Turkey Time by Erik

Hey you! Ya, you! Down here. I know, a talking turkey is not something you see every day. So get over it. I heard that Thanksgiving is coming. Is that right? OH. This is worse than I thought. OK, human, we need to talk. I have a few reasons why turkeys should not be eaten on Thanksgiving.

First of all, look at all the other possibilities. Pizza and chicken are just two of the millions of options. Turkeys are plain and boring. Don’t you get bored eating turkeys every year? NO?! What is wrong with you! How are you not bored eating turkey every single year! I totally hate you now. Try something new. Don’t be so picky. Do you know what happens to people who are picky and boring? Do you? Since they are picky, they won’t get invited to anyone's dinner parties. They won’t eat anything.

Anyway, we do take an awful long time to cook and spice up, but then pizza saves the day! We take like 5 whole hours when pizza takes like a ½ hour, not even! You can also put anything you want on pizza! How great does that sound? You can put veggies, meat, or fish. I know, that sounds gross. But some people like it.

Also, EAT BILL!!!! Bill is my neighbor. He is a chicken who is very annoying and dumb. Look on the bright side. If Bill is gone then I get to stay in bed as long as I want. I won’t have to hear the words cocka doodle doo every morning at six a.m. WAIT!!!!!!!!!! I have one more piece of evidence. Bill and I are related. That means that we taste the same.

So, did I convince you? YES!!!!! Now I get to live an extra year. OH, and Bill is in his house over there. You can pick him up on the way out. Also, did you take a video? Can you post it on the web? I want to see if other people were convinced too. See you next year.

 

Scary Story by Michael

Where There’s One, There’s Ten

It was a dark and stormy night. I was driving my Ford 2006 GT along a dark road late at night. I don't visit this side of town often, and I had a hard time figuring out where I was. As I crept along the road, I knew something was going to happen. I wasn’t sure what, but I knew it wasn’t going to be good. Something didn’t feel right. Then, I saw something move in the bushes. I thought it was an animal that needed help, so I stopped to see what it was. I sat with the headlights on, waiting for it to reappear.

Soon, I saw glowing red eyes peering out at me from the forest. Next, a thin slimy arm reached out from behind the trees. Then, a scaly, green leg. As it came out from behind the trees, I saw that it was an enormous beast! My heart jumped into my throat! It must have been six feet tall, with sharp fangs, black claws, and a huge yellow fin down its back. It walked closer with its webbed feet, leaving wet tracks on the road. As it crossed in front of my headlights, it saw me in the driver’s seat. I stopped immediately. It peered into the windshield. I nearly fainted, but I resisted, otherwise it would know it could eat me. Suddenly it let out a piercing shriek. I did the same, but for different reasons. Then just as soon as it appeared, it lumbered off into the forest on the other side of the road.

I sat there, not knowing what to do, after what just happened. Once I caught my breath, I put the car in drive, and raced into town, and didn't stop until I got to the police station. I ran inside, covered in sweat, and told my story to an officer. “Oh please. that sounds ridiculous. You must have just been tired,” she said as she took my statement. I knew he thought I was crazy, but as I was about to leave, I saw her put my statement in a big box, filled with papers, labeled “GIANT REPTILE SIGHTINGS.” before I stepped out, I

questioned “Where did other people see the beast?” “All over,” she replied. Just then, I heard another piercing shriek. She must have too, because her face turned white. So did mine. We both knew we couldn’t leave, or we would get eaten. It was getting closer. We had little time before it would reach us. We hid under a desk, when it smashed through the wall, and searched for food.

When it wasn’t looking, we ran outside, hopped in my car, and I put the pedal to the metal. The officer called the S.W.A.T. team and Secret Service. The bloodthirsty beast was now chasing us. Within half an hour, both of the services were chasing the beast. We had crossed over  state border. We could now call the F.B.I. We did, and they came rushing over. Then, I got an idea. I decided to think out loud. “If we get a DNA sample, then we could find out what this mutant beast is, what made it a mutant, and where the source of it all is.”

