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[Music] for for for for article 91 the museum the museum was very interesting there were so many things in the museum that I would need more more time to really see Everything there were clothes from the past I don't know how people wore some of those things they look like they would be uncomfortable I like to wear my genes there were things from Wars there were bullets and cannons and even uniforms from the the Soldiers I don't think that war is a good thing but it is good to remember the past and honor the people

who died for your country there was an old fire truck at the Museum this fire truck was pulled by a horse there were some very old photographs of the firemen putting out Fires there were rooms in the museum that were set up like an old house there were antique irons and sewing machines the women used to clean the clothes with a washboard there were no modern appliances back then I'm glad that we have electricity and modern appliances the thing That we have make life so much easier there were mummies from Egypt at the Museum I

was fascinated by those there were artifacts from Indians there were Arro heads and cradles that the babies slept in I tried my best to see everything but it was almost Impossible the museum is a good place to to learn about your past I tried to imagine my grandparents using some of the things that were on display at the Museum article 92 the police my mother always told me that if I was lost I could go up To a policeman and that he would help me to find my way home I never did get lost but

I always remembered what my mother told me about the police I think policemen look very nice in their uniforms I see the police officers drive by in their police cars in my Town we even have police officers on bicycles policemen and police women have a job that can sometimes be dangerous they have to catch people who break the law sometimes they have to chase people or try to calm people down to be a police officer you need a lot of Training it is important to be able to deal with people effectively a police officer came

came to our school he had a police dog with him the officer showed us how the dog could track down criminals the dog was very smart he could even find things that were hidden Criminals sometimes hide things that they don't want the police to find the police man told us that he and his dog were Partners his dog lives at his house with the policeman and his family sometimes I see police cars on the side of the road the police stop people who are speeding or are not wearing their seat belts the police officers warn

people or Give out tickets sometimes they even have to arrest people police officers are just doing their job when they arrest people some people need to be arrested and put in jail to make it safer for the rest of us article 93 Pretending I like to pretend I like to make up things that aren't real I use my imagination I was pretending that I was in a time machine I set the date for a prehist historic time I turned on the time machine and it buzzed and wh and spun madly when it stopped spinning I

opened the door and stepped Out into a very thick jungle I listened carefully to the sounds of the Jungle I could hear strange animal noises and the leaves were rustling I wasn't sure if I I had gone back in time or had just landed in a jungle somewhere in the 21st Century it didn't take me long to realize that I had indeed gone back in time a very strange birdlike creature with a large beak flew overhead I had never seen anything like it in my life I took a few steps out into the long grass

and ferns I didn't want to go too far away from my time machine I heard a noise over on my right Side there was a man who looked quite different from me he was dressed in an animal skin and he carried a big stick I didn't want him to see me so I hid behind a tree he didn't speak any language that I could understand he grunted at someone who must have been in the distance then I felt the Earth shake beneath my feet I heard giant thumps on the ground as the floor of the

Jungle shook the man in the animal skin began to run I saw why he was running a giant dinosaur appeared above the tops of the trees it was bigger than any I had ever seen my heart began to pound in my chest It was coming toward me I ran toward my time machine and jumped in I set the dial for the 21st century the machine word and Buzz my time machine landed in the 21st century I got away just in Time article 94 a baby my aunt just had a baby girl we went to the

hospital to visit my aunt and to see the new baby my aunt was feeling fine although she was just a bit tired she walked with us to a big window that had lots of babies behind it she pointed to a crib with a baby in it the baby was Wrapped in a pink blanket we all Paul said how pretty the baby looked I couldn't believe how tiny the baby was she was asleep so we couldn't see her eyes when the baby went home we went to visit her we heard the baby she was Crying my

aunt said that the baby was hungry my aunt had a baby bottle full of warm milk she fed the baby with it the baby was happy after that my aunt patted the baby on the back until the baby burped and then the baby fell asleep I held the baby I looked at her tiny fingers and Tiny Toes I was very Careful with her she opened her eyes and looked at me I spoke to the baby but I knew that she could not understand me babies have to learn to walk and talk my aunt changed the

baby babies were diapers so they need to be changed often the baby has a lot of toys but she is still too young to play with Them my aunt says that it won't be long before the baby is crawling and trying to talk babies are cute I have seen pictures of myself when I was a baby and it's hard to believe that I was once that small article 95 a Wedding the church bells are ringing I am inside the church waiting for my cousin to walk down the aisle today is her wedding day she is

a bride the organist is playing a song on the organ we all stand up and watch my cousin walk down the aisle she is arm inarm with her father she is dressed in a long white Dress and a veil she looks so beautiful she looks like a princess the man who she is going to marry is standing at the front of the church he is the groom he looks nice too he is wearing a suit and he has a flower in his lapel the minister says words to the Couple which will make them man and

wife the bride and groom smile at each other but they seem to be a little bit nervous they give each other gold rings to wear to symbolize that they are married they kiss each other and walk out of the church as the organist plays joyous music some of the People in the church cried at the wedding but not because they were sad everyone in the church is very happy for the couple a photographer takes pictures of the happy couple we wish them well and look forward to the reception where we will have Dinner and we

will dance and have a good time until it is very late the bride will throw her bouquet of flowers and it is said that whoever catches the bou will be the next bride the next day the bride and groom will leave for their honeymoon my cousin and her husband are going to Mexico for their Honeymoon article 96 my dad my dad is the man whom I respect the most in my life he works very hard to make the money that supports us my mother has a job too and she also works very hard my dad

is the principal of a high school he works at the school all day and often has to go to meetings at At night he deals with parents students and staff there is always something that he has to deal with he has a lot on his mind it doesn't matter how much much work my dad has to do he always has time for my brothers my sister and Me if I go to him with a problem he will sit down and discuss it with me he doesn't yell he is always very logical and he tries to

think of the best way to deal with things my dad is a very very patient man once I spilled some ink on some papers that he was working on I thought that he would be mad but he didn't get Angry he said that it was okay he takes time out to do things with us he has taken my brothers fishing he takes me to the arena to skate and he helps my sister to write her essays and assignments he always makes us laugh and he makes us feel like we are very special to him He

is a very good father and on Father's Day I always buy him a card that tells him how much he means to me I think it is important to have good parents I hope that when I have children I will be a good parent like my parents are to me parents give children the found found ation that they Need to live good lives article 97 my mother my mother does so many things she has a job at a dress store store she cooks our meals she cleans the house she feeds the pets and she still

finds time to spend with us my mother is always busy but she says that her favorite time Is time that she spends with us my mother works from Monday to Friday when she comes home from work she makes something for supper we usually do the dishes so that she won't have to do them after supper she helps us with our homework or she sits down to watch television some nights she goes Shopping and she takes whoever wants to go with her mothers are a little bit of everything my mother is like a teacher when she

helps us with our homework she is like a nurse when she looks after us when we're ill she is like a cook when she makes meals for us she says that cleaning the house is her least favorite Thing she says that the house gets dirty again right after you clean it she gets my father my brothers sister and me to help her with the cleaning my mother washes all our clothes and sometimes she irons them if they need it my mother says that there are not enough hours in a day we try to help My

mother as much as we can there is a lot of work involved in keeping a home neat and organized most of my friends mothers work mothers are the people who you go to when you need to be comforted mothers are the people who can make you feel better I'm glad that I have the mother that I have my mother is caring and funny She is fun to be around article 98 a surprise last Friday my dad came home from work and said that he had a surprise for us we tried to guess what the surprise

might be my brother guessed that we were going out for dinner my dad said no my other brother asked if my father Had tickets to a hockey game my dad said no my sister asked if we were going on a trip my dad said no my mother knew what the surprise was was so she just stood and smiled at us I guessed that we might be getting a swimming pool my dad said no we were getting very frustrated ated Trying to guess what the surprise might be my brother asked how big the surprise was my

dad said that the surprise was quite small we were not sure what the surprise could be will we all like it I asked yes my dad replied everyone of you will love this surprise We heard a noise it was a crying noise your surprise wants to see you my dad said he opened the door to the bedroom and a tiny puppy came running out we were all very excited our surprise was a puppy it was a little baby spaniel the puppy loved all of us she ran around And licked all of our faces we had

always wanted a dog we take turns feeding the puppy and taking her out for walks she is growing quickly and will soon be an adult dog we all agree that the puppy was the nicest surprise that my dad could have given us article 99 rhyming words sometimes my friends and I play a Game it's something we made up so it doesn't have a [Music] name we like to take words that rhyme we put them together line by line do you get the picture now we're playing the game and this is how I might say I

like to drive a car I really don't like to go very far if I decide to take a walk I'd go with a friend so that we Could talk do you see that these lines rhyme play the game if you have the time we could talk about school or even playing do you know what I am saying rhyming words is easy to do it's fun for me it can be fun for you just join in and say something or make it into a song that you can Sing there are so many words that rhyme with

others like smile and Mile and mothers and brothers I could spend all day just making up these things I could let my imagination fly on wings up to the clouds and back to my Mind there are so many Rhymes that I can find there are some words that are hard to find rhymes for I don't use those words anymore I like to choose words that are easy to rhyme like cat and bat or lime and thme so give it a try I know you'll have fun I'll say goodbye my rhyming is Done article 100 homework

sometimes my teacher gives us homework I don't mind doing my homework except when the weather is really nice and all my friends are outside on those nights I'd rather be outside with them so I try to get my homework done quickly tonight I have some English homework we have been reading a Book we have to read a chapter of the book and answer the questions at the end of the chapter it is an interesting book so the homework for this is quite easy my math homework is not so easy I have to do some addition

and and subtraction I don't mind that but there are some problems that Need to be solved the problems involve addition subtraction and mul multiplication I am not too good with numbers I need to work harder on my math I just finished a project for history I had to make a map of Canada with diagrams showing the roots of all the Explorers it was an interesting project because I have been to some of the places that the Explorers went to I don't have any science homework at school we are growing bean plants we go in every

day and see how the plants have grown we write Down all the changes that occur in the plant every day the only other homework that I have is geography I have a map of Canada and I have to write the names of all the provinces and their capitals on it it won't take me long To do that because I know all the provinces when my homework is all done I will go outside and play ball with my friends until it is time to come in I am a good student I get good marks because I

like school my favorite subjects are physical Education English and [Music] history math is my least favorite subject but I'm trying to improve my marks in that article1 I want to die my hair green many of my friends have dyed their hair different colors I don't mean normal hair colors like Brown or black my my friends have dyed their hair orange purple and blue I told my mother that I would like to dye my hair green I explained to my mother that I would only use food coloring the green would not last forever my mother said

that dying your hair was a silly fad She said that I would not look good with green hair I said that if I couldn't dye my hair green maybe I could get a nose ring my mother said no I said that maybe a tattoo on my arm would be nice my mother said no way my mother said that she did some crazy crazy things when she was a young Girl she said that she used to iron her hair to make it straight that sounds quite boring to me my friend Joan came over her hair is

dyed bright pink my father said nice hair Joan I don't think that he really meant it my mother says that when I am an adult I can die my hair whatever crazy color I Like but for now she would like me to leave my hair its natural color I tried to tell her that all my friends were doing it my mother asked if all your friends were jumping off a cliff would you do do it too I said no I think I'll have to wait to have Green hair but maybe by the time I'm old

enough to dye my hair green I won't want it that color my mother says that fads change all the time one day something might be popular and the next day it's not in style at [Music] All I'll just have to live without green hair for now I wonder what the fad will be next month article 102 why do people dislike other people some people don't like other people just because they look different I think that is silly I don't think that it is fair to judge Someone by the way they look some people look very

