Mountain Views News          Saturday, June 25, 2011

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SUMMER FUN

 Mountain Views News Saturday, June 25, 2011 

NEW PLAYGROUND FOR 
MEMORIAL PARK 

The Sierra Madre City Council and Redevelopment Agency 
allocated $75,000 for new playground equipment geared 
towards children 2 -5 years old in Memorial Park. Residents 
will enjoy a well-designed, accessible and beautiful play 
area. It is a wonderful space for kids; bright and colorful, 
it encourages the youngsters to run around and play. The 
playground equipment features a wave zip slide, an ABC 
climbing wall, rock wall and umbrella canopies. The new 
playground also incorporates traditional equipment such as 
swings (two belt seat swings and two tot seat swings) and a 
dragon fly totter, which will appeal to a variety of ages. The 
tiny tots have loved the sand pit area which has been kept in 
the process of renovating the playground. The installation is 
expected to finish this week.

The Sierra Madre City Council and Community Services 
Commission invites you to join them for the Memorial 
Park Playground Dedication Ceremony. The ceremony will 
be held on Thursday, June 30th at 5:00 p.m. in Memorial 
Park, located at 222 W. Sierra Madre Blvd., Sierra Madre, 
CA 91024. Please contact the Community and Personnel 
Services Department for more information at 626-355-
5278.

Miss Palmer’s 3rd Grade Class, 31 talented and creative students, have 
published a book! It is called, “Miss Palmer’s Third Grade: Once Upon 
A Wayside” and it includes the work of each of the students in her class. 
We will publish the book in its’ entirety this summer, with 3-4 stories 
each week. The stories will not be edited, well maybe a few spelling corrections. 
They are all entertaining and original!

 Inspired by the book series they read in class, The Wayside School 
Series by Louis Sachar, the children created their own episodes of life at 
Wayside. (Hint: Louis Sachar’s Wayside School was supposed to be 30 
classrooms, one story high; but by mistake it was built straight up 30 
stories. That should give you some insight into the kind of stories you 
will read from Ms. Palmer’s 3rd Grade Class!)

 A teacher for six years, Ms. Palmer has been at Sierra Madre Elementary 
for two years. She was born and reared in Sierra Madre, played 
on the SM Girls Softball Team and was a Sierra Madre Rose Princess 
in 2000.

This is a series of stories that will enlighten, inspire and keep you laughing 
all summer long! S. Henderson/MVNews


MATH by Ava Slocum

 “Good morning, boys and girls!” Mr. 
Kidswatter’s voice came over the 
loudspeaker. As usual, there was a 
pause as he waited for the children 
to answer him. As usual, nobody did.

 “I’d like to announce that if you are 
in Ms. Fratic’s class or up, you will be 
doing super, ultra, advanced math. 
Thank you.”

 Mrs. Jewels and her class were 
silent. Then Joe broke the silence. 
“Who is Mrs. Fratic?”

 “She is a very kind teacher whose 
class is located five stories below us,” 
Mrs. Jewels replied.

 Everybody was silent until Maraicia 
let out a yelp. “Help”, screamed 
Leslie. “Oh no”, Paul said. “But I’m 
terrible at math”, screamed Jenny.

 Everybody had something to say 
from a negative statement to a simple 
yelp.

“All right,” said Ms. Jewels, “Let’s get 
started.”

 Nobody had anything to say. “Now”, 
said Ms. Jewels, “If you multiply 
12 by 18 then add 515 and then 
subtract 100 and divide by 3 and…..,” 
she paused. “Please take out your 
whiteboards and do that problem. 
Oh, and raise your hands when you 
are finished, thank you.”

 Everybody raised their hands. Not 
because they knew the answered, but 
because they all had questions. “All 
right,” said Ms. Jewels, “let’s move on 
to spelling.”

 The next day, they had their math 
tests. Nobody could do it and in the 
end, they all decided to guess. They 
all failed

 So it went on that way, nobody was 
able to do their math work. It hurt 
Ms. Jewels feelings to see so many 
unhappy faces and hear so many sighs 
when it was time for math. First, 
she tried making it interesting. “If 
there were 20,000 clowns, plus 150 
clowns, minus 100 clowns, divided b 
50 clowns, how many clowns are there 
in all? When that did not work she 
tried force. But in the end, nothing 
worked.

