Winter Activities
By Stella
Published: January 2020
Lots of people get bored on weekends and they sit around on the couch and watch TV. Don’t get me wrong I like TV, but why watch TV when you could be out playing in the snow? If there is no snow, go bake cookies or play with your siblings. If you don’t have any brothers or sisters that's okay because this whole thing is about winter activities!
A good way to spend some time is to play in the snow, but we've been having a strange winter and it hasn’t been snowing much. Or what if it is snowing and you forgot your snow pants at school? Don’t worry! We got you covered you can make cookies! Take some dough and use a rolling pin to roll it out. Take some cookie cutters and make your cookies snowflakes and snowmen. Put your cookies in the oven and let them bake. And now the fun part! Take your cookies and stat putting frosting on them! Decorate them anyway you want! Make sure to have a grownup with you so they can put them in and take them out of the oven.
If you don’t have the things to make cookies there are always other things to do! Grab some scissors and paper. Fold the paper into shapes, then you can cut little triangles and circles, pretty much and shape. Then unfold the paper and and you have a snowflake!
If you have snow gear like snow pants and hats and gloves you can play in the snow! And if you have a sled you can go sledding! Put on your snow stuff grab your sled and tell your parent/parents you want to go sledding. You go to a tall hill and put your sled down on the snow. Sit on your sled and push yourself. You will have lots of fun riding down the hill on your sled!
I hope you like these fun ways to stay occupied during winter. Stay warm and have fun!
By Stella
Published: January 2020
Lots of people get bored on weekends and they sit around on the couch and watch TV. Don’t get me wrong I like TV, but why watch TV when you could be out playing in the snow? If there is no snow, go bake cookies or play with your siblings. If you don’t have any brothers or sisters that's okay because this whole thing is about winter activities!
A good way to spend some time is to play in the snow, but we've been having a strange winter and it hasn’t been snowing much. Or what if it is snowing and you forgot your snow pants at school? Don’t worry! We got you covered you can make cookies! Take some dough and use a rolling pin to roll it out. Take some cookie cutters and make your cookies snowflakes and snowmen. Put your cookies in the oven and let them bake. And now the fun part! Take your cookies and stat putting frosting on them! Decorate them anyway you want! Make sure to have a grownup with you so they can put them in and take them out of the oven.
If you don’t have the things to make cookies there are always other things to do! Grab some scissors and paper. Fold the paper into shapes, then you can cut little triangles and circles, pretty much and shape. Then unfold the paper and and you have a snowflake!
If you have snow gear like snow pants and hats and gloves you can play in the snow! And if you have a sled you can go sledding! Put on your snow stuff grab your sled and tell your parent/parents you want to go sledding. You go to a tall hill and put your sled down on the snow. Sit on your sled and push yourself. You will have lots of fun riding down the hill on your sled!
I hope you like these fun ways to stay occupied during winter. Stay warm and have fun!
Baseball
By: Alex
Published November 2019
Batter
Ace
Second base
Excellent
Base
Aimer
Left field
Line drive
By: Alex
Published November 2019
Batter
Ace
Second base
Excellent
Base
Aimer
Left field
Line drive
Comic Strip
By: Luke S.
Published November 2019
The Tortilla Chips Story
By: Zack K. and Alex W.
One day Zack and Matthew were driving home from Zack’s brother’s baseball game. At the game, Prospect beat Elk Grove 4-0. When they were driving home Zack’s dad called and said that he has tortilla chips in his car. At the red light, Zack’s car was perfectly aligned with Zack’s dad’s car. They both rolled down their windows and Zack yelled, “Hey dad, throw me some tortilla chips.” Zack’s dad picked up twenty tortilla chips and chucked them out his window into Zack’s car. Only two of the twenty chips landed in the car. Zack and Matthew both got one chip to eat. The car right behind Zack and Matthew didn’t see the chips on the road and heard a big “crunch” and “pop” from the chips and the tire. That car stopped moving and the tire had popped. In the car, it ended up to be Alex and his dad in his dad’s car. Zack and Matthew’s car turned around and helped get Alex and his dad to the auto repair shop. After that happened Zack and Matthew invited Alex over to eat tortilla chips and a burrito. They hopped in Zack’s car and then got to Zack’s house. At the house, Alex, his dad, Zack, Matthew, Zack’s mom, and Zack’s dad all ate dinner together. At dinner, Alex picked up some tortilla chips and threw them at Zack. Straight after that Matthew yelled “FOOD FIGHT!” Then they all started throwing beans, lettuce, and cheese at each other. Right when Zack saw his brother and sister come up from downstairs he started to throw food at them. Then right after that everyone started throwing food at them.
