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Sitting in the 4th swim meet of the season it seemed like the 1st. "2" win, my team needed 1,486 points. We only had 879. If I won my heat we would get 2 points. I was in heat 4 lane 5. There are 5 heats in all. The floor is wet. People slide along. Most have money "4" snacks. Food is expensive. 8 people in line, only 2 people on duty. I swim next. I am swimming a 100 IM. There are 99 swimmers at this meet on my team. 98 were counting on me. 3 people were my family. 1 is me.

- Miriam

"2"day is my 11th birthday. It is my dad's birthday "2"! "4" my birthday we are going "2" the park. I invited 7 friends. I got 7 presents and candy. We "8" cake and ice cream. It is my dad's 40th birthday. "2" celebrate his birthday we went out to eat at his favorite restaurant.

- Samantha

My Mouse - One day, I was lying in my bed thinking about nothing when all of a sudden I noticed that my mouse weighs > than my cow. My cow weighs 2192 lbs. and my mouse weighs >. Even my horse weighs < than my mouse. The only thing that weighs = to my mouse is my pet T Rex who weighs 3,000,000 tons. I interviewed my mouse and he said he didn't know his own weight. Also I found out that my mouse's weight + my feather's weight = the weight of Saturn - the weight of Mercury. And that ÷ by 7, x 3. He is heavy.

- Ryan

"1" day when I was plyaing football with my friends I noticed that the score was much different from just 5 minutes ago. The score was 65 "2" 40. The red team's score was much ">" the blue team's. It was a very tough loss for the blue team. The next day both teams played again and the blue team's score was ">" than the red team's score. They had a lot of fun playing football. My "#" was 32.

- Ross

On our bus, #79, there are 27 people. There are about 3 kindergartners. There are about 2 1st graders. There are about 5 2nd graders. There are about 6 3rd graders. Also, there are around 5 4th graders. There are around 8 5th graders.

- Jack

Today I went "2" piano and horseback riding. At piano I realized I forgot my music. I had 4 pieces. I left 1 at home. 4 - 1 = 3. But for some reason, I still had 4. I realized that I had an extra piece. At piano, I counted the keys. I got a different # each time I counted. Finally my teacher told me. The # of black keys was < the # of white. There were 36 black keys and 52 white keys. Guess how many there were total? ___

At horseback, I carried the saddle and the bridle "2"my horse, Fire. I noticed that the saddle weighed > the bridle. In the ring there were 5 jumps. There was an = amount of distance between each jump. I jumped 4 and missed 1. My sister's pony jumped 3 jumps < my pony. I was proud of my horse. At the end I gave my horse Fire and Pecos Bill a carrot. Fire "8" > Pecos Bill, because he was much bigger.

- Erin

Yard Sale - We were having a yard sale. Everything was $25.00 or < $25.00. I was really sad when my teddy bear was taken away for 75¢. The most expensive thing was a sofa for $25.00 exactly. That cost > than my teddy bear. Those 2 things were $25.75 "2"gether. All the other things "+"dded "2"gether were $75.50. Both of those prices = $101.25. But I only got 10% of the profits.

- Sarah

WNBA Playoffs - My team, the Charlotte Sting, was ranked #1 in the easternxi division. I was in the league's 3rd annual playoff! The game was supposed "2" start in 30 "2"nds. There seemed "2" be 1,000,000 people in the stands. I was #10, my favorite #. We looked at the 50 stars and 13 stripes on the 110 year old American flag. After playing for 3/4 of the game, it was an = game. As we went into our 2nd overtime, we had an = # of points. At the end we won because we had < than the other team, which had been ranked #2.

- Courtney

A Car Wreck - 1 day, on 3-6-96 I was driving "2" the 1st National Bank, when we saw 1/2 a truck burning in the road! 4 men were fleeing it. We immediately did a 180° turn and went home. It was on the 3:00 news! They said, "There was a 3 vehicle crash today! A truck was t-boned by 2 cars at once! 1/2 the truck exploded! There were >10,000 cars delayed by the accident! We were "2", "2" glad we weren't in it.

- Kevin

Special Steak - Today I had "2" cook dinner. I was going "2" make my special steak. I had "2" buy a steak for $5.99. I had "2" buy tabasco sause for $10.02. I also had "2" buy green peppers, yellow peppers, and red peppers, all for $13.12. I = out "2" be a total price of $29.14. When I got home I had "2" add the $29.14 + the 50¢ of candy so I would know how much "2" pay mom. Now I am ready "2" make my special steak. Except for one more thing, which is I have "2" watch the Simpsons at their new time today from 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm. Unexpectedly my Uncle's family dropped by. So now I had "2" ÷ my special steak "2" feed more people!

Since I have a math test tomorrow, after dinner my mom pulled out the x, -, ÷ & the + cards. If I do well then I could "2"x my television time.

- Anonymous

My New baby sister - I am 10x my new baby sister's weight. She is very small. She cost a lot of $. We had "2" paint her room pink and buy things "2" go in it. She weighs < my dog, but > my fish, and = my cat. I bought a stuffed animal for her for 50¢. My older sister's weight - my weight is = "2" her weight.

- Anonymous

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