weekender childrens pase in this drawing from the moms meeting by grade 2 student melis sa prince melissas mother and some friends go to a brownie meeting the mother of melissas best friend is leader of the brow nie group poetry corner a walk with god sarah sarah is my name writing is my game i write for leisure i write for pleasure and what i write is a treasure by sarah bandali grade 5 a true friend a true friend is caring caring indeed shes always listening when youre in need shell cheer you up when youre kind of down and when shes with you she wont let you frown if you have a friend whos al ways sharing well i guess youve found the one thats caring friends will be friends forever and ever whatever theyll do theyll do it together by arathi vig grade 5 walking with god last night i walked along the shore with god i talked to him but he didnt talk back but i knew he was there i couldnt touch him or hear him but i knew he existed i talked to him for hours and i knew he was listening he put us on this earth to accomplish certain things and lets do so for the rest of our lives by anita granton grade 6 my canadian poetry book bear looking at small fish he is tempted yum squirrel running to look for nice juicy nuts yum clowns are very weird hanging around upside down silly little clown ha ha rocky mountain goat climbing the mountain top look how high he is wow beaver intelligent slow faster in water eats wood chips and much more beaver raccoon big hairy paws likes his food very wet very slow because he is fat raccoon moose taking a bath in the cold water brrrr elk running to look for his family wow fox is sly and he is very hungry mmmmmmmmmmm bats flying in the air to look for food yuck by michael sarkovski grade 4 happy fathers day edelweiss is nice the color blue is true father and daughter will be just that dad i love you by selena tandon grade 5 little creatures that i caught grasshoppers are nice because they can be your pets grasshoppers like flowers crickets like cheese lettuce and bananas crickets chirp as you can see they are black they are hard to handle butterflies can be your pets and they drink nectar ladybugs eat wood and ladybugs fly by neil kshatri about the author i am eight years old my birth day is on february 9 i have four people in my family and i have two birds highgate public school maneating cereal boxes go on a killing rampage the things that i help my family with i go home from school and i help my family to take care of the baby i feed him and i play with him his name is gordon the big ger boys name is anican my mother takes the bigger one to work and i take the small one my grama takes care of the small one in the morning at 4 oclock i come home and take care of the smaller baby when its fall i help my dad dy and mommy and i help pull in plants in the garden i like everybody in the world i like everybody in the earth i like my family best by miranda wong grade 2 about the author i am chinese i can talk chinese i am going to be eight my name is miranda my fami lys last name is wong i like to be at school school is fun i like my best friend her name is karry all about my mom my mom works downtown she is a nurse my mom gives people needles at my moms work there are people who can not take care of themselves my mom took my sister to her work my sister went to my moms work because it was for school my dad let me stay up until my sister and my mom came home me and my mom do lots of things together like we read together and we go out together one saturday we went down town together to see a show at ice capades people were skat ing and doing their acts it was fun at the end a balloon pop ped my brother got scared last saturday me and my mom went to the store to buy some clothes for me and my sister and we got nice things for the summer- by charlene charles about the author hi my name is charlene i am nine years old i have two brothers and one sister their names are michael dianne and egon my teachers name is miss howell this is my fourth published book i dedi cated it to all thepeople i like niki all my friends in my class miss howell mrs king and my family my hobby is playing the piano and i like cleaning the house the scientist that made cere al boxes alive once there was a scientist that had a machine that made cereal boxes alive one day he bought a lot of cereal boxes when he got home he put all of the cereal boxes in the machine in one minute they were alive then they popped out and went all over the place then they went outside and ran all over houses and broke them down because they were hard then they broke everything down in one month except for the machine everybody was dead one day one of the cereal boxes went in the machine and in one minute they were dead the arms and legs were gone later when a year passed everybody was alive again then they started to build ev erything back where they were before then in a few months the sci entist remembered about when he made cereal boxes alive but then he thought about some thing happening and said no i dont want to make cereal boxes alive because the world might die by james chan grade 2 about the author i am eight years old i have a brother in grade 6 named allan i play tball i won a few games my favorite sport is baseball up and out it was the big game i leaned on the hard cheap wooden bat a cyclone i was ready and waiting for the coach to give me the signal i looked over at him he was jumping up and down on his baseball cap i stepped up to the plate and was ready to swing i felt a hand on my shoulder i looked around and there was the umpire he had a sad face and said im sorry son but you only get three strikes by aristidi vagadatis and jim my mastos grade 6 dinosaur time one day long ago there was a dinosaur called nick he was a tyrannosaurus he ate everyone then one day when he was eating another tyrannosarus came and they were fighting for the food they both died then the other dinosaurs laughed by ravin shah grade 2 take your partner and swing her round stu dents at highgatc public school take part in a lively dance in the school gymnasium as fellow students and teachers watch sjoerd witteveen wm m i i i i i i i i m