The End
By: Zack K. and Alex W.
One day Zack and Matthew were driving home from Zack’s brother’s baseball game. At the game, Prospect beat Elk Grove 4-0. When they were driving home Zack’s dad called and said that he has tortilla chips in his car. At the red light, Zack’s car was perfectly aligned with Zack’s dad’s car. They both rolled down their windows and Zack yelled, “Hey dad, throw me some tortilla chips.” Zack’s dad picked up twenty tortilla chips and chucked them out his window into Zack’s car. Only two of the twenty chips landed in the car. Zack and Matthew both got one chip to eat. The car right behind Zack and Matthew didn’t see the chips on the road and heard a big “crunch” and “pop” from the chips and the tire. That car stopped moving and the tire had popped. In the car, it ended up to be Alex and his dad in his dad’s car. Zack and Matthew’s car turned around and helped get Alex and his dad to the auto repair shop. After that happened Zack and Matthew invited Alex over to eat tortilla chips and a burrito. They hopped in Zack’s car and then got to Zack’s house. At the house, Alex, his dad, Zack, Matthew, Zack’s mom, and Zack’s dad all ate dinner together. At dinner, Alex picked up some tortilla chips and threw them at Zack. Straight after that Matthew yelled “FOOD FIGHT!” Then they all started throwing beans, lettuce, and cheese at each other. Right when Zack saw his brother and sister come up from downstairs he started to throw food at them. Then right after that everyone started throwing food at them.
The End
Once there were five girls that lived in a little cottage with no parents. In bed who were waiting for their Christmas presents. They were too anxious to wait for Christmas. The girls didn’t sleep for the whole night and when the clock struck 6 o’clock the girls ran to the Christmas tree and Piper dove into a present and ripped the present open. As soon as she touched the weird cloth she froze into a blob of ice.
Then Victoria looked at the present and said “ This is actually mine!” and took out the cloak and then put it on ”This actually feels nice! but I wonder why it froze Piper though?” Then it was Milly’s turn she opened her present and it was nice and warm. Then she said, “ This is warm maybe it will warm Piper enough to melt the ice!” So she put it on Piper and it did exactly what they thought it would do but then suddenly Piper was on fire! She dove for her present put on her cloak and suddenly they saw a weird blobby flame running to the kitchen, the girls run to the kitchen. They hear the faucet turning on and off over and over, then they see a wet blob draping on the floor and then they hear a “Ahhhhh,” and they see Piper relaxing in the sink and her wet cloak on the ground. Then Amy opened her present and saw that it was also a cloak she put it on and touched Victoria and Milly. Both Milly and Victoria froze completely but there was no ice. Then Amy took the cloak off and stomped on it. Milly and Victoria they both came back to life and didn’t know what happened. When that was done Piper put on her cloak and whispered laughed and became invisible then she went to the kitchen. Meanwhile Abby was going to open her present. As soon as she put it on she flew into the air like a pigeon. “Why am I flying?!!” Abby yelled. After a few seconds of floating she imagined herself on the ground she immediately fell on to the ground.
