Edmunds Elementary School

You fall off a cliff
Splat!
It starts to rain
Splat! Splat! SPLAT!
You throw an apple at a wall
Splat!
You drop an ice cream cone
Splat!
You drop an egg
Splat!

Asia Stier
Edmunds Elementary School, Grade 4

T-E-S-T-S
For every single test I take, I study hard.
There is so much pressure.
Some tests I studied hard for and got extra points on my score.
Other tests I studied less on and didn’t get everything right.
Some tests are small and some are quite long.
Tests are not given to make you frustrated. They are given to see how much you know about something. Don’t worry if you get things wrong. You will learn soon enough and then you will know. Take your time on tests and think about the answers. I take a while but it’s worth so much in the end. So, you see, tests are not so bad – they’re only for your own good.

Asia Stier
Edmunds Elementary School, Grade 4

Rumors Lead To Lies

Rumors lead to lies.
Lies lead to rumors.
Neither of them is nice or kind.
Some are very, very mean.
While others, are medium.
No lie or rumor that I’ve heard was nice-nice.
Some rumors start because people want to get
Someone back and that can get passed on and changed
And it ends up a lie, a mean lie.
But rumors are never something you should be proud of.
So never start a rumor and it won’t end up a lie
‘Cause it never happened.
Don’t start a mean lie ‘cause it might end up a rude rumor.
And the person it’s about will find out somehow, sometime.
And they will feel embarrassed and hurt.
So now you know, rumors lead to lies and lies lead to rumors.
Don’t start one and it will never happen.

Asia Stier
Edmunds Elementary School, Grade 4

THE KICK

I nervously scampered to the field.
My legs were shivering.
I walked slowly; my heart was pounding fast.
With the ball in my hands I walked onto the field.
I got into position, offense.
Ready.
I heard the whistle blow.
We ran up the field.
I felt kind of scared; my legs were trembling.
Someone passed the ball to me.
My foot slammed against the ball, I aimed at the goal.
I was curious to know if it would make it in the goal.
The wind was cool and chilling.
I heard the crowd shouting excitedly.
The ball rolled in the direction of the goal.
My eyes were wide with excitement.
I didn’t know if the ball was going to go in.
I took a deep breath.
Slowly, the ball rolled, one last time; then, it was in!!
I did it!
I felt proud and happy.
There were cheers all around me.
I felt excited and a lot better than before.
Soccer is my sport.

Asia Stier
Edmunds Elementary School, Grade 4

MY DOG

A yellow lab/hound mix.
Very, very cute.
Eating machine.
Best buddies with a poodle.
Always friendly.
Loves to play.
Plump, but gets lots of exercise.
Always happy.
Loves everyone.
Gets lonely when we’re gone.
Likes to look around.
Loves dog treats.
That’s my dog, Dakota.

The Pond

By Maggie Moran
Edmunds Elementary School, Grade 4

Lily pads appear in ponds
as the cold ice melts away.

Now you can see wildlife
around and in the pond
like birds who sit in trees
and sing pretty little songs,
or fish who arise from
the bottom of the pond.

Now the pond is alive with
lily pads, birds, fish and
everything in between.

By Isabel Singer
Edmunds Elementary School, Grade 4

There I was so sound asleep,
When I heard some tip toe feet.
The crickety crack of the stairs,
Prickles me with all my hairs.
I step on the floor, so cold like ice.
I turn the knob with a slice.
I walk through the cold.
The ground feels like mold.
I hear doors slam.
I'm not sure where I am.
I see my sister.
I hear a whisper.
I'm confused.
Why are we having this rendezvous?

By Myah Purvis
Edmunds Elementary School, Grade 4

Once on an ordinary day there was an ordinary girl who had a TEST! She absolutely hates tests. Of course it's the worst kind of test, it's the NECAP test. She pretends to be sick, but her mother knows her ways. "I hate that test," she said. She got on the bus and sat next to her friend. "This is a nightmare," she says! "I know. I'm sweating up a storm myself," says her friend. They get to school. It seems that that the bell rings in an instant. There is fear in the room. The first question is 35 times 35. She struggles. Then she gets it. It equals 1225. Then she zooms through the whole page. The bell rings. She feels much more confident. She can't wait to see her grades!

My Bedroom

By Isabel Singer
Edmunds Elementary School, Grade 4

My room is my favorite place in the world! The stillness, the quiet and peace. No pesky sister or brother, just me. On warm summer evenings, I like to make tea and read the comics while the breeze whizzes by. It's quiet. I know that I am alone. It's my bedroom.

