Shadows quivered on the wall as the candle flickered, then fizzled to nothing. Emily ran to her parent’s room but they weren’t there. She tried to go to her room but it was locked and she ran out of her house. She ran like crazy, and then she fell then woke up. Next morning she went down stairs and went in the kitchen, but no one was there.

She moved into an old creepy two-story house, she tried to take her first step on the steps and it made a weird, Errrrrrrrrrrr noise. She walked into the house and right when she took her first step, two bats flew out of the house!

            The first night at Emily’s new scary house Emily grabbed a flashlight very tightly then she went through every room of the scary house but she couldn’t find any scary room so she was very relieved. But there was one very scary place in the house and she knew that it would be a very scary place, THE BASEMENT! She took her first step down into the scary basement and right when she got down into the basement the wind blew the door shut, WHOOSH! She was stuck in the basement. She tried to find the light switch but there wasn’t a light and she tried to find the stairs but she was too far into the basement. Her dad finally came looking for her trying to find her and the last door he tried was the basement.

            Each night Emily keeps a candle by her bed because she always sees a very weird shadow by her window and she hears weird noises at night. But one night the shadow came back and made a very powerful blast of wind and knocked over her lit wax candle and lit he bed sheets on fire.

            Her dad finally heard her yelling and he could smell the nasty smell of the smoke. So he grabs a fire extinguisher very firmly and ran as fast as he could up the wooden crinkly stairs and went straight to her room and put out the fire.

Dear Mrs. Sigg

I want to go to Venus every month during school as a science fieldtrip. We would be a lot smarter.  I could feel how space feels.  By going to space I would learn how to be an astronaut. It would be a very big experience. I could be the youngest kid to go to space. I would go to space so many times that I would get an award of going to space so many times. We could find life up there. I would try to find life on Venus so I could be a millionaire. I would catch the little aliens on Venus. I would also like to go to make us smarter about Venus. I would learn if there is life up there.  We would learn more about Venus. Venus would be an awesome place to visit every month during the school year, please let us go.

Sincerely,

                  Blake

compare and contrast paper and recording

Jack and I were at his house riding dirt bikes. At his house he has an amazing track. As you survey the track you see very sinuous trails. Our goals were to have fun and try to make mud fly when we peel out.

As I hopped on to the bike I rode on that track so fast and curving. Jack was riding a very fast Kawasaki. He was doing wheelies all the way down the track.

After we rode our bikes for a little bit we went inside and ate dinner. After we had amazing dinner we went back out side and rode our dirt bikes again for a couple hours. When we were riding our bikes we rode out by the field where there are really tall weeds and we just ride really fast around it and see who goes around it first.

 After we rode around the field we went back to the house and one of us got one the go kart and see who won the race around the field and obviously the dirt bike won the race because the go kart only goes 40mph and the dirt bike goes about 50-60mph. after we went around the field a couple of times we went back in played games.

First, my family drove to the airport in Missouri. As I slept my dad drove our Suzuki.  It took 2 hours to get to there. 

Next, we got on the airplane. The airplane was a big airplane with a waiter. As the airplane got higher and higher I had swallow my spit so I could hear. 

Then, we arrived in Florida. It was really hot and we all got on this really cool bus that had Mickey Mouse all over it. On the bus there was TV’s on every seat!!!!

Finally, we swam at the beach. At the beach we bought the goggles and a snorkel and we went snorkeling. Why’ll we were snorkeling we had a water proof camera and took pictures of a lot of fish, and then after we left that beach we all went to a beach that had a lot of big walls around it, and there were these big bikes and you had to pay 10 dollars or 20 dollars.

We had a lot of fun. When we went to the beach I tried to get a lot of sea shells, and I saw a lot of hermit crabs.

Think Critically
1. Why was Brian nervous about the coming of winter?
because the winter is cold and harsh and it is hard to live in.

2. If Betty hadn’t come to Brian’s rescue during the bear’s visit, what might have happened?
Brian would of died from the bear scratching him and killing him.

3. Based on what you know about the outdoors, do the events in this story seem believable? Explain.
yes but i don’t really think a bear would attack you out of no where.

4. What theme does the relationship between Brian and Betty suggest?
Friendship never goes away and your friends are always there to help you.

5. Write a paragraph that describes what Brian’s actions in the wilderness reveal about his character. Use details from the story to support your answer.
i think brian is pretty smart if he can survive in the wilderness. he also makes friends with things that humans usual dont have as a friend. another reason that he is smart because he can make a bow and arrows.

      The Bloody Battle of the Persian War

    A long time ago even before Jesus was born there used to be ancient civilization. it is hard to believe but it is true. in this story we will tell you about this great war that happen a long time ago.

    Along time ago about 800bc a city state called greece was filling up. a lot of people were out of jobs. so people were moving west and east to try to find a home in a city or city-state that is not as packed. One settlement was on the eastern side of the Aegean sea. The Greeks living there did not like the Persian. Because the Persian were trying to tax the city-state. The Persian king (Daruis 1) sent advisor to greece.