Then under the rug they found a note telling them they are magical cloaks and told them what each one does and how to control them. Woah!!! Abby said “our cloaks have powers!!” Meanwhile...Piper was busy eating the Christmas cake in the kitchen. Soon they heard a “Mum mum um yummy!!”coming from the kitchen from Piper. The girls rushed to the kitchen but when they got there it was already too late. Piper was already stuffing the whole cake into her mouth. The girls yelled “NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!” But it was too late the cake was gone in a quick gulp. Piper ran to the bathroom, the girls don’t know where Piper was. They soon heard a noise coming from the bathroom, something like Bagglaaaaaah all of the girls knew that it was Piper doing her thing. (Read the “Haunted Library” to find out what Piper’s thing is.) When Piper came out of the bathroom the girls got very mad at her. “Piper,” Milly said, “why did you eat all of the cake??!!?!?!” “ We were supposed to share the cake,” said Victoria. “you can’t eat all of the cake without sharing it with us,” said Abby. “It’s okay Piper,” said Amy. Suddenly there was a bang on the front door, all of the girls stared at the door. The door creaked open, because Piper kept running into the door. There was this crazy, weird, creepy guy named Howard standing at the door and he said angrily and loudly, “I WANT YOUR CLOAKS… THEY'RE PRETTY!!!” The girls froze in their tracks except Piper, she ran to the door trying to escape but accidentally ran over the guy and fell on top of him. Then suddenly the guy screamed, probably because piper slapped him. He started trying to hit her but she was invisible. Milly and Victoria tried to use their powers together but made a lot of water, Abby tried to punch him in the air but fell on top of Piper instead. So it looked liked Abby was floating because Piper was still invisible. Amy tried to freeze time but kept throwing it onto the ground because she couldn’t do it. Howard threw Piper and Abby on the ground just when Amy finally froze time and threw Howard out the open door. After that they decided to help people with their new powers and they thought that they could have a good Christmas dinner but they remembered that Piper already ate all of the cake.😭
THE
END
Then Victoria looked at the present and said “ This is actually mine!” and took out the cloak and then put it on ”This actually feels nice! but I wonder why it froze Piper though?” Then it was Milly’s turn she opened her present and it was nice and warm. Then she said, “ This is warm maybe it will warm Piper enough to melt the ice!” So she put it on Piper and it did exactly what they thought it would do but then suddenly Piper was on fire! She dove for her present put on her cloak and suddenly they saw a weird blobby flame running to the kitchen, the girls run to the kitchen. They hear the faucet turning on and off over and over, then they see a wet blob draping on the floor and then they hear a “Ahhhhh,” and they see Piper relaxing in the sink and her wet cloak on the ground. Then Amy opened her present and saw that it was also a cloak she put it on and touched Victoria and Milly. Both Milly and Victoria froze completely but there was no ice. Then Amy took the cloak off and stomped on it. Milly and Victoria they both came back to life and didn’t know what happened. When that was done Piper put on her cloak and whispered laughed and became invisible then she went to the kitchen. Meanwhile Abby was going to open her present. As soon as she put it on she flew into the air like a pigeon. “Why am I flying?!!” Abby yelled. After a few seconds of floating she imagined herself on the ground she immediately fell on to the ground.
Then under the rug they found a note telling them they are magical cloaks and told them what each one does and how to control them. Woah!!! Abby said “our cloaks have powers!!” Meanwhile...Piper was busy eating the Christmas cake in the kitchen. Soon they heard a “Mum mum um yummy!!”coming from the kitchen from Piper. The girls rushed to the kitchen but when they got there it was already too late. Piper was already stuffing the whole cake into her mouth. The girls yelled “NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!” But it was too late the cake was gone in a quick gulp. Piper ran to the bathroom, the girls don’t know where Piper was. They soon heard a noise coming from the bathroom, something like Bagglaaaaaah all of the girls knew that it was Piper doing her thing. (Read the “Haunted Library” to find out what Piper’s thing is.) When Piper came out of the bathroom the girls got very mad at her. “Piper,” Milly said, “why did you eat all of the cake??!!?!?!” “ We were supposed to share the cake,” said Victoria. “you can’t eat all of the cake without sharing it with us,” said Abby. “It’s okay Piper,” said Amy. Suddenly there was a bang on the front door, all of the girls stared at the door. The door creaked open, because Piper kept running into the door. There was this crazy, weird, creepy guy named Howard standing at the door and he said angrily and loudly, “I WANT YOUR CLOAKS… THEY'RE PRETTY!!!” The girls froze in their tracks except Piper, she ran to the door trying to escape but accidentally ran over the guy and fell on top of him. Then suddenly the guy screamed, probably because piper slapped him. He started trying to hit her but she was invisible. Milly and Victoria tried to use their powers together but made a lot of water, Abby tried to punch him in the air but fell on top of Piper instead. So it looked liked Abby was floating because Piper was still invisible. Amy tried to freeze time but kept throwing it onto the ground because she couldn’t do it. Howard threw Piper and Abby on the ground just when Amy finally froze time and threw Howard out the open door. After that they decided to help people with their new powers and they thought that they could have a good Christmas dinner but they remembered that Piper already ate all of the cake.😭
THE
END
The Impossible Code
By: Kaden, Owen, Ryan, and Andrew
Okay, listen up we are going to tell you a special kind of writing that is top secret. I heard some people talking about it to rob a bank. We want you to find out who was talking about and STOP THEM! We will train you to do it. Read the code to figure out the rhyme.
