The Daily Sap

As Editor and Cheif, I Will Make A Speech!

Okay, sense me and my friend, SN, started this blog; I thought it would be nice to throw a party for it. 

I don't exactly what we should do for the party, but I do think it should be BIG! If you have an idea for the party, please send it to us. And the date for the "party" (PARTY is in quotations because I know it wont be THAT big. Probably just some food and music). 

It'll be a while until the party actually starts, but I know that you Elms out there can wait. 

(I haven't told them,yet)

Editor and chief, 

D.R.

Fight or Talk

The Poligourd Position 

You must all know about the terrorists and threats going around.  We say that instead of killing, we sit down and talk, talking it over with other gourds, even if we don't agree.  Free gourds say that war is the only solution to our problems.  Do you really want more wars?  We say we have it bad enough!  Why just let another problem fall through our hands and have it go crazy?  You choose.  (by D.R.)

The Free Gourd Position

Poligourds say we should sit down and have a cup of tea with our enemy!  We say we should strike before it's too late!  Why let our country fall?  We all know that Poligourds don't want to accept the truth!  Fight for your country and we'll fight for you.  (by S.N.)

Writing Rampage!

I enjoy writing and reading, and I came upon a magazine called "Stone Soup". 

In this book, kids (ten and up) write and Illustrate their own short stories.

I smiled when I found it and brought it into class in order to AMAZE my class with the idea that had popped into my head.

"I found this last night," I said, "And I was thinking that we could do stuff like this for the Daily Sap... well, maybe it wont have the pictures, but It'll still be pretty awesome!" 

When I said it, I saw some faces light up with excitment.

So, this is just a heads-up. Prepare to read some awesome writing! To the X-treme!!!

-D.R.

P.S. I was a little hyper when I wrote this so the part where it says: "To the X-treme!!!", I was a little out of it. ^_^

Obama?! McCain?! LOBSTER?!?!

In the Elms, the talk of the election has been a buzzing talk.

"Yeah... I don't know what to say, I don't exactly listen to the debates or that stuff" said an Elm.

Don't you think it's AMAZING that the Elms are carefully paying attention to the election? I mean, wow!

"Do you think that the election will make it into HISTORY? I mean if Obama gets elected then, he'll be the first black president!" cried a parent.

Don't you understand the excitment that runs in most Elms?! Its incredible! I mean gosh, how can you EVER think about anything else?! I mean... Hey, where'd everybody go?

- D.R.

Theft and Inflation in the Woods

Todays news flash is a very disturbing one indeed. It will shock you to know about the blood curdling things that are growing in the woods... THEFT.

So many young kids have gone into the work of theft in order to become rich.  To them, being rich, is being famous. Most of this has sadly started with the 4th and 5th graders. As you might know, our featured fort is "The Perfume Shoppe" and the owner of the featured fort is Stefan. 

He gave me some amazing news about the theft that is going around:

"Most of the theft has been caused sadly, by the 4th and 5th graders. As a 5th grader, I am sad to see so much theft going around. A fort near mine that is just being built has a couple of 4th and 5th graders. And I have watched them steal their way into golden corn cobs and sticks" said Stefan, as we walked down, thru the forest to find the exact fort and we watched as they sorted their corn cobs and packed sticks on the top layer to make it warmer inside.

"As you might know, Dana, the increase of theft means the lower of how much a corn cob amounts too. pretty soon, a corn cob will be worth a penny and a golden will be worth only ten corn cobs" Clearly, I asked Stefan what he meant by this shocking discovery.

"Well, as you might know, more forts have been finding golden corn cobs lying on the ground, if this keeps happening, then golden corn cobs will be as much as one corn cob, and at that, indian corn cobs will be worth how much golden corn cobs once were worth" he shook his head as he said it.

After a bit he confessed: 

" After a while of witnessing people steal for fame and fortune, some forts have started making traps and even, kicking out members of the fort because they SAY that they saw that person steel a corn cob. Now, I am sad when I see the poor people, walking on the side of the path saying: I once was in a fort with corn cobs galore. now that's no more"  So, do a favor to a person you see standing by the pathway and give them a corn cob to help them start a new fort, maybe a better one than the last. And thank you, for reading todays News Flash.

- Dana Rohwer