 The next day, Ms. Jewels made an 
announcement. “Boys and girls,” she 
said, “If Mr. Kidswatter never finds 
out that we are not doing our much 
too advanced Math, we will not have 
to do it.”

“Ooh”, screamed Rondi.

“What fun”, shrieked Allison. 

 So it came to be that they did not do 
their super, ultra, much too advanced 
Math. 

The End.

YOGURT by Luke O.

 It was Pet Day again in Mrs. Jewels 
class and John was late for school. 
John got his pet frog, Yogurt and 
rushed to Wayside School. He had 
made it to the 18th story when Yogurt 
suddenly jumped and ran.

 Yogurt opened a door that no one 
had noticed. John dashed after him, 
but suddenly the door closed right on 
his nose! John cracked his nose, but 
he didn’t care.

 He opened the door and went in. 
That was a mistake he should have 
avoided. John paused as he gazed at 
Ms. Zarves. He couldn’t believe it.

 Ms. Zarves said, “Oh boy a new 
student. Please take a seat.”

John sat next to someone and said, 
“What’s your name?”

“Ray”, Ray said.

“Who’s that, that and that”, John 
asked?

Ray said, “Victoria, Benjamin and 
Nick.”

“Benjamin? I think I’ve heard that 
name before”, John said. He wondered 
a bit then walked up to him. (When 
they had their minute break). John 
asked, “Is you name Mark Miller?”

“Yes, Mark Miller”, he said.

“Why do we work for eleven hours 
straight”, John asked? Mark Miller 
shrugged.

 “Your break is over”, said Ms. Zarves. 
“It’s time for two math tests”

John was finished first with the first 
one. Ms. Zarves graded it within a 
minute. John knew he wasn’t going to 
ace the test, but his grade was still 
an A+. 

 Then John finished the second test, 
but he answered all of the questions 
wrong. He still got an A+.

 After an hour, Ms. Zarves made 
them memorize all of the words in the 
dictionary. Ten hours later they got 
a break. John saw a box. It had a 
frog in it. He suddenly remembered 
that it was Yogurt and he belonged in 
Ms. Jewels class.

He was about to grab him when Ms. 
Zarves said, “Don’t even dare. What’s 
your name young man”?

“John”, John said.

Ms. Zarves said, “John, is that your 
frog”?

“Yes”, John said.

“Then take it and get out of here” , 
Ms. Zarves said.

 John smiled and left the room. When 
he returned to Mrs. Jewels class, Pet 
Day was over, but he was just glad to 
be back.

THE NEW HAND GAME 

by Candace Karasarkisian

 One spring day and all through the 
school not a creature was stirring not 
even Samy. Ok, enough with the Dr. 
Suess act, let us get to the story.

 One day in Mrs. Jewels class, Dana 
tapped on Shari’s shoulder and Shari 
woke up. Dana taught Shari a secret 
hand shake. They, they turned it in 
to a hand game called “Mailman”.

“Mailman, Mailman, do your duty”, 
said Dana and Shari together.

 “What kind of song is that”, asked 
Rondi?!

“Ou, sick”, said Joy!

“I like it”, replied Joe and Jenny.

So then the whole school started to 
play it. Even Mrs. Jewels, Mrs. Gouf, 
Miss Zarves, and Miss Nogard!

 Mr. Kidswatter’s voice came on the 
PA. “Good morning boys and girls”, 
said Mr. Kidswatter.

 As always, Mr. Kidswatter waited and 
listened for the children to say good 
morning back. They didn’t say a word. 
“I heard that there is a new hand 
game and I will make it the official 
hand game of Wayhigh School. Oh, 
did I say Wayhigh School? I meant 
to say Wayside School. Ok, have a 
nice day”.

 The children were quiet for a while 
and they looked at each other. Then, 
they all cheered. They all found a 
partner and started doing the hand 
game. Some people didn’t know how 
to do the hand game, so they just 
asked Dana and Shari.

 That’s how Wayside School got a 
new hand game!


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