Because I played a game that my dad made me try out a game that I didn't like, and I only got thirty tickets. And a woman gave me two tickets, and my parents, my grandparents and I found five more tickets. When we went to the booth where you use your tickets to get toys. I only had thirty-seven tickets. And some cost for more than a thousand tickets!!! So, I got only candy, which I don't like. It was a bad day alreaedy except when I rode in a small train around the Circus Circus building.

I never want to go there again.

THE END

Reading

My favorite thing to do is to read. I like to read chapter books. Chapter books are great to read. I read all of the Magic Tree House books, even the newest one, Morning of the Mad Genius.

To be continued......

Piano

I take piano lessons in Thursday. My piano teacher makes me practice three times a day. My piano teacher's name a Amy too. I've been practicing Vivace(Vee-va-chay) for about four weeks.

Yellow Stone Park

I'm going to Yellow Stone Park in a few weeks! My dad, my mom and I are staying at a motel or a hotel. My friend Julia who already went back to China had been there. My Dad's been reading maps and looking on the computer ever since he planned it.

I look forward to going to Yellow Stone Park. I wonder if there's a lot of yellow there, I oversheard my dad say that they give free breakfast I think. I'm soooooooo excited. I hope we could go soon.

The Exploratorium Summer Camp

In summer break, I went to the Exploratorium Summer Camp. I had fun.

On the first day, we did a fun activity. We did an egg drop! You need two pieces of newspaper, and unboiled egg,a piece of string, about an inch of tape, a pair of scissors, an egg carton and a plastic bag. Cut a lump from the egg carton too. Try to protect the egg the best you can, because you're gonna get up high some where, and drop the egg with it's protection! Cut your protection and, if it didn't break, hold the egg up high and say "I'm the egg-master!"

Everyday at lunch, we go to the beach to eat.

Summer Camp

On August 1st, I'm going to summer camp at the Exploratorium! I get to go there for two weeks! I'm a member already. My mom got the card in her wallet. When you go, you show the card to the register. The man there give you sticker and you can go there free! You can go free all year, once you got the card.

I bet summer camp is gonna be a lot of fun. But, you've gotta bring your own lunch every day! We even get to see our own spit under a microscope! And ,w e got to see a person working on a new project in a secret room! I feel very, very, very, very, very, very, very excited.

THE END

My Wild Adventure

One day I was running to the library. Suddenly, when I walked in, I noticed a surprise I had never expected to see. I looked through carefully. There was piles of books and more books!

Then I heard a soft raspy voice behind me. I recognized it was the librarian's assistant. He said slowly that those books were for anyone who wants one. he said I could look through. And to my surprise, those were all of my favorite book series. There was the Magic Tree House, Jigsaw Jones Mysteries, The Bailey School Kids and Encyclopedia Browns.

And I ran home with a pile of books in my arms.

THE END

Summer Break--II

Like almost the day, we always go to our mom's office. At our mom's office, we usually do art. I like to draw and make vines. Lucy makes those paper zig-zags. We send messages to each other on paper. We put'em in little envelopes. And I write AIRMAIL with a yellow hi-lighter. When our moms are done, we go back home. We eat dinner when we go home.

Summer Break

On summer vacation, when my mom and dad were woriking, I played with my best friend Lucy.

We went to practice piano together downstairs. Sometimes we play at ther house and sometimes we play at my house. We play board games like Monopoly or Chutes-and-Ladders, or Mancala, Othello. Most of the time, we play House. It's fun and you can stop whenever you want to.

When it's time for lunch, we go back home. Our parents go downstarirs and get the lunch the consulate's cook made. We usually have rice and some kind of fish. But not always.

In the afternoon, we play games and watch television. And Lucy and I have a little snack. We pick out sometihing that's from wherever we are. I alwarys pick the string cheese. It's white and you can peel strips of cheese lines from a long log of cheese. Lucy usually pick the giant Strawberry Pocky.

