Have you ever imagined that you were in the middle of a the SBA and you got hungry,                                    very very hungry?  I think kids should have snacks in the SBA so they don’t feel starved. Kids could actually be eating there favorite snacks.  Kids should have snacks during the SBA because of good breakfast on testing days, Mental health, and, they get to chew gum at school. This is important because if YOU  were in the middle of the SBA I bet you would want a snack.

     The first reason kids should have snacks on the SBA Is good breakfast on testing days. Good breakfast on testing days can be protein food. For example, Eating stuff with eggs like an omelet, or eating a scrabble. Protein food can also be yogurt, you can have a small cup of yogurt for breakfast. One other good breakfast for testing days is carbohydrate food. For example, porridge oats, whole grain bread or low-sugar muesli, muesli is a cold Swiss breakfast dish, the primary ingredient of which is rolled oats. The last good breakfast on testing days is omega food. For example, smoked salmon. You can put smoked salmon on a beagle covered in sour cream. This is important because you need good breakfast on testing days.

      The second reason kids should have snacks on SBA days is Mental health. Mental health can be taking care of stress. For instance, If students lack healthy foods stress can interfere with learning. But if students don’t lack healthy foods stress can’t interfere with learning. Mental health can also be nutrients needs. For example,  When nutrients needs are met, students can start to begin to focus on their wellness. But When nutrients needs aren’t met, students can start to begin to not focus on their wellness. Mental health can also be food insecurity. Furthermore,  Household food insecurity impacts mental health. This is important because you need good mental health. 

      The last reason kids should have snacks on SBA day is They get to chew gum. One gum reason is they Don’t get to chew gum in class. For example, if they are chewing gum in class their teacher asks them “ Please spit your gum out,” or something like that. One other gummy reason is kids Don’t get chew gum at recess. For example, if you are chewing gum at recess recess teachers don’t like it because their gum could fall out of their mouth. The final gum reason is they’re happy to chew gum. For example, they don’t get to chew gum at recess, they don’t get to chew gum in class, and they finally get to chew gum. This is important because kids like chewing gum. 

     I encourage you to let your students eat snacks during the SBA because of good breakfast on testing days, Mental health and, they get to chew gum at school. This is important because kids don’t want to feel hungry. 

SBA means: Smarter Balanced Assessment

      Did you know that dogs noses are 40x better than ours! There noses are crazy powerful! Now imagine if YOU had a dog. You could hide your shoe and they could find it. That’s a fun game to play with a dog, now you know why dogs are crazy fun pets! Dogs are the best pets ever because there helpful, they have great noses, and there smart. This is Important because if your getting a pet you should SERIOUSLY consider getting a dog.

         The first reason dogs are amazing is they can be HELPFUL dogs. Helpful dogs can be service dogs. For example, Helping  the police, firemen, being a rescue dog, and helping the blind in ways like getting them across the street. Helpful dogs can also be therapy dogs. For example, unlike service dogs therapy dogs can’t go in public places, but these dogs can go in schools, nursing homes, retirement homes, and hospitals, and are there to calm you down. Helpful dogs can totally be an emotional support dog. For example, the emotional support dog is a mix of a therapy dog and service dog, but mostly therapy dog. These dogs give the service of emotional support to their owners. Emotional support dogs can be in places that ban pets and ride on airplanes. This is important because if you Know someone who is blind you should tell them to get a service dog.

     The second reason dogs are amazing is their noses are AWESOME.  One of the reasons their noses are awesome is they can smell emotions. For example, If you are sad your dog will probably cuddle with you. Another reason their noses are awesome is they can find people in dubrey. For example, if there was an earthquake and you were stuck under a tree a rescue dog could sniff you out and get you out!  Another reason dogs noses are amazing is they can smell evidence in court. For example, if the defendant is lying the dog could alert the Judge! This proves that dogs noses are awesome.

   The final reason dogs are amazing is their smart. One reason dogs are smart is they can learn over 100 words and gestures. For example, your dog learns simple words and gestures like roll over, sit, and stay. Your dogs also can learn complicated words and gestures like fetch, shake, and jump. The second reason dogs are smart is they learn tricks and commands. For example, a command they learn is go or come here. And a trick they learn is dance or wag. The final reason dogs are smart is there as smart as a two year old. For example, if your dog is doing something wrong you can tell them no. If your dog is doing something right you can tell them yes. Like what you would do for a two year old. In addition dogs are very smart. 

