Griffins- Chapters 3 & 4

Griffins... by Hope Fu ...continued 

Chapter 3

At Scott’s house they all had turns to talk about a chosen topic; tonight was Scott’s mom’s turn. Emma Griffin Blade was a patient woman who only really despised going shopping.  

“I can’t believe my own son would splash paint on the guide of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, lied about it, blamed another student, and on top of it all, forged my signature  on the sign up slip to go on a field trip just to ruin a work of art!”  

As you can see, Mr.Conn was a great exaggerator .

Holly’s luck was no better. At her house there was only one topic- what the punishment should be for whoever  did something wrong. Therefore, when nobody  did anything wrong, the only sound in the house was absolutely silence.  Before you say that is unusual, the Seman family went back to The Dark Times.  It had been a very old tradition  in their family.

Don’t ask why. I have no idea.

Both of their punishments were the following:  A month of grounding, no screen for a year (not that they used any either.) , and the worst-- writing an apology to Mr. Conn.... for something they hadn’t done.

At night, Scott could not help feeling more than a just a bit ....worried.  He also wasn’t able to dwell on Holly, who had not only gotten a bad grade, but had also won a terrible reputation.

Chapter 4

The next day, their apologies were given, and as an added punishment, they had to read them aloud, which caused an uproar and soon they found themselves not in school but a 5-days-a-week prison.  

For example, during lunch they got pelted with all the nasty smelly leftovers from the bag lunches. And, during recess, well, let’s just say that they were sent to the nurse's office more than once.

The only bright side of this affair was that Holly and Scott were now bonded together against Mr. Conn and as a team, they managed an accomplishment - against the crude and lying man, of course. The first  one happened like this :  

“We need to counterattack.”

Those words were the first spark to the great mission that they soon hoped to accomplish.  You must remember that Scott was only 13 and Holly was 12 at that time and it must be hard to attack a full-grown adult when one is that age.

The Accomplishment:

“Meet me at the treehouse at 4:00 am.” ( Yes, am , the treehouse was secret so, they had to sneak there in the morning.)  At 4 am , they snuck into the old fort and took their places next to the fire.

“ Do you have a plan?” asked Scott.

“No, but we’ll think of something,” answered Holly.

They sat there gazing around thinking of a way to strike against the venomous teacher and not be found.

The room they were sitting in was well furnished- but by no means opulent, though there were some neat gadgets they had made themselves. There was a large shelf that had been fashioned by Scott( who was not a bad carpenter) which had many things on it including a sling shot, some rocks, a copy of My Side of the Mountain, in which they earned how to make fires, collect the food in the house (which was in a cupboard which also made by Scott )and how to fashion furniture. The rest of the shelf was occupied with Holly’s electronic devices which she had made. There was a safe which you had to whisper the password for it to open (which had a map of the town inside it) and a detector, which you whispered what you wanted to find it would begin an automatic search for it.

Scott thought of all the things that had happened in Matilda and wondered if what had happened to the parents would be an idea.

Holly thought of what had happened in Series of Unfortunate Events, and thought of what Violet, Klaus, and Sunny had done.

At last, after several, long minutes, they devised a plan. They went home and prepared for what they were going to do. After that, Scott went to bed and suddenly, an old man slaughtering a griffin and a hippogryph came into view.

“I shall demolish all the magical scum in the world!” he screamed.

Then Scott awoke. With sweat popping out of his head, he got up to begin the day of triumph.

He got up early, so he could prepare. He went to school early, and got out a screwdriver. Holly was waiting for him with a map of the school. Their school, which went from preschool to 12th grade, was rather large and they did not trust themselves to get lost in it.

The different rooms all had number plates and they were all attached with screws. They took the plate number 33 and went to room 8 and switched them around. Room 8, was one of the homerooms of the twelfth graders, and Mr. Conn had no business in that room.

As the twelfth graders came, the seventh graders heard a sound of yelling, as the twelvth  grade teacher looked around wildly  for his coffee yelling about secretaries that were not worth their pay.

Suddenly, the window burst open, and the old man Scott had seen in his dream came in through the large window riding on a-

“Holly , it’s a griffin!”  And it was.. and a large one it was. So large it could carried away all of the people in the class, and it had suddenly turned to Holly and Scott, zoomed toward them and grabbed both of them but somehow noone seemed to have noticed the griffin, though some people were wondering why the most unpopular people in the school were flying through the air. But they weren’t bothered because after all they were the most unpopular kids in the school.

The old man cackled as they flew through the now rather-battered window.

“I shall have all the griffins in my control now!” I think you know who said that.