nice but they are mean or cruel some people look very ordinary but they are incredibly nice I remember when I was in grade one I saw a girl acoss the room she had a mean look on her face I thought to Myself that she was not a very nice person I stayed away from her and played with with the other children then we had to play a game and the teacher said that she would pick partners for us the teacher picked the girl with the mean face as my Partner I didn't think that the game

would be much fun at all with a partner who seemed as mean as is that girl I walked up to her and said hello the girl's face changed she smiled at me and she began to Talk to me her mean face disappeared we had lots of fun playing the game we laughed a lot and enjoyed each others company that girl be became my best friend now when I look at her I see what is inside her sometimes she doesn't smile but I know what she is like She is a kind and funny person I have

learned that you can't judge a book by its cover it is not fair to dislike someone just because they don't look like you want them to look you have to get to know a person it doesn't matter to me what color a person Skin is it doesn't matter to me if they are short or tall skinny or fat or happy or sad looking I judge people by how they treat me and I try to treat people like I would want to be treated article 103 the birthday gift it is going to be my my father's

birthday what can I give him I don't have much money I have looked all through the stores and I have not found anything that I think he would like or that I can afford I have thought very hard about what to buy for him I thought that he might like some Candy but my father really doesn't eat many sweets I thought that he might like a new shirt but he has lots of clothes I can't afford a new car or computer for him I was watching him on the Weekend he cut the grass washed the

car took out the garbage weeded the garden and watered the plants I got an idea I went to my room and took out some some paper I cut out pieces of paper and I wrote on them I wrote on one piece of paper that I would wash the Car every weekend for the summer I also wrote that I would cut the grass weed the garden and water the plants every week for the summer I made made a birthday card for my dad my dad thought that the gift was very thoughtful he said that it was

a gift From the heart I did all those things things for my dad all summer he said that he had a lot of free time because I helped him so much my dad and I are good friends I don't mind doing things for him because I know that he is always there to help me out a good gift doesn't have to be Something that costs a lot my dad says that the best gifts are the ones that show how much you care for the other person I'm glad my dad liked his gift article 104 New

Year's Day on New Year's Day people start a new year many people make resolutions they resolve to be better People some people decide that they will lose weight so that they can be healthier some people decide to give up smoking they also want to be healthier there are all kinds of resolutions that people make some people try not to lose their tempers some people say that they will work hard harder there are people who try to give up bad Habits every year my brother says that he will stop biting his nails he stops biting his

nails in in January but by February he always starts again that is the thing about New Year's resolutions people seldom keep them everybody St starts out with good intentions but it is very hard to stick With them I don't make New Year's resolutions I find that I just break them I just work day by day to break my bad habits I know that I eat too many sweets every day I just try to resist them I think that every day is a new day regardless of whether it is New Year's Day or not bad habits

are hard to break the best thing is never to start any bad habits I don't know if my brother will ever stop biting his nails but I know that each January he intends to stop Maybe one of these New Year's days he'll get over that habit article 105 if I could fly I sometimes imagine what it would be like if I could fly like a bird just imagine what it would be like to soar into the sky Flying high above the trees you could stand on high rooftops and never be afraid of falling you would

see so many things as you flew over rooftops and forests you would feel incredibly Free as you traveled from place to to place not bothered by road signs or traffic jams if I could fly like a bird I would start from my backyard and travel through to town I would look down on the houses and factories when I got Tired I would land in a field and take a nap I would travel above rivers and follow them as they wound along and emptied into lakes and oceans I would fly above parks and I would call

out to the children as I flew high above them I would Dip and dive as I flew I would soar up high high and dive down low so that I could almost touch the Treetops have you ever flown I know that you can't fly like a bird But you might have taken an airplane ride when you're in an airplane you pass through clouds it is exciting to take an air plane ride I love taking airplane flights I like to look down at the earth when you are up that high everything below you looks tiny that's

the Closest I'll ever get to Flying Like a Bird but I can still use my imagination and spread my wings and soar high above the world just like a bird article 91 the museum the museum was very interesting there were so many things in The museum that I would need more more time to really see everything there were clothes from the past I don't know how people wore some of those things they look like they would be uncomfortable I like to wear my jeans there were things from Wars there were Bullets and cannons and even

uniforms from the soldiers I don't think that war is a good thing but it is good to remember the past and honor the people who died for your country there was an old fire truck at the Museum this fire truck was pulled by a horse there were some very Old photographs of the firemen putting out fires there were rooms in the museum that were set up like an old house there were antique irons and sewing machines the women used to clean the clothes with a washboard there were no modern appliances back then I'm glad that

we have Electricity and modern appliances the things that we have make life so much easier there were mummies from Egypt at the Museum I was fascinated by those there were artifacts from Indians there there were Arro heads and cradles that the babies slept in I tried my best to see Everything but it was almost impossible the museum is a good place to look learn about your past I tried to imagine my grandparents using some of the things that were on display at the Museum article 92 the police My mother always told me that if I

was lost I could go up to a policeman and that he would help me to find my way home I never did get lost but I always remembered what my mother told me about the police I think policemen look very nice in their uniforms I see police officers drive by In their police cars in my town we even have police officers on bicycles policemen and police women have a job that can sometimes be dangerous they have to catch people who break the law sometimes they have to chase people or Try to calm people down to

be a police officer you need a lot of training it is important to be able to deal with people effectively a police officer came to our school he had a police dog with him the officer showed us how the dog could track down criminals the dog was very Smart he could even find things that were hidden criminals sometimes hide things that they don't want the police to find the policeman told us that he and his dog were Partners his dog lives at his house with the policeman and his family sometimes I see police cars on

the side of the Road the police stop people who are speeding or are not wearing their their seat belts the police officers warn people or give out tickets sometimes they even have to arrest people police officers are just doing their job when they arrest people some people need to be arrested and put in Jail to make it safer for the rest of us article 93 pretending I like to pretend I like to make up things that aren't real I use my imagination I was pretending that I was in a time machine I set the date

for a prehistoric time I turned on the time machine and it buzzed and Wor and spun madly when it stopped spinning I opened the door and stepped out into a very thick jungle I listened carefully to the sounds of the Jungle I could hear strange animal noises and the leaves were rustling I wasn't sure if I had gone back in time or had Just landed in a jungle somewhere in the 21st century it didn't take me long to realize that I had indeed gone back in time a very strange birdlike creature with a large beak

flew overhead I had never seen anything like it in my life I took a few steps out into the long grass and Ferns I didn't want to go too far away from my time machine I heard a noise over on my right side there was a man man who looked quite different from me he was dressed in an animal skin and he carried a big stick I didn't want him to see me so I hid behind a tree he didn't speak any language that I could understand he grunted at someone who Must have been in

the distance then I felt the Earth shake beneath my feet I heard giant thumps on the ground as the floor of the Jungle shook the man in the animal skin began to run I saw why he was running a a giant dinosaur appeared above the tops of the trees it was Bigger than anything I had ever seen my heart began to pound in my chest it was coming toward me I ran toward my time machine and jumped in I set the dial for the 21st century the machine word and buzzed my time machine Landed in

the 21st century I got away just in time article 94 a baby my aunt just had a baby girl we he went to the hospital to visit my aunt and to see the new baby my aunt was feeling fine although she was just a bit tired she walked with us to a big Window that had lots of babies behind it she pointed to a crib with a baby in it the baby was wrapped in a pink blanket we all said how pretty the baby looked I couldn't believe how tiny the baby was she was asleep

so we couldn't see her eyes when the baby went home we went to visit Her we heard the baby she was crying my aunt said that the baby was hungry my aunt had a baby bottle full of warm milk she fed the baby with it the baby was happy after that my aunt patted the baby on the back until the baby burped and then the baby fell asleep I held the baby I looked at her tiny fingers and Tiny Toes I was very careful with her she opened her eyes and looked at me I spoke

to the baby but I knew that she could not understand me babies have to learn to walk and talk my aunt changed the baby babies were diapers so they need to be changed Often the baby has a lot of toys but she is still too young to play with them my aunt says that it won't be long before the baby is crawling and trying to talk babies are cute I have seen pictures of myself when I was a baby and it's hard to believe That I was once that small article 95 a wedding the church

bells are ringing I am inside the church waiting for my cousin to walk down the aisle today is her wedding day she is a bride the organist is playing a song on the o organ we all stand up and watch my cousin walk down the Aisle she is arm inarm with her father she is dressed in a long white dress and a veil she looks so beautiful she looks like a princess the man who she is going to marry is standing at the front of the the church he is the groom he looks nice Too

he is wearing a suit and he has a flower in his lapel the minister says words to the couple which will make them man and wife the bride and groom smile at each other but they seem to be a little bit nervous they give each other gold rings to wear to Symbolize that they are married they kiss each other and walk out of the church as the organist play plays joyous music some of the people in the church cried at the wedding but not because they were sad everyone in the church is very happy for

the couple a photographer takes pictures of the happy Couple we wish them well and look forward to the reception where we will have dinner and we will dance and have have a good time until it is very late the bride will throw her bouquet of flowers and it is said that whoever catches the bouquet will be the next bride the next day the bride and groom will leave for their Honeymoon my cousin and her husband are going to Mexico for their honeymoon article 96 my dad my dad is the man whom I respect the most

in my life he works very hard to make the money that supports us my mother has a job too and she also works very hard my dad is the Principal of a high school he works at the school all day and often has to go to meetings at night he deals with parents students and staff there is always something that he has to deal with he has a lot on his mind it doesn't matter how much work my dad has to do he always has time for my brothers my Sister and me if I go

to him with a problem he will sit down and discuss it with me he doesn't yell he is always very logical and he tries to think of the best way to deal with things my dad is a very very patient man once I spilled some ink on some papers that he was working on I thought that he would be Mad but he didn't get angry he said that it was okay he takes time out to do things with us he has taken my brother's fishing he takes me to the arena to skate and he helps

my sister to write her essays and assignments he always makes us laugh and he makes us feel like we are very special to him He is a very good father and on Father's Day I always buy him a card that tells him how much he means to me I think it is important to have good parents I hope that when I have children I will be a good parent like my parents are to me parents give children the foundation that they need to live good Lives article 97 my mother my mother does so many things

she has a job at a dress store she cooks our meals she cleans the house she feeds the pets and she still finds time to spend with us my mother is always busy but she says that her favorite time is time that she spends with Us my mother works from Monday to Friday when she comes home from work she makes something for supper we usually do the dishes so that she won't have to do them after supper she helps us with our homework or she sits down to watch television some nights she goes shopping and

she takes whoever wants to go with Her mothers are a little bit of everything my mother is like a teacher when she helps us with our homework she is like a nurse when she looks after us when we're ill she is like a cook when she makes meals for us she says that cleaning the house is her least favorite thing she says that the house gets dirty again right after you clean It she gets my father my brothers sister and me to help her with the cleaning my mother washes all our clothes and sometimes she

irons them if they need it my mother says that there are not enough hours in a day we try to help my mother as much as we Can there is a lot of work involved in keeping a home neat and organized most of my friends mothers work mothers are the people who you go to when you need to be comforted mothers are the people who can make you feel better I'm glad that I have the mother that I have my mother is caring and funny she is fun to be Around article 98 a surprise last