  I encourage you to get a dog because they are helpful, they have good Noses, and they are smart. In other words, dogs are amazing, awesome and cool. This important because if you are getting a pet you should Seriously consider getting a dog. 

What would you do if you were in the main character’s position?

Have you read this book?

        To begin,      this is the year of 2023. A day in October.   the 25th on a Tuesday.

 We had just got to school, Marina was a crossing guard so we got there early. But we got there early too because it was a  choir day. It was awesome. Marina had to leave early because she was a crossing guard so she doesn’t get the full time of choir. it was a fun day we learned our first song. The song was called a rainbow of peace. Marina left 5 minutes in choir.  Choir was 15 minutes. After that I saw one of my friends from second grade. she was a fourth grader now. Her name was Gabi. Gabi  and l best friends last year. My other best was Quinn. But Quinn decided to do home school, so Gabi was sad. Gabi and I saw each other so we decided to walk back to class together. I am in portable 2, and Gabi is in portable 1, are classrooms are right next to each other.

Meanwhile, Reese was walking back with Erin. Erin and Reese saw Gabi and Me to. Then Erin hurried up and walked to class and then Gabi me and Reese walked to class. Gabi Went in portable 1. and Reese and I went in Portable 2. we got in and I started success in celebration. I chose slide 8 to work on. I didn’t get the breakfast in the classroom because I did not think I needed it. But Reese, she wanted to get the breakfast so she got it.The breakfast was chocolate  waffles, Apple slices, and apple juice. We have this thing on our classroom called the  share table. It’s if you don’t want something in the breakfast, you can put it on the share table where somebody else can eat it. Reese ate all the things but she wanted and another Apple juice. She grabbed another apple juice off the  share table. she was sucking it down and  reading her book.

Reese  said “ This Book Is Awesome,”  she was very impressed in the book. Bridget, one of my classmates  was in my table group.   She put her name on the would you rather, and sat back down. she shook the table when she sat down. Reese was drinking her apple juice then. As soon as the table shook, Reese bumped her arm on the table and the apple juice container exploded.  all over my desk. it was all over my desk. my desk was covered from  desk legs to wooden top, with apple juice. her apple juice soaked the edge of my book  Apple juice got wet the bottom of my computer. and I almost got apple juice on my lap. apple juice covered my desk. I said

“ Reese  what happened,” 

and she said “ Bridget accidentally shook the table And I accidentally spilled. At least it’s water I said.  Reese swallowed hard. and she made a relief face. then I said “ “wait, was it  water?” 

“no,” Reese said.

“ What is it,” I said. 

“ apple juice,” Reese said. 

“Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo,” I said.

“Apple Juice,are you sure,” said

“Yes,”  said Reese. “

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo,” I said.

“He,he,” Reese said. “All go get some paper towels,” she said again. Erin, kinzly and Reese, all helped me clean up the apple juice spill. The apple juice got edge of my book soaked, my clever badge, and my computer holder. My computer holder is the thing that lets me flip my computer into a tablet. Then I said, “At least  it didn’t soak my pants.” Then Reese said, “I’m really sorry,” “It was a total accident,” I said. “Okay,” Reese said.   

Reese still looked sad. It looked like she still thought it was her fault. But it wasn’t. To me it was Brighid’s fault  but then again it wasn’t. It was also Reese’s fault for sloshing it. But then again it wasn’t. Now I didn’t know who to blame, so I blamed no one. I was very surprised Mrs. Novy didn’t notice anything or say anything. Very VERY surprising!  Mrs. Novy Hadn’t said anything. She walked past but she hadn’t said anything. ANYTHING!!!!!!!  Reese,Me (Morgan),Kinzley and Erin, all didn’t tell Mrs. Novy, apparently. And I think Brighid didn’t Notice or something.  After that we did success and celebrations. I am kind of surprised that I didn’t write what just happened. Meanwhile Reese told it on success and celebrations, it was quite funny. Then I said “Quite,” quietly. It was very fun. And I’m glad I had friends to help clean that mess up.

When i run to and play

Looks fluffy chubby and gray.

It sounds graceful with it clicking claws

Just sounds like the wizard of Oz.

 Feels puffy soft and yay,

Just how it feels like every day.

And without it I’d Cry cry and cry.

~ Morgan .J.

