Month: January 2019

Sports Memories

Why I love sports.
Have you ever been to a game where you are watching your favorite team and they are just getting CRUSHED or a game where you are the ones CRUSHING…
The reason I love sports is because I love running, being competitive, being athletic….
Some of the memories i have about sports…
I’m 5 years old…my sports-loving uncle asked me who will win Packers or Chicago Bears and well where are they playing he answered Lambo field then I say….well than the Packers for sure…
My select baseball team…we were losing 2-1 there were 2 outs. I was up to bat. First pitch I swang as fast as I could, hoping my arms would n’t fall off….I hit the ball to center field …i am hoping the ball sails over the fence….and……it drops…
It drops just short….i forget to keep running … I am rounding 2nd…i eye the coach seeing him waving his arms screaming like a man at wu ]….SCORE, SCORE, SCORE.
I say to myself no way no way……just keep running…my teammates screaming at me faster faster i say I am going to score…i slide home… my team crowds the field…joy springing through the air!
Let me bring you on the field of my championship game…football… third-grade year…We are losing 45-51…the coach tells us they are giving the ball to me…. and I say, “no give it to Alex because he is by far the fastest on the team” Alex gets the “ball sprinting up the field, he is jolting, bolting down the sideline…
The crowd is going wild 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 touchdown…the crowd is jumping up and down like Pop Rocks in your mouth.
The next play…coach comes over and asks us, ”do you want to go for the win or the tie?” We all scream win the ref comes over crying….saying miracles can happen…2 points to win, my legs shaking…nerves shooting thru my body as fast as bullets….
The play starts, I go out for the pass, the quarterback eyes me and mouths to me catch it he throws the ball to me …
I jump up for the ball, hoping I catch it … I reach out and grasp the ball, make sure to put my feet back in bounds… manage to do it…touchdown. A ton of sweaty players crowd around me saying…you did it…some of the other players are crying…I am so happy that we actually won!

I love sports because I am on a team, with friends, sharing something I love….Sports are fun, exciting…challenging….full of giving and getting respect….I am an athlete, I am a baseball player, I am a football player…this is what makes me ME.

Austin Jewish Academy

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MUSIC TO ME

Music. You probably think of music from like a year ago or now. You know, like pop and hip hop and rap. But do you ever think back in the day when there were music legends? I, personally got inspired by some legends like Jimi Hendrix, Chuck Berry, Stevie Ray Vaughn. Moving their hands up the fret board faster than you can talk, hear, see! I wish I could be playing alongside them. It is AMAZING!! I share music with everyone in my family including… well, everyone! Even my grandfather and my dad played keyboard and drums in a band. Imagine, sweat dripping down their faces, so much pride in the music they make. My mom even put together a playlist for me when I was only 1! When you hit that one note. Not just any note. THE PERFECT NOTE. It makes you feel all tingly inside like when you’re exited about something you have been waiting for. Music is something you should share. Music is something you should love… and THAT is music to my ears.

Austin Jewish Academy

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Football

I love pizza ALMOST as much as I love football…
I have been playing for 5 years….Almost every year I have been on a team with friends from school…
Football is how I bond with people…and I play football as much as I sleep, as I breathe, as I eat..

I use to play on a football team that won a lot of championships….I loved the feeling of being part of a winning team…

This year I won only one game, and I am about to describe that game to you….It’s pouring and I am soaked I am shivering …it’s cold, and my arms are stiff and my legs are already sore.

It’s the last game of the football season and the last play before halftime… the other team is about to score a touchdown… I am on the sideline and begging to myself that they will not score and that the rain stops as quick as lightning strikes.
The other team starts their play and it is an incomplete pass….
I am relieved that they did not score. We skip halftime and I am back on the field. This possession we do not score it is the other teams ball now.
We stop them like a cheetah stops a dear and we get the ball back…. Near the end. We are up by seven and they have the ball with a few plays to go.
They run the ball….my teammates go for the flag but they miss but the player running the ball still stops and looks as confused as me….
I pull his flag and his coach yells at him to never stop running. We get the ball back and cooper the QB for my team throws the football swifter than an arrow and one of our WR receivers catches the ball as easily as standing but he gets his flag pulled before he can score.
A few plays later the game ends and we won the game. I am as happy as someone that won the lottery.
Football makes me happy like spending time with my dad….. on Sunday eating chocolate donuts with sprinkles…sweet treats like a football victory…
That is football to me.

Austin Jewish Academy

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Pumpkin Time

Soft and bumpy, but creepy
goes through Halloween, not sleepy
it’s orange and it’s round
cut it open and make a pie
it will feel fluffy
like a cloud in the sky.
Or inside put a candle or a light,
you just need it for tonight.
Small or big,
you pick.

Boone Elementary

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Sun

Don’t get too close
or you’ll get burned.

I think you know,
I think you learned.

The sun is a glowing star,
it may look close but it is actually far.

It’s the only star we see at day
at home, and at the bay.

It wakes us up in the morning,
when some birds are soaring.

Now I think you know about the sun,
that was really, really, really fun!

Boone Elementary

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Lost

Lost your way,
Where are they?
Where to turn?
Too much to learn
Sun’s gone down,
But home’s not found

Alleys, paths
Internal wrath
Which way to go?
I don’t know
Endless walking,
No one talking

Getting near,
Mild fear
Look around
Now home is found!

Fern Bluff Elementary

5

“Know your Role”

Mama said I was born at 6:00 in the evening. Rosy cheeks and bright cherry lips. She named me Summer I reminded her of sunshine. I am the younger sister to my older brother but I’m a big sister to 3 others. “I know my role” I am a daughter first a sister and friend. “I know my role” I am a pretty brown girl, I am smart, and I am sweet .
sometimes I dress weird and I’m not neat. “I know my role” I love art because there are no rules I am free to be me “I know my role” Math is my favorite it challenges me. At one time it was hard for me to read the words looked funny and hard for me to understand I did not give up I worked hard every day because “I know my role” My little sister copies everything I do I don’t like it but I know that I’m a person she looks up to. “I know my role” Do you know yours?

Zilker Elementary School

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