Dear fourth grade teacher,

My name is Santo and I am looking forward to seeing you next year. My favorite subjects are science and history because I enjoy learning aboat them. I'm good and math and spelling. I am also good at working with people. My football team is the Fl. Gators. Do you like them? I like to play tether ball and tag at recess. My friend Felix, has been in my class since I started here at Shorcrest. I hope I am in his class again. I can't wait until I am in the Fourth Grade!

Sincerly,
Santo

Dear 4 th grade teacher,

My name is Patrick Farese. I like P.E. and recess. I like to do lattice. I want to be a Patrol. I heard you only get 3 days of recess. I know you dress out fo P.E. I also heard we have a moving up ceremony. I look forward to being a senior in the lower division. I will help the younger kids.
GO CHARGERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Patrick

Dear fourth grade teacher,
I've seen lots of cool things that you do in fourth grade. As I saw this year, Colonial Day looks like a lot of fun. Also, I hear that the math gets more challenging. I was wondering if the spelling gets harder, but I guess I'll find out, and if we were going to have any sort of a morning meeting. Actually I don't know if I can think of anything right now that I'm concerned or worried about. I'm pretty sure we're going to have to research about the colonies, and that we're going to be learning some pretty neat things in Social Studies. I like pretty much all the subjects, but two favorites are math and science. I'm good at math and I think science is interesting. My two hobbies are dancing and collecting (I collect four diffirent things.). Fourth grade seems like it's going to be a fun year! See you next year in fourth grade!

Third grader
Jordan

Dear second graders,

Third grade is fun because you get to use Photo Shop. In math, we learned lattice. In P.E. we do Presidentials. We learned lots of history. The math was hard. P.E.was easy. My favorite thing was P.E. You will need to get ready for Presidentials.You will need to get ready for math. You will also need to get ready for reading.

Patrick

Dear Second Graders,
Third grade is an exciting and interesting year. You take these tests called ERBs, which test you on pretty much everything you've learned that year. There's also a writing part of it called a WRAP that tests you on how good you can write a story. You have probably trained for it, but in third grade, the Presidental Fitness Test really counts. Sometimes the multiplying in math was a little bit difficult with having to remember all the answers to all of the problems. But, after a little, it's simple. Probably the most easy thing for me was the spelling. Some words were hard, but over all they were simple. If you get Mrs. Drexler, you'll learn about literary divices like other classes, but you'll get to do something special. In Mrs. Drexler's class you are assigned a literary device and you and your group have to make an i-Movie about it. All I have to say about third grade is to expect big changes and fun!

Hope you have fun in third grade!

Third grader,
Jordan

Dear secound graders,

Thrid grade is one of my favorite years here at Shorecrest, and I am sure you will like it, too. The is filled with work and new projects to be finished. In thrid grade we mostly study the times tables. One of the hardest things that we do is the blogging. That is what I'm doing now. Every week we write a paragragh about ten sentences ad we publish it. After the winter Holidays we have to write in cursive for the rest of the year. The easiest thing we do is the math. The best thing we did was getting to dissect a squid in science class. Now we are doing a project with Explorers and it is very fun. I hope you like 3rd grade, too.
Sincerely,
Santo

Mr.Dervase is a very special teacher. He lets us have longer recess.
He is nice. He teaches well. Mr.Dervase made my brothers grade run a mile. He is very kind and calm. Mr.Dervase is a bright teacher. He is also happy. But I like Mrs.Drexler the most.

Ms. Diaz-Leroy is one special teacher. She's got a unique personality. Ms. Diaz-Leroy has a great sence of humor because she talks in accents, but still at some times is a tiny bit strict. She is very loving and caring to all students. She's so lively and always has a smile with her. If you see Ms. Diaz-Leroy on the sidewalk and say hello, she always gives a warm hello back to you. She will tell you if you how to play the recorder, if you are squeaking. Ms. Diaz-Leroy's great sense of humor really stands out when she starts talking in different accents when explaining something to us. She knows how to play the guitar, piano, recorder, and the drumset, and how to sing, which I think is pretty unique. Ms. Diaz-Leroy is a cool person and a very special teacher.

