Tyler M

Hi, I play with fireworks without permission. Sometimes it works sometimes it hurts. I use M-60, firecrackers and fireballs . I’ve had five firecrackers blow up in my hand at once. None of the M-60 ever worked.

It ended very quickly too. The last day I did it... errrrrrum! My Dad caught me with firecrackers. I wasn’t aloud to touch a single firecracker or any other fireworks for months. Don’t ever play with you no what without permission.

Cari H

When I was in first grade I wasn’t eating or drinking enough, and that’s when I got sick. Whenever I ate I threw up and then finally I had to go to the hospital. When I got there I had to take two shots not including the I.V. .I had to stay there for two days. When I got up to go to the bathroom I had to bring that with me. Whenever I wanted something I had to push a button. Also I got to have some popcicles when I was there. After I took the I.V. I got to go home. When I was about to go I got all sorts of stuff. When I got home I didn’t get to go to school for just about a month. And my mom had to go to my school and get my papers that I had to do. When I went to back to school again she gave back all my papers I did.

Ryan B

Ceder point is in sandusky Ohio, and its a long ways away. But it is really fun once you get there. When we got to our hotel we went swimming , and ate pizza and went to bed. At 8 00-8 30 we got up. The hotel was only ten minnutes away from Cedar point. The gates open at 10:00am. we got there at 9 00. One hour later the gtes opened! Yeah! Right when my couisn 15 and I we rushed to the first roller coaster. The Rapter! It is said to be the best steel roller in the USA. We went on the rapter twice. That we went on the Mantis! The mantis is a roller coaster, and a big one! you stand up in this one, and you go more than 65 mph. There is one big loop. I have a picture that they take on some of the roller coasters. After that we went back to the hotel at 12 00 o’ clock that's when it closes.

Colin G

My Aunt and I were driving in one car . My Mom and Dad and brother were driving in a another car. Then my Aunt and I came around a corner. We saw some kids(16 TO 18) Come around fast and flip the car! Then my Aunt Called 911 then other people called 911 to. Then people stop and seen what happen Then one week later they were released from the hospital.

Jeremy L

Last summer I went to Tucson Arizona with my dad, brother and sister. I had lots of fun, we went to horse shoes, then one day we road about 15 miles in the desert and up this mountain called Mt. Douglas and we saw mountian climbers climbing these vary steep cliff The next day we took the jeep on a two track and saw and saw white water and people where in a big tube.

Kayla B

When I moved from Arizona we packed up all our things in a big yellow moving van. We even had to put some stuff in our van! My dad drove the moving van and my brother rode with him. So, my mom, my sister, and I rode in our van. It took 3 long days and 2 nights in the car before we got to Michigan. Finally, we saw a sign that said “WELCOME TO MICHIGAN” in big blue letters. We spent our first night in Michigan at a hotel, and the next morning we saw snow on the ground! For the first time ever I touched snow, and it was cold! The next day we got into our rental house and a while after that we moved into our new house. It was a long trip, but it was fun.

Isabel R

Last year in the snowy day in November the first day my dad told us that we had to go and work but we said oh no do we have to and work in the cold day and my dad said yes we have to work. One day my dad went outside and he said I thin k we brother go to Mexico and my mom said to my dad you are right anyways we don’t have any clothes to wear

So my mom and my dad said we better go to Mexico because it is freezing out there and we and my brothers screamed yes! So we went to Mexico and we stayed there for five weeks and when we got there we said viva Mexico!!!!!!

Jordan K

One weekend about a week before school my dad took me Night fishing on Manistee Lake. we left home at about 8:30 p.m. my dad was a little upset at our late start. We got the boat in the water at about 9:00 p.m. We turned on the engine and took off to the far side of the lake.

My dad located some submerged docks. He said they came from the logging period of course they were above the water then. He also said that the fish like the docks because the docks gave them shelter and a dark place to hide.

We caught a few rock bass but not what we were fishing for. So we tried some submerged docks on the other side of the lake. we did not catch anything there so we went home.

Joleen D

My first time playing softball was in 4th grade. It was my first tournament in Manistee, last game. I was up to bat. I hit a far, at first, at second, at third. I ran as fast as I could. The pitcher threw the ball to home plate. I slide, I thought Was out, but I was safe . I walk to the dugout. My hand hurting, then my hand was red . It tore some of the skin off. It burned , I poured water on my hand. At another tournament in Frankfort, last game. It happen again, but I hurt my leg. I limped to the dugout. It wasn’t bleeding. It ripped a hole in my pants. We won the Frankfort and Manistee tournament. I made 5 home runs in both tournaments.

Kayla P

The first time I sang in front of a big group of people, I was like freaked out. I thought that I Was going to mess up but when I stared “YOU ARE MY SUN SHINE MY VERY” oh know I mess up but lucky for me it was just rehearsal!

I Was singing with aunt to night , so if I messed up she would droned me out , whell was hay I was only 5 years I had never sang for people before , I was scared man.

Then the night came I put on my wig and my dress and makeup. Then I went on I started to sing ‘‘ YOU ARE MY SUN SHINE MY ONLY SUNSHINE “ I did it I did’t mess up.

When I Was done I went home I walked into the house and the lights were off. I said to my self hem thas funny I Left the lights on oh well and surprise!!!!! out jumped all my friends and family they all were saying good job Kayla. when I went to bed I said to my self, “I’m going to be a star.”