By Lena Connolly
Edmunds Elementary School, Grade 4

A birthday is the first day you will be a number.
As the years go by and by it will get much funner!
A birthday is a day you should be you,
And you should do whatever you want to do.

By Lena Connolly
Edmunds Elementary School, Grade 4

Peace is love. Peace is anything you want it to be. It's drinking iced tea on a hot June day. It's skiing down a towering mountain. Peace is a simple snow flake. Peace is being happy.

By Suzan Hoffman
Edmunds Elementary School, Grade 3

Fly, fly oh so high in the sky
I wish I could go by the birds in the sky.
The wind is blowing in my face.
It’s blowing the leaves on the trees up to me.
The people on the street look like dolls in a house.
Almost as small as a mouse.
Oh no I’m falling right down.
The leaves on the trees are skidding my feet.

By Adrian Audette
Edmunds Elementary School, Grade 4

Test
Test
I hate that test
Test
Test
You're such a pest
Test
Test
I want to rest
Test
Test
I am depressed
Test
Test
I am done with that test!

By Lily Weisgold
Edmunds Elementary School, Grade 4

Sitting quietly,
The scrape scrape of pencil on paper.
You know you know the answer.
Mind blank oh no.
What’s 45/15?
Your mind is in a whirlwind of answers.
Finally the answer comes – 3!!!
After basking in your glory you look at the clock five minutes left, You spent fifteen minutes on the first problem.

I held my fishing pole steadily while my dad helped put a worm on my hook. After he was done I reeled it in, got it in position. And. Cast! My hook went flying, my line extended out. Plop! My hook went down under water. As I waited for a fish I saw my sister catch her third.
Finally, I felt a little tug. I reeled it in. No fish. I was disappointed.

Through Shiny White Teeth

By Nina Singer
Edmunds Elementary School, Grade 4

Something annoying that my sister does is whistle through her shiny, white teeth. It makes me feel like hitting her. That annoying whistle through her shiny white teeth sounds like a high pitched scream. She does it when she’s happy or nervous or any feeling in between. I’ve tried to stop her but it doesn’t work. Maybe I’ll try earplugs.

By Mary Pat Morgan
Edmunds Elementary, Grade 3

A Ride at the Fair

By Maggie Moran
Edmunds Elementary School, Grade 4

Waiting

By Maggie Moran
Edmunds Elementary School, Grade 4

Waiting

Mud

By Amber Groves
Edmunds Elementary School, Grade 3

Mud, mud, muddy mud, oh how I love the squishy feeling. It brings joy to me. Mud, I love to roll in it. When I go in, I take a shower to get the mud off of me, mud, mud, mud

Mud

By Avery Follett
Edmunds Elementary School, Grade 3

Yucky mud
Mucky mud
Mud is on my feet
Sticky mud
Icky mud
Why is it so deep?

By Clark Stephenson
Edmunds Elementary School, Grade 4

Once upon a muddy time there lived mud people. The mud people were not afraid of anything but the slush monsters. Mud people were cleaning their houses and replacing the town center from the last attack of the slush monsters.

By Lillian Boardman
Edmunds Elementary School, Grade 4

Put, Put the rain boots on its time, time to jump in mud in the pond outside
Where your toes squish through I throw a mud ball
At my brother Garr, he yells he comes charging splat down I go
Giggle, giggle wriggle, wriggle
Splat down he goes!!

Glider

By Lena Connolly
Edmunds Elementary School, Grade 4

By Nikki Miller
Edmunds Elementary School, Grade 4

Squishy gushy between my toes,
In the spring where nobody goes.
In the backyard where a pool of mud lays,
Squish goes my toes through a watery maze,
I can not resist making mud pie,
And to the work shed I fly,
I run back as fast as I can,
Whoops I can’t stop running,
I knew what was coming …
Splat I fell flat!

by Suzan Hoffman
Edmunds Elementary School, Grade 3

Mud is a very useful thing, even for frogs getting all dirty jumping slowly from one lily pad to another. It is fun watching the frog think there is another lily pad in front of it but instead of a lily pad, a big patch of mud. When the frog jumps into the mud I giggle.

Spring

By Suzan Hoffman
Edmunds Elementary School, Grade 3

Slip and Slide

By Lily Weisgold
Edmunds Elementary School, Grade 4

Rain boots on.
Out I go.
I leave them by the front door.
Joy, joy its mud.
I hop, I jump, and I leap for mud.
It squeezes it squishes.
It feels like chocolate pudding.
Faster, faster I leap I jump.
SPLAT I land face down in mud.
I giggle.
I get up.
SPLAT I slip again.
I’m covered in mud.

2007

By Wallace Burgess
Edmunds Elementary School, Grade 4