Raindrop Story

By: Alyssa O.

Ms. Carpenter's 5th Grade Science Class

            My name is Rilley.  I am a raindrop.  One day I was drifting in the air inside a cumulonimbus cloud.  AS I traveled, it got more crowded, dark, and cold.  Just then I started to see a hole appear.  As the hole got bigger, other raindrops fell through.  Then, I finally slipped and fell through the hole myself.  Then, my journey began.

            As I fell I heard loud booming sounds and streaks of light.

 I was frightened and started yelling as I fell, “Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh!”

I finally landed and stopped yelling.  I landed on something that was big, brown, fuzzy, and had four legs.  The animal was walking on sand. 

“The Atlantic Ocean,” I whispered.

Then all of a sudden the animal began to shake.  It shook back and forth until I finally let go of its fur and landed in the ocean.

“Yes,” I yelled, “I got to the ocean!”

The ocean currents were very strong because of the storm happening above the warm waters.

I was really getting pushed around.  As the storm disappeared, I started to calm down.

Then the sun started to appear.  The sun was heating the ocean waters.  I started to fell the warmth of the sun and started to feel the warmth of the sun and started to lift into the sky.  I became water vapor. 

“I love feeling the sun’s warmth,” I said as I was lifted, butas I got higher and higher I started to cool, condense, and form a cloud.  This time I formed into a cumulous cloud.

“Here I go again.”

Precipitation

By: Madison F.

Ms. Carpenter's 5th Grade Science Class

         One late afternoon there was a brief little shower.  A raindrop came falling fast in Australia.  I fell quickly into a kangaroo's pouch.  I was frightened and amazed at the same time.

          I was swishing in the pouch and fell into a water source which was a river.  The river was going fast, moving and flopping until it came to a much wider and larger ocean.  I landed in the Indian Ocean.

          I layed steady floating with other water, until the sun’s powerful, strong heat evaporated me and other raindrops, which became colder and colder.  The water soon became a giant cloud, which was a cumulous cloud.  I was very happy to be safe and still in a cloud.

My Journey

By: Kaleb A.

Ms. Carpenter's 5th Grade Science Class

Slowly, I floated back down to a frozen land.  When I got there, I landed upon the forehead of a polar bear.  It seemed to be resting, but suddenly it got up and started walking towards the shore.  When it got there, I saw many icebergs.  In the distance, I saw a family of seals floating on an iceberg.  It was just then that I realized he was going to eat them!

            As the beast neared the seals, they started to see the bear!  They were just in time to escape his hungry jaws with dozens of sharp teeth.  The seals slid off the ice and into the water.  The polar bear dove at the seals but missed, falling into the freezing water.  The impact of the water pushed me off the forehead of the bear.

            Moments later, I felt warmer and warmer.  I have become an ocean!  Then it got hotter and hotter and hotter!  Now I was flying higher into the atmosphere.  Soon I was cooler like I was in the ocean but I was still flying, then I knew I was a cloud.

Raindrop Story

By: Brooke
Mrs. Carpenter's 5th Grade Science

          One cold winter day, I had fallen asleep.  Then when I woke up, I found myself falling to Earth.  Then once I landed, I realized I had ended up turning into a snowflake in Antarctica.  But, I didn’t land on the ground.  I landed on a polar bear.

          As soon as I landed on the polar bear, it started to sprint towards a seal to eat for lunch.  When we got to the seal the polar bear realized it wasn’t hungry anymore.  So it went for a swim in the ocean.  Then the polar bear went under water and I ended up falling off of him into the ocean.

          When I was floating I went past a couple of icebergs and seals.  Then I started to go up to the sky.  I was being evaporated! Once I got all the way to the sky, I started to turn into condensation and formed a cloud.

Welcome Back!

I can't believe another school year has already begun!  My, how time flies!  I hope all of you are enjoying your new teachers and already learning lots of new things...especially new writing techniques!

So, why don't you show them off? I bet you are all buzzing with lots of cool summer stories.  I have re-posted the submission guidelines below, and can't wait to read some awesome writing!  

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Writing Genre	Suggested Writing Prompt
Letter	Write a letter to last year’s teacher
Persuasive	__ grade is the best grade because… __ is the best vacation destination because…
Personal	My Summer Vacation My First Day of School
Imaginative	My teacher turned into a
Clarification	Class Rules/Procedures School Bus Safety Rules

How to Catch a Ladybug

By: Mia, Mrs. Tursi's Kindergarten Class

 

Get a net.

Find a ladybug and get a jar.

Put the ladybug in the jar.

Make holes in the top of the jar so he can breathe.



How to do Math

By: Calista, Mrs. Tursi's Kindergarten Class

 

You need numbers to do math.  You need + and - and =.  Put them together.