The Fireworks

Yesterday, I went to watch the fireworks at Pier 39. Me, my mom and dad went to the top of a huge parking lot. We got to sit on a pick-up truck. A man let us sit there until the end of the fireworks!

The fireworks was neat. There were two red bright lights falling down to the sea as a signal to show people that the show was about to begin. Some big ones and small ones with bright colors, like gold, red, blue, purple, green, yellow and pink, etc. There were some planets made of those little sparkling canons, and even rings around the planets! Happy faces and cups made out of three rings, too! A really big firework shot up high into the sky! I thought it was gonna fly out to the audience! It didn't land into the audience after all, it landed into the sea. Some even looked like fluffy flowers.

I wonder how they made it.

THE END

What I Know About Thomas Edison

Thomas Edison was a scientist. He was smart.

Mr. Edison discovered milk that is safe for people to drink. He invented many things in the past. Things like the light bulb, the silent films, and the photograph.

When Mr. Edison was a boy, like about twelve years old, he sold eggs by the train station to make money for his family.

When he grew up, he was famous. He went to the 1889 Paris World Fair. They put Mr. Edison's inventions in the Great Hall. It looks as big as a football stadium.

Thomas Edison invented more than 1000 things! Isn't that amazing?

THE END

Frog and Toad Visit a Haunted House

One day Frog and Toad were eating lunch at Reptile's Meal. When they got home, they read the Sunday paper. Frog gasped at what he just read. Toad asked ,"Why use gasping?""Read this, " Answered Frog. Toad read the sentence Frog was pointing at. "Wow," Toad barely whispered. It says that there was a new museum at Reptile and Baker street. The newspaper says the museum is a fake haunted house. They decided to go there on their roller skates.

When they got there, they bought tickets to go to the museum. Frog and Toad gave their tickets to the ticket lizard. when they went in the museum, two paper ghosts greeted them at the entrance. When they saw a papier-marche hand sticking out of a tombstone, they laughed! Also, when Frog pressed a button that says "Press me", a skeleton jumped out and Toad giggled.

They saw jack-o-lanterns with pointy teeth and glowing eyes. After that, they both jumped into a small boat together and entered the tunnel of fear. In the tunnel of fear, there were many statues of pirates eating, in boats, holding weapons and fighting.

After the tunnel of fear, Frog and Toad said together, "That was a lot of fun!" They passed through the exit and a big scarecrow said "bye, bye!".

When Frog and Toad went back to Frog's house in roller skates, Toad said "Let's go there again some other time." "Okay," replied Frog. And for dinner, they ate at Lizard Sam's dinner, lunch, breakfast. Open 24 hours a day.

Then, Frog and Toad went back to their own houses and slept well that evening.

THE END

Mark's Magic Show

Once there were two friends named Mark and Rick. Mark liked to read chapter books. Rick liked to read any kind of books.

One day, Rick came to Lakens Elementary Weird. He didn't feel like reading books, like he usually did. Mark tried to ask him what's wrong. Rick said that his other friend Logan from Texas got to go to San Francisco to watch a magic show last Saturday. Rick said, "I can't go because I didn't have enough money". Mark said he went to the magic show and after he was about to leave, the amazing Victor taught him how to do some of the easy tricks. Mark said he could show Rick.

The End

The Talking Box and Computer

Once there was a talking box whose name was Joey James. He had a friend, a talking computer. His name was Phillip Mao.

One day, they went into their secret hide out in a empty puzzle box. Joey announced,"We're gonna sneak out of the house and out to the baseball field in the park with Norman and Robbie." "Okay," replied Phillip. Norman was a talking jar and Robbie was a talking ball. They sneaked out of the house and they called Norman and Robbie. They watched the Giants and the other teams play baseball.

The End

Days with Frog and toad (The Hat)

First, it was Toad's birthday and frog gave him a hat. Except the hat was too big. Toad was sad. Then, Frog thought of a plan. He told Toad that tonight, when he goes to bed, think big thoughts which will make his head grow larger. Finally, when Toad went to bed, he thought some big thoughts. Frog sneaked in at midnight and took the hat to his house and poured some water on the hat. It began to shrink. Frog put the hat back where he found it. Toad was happy the next morning. It fits!

