WRITING WINNER:

Turkey Surprise

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By Turner Ward, fourth grade, Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic church

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ART WINNER: Taylor Beddingfield, sixth grade, Red Oak Middle School

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By Jeison Beltran, First grade, O.R. Pope Elementary School

Langdon Norris, second grade, Winstead Avenue Elementary

One day I found a turkey for Thanksgiving. I touched the turkey and transformed into one.

I ran out of the house. Then my dad tried to catch me. I ran as fast as I could, but mom caught me with her net. Then they put me in the oven. I used my beak to break out.

Then I went outside. Then dad tried to kill me with the lawn mower. Then mom threw knives at me. Then I ran the other way back into the house and touched the turkey.

I transformed back into me. It was a bad day.

Jewels

By Nathaniel Asbell, second grade, Winstead Avenue Elementary

One day in the middle of nowhere my friend and I were looking for three jewels: red, green and blue. That very moment I heard footsteps coming from right behind us! We saw an old tree house and went inside it but as soon as we got inside it, it started to move. It was an electronic tree house. We pushed the fighting button and it killed the dinosaur. They figured out where they were and said the Jurassic Park. The tree house was dirty but they pushed the cleaning button. They turned the tree house into an airplane and drove home.

Lions in the Jungle

By Phil Lyons, sixth grade, Rocky Mount Prep

He moves in the dark night looking around

Looking for prey without a sound

He sees a deer grazing the grass

Moving swiftly towards it

He is moving likes he adores it

Stoking and stoking the prey

Leaps out and catches it

And the deer will never have another day