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The class did very well on their Leadership essays. The class showed me they know a lot about what it takes to be a good leader - This is what I found out that the students know about what it takes to be a good leader from the essays they wrote. Great job kids!!
Good leaders set a good example, bring out the best in others, teach others to be a leader, and teach others to be independent. People learn from leaders. Leaders help others, take care of others, respect feelings, rights, are a good friend and are generally friendly. They consider all ideas, are open minded and are good listeners. Leaders are understanding, kind, caring, polite, positive, cheerful and confident. They have to be responsible and make good decisions. They need to be trustworthy, communicate well, be cooperative and should make things easier for people. They are usually successful and hard working. They are independent yet ask for help if needed. Leaders need to be smart, determined problem solvers. Leaders need to be polite, respectful, calm and patient. When a leader has proven that they can be all these things, they earn respect and people look up to them. People will follow a good leader who can be all these things.
Some students wrote great Opinion pieces with reasons and examples as well as some very good introductions and conclusions. I was quite impressed with some essays. Here is an example. Thanks Wyatt!
My Dad is one of the best leaders I know of. He is a good communicator, problem solver and teacher.
When my Dad and I go to town he is friendly and kind to everyone we see. He visits with people, asks how they are doing, and has good manners.
When something is broken or needs to be made better he tries to fix it on his own but if he can’t he asks for help. Recently he helped me build fishing rod holders in my kayak. The glue did not work so he had to improvise and he used a plastic cap instead.
My Dad is always taking time to teach me new things. Over the last 9 years he has taught me how to rope and improve at roping.
My Dad leads my brothers and I with patience and confidence. We look up to him because he is smart, determined, helps others and is hard working. - Science: Animals and their Life Cycles May 2020
- The Blobfish. by Huck
The blobfish is a deep sea fish that belongs to a family of fatheads. It can only be found in Australia, Tasmania and New Zealand. They live in deep water, 609m to 1188m to be exact so the pressure is pretty strong. The blobfish are rare and endangered from too many people accidentally getting them caught in their fishing nets. They can get quite big, only 30cm but just wait for this it’s gonna be amazing dum dum dumm! and 20LBS amazing hey. Blobfish lay a whole bunch of eggs, 9000!!! Then after they hatch they turn a small blob then later they turn into a bigger blob then finally they turn into an adult blobfish then they reproduce then die. - INVERTEBRATES
By Gabriel
Invertebrates are animals without spines or back bones. Vertebrate animals have spines or back bones. You may ask what do invertebrates have? Invertebrates have something called an exoskeleton. Exoskeletons are a hard shell formed around the body.
Invertebrates are mostly insects but we have Crab and Lobster. The insides of a Invertebrate is soft because they have no bones. You may think turtles are Invertebrates but no they actually have bones and an outer shell such as an Armadillo. On the other hand squids, and insects are invertebrates.
Did you know 23% of the ocean's marine organisms are mollusks. The only hard part of an octopus is its beak. Some invertebrate such as echinoderms, eg. starfish, have no heads. There are likely millions of invertebrates living in your house.
Butterflies by Shayla Wakefield
Butterflies are an insect. All insects do not have a backbone so they are called an invertebrate animal. We put insects in a group called arthropod with lobsters, crabs, spiders, mites, centipedes and millipedes. About 84 percent of all known species of animals are members of this group.
Like all insects butterflies have six jointed legs, 3 body parts, a pair of antennae, compound eyes, and an exoskeleton. The three body parts are the head, thorax (the chest) and abdomen (the tail end). The butterfly’s body is covered with tiny sensory hairs.
See Picture for a butterfly's life cycle: Egg, larva, pupa and adult stages. When it's a caterpillar it's in its larva stage, and the chrysalis is it's pupa stage. - Scorpions
By Easton
Scorpion Reproduction: Males use pheromones and vibrations to communicate to females. Their dance is called the “promenade a deux” this means walk of two. Once it does, the sperms are released to form fertilized eggs. The gestation period is very long. It often lasts 7-9 months but can be longer or shorter.
When babies are born, they climb onto their mom’s back and stay there for protection. Once they shed their skin for the first time they leave their mom’s back. During their life cycle, scorpions will molt 5 or 6 times until they become an adult. Their new exoskeleton is very soft. The average lifespan is about 4 to 25 years old. It is better to leave scorpion alone so you so it doesn’t sting you.
Life Cycle Of A Sea Star By Savannah
Sea Stars have a complex life cycle, they pass through several developmental stages before becoming a major adult. A male and female release egg and sperm from their bodies. Some sperm and eggs contact each other initiating fertilization and development.
The next stage is they turn into bipinnaria. That is the larval stage of a sea star. They float in water for several days to weeks before settling onto the sea floor bed. Now they start to develop into radial symmetry and be metamorphosed into an adult. This means it grows it’s legs and starts to look like a star. The last stage is a full grown adult sea star that can be found on the bottom of the sea. If a Predator attacks a sea star's legs, the sea star can pop off it’s leg and regrow a new one.
- Woooooooooorms By wormy Edis
Worms are all around the world. Little tiny creatures wriggling around the ground are what worms are. Worms are invertebrates. The kind of invertebrate they are is an annelid. Worms help the environment. They increase the air and water in the soil around them. Worms also decompose organic that gets spilled. After worms eat, they leave valuable castings that act as a fertilizer. Earthworms help farmers get better land.
If you look at a worm they have a large bulgy bart on their body. If you chop the worm in half below that part of its body, it’ll survive! But if you cut above it, it will not survive. You can eat worms.
Worms can eat a few things. Such as food scraps, fruit and vegetable peelings, eggshells and many more. Earthworms can decompose dumplings, plastic, no biggy! They are nature's unbelievably best recyclers!! The life cycle of a worm is complicated. Like other animals it begins with an egg. Inside the egg is a little worm ready to pop out. That little worm develops until it gets to the size of a normal worm.
Dragonflies by Brody
there are three stages of the dragonfly the egg the nymph and the adults dragonfly. Most of the life cycle of a dragonfly is lived out in the nymph stage. when they are finished hatching, the larvae are the nymphs in the water for about a year. After they leave the water they began to fight, they only live for about a month. dragonflies have long bodies, transparent wings, large eyes. There is over 5,000 species of dragonflies. They have six legs, Borat, a head, and a abdomen. even though they have six legs they can't walk very well. But there are good at flying. Dragonflies hover in one place, super fast, and fly backwards. When Flying J can reach speeds over 30 miles per hour are some of the most colourful insects on the planet, colours inclusion green, red, blue ,and yellow. their range in sorry from half an inch to over 5 inches long. TheyHave been alive around 3 million years. - Bee Report by Senna
Bees are invertebrates, that means bees don’t have a spine.
There are three types of bees in a hive: the queen, the workers and the drones.
If the queen has already mated she lays the eggs. A honey bee queen can lay up to 2000 eggs in a single day! After three days the egg hatches into larva. It grows for five to six days then they are capped. They continue to grow then the bee eats its way out. - Thread worm by hayley
Step 1.cocoon
Step 2.baby
Step 3.teen
Step 4.adult
The 1st step is the cocoon; it has the most important step of the stage. It has to live or Die. The cocoon stays on the ground away from birds.they are not like other animals.
The 2nd step is the baby: at this point they learn to eat
The 3rd step is the teen:they learn to hunt and get water.They are not a full adult yet but they have grown into a mini one.
The 4th step is the adult:t hey have grown into full size, they can go wherever under the dirt they want.
Lobster By:Ethan
What kind of Lobster do you like? I like Atlantic Lobster. In this report you will learn about the lobsters life cycle, where you can find them, what they eat, how old lobsters live to be, how many times they shed their skin, how much they weigh, and what color they are.
A lobster is an invertebrate because it has no backbone. Instead of having a spine they are protected by a hard shell that provides structure to their bodies. It starts as pueruli which settles in the algae and seagrass then turns into Juveniles that hide under sponges and corals. Juveniles continue their life cycle into adults that live and forage in hard-bottom habitats in the ocean. Then they lay eggs at the edge of the reef. The eggs hatch and the current then carries them back to shore to start it all over again.
Adult lobsters live in hard-bottom habitats like crevices and rocky caves on the seafloor. Lobsters prefer to eat live prey like mollusks (kind of like a clam), fish, worms and crustaceans (crabs, shrimp, or barnacles).
Scientists still can’t determine the exact age of lobsters but think lobsters can live up to 100 years old! Lobsters molt their skin 25 times in 5-7 years. It takes them 6-8 years until they are 1 pound which is usually the size they are when we can eat them. A 1 pound lobster is the most common weight but they can grow up to 3-4 pounds. After this the males moult once a year and the female moults twice a year. At this point, with each moult they grow 15% in length and 40% in weight- the only way they can grow is if they moult off their hard shell and form a new one. When they are moulting they need to go into a hiding place because when they moult their skin is soft and predators could easily kill them. After a couple months their shell gets hard again and they come out of hiding because they are stronger again. Did you know that in Nova Scotia in 1977 a lobster was caught and he weighed 44 pounds and 6 ounces? He was three feet and 6 inches long! That is huge but it does not happen very often.
Did you know that lobsters can come in black, brown, and the rarest are blue, or yellow! Your chances of finding a blue one though are 1 in 2,000,000 but a yellow lobster is even more rare 1 in 30,000,000. Most common are greenish brown and blackish brown to hide on the ocean floor from predators. Most people probably think that lobsters are red but they actually turn red when they get cooked.
My Great Grandpa Clarke used to live in Nova Scotia and went fishing for lobsters when he was a kid. You use a special trap that you put fish bait in and they go in it for the food. They go in backwards and then they can't get back out again because they get in through almost a funnel (sort of like a magpie trap). He said that some of the lobsters they caught weighed probably 2 pounds and that their claws were about 4 inches long. He said you really had to be careful that they didn’t pinch your fingers with their claws because it would really hurt. They got his fingers a few times but the kids used to put keys in with the lobsters and the lobsters would pinch the keys with their claws and they were so strong that they would mark the keys. My grandpa has lots of cool stories about living by the ocean!
So that's the amazing Lobster! I hope you learned something, I know I did. If you ever go scuba diving make sure to be one the lookout. If you do go scuba diving I wonder if you will see a blue or yellow lobster. - Butterflies By Tayah
A butterfly's life cycle is made up of four parts: egg, larve, pupa and adult. They attach their eggs to leaves using a special glue which helps them not to crack or fall. After the egg and larvae stages it will turn into a caterpillar. Caterpillars are herbivores which means they don't eat meat. Caterpillars will eat leaves for a good amount of their life until it makes a cocoon. Once the butterfly comes out of its cocoon it will wait a few hours for its wings to fill with blood and dry. Then it will fly off into the world! - Student Adventure Stories Spring 2020
Cougar Trouble - BY: Ethan
In 1896, there were two young boys named Ethan and Wyatt, who lived in Dawson City. Their dads worked in the gold mine and they were best friends. The boys were friends too and loved to go on adventures together in the beautiful mountains. It was exciting when they got to pan for gold in the river but sometimes they got bored looking for tiny flakes of gold. When they got bored they liked to do things that all ten year old boys liked to do. They liked to climb trees, play in the cool river, explore the wilderness, go fishing, and just have fun. Sometimes they got into trouble together but they always found a way out of it. They were always a team and were always there for each other. But one time it cost them because they came face to face with danger.