More Essay Writing by the Fifth Grade

Curtiss O S

Well it was a merry merry Christmas and I was opening my first present it was kind of small but I didn’t care so I ripped off the paper and there it was a little tomogochi. Just what I wanted! My mom said you have to read the directions before you can play with it I said sure. So I read the directions pushed a button in the back and there it was my first little tomogochi pet. I’ve done it I said I brought it to life and it still lives from this day fourth.

Timmy F

Ear pearcing, It really hurts at the begining, but then it doesn’t hurt at all. My mom and sister was going to aunts to get there hair done. I went with them because my dad was at work. So I was there and my mom and my sister were getting their hair done. I asked if I could get my ear pearced.

She said that I could, So I sat in a chair. My aunt pulled out a little gun and put the earing in it and she shot it into my ear. I know you think it will bleed, but it doesn’t. I had to keep it in for two months.

Clinton O

Every one has traveled places, but right now I am going to tell you about when I went to Yellow Stone National Park. The first thing we had to do is take a car ferry across Lake Michigan. The carferry is called the Badger. After we got off the carferry we where in Manitiwic, Wisconsin.

Then we started going to Yellowstone National Park, but we stoped at Crazy Horse Memorial, Mt. Rushmore National Memorial. We also drove on Needles Highway. The needles are huge rock formations. When we got there we went to see Old Faithful. We stayed in YellowStone National park for 5 days. We seen so many buffalo it is unbelievable. We also seen a few moose, and 1 grizzly bear (from a safe distance). We started getting a little homesick so we started going home. On the way home we stoped at the Mall of America. We stayed there for an hour or two.

Then we started to go home. We went through the upper peninsula and across the Mackinaw Bridge. After that it took us 3 hours to get home.

Chelsea B

Bears, one of my fears- But I have never saw a live bear before, one that wasn’t in a cage at least. My neighbor saw a bear before, many times, and those bears were in my back yard! ( The bears are at our cabin, not at my house in Onekama.) At first, we didn’t know if he was joking, or really telling what he saw. So the next day we went there, only because we wanted to know if there was a bear or not.

“Crunch.., Crack... Snap!!” When I heard those sounds I jumped up so high thinking that it was the bear that had visited last night. “It was only a squirrel, don’t get so jumpy!” my dad said. I waited to see the squirrel, and sure enough, here came a black squirrel jumping off from a tree limb. I stopped for a moment, and starred at the squirrel until it ran off. Then I caught up with my dad.

That bear sure did dammage! Leaves that were once in a pile were all over the yard! Some smaller trees were broken and scratched, and there was dirt all over our front porch too! Sometimes I wish that I had saw the bear, but then again, maybe not!!

Andrea K

The 18 girls on the fifth grade girl basketball team had a game on September 22, 1998 and we lost our game! But we didn’t have a lot of practice so we didn’t know what we were doing. A lot of the girls were all over the court! The Bear lake team had a lot of practice plus they already had two games before our game. The score was bad ‘‘ I will tell you later’’. At half time we were all tired already. Then it was the end of the game. The Bear lake team had won of course we lost! Any way the score was 8 to 39.

Arturo G

United states scientists have sent several spacecraft to Mars. in 1964 MarinerIV was launched. it sent back the first pictures of the planet some Mariners flew by Mars. one orbited the planet for about a year two. viking spacecraft actually landed on on Mars in 1976. they studied the planet for over for years . they collected information about it’s atmosphere and surface. much has been learned about our neiboring planet. there are still many unanswered questions.

Emily B

On January 30,1998, my mom had to go to the hospital. She was going to have a baby. She kept on having contractions. After my mom and my dad left, we watched a movie. Then a friend came over to pick up Jacob so he could sleep at their house. After a half an hour or so, my dad called and said that my mom might have to have a C-section because the baby was breech. My sister and I were scared and started crying.

Later, the doctor performed a new procedure called “external version” where the baby’s position faced downward. In the morning, we did the usual things and waited for a friend to pick us to go to church. Before she came, my dad came home and said “You have a new baby brother. His name is Benjamin.”

At first we didn’t know what his middle name was going to be, but after a few days we called him “Benjamin James Bowman.” The day he was born, I got to hold him. In about two days we took him home. Right now he is eight months old. I love my baby brother.

Gini C

My name is Gini and I have been playing basketball for two years and this is my third. The first year I played I was nervous because I had never played before. Then I got the hang of it and we won most of the games. When we got to the tourament we lost.

My second year I played alot because I was the tallest and sometimes I jumped or played point. When I got tired I told the coach and they took me out.

This year we played one game so far and we lost. Hopefully we will win next time which is October 1,1998.

Danielle O

Were you born with a problem that isn’t some thing like flu or a cold? Well my brother was.

My brother Austin is four right now, he plays soccer, runs allot and plays like any other 4 year old kid. But Austin wasn’t always like this, in fact we didn’t even know if he would live to be 4 years old.

When he was born his lips were blue and he stoped breathing. He was rushed to Butterworth hospital for surgery. me and my brother Donny went up to the hospital with my grandma and grandpa to see Austin. He looked like an astronaut with the glass oxygen helmet on.

After a year or so he had a second surgery. Now studies show that he won’t have a nother surgery until he’s 9 or so. Thank gosh.