
Protect the Earth by Elisa Sui
Many animals on earth have been losing their habitats and eating harmful substances dangerous to their bodies. It’s time to take action. Everyone should reduce, reuse, and recycle!
You should reduce as much paper you use as possible because paper comes from trees. If you buy paper from the store, it means those trees get cut down. My favorite tree is a willow tree in my yard, which I use as a secret hideout and have picnics under. The branches in front are so curvy and long, they touch the ground and we can meet beside the trunk where our parents can’t find us. If foresters cut down every tree in my neighborhood, I’d sit on my favorite willow until they got tired of waiting and went away. What if you had a favorite tree and foresters were going to cut down all the trees in your neighborhood, what would you do to protect your favorite tree?!
My mom has a small box with a mirror and eye shadow and a brush, and when she ran out of eye shadow, she was about to throw it away. I stopped her and said, “Why don’t you give it to me? I can reuse it and make something out of it!” My mom gave me the box and when I opened it, I put a lot of special flat things inside the compartments, like my special, pastel-pink, heart-shaped rock. I also keep my lucky bracelet in there, which has a chain so thin, it’s almost invisible. What if one of your parents broke something and your parents were about to throw it away. Would you stop them and make them give it to you to reuse? Or would you let them throw it away and sit in the garbage dump, ruining the earth?
In our school, there is a composting bin, garbage bin, and a recycling bin. If you throw recyclables in the garbage, they will immediately go to the garbage dump, it will slowly destroy the earth and could even wash into the ocean. Lots of fish and sea animals could eat the plastic, thinking it's their prey, which could kill them! If you wanted to save the earth and put the recyclables in the garbage can, and other things in the wrong places, it would go to the garbage dump and the dump would get bigger and bigger every day and might even kill animals. (It also wont get recycled.)
Now you know how important it is to reduce, reuse, and recycle! Let’s take action and help spread the news so creatures on the earth and in the oceans never face danger again!

Dinosaurs Are Lovely by Laetitia Wu
The thing that I would like to change about the world is… that dinosaurs should not be extinct. You may think “oh no,” but that’s nonsense and moonshine. Dinosaurs are lovely, I tell you! One time my friends made a dinosaur puppet show for me and that thing was a genius, I tell you! Oh, I think you mean real dinosaurs. Well, I really wanted to see them. (all of them except the T-Rex). My brother says that he wants to ride the T-Rex and that thing is never going to happen, I tell you!
Three different reasons why it would be lovely to live with dinosaurs still alive:
1. Because it would be great to know what the dinosaurs eat, live in, and what its speed is. Is it fast, or slow? Yep, I would like to know.
2. Because I think that when dinosaurs exist, they will put them in Dinosaur Zoos! And all people can see clearly the dinosaurs, and there, the T-Rex cannot eat humans, even if he tried to.
3. Because humans could buy them as their pets, and feed, clean, and keep them.
That is what I wish to change about the world.

Steps to Be a Fencer by Richard Qu
In fencing, you can’t just be strong. Even if you are the strongest person in the world, it doesn't mean you can be the Olympic Champion. If you are calm and strong, then together you might be the Olympic Champion. If you are calm, even if you are losing, you can think about what to do next. If you are strong and losing, you can't think about what to do next. It is better to be athletic than eating Lays chips the whole day and getting fat. You also need to be smart because you can think and analyze. If you don’t have a brain you won’t know what defense to do or how to attack. So now, you also need to have good eyesight. That doesn’t mean if you have glasses you can’t do fencing. In 2018, the British fencer Richard Kruse won in the Shanghai Grand Prix and he wears glasses. You can still win if you wear glasses, but you need these abilities below: speed, reaction, calm, half-strong/half-skinny, athletic, eager, good eyesight. For equipment, you need: mask, glove, shoes, lame, foil, epee, or sabre, wires (headwire + bodywire). And finally, fencing is, to me, the best sport I’ve ever taken part in. Most of all, you also need to believe in yourself!

Ghosts Should Do Everything For Us by Wesley Yu
Listen up everybody! Ghosts can do anything, so get a ghost. Then, you can do nothing and the ghost can do everything for you.
First if you want to go to sleep but you can’t, then you ask the ghost to do it for you. It can get you water and tuck you in and sing lullabies to you.
Second, a ghost can help you do homework. It can do Kumon for you. It can do your BASA homework. You can watch TV while it does it! It loves doing homework.
It can fight bad guys for you and protect you too, even though it’s invisible.
A ghost can also clean the kitchen for your parents instead of you. Then they can do what they want! It can do your parents’ work.
Finally ghosts can be your friend. And you know what? You can also have an invisible dog.

Brain Conversations are good for you by Lanice Chen
I sometimes have brain talks with myself. My brain will be like, “Hey, Let’s build a house.” That is my brain when I am playing a game. Then my brain will show me a picture of what it probably will look like. I would build and build until I realize that it does not look like what my brain told me. Instead it would look like a block and not like a house at all. Sometimes it is a tall block and it is boring with no decorations.
“Hey,” I tell my brain, “it doesn’t look like the picture in my head at all. I am going to delete my world in the game.”
“I agree, delete it,” my brain will say.
When I really want to do something for fun, my brain would say, “Hey, let’s do some bottle flipping.”
I will be like, “Good Idea!”
I keep playing until it is dinner time. After dinner, I would say to my brain. “What are we going to do now? Remember that game we were playing?”
But I notice my brain has fallen asleep and would not tell me anything. Then I get bored and my brain will think about it when it goes to sleep, but it keeps error-ing (that means it’s busy).
So it won’t remember.
This is how my brain goes on an adventure from place to place. And helps me collect good information. You should try having a talk with your brain. It’s really fun to have a partner nearby.




