Overwhelmed with Laughter!

This week-end I spent most of my Friday night and Saturday morning catching up on grading. (Yes, precious students, I do love you all enough to spend my week-end reading what you've written!)

I tend to enjoy saving my dessert for last, allowing the flavors to flow over my tongue. In the same way, I saved my favorite part of grading for my dessert: looking over our newly published journal entries! Students picked their favorite creative writing journal entry from the past several weeks and edited and revised their work. Let's just say it was the tastiest dessert i've enjoyed in a while! They were SO enjoyable that I couldn't choose just one or two!

May their words bring smiles and laughter to you, as well.

~*Michelle*~

(6th grade class-- Frozen tableau assignment. We read

Dr. Seuss's Yertle The Turtle. After, students had 5 minutes to work together

to create a "frozen picture" that sums up the book. Aren't they precious?)

6th Grade Journals

What Would I do If I had a $Million$ Dollars?

Well I would first think about it and make a list on what I would spend it on. Then I would only spend it wisely and not buy things that I already have. I would only if it was in poor condition. I'd give some to Japan and Haiti.

~By Martin~

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ENGLISH

Well every time I come to English class I get excited about what we will do or what we will write for our journals. I like doing stuff like the play for the book we read, but the annoying part was when everyone is chatting when we are acting. I think that for English we should watch the movie to that book that we read. ENGLISH ROCKS! Like, your awesome. I wish every teacher could be like you, you let us express ourselves anyway we can in our journals. I like it when we do vocabulary basketball, free reading, reading buddies, and anything else you can come up with.

Thank you Miss Nietfeld

I love this class

The end

~by Andrew~

(Hm . . . I wonder if Andrew is wanting his grades to increase when he submits a journal entry like this! ;-) )

7th Grade Journals

Falling

I was falling, just falling. I felt free. It felt as if nothing could tie me down. Everything went so fast yet so slow. Birds past like blurs. It felt as if I was floating. I noticed that the land was getting closer. I got worried for I forgot what to do. I was so amazed with this feeling that I hadn't noticed that the others had opened their parachutes. It was too late. My parachute wouldn't open fast enough to slow me down. But I opened it in hope of safety; I was slowing down, but yet too fast to land.

The next thing I knew the screen said, "game over."

~By Jonathan~

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Dwarf Lords

This is the story of Leond Montanya, and of Kratan. “Where now!?” Kratan exclaimed. Scanning the horizon for an area to hide from the Lethars, who are barbaric blood thirsty greedy tyrants. “I don’t know” returned Leond with disappointment. Their horses were galloping across the plains just as the Lethars crested the hill behind Leond and Kratan. “Ar moka!” [Get them] yelled the captain of the Lethars. Kratan suddenly heard the thundering hooves of the Lethars horse riders. Being the better woods man, Kratan exclaimed “Hurry! Follow me” and they road for their lives.

The horses were beginning to tire from exhaustion. They spurred their horses towards any shelter they could find. As they galloped across a large hill, they came upon a lake of boulders that didn’t match the surrounding hills. It was as if they were dropped there by some unseen force. “Make for the boulders!” yelled Leond over the galloping hooves.

~by Camden~

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Topic: I Can’t Find a Topic!!

I can’t think of a topic of a journal because I’m not used to make up my own topic. Maybe I should write about the offspring’s of The Little Mermaid and Beowulf eating the three little piggies! Wait, that’s not C.I.S.P. appropriate. I could write a journal listing lots of ways to say the equivalent of non-C.I.S.P. appropriate like: There was this human eating monster that feasted on leftovers after it um, deals with the owners. One day, it found a human out in the open and it crept up behind it and---- “Oh, hi Mrs. Johnson, I was just uh, er, no,no , noooooooooo---”

~By Caleb~

8th Grade Journals

Doggie Day

By Ellie

Hi, my name is Ruff, and I’m a dog.

I’m a 10 month old French bulldog, owned by a woman named Maggie. You see...... Maggie’s a fool, she’s easy to manipulate and she will always do as I ask.

So for you humans, here is my normal day:

I get up at 9’oclock as Maggie the fool rushes off to work (poor thing). The first cunning task I give myself is go pee behind the radiator. She can’t see it, as the couch is right in front of it. In a few days...boy it’s going to smell! Then I go chew the bar stool, not breaking it. I’m not stupid, but next time Maggie brings her big friend Mark round and he plops down, down he’ll come! Finally I have figured out how to turn on your human telly. You humans may not be creative, but your day time TV is highly addicting!

Normally at this time Maggie comes home and walks me. Which I find terribly fun, last time I pulled her into a hotdog vendor! After this wonderful game and dinner I promptly fall asleep in the middle of Maggie’s bed, aren’t I evil?

~By Ellie~