Fourth Grade

• June
• 3

Fourth grade has been a awesome experience. Because I was introduced to blogs and because I got to learn things I’ve never known. Like multiplying two digit by two digit numbers (70×80=5,600). And another reason I enjoyed fourth grade is because I started reading 8th grade books. And the last reason I liked fourth grade was because Mrs. Hulburt played around while she was teaching, but she still taught us good. Those are the reasons why I love fourth grade.

The Runaway

• May
• 6

Shika! Shika! Shika! I heard the gate rattle while I was in my bed. I quickly raced to my brothers room and shook my brother awake and told him about the noise I heard. Then my brother and I ran outside and went to the gate to the backyard.

“Choby!” My brother and I hollered through the bars to my dog. Nothing moved.

“I think he ran… away,” my brother said in a shaky voice.

“We have to go and tell Dad.” I said.

So we quickly ran back in the house to tell my dad. After we woke him up and told him about Choby, my dad, brother, and I ran into our car and drove off looking for Choby. We looked all over the block crying, “Choby!” every second.

But we had no luck. We had been driving for an hour around our block! We decided to return to the house and continue the search tomorrow. But just as we were going back are luck turned. We suddenly saw a wight elated dog running as fast as lightning on the sidewalk. We all quickly yelled at the same time, “Choby!” Then Choby turned around and started running towards us. My dad quickly braked and the dog came crashing into the car. We then opened the door and pulled the bulldog inside the car.

All four of us drove back to the house, but instead of putting Choby in the backyard we put him inside the house. My dad, brother, and I learned a lesson and that’s to never leave Choby in the backyard.

Protect the Environment!

• May
• 6

If you want polar bears and penguins species to roam. Then I’d suggest you treat the environment the way it should be treated and GO GREEN! Ways you can meet the environments needs is by: NOT buying plastic water bottles, don’t use the styrofoam boxes they give you at restaurants, and never litter. If you follow these rules I guarantee polar bears and penguins will stay alive.

The End of the Weather Machine

• April
• 11

It was a breezy afternoon. School had just finished. I raced to get the weather machine. Then I saw my brother right where I hid the weather machine. I took no time in running over there. We both grabbed it at the same time.

“Let go!” I told him.

“Never,” he said back.

So I yanked at the weather machine and got hold of the whole thing and I ran, my brother on my tail. Then my brother pushed me and I flew to the floor. My brother quickly caught it before it hit the ground and ran off. I quickly got up and ran after my brother.

I caught up to him and pushed him. Then I yelled, “That’s what you get.” But I forgot to catch the weather machine then I heard a big CRASH!

I turned around and saw pieces of the weather machine scattered everywhere.

“What did you do?” my brother yelled at me.”

“I didn’t mean to,” I said back.

That was the end of the weather machine.

Ding! Dong! Ding! Dong!

The Weather Machine Continues!

• March
• 20

It was a dreadful day. I had a runny nose, my head ached, and I was late for school. But I had a weather machine waiting for me under my bed.

When I got home from school I raced to my room. But little did I know my brother knew about weather machine and that he wanted revenge for what I did to him in my last story.

I ran into my room and checked for the weather machine. But I couldn’t find it. “Where did I leave it?” I said to myself. Then all of the sudden I saw my brother racing across the hall with a grin on his face. “Hey Cris, looking for this?” my brother said waving the weather machine. “Hey, give me that back!” I yelled at my brother. “You’ll have to take it from me,” my brother said to me while running away.

I quickly fired after him. But I didn’t know where he was. So I thought he was outside. But little did I know I made a big mistake. So I opened the door to outside and raced outside. Then my brother shut the door and locked it. It ended up he hid somewhere inside the house.

Then I saw a mischievous smile on my brother’s face. Then I saw his finger going to press the button snow/blizzard. “No, you wouldn’t dare,” I said. “Oh yeah, watch me,” he said back. Then he pressed the button. There was a blinding light like staring at the sun. then a blizzard started.”C.Co..Col…COLD!” I hollered. I ran to the backyard and opened the back door. I was furious and very cold. I saw my brother standing next to his room I bolted toward him.Then I grabbed the weather machine. My brother got revenge, but I’m going to be the one to get revenge next. What should I do to him?