Friday my dad came home from work and said that he had a surprise for us we tried to guess what the surprise might be my brother guessed that we were going out for dinner my dad said no my other brother asked if my father had tickets to a hockey Game my dad said no my sister asked if we were going on a trip my dad said no my mother knew what the surprise was so she just stood and smiled at us I guessed that we might be getting a swimming pool my dad said no we

were getting very frustrated trying to guess what the surprise might Be my brother asked how big the surprise was my dad said that the surprise was quite small we we were not sure what the surprise could be will we all like it I asked yes my dad replied everyone of you will love this surprise we heard a Noise it was a crying noise your surprise wants to see you my dad said he opened the door to the bedroom and a tiny puppy came running out we were all very excited our surprise was a puppy it

was a little baby spaniel the puppy loved all of us she ran around And licked all of our faces we had always wanted a dog we take turns feeding the puppy and taking her out for walks she is growing quickly and will soon be an adult dog we all agree that the puppy was the nicest surprise that my dad could have given us article 99 rhyming words sometimes my friends and I play a Game it's something we made up so it doesn't have a [Music] name we like to take words that rhyme we put them

together line by line do you get the picture now we're playing the game and this is how I might say I like to drive a car I really don't like to go very far if I decide to take a Walk I'd go with a friend so that we could talk do you see that these lines rhyme play the game if you have have the time we could talk about school or even playing do you know what I am saying rhyming words is easy to do it's fun for me it can can be fun for you

just join in and say something or make it into a song that You can sing there are so many words that rhyme with others like smile and and Mile and mothers and brothers I could spend all day just making up these things I could let my imagination fly on wings up to the clouds And back to my mind there are so many Rhymes that I can find there are some words that are hard to find rhymes for I don't use those words anymore I like to choose words that are easy to rhyme like cat and

bat or lime and th so give it a try I know you'll have fun I'll say Goodbye my rhyming is done article 100 homework sometimes my teacher gives us homework I don't mind doing my homework except when the weather is really nice and all my friends are outside on those nights I'd rather be outside with them so I try to get my homework done quickly tonight I I have some English homework we have been reading a Book we have to read a chapter of the book and answer the questions at the end of the chapter

it is an interesting book so the homework for this is quite easy my math homework is not so easy I have to do some addition and subtraction I don't mind that but there are some problems that Need to be solved the problems involve addition subtraction and multi multiplication I am not too good with numbers I need to work harder on my math I just finished a project for history I had to make a map of Canada with diagrams showing the roots of all the Explorers it was an interesting project because I have been to some

of the places that the Explorers went to I don't have any science homework at school we are growing bean plants we go in every day and see how the plants have grown we write Down all the changes that occur in the plant every day the only other homework that I have is is geography I have a map of Canada and I have to write the names of all the provinces and their capitals on it it won't take me long to do That because I know all the provinces when my homework is all done I will

go outside and play ball with my friends until it is time to come in I am a good student I get good marks because I like school my favorite subjects are physical education English and history [Music] story math is my least favorite subject but I'm trying to improve my marks in that [Music] article1 I want to die my my hair green many of my friends have dyed their hair different colors I don't mean normal hair colors like brown or Black my my friends have dyed their hair orange purple and blue I told my mother that

I would like to dye my hair green I explained to to my mother that I would only use food coloring the green would not last forever my mother said that dying your hair was a silly fad she said that I would not look Good with green hair I said that if I couldn't dye my hair green maybe I could get a nose ring my mother said no I said that maybe a tattoo on my arm would be nice my mother said no way my mother said that she did some crazy things when she was a

young Girl she said that she used to iron her hair to make it straight that sounds quite boring to me my friend Joon came over her hair is dyed bright pink my father said nice hair Joan I don't think that he really meant it my mother says that when I am an adult I can die my hair whatever crazy color I Like but for now she would like me to leave my hair its natural color I tried to tell her that all my friends were doing it my mother asked if all your friends were jumping

off a cliff would you do it it too I said no I think I'll have to wait to have Green hair but maybe by the time I'm old enough to dye my hair green I won't want it that color my mother says that fads change all the time one day something might be popular and the next day it's not in style at [Music] All I'll just have to live without green hair for now I wonder what the fad will be next month article 102 why do people dislike other people some people don't like other people

just because they look different I think that is silly I don't think that it is fair to judge Someone by the way they look some people look very nice but they are mean or cruel some people look very very ordinary but they are incredibly nice I remember when I was in grade one I saw a girl across the room she had a mean look on her face I thought to myself That she was not a very nice person I stayed away from her and played with the other children then we had to play a game

and the teacher said that she would pick partners for us the teacher picked the girl girl with the mean face as my partner I didn't think that the game Would be much fun at all with a partner who seemed as mean as that girl I walked up to her and said hello the girl's face changed she smiled at me and she began to talk to me Her mean face disappeared we had lots of fun playing the game we laughed a lot and enjoyed each others company that girl became my best friend now when I look

at her I see what is inside her sometimes she doesn't smile but I know what she is like She is a kind and funny person I have learned that you can't judge a book by its cover it is not fair to dislike someone just because they don't look like you want them to look you have to get to know a person it doesn't matter to me what color a person's Skin is it doesn't matter to me if they are short or tall skinny or fat or happy or sad looking I judge people by how they

treat me and I try to treat people like I would want to be treated article 103 the birthday gift it is going to be my father's birthday what can I give him I don't have much money I have looked all through the stores and I have not found found anything that I think he would like or that I can afford I have thought very hard about what to buy for Him I thought that he might like some candy but my father really doesn't eat many sweets I thought that he might like a new shirt but

he has lots of clothes I can't afford a new car or computer for him I was watching Him on the weekend he cut the grass washed the car took out the garbage weeded the garden and watered the plants I got an idea I went to my room and took out some paper I cut out pieces of paper and I wrote on them I wrote on one piece of paper that I would wash the car every weekend for for the summer I also wrote that I would cut the grass weed the garden and water the plants

every week for the summer I made a birthday card for my dad my dad thought that the gift was very thoughtful he said that it was a gift From the heart I did all those things for my dad all summer he said that he had a lot of free time because I helped him so much my dad and I are good friends I don't mind doing things for him because I know that he is always there to help me out a good gift doesn't have to be Something that costs a lot my dad says that

the best gifts are the ones that show how much you care for the other person I'm glad my dad liked his gift article 104 New Year's Day on New Year's Day people start a new year many people make [Music] resolutions they resolve to be better People some people decide that they will lose weight so that they can be healthier some people decide to give up smoking they also want to be help healthier there are all kinds of resolutions that people make some people try not to lose their tempers some people say that they will work

hard there are people who try to give up bad habits every year my brother says that He will stop biting his nails he stops biting his nails in January but by February he always starts again that is the thing about New Year's resolutions people sell keep them everybody start starts out with good intentions but it is very hard to stick with them I don't make New Year's Resolutions I find that I just break them I just work day by day to break my bad habits I know that I eat too many sweets every day I

just try to resist them I think that every day is a new day regardless of whether it is New Year's Day or not bad habits are hard to Break the best thing is never to start any bad habits I don't know if my brother will ever stop biting his nails but I know that each January he intends to stop maybe one of these New Year's days he'll get over that habit are article 105 if I could fly I sometimes imagine what it would be like if I could fly like a bird just imagine what it

would be like to soar into the sky flying high above the trees you could stand on high Rooftops and never be afraid of falling you would see so many things as you flew over rooftops and forests you would feel incredibly free as you traveled from place to place not bothered by road signs or Traffic jams if I could fly like a bird I would start from my backyard and travel through town I would look down on the houses and factories when I got tired I would land in a field and take a nap I would

travel above rivers and follow them as they wound along and emptied into lakes and oceans I would fly above parks and I I would call out to the children as I flew high above them I would dip and dive as I flew I would Soar up high high and dive down low so that I could almost touch the Treetops have you ever flown I know that you can't fly like a bird but you might have taken an airplane ride when you're in an airplane you pass through Clouds it is exciting to take an airplane ride

I love taking airplane flights I like to look down at the earth when you are up that high everything below you looks tiny that's the closest I'll ever get to Flying Like a Bird But I can still use my imagination and spread my wings and soore high above the world just like a bird article 91 the museum the museum was very interesting there were so many things in the museum that I would need more more time to really see everything there were Clothes from the past I don't know how people wore some of those things

they look like they would be uncomfortable I like to wear my genes there were things from Wars there were bullets and cannons and even uniforms from the the soldiers I don't think that War is a good thing but it is good to remember the past and honor the people who died for your country there was an old fire truck at the Museum this fire truck was pulled by a horse there were some very old photographs of the firemen putting out fires there were rooms in the Museum that were set up like an old house there

were antique irons and sewing machines the women used to clean the clothes with a washboard there were no modern appliances back then I'm glad that we have electricity and modern appliances the things that we have make life so much easier there were mummies from Egypt at The Museum I was fascinated by those there were artifacts from Indians that there were Arro heads and cradles that the babies slept in I tried my best to see everything but it was almost impossible the museum is a good place to Learn about your past I tried to imagine my

grandparents using some of the things that were on display at the Museum article 92 the police my mother always told me that if I was lost I could go up to a policeman and that he would help me to find my way home I never did get lost but I always remembered what my mother told me about the police I think policemen look very nice in their uniforms I see police officers drive by in their police cars in my town we even have police officers on bicycles policemen and police Women have a job that can

sometimes be dangerous they have to catch people who break the law sometimes they have to chase people or try to calm people down to be a police officer you need a lot of training it is important to be able to deal with people Effectively a police officer came to our school he had a police dog with him the officer showed us how the dog could track down criminals the dog was very smart he could even find things that were hidden criminals sometimes hide things that they don't want the police to find the polican told us

that he and his Dog were Partners his dog lives at his house with the policeman and his family sometimes I see police cars on the side of the road the police stop people who are speeding or are not wearing their seat belts the police officers warn people or give out tickets sometimes they even have to arrest People police officers are just doing their job when they arrest people some people need to be arrested and put in jail to make it safer for the rest of us article 93 pretending I like to pretend I like to

make up things that aren't real I use my imagination I was pretending that I was In a time machine I set the date for a prehist toric time I turned on the time machine and it buzzed and word and spun madly when it stopped spinning I opened the door and stepped out into a very thick jungle I listened carefully to the sounds of the Jungle I could hear strange animal noises and the leaves were rustling I wasn't sure if I I had gone back in time or had just landed in a jungle somewhere in the

21st century it didn't take me long to realize that I had indeed gone back in time a very strange birdlike creature with a large beak flew Overhead I had never seen anything like it in my life I took a few steps out into the long grass and ferns I didn't want to go too far away from my time machine I heard a noise over on my right side there was a man who looked quite different from me he was dressed in an animal skin and he carried a big Stick I didn't want him to see

me so I hid behind a tree he didn't speak any language that I could understand he grunted at someone who must have been in the distance then I felt the Earth shake beneath my feet I heard giant thumps on the ground as the floor of the Jungle shook the man in the animal skin began to Run I saw why he was running and a giant dinosaur appeared above the tops of the trees it was bigger than anything I had ever seen my heart began to pound in my chest it was coming toward me I ran

toward my time machine and jumped In I set the dial for the 21st century the machine word and buzzed my time machine landed in the 21st century I got away just in time article 94 a baby my aunt just had a baby girl we went to the Hospital to visit my aunt and to see the new baby my aunt was feeling fine although she was just a bit tired she walked with us to a big window that had lots of babies behind it she pointed to a crib with a baby in it the baby was

wrapped in a pink blanket we all Paul said how pretty the baby looked I couldn't Believe how tiny the baby was she was asleep so we couldn't see her eyes when the baby went home we went to visit her we heard the baby she was crying my aunt said that the baby was hungry my aunt had a baby bottle full of warm milk she fed the baby with It the baby was happy after that my aunt patted the baby on the back until the baby burped and then the baby fell asleep I held the baby

