Halloween Pumpkins

Juju's, and My pumpkin.

Our pumpkin before dark. You can see the tongue better!

Dever's ferocious bat, in the DARK!

Every good Halloween is completed with good pumpkins, and this Halloween was no different. Dever had his good friend Jonas over to carve pumpkins. Juju, and I shared one but even so it turned out all right. The pumpkins were taken over to Grandma, and Grandpa's for display. Thank you Papa for taking these nice pictures while we were our trick-or-treating!

By: Sydeney

Cross Country

Weisser Park has an awesome cross country team that I joined this year. Our coach is Mr. Long who also doubles as the gym teacher. We have many fast kids, and lots of them run in cross country. I placed 6th out of 27 fifth grade girls. I think I did well. The weather out side was exceedingly frightful, and muddy. The wind chill was about -30 c. I'm only exaggerating a little mind you. That's what it felt like no doubt, you ask my dad if you don't believe me. Sadly no picture were taken of the victorious day. After that I was allowed to have a frappichino! I probably spelled that wrong, but so what. If you must know I placed 38th in city which was in the top half! Good luck to all of those poor people who have to run today.

By: Sydney

Jabuti the Trickster of the Rain Forest

Recently I was in a school play. It was called Jabuti the Trickster of the Rain forest. This was a school production, the music, and lines were written by last years forth graders. I assisted in making all of the costumes. As our director put it, "These costumes were made up of spit, hot glue, and LOTS of burnt finger. I was also part of the wonderful river!!!!! Our musical was about a trickster turtle who tricked many of the rain forest animals to teach them valuable lessons. When Thunder bird needed a new song bird for heaven turtle flies up on the cruel vultures back to play for the Queen. Vulture tricks Thunderbird into believing that he is playing the music, and when turtle tries to reveal stand up Vulture flicks him off of his back to the ground. To hear the rest of the story you'll have to get the book from the library. Thanks to our musical we did barely and school work last week, and avoided a spelling test. Pictures and coming as soon as I can get them.

By: Sydney