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Our featured writer this week is Kyle from third grade.  He has submitted his writing to Skibbler’s ezine magazine.  It should appear online later this spring.  In the meantime, I would like to share his writing about a visit to the beach.

Mrs. Neddo

BEACH

The ocean is full of surprises.  Here I am watching the waves with my family.  Mom and me go in the waves.  A wave comes and goes around our feet, and swallows a sand castle.  The next wave comes to my stomach.           
Uh-oh!  This wave takes me under.  It tosses me, and turns me, and spits me out.  I have rocks in my suit.  I get up but another wave pushes me down.           
I go back in the waves and another wave takes me under so I decide to get out and play with my brother.  We dig a hole 2 feet deep.  It comes to my shoulders.  I don’t go in the water for a long time.  This hole is so deep that it goes to my brother’s face!           
Later, I go back in the waves.  Uh-oh, the waves are rough!  The next wave is so big! “Ahh!”  I say.  Splash! Ow!  I hit the bottom!  I come out of the water, but suddenly another wave comes!  I can’t swim away!  Swish!  “Help me!”  I scream.  Bam!  I smacked the bottom of the ocean!  A whale swims past me.  I swim to the top which is a long way.  I realize I feel land and I climb out.  I am on a small island.  I run into a foot tall man.  He says the name of the island is Icozmicooz.           
“What???”  I said.           
“I-coz-mi-cooz,” he said in a sterner voice.           
“Okay, okay,” I said.           
“What???” I thought, aloud.  He grunted at me and pushed me in a wave.  Ow!  Ow!  Before I know it, I’m back.  “Ugh”  I said.  My mom is waiting for me.           
“Hi”  she says.  I tell her what happened.           
“Oh my silly little storyteller!” she said.  “I love you.”           
“Me too,”  I said.  “Me too.”

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