One day the boys were playing in the river and they saw a rabbit, so they followed it. It hopped over logs, through bushes, through trees and by that time they realized that they’d wandered so far that they got lost. It was almost dark so they made a fire and camp. The next morning they tried to find their way home but they went the wrong way. Then they found a cave the boys went in of course. The cave was dark and smelly, it smelled like rotten fish. Ethan sat down at the side of the cave but it didn't feel like rock it felt like fur! Ethan said “I don’t think we're alone”
“Why?” Said Wyatt
“‘Cause I’m leaning on a cougar I think” whispered Ethan. They moved out of the cave quietly but Wyatt stepped on a bone and it made a loud noise “Seriously” said Ethan.
“Sorry,” said Wyatt. Then the boys looked at the cougar and it was awake! It ran to the opening of the cave so the boys could not get out “You gotta plan Wyatt?” asked Ethan
“No I hoped you did!”
“Ok got one” said Ethan
“What is it?” said Wyatt.
“You run to the side of the cave and then I will sneak out to go get help” said Ethan. They tried that idea but it did not work. Then Wyatt thought of a plan. Iit was that Wyatt ran to the side of the cave to distract the cougar and Ethan ran behind the cougar and pulled the cougar's tail. The cougar yelped when Ethan pulled the tail so the cougar would follow him out of the cave. Then the cougar followed him out so Wyatt could get out then Ethan ran around the inside of the cave the cougar was still following and then Wyatt was on the right hand side and when Ethan was out he shot a big boulder that was on the roof so it would fall in front of the door so the cougar could not get out.
Then the boys made a compass and started heading home but on their way home they found 2 baby cougars then they realised that the cougar they trapped was a mom! So they took the cubs back and freed the mom. Then back on the trail they went and the mom cougar mom did not chase them.
When they got home they ate supper and hit the hay. The next morning they hopped on their horses and headed off with their dads again. Ethan wondered if they would have another trip like that again “I hope we have another trip like that again,” said Ethan
“Ya but with Bears!” said Wyatt
THE LOST TIGER
by JACK
It was 12:00 at noon in the The Amazon Rainforest. When a little baby tiger named Joe only one of his mom’s litter of three and his two brothers named Bob and Jimmy. He was the best play fighter. He heard a bush shake so he thought he could wrestle the small thing that made the bush shake. So he pounced at the bush and missed , the mouse started to run so Joe followed the mouse.
When he was following he didn’t know that he was running into the middle of the biggest jungle in the world. He didn’t know what way to go because all the trees looked the same to Joe. Joe was lucky that he had just been weaned off his mother's milk or he would have starved to death.
Joe had to eat fruit for the next month until he was big enough to hunt rabbits, over the next month Joe got big enough to hunt baby deer. One day a huge thunderstorm rolled in. The lightning crashed almost hitting the ground. The lightning put fear into Joe’s eyes so he ran to a nearby cave, little did he know he was in another tiger’s territory. This only happened because all the rain washed away his mother's scent of his mom's territory marking. The next morning the year old tiger woke up to the sound of a two year old tiger named Hunter and he just finished territory marking because of the big storm that washed away the scent.
Joe had to fight hunter for his territory. You could see the fire in Joe's eyes. Joe's muscles tensed up and they had a huge fight. The mighty roars the intense clawing. The blood left on earth's floor. At the end of the fight Joe finally put the ending gash in hunters face that ended it all and Joe finally won over the territory but he was still on the search for his beloved mother. Joe walked for miles until he came across his mother marking her territory.
They were reunited with each other and Joe never ran off again until his mother died. His mother wasn’t dead but he and his loving mother lived together for the rest of their lives. Joe thought about the mouse that got him lost and the bad thing was he didn’t even kill the mouse.
The Tale OF TWO HORSES
By sorcha
Once upon a time there was a beautiful valley full of mystical animals.There were fairies, unicorns and horses and more. But one terrible night a monster called Muda came and destroyed the valley. Two brave horses went to go find the mystical moose named Fauron.Their journey began at Helen Poles.The helen poles was full of dangers like ice cold lakes polar bears and ice cliffs.They got past the ice lake but got caught by polar guards and the guard took them to the icy prison. They thought they would never get out but then they spotted a window and escaped. They fell off a icy cliff but landed in water. Their Next place to go is the fire cove.The fire cover was hot but safe with fire horses water cannons for safety and fire slides for kids. The fire cove was easy. then they went to the forest and asked the great moose to come and help them. Thankfully he said yes and the fire horses flew and took them back to the valley.The great moose gave the two horses power to kick the monster hurting him.The fire horses help the two horses by making them fly but the polar bears came and gave the Muda claws but the fire horses got the polar bears distracted them.The horses hit the monster in the head and he ran away. The valley was saved and their mom finally gave them names Blue and Berry
Don’t Trust the Monkeys
By Savannah Wedrick
It was a nice sunny summer and Alex asked Lucky if she wanted to go to the Zoo.
“Sure,” Lucky said, so they headed off to the Zoo. When the girls got to the Zoo, the zookeeper came out and told them “I need your help! The monkeys are going crazy!”
The zookeeper took Lucky and Alex to the monkeys.
“Zookeeper” Alex asked “Why do you need our help with the monkeys?”
“I need your help with the monkeys because a baby monkey is stuck in the tree and the rest are going crazy. That is why I need your help.”
Lucky told the zookeeper that Alex is a good climber so she should go and save the baby monkey. Alex agreed and she went into the cage and started climbing the tree. She didn’t notice that all the monkeys were leaving. The monkeys stampeded over Lucky and the zookeeper. One of the monkeys took the key for their cage and locked it. When Alex got to the top she gently took the monkey out of the tree and went down.
After Alex was on the ground she realized that the monkey was fake. She ran to the cage door and yanked on it but id did not open. Alex yelled at the zookeeper to open the cage but he replied “I don’t have the key, the monkeys took it and locked you in.”
He looked around and exclaimed, “I got it!” The zookeeper whispered his idea to Lucky. The Zookeeper and Lucky started to chase the monkeys. After a while the monkeys stopped and the zookeeper and Lucky tripped over them. The monkeys grabbed Lucky and tied her up with a rope and scampered away. The zookeeper ran to Lucky and untied her. When he was untying Lucky, she thought of an idea.
“Zookeeper” exclaimed Lucky, “we should take one of your trained lions to chase the monkeys.”
“That’s a great idea!” said the zookeeper. The zookeeper let one of the trained lions out of its cage and told the lion to get the key from the monkeys. The lion chased the monkeys around the zoo for 10 minutes, but the monkeys got an idea. They brought out the lion’s favorite food, liver. The monkeys threw 5 pieces of liver into the lion’s cage. He ran in to go eat the liver.
Lucky and the zookeeper were fooled by the monkeys again. All of a sudden they heard an elephant and went “Aha.”
They ran to the elephant cage and took one out. The zookeeper and Lucky got on the elephant and looked for the monkeys. They looked by the giraffes, the tigers, the birds, the zebras, the bears and the cougars but they still did not find them.
The zookeeper yelled “HEY MONKEYS, DO YOU WANT BANANAS?” Once the monkeys heard the zookeeper they came stampeding to the zookeeper. The zookeeper made a deal with the monkeys, “If you don’t let Alex out, give me the key,and go back into your cage, then you will never get another banana.”
The monkeys wanted bananas, so they did exactly what the zookeeper said. The zookeeper turned to the girls and said “Thanks a lot, you’d better go home now. Thanks for your help, you are heroes!”
On their way home the girls were talking about how insane the day was. Alex told Lucky that when she was in the cage she felt like she was going to die. She thought they would never find the key to let her out. Lucky told her that she was worried about her sister too.
“I wish I would never be trapped in an animal cage again” cried Alex.
“I hope we will never be separated again.” said Lucky.
“I love you Alex.”
“I love you too Lucky.”
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- Forest Clans of Secrecy
Apprentice’s Secret By Evander
Chapter 1 Aattack Rrun
It was a dark morning when Darkpaw had woken up in the Apprentices’ den. He shivered with the dark morning coldness. Outside it was windy and frosty all over Lightning clan camp. Darkpaw picked himself up and trotted to the patrol cats. Waiting there was Tigerpaw, Bluestripe, Windclaw and Goldpelt. Goldpelt, the deputy of Lightning clan, led the way through fallen trees and into their territory.
The morning felt as if Darkpaw was going to get frostbite. Goldpelt decided to trudge into camp again to alert Thunderstar about the incoming attack from Galaxy clan.
“Thunderstar, Galaxy Clan is edging toward us” alerted Goldpelt. ” They are going to attack us later”
“How do you Know?” protested the clan leader.
“We spotted a Galaxy Clan patrol budging toward us.”hissed Bluestripe.
“Train some apprentices then” snarled Thunderstar.
Bluestripe pawed her way to the mossy tunnel with Darkpaw. But suddenly she sprinted her way back to Thunderstar.
“ What is it?” she asked.
“I saw them!”
“Darkpaw! Watch out!” gasped Thunderstar.
Darkpaw dodged the attack by Speedpaw. This engaged the camp.
Chapter 2 Darkpaw and his Bad Warrior
Darkpaw unsheathed his claws as Speedpaw made an escape run. Thunderstar told them to wake up and prepare for a deadly war between Lightning Clan and Galaxy Clan. The three entrances would be filled with cats of either clan. A warrior came flying in. Darkpaw was caught. On his back he used ultra powerful hind legs and made him do a front flip landing on his belly. He fought back with the warrior. The war was on.
Darkpaw clawed his nemisis. Then he managed to bite his leg forcing him to yowl. Nobody heard. He fleed home.
Chapter 3 Galaxy Clan Failed Against Darkpaw
“Ow! Ow! Eek!” cried the wise Galaxy Clan warrior. He made it through the cracked wood and broken trees.
“What’s the matter?” called lightleaf.
“My leg. A lightning Clan apprentice bit me there” answered Cinderstripe.
“Come here. I will heal you overnight and daylight.”
“Okay”
Cinderstripe bounded into the thick rock and the white medicine cat had some moss to bandage it for the wound in his leg.
The next morning was a tragedy. Spacestar carried a warrior on his back. It was their second strongest warrior, Lavapelt.
“ Hhe needs multiple mosses on his torso and legs.” the dotted leader announced.”Hey! What are you doing in there!?”
Lightleaf unfolded the bite of Cinderstripe.
“That is acceptable” he said, glittering in his eyes as he stared into the eyes of him.
“Patrol! Fetch us some food for us.” he ordered.
Within two minutes they were back with all sorts of rodents. Wetclaw was even back with a badger. They feasted for the night then they fell asleep.
Chapter 4 A Quiet Day
Paw’s pounded the ground as Cinderstripe woke up. He still felt that pang of pain in his left hind leg. A sleek white and black she-cat strode toward him.
“ You have been awarded for bravery for attacking darkpaw you two.” the she-cat said calmly.
“Th-th-th-thanks” said the wrapped warrior all covered in moss.
“ Darkpaw has suffered serious injuries like you Lavapelt.”
The light snow piled in the middle of the clearing. A very young appentice shot right through it. Making a small tunnel. He hopped into it. He popped out the tunnel.
“I’ll be fine for now,” said Cinderstripe, limping toward his well-trained apprentice Glitterpaw.
“Hello Cinderstripe. How are you feeling?” asked Glitterpaw.
“Better.” he said. “ I am gonna take you for a trip to the Long moss tunnel. That is where we get some of our moss from. Long ago when I was only two moons old I saw a cycological in a sizablee hollowed-out oak log. Over time moss grew on it. That’s why we call it the long moss tunnel.” he felt proud of his clan-cat life.”I am a clan-cat. My mom’s name was Oakpelt. She is the oldest She-cat in the clan and she was a ferociuos warrior. But when they realized she was giving birth to nine cats, she turned into a queen. Her warrior name was Oakclaw. I was the third cat to be born. That is why we have Sixteen warrior’s”
“ Is Oakpelt an elder?” commented Glitterpaw.