Soon, Holly and Scott were flying through the sky, and they were nowhere near anywhere they had seen or learned about, so they had no real way of knowing where they were or if it was possible, then they were going back in time- and to who know’s where in time…

Wonders of the World- Grade 4 Enrichment Reading

Ms. Mather’s Reading Group

By Caitlyn Moon

Ms. Mather’s 4th grade reading group is working on a project about the 7 ancient and medieval wonders of the world. They include The Great Wall of China, The Statue of Liberty, The Statue of Zeus, and many more. The readers researched their Wonder of the World and made a Google presentation with the facts. They will be sharing their presentations next Tuesday.

My Wonder Was the Great Wall of China. The Great Wall is about 30 feet tall. The Chinese people built it to protect them from enemy countries.     

Yankees

Yankees!

By Jack Mattingly

One of the Yankee players has the same last name as me, Don Mattingly. Don Mattingly’s real, full name is Donald Arthur Mattingly. Don won so many metals. Don throws and bats with his left hand. He was on the Yankees team from 1982-1995. In his last game, which was on October 1, 1995. he was 34 years old.

The Yankees have been playing since 1903. They came in fourth place during their first season. The person who managed the team was Clark Griffith. The first game the Yankees played was against the Baltimore Orioles.   

One of the worst years for the Yankees was 2014. They won 84 games but they lost 78.

Some of the nicknames for the New York Yankees are the Bronx Zoo, New York Highlanders, the Yanks, the Bombers, The Bronx Bombers, the Pinstripe, the Pinstripers among other nicknames.

Some of the years they won the championship were 1998, 1999, 2000, and 2009. They went to the championship four times in a row and won three times in a row. They got to the championship the most in the MBL. The Yankees were the first baseball team to three-peat as champions since 1872-1974.    

Whenever the Yankees played a home game they played it in a stadium called the Yankee Stadium in which they played from 1923-1973 and 1976-2008. It was called the Yankee Stadium until they moved it to another stadium in 2009 to now. The new stadium is also called the Yankee Stadium too.

Spring Poems

Spring and March Poems

Caitlyn Moon

Spring

Flowers bloom                        Shining Sun

Trees bud                           Pretty Petals

Bees buzz                           Raring Red Roses        

Kids have FUN                    Indigo Indies   

                                       Never Wearing Boots      

   Spring is about                  Green Grass                          

 The sun coming out                       

Petals on the flowers                     

 Running and playing

 Indie flowers growing

Never putting on boots

    Grass growing

Spring is…

Beautiful flowers getting ready to bloom

Colorful flowers in the meadow

Green grass standing tall

Big leaves on the trees

Spring is…

Great

Timmy the Cat

    TIMMY THE CAT  

By Eric Lemieux                 

There was a cat named Timmy and he was a normal, everyday cat.

One day he went to a madman's laboratory and the madman saw Timmy and put him in a tube of chemicals.

Two hours later Timmy came out of the chemicals as a huge hairy and ugly monster cat!!!!!!!!!!!

For a minute Timmy didn't know was happening he said, “Who, who what?”

Then, he realized that he was a big fat, hairy monster cat that could take over the world so that’s what he started to do.  Minutes later he started to take over Chicago where he was turned into a big, ugly CAT by the chemicals.

After that he took over the United States. After that Timmy went on a ferry to every other country in the world and demolished them all. He went to all the planets and BLEW THEM UP into billions of pieces.

Finally, Timmy realized that he did not do the right thing and fixed everything in the world. And, told everyone he was sorry and helped everybody who needed help

World's Largest Cargo Plane

    
 World’s Largest Cargo Plane in 2015                                   By Andrew Li           
The Antonov AN 225 Mriya is the world’s largest aircraft in the world. It’s 10% bigger than a Boeing 747 and can outlift a C-5 Galaxy the world’s 2nd best cargo plane . And, it used to land Russian space shuttles! Let’s see its history.  Like I said, it used to land a Russian space shuttle called Buran. Later, the plane got scrapped because of no funds and the company had to sell parts of the plane to get more money. Then, the company realized there was a way to earn more money-rebuild the plane and use it to carry cargo. In 2002 it was finally finished and ready to use. It was a great success. The Antonov Company earns 10% more money and it’s such a well-known plane tourists and plane lovers follow it everywhere it lands and takes off. 

Fun Facts:  
It has set over 200 world records
 It can lift 1,410,958 pounds in cargo  
Building a Antonov 225 costs 200,000,000-250,000,000 in U.S dollars There is only one Antonov 225 in the world right now  It was at the Paris Air show (the world’s oldest and largest airshow) 3 times

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

Third grade Enrichment Readers just finished the book, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and each student made their own book cover design!  Here's what they look like:

By Destiny Epps

By Julia Winakor

By Parsa Tehranipoor

By Gioia Miller

By Kyleigh Lapsis

By Leilani Fecho