Grandpa

• March
• 6

August fifteenth, two thousand one, that was the worse day of my life. Ri!Er!Ri!Er! I heard the ambulance go by with my grandpa’s car behind it. My grandpa always picks me up on Tuesdays and Thursdays from my moms house. Then my dad popped out of the car. “Where is grandpa?” My brother and I asked my dad. My dad didn’t answer. “Something is wrong here,” I said to myself. So we hopped in the car and began the long journey to my grandpa’s house. “Why are the ambulance in front of grandpa’s house?” I asked my dad. No words came out of his mouth the only thing moving was a teer coming down his cheek. ” Why isn’t he answering me?” I questioned myself. I plunged out of the car. I fought my way through the cops and doctors to get inside the house. It was so silent it was like it was a graveyard in the house. I silently walked through the halls. I walked into my grandpa’s room and saw my grandpa on the bed and a doctor standing next to the bed. My grandpa was hardly even moving. “What is wrong with him?!?!” I blurted out loud to the doctor. “He has cancer.” The doctor said in a calm voice. “I love you Cris.” My grandpa moaned as if in pain. Then he stopped breathing, his heart stopped beating, and he stopped moving. “Grandpa! Grandpa! You can’t leave me, don’t die!” I yelled while teers came running down my eyes. Just then I had a flash back on when he taught me my abcs “Say a.” he would say. “Ale,” I would say back. And the time he taught me to read and wright. “Wright car.” My grandpa would tell me.Then I would wright something along the lines of collilock. “What’s this word?” My grandpa would ask me pointing at the word cat. “car!” I would say back. My grandpa was more than a grandpa he was a best friend. A friend that will remain in my heart forever.

The Box

• February
• 21

Listen to the story

Ding! Dong! Ding! Dong! I heard the doorbell ring. I ran to the door. “This has to be Christian.” I murmured to myself. (Christian is my best friend.) Ding! Don… “I’m coming!” I yelled.

I opened the door. “Hey Chris…Christian?” I only saw a box in front of me. It had the words hail storm on one side, rain storm on the opposite side, and thunder/lighting on the top. “What in the world?” I said confused.

Then all of the sudden the box started to transform into a device. My eyes grew wide with shock. “Woah!” I yelled. Then the device stopped transforming. I gently picked up the rectangular dark blue device. There were six rectangles labeled hail storm, lightning/thunder, snow/blizzard, rain, and all of the above. Then in big letters it said WARNING THE WEATHER YOU CHOOSE WILL OCCUR ALL AROUND THE WORLD! “Cool!” I whispered with a mischievous smile on my face.

Just then my brother raced through the hall. “I’m going outside!” he yelled to me. “Take a coat!” I chuckled back. “Why if it’s boiling hot?!?!” he yelled back to me. So right as he opened the door and ran outside I pressed the button snow/blizzard. There was a blinding light, it was like I was staring at the sun. Then snow started shooting down from the sky. “C-Co-Col…COLD!!!” my brother hollered while running back inside to drink hot water. I was laughing so hard I barely had enough breath to say, “Told you to put on a jacket!”

I had the power of Mother Nature. As I walked through the hall, I saw my mom watching the news. The man in the news said, “It’s been snowing more than usual down here at the Sahara Desert, I’m here at the scene and the snow is 3 feat ta-.” Just as he was about to finish his sentence I pressed the button hail. The man suddenly got hit by 5 hail pieces. “Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow!” the man yelled in pain. I roared so loud with laughter until I had no breath.

I walked out of the room and pressed the button normal weather. Then I saw my brother walking toward me. Where could I hide the weather machine? If my brother saw me with it he would tell my mom. Then I would never control the weather ever again.