“ She is surprisingly still a queen. She is twenty- nine moons old. At thirty she’ll be an elderly queen. The oldest clan-cat here is Threeleg who’s fifty-six moons old.”
“That old.” the soft she-cat said, purring in satisfaction.
“Yup. So anyway our destination is just up here.”
The mossy tunnel was over a century old, but still intact.
“ What are we gonna do?” she said
“Ppick some moss. Do you know how to do that?”
“Yes,” the she-cat said hopefully “ it’s easy”
“Good. Pick six and I’ll pick nine”
From then on it was a silent afternoon. When night fell it was dark and spooky. Cinderstripe was in the medicine cats’ den. Still with his moss-bandaid on it was comfy so he could drop asleep.
Chapter 5 Silver Clan Rreturns
Silver Clan was murdered by the Water Clan. Ever since they escaped they hid in an abandoned twoleg dwelling. It was not far from home when they saw a patrol thinking they were there. The Water clan warriors kept searching until the Silver Clan camp saw their shadows disappear in the sulight. They trudged their way through the snow and the area of twigs, leaves, moss and snow piles was in sight. Their leader longstar (who died in his last life) threw his head side to side looking at the destruction. The campsight was immense. The warriors’ den was shattered. The roof was gone and there looked like a medium-sized window pane was on a wall. Twigs and sticks and moss were tossed around like a tornado hit. A tall wall had fallen and longstars’ den was strewn around. His nest was cracked and split apart. The destruction was fixable in the middle of winter.
Around one two later it was as fine as new. But for the dens’. They were like mattled apart*. It was done within an hours’ time. Now it was night. They rested neatly in the dens’.
*Mattled apart = demolished
Chapter 6 Darkpaw’s supportage by Lightning Clan
After the attack, Lightning Clan had many injuries. Darkpaw was the most messed around. He was bit two times and clawed thirteen times. He was bit on the torso and right front leg. He was supported by many cats including the medicine cat.
He remained in the Medicine cats’ den. Fed a mouse each morning and night, Blackfur gave him healing product’s such as moss Bbandaids, as given to Cinderstripe.
Thunderstar announced one celebration for a young apprentice and a very well-trained apprentice who fought a lot of cats in the war. (Darkpaw)
That night was a major celebration. Thunderstar was amused by the sleek look at the six moon old apprentice. She took time to name her. Then she spoke: “tonight will be the name of this very young apprentice and when Darkpaw officailly will become a strong, talented warrior with ferocious claws and jaws. This lovely snowy tabby she-cat will be known as Snowpaw, and Darkpaw will be followed as Darkshadow. We will respect these two names and will never be fergotten.”
“What about Waterpelt?” came a strange voice from the elders’ den. It was Willowfur. A young elder who lay right beside Waterpelts’ grave. Waterpelt was slaughtered by a very strong warrior. Darkshadow was feeling down. He eyewitnessed him getting attacked by a fast warrior. He trapped him on the ground. But he was bit by Willowfur. He bounced over a cat and shot right out limping on his way out. Willowfur hissed and remained silent when it happened.
Chapter 7 The Very Strange Noise
As morning came the next day the leader was the first to be on his feet. He gave orders to get some food. Warriors’ and apprentices dashed off to fetch some mice, rats, moles or voles. They were back with plenty of each. As they feasted a strange noise lurked in the trees. Some cats went to investigate the scene including Cinderstripe. It sounded like falling trees and crackling wood and sizzling snow. FIRE!
“Uh oh” mewled Clawpelt.
“ We have to do something! It's rapidly spreading across!” meowed Stiff-fur.
“Kits! Protect the kits” yowled Cinderstripe
“Good point,” said Spacestar “we might have to escape to a safer place.”
“Well, we're on a cliff. Fire can’t spread up cliffs can they? Hmmmmm?”
“They can’t. You’re right Cinderstripe.”
Suddenly, the cliff started to crumble.
“Back up cats!” Spacestar warned.
It crumbled and crumbled and crumbled til about three feet tumbled off the top. It was like an earthquake. More and more and more fell and then trees started to tumble. The ground rumbled. Finally Spacestar ordered back to camp.
Four hours later……….. The fire had stopped, but rumbling still shocked the rock-solid earth. It stopped shortly after that. The damage to the camp was devastating. Dens were shaken to sticks and twigs and the trees around were almost downed and if you saw the cliff you could see roots from the trees.
The next day began as Glitterpaw pawed her way to the morning patrol. Cindertripe bolted there, too. He was also on morning patrol. Food was given out to every cat. The patrol pawed its way toward the broken cliff top. Embers still flooded the ground as some ashy trees tumbled to the earth
FLUMPFFFFFFF!!!!! Went the first one. A second one toppled. FUMPFFFFFF!!!!!!! As a third one went it made crackling noises. C-C-C-C-C-CRACKLE …BOOOOMF!!!! This one had lots of wood on it still. But then the fire reignited itself again. It raged to the south. The first part only destoyed one acre. This one, it looked as if it were to spread VERY quickly. They watched in horror as it made it to the cliff. Rock fell. But a cravice opened a cave that had twoleg bones in it.
“ The cliff! We have to get out of here, Now!” mewed Stiff-fur
Now they had to move the camp farther away. They made a long way from the cliff. It was very quiet and the rock was as smooth as steel. But the rock was not comfy. They strided to get twigs, sticks, leaves and bark from trees.
They also had very fine hunting grounds. Usually near the end of the cliff there are not very good hunting grounds. But they are deep into the forest so they have access to almost anything.
Chapter 8 When the Clans Meet……
That night was a big meeting. Spacestar had led them to a ravaged woody place with four immense boulder’s in the centre. There were twigs that seperated all clans. Galaxy clan appeared first. Spacestar had already hopped on a boulder. Then Silver clan arrived. The sun was sinking, but it had a long way to go. The Silver clan leader Redstar had popped on a boulder.
“ Aare you okay?” he said.
“ We’re fine,” he answered.
“ Wwe heard the fire cackling at our camp, too.”
“ It made our cliff tremble. It nealy got our first campsite.”
“ You moved?”
“ Not far away, yes.”
“ Look nice?”
“Beautiful” he said as another clan emerged from the darkness.
The two leaders stood still pretending they were not talking. Spacestar ears pricked as he heard more footsteps. A berge of cats broke through the trees as their leader crawled on a boulder.
“ We have an announcement to make,” pleaded Thunderstar. “ Darkpaw has turned into a warrior now, Spacestar. His name is now Darkshadow.”
“ I knew he would turn into a warrior” stammered Spacestar.
“ Silver clan has returned.” said the Water clan leader
“ Have they, Deadstar?”
“ Look!”
“ That's good.” said Spacestar.
“ Bad.” meowed Deadstar.
“ You disbeleive in everything, Deadstar. You should be knocked out of leader and killed in the forest, and you only believe in your clan.” He spoke once again, but this time, stammering very, very hard.
“Liar!” he mewled
“ I certianly am not a liar.”
“ Silver Clan should have returned.” mewed Thunderstar
“ If we wouldn’t have returned,” Redstar growled, “ Wish Cclan would have abandoned our camp. And even if that happened there would be only three campsites left which means less shelter.”
“ I see your point.” meowed Thunderstar.
“ I am totally disagre-”
“ You are not.”
“ Shu-”
“Let’s settle this. NOW would be a good time Deadstar”
“Let the war begin.” longed Deadstar
“There is no ‘war’ around here,” threatened Spacestar. “ ‘War’ does not belong in the boulder landscape of the forest.”
“ War is here at leaf-bare.”
“ The war is not happening!” shouted Redstar.
“ It is.”
“ Is not!”
“ If it is not, Wish Cclan will send us to the fire and burn our fur to the bone.”
By that time Deadstar had targeted Thunderstar but had not leaped at the white-striped she-cat. “ Can we st-”
“ No!” yelled Spacestar
“ Too late.” Deadstar had leaped at Spacestar, but missed.
Cindertripe hopped on Deadstar and bit him.
“ Say your last word, Deadstar.” Cinderstripe growled.
“Attack!!!” Deadstar was slaughtered by Cinderstripe.
Waterclan shot lightning fast back to camp. They had a secret meeting of who’s going to be leader and deputy. The deputy was prisoned by Lightning clan.
“ Alright, cats. Listen up! Tonight we are also gonna choose who is leader and deputy. The feircest warrior will be leader and deputy. The leader will be Glowpelt. The leaders’ partner will Quietmouth. Got it” a warrior will an attrackting muzzle with purple and blue announced the leader.
“ Thank you very much Tinyclaw.” thanked Glowpelt.
“ You're very welcome to come on the highrock.”
“ I will be announcing to cats of this clan that I will trudge my way to the moonstone tommorow night. Quietmouth won’t be on patrol. He will be in the middle of the soiled ground. I will choose who will be on night patrol.”
There was a cheer of happiness all around.
Conclusion (Chapter 9) What the Clans are up Too.
Waterclan was facing a death struck warrior who tried to kill a nursery cat. They managed to kill him. Thunderstar, Spacestar and Redstar visit them every sunhigh on a weekend day.
Galaxy clan is preparing for a big war that is very far from now, but coming really fast. They are stocking up on food and resources. Spacetar plans to set a trap for Lightning clan. It seems cringeworthy but stocking resources does take part in a living clan. Broken buildings have a load of them. Not very far from Galaxy clan was a big running town of over a million twolegs. On a summer night at 2:00 AM there was a huge shatteing noise. It happened all night until afternoon when all the metal, glass, wood, plastic, cement and concrete ceased. They abondened the city but the resources are absolutely perfect. When it rains or snows it is hard to get them out of their long dwellings. Spacestars’ trap was to build a wall out of wood and constuct a steel platform so they can slip on it which makes a good attack run.
Lightning clan heard about their plan. So Thunderstar decided to do the same, but not the trap. Instead, they tore the wall down to find a cat. Surely enough he stood there. He did not move, rock solid. It was a fake cat! If they had destroyed the twigstick wall were they met with some sort of other trap? The next day mother nature made it pour rain like crazy. So it made all four clans go bizerk.
Silver clan plans to stalk all wood from the southwest of the forest. They are all happy that Deadstar is dead. The clan camp is fowardly placing boundaries around. It’s a very smart move so attacks only enter at one point.
All clans are planning to not start a war for a while. But war can go wild at one point; if something or someone goes really crazy wrong.
What was the Wish clan apprentices secret? : do not engage what he tried to do - Original Poetry!
- Not all poems rhyme :-) but the rhyming couplets do.
- Rhyming couplets Dec 2019
- Dear Santa,
I have been very good this year
I hope you have a safe trip here
I’m asking for just a few things
Can I have a dozen rings?
I want a purple goat
With a really soft coat
Send me a mini rooster
I will sit him on a booster
I’d like a big ol’ chain
That gets wet in the rain
I would like a fluffy bunny
That tells jokes and is funny
Can I have a cardboard box
And in it a little red fox
I want cute little mice
Eating some corn mix rice
Could I have the Eifel Tower
With it, a whole bunch of power
Also a big red flower
And a giant Skittle that is sour
Can you send a great white shark
How about one that can bark?
I would like some barking dogs
Little Yorkies that swim in bogs
I will need some extra bags
But also send many flags
I would like some yellow fleas
That eat pink and purple peas
I would also like a little monkey
One that dances really funky
Can I have some purple PJs
With mini pink and blue blue jays
I want a hippopotamus
But not a tyrranasaurus!