B=A
C=B
D=C
E=D
F=E
G=F
H=G
I=H
J=I
K=J
L=K
M=L
N=M
O=N
P=O
Q=P
R=Q
S=R
T=S
U=T
V=U
U=X
X=W
Y=X
Z=Y
A=Z
Xf bsf bxftpnf
Nice, now let’s try another one.
Voefsdpvwfs
Okay go home tonight, come back slick, don’t tell people.
The next day…
You are ready coder to spy on them.
You go to the bank disguised and you hear the robbers talking together. Come back, tell us the next day what you heard. Then you will stop the robbers.You find a note that the robbers dropped, open the letter up and solve it.
Mfu’t nffu bu uif epdl po Npoebz bu ufo.
Did you solve the letter? What did it say? Once you are done, do what it says.
You go to the under the dock because the robbers are on top. You hear them talking. but you can’t understand them because they speak Spanish. This is what you hear,
Mft’t tufbm uif npofz po Tvoebz uif gjgui.
Next day..…..
You went to the bank to find them. We told the police, but they didn't believe you saw them robbing the bank so, you went down to stop them. You stalled them till the police came then they were arrested. You went back and told them what happened then they said you fell in a trick. We said,“I’m not your master.” Do you want to do one last code? Okay,
J ipqf zpv mjlfe uif Jnqpttjcmf xsjujoh.
There’s an answer key on the bottom
1. We are awesome
2. Undercover
3. Let’s meet at the dock on Monday at ten.
4. Let’s steal the money on Sunday the fifth
5. I hope you liked the impossible writing
To be continued……..
By: Kaden, Owen, Ryan, and Andrew
Okay, listen up we are going to tell you a special kind of writing that is top secret. I heard some people talking about it to rob a bank. We want you to find out who was talking about and STOP THEM! We will train you to do it. Read the code to figure out the rhyme.
B=A
C=B
D=C
E=D
F=E
G=F
H=G
I=H
J=I
K=J
L=K
M=L
N=M
O=N
P=O
Q=P
R=Q
S=R
T=S
U=T
V=U
U=X
X=W
Y=X
Z=Y
A=Z
Xf bsf bxftpnf
Nice, now let’s try another one.
Voefsdpvwfs
Okay go home tonight, come back slick, don’t tell people.
The next day…
You are ready coder to spy on them.
You go to the bank disguised and you hear the robbers talking together. Come back, tell us the next day what you heard. Then you will stop the robbers.You find a note that the robbers dropped, open the letter up and solve it.
Mfu’t nffu bu uif epdl po Npoebz bu ufo.
Did you solve the letter? What did it say? Once you are done, do what it says.
You go to the under the dock because the robbers are on top. You hear them talking. but you can’t understand them because they speak Spanish. This is what you hear,
Mft’t tufbm uif npofz po Tvoebz uif gjgui.
Next day..…..
You went to the bank to find them. We told the police, but they didn't believe you saw them robbing the bank so, you went down to stop them. You stalled them till the police came then they were arrested. You went back and told them what happened then they said you fell in a trick. We said,“I’m not your master.” Do you want to do one last code? Okay,
J ipqf zpv mjlfe uif Jnqpttjcmf xsjujoh.
There’s an answer key on the bottom
1. We are awesome
2. Undercover
3. Let’s meet at the dock on Monday at ten.
4. Let’s steal the money on Sunday the fifth
5. I hope you liked the impossible writing
To be continued……..