When I climb up and sit down it,

 looks tall colorful and brown,  just sounds rustling and creaking,

 like the wind shrieking.

It feels O so rough quite and peaceful, 

Like the wind graceful,

And without it we’d die with low air.                  

            ~ Morgan  .J.

To begin,   this is the year of 2023. A day in August on a Wednesday. In the middle of summer,

We had just got in the car. The doors had just shut, and the motor on Dad’s car had started. Dad owned a blue Tesla. We called it the blue tiger. We pulled out of the driveway. My sisters and I had no idea where we were going. Since we had no idea where we were going, we  thought that Mom and Dad thought it was funny. We thought that it was definitely a surprise. There was a 1,000,000,000% chance that it was a surprise. We started on the freeway, we knew if we were on the freeway we would be going somewhere far away from our City of Marysville. It was a warm enough day, so I was wearing very thin leggings, a shark t-shirt, and a sweatshirt. I brought sunglasses just in case. As soon as we arrived in Seattle we were  pretty  confused. We didn’t know if we were going to a museum. If we would taking a fairy to an island. If we were going to mopop.( Mopop: the very  interesting building right next to the Space Needle. 

We parked next to mopop but since we weren’t in the mopop parking lot, we had a hunch that we were going to the space Needle. We got out of the car and walked right past mopop.  Madelein Marina and me (Morgan) Definitely thought we will go into the Space Needle. And we were correct!!!!! We went in the line to the Space Needle. There were metal detectors so we had to walk past them. Dad had to leave his Leatherman in the car so  the metal detectors wouldn’t go off, like crazy.(Letterman: dad’s Metal tool that has a lot of metal items like… scissors, and a knife, tweezers, and probably a whistle.) 

Since Dad left his Leatherman in the car, we were able to pass the metal detectors. Since Dad left  his Leatherman, we were finally in the Space Needle. As soon as we got in we saw the gift shop which means the bottom level. The Space Needle was so tall and fancy. We had to wait in a line to they elevator. I went in the back of the line we were just kind of in the middle. As soon as we got inside the elevator we gasped, The View was so important to my mind. The elevator was fancy. There were a lot of people so it was kind of crowded. There were also tour guides in the elevator for some reason. Marina started to make a whimper sound. then she said, “Get me down,”

After that she made a whimper noise and a whining noise.Then she started to whisper,”Get me down, get me down, get me down,Get me down, get me down, get me down.”

 The elevator was not in the Space Needle. It was sort of next to the Space Needle.  Marina was definitely freaking out. You could totally tell that she was freaking out! So Mom and Dad was  telling her to stop.

 But she kept whimpering . Her whimpering was soooooo annoying I could not withstand the noise of the wining. I could not put out my apologies to Marina that it was so high up. It was not my fault!  So I could not make her stop  or do anything! The elevator felt like it tolk 1,000,000 years! It was a long elevator ride. We finely stop’t!

“Freedom” I said . We walked out of the elevator, we were some of the last people out of the elevator!  Since we were some of the last people out of the elevator, we had to wait a little bit. As soon as we got out, we gasped The View was impeccable. We moved to the spinning part of the Space Needle. the floor was glass on that part. Yes yes, GLASS! Marina started to freak out. She started to squeal the tiniest scream came out of her mouth. It was quiet, but very high pitched. It was annoying.  Mom and Dad finally convinced Marina to stop and take a breath in and out so she wouldn’t die.  Well she wouldn’t die she would just think she could. 

After we finish exploring the top of the space needle, we went to the gift shop on the bottom level of the Space Needle. It was sooooo cool. Since it was so cool, we bought at least one souvenir, I got a flashing keychain with my name on it. After that we went out to the food court to get some lunch. I got Starbucks for lunch. It was “Delicious” I had said. After we went and ate lunch at the food court, we went to a few of the malls. After that we went on one of the Monorails. since there was no seatbelts we moved like crazy on the Monorail. Then we went to a Nordstrom, I’m pretty sure it haved 6 stories . I mean 7 stories. After we went to Nordstrom we explored Seattle. We passed the cheese factory. We looked through the window and we saw a giant tub of melted cheese. We saw them make blocks of cheese the blocks that were not cut, were ginormous. Since it was so fun we went back to the Space Needle. we went to the parking lot, and got the car. We had bought a few snacks at the food court so we ate them. I feel like it took 3 days to get back. but it barely even took an hour. “Morgan, Marina,Madeleine,” Mom said. “Yes,” My sister’s said in Unison with me. “It’s rush hour traffic,” Mom said. 

“Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo,”  I said.

Then  Marina said, “ Do you want to play the spelling game?”

“Fine” I said,”

“ Okay the first word I choose  is, banana,”

“Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo,” I’m not doing the word banana”. I said! 

 You hafto”. Said Marina.

“Nooooooooooooooooo,” I said. My family erupted with laughter.

” ha ha ha ha, ” the car was rumbling with laughter. My family can laugh hard, and harder in my heart.

        I am going to tell you a story, in the year 2021, a day in May on Thursday…                     I just got to school, I am in Mrs Perdues Class, I was her fantastic frog of the day. Fantastic frog: Mrs Perdues Happy helper for the day, turn paperwork in, push the lunch cart, and turn in… Attendance! I was that for the day. I had just started my 2 minutes of morning I ready. I did so much I made 3 minutes. I turned in the attendance. Then we have morning meeting.                                                                      Morning meeting: When we tell our favorite something, we tell what we did the other day. And we answer a question. Mrs.Perdue would tell us the news for the morning. I thought it would be such a great day. And then we started math time.

        Morning math was on our computers.  We would do I-ready for about 10 to 5 minutes, usually 10 or above.  Mrs Perdue  said, “Math time.”

       “Okay” The class said in unison with me. We started  our i-Ready math. After that we did daily 5. my  3 daily 5 choices were… Writing, buddy reading, and listen to  reading. Then We did Writers Workshop. We will write a paper book. It was kind of cool for my age.

     “ Morgan”, Miss Perdue said.

“Yes”,  I said.

then Mrs. Perdue said, “I want to check in with your reading Morgan.”

     “Okay,” I said.

    I wondered what book miss Perdue’s going to  test me on. She usually test me on books that are kind of easy for me. I really hope this one is not easy at all. I had to read the story too many pets. It was a little too easy  then I wanted it. But I deal with it. Because I was a  good person! Mrs Perdue  said that I was good on reading level Q. I was so happy that I was on reading level Q. Reading level Q was a good reading level. After that we headed off for PE. 

         We started in the line I was the line leader of A line,  there was also a B line. We started down the hall to the PE room.  PE room:gymnasium,   we got to PE and I went to my home base. It was the spot I would sit on the gym floor listening to Mr Stevenson,  our  PE teacher. We were going to be doing stations. The stations were…  jump roping, using a hula hoop,hoping, stretching, catching, and tossing a Medicine ball at the wall. a Medicine ball is a crazy heavy ball . It is really heavy. Then he paired us in groups of 4. The people in my group were…Ocean, Gloria, Hailey, And me Morgan. We started with jump roping. After that we went to stretching, then catching, then we will tossing medicine balls at the wall. Hailey  went to go get some water. And Gloria went to the bathroom. 

        Ocean and I were the only ones left in our group. Hailey and Gloria were doing something. So it was ocean and I. We started to through the Medicine balls at the wall. We were being a little bit ridiculous and  seeing who can throw there’s the hardest on the wall. It became a little bit of a silly competition. the competition had just began. It was funny. We were just tossing them at the wall. We would say “oh no you got it I’m mad” or something like that. It was really fun. Ocean accidentally threw his too hard on the wall…  BAM. it hit the wall so hard it bounced off too hard. it hit me in the head. It hit me on The head. yes yes,IT HIT ME ON THE HEAD. It really hurts but I was lucky I didn’t go to the nurse. I was a strong person so I did not go to the nurse office at all. It helps that I SAID “ouch”.  

       It still hurt all day. Well it hurt  for part of the day, Mr Stevenson asked me if I should go to the nurse, I said “no I don’t need to”.  I didn’t need to go to the nurse at all.I Got back to class after PE. Then since it was a good day Mrs. Perdue had us do Mystery Science with Mr Doug. Today’s science lesson was about… Weight, and how heavy something is. I thought, this should be connected to PE. I just got hit in the head with a Medicine ball. I mean it didn’t have anything to do with Medicine balls but, it was so kind of connected to how heavy the Medicine ball was. I tried not to think about the Medicine ball and my head. I thought if I think about it too much my head will start to hurt. I don’t want my head to hurt at all. We kept on learning about how heavy something is and the weight of it in science.