I would like a big old ox
But not with that little red fox
I really want that Eiffel Tower
I’d play with it every hour
I doubt you can bring all this stuff
Is this list too long, or just enough?
All I really want is a donkey with no fleas
And a monkey that dances on that donkey please!
Grade 3 / 4 (Team Thor) - Past Art Projects
- Past Projects
- Scary Stories / Halloween Stories Oct 2019
It’s Haunted
By Savannah
I was walking down the road and I saw something in the bushes. I was so frightened I shivered when I saw it come out. It was a cat . What a scardy cat I was. I kept on going. One minute later I saw every light on every house flicker on, off, on, off, on, off. I was so scared I felt like running away. One little thing came out of the house. It was the cat again how weird. How did the cat get in there? I kept on walking but when I took 20 steps I felt something on my back I thought it was the cat so I kept on walking. One minute later I felt 32 legs on my head I touched my head and there was 4 spiders were on my head. I grabbed the thing that was on my back and it was a skeleton’s arm with 2 more spiders. It was scary but I got the spiders off. I kept on walking and I saw a house. I went in and the door just shut. 10 cats surrounded me and they formed into two humans and they brought me to their boss. The cat’s boss was my grandma. Well my grandma did love cats but I didn’t know she was evil. My grandma told the cats to put me behind bars so they did. My grandma told me that if I do chores thean I’d be able to go. If I don’t do the chores I'd be stuck here forever. I had my phone in my pocket so I called my mom. She asked me where I was and I said “I’m in a dungeon at the haunted house my grandma captured me here.”
“Ok” my mom said.
I put my phone in my pocket grandma didn’t know. My grandma asked me if I wanted to do chores or not and I yelled “NO!” I didn’t tell my grandma that my mom was coming.When my mom got to the haunted house she went in through the window behind my grandma’s chair. My mom's knee was scraped and bleeding like crazy. My mom thought it was my dad’s mom but when she noticed her voice she knew it was her mom. When my mom came out from behind the chair and said Mom? When my grandma saw my mom she let me go because she didn’t want to fight with her daughter. My mom said “let's go home so we can pack.” “Why” I asked “So we can go to grandma’s house” “NO” I yelled “JK” my mom said. “Instead you can go to bed”
“Yaaaaaaa” I said. When we got home I told my mom “I hope to never go in a haunted house again and why did grandma let me go when she saw you?” “ I don’t know,” my mom said. “Well good night mom.” When my mom left I said quietly “I liked being in the dungeon because I could talk to my grandma and I haven’t seen her in awhile.
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- some more past ART
Class Rules
Last year the class talked about the rules they wanted but also wrote a promise, and did a very good job on it! Here it is:
We promise to be KIND by including everyone, helping others, being polite and RESPECTFUL to everyone and to be a good team member. (Grade THOR Team! :-) We will not interfere with the learning of others. We will be responsible by cooperating, doing what we are supposed to be doing and always DOING OUR BEST and not giving up. We will think positive and build people up. We promise to LISTEN more and think before we talk. We will stand up for others by using our words and getting a teacher if that doesn’t work. In this way we will stay SAFE. We will also stay safe by doing what we are supposed to be doing. If we follow the rules, nobody should ever get hurt. That includes keeping chairs flat, walking in halls and on stairs and staying on the school grounds etc.. We will treat others the way we want to be treated so we will respect everyone and their belongings, and we’ll be polite and kind.
Be flowers, sprinkle kindness, be cupcakes, rainbows and sunshine...be awesome! edit.
We promise to be KIND by including everyone, helping others, being polite and RESPECTFUL to everyone and to be a good team member. (Grade THOR Team! :-) We will not interfere with the learning of others. We will be responsible by cooperating, doing what we are supposed to be doing and always DOING OUR BEST and not giving up. We will think positive and build people up. We promise to LISTEN more and think before we talk. We will stand up for others by using our words and getting a teacher if that doesn’t work. In this way we will stay SAFE. We will also stay safe by doing what we are supposed to be doing. If we follow the rules, nobody should ever get hurt. That includes keeping chairs flat, walking in halls and on stairs and staying on the school grounds etc.. We will treat others the way we want to be treated so we will respect everyone and their belongings, and we’ll be polite and kind.
Be flowers, sprinkle kindness, be cupcakes, rainbows and sunshine...be awesome! edit.
Spelling Words we Should Know by Now ('No Excuse' Words)
Other words we are learning to spell (Grade four should know these already)
height delight knight fright flight eight
leather feather dread breath spread sweater
real really ready
faces bases tornadoes potatoes tomatoes radios rodeos tacos
babies bunnies families marry married marrying obey
would've could've should've
Pear fare fairy ferry tear learn earth Earth early learn
hear here there they're their says our are something
Jace pace dancing cities cent sent scent center exercise decision medicine bicycle decided
gentle gently orange strange change gigantic giraffe ledge lodge nudge budge fridge refrigerator
nurse curse purse backward forward actor sailor favor flavor sensor wizard blizzard daughter
headline breakfast breath breathe read lead healthy whether instead sweat sweater
weight wait weighs neighbor
would could should cookies
leather feather dread breath spread sweater
real really ready
faces bases tornadoes potatoes tomatoes radios rodeos tacos
babies bunnies families marry married marrying obey
would've could've should've
Pear fare fairy ferry tear learn earth Earth early learn
hear here there they're their says our are something
Jace pace dancing cities cent sent scent center exercise decision medicine bicycle decided
gentle gently orange strange change gigantic giraffe ledge lodge nudge budge fridge refrigerator
nurse curse purse backward forward actor sailor favor flavor sensor wizard blizzard daughter
headline breakfast breath breathe read lead healthy whether instead sweat sweater
weight wait weighs neighbor
would could should cookies
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Jan 2019 We've been writing and talking about New Year's Resolutions, self improvement and being good citizens. In health we've been talking about Steven Covey's 7 habits of highly effective kids from his Leader in Me work. We should be ready for our multi digit addition and subtraction test to be held on a day when Mrs. Maxwell is away at a meeting or medical appointment. Make sure you know all your + & - facts to 18. We've done our unit on geometry concepts such as 2D shapes and 3D solids and their properties. The test for that will be Feb 1. We have started Multiplication! Grade 3 seems to have a good understanding of it already. Grade 4 has to learn facts up to 7x7 so that they become automatic and be able to figure out the facts for 8 and 9 quickly. In ELA we continue our work in spelling, grammar and guided reading groups. We are currently working on expository writing. We are learning about writing good introductions and conclusions and turning jot notes into sentences and paragraphs as we write animal reports for science, social and ELA. The Light and Shadows test will be Jan 22. We will be working on our animal reports and will start our wheels and lever units soon.November / December 2018 Thank you for coming out to Student Led Conferences /Parent teacher Interviews. Most of the students appreciated the chance to show you some of the things we've been doing in class and I got a few ideas of how to motivate your kids in the coming months. We've been working on learning our basic math facts in gr 3 (and some practicing in gr 4) and multi digit addition and subtraction in grade 4. We'll be looking at multi digit addition and subtraction in grade 3 as well as problem solving in both grades. Later in December we'll be taking a look at geometry concepts such as 2D shapes and 3D solids and their properties. In ELA we continue our work in spelling, grammar and guided reading groups. We Are looking at Self-monitoring in reading to help students comprehend what they are reading. Questioning is a strategy for self-monitoring and is something we've been working on in social studies too. We are also learning how to do research, take jot notes and do some expository writing in SS and ELA. One of our physics units in Science is Light and Shadows, looking at concepts around light energy. We are working on this physics unit in Nov/Dec. We are also spending a bit of extra time on music now that we are getting ready for Christmas Concert! We hope you will enjoy what we've been working on. October, 2018 Class Newsletter We have had a good start to the year. We have quite a great class this year. Thank you all for your great parenting. We have a great group of kids who are eager to learn and are very cooperative and community minded. We have built good team skills and we are calling ourselves Team Thor! (If grade five and Six is grade Fix, we decided we should be Team THOR! ) Usually every year the students generate their own class rules but this year our class has taken it a step further and written Our Promise. Look for that promise on our procedures page of this website. In ELA we are again using the Jolly Program for spelling, grammar and language skills. I’m impressed with this program that gives logical sequencing to language arts concepts. We are also using a ‘Daily 5’ program which allows for student choice, and encourages students to be reading and writing everyday. Incorporated into the Daily Five are reading and writing lessons. For example this month we are talking about comprehension strategies. I was reminded again at a PD I attended at the end of Sept about how beneficial home reading for at least 15 min a day is to young readers. If your child read only reads for a few minutes (let’s say 5 min) that’s 300 000 words per year, but if your child reads for 15 min a day they’ll read over 600 000 words per year. Twenty minutes a day would get you around a million words per year. That’s a lot of learning power! I’ve always encouraged 15 min/day for gr 3 and 20 min/day for gr 4. In math we studied patterning in Sept. and quickly reviewed math facts and multidigit addition and subtraction. We’ll be looking at number sense in October. Grade three needs to know their facts to 18 and grade fours should be automatic with the facts to 18. In science we will be continuing with the Waste and Our World unit. We’ll be looking into the geography of Alberta by studying a bit of our natural history and looking at each geographical area. September, 2018 Welcome to grade three/four! Again this year, Grade Three and Four will be together for all subjects in Mrs. Maxwell’s home room. In ELA grades three and four will often be doing very similar activities with many of the same topics; students will respond at their own level. Math is often taught with similar concepts, usually each grade has separate instruction and assignments, occasionally they do similar hands–on activities, each grade at their own level. Science, social, health, music and art curriculums are cycled; this year we are on the cycle studying grade four topics. Agendas should be coming home with your child everyday. Please have your child show you their agenda every day after school and initial. Students are supposed to record if they have any homework, but that is a skill that has to be learned. I will try to record in their agendas if they have unfinished assignments that are overdue. Also watch for spelling words to come home every week. Your child should also have access to all spelling lists through this website or just through “shared documents’ in their Google account that can be accessed from any computer. These are the words used for spelling Bees so that you child works with these words and can study them for the spelling bees. As a part of the “Jolly” program we will do some spelling dictation which should help your child see which words they need to study the most, however spelling will be assessed by observing samples of students’ daily writing. There will be a Home Reading program again this year with incentives for the students. Please initial the book icon in the monthly calendar of the agenda on the days that your grade child reads for 15 min or more. Please also record the number of minutes. (reading for 30 min would count as reading twice etc.) Check out the Procedures page on this website for more information about homework, home reading program agendas, and more. It's a good place to refer back to at anytime during the year or for new students who may arrive later in the yeaer. Students who have completed final drafts will have their work published on the Student Work page. June We have been working hard on reading comprehension in the second half of May. Especially focusing on main idea, using context and making inferences. If we all meet our reading goal, Mrs. Maxwell said we'd get ice cream! So do home reading to practice reading. In June we will write a little speech to present to the class, so we will be working on brainstorming,planning,paragrahing, intros and conclusions. Grade 3 has done measurement and gr 4 has learned to do multi digit multiplication (But they need to know thier basic facts to 7x7 very well so they don't