Linus Goes to Space

Once there was a scientist named Linus. Linus heard many people say "There are aliens behind the moon." Linus wasn't so sure about it. So he decided to go look there himeself. Linus rented a rocket. He blasted off and flew away to be nowhere to be found.

The Tiny Creature

One day, Gus and Axel were inside playing starwars. Then Axel saw something glowing in Gus's yard, he called to Gus and told him about that.

The thing looked like a spaceship, the door of the thing opened and a ladder fell out and a strange creature came out. It jumped into the house and ate everything that is made out of metal. I will tell you some of the things the creature ate: penny, machine, statue, cup.

THE END

The Trouble Makers

Once upon a time, there was an elf who was a bit of pest. The elf's name is Mark and he had an elf friend named James and he was a big trouble maker. Mark and James were friends since just born!

One day they decided to put a wild frog in Ms. Benson's desk like for example, when Ms. Benson opened her desk, the frog would jump out and she would scream. The next day at recess, James and Mark sneaked in and put the frog in their teacher's desk. After recess, Ms. Benson was about to get something out of her desk. When she opened it, the frog jumped out and Ms.Benson screamed and all of the elves in her class laughed so hard! Ms. Benson called the principal right away to tell Mr. Jack the principal to take the frog away! And she was so, so, mad!

THE END

Mark's Weird Dream

Once upon a time, there was a boy named Mark Bob and his address was 2940 Frog Creek, Pennsylvania 82116. Mark lived in a small house. Mark had $900.00, and a bike and a grand piano. One day, a weird thing happened, everything didn't look right and Mark was just dreaming.

THE END

The Big Hole

Once there were two friends, an elephant and a giraffe. The elphant's name was Kennedy and the giraffe's name was Zachary.

One day, Zachary asked Kennedy, "Want to meet each other at the park?" "Okay." replied Kennedy. They met each other at the park one sunny Wednesday. They both told each other that they were so hungry. So they decided to eat the grass of the national park.

You heard that they were so hungry, right? Zachary and Kennedy at so much that they made a big hole down the center of the national park. At the bottom of the park, Zachary couldn't believe his eyes! And Kennedy too. There were lots of beautiful mountains and rivers. It was almost like heaven!

Zachary and Kennedy jumped down to the beautiful land and played tag and hide-and-seek there quite a while. When it was time for dinner, Zachary realized they couldn't go back up! Suddenly, Kennedy figured out a way to get up. His plan was to put spiky sticks on their feet and climb up. So it worked.

THE END

Friendship Recipe -- Makes about 100 friends

Start carefully with
3 Pinches of joyful smiles
1/2 Cup of kind faces
A teaspoon of fun
Throw in quickly
A dash of love
Pour in some funny kids
A pinch of envy
Bake at 100 degrees for 1 century
Finely chopped with forgiveness
Mix in large baking bowl until it giggles

The Exploratorium

Once, there were three brothers named, Bobby, Zachary and Freddy.

One day while Bobby was bouncing his ball and Zachary was reading a Ninja Turtles Book, Freddy came rushing in the room, "Hey, Listen to this, you guys." "What?" Zachary and Bobby replied together. "Summer break is next week, we're going to go to the Exploratorium Summer Camp," Freddy said, "we're gonna see our own spit under one of their very best microscopes." "Cool!" Zachary said.

Finally, it's time for Summer Camp. Bobby, Zachary and Freddy went to the Exploratorium Summer Camp. They listened with earphones to a blind man talking about what he hears at the subway. They ate lunch by a pond. Bobby bought a banana, a hamberger and some apple juice. Zachary brough some grapes, some rice cooked with chicken and CiCi. Freddy brought a peach, some noodles and Caprisun. In the afternoon, they built a sand castle at the beach. When they came back to the Exploratorium, they got a bathroom break. After the day was over, Zachary said, "Man, that was a fun place to be!"

