This week’s featured writer: Cameron Brown
School: Casimir Pulaski Elementary School
Age: 10
Grade: 4
Teacher: Mrs. Caruth
What have you learned in school that makes you a better writer? I've learned how to use good vocabulary and to use nice suspenseful parts.
What is your favorite book? My favorite book is "The Invention of Hugo Cabray".
What do you like to do outside of school? I like to read and hang out with friends.
Cameron’s writing:
My Snowman
Whoosh! Whoosh! I could hear whistling coming from outside. I could see the snow dancing from all the wind. It was so windy I could feel a draft coming from the window being just a crack open. So, I cuddled in my blankets and got so nice and cozy. I laid in my bed thinking about what I was going to do tomorrow. Then, all of a sudden, the window opens and I get a blast of Alaska feeling ice cold air. It was so cold, it felt like someone just dumped a big bucked of ice cold water right on me! I ran to the window and shut it. And right when I got there, the street lights turned on.
Then I had just enough light to see my snowman, but then I saw my snowman move a little bit. I think I'm just tired. I must be, snowmen don't move. So, I started to walk to my bed and in the corner of my eye I could see my snowman move again! I put my eyes right on the snowman's eyes and he winked at me! O.k. I did not just see my snowman wink at me. Then he winked at me again!
I grabbed my jacket and slipped into my snow boots and quietly opened the front door. I peeked at my snowman with the door opened just a crack, and it didn't move an inch. So, I took a step outside, took a deep, deep breath, and started walking over to my snowman. As I was observing my snowman, I heard a voice. It was very close. But then I heard, "Hello" and saw that my snowman was talking to me. In a weird way I said "hello" back, or if you want to be honest, I said "right back at you." So after a couple of seconds my mind was still blank. I didn't know what to do. I didn't know what to say. Then, he spoke and said, "You don't have to be so weird, did you know that?" Ok, yes I did. So I, the great one, told him no need to be rude. Then I asked him, do you want to go to the neighborhood snowball fight. He replied, "Let's dominate! I like snowball fights!" It was so exciting, me and the snowman were on the same team and he was throwing like a machine gun. He was throwing the snowballs so fast that you couldn't even see where they were going. He probably got everybody ten times each. It was a blast. We love snowball fights.
On our way back, we saw a hockey rink and couldn't resist not going in. We were getting our skates on and I asked him, "Are you ready?" and he replied, "Never been more ready than right now." But I was like, you don't even have the skates on. Then, they magically appeared on his feet. We grabbed our hockey sticks and jumped right in the game. I scored six goals and he scored seven goals. Then we left and got snow cones. Both of us really had a good time.
So, then we went home. He went where he was before, and I went up to my room where I watched as the sun rose high in the sky, the beautiful pink shaded sun. I saw my snowman form into a regular snowman, and before he formed, he winked at me. Then he didn't move again.
When everybody woke up and at breakfast, I made another snowman. I can't wait for tonight. I can almost picture the fun things I'm going to do with my two snowmen. I will always remember my first snowman.
