Update: Food Drive

To date, we have now raised 2,585 food items for the Blue Ridge Food Bank. The collection will continue until next Thursday, so keep an ear out for special incentive days as we try to cross that 3,000 can mark!

Fiction: Fairy World

BY STEPHEN F.

I was walking through the forest. I heard a noise behind me and it sounded like a roar. I turned around and saw nothing. I turned and ran for my life. I felt cold and I started to slide. Then I stopped sliding and it started to get warm.

I saw a door and as I turned the handle, I saw a fairy world. Then it began getting dark and so dark that I could not see a thing. I felt something weird on me. I realized that I was laying in a ball and as I sat up I heard a lot of “Hellos.” I said, “Hello” back and I heard everybody saying, “The Queen Fairy!” I saw lights floating and the queen fairy appeared. She said, “Welcome little one. Here, let me help you with your wings.” She touched my wings and they began to flutter. I began to fly up and down.

As soon as I landed, 18 mushrooms appeared. The fairies brought things from their groups on each mushroom. Three mushrooms disappeared. I asked, “What am I going to do?” The Queen Fairy said, “You will find your talent.”

I went to the tinker fairy talent. When I tried to grab it, it went down. I went to snowflake fairy talent. When I tried to grab it, it fell too. As I passed animal fairy talent, it came toward me. I touched the talent. A bright light shined and when the light stopped, a bird was sitting in my hands. I told the bird, “Flap your wings, little one. There you go, now faster and faster. Good, now fly up and I will fly with you.” The other animal fairies flew up with me. When the bird saw them, he got scared. I told him, ”Do not be afraid, little one. You are doing great.” He flew out of the tree. I called, “Bye bye.”

As soon as I landed, the Queen Fairy disappeared. I heard a voice saying, “Animal fairies meet Blue Jay.” The animal fairies brought me to my home. I have helped the main land for the longest time. Soon I meet Tinker Bell. Every day I would go to my fish friends because I would hear bubbles popping. That tells me that new things are on the island. I would get the things and give them to Tinker Bell, so that she can invent more tools for us to use.

Snow Day Shave Remains Undecided

BY REBA A.

Wow! Check it out: Who do you want to shave: Mr. O'baugh (pictured) or Mr. Ruliffson?

See, the bet was this: If we have a snow day before Christmas, then Mr. O'baugh has to shave his beard, but if we don't, then Mr. Ruliffson hast to shave his go-tee.

So, who do you want to have to shave?

Incredibles Field Trip to Washington D.C.

BY KEYANA S.

On October 30, 2009 the Incredibles team took a trip to our nation's capital, Washington D.C.

We went to the U.S. Capitol Building, the Jefferson Memorial, and the American History Museum.

At the capitol building our team went to the new visitors' center which was pretty cool. We went into a theater which was pretty cool because it was just like an Imax theater.

We also had tours of the capitol which I think was pretty cool. We saw the old conference room. We saw the top of the dome which was so cool cause if you look really close you can see pictures in the sides where actual history was being made. For example, we saw the Wright Brothers with their invention of the airplane, which was so cool. And at the very top you could see Lady Liberty and Lady Freedom sitting together with George Washington in the middle of them. And then we saw a sculpture with the three women who made it possible for women to vote: Eleanor Roosevelt, Elizabeth Cady Staunton, and (you all know her) Susan B. Anthony.

At the Jefferson Memorial we saw a HUGE statue of Thomas Jefferson, and at the American History Museum we saw a counter they took from a resturant in Greensboro, North Carolina because of the four men who made history there at that counter: Ezell A. Blair Jr., Franklin E. McCain, Joseph A. McNeil, and David L. Richmond. They were students at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College and it was so cool.

So it was a pretty cool field trip and I loved it.

Food Drive Update

BY ANNE C.

I got to interview Mr. Ruliffson about the canned food drive. I asked him a few questions:

How are we doing so far?
Pretty good

In the entire school , how many cans do we have total?

We have 1,750 cans so far. We need only 250 cans left to go.