I looked at her tiny fingers and Tiny Toes I was very careful with her she opened her eyes and looked at me I spoke to the baby but I knew that she Could not understand me babies have to learn to walk and talk my aunt changed the baby babies were diapers so they need to be changed often the baby has a lot of toys but she is still too young to play with them my aunt says that it won't be long before the baby is crawling and trying to Talk babies are cute I have seen

pictures of myself when I was a baby and it's hard to believe that I was once that small article 95 a wedding the church bells are ringing I am inside the church waiting for my cousin to walk down the aisle today is her wedding Day she is a bride the organist is playing a song on the orgon we all stand up and watch my cousin walk down the aisle she is arm inarm with her father she is dressed in a long white dress and a veil she looks so beautiful she looks like a Princess the

man who she is going to marry is standing at the front of the church he is the groom he looks nice too he is wearing a suit and he has a flower in his lapel the minister says words to the couple which will make them man and wife the bride and groom smile at each other But they seem to be a little bit nervous they give each other gold rings to wear to symbolize that they are married they kiss each other and walk out of the church as the organist plays joyous music some of the

people in the church cried at the wedding but not Because they were sad everyone in the church is very happy for the couple a photographer takes pictures of the happy couple we wish them well and look forward to the reception where we will have dinner and we will dance and have a good time until it is very late the bride will throw her bouquet of Flowers and it is said that whoever catches the bouquet will be the next bride the next day the bride and groom will leave for their honeymoon my cousin and her husband

are going to Mexico for their honeymoon article 96 my dad my dad is the man whom I respect the most in my Life he works very hard to make the money that supports us my mother has a job too and she also works very hard my dad is the principal of a high school he works at the school all day and often has to go to meetings at night he deals with parents students and staff there is always something that he Has to deal with he has a lot on his mind it doesn't matter how

much much work my dad has to do he always has time for my brothers my sister and me if I go to him with a problem he will sit down and discuss it with me he doesn't yell he is always very Logical and he tries to think of the best way to deal with things my dad is a very very patient man once I spilled some ink on some papers that he was working on I thought that he would be mad but he didn't get angry he said that it was okay he takes time out

to do things with us he has taken my brothers Fishing he takes me to the arena to skate and he helps my sister to write her essays and assignments he always makes us laugh and he makes us feel like we are very special to him he is a very good father and on Father's Day I always buy him a card that tells him how much he means to me I think it is important to to have good Parents I hope that when I have children I will be a good parent like my parents are to

me parents give children the found ation that they need to live good lives article 97 my mother my mother does so many things she has a job at a dress store store she cooks our Meals she cleans the house she feeds the pets and she still finds time to spend with us my mother is always busy but she says that her favorite time is time that she spends with us my mother works from Monday to Friday when she comes home from work she makes something for supper we Usually do the dishes so that she won't

have to do them after supper she helps us with our homework or she sits down to watch television some nights she goes shopping and she takes whoever wants to go with her mothers are a little bit of everything my mother is like a teacher when she helps us with with our homework she is like a Nurse when she looks after us when we're ill she is like a cook when she makes meals for us she says that cleaning the house is her least favorite thing she says that the house gets dirty again right after you

clean it she gets my father my brothers sister and me to help her with the cleaning my mother washes all our Clothes and sometimes she irons them if they need it my mother says that there are not enough hours in a day we try to help my mother as much as we can there is a lot of work involved in keeping a home neat and organized most of my friends mothers work mothers are the people who you go to When you need to be comforted mothers are the people who can make you feel better I'm

glad that I have the mother that I have my mother is caring and funny she is fun to be around article 98 a surprise last Friday my dad came home from work and said that he had a surprise for Us we tried to to guess what the surprise might be my brother guessed that we were going out for dinner my dad said no my other brother asked if my father had tickets to a hockey game my dad said no my sister asked if we were going on a trip my dad said No my mother knew

what the surprise was was so she just stood and smiled at us I guessed that we might be getting a swimming pool my dad said no we were getting very frustrated ated trying to guess what the surprise might be my brother asked how big the surprise was my dad said that the surprise was quite small we were not sure what the Surprise could be will we all like it I asked yes my dad replied everyone of you will love this surprise we heard a noise it was a crying noise your surprise wants to see you

my dad said he opened the door to the bedroom and a tiny puppy Came running out we were all very excited our surprise was a puppy it was a little baby spaniel the puppy loved all of us she ran around and licked all of our faces we had always wanted a dog we take turns feeding the puppy and taking her out for walks she is growing quickly and will soon be an adult Dog we all agree that the puppy was the nicest surprise that my dad could have given us article 99 rhyming words sometimes my

friends and I play a game it's something we made up so it doesn't have a [Music] name we like to take words that rhyme we put them together line by line do you get the picture Now we're playing the game and this is how I might say I like to drive a car I really don't like to go very far if I decide to take a walk I'd go with a friend so that we could talk do you see that these lines rhyme play the game if you have the time we could talk about school

or even playing do you know what I am Saying rhyming words is easy to do it's fun for me it can be fun for you just join in and say something or make it into a song that you can sing there are so many words that rhyme with others like smile and and Mile and mothers and brothers I could spend all day just Making up these things I could let my imagination fly on wings up to the clouds and back to my mind there are so many Rhymes that I can find there are some words

that are hard to find rhymes for I don't use those words anymore I like to to choose words that are easy to Rhyme like cat and bat or lime and th so give it a try I know you'll have fun I'll say goodbye my rhyming is done article 100 homework sometimes my teacher gives us homework I don't mind doing my homework except when the weather is really nice and all my friends are Outside on those nights I'd rather be outside with them so I try to get my homework done quickly tonight I have some English

homework we have been reading a book we have to read a chapter of the book and answer the questions at the end of the chapter it is an interesting book So the homework for this is quite easy my math homework is not so easy I have to do some addition and and subtraction I don't mind that but there are some problems that need to be solved the problems involve addition subtraction and multi multiplication I am not too good with Numbers I need to work harder on my math I just finished a project for history I

had to make a map of Canada with diagrams showing the roots of all the Explorers it was an interesting project because I have been to some of the places that the Explorers went To I don't have any science homework at school we are growing bean plants we go in every day and see how the plants have grown we write down all the changes that occur in the plant every day the only other Homework that I have is is geography I have a map of Canada and I have to write the names of all the provinces

and their capitals on it it won't take me long to do that because I know all the provinces when my homework is all done I will go outside and play ball with my friends Until it is time to come in I am a good student I get good marks because I like school my favorite subjects are physical education English and his [Music] history math is my least favorite subject but I'm trying to improve my marks in that [Music] article1 I want to die my hair green many of my friends have dyed their hair different colors

I don't mean normal hair colors like brown or black my my friends have dyed their hair orange purple and blue I told my mother that I would like to dye my hair Green I explained to to my mother that I would only use food coloring the green would not last forever my mother said that dying your hair was a silly fad she said that I would not look good with green hair I said that if I couldn't dye my hair green maybe I could get a nose ring my mother said no I said that maybe

a Tattoo on my arm would be nice my mother said no way my mother said that she did some crazy C things when she was a young girl she said that she used to iron her hair to make it straight that sounds quite boring to me my friend Jo Jo came over her hair is dyed bright pink my father said nice hair Joan I don't think that he really meant it my mother says that when I am an adult I can die my hair whatever crazy color I like but for now she would like me

to leave my hair its natural color I tried to tell her that all my friends were doing it my mother asked if all your friends were Jumping off a cliff would you do do it too I said no I think I'll have to wait to have green hair but maybe by the time I'm old enough to dye my hair green I won't want it that color my mother says that fads change all the time one day something might be Popular and the next day it's not in style at [Music] all I'll just have to live

without green hair for now I wonder what the fad will be next month article 102 why do people dislike other people some people don't like other people just because they look Different I think that is silly I don't think that it is fair to judge someone by the way they look some people look very nice but they are mean or cruel some people look very ordinary but they are incredibly nice I remember when I was in grade One I saw a girl across the room she had a mean look on her face I thought to

myself that she was not a very nice person I stayed away from her and played with with the other children then we had to play a game and the teacher said that she would pick partners for Us the teacher picked the girl with the mean face as my partner I didn't think that the game would be much fun at all with a partner who seemed as mean as is that girl I walked up to her and said hello the girl's face Changed she smiled at me and she began to talk to me her mean face

disappeared we had lots of fun playing the game we laughed a lot and enjoyed each others company that girl became became my best friend now when I look at her I see what is inside Her sometimes she doesn't smile but I know what she is like she is a kind and funny person I have learned that you can't judge a book by its cover it is not fair to dislike someone just because they don't look like you want them to look you have To get to know a person it doesn't matter to me what color

a person skin is it doesn't matter to me if they are short or tall skinny or fat or happy or sad looking I judge people by how they treat me And I try to treat people like I would want to be treated article 103 the birthday gift it is going to be my my father's birthday what can I give him I don't have much money I have looked all through the stores and I have not f found anything that I think he would like or that I can Afford I have thought very hard about what

to buy for him I thought that he might like some candy but my father really doesn't eat many sweets I thought that he might like a new shirt but he has lots of clothes I can't afford a new car or Computer for him I was watching him on the weekend he cut the grass washed the car took out the garbage weeded the garden and watered the plants I got an idea I went to my room and took out some paper I cut out pieces of Paper and I wrote on them I wrote on one piece

of paper that I would wash the car every weekend for the summer I also wrote that I would cut the grass weed the garden and water the plants every week for the summer I made a birthday card for my dad my dad thought that the gift was Very thoughtful he said that it was a gift from the heart I did all those things for my dad all summer he said that he had a lot of free time because I helped him so much my dad and I are good friends I don't mind doing things for

him because I know that he is always there To help me out a good gift doesn't have to be something that costs a lot my dad says that the best gifts are the ones that show how much you care for the other person I'm glad my dad liked his gift article 104 New Year's Day on New Year's Day people start a new Year many people make resolutions they resolve to be better people some people decide that they will lose weight so that they can be healthier some people decide to give up smoking they also want

to be healthier there are all kinds of resolutions that people make some people try not to lose their tempers some people say that they will work hard Harder there are people who try to give up bad habits every year my brother says that he will stop biting his nails he stops biting his nails in January but by February he always starts again that is the thing about New Year's resolutions people sell keep them everybody stop starts out with good Intentions but it is very hard to stick with them I don't make New Year's resolutions I

find that I just break them I just work day by day to break my bad habits I know that I eat too many sweets every day I just try to resist them I think that every day is a new day Regardless of whether it is New Year's Day or not bad habits are hard to break the best thing is never to start any bad habits I don't know if my brother will ever stop biting his nails but I know that each January he intends to Stop maybe one of these New Year's days he'll get over

that habit article 105 if I could fly I sometimes imagine what it would be like if I could fly like a bird just imagine what it would be like to soar into the Sky flying high above the trees you could stand on high rooftops and never be afraid of falling you would see so many things as you flew over rooftops and forests you would feel Incredibly free as you traveled from place to to place not bothered by road signs or traffic jams if I could fly like a bird I would start from my backyard and

travel through town I would look down on the houses and Factories when I got tired I would land in a field and take a nap I would travel above rivers and follow them as they wound along and emptied into lakes and oceans I would fly above parks and I would call out to the children as I flew high above Them I would dip and dive as I flew I would soar up high high and dive down low so that I could almost touch the Treetops have you ever flown I know that you can't fly like

like a Bird but you might have taken an airplane ride when you're in an airplane you pass through clouds it is exciting to take an airplane plane ride I love taking airplane flights I like to look down at the earth when you are up that high everything below you looks Tiny that's the closest I'll ever get to Flying Like a Bird but I can still use my imagination and spread my wings and soar high above the world just like a bird article 91 the museum the museum was very Interesting there were so many things in

the museum that I would need more more time to really see everything there were clothes from the past I don't know how people wore some of those things they look like they would be uncomfortable I like to wear my jeans there were things from Wars there were bullets and cannons and even uniforms from the soldiers I don't think that war is a good thing but it is good to remember the past and honor the people who died for your country there was an old fire truck at the Museum this fire truck was pulled by a