get bogged down) They also need to know their division basic facts because we have started multi digit division. Measurement and X tests were mid June and we'll finish our long division tests June 18. We've also learned to tell time on an analog clock. Please practice this as it is a life skill and will help in grade 4 (and again in life) learning the 24 hour clock. Our study of animal life-cycles is went well and we are talking about how geography affects people in social. We are looking at how we depend on the environment, how people have adapted to environments and how people change the environment. We are also looking at factors that effect economy. All this on top of field trios, swimming lessons and track meets! Phew! May We have been working on jot notes, paragraphing, introductions and conclusions. Watch for our animal reports to be published on our Student Work Page of this website. We will continue guided reading groups and our weekly spelling and grammar lessons and do a bit more with Poetry. Grade three and four have worked with fractions, and we'll do a final assessment when the grade fours have learned all about decimals to the tenths and hundredths. In social we are looking at rights and responsibilities around the world. We've finished testing materials and will continue to work on building things as time allows in June. We have begun our study of animal lifecyles for the month of May. We'll be looking at animal classification, needs of animals of different classes and the varied needs of animals in theier different stages of life.April 2018 We are going to put our expository writing skills to good use as we write a report on an animal. We will continue guided reading groups and our weekly spelling and grammar lessons too. We are also working on some Poetry and Rhyme in ELA and Music. But word artistry isn't always done with rhyme. We hope to talk about onomatopoeia, and alliteration too as well as different forms of poetry. We've been looking at rhyming patterns, but I hope to discuss and read and maybe even write poems that don't rhyme. In math we are testing the multiplication and division unit and we are learning about fractions. In social we are looking at leadership and different levels of government and comparing some communities around the world. We've begun testing materials and building things. The testing unit is a great way to learn about the scientific method, scientific practices of recording and drawing conclusions, how to design experiments and what is a fair test (What's the 1 variable?, What things need to be kept constant?) March 2018 Report Cards are coming! Report cards go out March 16 on Pajama Day! Parent- teacher / SLC March 22. Check out your newsletter calendar for many important dates in March. ( PD day 2nd, Convention 8-9th, day in lieu of Parent-teacher 23rd, Spring Break last week of March!) Grade 3/4 will be participating in broomball Mondays in March, remind students to have helmets on the 5th, 12th, and 19th. ALSO, gr 3/4 are travelling to Donalda along with the 5/6s to play basketball against Donalda at aprox 12:00 just befor the BODO cup 5/6game which begins at 12:45. Get those permission forms in. Since report cards are coming, we will need to do some assessments for units we finished in Jan and Feb.So the end of Feb beginning of March students will have unit tests for Math; geometry and data analysis, and Social Studies: quality of life and culture. We will also need to assess some ongoing skills in math such as math facts. We have learned some expository writing skills; paragraph writing, introductions and conclusions. Students should be putting that all together the end of Feb beginning of March along with practicing spelling, capitalization, grammar and proffreading skills in their good copies of their mini essays. I hope to get the students to apply all these writing skills in a more research based report if we get time this month, or we may have to wait until April. Grade 3 is learning multiplication and division! They need to know their facts up to 5x5 very well, and should be able to figure out any fact x2 or x3. Actually it is possible to use facts to 5x5 to figure out almost all basic multiplication facts up to 9x9 which grade 4 is learning how to do now along with single digit division. Grade 4 should know their facts to 7x7 very well, and be able to figure out x8 and x9 facts fairly quickly. I am pleased that most of our class is very engaged in science. Most did very well in the hearing and sound unit, and we are beginning testing materials and will be building structures. In social we have started talking about how communities work, focusing on services right now. January 2018 Wow, the concert was a success I'd say! The 3/4s did very well to learn to play an instrument well enough to do a very good job at concert. (Even better than their teacher who made a mistake!) We have finished geometry and I've sent the students' geometry booklet home with them so that they can do corrections and try any undone pages to study for the unit test which should be sometime this month. We are now studying Data Analysis. I often call it the graphing unit, but it's much more than that. It's asking questions, collecting data, organizing data into charts and graphs, analyzing charts and graphs and more. I hope to finish up our unit on idioms this month and we continue to work on reading comprehension and writing, spelling, language skills as we do every month. The class seems to be enjoying our study of sound in science. They were interested in the different pitches that different species can hear. In social we have a Quality of life project to finish up and we should have the Chapter test on that this month. Our study of culture is well underway too. We will be having a quiz on Peru's Culture on Jan 17th. December This month we will be busy working on the Christmas concert. We've been learning to read music and playing an instrument! We are also learning a song to sing. We are even working on concert in ELA and health; writing and performing some skits and talking about media influences. In math we are working on multi digit addition and subtraction. Addition went quite well, most students have a good grasp of multi digit addition. The subtraction is proving to be a lot more challenging. I hope to also touch upon geometry this month. We are talking about culture in social; what culture is and looking at the cultures of the countries we are studying. We finished up the rocks and minerals unit and are now studying Hearing and Sound in science.November 2017 Report cards are coming! We've been doing assessments and carrying on with addition and subtraction. Grade 3s are learning their basic facts to 18. Grade 4s are learning a couple of different strategies to add large 4 digit numbers including estimating, left to right and right to left (AKA trading, or what their textbook calls regrouping). We are working on writing skills, especially revising to make a piece of writing better. See the 'student work' section of this website to see our first drafts (some may be second drafts) of our 'Halloween' stories. I hope to see a big difference in our final drafts. I hope to see more students participating in the home reading program. There are prizes for every 5 times the student reads! It is also a way to get used to doing a few minutes of 'homework' a night. Gr 3 should be doing 15 min /day and grade 4 should be doing 20 min/day (gr 5 = 25 min/day and so on) so that by gr 12 your child is used to doing an hour of homework / day. We are learning to read music and play the recorder! I hope to showcase some of this hard work at the Christmas concert. October 2017 We are learning to use SeeSaw to let parents know about what we are learning about at school! We will try to post something once a week or so. It's a learning process for students as well as for Mrs. Maxwell. Sometimes the hardest part is making the time to do it, but we hope we will get better at it as the year progresses. We hope to be posting some of this year's work on this website too. We have been looking at geography and how location affects climate. The students have done well using this to predict about the 4 countries around the world that we will be studying. We will be talking about Quality of life in these 4 countries and our own. The students are quite interested in our science unit, rocks and minerals. You may find your kids being a bit of a rock collector this fall. What did you do today in school? We have been writing a sentence in our agendas everyday. Usually the kids are to write about something they learned or something they did well. This is to help open up conversations between you and your child about their learning. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ September 6, 2017 Welcome to grade three/four! Again this year, Grade Three and Four will be together for all subjects in Mrs. Maxwell’s home room. In ELA grades three and four will often be doing very similar activities with many of the same topics; students will respond at their own level. Math is often taught with similar concepts, usually each grade has separate instruction and assignments, occasionally they do similar hands–on activities, each grade at their own level. Science, social, health, music and art curriculums are cycled; this year we are on the cycle studying grade three topics. Agendas should be coming home with your child everyday. Please have your child show you their agenda every day after school and initial. Students are supposed to record if they have any homework, but that is a skill that has to be learned. I will try to record in their agendas if they have unfinished assignments that are overdue. Also watch for spelling words to come home every week. Your child should also have access to all spelling lists through the Botha School website or our classroom website or just through “shared documents’ in their Google account that can be accessed from any computer. As a part of the “Jolly” program we will do some spelling dictation which should help your child see which words they need to study the most, however spelling will be assessed by observing samples of students’ daily writing. There will be a Home Reading program again this year with incentives for the students. Please initial the book icon in the monthly calendar of the agenda on the days that your grade child reads for 15 min or more. Please also record the number of minutes. (reading for 30 min would count as reading twice etc.) I am looking forward to the new school year! Mrs. Maxwell MoreArchived workBefore: A man and his dog by Colin There was a man and his dog on a boat going fishing .there was a big storm bob went over the edge. his dog named Copper jumped in after him. copper and bob ended up on a island they looked around bob build a fort. Then he started a fire he trapped a mouse cooked it over the fire. then two wolves came copper took after one the other wolf corned bob in the shelter bob tite a stick on the fire through it at the wolf the got burnt and ran away copper beat up the other wolf and ran away. Bob was glad the wolf was gone bob looked at copper to see if the wolf hurt her the wolf did’ hurt her . Bob tried to sleep but he couldn't sleep. The next morning Bob wake up he was tired he got up he wake copper up so copper got up. Copper tried to track something. Copper had something she followed the scent it was a rabbit Bob said wait go get it said bob. Copper ran after the rabbit copper cornered the rabbit bob graded the rabbit he cooked the rabbit over the fire. they tried to make a big fire so if a helicopter goes by they can see the smoke. No helicopter went by so bob went to sleep. The next morning they had some rabbit left so they started the fire and cooked the rabbit over the fire. They went out to see if they could find anything to the eat sniff something to eat. Copper had she followed the scent. Copper had saw a prairie chicken she chased the prairie chicken finally they got it on the way back they heard something through the bush a bear came out and chased them. Copper was going to try to fight the bear but Bob grabbed him by the collar and said “no time for that we have to lose” said Bob this bear. They started to get ahead so they hid around a rock the bear ran right past them. They headed back to the camp. They cook the prairie chicken over the fire and ate it for supper. They went to bed the next morning they went to see if they could find some breakfast. They saw a few squirrels. Bob got lots of grace and made a rope out of it. He snared the squirrels cook them over the fire. And ate them. After that they went hunting again they didn't find anything copper saw something it was a prairie chicken they chased the prairie chicken. They finally got it. They took it to the camp. When they got to camp everything was distorted the the little hut was destroyed then Bob saw some tracks they didn’t know what kind of tracks they were. They followed the tracks they led to a cave. They saw a cougar copper barked at the cougar and it saw them Bob and copper ran. The cougar was getting close then a helicopter came out of the middle of nowhere it scared the cougar away they followed the helicopter to a flat spot and it picked them up took them home home his wife was so happy that they found them. Bob was happy to and so was Copper. Bob said to himself i am never go in a boat ever again and he would always remember when he when he got trapped on an island After: A Man And His Dog by Colin There was a man named Bob and his dog named Copper on a boat going fishing.There was a big storm Bob went over the edge. His dog named Copper jumped in after him. Copper tried to swim to Bob but the waves were too strong Copper finally reached him they both hit a rock and got knocked