HALLOWEEN
By Anna S., Sophia P., Lalitha R.
Published October 2017
Hi we are Anna S. and Lalitha R. Sophia P. and we are going to be telling you how to make scary halloween decorations, crafts and snacks.
Candy Corn Marshmallow Pops
If you want to make this snack just follow the directions below:
Ingredients:
What you need Is: Marshmallows (size has to be normal size or above can’t be mini marshmallows), Skewers,and a tray, orange,yellow,and white chocolate melts 3 bowls.
Directions:
1. 1st take your 3 bowls and chocolate melts
2. Pour each melt into separate bowls
3. Then heat them up in the microwave for a minute
4. If it has some chunks in it then stir until they are gone
5. Heat for 15 more seconds if necessary
How To Make a Candy Candle
You need Peeps(ghost and pumpkin), candy corn, tall jar, paper towels, candles
What you will need: as many jars as you as you want, white ribbon or any kind of cut up white fabric (must be at least 1 inch tall for the ribbon), googly eyes or paint (white and black), anything else you want to put on your( mummy.
STEP ONE: grab your white ribbon or fabric and make sure it is at least one inch tall, then wrap it around your jar and make sure it is long enough to go around the jar until it reaches the top. Then wrap it around and glue it one.
Step two: then glue your googly eyes on or if you are painting then paint your eyes on any way you want, then paint or draw a mouth onto the mummy.
Step three: wait for it to dry and then you’re done.
Witch Broom Snack
What you will need: a cheese stick(one cheese stick=two brooms) cheese you can melt and pestle sticks.
By Anna S., Sophia P., Lalitha R.
Published October 2017
Hi we are Anna S. and Lalitha R. Sophia P. and we are going to be telling you how to make scary halloween decorations, crafts and snacks.
Candy Corn Marshmallow Pops
If you want to make this snack just follow the directions below:
Ingredients:
What you need Is: Marshmallows (size has to be normal size or above can’t be mini marshmallows), Skewers,and a tray, orange,yellow,and white chocolate melts 3 bowls.
Directions:
1. 1st take your 3 bowls and chocolate melts
2. Pour each melt into separate bowls
3. Then heat them up in the microwave for a minute
4. If it has some chunks in it then stir until they are gone
5. Heat for 15 more seconds if necessary
How To Make a Candy Candle
You need Peeps(ghost and pumpkin), candy corn, tall jar, paper towels, candles
- First you put the ghost peeps in the bottom of the jar.
- Then you put the pumpkin peeps on top of the ghost peeps
- Repeat step one
- Repeat step two
- fill the jar with candy corn almost to the top
- Push the candy corns that are in the middle then put the light in the middle
What you will need: as many jars as you as you want, white ribbon or any kind of cut up white fabric (must be at least 1 inch tall for the ribbon), googly eyes or paint (white and black), anything else you want to put on your( mummy.
STEP ONE: grab your white ribbon or fabric and make sure it is at least one inch tall, then wrap it around your jar and make sure it is long enough to go around the jar until it reaches the top. Then wrap it around and glue it one.
Step two: then glue your googly eyes on or if you are painting then paint your eyes on any way you want, then paint or draw a mouth onto the mummy.
Step three: wait for it to dry and then you’re done.
Witch Broom Snack
What you will need: a cheese stick(one cheese stick=two brooms) cheese you can melt and pestle sticks.
Valentine’s Day
By:Sophia P
Published: January 2018
Custom Chocolate Wrappers
Materials:
1. Chocolate
2. Valentine gift wrap to wrap chocolate in it
3. A pen
4. And a jar
5. Tape
Directions:
First write a phrase or a saying on the gift wrap pieces.
Next tape the chocolate to the wrapper.
Then put the candy in the jar.
By:Sophia P
Published: January 2018
Custom Chocolate Wrappers
Materials:
1. Chocolate
2. Valentine gift wrap to wrap chocolate in it
3. A pen
4. And a jar
5. Tape
Directions:
First write a phrase or a saying on the gift wrap pieces.
Next tape the chocolate to the wrapper.
Then put the candy in the jar.