Horse there were some very old photographs of the firemen putting out fires there were rooms in the museum that were set up like an old house there were antique irons and sewing machines the the women used to clean the clothes with a washboard there were no modern Appliances back then I'm glad that we have electricity and modern appliances the things that we have make life so much easier there were mummies from Egypt at the Museum I was fascinated by those there were artifacts from Indians there were Arro heads and Cradles that the babies slept in

I tried my best to see everything but it was almost impossible the museum is a good place to learn learn about your past I tried to imagine my grandparents using some of the things that were on display at the Museum article 92 the police my mother always told me that if I was lost I could go up to a policeman and that he would help me to find my way home I never did get lost but I always remembered what my mother told me about the police I think policemen look very nice in their Uniforms

I see police officers drive by in their police cars in my town we even have police officers on bicycles policemen and police women have a job that that can sometimes be dangerous they have to catch people who break the law sometimes they have to chase people or Try to calm people down to be a police officer you need a lot of training it is important to be able to deal with people effectively a police officer came to our school he had a police dog with him the officer showed us how the dog could track down

criminals the dog was very smart he could even find things that Were hidden criminals sometimes hide things that they don't want the police to find the policeman told us that he and his dog were Partners his dog lives at his house with the policeman and his family sometimes I see police cars on the side of the [Music] Road the police stop people who are speeding or are not wearing their their seat belts the police officers warn people or give out tickets sometimes they even have to arrest people police officers are just doing their job when

they arrest people some people need to be arrested and put in Jail to make it safer for the rest of us article 93 pretending I like to pretend I like to make up things that aren't real I use my imagination I was pretending that I was in a time machine I set the date for a prehistoric time I turned on the time machine and it buzzed and Wh and spun madly when it stopped spinning I opened the door and stepped out into a very thick jungle I listened carefully to the sounds of the Jungle I

could hear strange animal noises and the leaves were rustling I wasn't sure if I had gone back in time or had Just landed in a jungle somewhere in the 21st century it didn't take me long to realize that I had indeed gone back in time a very strange birdlike creature with a large beak flew overhead I had never seen anything like it in my life I took a few step steps out into The long grass and ferns I didn't want to go too far away from my time machine I heard a noise over on my

right side there was a man man who looked quite different from me he was dressed in an animal skin and he carried a big stick I didn't want him to see me so I hid behind a a tree he didn't speak any language that I could Understand he grunted at someone who must have been in the distance then I felt the Earth shake beneath my feet I heard giant thumps on the ground as the floor of the Jungle shook the man in the animal skin began to run I saw why he was running a giant

dinosaur Appeared above the tops of the trees it was bigger than any thing I had ever seen my heart began to pound in my chest it was coming toward me I ran toward my time machine and jumped in I set the dial for the 21st century the machine word and buzzed My time machine landed in the 21st century I got away just in time article 94 a baby my aunt just had a baby girl we went to the hospital to visit my aunt and to see the new baby my aunt was feeling fine although she

was just a bit Tired she walked with us to a big window that had lots of babies behind it she pointed to a crib with a baby in it the baby was wrapped in a pink blanket we all said how pretty the baby looked I couldn't believe how tiny the baby was she was asleep so we couldn't see her eyes when the baby went Home we went to visit her we heard the baby she was crying my aunt said that the baby was hungry my aunt had a a baby bottle full of warm milk she

fed the baby with it the baby was happy after that my aunt patted the baby on the back until the baby burped and then the baby fell asleep I held the Baby I looked at her tiny fingers and Tiny Toes I was very careful with her she opened her eyes and looked at me I spoke to the baby but I knew that she could not understand me babies have to learn to walk and talk my aunt changed the baby babies were Diapers so they need to be changed often the baby has a lot of toys

but she is still too young to play with them my aunt says that it won't be long before the baby is crawling and trying to talk babies are cute I have seen pictures of myself when I was a baby and It's hard to believe that I was once that small article 95 a wedding the church bells are ringing I am inside the church waiting for my cousin to walk down the aisle today is her wedding day she is a bride the organist is playing a song on the or organ we all stand up and watch

my Cousin walk down the aisle she is arm inarm with her father she is dressed in a long white dress and a veil she looks so beautiful she looks like a princess the man who she is going to marry is standing at the front of the the church he is the Groom he looks nice too he is wearing a suit and he has a flower in his lapel the minister said says words to the couple which will make them man and wife the bride and groom smile at each other but they seem to be a

little bit nervous they give each other gold rings to Wear to symbolize that they are married they kiss each other and walk out of the church as the organist play plays joyous music some of the people in the church cried at the wedding but not because they were sad everyone in the church is very happy for the Couple a photographer takes pictures of the happy couple we wish them well and look forward to the reception where we will have dinner and we will dance and have have a good time until it is very late the

bride will throw her bouquet of flowers and it is said that whoever catches the bouquet will be the next bride The next day the bride and groom will leave for their honeymoon my cousin and her husband are going to Mexico for their honeymoon article 96 my dad my dad is the man whom I respect the most in my life he works very hard to make the money that supports us my mother has a job too And she also works very hard my dad is the principal of a high school he works at the school all

day and often has to go to meetings at night he deals with parents students and staff there is always something that he has to deal with he has a lot on his mind it doesn't matter how much work my Dad has to do he always has time for my brothers my sister and me if I go to him with a problem he will sit down and discuss it with me he doesn't yell he is always very logical and he tries to think of the best way to deal with things my dad is a very patient

Man once I spilled some ink on some papers that he was working on I thought that he would be mad but he didn't get angry he said that it was okay he takes time out to do things with us he has taken my brothers fishing he takes me to the arena to skate and he helps my sister to write her essays and Assignments he always makes us laugh and he makes us feel like we are very special to him he is a very good father and on Father's Day I always buy him a card that

tells him how much he means to me I think it is important to have good parents I hope that when I have children I will be a good parent like my parents are to Me parents give children the foundation that they need to live good lives article 97 my mother my mother does so many things she has a job at a dress store she cooks our meals she cleans the house she feeds the pets and she still finds time to spend with us my mother is always Busy but she says that her favorite time is

time that she spends with us my mother works from Monday to Friday when she comes home from work she makes something for supper we usually do the dishes so that she won't have to do them after supper she helps us with our homework or she sits down to watch television some nights she goes Shopping and she takes whoever wants to go with her mothers are a little bit of everything my mother is like a teacher when she helps us with our homework she is like a nurse when she looks after us when we're ill she

is like a cook when she makes meals for us she says that cleaning the house is her least favorite Thing she says that the house gets dirty again right after you clean it she gets my father my brothers sister and me to help her with the cleaning my mother washes all our clothes and sometimes she irons them if they need it my mother says that there are not enough hours in a Day we try to help my mother as much as we can there is a lot of work involved in keeping a home neat and

organized most of my friends mothers work mothers are the people who you go to when you need to be comforted mothers are the people who can make you feel better I'm glad that I have the mother that I Have my mother is caring and funny she she is fun to be around article 98 a surprise last Friday my dad came home from work and said that he had a surprise for us we tried to guess what the surprise might be my brother guessed that we were going out for dinner my dad said No my other

brother asked if my father had tickets to a hockey game my dad said no my sister asked if we were going on a trip my dad said no my mother knew what the surprise was so she just stood and smiled at us I guessed that we might be getting a swimming Pool my dad said no we were getting very frustrated trying to guess what the surprise might be my brother asked how big the surprise was my dad said that the surprise was quite small we we were not sure what the surprise could be will we

all like it I asked yes my dad replied Everyone of you will love this surprise we heard a noise it was a crying noise your surprise wants to see you my dad said he opened the door to the bedroom and a tiny puppy came running out we were all very excited our surprise was a puppy it was a little baby spaniel the puppy loved all of Us she ran around and licked all of our faces we had always wanted a dog we take turns feeding the puppy and taking her out for walks she is growing

quickly and and will soon be an adult dog we all agree that the puppy was the nicest surprise that my dad could have given Us article 99 rhyming words sometimes my friends and I play a game it's something we made up so it doesn't have a [Music] name we like to take words that rhyme we put them together line by line do you get the picture now we're playing the game and this is how I might say I like to drive a Car I really don't like to go very far if I decide to take

a walk I'd go with a friend so that we could talk do you see that these lines rhyme play the game if you have have the time we could talk about school or even playing do you know what I am saying rhyming words is easy to do it's fun for Me it can be fun for you just join in and say something or make it into a song that you can sing there are so many words that rhyme with others like smile and and Mile and mothers and brothers I could spend all day just making

up these things I could let my Imagination fly on wings up to the clouds and back to my mind there are so many Rhymes that I can find there are some words that are hard to find rhymes for I don't use those words anymore I like to choose words that are easy to rhyme like cat and bat or lime and th So give it a try I know you'll have fun I'll say goodbye my rhyming is is done article 100 homework sometimes my teacher gives us homework I don't mind doing my homework except when the

weather is really nice and all my friends are outside on those nights I'd rather be outside with Them so I try to get my homework done quickly tonight I I have some English homework we have been reading a book we have to read a chapter of the book and answer the questions at the end of the chapter it is an interesting book so the homework for this is quite easy my math homework is not so Easy I have to do some addition and subtraction I don't mind that but there are some problems that need to

be solved the problems involve addition subtraction and multi multiplication I am not too good with numbers I need to work harder on my math I just Finished a project for history I had to make a map of Canada with diagrams showing the roots of all the Explorers it was an interesting project because I have been to some of the places that the Explorers went to I don't have any science homework at school we are growing bean Plants we go in every day and see how the plants have grown we write down all the changes that

occur in the plant every day the only other homework that I have is is geography I have a map of Canada and I have to write the names of All the provinces and their capitals on it it won't take me long to do that because I know all the provinces when my homework is all done I will go outside and play ball with my friends until it is time to come in I am a good student I get good marks Because I like school my favorite subjects are physical education English and history St story math

is my least favorite subject but I'm trying to improve my marks in that article1 I want to die my my hair green many of my friends have dyed their hair different colors I don't mean normal hair colors Like brown or black my friends have dyed their hair orange purple and blue I told my mother that I would like to dye my hair green I explained to to my mother that I would only use food coloring the green would not last Forever my mother said that dying your hair was a silly fad she said that I

would not look good with green hair I said that if I couldn't dye my hair green maybe I could get a nose ring my mother said said no I said that maybe a tattoo on my arm would be nice my mother said no way my mother said that she did some Crazy things when she was a young girl she said that she used to iron her hair to make it straight that sounds quite boring to me my friend Joan came over her hair is dyed bright pink my father said nice hair Joan I don't think

that he really meant It my mother says that when I am an adult I can die my hair whatever crazy color I like but for now she would like me to leave my hair its natural color I tried to tell her that all my friends were doing it my mother asked if all your friends were jumping off a Cliff would you do it it too I said no I think I'll have to wait to have green hair but maybe by the time I'm old enough to dye my hair green I won't want it that color

my mother says that fads change all the time one day something might be Popular and the next day it's not in stock stal at [Music] all I'll just have to live without green hair for now I wonder what the fad will be next month article 102 why do people dislike other people some people don't like other people just because they look Different I think that is silly I don't think that it is fair to judge someone by the way they look some people look very nice but they are mean or cruel some people look very

very ordinary but they are incredibly nice I remember when I was in grade One I saw a girl across the room she had a mean look on her face I thought to myself that she was not a very nice person I stayed away from her and played with the other children then we had to play a game and the teacher said that she would Pick partners for us the teacher picked the girl girl with the mean face as my partner I didn't think that the game would be much fun at all with a partner who

seemed as mean as that girl I walked up to her and said Hello the girl's face changed she smiled at me and she began to talk to me her mean face disappeared we had lots of fun playing the game we laughed a lot and enjoyed each others company that girl became my best Friend now when I look at her I see what is inside her sometimes she doesn't smile but I know what she is like she is a kind and funny person I have learned that you can't judge a book by its cover it is

not fair to dislike someone just because they don't look Like you want them to look you have to get to know a person it doesn't matter to me what color a person's skin is it doesn't matter to me if they are short or tall skinny or fat or happy or sad looking I judge people by how they treat Me and I try to treat people like I would want to be treated article 103 the birthday gift it is going to be my father's birthday what can I give him I don't have much money I have

looked all through the stores and I have not found found Anything that I think he would like or that I can afford I have thought very hard about what to buy for him I thought that he might like some candy but my father really doesn't eat many sweets I thought that he might like a new shirt but he has lots of clothes I can't afford a new Car or computer for him I was watching him on the weekend he cut the grass washed the car took out the garbage weeded the garden and watered the plants