out. Bob and Copper ended up on an island they looked around Bob build a little hut. He started a fire. He trapped a mouse cooked it over the fire. In the night two wolves came. Copper took after one the other wolf corned Bob in the shelter Bob tite a stick on the fire through it at the wolf the got burnt and ran away copper beat up the other wolf and ran away. Bob was glad the wolves were gone Bob looked at copper to see if the wolf hurt her the wolf didn't hurt her. Bob tried to sleep but he couldn't sleep. Because he cept thinking the wolves would came back. The next morning Bob wake up he was tired he got up he wake Copper up so Copper got up. Copper tried to track something. Copper had something she followed the scent it was a rabbit Bob said “Wait go get it” said Bob. Copper ran after the rabbit copper cornered the rabbit Bob graded the rabbit took it back to camp. He cooked the rabbit over the fire. they tried to make a big fire so if a helicopter goes by they can see the smoke. No helicopter went by so Bob went to sleep. The next morning they had some rabbit left so they started the fire and cooked the rabbit over the fire. They went out to see if they could find anything to eat. Copper sniffed something to eat. Copper followed the scent. Copper saw a prairie chicken. She chased the prairie chicken. Finally they got the prairie. On the way back they heard something through the bush. A bear came out and chased them. Copper was going to try to fight the bear but Bob grabbed him by the collar and said. “No time for that we have to lose the bear” said Bob. They started to get ahead so they hid around a rock the bear ran right past them. They headed back to the camp. They cooked the prairie chicken over the fire and ate it for supper. They went to bed the next morning. They went to see if they could find some breakfast. They saw a few squirrels. Bob got lots of grass and made a rope out of it. He snared the squirrels, cooked them over the fire and ate them. After that they went hunting again but they didn't find anything. Copper saw something. It was a prairie chicken. They chased the prairie chicken. They finally got the prairie chicken. They took it to the camp. When they got to camp everything was destroyed. The little hut was wrecked. Then Bob saw some tracks. They didn’t know what kind of tracks they were. They followed the tracks that led to a cave. Something was coming out of the cave. It was a cougar! Copper barked at the cougar. The cougar looked around and heard Copper growling. The cougar started to chase them. Bob and Copper ran. The cougar was getting so close. The cougar jumped. Bob could feel the cougar breathing on the back of his neck. The cougar just about had them but a helicopter came out of the middle of nowhere. It scared the cougar away. They followed the helicopter to a flat spot. It picked them up and took them home. His wife was so happy that they found them. Bob was happy too and so was Copper. Bob would always remember when he got trapped on an island. He would have survived if it weren't for Copper. Copper was truly a hero. Bob said to himself I am never going to go in a boat ever again. Before: Steve and Alex Scary Night By Addison.Rock Steve was running as fast as he could down the hill. The night was dark except for the full moon glowing through the treetops.His mom called him in for bed. He was riding his bike to the house. Something cracked in the bush. Steve got a flashlight and shined it in the bush nothing was there. He turned off the flashlight and went in the house. When he was in bed he was thinking if a ghost would come in his room and eat him. He sneaked out his window to his treehouse and readied his halloween book about scary things. On chapter 5 it said Something That Scared You? Steve kept reading till he found Something In The Bush?On Friday Steve setted a tent for watching for something to go in the bush before he went to school. It was proiect day at school Steve made a boobe trap for tonight. His friend Alex asked “Steve can I come to your house tonight?””Yes you can bring sleeping bags and pop and snacks.” whispered Steve. After school they went on the bus and Alex went home with Steve.Steve got the trap out of his backpack.They put it in the bush and got in the tent “I will go get my stuff.” said Steve. He went in the house and got a flashlight,blankets,water bottles,safe clothes and camoflash cover for the tent. When they got everything ready. Alex heard something shake Steve went outside they caught a zombie. Alex and Steve yelled that Steve's dad came out to see what was the problem. Steve’s dad said “what's the problem?” Alex and Steve yelled with fear “ we caught a zombie!” Steve’s dad checked if they were right. He didn’t see anything. Alex told Steve he was tired so they went back to bed in the morning they were getting dressed to look if they caught something. The Steve and Alex had breakfast they went in Steve's room and got their backpacks packed and got goggles and nerf guns to shoot. The Steve and Alex carried the tent in the house then in the treehouse and Alex setted the trap and came back up to the treehouse and started watching. Before Alex went home they said together “we will do it again!” Steve felt sad that Alex had to go home but he would see her tomorrow. Breakfast was ready and Steve look out of the window and saw Alex talking to a friend. “I never saw Alex walking with a friend.” Steve's mom said to him that is going to be halloween Steve screamed so loud he had to go outside and do it. Steve made a halloween picture for the teacher on halloween . On halloween a chicken came with a knife and knotted on the door and ran around the house. Trying to kill Steve. He got moms scissors and got the knife Steve kicked the chicken out the doors and that chicken never came back the bus was at his house Steve got a kiss and ran to the bus. Something came to the door and knocked on it “ you bad bad chicken!” yelled mom. Mom called the animal cops and came to get the chicken and take it to the animal shelter. Steve,Mom and dad live happy and had no more bad chickens and bad people come. AFTER! Steve and Alex's Scary Night By Addison.Rock Steve was running as fast as he could down the hill. The night was dark except for the full moon glowing through the treetops. His mom called him in for bed. He was riding his bike to the house ”Crack!” Something was in the bush. Steve got a flashlight and shined it into the bush. Nothing was there. He turned off the flashlight and went in the house. When he was in bed he was thinking. He wondered if a ghost would come in his room and eat him. He snuck out his window to his treehouse and read his Halloween book about scary things. In chapter 5 it said ‘Something Has Scared You?’ Steve kept on reading till he found ‘Something In The Bush?’ On Friday Steve set up a tent for watching to see if something would go into the bush before he went to school. It was project day and Steve made a booby trap for that night. His friend Alex asked “Steve can I come to your house for the weekend?” “Yes you can bring sleeping bags, pop and snacks.” whispered Steve. After school they went on the bus and Alex came home with Steve. Steve got the trap out of his backpack. They set it up in the bush and got in the tent. “I will go get my stuff.” said Steve. He went in the house and got a flashlight, blankets, water bottles, security clothes and a camouflage to cover for the tent. When they got everything ready. Alex heard something shake. Steve went outside. They’d caught a zombie! Alex and Steve yelled so loud that Steve's dad came out to see what was the problem. Steve’s dad said “What's the problem?” Alex and Steve yelled with fear “ We we caught a zombie!” Steve’s dad checked if they were right. He didn’t see anything. Alex told Steve she was tired they went back to bed in the morning they were getting dressed to look if they caught something. Steve and Alex had breakfast they went in Steve's room and got their backpacks packed and got goggles and nerf guns to shoot. Steve and Alex carried the tent in the house then in the treehouse, and Alex set the trap and came back up to the treehouse and started watching. Before Alex went home they said together “We will do this again!” Steve felt sad that Alex had to go home but he would see her tomorrow. Breakfast was ready and Steve looked out of the window and saw Alex talking to a friend. “I never saw Alex walking with a friend.” Steve's mom said to him that today is Halloween. Steve screamed so loud he had to go outside and screamed . Steve made a Halloween picture for the teacher for Halloween . On Halloween a chicken came with a knife and knocked on the door and ran around the house trying to kill Steve. He got moms scissors and got the knife Steve kicked the chicken out the door and that chicken never came back to kill Steve. The bus was at his house Steve got a kiss and ran to the bus. Something came to the door and knocked on it “ You bad bad chicken!” scearmed mom. Mom called the animal cops and they came to get the chicken and take it to the animal shelter. Steve,Mom and dad live happy and had no more bad chickens and bad people never came back again.Steve came home and saw a taxi in his driveway so he asked mom why there was a taxi in their driveway. Dad was going to B.C to go to work.Steve yelled so much that he lost his voice. A pack of zombies came in the house to kill Steve,mom and dad Steve got a knife trying to kill the pack of zombies.He killed 67 in three minutes and he killed 11000 in two hours.Dad and mom were so proud of their boy that he killed 11067 zombies in two hours and three minutes. At school all the kids wanted his autographs. He got 230 kids done in one day and the next day he got 555 done. There were no more bad zombies or chickens that ever came again. Before: Blender Man! By Matthew Glasier Three boys Colin, Matthew and Bob went out camping Colin said “I heard a legend about this forest.”“It’s called Blender Man!” “He is 9 feet tall and he only comes out at night.” “50 people die in a year they say.” Colin whispered. Bob said “Well great story but I don’t believe you” Colin said “ If you don’t believe me then go get us fire wood” Bob shivered and said “Ok” so Bob walked away in the forest. Bob was so scared he peed in his pants. Bob herd some animal in the bush. Bob thought it was a squirrel but he saw a blender! Bob was so scared he ran for his life. He yelled “blender man is true!” The squirrels herd Vrrrrrrrrrrr and Blood was flying everywhere with guts, a brain, and a kidney too. Colin said to Matthew “Devon is taking his time so I have to get firewood.” “Me come too” said Matthew. Matthew was so strong he grabbed a huge piece of firewood. They walked for a long time. Then they saw Blender Man! They ran and ran. Matthew and Colin threw a huge piece of firewood at blender man. Booooooom Blender Man blew up. No won new that they blue them up blender man. But Colin and Matthew were happy that they did not die.They thought if they would ever see Bob again. AFTER! Blender Man! By Matthew Glasier Three boys Colin, Matthew and Bob went out camping Colin said “I heard a legend about this forest called Blender Man! He is 9 feet tall and he only comes out at night. Fifty people die in a year they say.” Colin whispered. Bob said “Well great story but I don’t believe you” Colin said “If you don’t believe me then go get us fire wood.” Bob shivered and said “Ok” so Bob nervously adventured away in the creepy dark forest. Bob could smell blood and he saw a trail of blood but at the end of it was a lot of firewood Bob was so scared he peed in his pants. Bob herd some animal in the bush. Bob thought it was a squirrel but he saw a blender! Bob was so scared he ran for his life. He yelled “Blender man is true!” The squirrels herd Brrrrrrrrrr and Blood was flying everywhere with guts, a brain, and a kidney too. Matthew ate a marshmallow. It was mushy and yummy Colin explained to Matthew “Bob is taking his time so I have to get firewood.” “I’ll come too” said Matthew. Matthew was so strong he grabbed a huge piece of firewood that was burning it was so hot it was blue fire. They walked for a long time. Matthew smelt blood Blender Man jumped out a bush! They ran and ran. Matthew and Colin threw a huge piece of firewood that was burning at blender man. Booooooom Blender Man blew up. Nobody knew that they blew up blender man. But Colin and Matthew were happy that they did not die. They learned that they are stronger than they thought. But they wondered if they would see Bob again. Before: Alex and steve scary by Cody One spooky night steve and alex was walking along the trees were shaking they look in it was gust ther Frens Slade Cody and Austin steve sade [what are you doing here] Slad replied [we're going trick or treating want to come] [sure] sede Alex steve got his Cracen costume and called his dog Barnabee Then Steve got out Barnabee's costume [ther we go now we can] seda Alex .after that Barnabee got some dog treats Slade got 12 gum packs Austin got 5 packs of pop and steve got 2 sugar sticks and Alex got 6 candy rings After they went to the woods every one went to a cliff they cood her and see something in the distins it was Slenderman and a evil elf they went down they saw a sword in a stone Barnabee slade steve everyone pitched in to get it out then it granted them armor and weapons they needed a safe base before night fall steve granted all they needed food, traps vehicles .Alex’s cat named Mittens Was at town alex felt lonely she needed her cat mittens for coupony soon cody saw some one and a hole lot of his that guys friends soon he ran there then he talked the cat guy looked brave cody talked then he said [my name is Stampy Cat this is my dog ducen I live at a island not far from her but the villain