Thankful Thanksgiving!

Here is an image of what I am thankful for!

-Rita Goldworth (The Writing Girl)

My Third Grade Girls Soccer Team

This fall, I played soccer with my school team. We had weekly practise sessions followed by weekend games. We played 9 games in all, lost 5 and won four. Pretty miserable, right? For me though this season was my best record ever - I made 7 goals of the total 18 goals my team made in the entire season. I did not prove to be a good goalie though; in one game I let in four goals. In the three positions - offense, defense and goalie; I was the best at offense, somewhere in the middle for defense and bad at goalie.

For kids who  want to be  better at offense, they should stay in their opponents area and when the ball comes, go and score a goal. For kids who want to be better at defense, when the ball comes in, kick it out. In defense don’t let the ball come near your goalie. For kids who want to be better at goalie, stay in the box and don’t go out or keep your legs open because the ball will slide away from you into the goal. Also don’t just pick up the ball with your hands because if you miss, the other play team can score a goal on you. Sometimes you do have to kick the ball.

All the tips I have here are for kids who want to improve their soccer game. More tips later when I learn more in the next season.

Writing Girl (WG)

The Big Apple Circus - an act of bravery

We were in New York City driving to the all famous Big Apple Circus. ( My First Circus!) We got our popcorn and me and my brother raced to our seats. I watched as I saw a trapeze actor going in the air like a Merry-Go-Round. Also going like a Merry-Go-Round a spaceship was flying around. If the trapeze actor crashed it would be terrible. After that performance there was a big wait. I was restless in my seat when the music started to play.

Two camels ran across the stage then two horses started galloping behind the camels. Suddenly two very cute baby camels joined in. The baby horses came in after. The trainer fed each animal from her hand. The amazing animals galloped off stage. A woman came out in a sparkling dress. When the ringmaster put a bag on her she came out in a millisecond dressed in a different dress. I clapped and clapped trying to find out how she was able to do that. A woman in a leprechaun dress juggled tennis rackets and stood on five items and while she was doing that she performed other amazing acts. Then came the men who did chinese Yo-Yo, they threw the Yo-Yo up and the other caught them. It was surprising.

The final one was the best and most dangerous act of all. The showman set up a humongous net, and some trapeze actors climbed up. They went up big ladders and stood on platforms. One trapeze actor swung on a loose platform. A trapeze actor swung to him and grabbed onto his feet. They swung up and down and the trapeze actor landed on a platform higher than the other one. They kept on doing those  things and also swung dangerously back and forth. When everyone was on a high platform, they jumped into the net one by one. It was very dangerous. Last but not least a trapeze performer climbed to the highest point and dived headfirst into the net. We all stood in shock. The Big Apple Circus with its dangerous acts was over. I walked to the car and we drove home.

The dangerous trapeze act!

Writing Girl(WG)

The Magical Tomb

a true story by Writing Girl(WG)

“Yay!” I shouted! “We’ve reached the tomb finally!” I said running past my parents into the doors of Taj Mahal. “Wait up, wait up” my mom yelled to me. “I know you are excited but you have to stay with us.” I sadly walked back to my parents, my excitement lowering. I ran to the sign in and quickly pulled on my booties. My dad’s booties broke so he had to get blue ones. “Hurry up” I shouted!

We were finally going up the stairs to Taj Mahal. When I looked up I saw the tall point of Taj Mahal glittering above my head. We entered the doors and guards showed us where to go. When we reached the tomb other guards showed us the surprises the tomb held. I could not believe that it had all been made with hand tools, the lotus flowers 64 petals each, all different colors!

Just then it was our turn to look at the tomb! I peered in the tomb to see the tombs of dead bodies lying in the dark. The warm smell of the lotus flowers felt hot on my cold cheeks. My body shook with the sparkling sights of the Taj Mahal. When I was ready to go I felt amazed. The tomb’s beauty had been glorious. I wished I could go to Taj Mahal again. I walked to the car wondering what my next surprise would be.

Day Dreaming In School

This morning something weird happened to me. When I was walking to school a ghost started chasing me; at first , I thought it was Samantha from school. She always likes to do things which are funny; except they never are. Then I saw it was not Samantha; the ghost had turned into a witch. Now I started to really run. As I ran, the ghost turned into different things behind me; like a person, bear, clock, paper and bed: but they all ran really slow; I wondered why.Then it turned into an ant. Just then I figured out why it ran really slow; it was a magic ant that could turn into anything.

Since I was late for school I made a wish to the ant if I could fly to school. Immediately I had a jetpack on my back and I was at school. When I went inside my classroom it was show and tell time. When it was my turn I told the class about what I had just experienced. When I was finished no one in my class believed me. Just then I woke up; I was confused. Then I realized I had been day dreaming in school!!!

Mouse daydreaming!

Moral: Don’t close your eyes in school. It could lead to the same thing that happened in this story.

A Failure Party

Why do we have parties only to celebrate good things? Why can we not have a failure party? Though I am feeling much better, I am still sad for losing the chance to be on the school Chess team.  Maybe I should invite my family and we can have a discussion on how not to lose again. After talking for long time, we can eat pizza, cupcakes, and do bowling. I can see this will be a lot of fun! The only hard part is that at the end I have to come up with a list of ways this will not happen again. I hope my failure party will be interesting!

Spookey me

Above is me in my Halloween costume. For Halloween I got 21 pounds of candy! For the less fortunate I donated 11 pounds. At least we have enough to eat the poor people don't. So I think it was a great idea to donate my 11 pounds. Too much candy isn't healthy.