HOW TO PICK OUT
HORSES
By: Sheena Wolfe & Jolene Jones
Are you looking or thinking of buying a horse? Well, if so, I have a few tips and ideas on what you generally want to look for in buying a horse. Pick up a Mountain Trader every week, and look in the 4-footers, or a news paper and look under the classified ads. I would also recommend not buying a horse at an auction, because you don’t know what you are getting. Here are some of my ideas.
Everybody books for young readers.
The book that I read was called Snaffles. Snaffles is about a bird that is called Gruff, and a jack rabbit. One day Snaffles, the Gruff, was walking around when he heard a noise. It was the jack rabbit laughing because Snaffles did not know what the jack rabbit was doing. After Snaffles asked the rabbit a few questions, they became good friends.
In the book the rabbit teaches Snaffles how to laugh, be happy, to be sad, mad and how to cry.
I think that this book is fantastic for youngsters to read, because it teaches them that it is okay to feel and express emotions. And if a little kid was to be crying and he did not know what was dripping down his or hers face, they could just look back to the book Snaffles, and remember the Gruffs and the jack rabbit, and how the rabbit taught all the Gruffs what feelings were.
Tasha Andrews
This book is about Jessica and Elizabeth Wakefield and how they’re in ballet class. The teacher favors Elizabeth and picks her for the star play even though Jessica could play the part better.
In this book I hope to find out if Jessica does really get the part or if Madame Andre just sticks with Elizabeth. I also hope to see if Elizabeth finally notices the problem so she will decide to give the big part to Jessica. I also hope that there is lessons taught.
I thought that this book was a great book for 4th graders. It was all I was looking for except Elizabeth and Jessica both get to play the part, after some talking to Madame Andre. I also know that it is not right to play favorites.
I thought that this book was well written and that all Francine Pascal books are great reading books for grades 3-5. This book could be written better with some more action, but that is a suggestion coming from a 7th grader.
Tasha Andrews
All the animals in this story play important role in this story, because if they weren’t there the story wouldn’t go together very well. The animals are the monkey, tiger, bear, elephant and mouse.
In the story all the animals decide to go for a picnic. Their walking, taking turns carrying the basket and then their food begins to disappear. They look for the food and figure out it’s the mouse who's eating the food.
The problem is that the animals don’t know where the food is because the mouse is eating it. So if the mouse wasn’t there they would have there.
The story was a great one for kids. The characters are all really good.
By: Amy Mollenkopf
One type of rose that grows good in Kila is Rugosa. This particular types of roses are scented, and they’re used for potpourri. Hybrid Tea and Floribunda grow well here also. It’s best to get these roses from Northern growing locations. A flower that grows well with these particular roses is a petunia.
It’s fine to mix roses with different flowers. It just depends if you want to have a natural looking area, or a formal area. If you put roses together that are in the same family, they’ll cross-pollinate. It could result in different colors then what you planted.
Roses should be planted in acidic soil. Bonemeal is good for them. It’s very important to control the bugs, because many roses can be killed easily from them.
Rain
By: Brett Wietzel
Rain is very fun to play in. The best thing about when it rains is the lightening and thunder.
When it rains I wish it would rain for two or three days straight so we would get a foot of rain instead of a couple inches. It is kind of neat is to watch how much rain you get in two or three days. Many things can happen in a two or three day rain. Pools of water form, streams and lakes rise, and sometimes even floods occur.
When you don’t feel like going outside while it is raining, you can play board games inside.
Sometimes you can smell the rain before it is even here. You can also see rain through the clouds. The darker the clouds, the worse the storm.
If we did not have rain, snow, or hail we would not have lakes and rivers like we do today.
Web Page
By Chevy Davis
A couple of Kila's students, Joel Randall and Allison Tuszynski, have just started designing a World Wide Web (WWW) page for Kila.
From this, anyone from around the world will be able to access information about Kila.
Mr. Tuszynski, the computer manager, says that the next issue of the Kila Quest will be on the Internet, so someone in Australia can read The Kila Quest.
So if you have access to the internet from home. You might be able to find out some interesting facts about Kila that you never knew about.
By Christina Wood
I was eating lunch in a Queen’s Palace, in France, in a little town called Kookamunga. I felt proud and almost as royal as the Queen, because I was sitting in a very high, red velvet chair. I was eating on an unusual table. It was very long and thin. In the middle sat a great big bowl of all different kinds of fruit. Next to it sat a great big bowl of cherry jam. I was going to grab the jam to put it on the cook’s wonderful homemade bread, but my finger hit the big bowl and it went sailing across the long, flat table, and landed on the Queen’s beautiful velvet purple and black dress with gold lining and collar. When the Queen tried to wipe the cherry jam off her dress, she got the sticky cherry jam in her long, beautiful hair, which was on top of her head with two long curly bangs hanging out the sides. The Queen got the jam on her face too. She was wearing a lot of blush and her face looked like a wilted rose. I was filled with giggles, but the Queen was not smiling. Her eyes were blood shot and very teary. She looked like she was about to cry. I felt like I was going to burst with laughter, so I said good-bye and a thank you for lunch. From that day on, I never mentioned palaces, Queen’s, or France, but most of all, I never mentioned The Queen of Kookamunga.