hit the target has my dogs i came to wonderworld but I can't get back cus I have to find wizard Ceen then I need to [I think he might be in tower] sade cody [ya] sade Stampy cat a few hours later Before: The halloween cams to life. by AW Penny was walking down the street on halloween night.no one was spoted in the light of the moon . wan the full moon cams the halloween cams to lif ! penny was only 8 years old.ouno she could .the full moon cams Before: Slade’s cool halloween October 31 st slade was going trick or treating slade went up to a house he rang the doorbell someone answered a cool person his costume was cool then he walked to his mom’s car can we go to stettler cause that was the last house of botha it's going to take longer than 10 minutes when he got to Stettler slade got to stettler his mom said go to your friends house and get him to go trick or treating with you ok slade said by his mom said and off he went 2 hours later he arrived at his friends house Before: It is halloween by Paige It was halloween night. Eva asked her mother and father if she could go trick-or-treating with her best friends Kate and Emily. Her mother said yes you may as long as your back by midnight. Her father said yes you may just by carfel for those meen bullies and DON'T go into Any haunted houses. Yay Eva yelled as she ran out the door saying I’ll see you later. She met her best friend Emily and Kate at the Gadsby hall. They thot and thot were they wear going to go first. They a little more. Than Eva yelled I know I know my grandma's then Kate's grandmas then Emily's grandmas so they went there. After that went through more houses and more finely got to one scary house. Emily was so so so so so so so so scared she thought she was going to fall over. They creeped and cept on walking and walking until they head a long loud screech. I….am…. So….so….scared Kate whispered slowly but quietly. We should get out of here because their is no candy and it is way way way way way WAY too scary cried Emily. No we’re giver uppers said Eva. you and Kate can but I am not. No we would never leave you in this haunted house alone.Aaa that is nice of you. Back to work shhhh whispered Eva. Then Kate looked up she saw something flying offer her AHHHHHH she screamed on the top of her longs. Eva and Kate quickly said what what. look up she screamed. AHHHHH they both wear so so so so so so so startled they all ran out of that house and it it IS a witch Emily called to both of them. I’m just a lonely old witch. Please just need some help. Before: Bloody fingers By Devon Devon was in a spooky haunted house when. Boom a person jumped out and Devon started to run and the person started to chase Devon. Luckily he escaped. Because he slammed the door in his face And he locked the door from the outside and the person tried to break fery. But Devon ran to is Colin’s house. Colin and Devon went to Matthew’s house and told him all about it and Matthew agreed and. he told us that he has been there before “did the person have a knife Devon” “yes” “ did the knife have blood on it”“yes”and. The next day people went missing instantly Matthew Devon colin now where they went. That person must of kidnapped them and they went back there and. All of them were there and Devon Colin Matthew helped them. Colin Devon and Matthew gest about didn't make it. But they did. Gest in time Devon coll the police and they got heer rite wen they got outside and the police arrested him. For the rest of his life. All the people lived happily ever after. After: Bloody Fingers By Devon Reiter Devon was in a spooky haunted house when. Boom! A person jumped out and Devon started to run Devon was terrified his heart was beating so fast he thought it was going to explode. Into pieces. A person started to chase Devon. Luckily he escaped because he slammed the door in his face. Devon locked the door from the outside with a board and the person tried to break free. But Devon ran to Colin’s house. Colin and Devon went to Matthew’s house and told him all about it and Matthew agreed that it was a haunted house. He told us that he had been there before. “Did the person have a knife Devon”. “Yes” “ Did the knife have blood on it”“Yes”. The next day people went missing instantly. Matthew, Devon and Colin knew where they went. “That person must of kidnapped them!” said Devon. They went back there and all of them were there and Devon, Colin, Matthew helped them. Colin, Devon and Matthew just about didn't make it. But they did. Just in time Devon coll the police and they got here right when they got outside. The police arrested The kidnapper For the rest of his life. All the people lived happily ever after and all of the people's parents thank them for saving them. They said “No problem at all.” Before: Rose and Murderer By Tianna Rose was sleeping in her bed then she heard a boo! It was not her mom or dad,sister,brother! It was a murderer! Rose ran out of the house then ran into her aunt's house. She told her aunt that there was a murder chasing her! Rose was so scared! That the murderer couldn't find her! The murderer saw her aunt then the murderer saw Rose’s ante! Then Rose hered her ante scream! Rose walked outside. Rose saw the murderer that killed her a aunt! Rose was crying because she saw the murderer kill her aunt! Then the murderer saw Rose. Then the murderer was chasing Rose! The murderer stop chasing Rose! Rose was really scared! Then the murderer found Rose! The murderer was so bad! Then Rose was so sad because the murderer killed her aunt and Rose loved her aunt so much! Then the murderer was trying to found Rose! Then the murderer was looking all around! The murderer couldn't find Rose because Rose was hiding so good that the murderer couldn’t find her! Then Rose said” why did the murderer kill my aunt!” The murderer was so angry at Rose AFTER! Rose and the Murderer By Tianna Rose was sleeping in her bed then she heard a boo! It was not her mom or dad, sister or brother! It was a murderer! Rose ran out of the house then ran into her aunt’s house. She told her aunt that there was a murderer chasing her! Rose was so scared that she was shaking in fear! She was hoping that the murderer couldn't find her! The murderer saw her auntie then the murderer saw Rose! Rose heard her ante scream! Rose stumbled outside shaking with fear! Rose saw the murderer that killed her aunt! Rose was crying because she saw the murderer kill her aunt! The murderer saw Rose! The murderer was chasing Rose again! Rose was really scared! The murderer was so bad! Rose was so sad she cried softly because the murderer killed her aunt and Rose loved her aunt so much! Then the murderer was looking all around! The murderer couldn't find Rose because Rose was hiding so good that the murderer couldn’t find her! Then Rose said” why did the murderer kill my aunt!” The murderer was really angry at Rose because the murderer couldn't find her! Then the murderer went back to his home! Rose said ”bye-bye murderer!” The murderer walked home to his family! The murderer wouldn't come back to try kill Rose ever again. Rose feels really glad that the murderer is gone! Rose wouldn’t have that feeling of being really scared ever again! Before: Haunted house by Jacob Ones there was a haunted house. There was two boys and one of them. When’t dawn stars and hrnd a nose and slowly walked to it. Then the door slammed the door and he Ran as fast as he can. His brother was upstairs and he was cookin in the kitchen and his brother colld his. Brother and said this house is haunted. No it ain't so jon grind. It was night and jon said mom aunt even home yet. But in till a car came in the Driveway. Jon was terrified back at johnny's friend's house. Jon went back to Sleep then jon hrnd a car pold in and. He jumpt up and he thot it Was his mom and he ran outside After!: Friday the 13 th by Cheyenne Jacobson Once there was a house. There were two boys and one of them, Jon went downstairs and heard a noise and slowly walked to it. Then the door slammed and he was very scared. His heart was pumping so hard he thought it was going to come out of his chest while he scurried back up the stairs. His brother Hunter was upstairs and he was cooking in the kitchen, Jon’s voice quivered “ This house has something in it.” in a very frightened way. “ No it doesn’t“ laughed Hunter. So Jon said “How do you know it isn’t haunted you weren't downstairs!” Mom wasn’t even home yet and Hunter left to go to his friends house. Jon went back to sleep then Jon heard a car pulled in and he jumped up. He thought it was his mom but it was not his mom. It was a man but he ran away. Then Jon went to the door but Jon look back and the guy wasn't there. Then he went inside and laid on the couch. Then he fell asleep. He forgot to lock the door. A guy came in and Jon’s mom is on her way home. Jon’s brother is sleeping at his friends house and the murderer came in. Jon's mom pulled in the driveway and she saw the car and she said “Did Hunter get a new car?” And she saw a knife and she screamed and ran in the house and there was nothing, til she heard a noise. She was so scared she could barely move. Her heart hurt to take a breath she was so scared. She walked into the livingroom and Jon was sleeping on the couch. Then she went to Hunter’s friend’s house. Hunter was sleeping and their mom said “Wake up there is a murderer” and then she grabbed Jon's hand and went into the car and drove away. Hunter came home. Then Hunter called their names, “ Jon, Mom, Dad where are you?” His dad came home and said “ what are you doing?” Then someone called. They thought it was mom but it wasn't. It was the killer he said “ you are next.” So he ran to his dad and said “Dad Dad Dad, we have to go”. “ Why” “ Because there is a killer on the loose” so they ran as fast as they could. Their mom went to pick them up but they were not there. She screamed so so Loud then she said to herself. “Why why whyyyy does this have to happen on movie night.” she cried in a prayer why her husband and son. Mom phone Dad and asked, “Where are you?” “We are at the high school parking lot, can you and Jon come pick us up?” “Sure, we are on our way!” So Mom and Jon drove as fast as they could to get to the high school parking lot! They were happy that Dad and Hunter were alive.” So they all got in the car and started to drive home. “Jon it’s time for breakfast!” Jon jumped out of bed and he looked around. He was very confused with what had happened with the murderer. Then her realized that it was all a dream. He ran downstairs and said to Mom, “ You will never guess the crazy dream I had last night!” He was so so so happy that it was all a dream! Before: Coppers scary adventure by Heidi One day there was a boy named Cooper he wanted to go on an adventure. So he went and saw a scary horse.The horse had a cape on his head.So he ran because it was so scary.So he walked and walked until he heard a noise it was a ghost.It was scary so he yelled and ran off! Then Copper stagger off to find an horse that is not scary or wild.He found a horse that was not frecy.He rode it so he won't get scared and get out of there a scary place faster.He ran with his horse and saw a zombie. The zombie chased Copper and bolted away. He traveled 3 miles away from his home.He spotted a which ho was evil and ferse. The which capture Copper and his horse.The which put them in a cage.The which put the horse in a cage beside Copper and said horse try to push or jump to get out then come help me get out too.His horse got Copper out of the cage.The which saw Copper and his horse ascap. The which went after Copper and his horse.Copper was running on own feet. Will he was running he named his horse Chouca. Copper hopped on Choca and Chouca ran as fast as she could out of the witch's palace.otot the which had magic to go in visible!The witch was in front of Chouca and popped out and Chouca ran back to the castle.Coppers horse didn't n known he was back in the castle. AFTER! Copper’s Scary Adventure by Heidi One day there was a boy named Copper he wanted to go on an adventure. So he went and saw a scary horse. The horse had a cape on his head. So he ran because it was so scary. So he walked and walked until he heard a noise it was a ghost. It was scary so he yelled and ran off! Then Copper hurried off to find a horse that is not scary or wild. He found a horse in the mountains that was not frecy. He rode it so he won't get scared and get out of that scary place faster. He ran with his horse and saw a zombie in the mountains that is odd said Copper. The zombie chased and then the horse bolted away from the zombie. He traveled 3 miles away from his home. He spotted and felt a witch who was evil and fierce and the witch chased Copper and his horse to the witch's castle. The witch captured Copper and his horse.The witch put them in a cage. The witch put the horse in a cage beside Copper told the horse try to push or jump to get out then come help me get out too. His horse got Copper out of the cage. The witch saw Copper and his horse escape. The witch went after Copper and his horse. Copper was running on his own two feet. While he was running he named his horse Chouca. Copper hopped on Choca and Chouca ran as fast as she could out of the witch's castle. The witch had magic to go invisible! The witch was in front of Chouca and popped out and Chouca ran back to the castle. Coppers horse didn't n known he was back in the castle. So then now he was 20 miles away from his home.His mom Tara tried to call Copper back because she was looking for Copper.Tara was worried about Copper she didn't no that he found a horse. Copper didn’t hear his mom calling for him because he was to far away to hear his mom. Copper escaped again and the witch didn't see him ascap. when he escaped and addi to see what 20 + 