Anthology+2016+p.6

The Passageway By Ryker Meadowlake Elementary  I raised my hand, “Mrs. Mary, May I go to the library?” “Yes you may, Logan.” I got out of my seat, and walked to the library. When I got there, I went to the back because that’s where all the good books are, and I saw a big black book with no title. I got the book, of course. It looked like it was made in the medieval times. Later that day when I got home, I opened the book to read it, and a very old letter, from the look of it, fell out onto my bed. I opened it carefully, read it, then I read it again. I paused, could the words on it be true? Could there really be a secret passage under the school leading to…Wait, I looked at the note again. It was ripped, the last sentence was ripped! The only useful thing it said was that the passage was located in the school. That night I decided I was going to break into the school and find that passage. When I got to the school I climbed to the roof, and climbed into the ventilation ducts. I was in the building!  After two hours of searching the whole school I found nothing. Where hadn’t I searched? I thought to myself. Of course, the basement! When I went down into the basement I saw a closet I’d never noticed before. When I grabbed the handle a scratchy voice suddenly said, “I wouldn’t go in there if I were you, not without a guide.” I was too stunned to speak, it was a goblin! After I got used to Herman, the goblin, he explained to me that only a goblin could open the door at the end of the passage. So, we went into the passage. After walking for an hour, I finally saw a golden door standing out among the old stone mass covered walls. “I see it,” I shouted loudly, and started running to it! When we got there, Herman pressed his hand against the door, and it started glowing brightly, and then disappeared! In the room there were sacks and sacks of…Well, I didn’t really know what it was, but I’d take a sample and figure it out later. I looked around, and there was an enormous cavern full of centaurs with swords milling around! I slowly sank to the ground, looked around, and noticed that the centaurs were all guarding a portal of some sort. Possibly to another world, maybe even to another galaxy! I got so excited that I shouted with joy, and alerted all the centaurs of my presence. They charged, and I ran. They were so loud that they caused a cave-in, so they couldn’t get me. When I got back I looked at the clock, expecting it to be the next day, and the time was the same as when I’d left! Later that night, after I was in bed, I vowed to go back one day, and figure out the secret of the passage! The Lost By Ava Meadowlake Elementary  Once upon a time there were three kids, sad and lonely because their parents were mean. Their names were Ava, Ryker, and Julia. Each day the only thing they could do was sit on their bed. They were very good kids but they didn’t have any friends because they were always locked up in their house. All the friends they had were each other. They didn’t go to school or do any school work either. They were very lonely and sad. So one night they snuck out of the bed, got a book bag and got their belongings in it, and made a plan to escape. They took a lot of food from their pantry. They went out of their house and across the street and into the woods. They went very deep into the woods and found a field full of peanuts. So then by the field they made a big hut and they would live in it. Then they went to sleep because it was still night. When they woke up they ate breakfast, and their breakfast was peanuts. Then all of the kids emptied their back packs and went to the field to pick peanuts. They filled their backpacks with peanuts, then they started to make more huts when one was exploring. Ryker was exploring and he found a river of water with fish in it. So he ran back to tell Julia and Ava and they brought the peanuts and cleaned them. When it was lunch they ate cleaned peanuts. They cleaned more peanuts for the rest of the afternoon, then they ate and fixed up their bed and they used their back pack for pillows. Then they woke up and did the same thing and nobody ever found them.

 Darkness in Life Vivianne Council traditional School - 4th grade -Ms. D. Foster

 The soulless blood is black The bread I eat is coarse The milk I drink is sour My rights are ignored Rosa Parks on the buss Did not give up Neither will we Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was killed For doing good for black But now my rights are adored The milk I drink is sweet The bread I eat is fine The light has come The dark is gone

How Salt Got into the Sea By Gavin Bender St. Ignatius School, 4th grade, Mrs. Goodwin Long, long ago, Sandman was in the clouds getting dreams as usual. He felt really hungry but didn’t want to eat clouds. He remembered how the human people would fish for their food. So he got up on the moon and started fishing. It took a LONG time, but when he caught one, he yelled, “I got one.” The Human people didn’t hear him because he was on the moon. He reeled up the fish and cooked it with the heat of the sun. When he picked up the salt to shake over his fish, the sun was so close that it burned his hand, and he dropped the salt. It spilled everywhere, and King Triton, the god of the sea, got mad. He began screaming at Sandman. It was as angry as a barking dog. King Triton fought Sandman. He summoned Water and launched it at Sandman, but he missed. Sandman made King Triton fall asleep. As he was falling asleep, King Triton fell on his sword and made it into 3 tiny parts. So King Triton’s sword turned into his triton. Sandman decided to never go fishing again. After that, the god of the frogs also known as Wizard Frog jumped out of the ocean. King Triton had imprisoned Wizard Frog in forever, so he was like a slave to King Triton. Wizard Frog thanked Sandman because now the god of the frogs was free and could go home to his pond. Then Sandman remembered about the salt. He said “Oh well I guess it stays there.” So that is why salt is in the sea. Thank goodness he didn’t spill the pepper! How Whales Became So Large Jake St. Ignatius, Fourth Grade, Mrs. Goodwin Long, long ago the longest whales were two feet long. The god, Hermes, gave a letter to Zeus, the god of the sky and also the chief god. The letter was written by Bob, the god of sea mammals. The letter said that the whales were too small, and they were in danger of being wiped out by sharks. Zeus knew this to be true so he told Poseidon, the god of the sea and Zeus’s brother. Poseidon had to make a hard choice. He could make the whales larger, or he could make their sharks smaller. So he chose to make the whales larger, and with that he stretched all the whales out. That is how whales became so large.

** If I Was in Charge of the World **  ** By Louise **   ** St. Ignatius School, Fourth Grade, Ms. Goodwin **

If I was in charge of the world <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">I’d cancel school, <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">Taking photos, <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">Wine and <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">Being by yourself.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">If I was in charge of the world <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">There’d be cotton candy (life size), <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">Marshmallow chairs, and <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">Ice cream scoops bigger than you.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">If I was in charge of the world <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">You wouldn’t have “bad” anything, <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">You wouldn’t have to pay to go on vacation, <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">You wouldn’t have candy you don’t like, <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">Or folks saying, “Don’t break the vase” <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">You wouldn’t even have breakable vases.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">If I was in charge of the world <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">A chocolate ice cream cone with chocolate syrup and whipped cream would be a vegetable. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">All the radio stations would play 97.5, WABD <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">And a person who sometimes forgot to study <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">And sometimes got too muddy, <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">Would still be allowed to be <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">In charge of the world.