WHERE I'M FROM

Where I’m From

I am from colorful Skittles and unicycles

From Nascar , Dunkin Donuts, and the Boot and Buckle

I am from the colorful girl who wears bright orange on dreary days

From birch trees in my backyard

and morning birds perching on their branches

I am from Christmas and opening stockings first

From long car rides with my parents

I am from Nicole and Phil

And Cloutier

I am from northern shining lakes

From cuddling with my mommy and daddy and watching movies

I am from “I love you” and “Tell the truth”

From Mid coast and Maine

From chicken mistake that tasted good,

and the homemade pizza we make in the kitchen

I am from my cork board where all my pictures and horse ribbons

hang from the wall

I went to Irving and I got a milkshake. It tasted like cookies and cream. I went home after that. My daddy and my uncle Ken were spreading sand on the driveway. Lexi was there too, she had her snow pants on. I went home and got my snow pants on too. We went sledding for awhile and then we went up to see my daddy. My daddy asked me and Lexi if we wanted a ride on the ATV. We said yes. We got on and we went fast up and down the driveway. Lexi was yelling “go faster, go faster, go faster”! I had my shake in my mouth, I thought I was going to choke myself to death so I said “Daddy stop the ATV!” So I could set it down on the ground. Then we had to go home. When I got home, mom said “How was AVTing?’ I said “It was fun.” But I have to go to bed, it was tiring and very cold too. I like AVTing.

Realistic Fiction and Character Development

On the day Willy and Kathy got married, Matt dropped Willy's ring through the crack of the deck. Matt felt sorry. Amy was the flower girl. She was great at being the flower girl. She spread petals all over people. They tickled. Amy was very funny. She made really good jokes. When Amy's uncle cut the cake, he broke the knife that had a groom on top of it. Amy got to sit at the long table with the bride and groom. Lucky!! She got to sit next to Nick Cloutier. Amy is kind and happy and loving. She wears shirts with hearts on them and she wears jeans too. Willy and Kathy were happy to get married. Amy wanted to call her aunt her aunt before the wedding but she couldn't. Her aunt and uncle met each other through school and then they separated. Her uncle is a carpenter and he has an update on line and that is how they met. And that is her story of her aunt and uncle's wedding.

Snowflake Bentley

SNOWFLAKE BENTLEY

Snowflake Bentley is famous because he was the first person to photograph a snowflake. His name was Wilson, and his mother was his teacher until he was 14 years old. He grew up in Vermont on a farm. When he was 15 he bought a camera because he wanted to take pictures of snowflakes. He wasn’t successful at first, but he kept trying and figured out how to get the picture before the snowflake melted. He took hundreds of pictures of snowflakes.

The best snowstorm of his life happened on Valentines Day in 1928. Wilson took over a hundred pictures of snowflakes over the two-day storm. He called the storm “ a gift from King Winter.

Wilson also took pictures in the summer. He took pictures of spider webs and insects. He also hung up a sheet and did a slideshow for his neighbors on summer nights.

He discovered that no two snowflakes are exactly alike. He loved what he did! Many colleges bought his pictures of snowflakes and lots of artists used his photographs to draw pictures of snowflakes.

Snowflake Bentley died from pneumonia after he had walked home in a blizzard. But he will always be remembered as the first person to capture a snowflake.

Horse Show

Saturday I got to spend the night at my aunt's house. She is the cool aunt. She owns my cousins horse. She took us to a fun horse show. My friend Lauren was going too because she was in the show with her new horse Katy. This is her third or fourth time being in a horse show. We got to see barrel racing and single pole bending. I could not be in the horse show this year but I hope to do it next year.

My goal is to be the world's most famous barrel racer. I might have to take smaller steps in between on the way. There was a girl at the horse show that was like the fastest girl, she has a horse named Michele. I think that is a pretty name for a horse. I want to grow up to be just like her.

At the horse show I was happy, but I was also sad because my friend Brin came out of the shoot and was sad that she did not get first place. She got 3rd place instead.She did have good sportsmanship though. Lauren got to be Courtney's groom, and I was Brin's groom. Brin was happy at the end of the day because she got to canter on a horse named Cody Greg. This year my Aunt Lynn worked in the cook shack with Nancy. Nancy acts like a nanny to us. It was a fun day at the horse show.

Sometimes when my horse acts up I want to quit, but I know that if I want to be the world's most famous barrel racer I can't quit. My first time racing I might not get first place. I might get 2nd or 3rd, or even 4th, who know's! But I know that I can't give up because some day my dream I will be the world's most famous barrel racer.

The Best Time at Horse Camp by Bailey

The Best Time at Horse Camp

This summer I went to horse camp. My friend Courtney came with me, and she rode my cousins horse. She rode English. There was a horse named Rascal at horse camp. I can see why they named him Rascal, because he is a rascal. He tried to break his stall gate, and he wasn’t listening, He was bad. My friend Emma also went to horse camp and she brought her horse Ava, and my friend Mariah brought her horse Sadie. Mariah got bucked off two times! It was scary to see Mariah get bucked off. The first time she did not get hurt but the second time she really got hurt. Sadie ran out to her and then we had to go and catch her horse. Another bad thing that happened was Sugar got stuck in the gate, her leg got really stuck on the board. She could not help us help her get unstuck because she had a broken leg and she didn't want to move it! She was very crabby that morning.

Even though there were a few bad things that happened I had a great time at horse camp, and I hope next year I will get to bring my horse.