CREATIVITY CORNER
The Giant Cookie
Trey, 9 Santa Ana
We came with five truckloads of flour, one thousand bowls of sugar, 200 eggs, a pool of butter, a sea of water, a building of chocolate chips and 17 giant batter mixers. We drained the pond and mixed the batter there in the park. Then we got all our ovens and stacked them altogether to bake the cookie. As the cookie grew, it pushed against the oven windows. “Look at our ovens!” we cried. We could not wait to put the cookie on the giant dinner plate. We jumped inside the UFO and flew back to Sugar Island with thousands of glasses of milk.
Falling Money
Karen, 11 Loara Elementary, Anaheim
Pennies, nickels, dimes are raining down on me. It is like I have a beautiful and grand skeleton key. Quarters, half dollars and all of the dollars, too. This raining money will never make me blue. My hands are stretched out and it’s falling on me.
I think this is crazy, how could it be? But all the luck and money, I have, don’t you see? Impossible! Preposterous! Not how life is! But I can buy tons and tons of soda with tons of fizz! This is not right. You have to agree.
Arguing with myself, I lie down on the ground. Then I wake up and all the money is gone. It was just all a crazy dream I wish I could keep around.
The Friend
Kyle, 2nd grade Pacific Elementary, Manhattan Beach
I feel down. Summer ends. First day of kindergarten. I don’t know anyone here. My head is down.
All of a sudden a person walks up to me and says, “Do you want to play?” “Sure!” I say. We jump on swings and I feel glad.
California
Madison, 11 Meadows Elementary, Valencia
Let’s go to San Diego, and see the ocean’s waves.
Let’s go up north, and explore the mountain caves.
Let’s go to the Central Valley and see the citrus trees grow.
Then we’ll see the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco.
Next we’ll go to Death Valley and feel the heat.
Then we’ll go to Santa Barbara to eat the Mission’s wheat.
After we’ll go see Los Angeles — that’s the place to go.
California has any kind of excitement there is to know.