3 = it equaled 23 so he ran 23 miles. He said that was a lot of mils.His mom was stile worried about Copper she thought he was lost.Copper had his phone and he phoned his mom. Tara heard her phone ringing she looked who it was he said it Copper Tara called Deer Coppers dad Deer ran to and tolled Tara to pick it up. She did and said Copper war have you been I am on a adventure and I found a horse I named it Chocola that is a nice name for a horse said Tara.Can I keep going aske.Copper yes you can said Tara. Tara phoned Copper again and said where did you find that horse at the mountains shotid Copper.The mountains Copper that is a dangerous place did you know that yes but I was safe with my horse.Wait what did you see on your adventure.A horse with a cape on it’s head,a zombie,a evil witch.That is not an adventure said mom.That's a scary adventure.I now but I’m having fun.when I was at the witch’s castle she put us in a separate cage in the witch’s castle.You can keep going if you have food. I packed food and water in my bag and I packed horse food and water in case I find a horse and a did find a horse.good said Tara and Copper went walking again.When he started running his horse smelt a moose and tried to get Coppers attention but he said there is no moose but Chocola stopped because there was a moose in front of Chocola.Run Chocola run! Chocola ran as fast as she could.Copper lost the moose and Copper said let's go home and get some rest.He went home and Tara was happy Copper was home and safe. The End Before: THE BAD NIGHT by Moose Joe the truck driver Joe was a lumberJacker. He had to hull a lode in the cold winter night. The rode where icey Joe had chains on the tires but they didn't work. He had to go slow then he had to cross a big icy pond. “Dang it’’ he open his door and drove slowly. This is the first time he’s done it he was shaking in fright. He heard the ice cracking sound he was yelling AFTER! THE BAD NIGHT. By Bradon. Joe the truck driver was a lumberJack. He had to haul a load in the cold winter night. The roads were icy. Joe had chains on the tires but they didn't work. He had to go slow then he had to cross a big icy pond. “Dang it’’ He opened his door and drove slowly. This is the first time he’s done it. He was shaking in fright. He heard the ice cracking. He was yelling “Come on, come on. I'm almost done.’’ He pushed the pedal down then finally he got out. ‘ “Ho that was a miracle I got out of their.’’ Then Joe saw a big Moose. He thought that he wanted to go hunting in this place. Joe unloaded. He put the straps in the toolbox. He looked in the thick brush of trees he saw the Moose. He hopped in the truck he called his friend Bo. He said “I'm going Moose hunting. Do you want to come with me?.’’ “Sure i'll come with you.’’Joe & Bo went hunting they went and got the Moose he was a humongous 17x17. They made jerky, and steak from the Moose also fur toques, and boots of the big Moose. Joe & Bo will always remember that day when they shot that incredible humongous Moose. Before: DAISY GOES ON AN ADVENTURE by kaleigh morris Daisy said “I like adventures so maybe I will go on an adventure today”. She was walking down the streets. She saw a weird person that she is not going to evening talk to that weird person because the person. “I don’t evening want to talk to that weird person because he probably does not go to school so he probably does not know anything at all” spoke to herself. Then a ghost came out of know wear but daisy did not see wear the ghost came from so daisy really got afraid. She walked to this big house and saw that is was really dark inside and she got scared because a ghost came out again. The ghost looked at daisy. Daisy looked at the ghost and questioned to the ghost “Are you the one that I saw when I was walking through the forest?” then the ghost answered “I think yes I did see you in the forest?”. Daisy said “I better go home to my mom and dad before my mom and dad get home because my mom and dad will be mad at me” “okey ghost?” “Okay” said the ghost “I better get in my hiding place do you want to see my hiding place”? Said the ghost to daisy. Daisy saw wear the ghost’s hiding place was. Daisy was walking down her laneway then she got in the house and started playing then the doorbell rang. She thought that was her mom and dad were home but it was the ghost she saw in the forest then she let the ghost in by accident and did not know that she let the ghost in. She turned around and saw the ghost was in the house then daisy said “Hey you need to get out because my mom and dad will be home in a minute and I don’t want to be in trouble plus my mom and dad said don’t let any stranger in the house and i’m going to listen to their rules so please get out now” the ghost got out in time because her mom and dad were home.The mom and dad asked her a questioned at the same time “Did any strangers get into the house’ “No” said daisy to her mom and dad. Daisy is happy and excited that she went on a scary adventure and thought “I think I will go on a another adventure some day” said daisy. AFTER! DAISY’S ADVENTURE by Kaleigh Morris Daisy said “I like adventures so maybe I will go on an adventure today”. She was walking in the forest. There was a weird person. “I don’t even want to talk to the weird person because he probably does not go to school so he probably does not know anything at all” she said to herself. “BOO” then a ghost came out nowhere. She walked to this big house and saw that it was really dark inside and she got scared and screamed her head off yelling “EEK” The ghost looked at Daisy. Daisy looked at the ghost and asked the ghost “Are you the one that I saw when I was walking through the forest?” Then the ghost answered “I think yes I did see you in the forest?” Daisy said “I better go home to my mom and dad before they get home because they will be mad at me okay ghost?” “Okay” said the ghost quietly. The ghost said “I better get in my hiding place. Do you want to see my hiding place”? Daisy saw where the ghost’s hiding place was, then started out for home. Then she got in the house and started playing when the doorbell rang. She thought that her mom and dad were home but it was the ghost she saw in the forest then she had let the ghost in by accident and Daisy did not know that she let the ghost in because she had not turned around. She turned around and saw the ghost was in the house then Daisy said “Hey you need to get out because my mom and dad will be home in a minute and I don’t want to be in trouble. Plus my mom and dad said don’t let any stranger in the house and I’m going to listen to their rules so please get out now” the ghost got out in time. Both her mom and dad asked her a question at the same time “Did any strangers get into the house?” “No” said Daisy to her mom and dad. Daisy was happy and excited that she went on a scary adventure. “I think I will go on an another adventure because that adventure was so good and awesome. I liked that adventure, other than me screaming my head off yelling “Eeek” Daisy laughed to herself. Before: My Best Friend by Romeo One night Teddy was sleeping. He heard a sound. BOOM! He got out of bed, He went outside and saw one man walking down the street. He didn’t know who the man was?. He went to his parents and he woke them up. He yelled “Wake up! Wake up! There is a man in the road.” The man had a gun. Teddy heard the sound boom! of a gunshot. He’s brother woke up he “what was that said Terry. He saw a shooting star. He made a wish he said I wish this was not real.The sun was almost up. And the man ran far as he could. Teddy didn’t know that the man was a vampire.Teddy didn’t believe in vampires. AFTER! My Best Friend by RomeoOne night Teddy was sleeping. He heard a sound. BOOM! He got out of bed, He went outside and saw one man walking down the street. He didn’t know who the man was. He went to his parents and he woke them up. He yelled “Wake up! Wake up! There is a man in the road.” The man had a gun. Teddy heard the sound boom! of a gunshot. Teddy’s brother woke up. “What was that” said Terry. He saw a shooting star. He made a wish he said I wish this was not real. The sun was almost up. The man ran far and turned into a bat and flew away! Teddy now knew that the man was a vampire. Teddy didn’t believe in vampires until this happened. He went to school.Teddy told his teacher that vampires are real and his teacher did not believe him. He said “I will take a picture of the vampire.” He stayed up all night to see if the vampire returned. Teddy took pictures. He showed everyone the vampire pictures and everyone believed him and every one said “Sorry’’. “You are welcome”. Teddy became famous as the person who proved that vampires do exist! The end. Before: The halloween cams to life. By Aurora Penny was walking down the street on halloween night.no one was spotted in the light of the moon . Wan the full moon cams the halloween cams to lif ! Penny was only 8 years old.’’ouno the full moon is cameing’’.thar was a whoosh and a rambil everything was shaking! And it stoped saintly ’’ ’’all the halloween things are coming to life’’ ! every thing Was chasing her. thay ran and ran all around the town.up and down She hid under a halloween oce tree but that was know ordinare halloween oce tree it came to life to ! She ran and ran and she ran into a big monsters mouth ’’it is dorck in here ouno it is a monster mouth’’ she tried to get out . But she could not ….’’ I got an Idea because it is a whale monster” She jumped through the hole and she got out. She ran to the monster house and tried to tell them “Please don’t chase me anymore” But they didn’t listen. So she tried to stop them herself. But it was almost morning time she had to stop them before they took over the town. She ran over to the store to get stuff to make the monsters go away. She got the stuff to make the monsters go away and put the stuff on the ground and all the monsters followed her she ran and ran all the way out of town and the monsters came with her but she ran out of stuff she didn’t know what to do. So she went back to the store but there was no more stuff. Before: A Nightmare In Reality by CH One night a beautiful girl was sitting in her bed. Suddenly she heard screaming in her parent’s room. “AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” She ran into the room as fast as she could and saw a man holding knife with a white mask on. There was blood all over the room with her parents lying on the bed dead. “MOM!!! DAD!!!” Yelled the girl. She dialed 911 as fast as she could “Hello,” She said, but all she heard was breathing and screaming on the other end. “PLEASE, ANSWER ME! A MAN KILLED MY PARENTS!!! PLEASE HELP!!!!!” “OH SO WE HAVE A PROBLEM??? THIS ISN’T 911, WAIT ACTUALLY I MEAN THIS IS 911 AND NOT 119 HEHEHE…..” said on the other end of the phone. Ally hung up because she was to scared to keep talking. RIIIINNGGG RIIIINNGGG……. It appeared to be the phone ringing, it was 119! Ally answed and yelled “SHUT UP!!!!! I TYPED 911 BACKWARDS!!! YOU'RE 119!!! GO AWAY UNLESS YOU'RE GONNA HELP!!!” “...” The man stayed silent. “Sorry.” said the man in a tiny voice. After talking in her room on the phone with the door locked for an hour, a man arrived. Ally heard yelling and screaming. When she came out, the man was hung in the entrance to her room with blood and guts all over the house. A skeleton with a blue pupil in one eye and a white pupil in the other. “I’m Sans! I’m from you're game Undertale!!! Remember?” said the skeleton. “OH YEAH! Undertale! I love that game!” said Ally SOOOO happy. “Do you trust me? Said Sans. “yes.” “Come on, follow me! Sans ran to Ally’s balcony, took her hand, and jumped off. “ARE YOU CRAZY!?!?!??!?! WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE!!!!!!!!!!!!” screamed Ally. Sans used his bone powers super fast and made a bone castle that they landed on. All the bones smashed. “Well that really BROKE our fall!!! HAHAHHAHAHHAHHAHAHAHHAHHAHAHH! Get it? Said Sans. “ha...ha…..ha….ha…..” said Ally sarcastically. “So what's our plan? Shoot him in the face, kick him, stab him? Whatever it is I’M UP FOR IT!!!” said Ally with a shout. “Leave it to me, you can just run for your…” “HEY SLENDY!!!” said Ally rudely interrupting Sans. “WHAT!!! WHERE??!?!?!??!?!?” said Sans feeling weirded out. “SHUT UP YOU TO!!!!!” said Slenderman SOOOOOOOOOO mad he almost exploded. “...” Sans and Ally just kept quiet. “ARE YOU DONE YET!?” said slenderman. “Mmmmhhhhmmmmmmmm…..” Ally and Sans responded while nodding. “Ok then i can finally kill you!” said slenderman. “SHUT UP SLENDY WE KNOW YOU'RE KIDDING!!! SO STOP!!!” Yelled Ally feeling a little mad. “Y-Y-YA, S-S-Slenderman! d-d-don’t J-J-J-JOKE like that!” said sans stuttering and shaking. Slenderman pulled out a knife, then let out a CREEPY, WIDE, BLOODY, EVIL SMILE, then let out a laugh. “Hahaha ahahahhahah ahahahahah AHAHAHHHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHH!!!!!!!!!!!” Slenderman laughed while getting closer and closer. A quiet, creepy, childish voice out of nowhere whispered: “RUN WHILE YOU STILL CAN…. THAT IS, IF YOU WANT TO LIVE!!!” Quickly, a mini version of slenderman with long black hair ran out of the trees and stood beside slenderman. “I didn’t know you had a daughter SLENDY!” said Ally. “YOU NEVER KNEW I’M MARRIED???” said slenderman. “Wait WHAT? Ok then….. SLENDY!!! HAHHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHH slendy! WHAT A FUNNY NICKNAME!!! HAHAHHAHHAHA!” “SHUT UP!!!” said slenderman interrupting Ally. “COME AND PLAY WITH ME!!!” said Slenderman’s daughter Slendergirl. Slenderwomen (The mom of Slendergirl) ran to Slenderman and Slendergirl while Sans and Ally ran into the woods. The Slenders followed them. When the Slenders found them
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