Happy Halloween!

Kayla from Mrs. Hawthorne's class wrote a great narrative story about a spooky house. Enjoy!

Owwooo!!!! The day I heard this sound filled my heart with fright! On Saturday afternoon, my best friend, Anna, was coming over for a sleepover. When she got there, I told her about the spooky house across the street and that legend says that the ghost of Bloody Mary wants a sacrifice on Halloween!

“We are going over there tonight! I said. I could infer that Anna did not like this idea, because her lips were trembling as if she had just been to Antarctica.

“What?!” she finally replied.

That was all she had to say. I couldn’t blame her. After all, who would have anything else to say…

After what seemed like hours of pure silence, Anna finally spoke, “Okay, I will go.”
I was so excited that she chose to come with me on my hunt for Bloody Mary. We left around ten to scope out the scene. When we arrived at our destination, we found out that we didn’t have to open the door of the house. It opened for us.

“Well, here we go,” I said slowly.

Walking in, we heard cries for help and saw lights flicker.

“Ha, ha, ha, ha!” said a voice in the deep, dark, cold house.

“Maybe we should leave?” Anna suggested.

The two of us dashed for the door like maniacs trying to break it down. We turned around and found ourselves standing eye to eye with Bloody Mary!

With her pale bloody hands, she grabbed Anna by the throat and left with a horrific laugh.
“Anna!” I screeched.

I started to put myself in high gear, dashing all around trying to find my BFF! In the fridge, no. Behind the curtains, no. She was nowhere to be found! Wait, there is one place I have not checked. The place where Bloody Mary loves to stay – her coffin!

Quickly, but easily, I opened up the coffin. There was Anna and Bloody Mary. Anna was choking half to death. I quickly pulled Anna out to save her from the monster and killed Bloody Mary by cutting off her fingers and throwing her in the dungeon. We used her fingers to unlock to door. Then we scampered home like free range chickens on the loose! After one mile of running, we were home sweet home! Anna and I both agreed never to go into a spooky house again – until one day…

Poems

After studying poems in reading, Landon and Konnor from Mrs. Hawthorne's class wrote a poem (much like "Hippos Hope") on their own during reading centers:

There once was a zebra who wanted to fly a kite
Kite-hi-dee flight-hi-dee fright-hi-dee-hoo

So he sewed him a kite with red and white stripes
Strip-hi dee bright-hi-dee light-hi-dee-hoo

The kite took off like a star racing in the night
Night-hi-dee white-hi-dee bright-hi-dee-ho

The kite fell like a baby bird falling out of the tree top
Tree-hi-dee bee-hi-dee wee-hi-dee-way

His kite broke and he ran home and cried like a baby.

St. Augustine Fundraisers

4th GRADE UPCOMING EVENTS

If your child is going on the St. Augustine Trip and you would like to participate in the next fundraiser, please read. We will sell raffle tickets for an Electric grill donated by West Florida Electric which will be given away Friday, October 23, 2009. The tickets are available now in the front office. If you are interested please go by the office and get the tickets. You will have until close of business Wednesday, October 21, 2009 to return the tickets and money to the front office. To ensure that all are accounted for please return all tickets even if not sold, to the office by that time.

We would like to thank the following people for their generous donations to our fund raisers: Sneads Fraternal Order of Police for their donation of the sausage, West Florida Electric for the Electric Grill and McDaniel’s IGA for donating the buns and their delicious Thanksgiving Dinner. We couldn’t have the success we experienced without your bighearted support!

Upcoming RAFFLES:

October: Electric Grill… tickets are available in the SES office now!
Tickets due to SES office no later than Oct 21st.

November: Thanksgiving dinner
And hopefully a Wal-Mart gift Card (we are working on that one)

December 3rd: Our second Sausage Dog fund raiser (be looking for more information and dates for this sell)

Thanks, Judy Weeks