This year we got to have dance classes. Our class dance teacher name was Nicholas. We had Nicholas teach us the ten movements. He showed us a video of his concert. He's been dancing for thirty five years (35 years). We Skype with classes in New Jersey, New York, New Zealand. We did projects about air pressure. Like the Can Crush and the Magic Paper of Tissue. We also went on so many field trips. Like the Trembling Leaves Program, A Music Concert, Animal Ark, and the Planetarium. This was a fun school year can't wait for fifth grade.

I was just sitting here in my box, when they took me off the shelf of the factory. I felt scared and frightened. Where are they taking me? Why are they taking me? All these questions came to my mind and my head started hurting. I felt like shouting, but instead I started crying STOPP SHAKIINNGG THE BOXXXXX!!! AHHH!!! It's so dark in hear!!! Can anybody hear me. Gosh I wish I wasn't so lonely sometimes in this tight squishing little box. What are they putting on the side of my box. There's a hole in the side of my box. I can take a peek at what there doing with my box. It looks like a big sticker. Why does it have letters that spell Agnes Risley School? I can see that they're putting me into a big machine that started making terrible noises that hurt my ears so bad. It has big wheels and it's says the balloon factory on it. Also it's all white. Finally it all stopped and everything was so silent. Someone is grabbing my box again. I felt like shouting again but instead I just stayed quiet.

Then I just looked out of the little hole and saw a long tall wooden thick stick with four long black metal legs. Then they set me on top of that long wooden metal thing. The box started shaking again and a pointy metal thing started cutting the hard stretchy tape. The tape ripped and I got really scared. What is that guy going to do to me? Is he going to eat me.

This big hairy hand started grabbing me and pulling me out of that tiny squishing box. I felt free and scared at the same time because when I looked down I was really high and I'm really, really scared of heights. I felt OK and alright but really it was so frightening I felt like he was going to let me go. Then the hairy hand pulled me and laid me on this pink plastic sheet on the long wooden metal thing. Then I heard a guy say the balloon is right here on the table. So that's how I knew what it was. It was a table. The big hairy hand grabbed me again and took me outside.

I felt really good being out of that squishing little box. Then he laid me on a long white plastic sheet on the grass. I heard a machine. It sounded like a fan blowing, instead that thing was blowing harder and harder then they put the tube inside me.

The gas is hurting me! Stop putting it in me! Turn it off! Please don't fill me up with hydrogen because I don't want to explode. Ok, now I'm really scared. STOP! STOP! Turn it off!

I'm getting bigger and bigger. I feel more alive, kind of, but oh I'm so scared. Please turn it off!! I feel kind of good because I have a lot of air inside me. Then they tied a small box to a string I have on. Don't let me go please, oh please!!!

Then they let me go. OH!! I'm so high now. I can't look down. To bad I don't have hands to cover my eyes with. OH maybe if I look down I won-'t b-e s-o-o s-c-a-r-e-d anymore.

OOOHH!!! OK! OK! I feel not that bad. Oh, it isn't so bad anymore. Ok, alright, I think I'm kind of getting use to it. I can't see those things with nasty hairy hands anymore. I am s.. o.. sc... sc..scared... Can somebody hear me? I want to get down!!!! It's getting so cold!!! To bad I can't cover my ears and nose because I don't have any hands. Not even a coat. Come on Divina just take peek, look down don't be scared. Focus. Focus. Just then I looked down and I didn't feel that bad anymore. But just then I could see the factory. BYE! BYE! factory feels so good not to be stuck in that little box. I'm getting kind of bored just floating here.

But anyway I'm going way up high. How are you doing? I asked to a white puffy thing that looks like me but looks lighter and puffier and whiter and there was a lot of them. Then when I looked again they were under me. Why are you guys under me? Come back here. I guess they don't speak english. Oh well. Oh my goodness!! Everything looks pitch black am I dreaming or something. Here's my time to say good bye to the world. Oh I wish I would just float all the way down. Then I felt some thing rip inside of me and then pop. I went flying through the sky and It feels kind of nice because a lot of wind just hit my face. It's so scary because I'm gonna land hard and fast. I hope I land in a pool. It's been a hot day and a little breezy but still I need some cool water to land in. WHOOOO=http:// and crash. That water was so cold=http://! That was a great day!! 

I live in Sparks, Nevada, and my "High Hopes" for school include get better at math, graduate high school and work hard to improve my grades .But my Highest Hope for school is to graduate college and get a good job that I like.

I live in Sparks, Nevada, and my "High Hopes" for my community include police because they keep us safe, hospitals because they can heal and fix the injuries and schools so we can graduate school. But my Highest Hope for my community .

My "High Hopes" for the world include ending animal cruelty because all the animals would be extinct, hunger so people won't die of it, and violence because it's bad to kill people.

But my Highest Hope for the world is homelessness because it's kind of sad that someone has no roof over their head.

The soda can was on the hot plate and had a half inch of water. Then the air inside the can became steam. Then when you lift it off from the hot plate it cools down and nothing is pushing out. So then when you turn it upside down in the cold water, the can have to have the hole of the can in the water. So when you have it upside down the pressure of the air crushes the can.

This photo is a duck decoy. We were at the program at Trembling Leaves in November. I chose this photograph because it was about Native Americans and we have been learning a lot about Native Americans.

Today we went to Animal Ark and saw my two favorite animals, the white tiger and the mountain lion. When we saw the mountain lion, June our guide said that Tonka, the mountain lion, could jump over a school bus in one jump. Also she that Tonka's favorite food was deer. Tonka's color of fur was like a mix of yellow and dark brown. He was coming closer to us then he was next to a tree and was marking his territory. June was really nice and was teaching us about each of the animals, about what they eat and why they were sent to Animal Ark. Then we went to go see my favorite animal of all the white tiger. His name was Khan. Khan was sleeping when we saw him. Then June our guide said that Khan was really strong and big. Also June said that his kind of tiger is the most highly endangered. Then we went to go eat lunch. Then we went back to the bus. It was a long ride back.

The interesting thing about Bunnicula was that Toby sat on him. The Monroe family goes to the movies. Then they go home and Mr. Monroe is carrying a little bundle in the house. Toby and Pete argue of who gets to get the bunny. A ribbon was on the bunny the ribbon had a paper. The paper said take care of my baby. Mrs. Monroe names the bunny Bunnicula because she names him Bun-Bun and mixes it with Dracula. That's why the interesting thing about Bunnicula was that Toby sat on him.