I got an idea I went to my room and took out some Paper I cut out pieces of paper and I wrote on them I wrote on one piece of paper that I would wash the car every weekend for for the summer I also wrote that I would cut the grass weed the garden and water the plants every week for the summer I made A birthday card for my dad my dad thought that the gift was very thoughtful he said that it was a gift from the heart I did all those things for my dad

all summer he said that he had a lot of free time because I helped him so much my dad and I are good friends I don't mind doing things for Him because I know that he is always there to help me out a good gift doesn't have to be something that costs a lot my dad says that the best gifts are the ones that show how much you care for the other person I'm glad my dad liked his gift article 104 New Year's Day on New Year's Day people start a new year many people make

resolutions they resolve to be better people some people decide that they will lose weight so that they can be healthier some people decide to give up smoking they also want to be help healthier there are all kinds of resolutions that people make some people try not to lose their tempers some people say that they will Work harder there are people who try to give up bad habits every year my brother says that he will stop biting his nails he stops biting his nails in January but by February he always starts again that is the thing

about New Year's resolutions people sell keep them everybody start s out with good Intentions but it is very hard to stick with them I don't make New Year's resolutions I find that I just break them I just work day by day to break my bad habits I know that I eat too many sweets every day I just try to resist them I think that every day is a new day regardless of whether it is New Year's Day or not bad habits are hard to break the best thing is never to start any bad habits I

don't know if my brother will ever stop biting his nails but I know that each January he intends to stop Maybe one of these New Year's days he'll get over that habit are article 105 if I could fly I sometimes imagine what it would be like if I could fly like a bird just imagine what it would be like to soar into the sky Flying high above the trees you could stand on high rooftops and never be afraid of falling you would see so many things as you flew over rooftops and forests you would feel

incredibly Free as you traveled from place to place not bothered by road signs or traffic jams if I could fly like a bird I would start from my backyard and travel through town I would look down on the houses and Factories when I got tired I would land in a field and take a nap I would travel above rivers and follow them as they wound along and emptied into lakes and oceans I would fly above parks and I would call out to the children as I flew high above them I would Dip and dive as

I flew I would soar up high high and dive down low so that I could almost touch the Treetops have you ever flown I know that you can't fly like a bird But you might have taken an airplane ride when you're in an airplane you pass article 91 the museum the museum was very interesting there were so many things in the museum that I would need more time to really see everything there were clothes from the past I don't know how people wore some Of those things they look like they would be uncomfortable I like

to wear my jeans there were things from Wars there were bullets and cannons and even uniforms from the soldiers I don't think that war is a good thing But it is good to remember the past and honor the people who died for your country there was an old fire truck at the Museum this fire truck was pulled by a horse there were some very old photographs of the firemen putting out fires there were rooms in the museum that were set up like an old House there there were antique irons and sewing machines the women used

to clean the clothes with a washboard there were no modern appliances back then I'm glad that we have electricity and modern appliances the things that we have make life so much easier there were mummies from Egypt at the Museum I was fascinated by by those there were artifacts from Indians there were Arro heads and cradles that the babies slept in I tried my best to see everything but it was almost impossible the museum is a good place to learn about your Past I tried to imagine my grandparents using some of the things that were on

display at the Museum article 92 the police my mother always told me that if I was lost I could go up to a policeman and that he would help me to Find my way home I never did get lost but I always remembered what my mother told me about the police I think policemen look very nice in their uniforms I see police officers drive by in their police cars in my town we even have police officers on bicycles Policemen and police women have a job that can sometimes be dangerous they have to catch people who

break the law sometimes they have have to chase people or try to calm people down to be a police officer you need a lot of training it is Important to be able to deal with people people effectively a police officer came to our school he had a police dog with him the officer showed us how the dog could track down criminals the dog was very smart he could even find things that were hidden criminals sometimes hide things that they don't want the police to Find the policeman told us that he and his dog were Partners

his dog lives at his house with the policeman and his family sometimes I see police cars on the side of the road the police stop people who are speeding or are not wearing their seat belts the police officers warn people or give out tickets sometimes they even have to Arrest people police officers are just doing their job when they arrest people some people need to be arrested and put in jail to make it safer for the rest of us article 93 pretending I like to pretend I like to make up things that aren't Real I

use my imagination I was pretending that I was in a time machine I set the date for a prehistoric time I turned on the time machine and it buzzed and wh and spun madly when it stopped spinning I opened the door and stepped out into a very thick Jungle I listened carefully to the sounds of the Jungle I could hear strange animal noises and the leaves were rustling I wasn't sure if I had gone back in time or had just landed in a jungle somewhere in the 21st century it didn't take take me Long to

realize that I had indeed gone back in time a very strange bird like creature with a large beak flew overhead I had never seen anything like it in my life I took a few steps out into the long grass and ferns I didn't want to go too far away from my time machine I heard heard a noise over on my Right side there was a man who looked quite different from me he was dressed in an animal skin and he carried a big stick I didn't want him to see me so I hid behind a

tree he didn't speak any language that I could understand he grunted at someone who must have been in the distance then then I felt the Earth Shake beneath my feet I heard giant thumps on the ground as the floor of the Jungle shook the man in the animal skin began to run I saw why he was running a giant dinosaur appeared above the tops of the trees it was bigger than anything I had ever seen My heart began to pound in my chest it was coming toward me I ran toward my time machine and jumped

in I set the dial for the 21st century the machine word and buz my time machine landed in the 21st Century I got away just in time article 94 a baby my aunt just had a baby girl we went to the hospital to visit my aunt and to see the new baby my aunt was feeling fine although she he was just a bit tired she walked with us to a big window that had lots of babies behind it she pointed to a Crib with a baby in it the baby was wrapped in a pink blanket

we all said how pretty the baby looked I couldn't believe how tiny the baby was she was asleep so we couldn't see her eyes when the baby went home we went to visit her we heard the baby she was crying my aunt said that the baby was Hungry my aunt had a baby bottle full of warm milk she fed the baby with it the baby was happy after that my aunt patted the baby on the back until the baby burped and then the baby fell asleep I held the baby I looked at her tiny fingers

and Tiny Toes I was very careful with her her she opened her Eyes and looked at me I spoke to the baby but I knew that she could not understand me babies have to learn to walk and talk my aunt changed the baby babies we diapers so they need to be changed often the baby has a lot of toys but she is still too young to play with Them my aunt says that it won't be long before the baby is crawling and trying to talk babies are cute I have seen pictures of myself when I

was a baby and it's hard to believe that I was once that small article 95 a wedding the church bells are Ringing I am inside the church waiting for my cousin to walk down the aisle today is her wedding day she is a bride the organist is playing a song on the organ we all stand up and watch my cousin walk down the aisle she is arm inarm with with her father she is dressed in a long white dress and a Veil she looks so beautiful she looks like a princess the man who she is

going to marry is standing at the front of the church he is the groom he looks nice too he is wearing a suit and he has a a flower in his lapel the minister says words to the couple which will make them man and Wife the bride and groom smile at each other but they seem to be a little bit nervous they give each other gold rings to wear to symbolize that they are married they kiss each other and walk out of the church as the organist plays joyous music some of the people in the

church cried at the Wedding but not because they were sad everyone in the church is very happy for the couple a photographer takes pictures of the happy couple we wish them well and look forward to the reception where we will have dinner and we will dance and have a good time Until it is very late the bride will throw her bouquet of flowers and it is said that whoever ever catches the bouquet will be the next bride the next day the bride and groom will leave for their honeymoon my cousin and her husband are going

to Mexico for the their honeymoon article 96 my Dad my dad is the man whom I respect the most in my life he works very hard to make the money that that supports us my mother has a job too and she also works very hard my dad is the principal of a high school he works at the school all day and often has to go to meetings at night he deals with parents Students and staff there is always something that he has to deal with he has a lot on his mind it doesn't matter how

much work my dad has to do he always has time for my brothers my sister and me if I go to him with a problem he will sit down and discuss it with Me he doesn't yell he is always very logical and he tries to think of the best way to deal with things my dad is a very patient man once I spilled some ink on some papers that he was working on I thought that he would be mad but he didn't get angry he said that it was okay he takes time out to do

things with us he has taken my Brothers fishing he takes me to the arena to skate and he helps my sister to write her essays and assignments he always makes us laugh and he makes us feel like we are very special to him he is a very good father and on Father's Day I always buy him a card that tells him how much he means to Me I think it is important to have good parents I hope that when I have children I will be a good parent like my parents are to me parents give

children the foundation that they need to live good lives article 97 my mother my mother does so Many things she has a job at a dress store she cooks our meals she cleans the house she feeds the pets and she still finds time to spend with us my my mother is always busy but she says that her favorite time is time that she spends with us my mother works from Monday to Friday when she comes home from from work she makes something for supper we usually do the dishes so that she won't have to do

them after supper she helps us with our homework or or she sits down to watch television some nights she goes shopping and she takes whoever wants to go with her mothers are a little bit of Everything my mother is like a teacher when she helps us with our homework she is like a nurse when she looks after us when we're ill she is like a cook when she makes me meals for us she says that cleaning the house is her least favorite thing she says that the house gets dirty again right after you clean it

she gets my father My brothers sister and me to help her with the cleaning my mother washes all our clothes and sometimes she irons them if they need it my mother says that there are not enough hours in a day we try to help my mother as much as we can there is a lot of work Involved in keeping a home neat and organized most of my friends mother mothers work mothers are the people who you go to when you need to be comforted mothers are the people who can make you feel better I'm glad

that I have the mother that I have my mother is caring and funny she is fun to be around article 98 a surprise last Friday my dad came home from work and said that he had a surprise for us we tried to guess what the surprise might be my brother guessed that we were going out for dinner my dad said no my other brother asked if my father had tickets to a hockey Game my dad said no my sister asked if we were going on a trip my dad said no my mother knew what the

surprise was so she just stood and smiled at us I guessed that we might be getting a swimming pool my dad said no we were getting very frustrated trying to guess what the surprise might be my brother asked how big the Surprise was my dad said that the surprise was quite small we were not sure what the surprise could be will we all like it I asked yes my dad replied every every one of you will love this surprise we heard a noise it was a crying noise your Surprise wants to see you my dad

