Mountain Views News          Saturday, August 20, 2011

SUMMER FUN

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 Mountain Views News Saturday, August 20, 2011 


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! 

 If you want to read the previous week’s stories, go to: www.mtnviewsnews.
com. S. Henderson/MVNews


BFF by Malia Teran

 Paul and Leslie were two students in Mrs. 
Jewel’s class, and they were best friends. 
One day Paul found a new best friend and said, 
“Leslie, we can’t be best friends anymore.” So 
Leslie was on a search for a new best friend.

 The next day, Leslie, Allison and Rondi were 
on the playground before school. Leslie asked 
Allison to be her best friend. Allison said, 
“You need to get permission from Rondi.” So, 
Leslie asked. Rondi said, “No.”

 So, Leslie had to think of a plan to trick Rondi.

 The next day Leslie told Rondi, “Your mom 
is teaching on the 19th story!” (The trick is, 
there is no 19th story.)

 So Rondi said, “Bye, bye.”

 Then Leslie asked, “Now, can we be best 
friends?” Allison sighed, “I guess.”

 Leslie said, “Great! Now let’s go get 
smoothies.”

 Allison said, “Let’s go now. We have a lot to 
discuss.”

 It took Rondi three years to figure out that 
her mom wasn’t teaching on the 19th story 
since there was no 19th story. When she came 
back to Mrs. Jewels, who was surprised to see 
Rondi after three years, Rondi told her that 
Allison and Leslie would not let her be best 
friends with her.

 Mrs. Jewels approached Allison and Leslie 
and suggested they all be friends.

 The girls then thought this was a great idea 
because 3 is better than 2. 

BASKETBALL COURT CHALLENGE 

by Trey

 One day Eric Fry was playing with the other 
Erics. Eric Bacon and Eric Ovens. Eric Fry 
was the best basketball player at Wayside 
School because he practiced the most.

 On this day, Eric Fry was making all his shots 
when some bullies from the 1st story came and 
stoled the ball. Eric Fry felt sad on the inside 
and on the outside. So, he went and told Louis.

 “Some bullies stole the ball”, said Eric. Louis 
replied, “I will bench them for 2 weeks.”

 So, the bullies were benched for two weeks 
and Eric went back to the basketball court 
to play. This time 2 kids from Mrs. Jewel’s 
class, Maurecia and Eric Ovens challenged him 
to a game.

 Eric Fry won the game. The score was 30-50.

THE PLAN by Sara Fraser

 One day at recess, the students were gathered 
around Louis. He was telling a story.

 “There once was a.....”

 “Ahhhhhh,” yelled D.J.

 Louis and the group came over. “What’s 
wrong?” asked the group together?

 DJ said, “I just noticed something.”

 “What did you notice?”, asked Louis.

 I noticed that on the 30th story, there are 
30 children. On the 29th story there are 29 
children and so on. So, on the 1st story there 
is only 1 kid.”

 While the kids were listening to D.J.,Sharie, 
BeBe and Joe were making a plan to get rid of 
their substitute Ms. Nogard. She was there 
because Mrs. Jewels was on vacation. Sharie 
thought Mrs. Nogard always did the opposite 
of what they wanted, so she had to go.

 On the black top Joey said, “I could count 
like this: 1, 2,5,3,6,70,100,9,10 to distract 
Ms. Nogard.”

 Before Joe could finish, Louis snuck out of 
the crowd and ran to Sharie, BeBe and Joe. 
he said, “What are you guys planning over 
here?”. Right before they could answer, Sharie 
dropped to the floor and fell asleep.

 BeBe said, “Again! She always falls asleep.” 
Then the bell rang. BeBe said, “Well, what are 
we going to do with her?”

 “I can marry, I mean carry her up the stairs,” 
said Louis.

 So they went up the 30 flights of stairs. 
Louis was sweating so much, but not from carrying 
Sharie. I mean she is just 12 pounds, 
but because there were so many stairs. When 
they got to the classroom, Louis dropped Sharie 
right in the door, just before he fell down 
the stairs. Sharie still didn’t wake up.

 When Ms. Nogard bent down to check on 
Sharie, right then BeBe saw Ms. Nogard’s 3rd 
ear! BeBe screamed, “Ms. Nogard has a third 
ear in the middle of her head!”

 Everyone gasped.

 “She does?” said Sharie in her sleep.

 “OMG,” said Paul.

 “That’s weird,” said Dana.

 “Unthinkable,” said D.J.

 Meanwhile, Ms. Nogard just stood in the 
classroom embarassed by her third ear. All 
she wanted to do was leave Wayside School. 
So she ran down the 30 flights of stairs and 
out the door, never to be seen again.

 The students cheered as they watched 
her leave. Then they heard a banging from 
the closet, and Sharie opened it to find Mrs. 
Jewels.