Sherburne-Earlville Elementary School News       • Principal Mr. Douchinsky •     Issue 5 2009-10
Sicily, Italy
or go to the beach. The beach at
night is very crowded. People
By Salvatore M. 5-Johnson
My family and I went on vacation walk around until three or four
in the morning. When there are
to Sicily. Sicily is an island off
fairs, they don’t start until 9:00
the tip of Italy. We flew and it
PM and they can last until 4:00
took seven hours to get there by
plane. It takes a week to travel to AM. Sicily comes alive when the
Italy by ship. People speak Italian sun goes down!
differently in Sicily than in Italy.
Sicily has a dialect, which is like
having an accent. Also, Sicily
is very different than the United
States because it does not get
very much snow. Sometimes they
only get one to five centimeters
of snow and the winter is not
very long. Sicily is much hotter
Every morning carts selling fish,
than the U.S. because it is near
vegetables, fruits and bread, go
the equator. Usually in the
summertime, the temperature can around the streets. People who
live in second story buildings
get up to 110 degrees and in the
winter it usually only goes down don’t need to leave their house to
shop. All they need to do is grab a
to 60 degrees. It gets very hot in
the afternoon so people stay inside basket, tie a rope to it and lower it
off the balcony. The money goes
in the basket too and is lowered
down on the rope. The food is
put in the basket and pulled back
up.
Sicily is an island so it is
surrounded by water. The people
of Sicily get salt from the ocean.
First, they fill a bed with salt
water. Then the water evaporates
leaving the salt crystals. They
put all the salt in one bed and let
it dry. Once it is dry, they bag it
and sell it.
so people dig tunnels through
the mountains. The tunnels
are long! It took two or three
minutes to drive all the way
through. The road zig-zagged
up and twisted around. Finally,
we came to a big castle on top
of a mountain! The sky was so
close and the view of the ocean
was beautiful. It looked like
you could reach out and touch
the clouds. Up near the castle
there was a guy who lets you sit
on a horse and wagon. It is the
kind of wagon they used in the
old days. After all that fun, we
decided to have dinner at this
place on top of the mountain.
We had pizza and everyone got
his or her own individual pie.
It took ten hours to travel
back home by plane. My
dad’s employee picked us up
and drove us home. We had
a wonderful trip and I hope
someday you can have the same
experience. It was awesome!
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Arrivederci Sicilia!
Going to London
By Georgina G.
4-Mullen
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For the fall semester this year, I went to London. It was GREAT! At first, I didn’t want to leave
all my friends. I was afraid of missing them. When we got off the plane in London, I thought,
“ This is it.” We found the van driver holding a sign with our name, Godfrey, all in capital
letters. He led us to the car. We got in and he started driving on the wrong side of the road! Even
the steering wheel was on the right! We drove on the left side of the road to our house. My sister
and I both dashed up the stairs and chose rooms. Shortly afterwards, our parents joined us and
they had other ideas about the rooms.
After about a week, I started school. It was a girls school with much harder classes than at
Sherburne-Earlville Elementary School. The math was a grade higher, but the spelling was too
easy. They had a two-week break in the middle of the term to prepare for tests. That’s when I
decided not to go back. From then on, I was home-schooled. My parents were teaching college
students, so I had to go with them to all of their classes. Later in the semester, we went to
Scotland. You wouldn’t believe how many sheep were there! Then we went to Ireland where
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we went on a huge hike. It was fun, but I am glad to be back home.
GLACIER PARK
by Harrison D. 4-Fenton
Where ice slides down the mountains.
Where things are warm down in the valleys,
but never on the peaks.
The clouds slip right through you,
the world looks like a cotton ball.
Your cloths start to soak up moisture,
you feel a sudden chill...
You’re in GLACIER PARK!
MOUNT RUSHMORE
by Harrison D. 4-Fenton
There’s a mountain way out west.
With faces chiseled out.
The faces of four presidents.
That went down in history.
How can faces get so big?
You’d think it is merely a mirage.
The faces of the presidents,
George, Tom, Ted, and Abe.
The faces of Mount Rushmore.
Editors:
Salvatore M. 5
Harrison D. 4
Georgina G. 4
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Mariah H. 3
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Ms. Hammond
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