    darius 1 was born in 521BC. He was the son of Hystaspes. He had a wife named Atossa. and a son named Xerxes. He is famous for his inscriptions he wrote. The most famous one he wrote was the inscriptions of Behistun. in which relates how he ganged power and became king and put down the rebellions. Darius 1 belonged to a younger branch of royal family of the arhaemenidae. After Cambyses committed suicide on march 521BC. The empire was ruled under the name of bardiya (son of cyrus). darius 1 tried to regain the kingdom so he could be crowed the king. he killed the usuper in a median fortess (october 521BC) he became the king of persia. But this sudden change was the signal to regain there independice for an attempt on the part of all the eastern provdinces with only a tiny army of Persians and Medes and daruis and a hand full of loyal generals overcame all difficulties. And in 520 and 519 all the rebellions were put down (Babylon rebelled twice, Susiana even three times), and the authority of Darius was established throughout the empire. . Darius appears as a fervent believer in the true religion of Zoroaster in his inscipters. but he is also a outstanding statesmen and orgianzer. Darius made the persian dominion bigger by adding the wild mations of the pontic an Armenian mountians to the caucasus. He became the successor of Cyrus the Great by the organization of the empire. He sent an expedition down the Kabul and the Indus, led by the Carian captain Scylax of Caryanda, who explored the Indian Ocean from the mouth of the Indus to Suez. He dug a canal from the Nile to Suez. his ships sailed from the Nile through the Red Sea by Saba to Persia. he explored the shores of Sicily and Italy. he attempted to gain the goodwill of the subject nations by letting the Jews build the temple of Jerusalem and his name appears on the temples he built in Memphis, and  Edfu and the Great Oasis. He called the high-priest of Saïs, Uzahor, to Susa . He gave him full power to reorganize the 

great medical school of the temple of Saïs.In the Egyptian traditions he is considered as one of the great benefactors and lawgivers of the country. About 512 Darius undertook a war against the Scythians.The Persian wars were begun by the Greeks themselves. The support of the Athens helped the greeks.But the first expedition, that of Mardonius, failed on the cliffs of Mt. Athos (492), and the army which was led into Attica by Datis in 490 was beaten at Marathon. Before Darius had finished his preparations for a third expedition an insurrection broke out in Egypt (486). In the next year Darius died, probably in October 485, after a reign of thirty-six years. He is one of the greatest rulers the east has produced.

    the athens and spartans didn’t put up with that rule. they killed the advisors. war broke over this rule. the first invastion took place in 490BC. The persian king at the time was darius 1. he wanted to conquer everybody that he met. so Darius 1 sent his army to marathon to fight the greeks. (marathon is a beach 26 miles east of athen.) the persian lost this battle. a runner was sent to athens to tell that they beat the persian. persian went home short of supplies with their heads bowed down in defeat.

    The second invasion of Greece happend in 480 BC. Xerxes was the king of persia at that time.

    xerxes was born in persia in 519BC. he was the son of darius 1. Xerxes I was king of persia from 485 – 465 B.C., presiding over ancient Persia’s decline from mighty power to falling empire. His father Darius`1 was defeated at marathon by the greeks. (490 B.C.), and 10 years later Xerxes created a huge army to ambush Greece and get revenge from his father’s defeat. Xerxes crossed the Hellespont and methodically killed the Greece. He won a close victory at Thermopylae — the famous battle which ended with 300 Spartan warriors holding of the entire Persian army in a last battle to the death — and finally the persian reached Athens and ransacked the deserted city. But the invasion ended in disaster when the Persian navy was demolished by the Greek fleet at Salamis (480 B.C.). Xerxes retreated to his palace in Persepolis, Xerxes abandoned his army which was defeated by the Greeks shortly thereafter. Persia remained a powerful nation but Xerxes withdrew from king , devoting himself to what Herodotus. 15 years later Xerxes was probably killed by Artabanus and xerxes son Artaxerxes took the crown. 

     At that war Xerxes Gathered a vast army. Xerxes army attacked the Greeks at Thermopylae.Leonidas had a army of three hundred Spartans at the leadership of Leonidas. Leonidases army fought until the last Greek fell.

    Leonidas was a 5th century B.C. Spartan military king who bravely led a small flet of Greeks — mostly Spartan (the famous 300), but also Thespians and Thebans — against the much larger Persian army of Xerxes, at the pass of Thermopylae, in 480 B.C. during the Persian Wars. According to Herodotus, Leonidas had been warned by the Delphic oracle that either Sparta would be crushed or their king would lose his life. Leonidas chose the other way. 

    All the Spartans and Thespians died, including Leonidas, although Herodotus says the Thebans had never wanted to be there and surrendered when Leonidas was killed. The Persian cut up the remains of Leonidases body.

      Then persian headed to athens. The athen couldn’t confront the vast army so they left the city of athens. when the persians arrived at athens they ransacked the city and burned it down. after that it was demolished. with the help of the athens general thermitcolas the persians were finally defeated by the greeks in a voilent sea battle. thermistocles was the general at that time. he convince the athenans to spend the miners silver to build a flet of trirmens. 200 ships were built. It was a big acomplishment for the greeks. Athens and sparta worked together to beat the persian once and for all. The Persian Wars lasted for twenty years. The persian and the greeks never fought again.

                                well i hope you liked our paper thanks for reading it

                                                                                            By: Nolan& blake

Went around a neighborhood in Gardner, Fountain Gate there are a lot of houses there and it is very safe. We knocked on a lot of door and got a lot of candy. I used a pillow case and it was ¼ of the bag was full and we had to walk all the way back and th bag was heavy and my legs started to hurt. I bet that candy is going to take me till next Halloween to finish all that candy.

We all were playing foot ball in the back yard and we all were having a good time. After we played football we all went trick or treating. I got so much candy in my. After that we went inside and ate a lot we had a hot dog and macaroni and cheese.

Then we found Nolan, Jacob, and Justin. We were going around there neighbor hood and we got so much candy. They just put masks on. We went to this one house that had neon lights. Also that same house had this robot that he co he had a mask on and he had a fake knife and had another thing in his other hand. ntrolled and