And every Summer, Bobby, Zachary and Freddy went to the Exploratorium for Summer Camp.

THE END

The Mysterious Change

Once there were two friends, a caterpillar and a butterfly. The caterpillar was named Larry M. and the butterfly was named Harriet L. One day, Larry was eating a leaf and Harriet was drinking nectar from a flower and suddenly, Larry crawled right out of his skin! Harriet was impressed. Then it happened five times. For the fifth time, Larry's skin was rough, it became a chrysalis! Harriet couldn't have the thought of never seeing her friend again. For a few weeks, Larry crawled out of the chrysalis and Harriet couldn't believe her eyes! Larry was a butterfly! For the neext two hours, Larry dried off his wings and the two butterflies played tag as they glided through the air.
THE END

The Leaf Face

One day in the first day of fall, a leaf fell down a tree. Then all of the leaves fell down of that tree. A girl found a leaf with a face on it. So she decided to take the leaf home.
SO THAT'S THE END!

Dessert Fox

One day in the dessert, there lived two foxes named James and Perky. They were both eating icecream in th hot sun. Everywhere you look, there was dessert stuff, like a cactus and all kinds of stuff.

The Big Day

Once upon a time, there was a valley. And in the valley, people knew each other. One day, there was a pie eating contest. So people ate pies everyday to practise so they could win the contest. And on that day, it was the big day because it was the contest. Three kids won, a boy got 1st, a girl got 2nd and another girl got 3rd.

THE END

The Robot Camel

Once upon a time, there was a robot camel named Herb. Once he went to the desert and saw a tumbleweed, he was surprised when it rolled.

THE END

Sammer's Magic

One dark scary Halloween night, Sammer the Halloween ghost was in his haunted house reading a book. The book was called "How to Turn Things into Goblins". But Sammer didn't understand! So Sammer was about to put the book awasy when a spider crawled on the book. Sammer just put his finger on it and it was dead. Sammer got another book called "How to do MAGIC". He opened it up and a rat climbed out. But he doesn't care. Sammer read it when he was on the last page, he was so surprised that it was easy. Sammer tried that trick and it worked--the rat turned into a cup!

THE END

The Valentine Party

One day, there was a school called Millform Elementary. It was almost Valentines's Day and Ms. Benser told the class to make a nice Valentine for everybody in her class! So Charles started right away.

Charles made his first to his best friends named Sherly and Jasmine. The just for his friends Josh and Pete. He made one for everybody in his class except one which is for Frank because he once (peed in his chair). But he just made one that said "Frank, somtime you are a pest but at least HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!"

It was the Valentine's day, Ms. Benser said to put the Valentines in people's lockers, everybody got a nice one.

School Adventures with Robert and Stanley

Once upon a time, there was a boy named Robert Starky who went to Sherlock College. Robert only had one friend named Stanley Lambchop. They knew each other since Preschool! They both loved books!

One day when Robert went to school, he said tohis friend Stanley, "you know, my dad Aslan, he did two hundred push-ups and sit-ups." "Wow!" said Stanley. When they finally came to class, Mr. Marks their teacher said, "Welcome boys and girls! I have an important thing to tell you. Our principal Mr. Stomboli will change to Mr. Cardini." "Ohh." said the class. At recess, Robert and Stanley played tag and when Robert was on T.O., He said "I'm hungry." Suddenly, the bell rang and everyone hurried to line. At lunch recess, Robert went to the library because Stanley was playing with his cousin. At the end of the day, Robert walked home and Stanley rode th bus.