We told the teams my idea, and we put the plan into action. We tranquilized it, tripped it, and took a DNA sample. We put the beast in a lockdown chamber, in Area 51, in a tube that freezes the beast. The beast was actually had very little toxic waste in it, meaning all that the toxic waste did was fuse reptiles together, but what? The beast (now named TIER-03 as a code name) was too powerful to be contained. It broke out, and the chemicals cloned the mutant reptile over and over. The alarms blared as the beast smashed through the walls, and evacuated as the alams annoyed him. TIER-03 was now on the loose, with all of his clones.

Everybody’s phone filled with alarms saying “STAGE 3 EVACUATION. LEAVE THE CONTINENTS OF THE FOLLOWING: NORTH AND SOUTH AMERICA UNTIL

FURTHER NOTICE. DO NOT PANIC.” Nobody followed the last step. Everyone panicked. They may have panicked, but they did evacuate. Workers at Area 51 tried to catch TIER-03 and his clones. They did, and they sent out another alert saying that it was safe to come back to the americas.

This isn’t the end. Much was destroyed, and many still had sightings of the beast. It was true that Area 51 miscounted the cloned beasts. There was still one on the loose. This one beast was growing bigger as it ate more. More and more plans failed, and many evacuated. The one thing that Area 51 didn’t try was put the beast in water. TIER-03’s weakness is water.

They made a big pool, and trapped the beast in it. It started to separate into the original reptiles. They did the same with the other TIER-03s, and let the animals go into the wild. The toxic waste left behind gave many answers. It came from the newest nuclear power plant. The waste was left uncontrolled, and it leaked into a river, washed up on the shoreline, and nobody noticed. The reptiles were going through the rivers and shoreline, and the toxic waste fused them together. The case is finally solved. What started out as one, turned into 10, and ended as none, is now gone forever. Or is it?

Open House

Please join us tomorrow night, November 15th, for our Open House.  Your child can take you on a tour of our classroom, you can see some work, and visit the book fair. The classroom will be open from 6:00 - 7:00 P.M. and the Book Fair will be open from 5:30-8:00 P.M. Ice cream will be served in the cafe from 5:30 - 7:30 P.M.  I hope to see all of you!

Curriculum Night

Just a reminder that tonight is our Curriculum Night.  Please join me in room 202 at 6:00PM.  I'm looking forward to meeting you tonight.

Photosynthesis At Work and a Little Plant Tropism By Nia

Mung bean sprouts alive and well!

During science this week, we started some bean sprouts, which have grown at a startlingly fast rate. At first, we wanted to see what would happen if we covered the seeds so that they had no sunlight at all. The results were quite interesting. The sprouts looked smothered and were not green like the sprouts shown below. After a little while, we decided to just leave the sprouts by the window to see what would happen. Many of us predicted that the plants would turn green, because of all the chlorophyll made by the plant.

Potato set up for plant tropism

We also noticed that the sprouts along with the other plants we are growing were leaning toward the light. We are also doing a potato maze. Our potato maze features one hole in the box for sunlight, some soil, and barriers for the potatoes roots to go around. We are conducting this experiment to see if the potatoes roots will go around the barriers, and as close to the hole in the box as possible. The class has been making some observations, and we have concluded that all our plants are leaning toward the sunlight because, every plant needs the sunlight to help make chloroplast, which is a substance similar to sugar, that the plant eats. We have also just planted some lettuce, which is very small right now, but we hope that they will grow to be very big. We also think that just like the sprouts, the lettuce will start to lean towards the light.



Just recently we have acquired a deadly looking, plant-like organism. I am not quite sure what it is actually, but there are some students who were in a group together, and they concluded that it might float if put in water, it also might open up, or even start to grow again, if put in water. They also observed that there are some green parts on the mystery item, as well as roots, so it looked like it had been pulled out of the ground. The whole class is very excited to find out more about the life of our class garden!

Can you guess what kind of plant this is?