Creative Corner: Last Day of Winter

by Addie E.

It was the night before the last day of winter. I was super excited for spring. I was definitely going to miss winter though. All the snow days and activities and hot cocoa. It was supposed to be very snowy and icy the next day and I was hoping for a snow day.

Mom walked into the room and said, “ Well, it is a two hour late start.”

“ Yay!” I said. It wasn’t a snow day but I got some time to do my list of winter activities.

The next day I woke up really early. Probably around six thirty( It was still dark). I put all of my snow stuff on and went sledding on the hill right next to my house. I climbed the hill and sled down on my new sled. It was bright red and had a white string connected to it. I did this for about a half hour. I came to my yard and started making an army of snow angels. After ten minutes my little sister came out. We built a snow man then came inside.

“ Great idea to wake up early and enjoy the last day of winter Addie” Said my mom as she made us some hot cocoa and got us some poptarts.

“Thanks! I want to get everything done on my list before school starts. It will be tricky, but I can do it!”

My mom took my list and said, “ Well I love your enthusiasm but you really think you can get this all done.

I took the list back and looked. I checked off sledding, snow angels, build a snowman, and hot cocoa. All I needed was ice skating, winter crafts, and snowboarding.

“ yup!” I said with even more enthusiasm.

“ Okay then let's go to the ice rink!” My mom said putting on her coat.

At the ice rink I was working on a jump. My sister was just skating with my mom. We were there until eight o-clock. After that we went to the dam hill and did a little snowboarding. I was just going down the hill a few times while I let my sister use my new sled. It was fun!

“ What's left on your list Addie. “ Asked my mom helping my sister with her goggles.

“ I just need to do some winter crafts. I said. Looking at my sheet in the car.

“ Okay lets go bye some at Hobby Lobby.”

At Hobby Lobby we found snowflakes, snowmen, and sled crafts. We got two of each and paid for them. When we were walking to the car I dropped the bag with all the crafts and the wind picked them up and they started flying away!

“ Oh no! “ I screamed.

Those were the last ones in the store, so we chased after them. They got too high and were gone.

“Aw.” I cried.

“ I’m sorry Addie. Maybe we could get them somewhere else.” My mom said thoughtfully.

“ School starts in half an hour and there is no time.” I said.

“ Well we should go home and get ready for school then.”

So we left and went to school. I was disappointed that I couldn’t do any winter crafts, but as the day went on I started to feel better. The day went on and on, 1st period, 2nd, 3rd, all the way to seventh. When it was finally eighth period I walked into the room and saw that we had a sub. I greeted her with a smile and sat down.

“Good Afternoon! I am Mrs. Gluten. Today we are going to just draw instead of a huge project. When your teacher is back you will do something cooler.” The woman looked around 50 years old and had a blue sweatshirt on.

“Before we begin, do you want me to tell you a story?” She said, grabbing her bag.

I loved when subs told stories of their life. They were always so interesting. Especially ones about dogs.

We all said yes and she began, “ Well this morning obviously was a late start and my daughter brought her children to my house because she had to work. My grandchildren wanted to do some crafts so we went to Hobby Lobby. Sadly they were all gone. “

I flinched. I was the one who took the last one’s. I felt terrible.

“ We decided to go to Dollar Tree so we went to our car but saw some crafts in a tree!” She exclaimed.

My eyes opened wide. I raised my hand slowly.

“Yes dear.” Said Mrs. Gluten.

“ What did you do with the crafts?” I said, shocked.

“Well we took two, but didn’t use the other ones.”

My jaw dropped. “ What did you do with the other one’s”

“ Well they are right here.” She said holding the snowmen and snowflake crafts.

“ I had the same idea as you so my family went to Hobby Lobby to get some crafts. They were the last ones.” I said cautiously.

“ Oh, so you got the last ones!” She said with a smile on her face.

“ Yes, I was so excited but I dropped them and they blew away.” I said slowly.

“Well these must be yours then. Would you like to have them?” She reached them out to me.

“Yes, if you don’t mind.” I said, trying not to yell with excitement.

She handed them to me and I put them in my folder. When the bell rang for us to go home I rushed to my locker and put the crafts in my bag. I tried to get out of school quickly so I could have the crafts safe and sound at home. I was not losing them again! I rushed home so I could tell my mom everything. I got home at 3:45 and went into my momś room where she was reading and my sister was playing a game. I told them everything.

¨ That's great! Would you two like to do them?¨ Said my mom taking the crafts that were in my hands.

¨You bet I do!” I said.

The rest of the afternoon my sister and I did the crafts. I made a snowflake and snowman and so did my sister. We watched a movie before we went to bed, and had cookies. When I got in bed I thought to myself, this was the best last day of winter ever!

The End.

What is a Hero?

by Addie E.

What is a hero?

What is a hero? People have different opinions on what makes a hero. My opinion is that anyone can be a hero, it doesn’t matter if you do a big or small thing. Let's say you save your dog. You are probably a hero for your dog, and maybe someone else who owns the dog with you. You may not be a hero for our country like one of the veterans, but you are still a hero in my opinion because you saved a life.

One reason that supports my opinion is that people do good and bad things all the time. Even if you just make sure a kid looks both ways before crossing the street, you probably just decreased the risk of that child getting hurt. To me that means you are a hero. When I say anyone can be a hero I mean you have to do something good to help someone. If you do something bad or nothing at all to help someone, then you are definitely not a hero! So if you want to be a hero then just do something good for someone or something else.

Another thing you may like to know is that children are the future. They will be the new adults sooner or later. Do you want the new adults to be smart and brave for all the tasks adults have to do? Well if you do, you need to teach them how to be brave and all the things that make them smart. That is the job for the parents and teachers! So they are definitely heroes. You could have a fire in your house some day. Who is going to put it out then? The future adult firefighters! They have to know how to work with other people. So that means the people who taught them teamwork are also heroes! They could be parents, coaches, teachers, and maybe just friends. Those people are all heroes.

The final reason is that if someone didn’t save their dog or put out the future fire, then Earth would lose many lives. What about picking up trash? That is being a hero because an animal could have gotten stuck in the trash or could have eaten it and gotten sick. You have saved that animal. What I think is that you could do something small like picking up trash or planting food for people to eat, but you are helping people so you are a hero! Doing something big like saving the county or being a part of some huge rescue mission is good and you are definitely a hero for that! I just think that you don’t need to do something like that to be a hero, you just need to do something that will help a life.

In summary I think that you just have to do something good like saving your dog, or teaching kids the right things or picking up trash, and you still are a hero because you helped or saved someone not for a medal or a chance to be in the news to be nice and to make our world a better place. So do something small but good and it will still be huge because you will be a hero!