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Check us out! Havens Elementary TMWFI student writing samples

Recipe of Me by Alyssa

1. Get out your bowl and put in 50,000 gallons of fun.

2. Then put in 25 pints of milk.

3. Get your spoon and stir it. It should look like fun mixed with milk.

4. Put in 10 pounds of push pops.

5. Mix in 1,000,000 tons of animals.

6. Put in 0 ounces of math and 0 ounces of homework.

7. Then you are finished!

  Alyssa

Ode to Ice Cream by Jihae

Ice cream is delicious

its flavors are natural

but never would I eat potato or tomato

not even fatato

those ice creams sound impossible, unbearable, ineatable

Although...I do like strawberry, rainbow sherbert, and bubblegum

and these flavors are...stupendous and great, cool and creative

and what more could you say

because I love ice cream!

  Jihae

Food Fright by Heidi

I do not like brussel sprouts cus they taste like salt and they are stale. They also look like a ball of snot, so when my dad served it I screamed soooo loud I almost threw up. Then I lost my voice and so I will never eat brussel sprouts again.

 

Similes and Metaphors by Jack

Fudge is the most friendly thing to the taste bud itself. It looks like a lake of chocolate as bright as the sun. It comes in every shape and size. It is the perfect topping for all foods, fudge.

Jello looks like a solid sunset.

Broccoli looks like a bright tree that just sprouted from the ground. It tastes like all the four leaf clovers in Ireland.

  Jack

Ode to Pie by Amy

Oh pie, pie, pie

I love you so much

Perfect crust

Perfect filling

Perfect taste

Perfect everything

 

I love your sweet smell

It's like wonderful things

Smells like perfect pie

 

You suit best with ice cream

or just cream

Tastes well like that

Looks best like that

Like the shining star.

  Amy

Ode to Water by Madeline

Water

you refresh me

you cool me down

even when I'm not at the relays

held tight in my bottle

never to drip of it's own

accord

unless I dump it out

Madeline and Lucy

Recipe of Me by Lucy

1. Mix 5 cups of friends with 1.5 gallons of labradoodles until smooth.

2. Slowly add 1 gallon of soccer.

3. After soccer has been added, stir in 8 cups of climbing trees.

4. Add 5 cups of friends and whisk for a decade.

5. Stick in oven for 2 hours.

Serves 4 people.

Personification by Luke

Carl is a corn chip who was abandoned at a Mexican family reunion, surprisingly in Canada. He then went to work for the C.I.A. Corn chip Intelligence Association, but then discovered it was too intense for a corn chip like him. He then auditioned to be Mary Poppins in a Broadway play. He got booed so badly he forgot what the words good and show meant. When he was 297, he was awarded the oldest corn chip alive. He later went to Vegas and went broke. He went to his old friend Sally Celery. She also went to Vegas and won every slot she played. But she still ended up broke because Carl stole her money. Later he just sat in a hotel for half an hour and then he went into hibernation.

Luke

Similes and Metaphors by Cassia

Avocado looks as slimy as a slug. It has a toxic green color. It tastes like cricket guts. It poisons my tastebuds.

Jello is as cool and fruit as a gummy bear.

Cassia

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Check out Student Writing from West Portal Elementary!

Winter 2012 - West Portal Elementary

Jessica (Secrets on a Line): “One day, a girl named Kim was sleeping. She woke up in
the middle of the night and thought she heard a wolf howling. She ran out the door and
looked out to see nothing…around one, Kim heard it again…”

Caitlin and Jessica

Caitlin and Jessica

Claudia Chiu (Secret Recipe): “…Jerry found this strange piece of paper in the
attic…He read the piece of paper and discovered that his grandfather won the noble
prize…A few years later, Jerry became a scientist and he created a potion to raise the
dead animals.”

Caitlin Huey (Secret Recipe): “One day when Sara was looking through her grandma’s
attic, she found a treasure box, she wondered what was inside…the whole day she was
searching for the key…she opened the box carefully…”

Reiley Johnson (Secret Recipe): “The story of the transformation potion was very
accidental. Once there was an evil wizard named Starzanda Silvia or S.S…He tried new
experiments all the time, so it wasn’t quite accidental…he mixed crazy things and they
always made a potion…”

Reiley and Erica

Reiley and Erica

Erika Lee (Secret Recipe): “There once was a girl named Kayla. She liked cheese
pizza. She always thought there was too little tomato sauce.,,she thought of five
ingredients…finally got a secret recipe. Kayla called it the creamsauce...Kayla was happy
when she ate pizza and lived happily ever after.”

Megan Lenn (Secrets on a Line): “When I was 7 I loved going to bed late at night. I
heard a thumping in my closet. I thought I was going to die! I screamed and woke up my
whole family. They came into my room as fast as they could…”

Rolland Liao (Secret Recipe): “He headed towards the graveyard and poured it on 10
graves. Slowly the ground started to rumble and out came 10 fully grown people. Those
people were proof that Joe’s potion worked.”

Rolland and Anthony

Rolland and Anthony

Kailey Sjauwfoekloy (Secrets on a Line): “The only person that knows is my friend
Sophie. She’s in the same grade as me and doesn’t approve…but does care if the Pop-
Star-Ulars (PSU) make fun of me…”

Anthony Velasco (Secret Recipe): “In the 1900s when the US was at war almost all our
infantry was dead so this man made a chemical to bring the dead back to life. He tested it
on a dead guinea pig and it worked…”

Jayde and Kailey

Jayde and Kailey

Jayde Wong (Secret Recipe): “My days as a sorceress began when I found this recipe
tucked into the ruins of the historic museum. It was a healing potion, one of the rarest
potions in the world. I went into hiding…and spent 10 years working on the potion…”

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