School Days. . . by Levi

This is my teacher, Ms. Bowers. She is very good. I love her a lot! This picture was taken at my classroom before our Christmas concert. My "teddy dot" card is right there (behind and to the left of me).

This is our gym. I got an award in the pride assembly. I love Kindergarten. I am learning about volcanoes, telling time, learning to read and write. I write in my journal. My last story was about a lion in the forest. On learning time, I know o'clocks and thirties. My favorite thing is PE with Coach T. We have done scooter soccer, hockey and jump rope. I also love Ms. Baum. She is my music teacher. I love to see my mom and dad at school.

Optimist Brain Bowl

Last Friday is where the journey began. My Knowledge bowl team( Michael ,Madeleine , and Cloud) and the 8th grade team got into the school suburban and headed for Denver where we'd spend the night and go to compete the next day. when we walked in to the opening ceremony I was amazed to see how many people were there. our first match was against a school in Colorado Springs. We won by two. Who went on two the finals was determined by the points you score in for rounds plus a written test. After our first round victory we headed to the cafeteria to take our written test and it turns out that we only missed one question on a forty point test. The round after that one was our first taste of defeat. long story short we lost by 7, but it was almost a good comeback. We were down by 12 at one point and closed the gap to 3, then they exploded and got the final for questions. We won the next one by 4 and then faced Littleton, they were undefeated coming and trust me they kept that title easily. In fifteen question it was 12 to 3 them. We kept getting clobbered for about 6 more questions. Then and there it was 14 to 7. We made the best almost comeback of the century and ended up losing by 4. It turns out that we didn' make the finals we got tenth place and were seven points from the finals.

The Fort. . . back in the day. . .by Levi

Today, Tommi and I played outside ALL day! We built walls on our fort with sticks and wood we got from the forest. We dragged it for like five miles! (Tommi is disagreeing with the distance)

This is our campfire. We pretended like we were olden day people. That's why the title is called "back in the day".

This is another picture of the wall we built. It really helped keep the wind out. We were so snug and warm in our fort!

This is the rest of our fort. The top is where I go hunting. We got a lot of meat. It was very windy today.

This is our whole fort. It is very old. We built it one evening when my mom was working at Sangrita. My dad helped us. All we did today was fence the bottom. We won't fence the top. Look closely, the big pieces of wood are plywood. Tommi and I tried to build another fort out of that but it didn't work so we used it for a wall on this fort. We had to saw the piece closest to the tree.

This is the BEST fort. The wind will probably knock the stuff down, but , Oh well, we can fix it! It was very cold outside but we had a great day! When we got hungry, we went to the store. The store is actually our house. It was a great day, but now me and Tommi are REALLY tired. The End.

Riding Lessons by Tommi

I love horses! My parents bought me horse riding lessons. This is the ranch where I ride.

This is my horse, Tom-Tom and Belle, my horse riding teacher.

This is me on Tom-Tom, Belle's horse is Ceasar. This is the arena where I ride.

I am riding Tom-Tom. I am trying to make the horse trot.

Tom- Tom is a big horse, but I am not afraid. His nickname is the Abominable Snowman because he is big, white and gentle.Leading Tom-Tom out of the arena for a ride through the pasture.

This is us riding in the pasture. Isn't it beautiful here?