Mrs. Savitsky is a special teacher. She is kind and nice. She is one of my favorite teachers of all time.If we got a good score on a test she wouid have give us candy. Mrs. Savitsky taught us so much.
Every once in a while I stop by Mrs. Savitsky's class and say hello. She usually gives me a hug and a piece of candy. She calls them smart seeds. As is said, she has taught us so much in school and in life.   

Earth Day is a day that we clean up the world. It is important because it helps us stop pollution. Recyling is is a good way to stop pollution. All this pollution is making global warming in Antartica and the Arctic. Pollution is bad because it can poison the air. Everyday you can pick up trash. We can recycle paper, glass, cans, bottles, and plastic. Many schools recycle paper.

Earth Day is an important holiday to honor the Earth and the importance of keeping the Earth clean. If you are wondering who created Earth Day, and how it came to be , I'm about to tell you. Senator Nelson of Wisconsin started traveling around the country and saw how bad the people were polluting. One person who liked Senator Nelson's idea for an Earth Day was a college student named Dennis Hays. The first Earth Day in 1970 was a huge success. People stopped littering and recycled, but after Earth Day, people went back to their old habits again. The second Earth Day was in 1990. Dennis got the United Nations to participate in a world Earth Day. Pollution, pollution, pollution. Polluting is bad for the land, air, and water. There was a horrible oil spill off the Californian bay. All of the beaches got gross and slimy. Landfills are another way of polluting land. Chemicals from garbage sinks through the ground and can get into our drinking water. There are lots of things we can do in public and at home. In public you can: Pick up trash at the beach and plant new trees. At home we can: reduce by using both sides of the paper. Reuse by using the same water bottle each day. The big one is recycling. Recycle old paper, old toys, cans, plastic, old cell phones, and computers. If we can do all of those things and not create oil spills and landfills, we'll have a beautiful Earth.

Earth Day is day when people realize how important the Earth is to us. We have Earth Day because it helps clean up and respect Earth.
When we have Earth Day, the air, the water, and the ground is clean. Pollution is killing the Earth. It kills the air, the animals, and sometimes water. You can ask the goverment to help clean up in spots of your neighborhood that are polluted. You can also help by cleaning.

Snowboarding dogs are so strange.
No dogs can do flips on a snowboard.
On grass dogs can't snowboard.
We see dogs race on snowboard.
Big dogs bite people on snowboard.
Oh no the dog's snowboard broke.
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Have you ever seen a jumping shark? Well there are some. It's the great white shark in Seal island, Africa. The great white is the only fish that can put its head out of water for a period of time. When the seal swim to get some food, they're swiming for their lives. The shark hits at 22 miles per hour and bites with hundreds of pounds of pressure. They jump out of the water and twist and turn and sometimes flip. These sharks are amazing.

September 6, 1774
Hello journal! I am going to be writing as long as the pages will let me, Beverly Swezcronb. My wish has come true! I got a horse! I am going to name her Twisted Flower. She's a nice gingery color with a more chocolate colored mane and tail. She was part of my birthday present, so is this journal. As I always say, "Along with good news,
comes bad.", and that's just what happened. As another part of my birthday present, got a place with a gentlewomen and two other girls. Right now Mother is making me a new dress to wear to my lessons. "Bev. Please come try the dress," called Mother. Guess I better go for a while.

A few moments later,

My mother is making me a pale green dress with little swirly lines. It's fancier then most of my other dresses because she wants to make good impression to Miss April, who is going to be my teacher.

September 7, 1774

Wow! Lessons with Miss April were better than I thought! She's a kind, lively lady, but since she's a gentlewomen she was proper. We learned how to serve tea, and how to behave at tea time. You'll never guess, but I met a girl named Emily. She has an older sister named Melissa, who seems nice, but shy, so all I got from her was a, "How do you do?". Oh! I all most forgot! Mother, after lessons, gave me a pink and cream colored ridding outfit so I don't have to ride Twisted Flower in my dress. Oh! Sorry! I gotta go! Wait, let me correct myself. I have got to go! I can hear Emily at the door. We are going to the pasture by Lustorng stream to ride our horses.