A Walk in the Neighborhood

My mom called me on Saturday with a challenge for the kids.  We were to take a walk around the neighborhood and the kids were to write 10 things that they saw while on our walk.  Then when we got home they were to write a short story or poem that included all 10 items and email it to Meema.  She would reward whom ever participated with $5.
The kids were so excited just to write the 10 things down that most of them wrote more than 10.  At this point I didn't tell them what they were going to do with their list, or that there was a prize at end. I am going to post each of their stories or poems and for Tariyah she actually did a drawing of what she saw and I scanned it and sent it to my mom.

Jairyn's Story

title: Aamerik the brave

In a summer green day. Where sun-sets shine upon wheat. 

A boy name Aamerik was building a bird house. A big hibiscus bloom high as the trees saying... "zxvasHsrdflkjsflkjsdfaLKJDSFKLJASDFJKLJLKSDFkjsfdaigonropoireiutiuoiolkxzmkmblkzdoiewnjflknkldljmnurfnjkdodmzdl;kjdgtnzldpo".

The hibiscus scared the birds and they all flew away.

So he ran to his fort at dead end street to hop on his airplane, then got on a train and went to WA DC. Through houses he went . 

got the president. ran back home. he was amazed. so he reward him with dandylion seed

love jairyn

if you don,t have nothing nice to say just something mean

Aaliyah's Poem

Once a upon a time there was the sunset.

The fresh grass sways in the wind. 

There in the woods  a little pond.

Flowers bloom all around,                                                                                                                                                                                                                   

All of the wild melon grow. 

Tree will bend in a perfect bow

To the lovebugs, as they pass by 

A  train will pass by, listening to

The palm trees as they say hi. 

All of the houses will smile.

It's been a magical day...

Good Night.    

Taiason's Story

Once upon a time there was a beautiful princess named Hibiscus. She was the most fairest Princess of the land. "You look beautiful as always, princess" quoted Lady Tiny white flower. "Inside-out" And it was true, for not only did she look pretty she acted pretty as well. Hibiscus just smiled as her Lady brushed out her long magenta hair in the top of her castle. It was a typical evening for the princess, trying to look pretty for her subjects when she went out to meet them and listen to them about their lives. Everyone enjoyed being around the princess, she was sweet and beautiful.This made Sir Dust hill, Lord of the other kingdom next to hers greedy. He wanted to keep her for himself, so he sent his many red bushes soldiers after her in the night to kidnap her. When they had taken her they tied her up to a Fire Hydrant  Within the Lord's kingdom. "You cant keep me here forever" she squealed, but the lord just laughed "Yes I can" he teased back. The princess was miserable and so was her people when they had learned she has been kidnapped. they looked everywhere in the kingdom and couldn't find her. The people were even thinking of giving up. But a peasant called Sun didn't want to give up. Secretly he loved the princess and wanted her back. Since this boy was very clever he decided to sneak into the "Watermelon Jolly Rancher Wrapper Bar" to see if he can overhear a conversation about the princess. He was lucky. The first people happened to be some of the red bush soldiers that spilled out that the princess was at the Dust Hill castle. Sun rushed as fast as he can to his horse Orange flower Pot off to the kingdom of Sir Dust Hill. Meanwhile The evil Lord was thinking of ways to make the princess miserable. So Hibiscus was locked up in a guarded cage. Luckily Hibiscus managed to sing them to sleep as she try to figure out the rest of her plan of escaping. Sun managed to get to the Kingdom by then and noticed the huge Thicket Bush wall, Now how will he go through. just then he heard her singing. She often sang for the kingdom so he knew it was her. He followed her voice to a small hole in the bush. There he saw the tower where the caged princess was. He balanced a bunch of white stones to create a staircase to reach her. Before you know it he was in the tower. But Lord Dust Hill, just entered as well. Sun grabbed the princess, before the Lord could call orders. And jumped out the window. He didn't know how he was going to escape. The he noticed the wispy whitish-pinkish weed. Legends told that if you use it you can transport anywhere. He closed his eyes picked it up and imagine the kingdom the princess lived. Then magically they were transported back. He eventually became the prince since the princess loved him too. And they lived happyily ever after THE END

The dark day       by Jaemyn cole

The houses grow silent the tree’s breeze flows. The grass sway as the streets grows calm. The bushes rustle fast as they can. The birds go fly to their nest. Clouds start to darken as the cars go to their garage. The forest on the hill waits for the sun to feed and shine on them again. As kids dream all sorts of stuff as the moon shines on earth, nocturnal animals start to feed. Kids and parents waiting to come back to earth from the dream land to see the sun shine again. The sun wakes up and shines brightly. Saying “good morning people.” As they greet back happy to see the sun