It all started with our TA Cade’s sneaker obsession.  He has over 35 pairs in his collection!

As we’ve been enjoying our spectacular read aloud, The Wild Robot Escapes, we wondered . . . . . What would happen if Cade’s sneakers decided to escape?

 

The Wild Sneakers Escape

by Bee Buzzer

One day there was a teenager named Cade that had thirty-five pairs of sneakers.  One pair wanted to escape!

They made a plan when he took his Nikes out of his locker, they would go out the door of the locker.  It was a Tuesday, so Cade had gym, and when he opened the door to the gym, the gym teacher had planned to do gym outside.  That was their chance!  So they ran as fast as they possibly could!

Now they were in the wild!  They wanted to fly to the North Pole, so they sneaked in someone’s car that was going to the airpot.  The shoes had never seen the grass or the trees or the road or the falling leaves on their own.  The sneakers were now wild.

They made cool names.  The names they thought of were Lefty and Righty.  So when the ride was over, Lefty and Righty jumped out of the car and went in the airport.  It was not what they thought it would be.  They thought it would be simple, but it was the most complicated thing they had ever known!

They saw lots of shoes in boxes.  Righty asked a shoe to tell him how to get on the plane.

He said, ” Just sneak through the boxes like I am.”  He started to move onto a conveyor belt.

“So who wants to go through?” said Righty.

“I will!” said Lefty.  “I will go!”

“Are you sure?”

“Yes!”

(To be continued . . . . )

I could help get people to be Christian.  I could help engineer safe ways to do stuff like get across the ocean, go under the ocean, or super cameras that stop robbers.  I could stop pollution in the ocean by inventing something that would decompose it before in went into the water.  I could help stop poaching in the world.

The Life of Jimmy Carter

Jimmy Carter thought, “One day I will be on there, and I will be famous.”

“I want to go on a trip.”

So he did, and he often carried his own stuff.

He was the first president of the United States sworn into office using his nickname.

“I love all the things in my life.”

From 1977-1981 he was president, but it is over now.

But that was not it for him.  He helped people fight diseases.

He built a place called the Carter Center.

I like to wobble like a chick popping out of its egg.

Walking is a good way to relax.

Unlike running or skipping,

It is more like a nice day on a beach.

I like spring because you see the birds eating and singing happily.

I am the colonial farmer.  

I use an ax to chop wood.  I use a hoe to get the ground ready for crops.  I use a wheelbarrow to carry crops and weeds.

I harvest milk, eggs, fruit, vegetables, leather, and wool to trade.  I use a water mill so we can have power.

We do not trade everything.  We keep some so we can survive.  We can’t kill all the animals for food because we need them for more babies.

I chose Michi as my musher to follow in the Iditarod.  He was born in Japan.  He hiked every summer.  I chose him because he is Japanese.

I read Kavik during the Iditarod.  Kavik is a hurt wolf pup who is in a cage and is very smart.  I made the prediction that Kavik will get along with the people.  I predicted this because he is treated like a pet.  The dad said that a people doctor would not want to treat a hurt dog.  He would think it was a wolf!  I thought the most exciting part was when he goes to see the doctor because you just don’t know if he will heal or die.

I learned a lot about mushing during the race.  Sled dogs have to have a lot of calories to run.  If a musher’s dog is hurt, he gets dropped out to go home.  You have to win with at least five dogs.  If you finish, you get a prize.  You can have two lead dogs.  If your team quits, you should quit too.

I made a list of strong Iditarod verbs to use in my writing.  I chose eat, feed, slide, howl, run, sleep, snore, leap, sit, and shine.

I compared the sport of mushing to a sport I enjoy, writing.  Writing is different because you can do it anytime, no animals are needed, it is fantasy, and you can do it anywhere.  Mushing is different because only dogs are needed and you have to stay on the trail for the race.  They are alike because you can get awards for both, and men and women can do them both.

 

 

 

 

Ms. Richardson came to our school to meet us with her dogs.  She is a musher.

Ms. Richardson, thank you for coming to our school to teach us about what you do when you race.  Fiona was the loudest, but the best.  Dory was nice, but she was not very playful that day.  I thought that pulling the dog sled was a fun workout for the body and the brain.  We went in circles pretending to be the dogs, and then the preschoolers pulled while we watched.  When she said mush, we would pull the sled.  Seeing a musher was so much fun!