The Reporter (Vacaville)

Students ring in the new year

- BarIlynn AnDErNon Marilynn Anderson publishes eBooks at Amazon and Barnes and Noble.

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Happy New Year, all you ____ students at ____ Middle School. We need to brush up on world history. Yes, I am your ____ teacher, Mr. ____. You know me because I come to school in my ____ car that has ____ rims and is a very nice shade of the color ____, with detailing and a license plate that says, “____.” You used to see it before Covid19 gave us Online School.

FIRST, there are ____ countries in the world, and ____ of these countries are our friends. The others are still very primitive countries where the people wear only ____s and hunt for ____s with blow guns. Yes, they shoot ____s out of their blow guns. They are good shots and supply fresh meat for barbecues. After they eat, they watch ____ on television.

NEXT, there are so many strange animals in the world, changing rapidly due to evolution. The number is climbing due to pollution and global warming. For instance, the animal we know as the ____ is barely hanging on and is changing into ____s! Their main diet is two things: fresh ____ and dried ____. We find these ____ animals roaming through the ____ in ____, trying to escape being eaten by the predator ____s that are found behind every ____ . Hunters try to capture them and sell them for $____ to a store named ____.

SO? What can we do to help save this poor animal? First of all, we can refuse to wear clothing made from its skin! Yes, you might be wearing a ____ made from this poor animal! Check the labels in your clothes, kids.

NOW… Let’s discuss the first known civilizati­on on Earth. They were called “The ____ People.” They lived where the state of ____ is located today. They first lived in caves, but creatures called ____ lived in the caves, too, which made it brutal for the humans. Every night, swarms of these animals feasted on ____ that the humans did not keep locked up. Remember, these people were ____ and didn’t have things like ____ for storing food. So the people left the caves and started building ____s for shelter. Next, they started growing crops of ____s, and soon they were known as “vegetarian­s.”

OUR SCHOOL NURSE, Mrs. ____, insists that

I talk to you about your health because she is sure that you spent the past two weeks getting ____ hours of sleep every night, and that you have each gained ____ pounds gorging yourselves eating “take out” fried ____ from ____.

ALSO, our school librarian, Miss ____ says you all promised to read at least ____ books during the holidays, and she hopes you included the very popular book, “Our Next President Will Be ____,” in your reading choices.

OUR PRINCIPAL, Mr. ____, says that he wants the student named ____, who took our school mascot home for the holidays, to return this ____ animal, which we all know is a ____, to the School Library immediatel­y. That student will get a prize, which is a coupon for a free ____ at ____.

HAPPY NEW YEAR, everyone! See you soon!

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