I saw the perfect hiding spot! I quickly ran into my room and hid the weather machine under my bed. “How did you know it was going to snow!?!?” my brother roared at me. “Uh. . . ” I paused trying to find a answer. “Do you control the weather or something?!” my brother yelled. “How could a helpless 4th grader control the weather?” I said making up a lie. “OK then, but do you know how it started to snow?” my brother questioned me. “No,” I quickly lied. “Well I’m going ask mom,” my brother said while walking out of my room.

“Whew, that was a close one,” I murmured to myself. After almost getting in humongous trouble because of the weather machine that came out of that package I will never, ever use the weather machine. Unless it’s a bad day and I feel like some amusement.

What weather should I choose next?

Jellyfish

• November
• 20

Zzztt! Zzztt! Zzztt! That’s a feeling I’ll always remember from when we were going to the beach in Puerto Penasco. (You probably don’t know where that is.)

We had a cabin right next to the beach! So we got there real quick. When we got there it was high tide! I started to run across the sandy beach. The sand swallowing my feet the whole way. When my dad, my brother, and I got to the water… Cold! Cold! Cold! We all screamed our lungs out. I had goose bumps all over my body and I was shivering. The water felt like ice!

My dad and I went to the deep water and swam a little. Then I went with my brother at the shallow water. The waves roared “Ssshhh! Ssshhh! Ssshhh!” Over and over again. The waves knocked us down every time we tried to get up. Then, when I was getting up because it was time to go…

Zzzttt!

“Aauugghh!” A jellyfish stung me! I was laying on the sand. My foot felt like it was on fire. My dad rushed towards me like lightning. My dad and my brother picked me up. “Cris! Cris! Cris!” I could hear my dad say.

You could see where the jelly fish stung me because there were big red marks where the tentacles where. So when we got back to the cabin my dad said, “Go and rest my foot.” It took 2 hours for it to stop hurting.

The next morning my dad said “it was time to go.” I was belligerent. I didn’t want to leave, not now, not yet, not ever! “Okay,” I finally said. We packed and left the beach and Puerto Penasco. I will never forget that day the jellyfish stung me. Next time I’ll be much more careful.

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Snowy Day

• September
• 18

“Wake up Cris!” The wind yelled at me through the window. “Okay okay I’m awake”. Nobody was there… then it said, “go outside.. go outside. So I did. Wow! It is snowing! I was elated and ran to wake up my brother. He came with me to my room.I opened the curtains.”Wow! It’s snowing!”, he shouted. We ran to the hallway closet to get our jackets on.The snow was dancing as it came down from the clear blue sky. The snow was shining like a diamond. My brother and I had a snowball fight. When my brother had a snowball I covered my face… I uncovered my eyes because it was taking so long. Then I took my hands off my face… SPLAT!!A snowball hit me smack on my face! I went rolling back I quickly made a snowball and threw it at my brother. He dodged it I thought he had eyes behind his head. He threw another snowball . . . SMACK! SMACK! SMACK! He threw three snowballs instead. I ran to build a fort. I started throwing snowballs like a catapult only to discover him behind me. “In coming,” he yelled, throwing the biggest snowball I had ever seen. “Auggggghhh!” I yelled screaming my lungs out. I began making a huge snowball. I wanted revenge. “Hey, Luis.”Once he looked at me I quickly threw it. SPLASSSSHHH! “Victory is mine!” I said. “No, it isn’t,” my brother said, ready to throw a bull at me. “Oh, shoot.” He had a bigger snowball than mine. “Ahhhh,” I yelled running for my life. Too late, I was hit by the humongous snowball. THHHUUUDDD!!!! I wat hit right on my back, covered with snow on top of me. I looked like a mountain after a blizzard. I lost the snowball fight. I went to bed. The next morning, it was snowing. “Here we go again,” I said. But this time I was smart and went back to bed.

Traveling

• August
• 31

I visit Ruidoso every year. Its Awesome! There’s a whole bunch of things to do. Like hiking, going swimming, racket-ball, basketball, and going to Flying jay ranch and there’s still more! Its to much to write.