Our fourth-grade students wrote essays on the topic of "Living in Harmony with Nature." Kelly won the essay contest, and her ideas were used to design our sculpture!
We hope you will enjoy reading some of our students' essays.
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Living in Harmony with Nature
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One morning I woke up in my bed on a chilly, but sunny, fall day smelling pancakes. I put on a white, long sleeve shirt and blue jeans.
Downstairs I ate my pancakes and my mom said she had a surprise for me. She pulled out a box from behind her back that had a picture of a kite on it. I quickly opened the box and tried to put it together. It was tricky so my dad helped me. I was so excited! Once we got it together I ran outside to fly it. The wind helped the kite fly really high.
I saw butterflies fluttering around me. I was running up a hill when my mom called me in for lunch. We had turkey subs. After we were done, I went back outside for a little while longer. A couple minutes later my kite got stuck in a tree so my dad had to come out and get it. I didn’t fly my kite after that.
Instead I rode my bike on our basketball court. After a couple hours, I got tired and went back inside. I put on my pink pajamas and slippers. I said “Good night” to my parents and went up to my bed to read Judy Moody. While I was in the third chapter, I fell asleep. I will never forget when I was running up that hill flying my kite.
Kelly
One summer morning I woke up at my house and heard my mom downstairs cooking. I smelled fresh blueberry pancakes. I ran downstairs and ate my breakfast before getting ready for the day. My friend called and told me she was heading to Knox to help plant a community garden. She wanted to know if I could help. I said I would love to help plant a community garden .I went back up stairs and got dressed. I put on my favorite sundress with the stitched bird on the pocket. I love birds I have a bird feeder out side my window so I can watch them up close. It was a nice day out. My mom drove me over to my friend’s house. We walked to the store and bought a packet of sunflower seeds. She had planted sunflower seeds several weeks before and said they are fun to watch them grow.
By the time we got to the park it was almost noon and the day was getting hot. We walked over to where we were going to plant our sunflower seeds and I saw the sunflower she had planted earlier. It was taller than I was and it was so pretty.
A great day wish would happen is if I woke up one morning and my dog, Dandy was still alive. I would wake up, go down and hug her. I would go get dressed in my blue jeans, and my red play shirt. Then I would slip on my old tennis shoes, and Dandy and I would go play, because she was my first dog ever. I would play catch, Frisbee, as long as she would play too. I would get out my horse Joe, and run along beside Dandy. I would be so exited I would forget about breakfast! I would run inside with Dandy, I would eat my cereal and Dandy would eat her dog food. Dandy’s sister Blue would come too she would eat right beside Dandy. Blue would love for Dandy to still be alive, she really misses her, and I do too.
After breakfast we would go play again, we could go skip stones at the creek in the woods, we could do anything safe! We could go see the chickens, even the rabbits! But best of all, we would see the horses. After all, she was an Australian Cattle dog! And we didn’t have any cows, so the horses were Dandy’s pick! Chasing the horses was her thing! She would help my mom with the horse feeding, she would run up and down the hill chasing a pack of 9 horses at a time!
My favorite thing to do with Dandy was to read. I could real 5 books to her if I wanted to. I could read books about dogs, cats, farm animals, anything! But Dandy and my favorite book was the book about critters! I pulled my pink L cap out of my book bag and because the sun was coming out, and I started reading the story. As soon as I was done reading I could hear my mom calling for us, so we ran through the woods, down the pasture, and onto the porch, go in and eat dinner.
It would be such a great moment if I had I more day with Dandy, even know she was a handful!
4th grade student
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