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online at www.connectionnewspapers.com December 27 - January 2, 2019 Children’s & Teens’ Connection 2018 By Elia Mazerolle, Grade 2, Orange Hunt Elementary
online at www.connectionnewspapers.com December 27 - January 2, 2019
Children’s & Teens’Connection 2018
By Elia Mazerolle, Grade 2, Orange Hunt Elementary
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Children's & Teens'
WelcomeDear Readers:
This week, the Springfield Connectionturns over its pages to the youth and stu-dents.
We asked principals and teachers fromarea schools to encourage students to con-tribute their words, pictures and photos forour annual Children’s & Teens’ Issue.
The response as always was enormous.While we were unable to publish every piecewe received, we did our best to put togethera paper with a fair sampling of the submit-ted stories, poems, drawings, paintings,photographs and other works of art.
We appreciate the extra effort made byschool staff to gather the materials duringtheir busy time leading up to the holidays.We’d also like to encourage both schools andparents to mark their 2019 calendars forearly December, the deadline for submis-sions for next year’s Children’s & Teens’
By Caitlin Cugley, Grade 4, Orange Hunt Elementary By Jaylen Hansley, Grade 1, Newington Forest Elementary
By Dania Miller,Grade 6,Orange HuntElementary
By Raquel Chacon Pena, Grade 1, Annandale Terrace ElementaryMy Thanksgiving by Josephine Bronson, Art Classes in Burke with In-structor Carol Zeitlin.
Connection. Please keep us in mind as yourchildren continue to create spectacularworks of art and inspiring pieces of writingin the coming year.
The children’s issue is only a part of ouryear-round commitment to cover educationand our local schools. As always, the Con-nection welcomes letters to the editor, storyideas, calendar listings and notices of localevents from our readers. Photos and othersubmissions about special events at schoolsare especially welcome for our weeklyschools pages.
Our preferred method for material isemail, which should be sent [email protected], butyou can reach us by mail at 1606 KingStreet, Alexandria, VA 22314 or call 703-778-9414 with any questions.
— Editor Kemal Kurspahic
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Submissions from Mrs.Kieffer and Mrs. Rozycki’sstudents
By Sorami Nguyen, Grade 3
By Audrey Smith, Grade 1
By MollyThorne,Grade 2
By RubyLaden,
Grade 5
By Elia Mazerolle, Grade 2 By Athena Giannetti, Grade 3
By Alexandra MacDonald, Grade 6 By Andrea Dinh, Grade 3
By So phiaOrozco,Grade 5
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By Stanley Liang, Grade 1
Newington Forest Elementary
Short poems by Maya Tirado of Springfield.
A TreeI love different colorsmy hair changes each season.It changes each timewhen the sun is highand wind is breezin’.
EarthThe earth is green, the earth is blue.The land, sea and everything around you.The tides, the waves come from the moon!The grass, the green comes from the clouds.The rain, the sun, everything on earth,helps each other for you!
ThanksgivingDelicious foodbrings gratitude.For family and friendsthey bring love to the heart andgratefulness to the mind.Enjoy and relaxfor your heartto say HOORAY.
Clouds of WonderClouds are mysteriesWhat do they do?Where do they come from?They help the environmentand I hope you do too!
WindThe wind is magicalthe wind is coolthe wind dances with the big blue sea,it dances with the little happy you.
StormA storm is mean,a storm is powerful.A storm is as stable as a house,as mean as a fire-breathing dragonand a slithering snake, andas powerful as a viper bite sting.
Poetry Corner
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By Khoi Ho, Grade 3
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By EmmaMakedonska,Grade 2
By Alison Cashman,Grade 3
By Erin Gardiner,Grade 3
By (Jai) Christopher Harris,Grade 3
Self-portraits,submitted by Denise
Corcoran, Art Teacher.
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Submissions from Mrs. Suetterlein’sGrade 6 students
My FavoriteStuffed Toy
My favorite toy is my stuffed cat,Water. Before I got a cat, Water was mycat. We would go on adventures and Iwould dress her up. When I played fam-ily, she was the Nanny and best friend.Water was always with me when I wasscared, and she still is. I sleep with herevery night and bring her with me onevery trip. Six years ago, I got Water ata friend’s birthdayºparty. Water has acalico coat and is a bit flattened. I havereceived other stuffed animals, but Wa-ter is my favorite.
— Taya Wells, 11
My Best Thing“Meg don’t you know that you’re the
best thing thatºever happened in a longtime?” That is a quote by Calvin O’Keefe.And to me, my best thing was when Ibecame friends with my friends. No, myfriends’ names are not Meg.
I had moved from Colorado to Vir-ginia and I had no friends. I had walkeddown to the bus stop and had shouted,well: “Is this the bus stop?!” ºThat waswhen I became friend with my friend.And my other friend. And my friend’solder sister. Two years later, another.
That was my essay on my best thing.—Hannah Rosenberry, 11
If I could give myparent one gift
If I could give my parents one gift thatdidn’t cost money, I would give them mylove. I would do that because they arethe ones who give me everything I have.Plus, they brought me into the world. IfI give them my love then I would doextra little things that help them out likeemptying the dishwasher, cleaning thebathroom, doing laundry and, sweepingand cleaning the rest of the house. Some-times it’s the little things that matter.