THE END

Friendship

One day in Texas, Rosemond was playing basketball in Lakewood Elementary. Just then, Rosemond's two friends Tim and Peter came along and asked, "Can we play too?" Rosemond answered, "No. Because you guys never let me see your game cards. " Peter said , "Because we wanted to give you those for your nine-year-old birthday." "Oh, really?" asked Rosemond. "Yes." answered Tim and Peter at the same time. But Rosemond ignored them! Tim and Peter did not give up. They got in a fight with words like "Shut up!","Hold it", and you know like those words. Finally they got tired of yelling and went to rest. Just then, Rosemond said, "Want to play tag?" "Okay." Tim and Peter said. And they played tag until it was time to go back to class.

THE END

Watching over the World

Once upon a time, Tarzon was in the rainforest swinging from vine to vine. Tarzon was on his way back to his treehouse when he met with Polly the Parrot. Tarzon said, "What are you doing out here?" "Seeing." said Polly. "Seeing what?" asked Tarzon. "Seeing the world," replied Polly. "How do you do that?" Tarzon asked. "Here, use these." Polly said as she handed Tarzon a weird looking piece of glass. "Sure." Tarzon said. Tarzon used it, he really saw the world! He was amazed! And Tarzon spent all night looking through the piece of glass.
THE END

The Funny Pig

There was a pig who wants to walk on a highwire line so he could join the circus. He made the highwire line with a chair, stool, a cushion, and a lamp with a wire on it. The wire is actually the highwire! The pig stacked the objects carefully upon each other. On the other side, he stacked some books, a small table and a desk. The pig performed perfectly good. His friends cheered so loud that one of the windows broke.
THE END

A New Den

One evening, the mother bear and her two cubs named Growly and Little Bear went for a walk in the forest. But after they came back, they couldn't find their den. At last, Mother bear found their den but another bear was sleeping in it. Mother bear, Growly and Little Bear got hopeless. There was a long silence. Growly broke the silence and he let out a snore. Mother bear told the cubs to build a new den. The cubs nodded yes. They built the den out of mud and clay. They went in to eat supper and they had the best supper ever.
THE END

At the Circus

Long ago, in a far-off land called Pinecut, there lived a famous rat named George Fate and his friend the elephant whose name was Mamoon Ted.

One day George was taking Mamoon for a walk, then Mamoon spotted a sign on a window that said: HELP WANTED. "It's for the circus," said George as they walked inside the circus tent. They signed in to get the job.

And the next morning, George Fate came in wearing a top-hat, black suit and an umbrella in his hand. He silently walked over to Mamoon Ted. George finally said, "I've got my talent, I'll do a cart-wheel with an umbrella in my hand!" Then Mamoon said, "I'm gonna walk on my hind-legs!"

When the circus was over, the manager said, "Good job! Those shows were the best ever!" "Thanks!" George and Mamoon said together.

THE END

Pig's Dream

Pig was sleeping for eight hours. He dreamed that he was in a mini space-ship ready to go Pluto. When he got there, he saw a weird person. Then he realized that it's an alien. Pig said "Hi!" But the alien said nothing. The alien quickly walked away. Then he came back with his people. They all screamed so loud and Pig ran away as fast as he can and got back to his mini-space-ship. Pig flew back to Earth as fast as he can and never came back.

Valentine's Day

Once there was a farmer whose name was James William. James W. had funny animals in his farm. One day, the duck wore a black top hat and bow tie and he walked straight to the horse with a bunch of pretty flowers in his hand. The duck Ester said to the horse Fred, "Excuse-me Fred, but I want to give these flowers to you." Fred looked up for a moment and said, "Thank you but I'm busy right now." "Fine," said Ester. Ester thought about what to do and suddenly brainstorm! Ester decided to give the bunch of flowers to farmer James. Ester went in the barn house to find him. James William did seem to disappear but he was just passing by the pond. He was carrying a giant magnifying glass. James took a peek inside after that duck asked farmer James if he wants the flowers. James said, "Sorry! Too busy." Ester went away and saw a big table. He was about to check it out and all of the animals and farmer James yelled "Happy Valentine's Day!"
THE END

Paris

I want to go to Paris because I want to see the Eiffel Tower. I want to see what French coins look like. I want to learn to speak French. I think I will like Paris.