By: Shawn Linne’
One day I came home and saw a troll standing on a big box. The troll ran; the next thing I knew he was gone. The box had a note on which it said “Open very carefully. No one else is home.” It also said, “If you don’t the Treasure Man will come back and your life will be in great danger!” I opened the box, and I found gold, rubies, diamonds, and other jewels.
My parents came home and I told them everything. I told them that we were rich and showed them the box with all jewels. The troll came back, and instead of my life being in danger he granted me five wishes. Those wishes were a Gameboy, a big screen television, Sega, a regular Nintendo, and a Super Nintendo.
By: Jolene Jones & Sheena Wolfe
Taking care of horses is not easy. After you buy a horse you have to learn how to take care of it. You not only have to feed them hay and grass, you should also feed them the same kind of grain. You can feed them plain oats, rolled oats, 3-way, alfalfa pellets, or beat-pulp. It is optional to get molasses on any kind of grain.
When your horse gets hurt you should take care of the wound as soon as possible and make sure that you have medical products on hand. If the horse's wounds are severe, call the vet as soon as possible.
Your horse should have it’s shots every 2 months. If you can not give the horse shots on your own, a vet will also be available. Your horse also should be wormed every 2 months.
You should give your horse good, fresh water and fresh, dry hay. The hay should not be moldy or dusty. If the hay is really dusty take it apart and then feed it to your horse. If you can’t help the mold tear it off and if the hay is wet, it is still OK, but it not the best.
The Kila School Track Meet will be a little different this year. Grades six through eight will be doing the track meet on May 28. Grades one through five will be doing on May 29.
Come enjoy a long day of cheering and lots of fun!!
Lindsey Morrison
This is not a good position. I have no choice but to attack. The southern army is in the dip and we are stationed around them. They are firing, so we have no choice but to fire back. I really hate being Abraham Lincoln sometimes. I end up having to call all the shots and I end being called the bad guy when I had no other choice.
I remember gunshots cutting through the air like barber's scissors. There was no need to stalk, they were surrounded. I hated to see the limp bodies scattered over the battlefield, their beloved guns cradled in their arms. Bloody and cold. DEAD. I didn't like to see anyone dead. I had no choice. This haunts me to this day. It was my fault all those people died. My fault! Yes, it was true that if I didn't call attack many more men would have died and those who died is enough for me. Enough for anyone. I felt sympathy for those whose relatives, sons, fathers, brothers, and cousins died in this horrid battle or any other battle. My own brother's thirteen, close friends were killed.
One of the most remarkable and amazing stories I've ever heard is the following. One day, on this man's twentieth birthday, he was out picking strawberries on the foothills of a mountain when he heard laughter. As it got louder he recognized it. It sounded like his two brothers' laugh. Although that was impossible, because they were said to be dead by everyone. They were on the list of dead for the battle of Bull Run. As the sound of laughing approached he saw that it was in fact his brother. They said that they had traded places with two men, so that they were not in the battle, but the reason they were pronounced dead is because they didn't find them until the list was out. The other two men were not killed.
The only good turnout of the battle of Gettysburg is it seems to me, that is what inspired many. One day after Grant took over Vicksbury and that is what turned it all around. Lee surrendered to Grant in Appomattox and that was our victory. My goal was to keep the union united, North and South. In the mean time I freed the slaves.
Here is a copy of the Getttysburg Address: Four score and seven years ago fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all the men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great Civil War testing with that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. We are met on the great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here gave the lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting an proper that we should do this. But in a larger sense we can not dedicate, we can not concentrate, and we can not hollow this ground! The brave and the dead men who struggled here have concentrated it far above our poor power to add our detract. The world will little note, nor longer remember what we say here but it can they can never forget what they did here. It is for us, the living, rather that be dedicated here to the unfinished, which those who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here, dedicating to the great task remaining before us. And that government of the people by the people for the people shall not perish from the earth.
CONGRATULATIONS
8TH GRADE
GRADUATES!
Midnight
Elizabeth Neuharth
Once upon a time, there was a horse. It’s name was Midnight. She lived in the Wild West. She slept under a great big tree. Midnight drank from a stream that could quench her thirst for a long time. One day when Midnight was in the desert some cowboys came. They got a rope ready to catch a wild horse. Then they saw Midnight.
The cowboys thought that Midnight was a great looking horse. So they got the rope and swung it around their heads and wrapped it around Midnight's neck. Midnight bucked it off and ran to the big tree. The next day Midnight went to the stream. The stream was dry. Midnight got weaker, and weaker, and weaker. Midnight got so weak that she could barely walk. She got so thirsty! When the next day came, the cowboys came early. They wrapped the rope around Midnight's neck. Midnight did not buck it off. The cowboys took Midnight to their ranch. Then they fed Midnight some hay, and grain. They brushed her and saddled Midnight up. Then one of the cowboys got on to the saddle and tried to ride Midnight.
But now Midnight was strong again, so she bucked the cowboy off. The cowboys decided to let Midnight go. So Midnight went out of the ranch, and back to her old big tree. Soon she started to fall asleep. Midnight woke up and ran through the poring rain. She ran to the cowboys ranch. The cowboys saw Midnight and went to her. they brushed her and fed her. They soon decided to keep Midnight. Midnight loved her new home.