said he opened the door to the bedroom and a tiny puppy came running out we were all very excited our surprise was a puppy it was a little baby Spaniel no the puppy loved all of us she ran around and licked all of our faces we had always wanted a dog we take turns feeding the Puppy and taking her out for walks she is growing quickly and will soon be an adult dog we all agree that the puppy was the nicest surprise that my dad could have given us article 99 rhyming words sometimes my friends

and I play a game it's something we made up so it doesn't have a name we like to take words that Rhyme we put them together line by line do you get the picture now we're playing the game and this is how I might say I like to drive a car I really don't like to go very far if I decide to take a walk I'd go with a friend so that we could talk do you see that these lines rhyme play the game if you have the Time we could talk about school or even

playing do you know what I am saying rhyming words is easy to do it's fun for me it can be fun for you just join in and say something or make it into a song that you can sing there are so many words that rhyme with Others like smile and Mile and mothers and brothers I could spend all day just making up these things I could let my my imagination fly on wings up to the clouds and back to my mind there are so many Rhymes that I can find there are some words that are

hard to find rhymes For I I don't use those words anymore I like to choose words that are easy to rhyme like cat and bat or lime and thy so give it a try I know you'll have fun I'll say goodbye my rhyming is done article 100 homework sometimes my teacher gives us Homework I don't mind doing my homework except when the weather is really nice and all my friends are outside on those nights I'd rather be outside with them so I try to to get my homework done quickly tonight I have some English homework

we have been reading a book we have to read a chapter of the book and Answer the questions at the end of the chapter it is an interesting book so the homework for this is quite easy my math homework is not so easy I have to do some addition and subtraction I don't mind that but there are some problems that need to be solved the problem problems Involve addition subtraction and multiplication I am not too good with numbers I need to work harder on my math I just finished a project for history I had to

make a map of Canada with diagrams showing the roots of all the Explorers it was an interesting Project because I have been to some of the places that the Explorers went to I don't have any science homework at school we are growing bean plants we go in every day and see how the plants have grown we write down all the changes that Occur in the plant every day the only other homework that I have is geography I have a map of Canada and I have to write the names of all the provinces and their capitals

on it it won't take me long to do that because I know all the provinces when my homework is all done I will go outside And play ball with my friends until it is time to come in I am a good student I get good marks because I like school my favorite subject are physical education English and [Music] history math is my least favorite subject but I'm trying to Improve my marks in that article 101 I want to die my hair green many of my friends have dyed their hair different colors I don't mean normal

hair colors like brown or black my friends have dyed their hair orange Purple and blue I told my mother that I would like to die my hair green I explained to my mother that I would only use food coloring the green would not last forever my mother said that dying your hair was a silly fad she said that I would not look good with green Hair I said that if I couldn't dye my hair green maybe I could get a nose ring my mother said no I said that maybe a tattoo on my arm would

be nice my mother said no way my mother said that she did some crazy things when she was a young girl she said that she used to iron her hair to make it Straight that sounds quite boring to me my friend Joan came over her hair is dyed bright pink my father said nice hair Joan I don't think that that he really meant it my mother says that when I am an adult I can dye my hair whatever crazy color I like But for now she would like me to leave my hair its natural color

I tried to tell her that all my friends were doing it my mother asked if all your friends were jumping off a cliff would you do it too I said no I think I'll have to wait to have Green hair but maybe by the time I'm old enough to dye my hair green I won't want it that color my mother says that fads change all the time one day something might be popular and the next day it's not in style at [Music] all I'll just have to live without green Hair for now I wonder what

the fad will be next month article 102 why do people dislike other people some people don't like other people just because they look different I think that is silly I don't think that it is fair to judge Someone by the way they look some people look very nice but they are mean or cruel some people look very ordinary but they are incredibly nice I remember when I was in grade one I saw a girl across the room she had a mean look on her face I thought to myself That she was not a very nice

person I stayed away from her and played with the other children then we had to play a game and the teacher said that she would pick partners for us the teacher picked the girl with the mean face as my partner I didn't think that the game Would be much fun at all with a partner who seemed as mean as that girl I walked up to her and said hello the girls face changed she smiled at me and she began to talk to Me her mean face disappeared we had lots of fun playing the game we

laughed a lot and and enjoyed each other's company that girl became my best friend now when I look at her I see what is inside her sometimes she does smile but I know what she is like she is a kind and funny Person I have learned that you can't judge a book by its cover it is not fair to dislike someone just because they don't look like you want them to look you have to get to know a person it doesn't matter to me what color a person's skin is it doesn't matter to Me if

they are short or tall skinny or fat or happy or sad looking I judge people by how they treat me and I try to treat people like I would want to be treated article 103 the birthday gift it is going to be my father's birthday what can I give him I don't have much money I have looked all all through the stores and I have not found anything that I think he would like or that I can afford I have thought very hard about what to buy for him I thought that he might like some

candy but my father really doesn't Eat many sweets I thought that he might might like a new shirt but he has lots of clothes I can't afford a new car or computer for him I was watching him on the weekend he cut the grass washed the Car took out the garbage weeded the garden and watered the plants I got an idea I went to my room and took out some paper I cut out pieces of paper and I wrote on them I wrote on one piece of paper that I would wash the car every weekend

for the summer I also Wrote that I would cut the grass weed the garden and water the plants every week for the summer I made a birthday card for my dad my dad thought that the gift was very thoughtful he said that it was a gift from the heart I did all those things for my dad all Summer he said that he had a lot of free time because I helped him so much my dad and I are good friends I don't mind doing things for him because I know that he is always there to

help me out a good gift doesn't have to be something that costs a lot my dad Says that the best gifts are the ones that show how much you care for the other person I'm glad my dad liked his gift article 104 New Year's Day on New Year's Day people start a new year many people make resolutions they resolve to be better people some people decide that they will Lose weight so that they can be healthier some people decide to to give up smoking they also want to be healthier there are all kinds of resolutions

that people make some people try not to lose their temper some people say that they will work harder there are people who try to give up bad Habits every year my brother says that he will stop biting his nails he stops biting his nails in January but by February he always starts again that is the thing about New Year's resolutions people seldom keep them everybody starts out with good intentions but it is very hard to stick With them I don't make New Year's res Solutions I find that I just break them I just work day

by day to break my bad habits I know that I eat too many many sweets every day I just try to resist them I think that every day is a new day regardless of whether it is New Year's day or Not bad habits are hard to break the best thing is never to start any bad habits I don't know if my my brother will ever stop biting his nails but I know that each January he intends to stop maybe one of these New Year's days heal Get over that habit article 105 if I could fly

I sometimes imagine what it would be like if I could fly like a bird just imagine what it would be like to soar into the sky flying High above the trees you could stand on high [Music] rooftops and never be afraid of falling you would see so many things as you flew over rooftops and forests you would feel incred credibly free as you Traveled from place to place not bothered by road signs or traffic jams if I could fly like a bird I would start from my backyard and travel through town I would look down

on the houses and factories when I got Tired I will would land in a field and take a nap I would travel above rivers and follow them as they wound along and emptied into lakes and oceans I would fly above parks and I would call out to the children as I flew high above them I would Dip and dive as I flew I would soar up high and dive down low so that I could almost touch the Treetops have you ever flown I know that you can't fly like a bird but you might have taken

an airplane Ride when you're in an airplane you pass through clouds it is exciting to take an airplane ride I love taking airplane flights I like to look down at the earth when you are up that high everything below you looks tiny that's the closest I'll ever get to Flying Like a Bird but I can still use my imagination and spread my wings and soar high above the world just like a bird article 91 the museum the museum was very interesting there were so many things in the Museum that I would need more time to

really see everything there were clothes from the past I don't know how people wore some of those things they look like they would be uncomfortable I like to wear my genes there were things from Wars there were bullets and Cannons and even uniforms from the soldiers I don't think that war is a good thing but it is good to remember the past and honor the people who died for your country there was an old fire truck at the Museum this fire truck was pulled by a horse there were some very old Photographs of the firemen

putting out fires there were rooms in the museum that were set up like an old house there were antique irons and sewing machines the women used to clean the clothes with a washboard there were no modern appliances back then I'm glad that we have a electricity and modern Appliances the things that we have make life so much easier there were mummies from Egypt at the Museum I was fascinated by the those there were artifacts from Indians there were Arro heads and cradles that the babies slept in I tried my best to see everything but it

was Almost impossible the museum is a good place to learn about your past I tried to imagine my grandparents using some of the things that were on display at the Museum article 92 the police my mother always told me that if I was lost I could go up to a policeman and that he would help me to find my way home I never did get lost but I always remembered what my mother told me about the police I think police policemen look very nice in their uniforms I see police officers drive by In their police

cars in my town we even have police officers on bicycles policemen and police women have a job that can sometimes be dangerous they have to catch people who break the law sometimes they have to chase people or Try to calm people down to be a police officer you need a lot of training it is important to be able to deal with people effectively a police officer came to our school he had a police dog with him the officer showed us how the dog could track down criminals the dog was very smart he could even find

things that were Hidden criminals sometimes hide things that they don't want the police to find the polican told us that he and his dog were Partners his dog lives at his house with the policeman and his family sometimes I see police cars on the side of the road the police stop people Who are speeding or are not wearing their seat belts the police officers warn people or give out tickets sometimes they even have to arrest people police officers are just doing their job when they arrest people some people need to be arrested and put in

jail to make it Safer for the rest of us article 93 pretending I like to pretend I like to make up things that aren't real I use my imagination I was pretending that I was in a time machine I set the date for a prehistoric time I turned on the time machine and it buzzed and wh and spun Madly when it stopped spinning I opened the door and stepped out into a very thick jungle I listened carefully to the sounds of the Jungle I could hear strange animal noises and the leaves were rustling I wasn't

sure if I had gone back in time or had just Landed in a jungle somewhere in the 21st century it didn't take me long to realize that I had indeed gone back in time a very strange birdlike creature with a large beak flew overhead I had never seen anything like it in my life I took a few steps out into the long grass and Ferns I didn't want to go too far away from my time machine I heard a noise over on my right side there was a man who looked quite different from me he

was dressed in an animal skin and he carried a big stick I didn't want him to see me so I hid behind a tree he didn't speak any language that I could understand he grunted at someone who Must have been in the distance then I felt the Earth shake beneath my feet I heard giant thumps on the ground as the floor of the Jungle shook the man in the animal skin began to run I saw why he was running a giant dinosaur appeared above the tops of the Trees it was bigger than anything I had

ever seen my heart began to pound in my chest it was coming toward me I ran toward my time machine and jumped in I set the dial for the TW 21st century the machine word and Buzzed my time machine landed in the 21st century I got away just in time article 94 a baby my aunt just had a baby girl we went to the hospital to visit my aunt and to see the new baby my aunt was feeling fine although she was just a bit Tired she walked with us to a big window that had

lots of babies behind it she pointed to a crib with a baby in it the big baby was wrapped in a pink blanket we all said how pretty the baby looked I couldn't believe how tiny the baby was she was asleep so we couldn't see her eyes when the baby went home we went to visit Her we heard the baby she was crying my aunt said that the baby was hungry my aunt had a baby bottle full of warm milk she fed the baby with it the baby was happy after that my aunt patted the

baby baby on the back until the baby burped and then the baby fell asleep I held the baby I looked at her tiny fingers and Tiny Toes I was very careful with her she opened her eyes and looked at me I spoke to the baby but I knew that she could not understand me babies have to learn to walk and talk my aunt changed the baby babies we Diapers so they need to be changed often the baby has a lot of toys but she is still too young to play with them my aunt says that