—Hannah Warschaw, 11
What I Want to BeWhen I Grow Up
What do I want to be when I grow up?I want to be three things. First, I wantto be a pilot in the Air Force. Then I willretire and become an airline pilot. Thenfinally I retire and become a car de-signer for a lot of car companies.
—Gregory Worley, 12
What would youchange about school
If I was ever asked, “What would youchange about school?”
I would scratch my chin as if they’rewas a beard and say with a shrug, “Ireally don’t know.”
But they would probably say, “Butyou have to choose!”
Then I would groan so loud that evenpeople on the International Space Sta-tion would hear me.
“Fine, I wish there would be an actualSoccer field installed on the field.” Afterthat, he would say, “That’s lame.” Thenthey would walk off.
And now that I just thought of that, Idon’t want to be asked that.
—Rhys Fonville, 11
Orange
Hunt ES
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Annandale Terrace Elementary
By Anyeli Soto Contreras, Grade 1
By Yazzemine Abdul-Hagg, Grade 1
By AimeeWijesinghe,Grade 5
By Sinsine Kinati,Grade 4 By Mia Salazar, Grade 3
Submitted byart specialistLeigha Pehlivan.
By MiaGutierrezZeballos,Grade 1
By DenniseGarcia Argueta,Kindergarten
By Daniel Hendricks, Grade 4
By GelilaWasyihun,Grade 2
By DianaClavijo,Grade 5
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Children's & Teens'
Writing with prefixes, submitted byMary Ellen Zavaleta, Sixth GradeTeacher.
The anti-happy undergroundtritoothed hippo and his cohippodisagreed about forecasting theunderground weather so insteadthey got into their undergroundsubmarine and drove it in a semi-circle. As the duo drove their un-derground submarine the aquadog, a famous underground super-star, transported the anti-happyunderground tritoothed hippo andhis cohippo to the land above theunderground.
— Elizabeth So
My multicolored pinkish-bluepet has duobows on each of herears. She was happily eatingmultichipped cookies. She made amistake and spilled the milk. Sothen she repoured the milk intothe polyspotted cup. Then shesemi-dipped her chocolate chipcookies and started to eat themnonstop. She was midway in her“eating the cookies the fastest”challenge when her friend came inand said those were her cookies!My pet said it was a misunder-standing and that the whole classgot cookies. After that her friendand she ate the cookies together.
The end.
— Christie Bae
The prehistoric, multiheaded,polyeyed purple octopus repairedhis irreplaceable calendar. He useshis calendar to predate the pastapocalyptic resurgence of man. Doyou think he’ll finish before hispregame warmup? And if he canwill our octopus be able to replace
the calendar’s indescribable qual-ity?
— Lucan Cohen
My grandmother said she had apet worth multi-million dollars. Itold her that was impossible so sheinvited me over to her house. Iknew my grandma was a formerbiology student and loved animals,but what I saw when I walked inwas insane! It was a hexahorned ,trilegged, deca-eyed dog lookingright at me. The prehistoric-look-ing thing was looking right at me.The prehistoric-looking dogmarched back to his bed – whichcould be misjudged to be a throne– and started to drink water outof his semi-filled wine glass.
— Grace Heberer
My pet is a pre-human animal.He is a uni-headed, quad-eyed,octo-legged, tri-armed cat. He iswriting a report on why the CatCouncil should intercept midwaya group of enemy submarinestransporting unfriendlies under-sea. He is thinking about the in-justice and how it was impossiblethat the Council had overlookedhis first report. When they read itthey disagreed, dismissing it asnonsense. He is writing anotherreport about anti-Cat beings, say-ing that they will use the atmo-sphere to send encoded messagesto each other and also saying thatthey will use a mind-controlledsinging superstar to defrost thetension between the beings andthe Dogs.
— Christian Yoon
Cherry Run Elementary
GlassesI have lost my glasses,I need them to seeI cannot think of what will become of me,For I am nearsightedAnd not so delightedYes, my pair of glasses ARE LOST!
— Sarah Chaykin, 9, of Burke
Grade 4, Keene Mill Elementary
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Art Classes in Burke
Artwork submitted by Art Classes in Burke with Instructor Carol Zeitlin.
Color Pencil Drawing by Amanda Bohn
My Thanksgiving by Josephine Bronson
Drawing byCalvin Ashley
Drawing byLeah Brinkley
Animal Collage, Color Pencil Drawing by AudreyReese
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NativeIf the valleysand seaswould answerour pleas
All would bewithheld andwithdrawn
The echoesin the hillsof the bird’ssweet, short song
Guiding us allslowly along
My childrenThey laughThey singThey dance
Praying alongwith nosecond glance
If thecivilized onesknew howpeaceful we can be
They’d leave usalone andanswer ourplea
— Sarah Ewell, 12,
West Springfield
Grade 7
at Washington Irving
Middle School
English teacher
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