it won't be long before the baby is crawling and trying to talk babies are cute I have seen pictures of myself when I was a baby and it's hard to believe That I was once that small article 95 a wedding the church bells are ringing I am inside the church waiting for my cousin to walk down the aisle today is her wedding day she is a bride the organist is playing a song on the organ we all stand up and watch my cousin walk down the Aisle she is arm inarm with her father she is

dressed in a long white dress and a veil she looks so beautiful she looks like a princess the man who she is going to marry is standing at the front of the church he is the groom he looks nice too he is wearing a Suit and he has a flower in his lapel the minister says words to the couple which will make them man and wife the bride and groom smile at each other but they seem to be a little bit nervous they give each other gold rings to wear to symbolize that they are Married

they kiss each other and walk out of the church as the organist plays joyous music some of the people in the church cried at the wedding but not because they were sad everyone in the church is very happy for the couple a photographer takes pictures of the happy Couple we wish them well and look forward to the reception where we will have dinner and we will dance and have a good time until it is very late the bride will throw her bouquet of flowers and it is said that whoever catches the bouquet will be the

next bride the next day the bride and groom Will leave for their honeymoon my cousin and her husband are going to Mexico for their honeymoon article 96 my dad my dad is the man whom I respect the most in my life he works very hard to make the money that supports us my mother has a job Too and she also works very hard my dad is the principal of a high school he works at the school on all day and often has to go to meetings at night he deals with parents students and staff there

is always something that he has to deal with he has a lot on his mind it doesn't matter how much work my Dad has to do he always has time for my brothers my sister and me if I go to him with a problem he will sit down and discuss it with me he doesn't yell he is always very logical and he tries to think of the best way to deal with things my dad is a very patient Man once I spilled some ink on some papers that he was working on I thought that he

would be mad but he didn't get angry he said that it was okay he takes time out to do things with us he has taken my brothers fishing he he takes me to the arena to skate and he helps my sister to write her essays and Assignments he always makes us laugh and he makes us feel feel like we are very special to him he is a very good father and on Father's Day I always buy him a card that tells him how much he means to me I think it is important to have good

parents I hope that when I have children I will be a good parent like my parents are To me parents give children the foundation that they need to live good lives article 97 my mother my mother does so many things she has a job at a dress store she cooks our meals she cleans the house she feeds the pets and she still finds time to spend with Us my my mother is always busy but she says that her favorite time is time that she spends with us my mother works from Monday to Friday when she

comes home from work she makes something for supper we usually do the dishes so that she won't have to do them after supper she helps us with our homework or she sits down to Watch television some nights she goes shopping and she takes whoever wants to go with her mothers are a little bit of everything my mother is like a teacher when she helps us with our homework she is like a nurse when she looks after us when we're ill she is like a cook when she makes me meal s for Us she says that

cleaning the house is her least favorite thing she says that the house gets dirty again right after you clean it she gets my father my brothers sister and me to help her with the cleaning my mother washes all our clothes and sometimes she irons them if they need It my mother says that there are are not enough hours in a day we try to help my mother as much as we can there is a lot of work involved in keeping a home neat and organized most of my friends mother work mothers are the people who

you go to when you need to be comforted mothers are the people who can make you feel better I'm glad that I have the mother That I have my mother is caring and funny she is fun to be around article 98 a surprise last Friday my dad came home from work and said that he had a surprise for us we tried to guess what the surprise might be my brother guessed that we were going Out for dinner my dad said no my other brother asked if my father had tickets to a hockey game my dad

said no my sister asked if we were going on a trip my dad said no my mother knew what the surprise was so she just stood and smiled at us I guessed that we might be getting a swimming pool my dad dad said No we were getting very frustrated trying to guess what the surprise might be my brother asked how big the surprise was my dad said that the surprise was quite small we were not sure what the surprise could be will we all like it I asked yes my dad replied every every one of

you will Love this surprise we heard a noise it was a crying noise your surprise wants to see you my dad said he opened the the door to the bedroom and a tiny puppy came running out we were all very excited our surprise was a puppy it was a little baby Spaniel the puppy loved all of us she ran Around and licked all of our faces we had always wanted a dog we take turns feeding the puppy and taking her out for walks she is growing quickly and will soon be an adult dog we all

agree that the puppy was the nicest surprise that my dad could have given us article 99 rhyming words sometimes my friends and I play a Game it's something we made up so it doesn't have a name we like to take words that rhyme we put them together line by line do you get the picture now we're playing the game and this is how I might say I like to drive a car I really don't like to go very far if I decide to take a walk I'd go with a friend so that we could Talk

do you see that these lines rhyme play the game if you have the time we could talk about school or even playing do you know what I am saying rhyming words is easy to do it's fun for me it can be fun for you just join in and say something or make it into a song that you can sing there are so so many words that Rhyme with others like smile and Mile and mothers and brothers I could spend all day just making up these things I could let my imagination fly on wings up to

the clouds and back to my mind there are so many Rhymes that I can Find there are some words that are hard to find rhymes for I I don't use those words anymore I like to choose words that are easy to rhyme like cat and bat or lime and th so give it a try I know you you have fun I'll say goodbye my rhyming is done article 100 Homework sometimes my teacher gives us homework I don't mind doing my homework except when the weather is really nice and all my friends are outside on those

nights I'd rather be outside with them so I try to get my homework done quickly tonight I have some English homework we have been reading a book we have to read a chapter of the Book and and answer the questions at the end of the chapter it is an interesting book so the homework for this is quite easy my math homework is not so easy I have to do some addition and subtraction I don't mind that but there are some problems that need to be solved the problem s Involve addition subtraction and multiplication I am

not too good with numbers I need to work harder on my math I just finished a project for history I had to make a map of Canada with diagrams showing the roots of all the Explorers it was an interesting Project because I have been to some of the places that the Explorers went to I don't have any science homework at school we are growing bean plants we go in every day and see how the plants have grown we write down all the changes that Occur in the plant every day the only other homework that I

have is geography I have a map of Canada and I have to write the names of all the provinces and their capitals on it it won't take me long to do that because I know all the provinces when my homework is all Done I will go outside and play ball with my friends until it is time to come in I am a good student I get good marks because I like school my favorite subjects are physical education English and [Music] history math is my least favorite Subject but I'm trying to improve my marks in that

article 101 I want to die my hair green many of my friends have dyed their hair different colors I don't mean normal hair colors like brown or black my friends have dyed their hair orange purple and Blue I told my mother that I would like to die my hair green I explained to my mother that I would only use food coloring the green would not last forever my mother said that dying your hair was a silly fad she said that I would not look good with green hair I said that if I couldn't dye my

Hair green maybe I could get a nose ring my mother said no I said that maybe a tattoo on my arm would be nice my mother said no way my mother said that she did some crazy things when she was a young girl she said that she used to iron her hair to make it straight that sounds quite boring to Me my friend Joan came over her hair is dyed bright pink my father said nice hair Joan I don't think that he really meant it my mother says that when I am an adult I can

dye my hair whatever crazy color I like but for now she would like me to leave my hair its natural Color I tried to tell her that all my friends were doing it my mother asked if all your friends were jumping off a cliff would you do it too I said no I think I'll have to wait to have green hair but maybe by the time I'm old enough to dye my hair green I won't want it that color my mother says that fads change all the time one day something might might be popular and

the next day it's not in style at [Music] all I'll just have to live without green hair for now I Wonder what the fad will be next month month article 102 why do people dislike other people some people don't like other people just because they look different I think that is silly I don't think that it is fair to judge Someone by the way they look some people look very nice but they are mean or cruel some people look very ordinary but they are incredibly nice I remember when I was in grade one I saw

a girl across the room she had a mean look on her Face I thought to myself that she was not a very nice person I I stayed away from her and played with the other children then we had to play a game and the teacher said that she would pick partners for us the teacher picked the girl with the mean Face as my partner I didn't think that the game would be much fun at all with a partner who seemed as mean as that girl I walked up to her and said hello the girl's face

changed she smiled at at Me and she began to talk to me her mean face disappeared we had lots of fun playing the game we laughed a lot and enjoyed each other's company that girl became my best friend now when I look at her I see what is inside her sometimes she doesn't Smile but I know what she is like she is a kind and funny person I have learned that you can't judge a book by its C it is not fair to dislike someone just because they don't look like you want them to look

you have to get to know a person It doesn't matter to me what color a person's skin is it doesn't matter to me if they are short or tall skinny or fat or happy or sad looking I judge people by how they treat me and I try to treat people like I would want to be treated article 103 the the birthday gift it is going to be my father's birthday what can I give him I don't have much money I have looked all all through the stores and I have not found anything that I think

he would like or that I can afford I have thought very hard about what to buy for Him I thought that he might like some candy but my father really doesn't eat many sweets I thought that he might like a new shirt but he has lots of clothes I can't afford a new car or computer for him I was watching him On the weekend he cut the grass washed the car took out the garbage weeded the garden and watered the plants I got an idea I went to my room and took out some paper I

cut out pieces of paper and I wrote on them I wrote on one piece of paper That I would wash the car every weekend for the summer I also wrote that I would cut the grass weed the garden and water the plants every week for the summer I made a birthday card for my dad my dad thought that the gift was very thoughtful he said that it was a gift Gift from the heart I did all those things for my dad all summer he said that he had a lot of free time because I helped

him so much my dad and I are good friends I don't mind doing things for him because I know that he is always there to help me out a good gift Doesn't have to be something that costs a lot my dad says that the best gifts are the ones that show how much you care for the other person I'm glad my dad liked his gift article 104 New Year's Day on New Year's Day people start a new year many people make Resolutions they resolve to be better people some people decide that they will lose weight

so that they can be healthier some people decide to give up smoking they also want to be healthier there are all kinds of resolutions that people make some people try not to lose their tempers some people say that they will work Harder there are people who try to give up bad habits every year my brother says that he will stop biting his nails he stops biting his nails in January but by February he always starts again that is the thing about New Year's resolutions people seldom keep Them everybody starts out with good intentions but it

is very hard to stick with them I don't make New Year's resolu Solutions I find that I just break them I just work day by day to break my bad habits I know that I eat too many any sweets every day I just try to resist Them I think that every day is a new day regardless of weather it is New Year's Day or not bad habits are hard to break the best thing is never to start any bad habits I don't know if my brother will ever stop biting his nails but I know that

each January he intends to stop maybe one of these New Year's days heal get over that habit article 105 if I could fly I sometimes imagine what it would be like if I could fly like a bird just Imagine what it would be like to soar into the sky flying high above the trees you could stand on high [Music] rooftops and never be afraid of falling you would see so many things as you Flew over rooftops and forests you would feel incredible L free as you traveled from place to place not bothered by road signs

or traffic jams if I could fly like a bird I would start from my backyard and travel through Town I would look down on the houses and factories when I got tired I would land in a field and take a nap I would travel above rivers and follow them as they wound along and emptied into lakes and oceans I would fly above parks and I would call out to the Children as I flew high above them I would dip and dive as I I flew I would soar up high and dive down low so that

I could almost touch the Treetops have you ever flown I know that you can't Fly like a bird but you might have taken an airplane ride when you're in an airplane you pass through clouds it is exciting to take an airplane ride I love taking airplane flights I like to look down at the earth when you are up that high Everything below you looks tiny that's the closest I'll ever get to Flying Like a Bird but I can still use my imagination and spread my wings and soar high above the world just like a bird

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