Volume 5: Issue 16 Winter Issue 2013 Table of contents Dear Community, Meet Our Language Arts Specialists…3 City Kidz World magazine is now in its 5th year of publishing. The The Awesome Days Of Stacey Hopkins…4 magazine has gone from a few pages of contests, games, and sto- American?...6 ries, to a 56-page literary publication written by the young writing Stormy Night Story…7 community of New Jersey. We are glad to see our vision come to A Girl Who Gets Too Much Homework!...8 An Old Robber And A Cop!...8 fruition. It was the dream of a handful of teachers involved at the Loads Of Stormy Fun…9 beginning of the founding of the magazine to engage the young Rav and Neha’s Adventure on Volcano Island…10 writing community in a creative endeavor that will last for life. We Mango Tree…11 wanted to transcend the idea of writing only to fulfill the require- Snow White’s Halloween…12 ments of school. We know that writing is a lifelong sport. Writers Dognappers…13 need to have confidence in their abilities to express themselves in Six Flags…14 Jem…15-21 writing, whether for a graded paper or for their own person jour- Six Flags…21 nals. We want to thank the community for engaging. The Mission...22 Lunch...23 Writers’ Index Winter...23 Anirudh Jasti…45 Laya Venkatesan…9,15 Winter…24 How I Learned to Skate…25 Diya Arya…23 Maleeha Irfan…14 The Race to the Center of the Earth...26 Jaagi Kuruvella…44 Manas Bommakanti…37 The Poacher’s Mistake...27 Janvi Jadhav…48 Mira Shenoy…36 Not Your Ordinary Rehearsal...28 Param Kothari…42 Mirnalini Boopalam…4 The story of Retalia...29 Rav Kaur…10 Mitalee…52 Puzzle...31 Sruthi K….36 Namitha Seth…33 Horror on Halloween...32 Daisy...33 Aarushi Srivastava…55 Navya Gutti…49 Alien vs. People Invasion...34 Aayush Srivastava…34 Neesh Parikh…26 Poetry...35 Abhiyudh Rajput…29 Nehal Thakkar…40 Quotes...35 Aditya Mitti…35 Neil Jhawar…45 The Beach Experience...36 Aishwarya Mukundan…15 Palash Kothari…44 The Chase of the Evil Wizard...36 Anshika Khare…28 Param Kothari...42 Bull’s Eye...37 The Time Machine...38 Anushri…39 Prisha Kumar…12 I’m not Really Sure...39 Ayush Patel…46 Rahil Shah…38 How Dogs Grew Fur...40 Ayush…25 Rahul Ubriani…22 Devil...41 Dhruva Nistane…24 Rav Kaur…10 Crystal Castle...42 Ellison Edwards Murray…50 Ria Limbachia…54 Weather poem...44 Everett Edwards Murray…27 Saba Kolsawala…40 A Few Days Before Christmas...44 Farhan Mohammad…13 Sara Waraich…35 Money in School...45 Sandy-day to Sunday...45 Gopi Krishna Rayini…48 Shikta Mukherjee…41 Amazon Adventure...46 Hafsa Rahaman…7 Shourya Kandula…8 Disney World...47 Hamid Waraich…23 Shrey Jain…21 The Jersey Devil...48 Himaja Reddy…51 Siva Kuppa…11 My First Day of Second Grade...48 Jay Limbachia …32 Sriya Kandula…8 Sammy the Epic...49 Krishna Eleti…6 Tanvi…53 An Adventure...50 Futuristic Tale...51 Kunal Shukla…47 Zaal Belihomji…50 When I was a Gngerbread Cookie...52 End of the World...53 Publisher: E2Services CFO - Dean Murray The Day It Happened...54 Editor - Diane Henderson Popular Plaza Museum...55 Art Director/Cover Photog- rapher - Marc Skinner P.O. Box 5294, Kendall Park, NJ 08824 732-514-7373, [email protected] www.citykidzworld.com 2 www.citykidzworld.com Meet our Language Arts Specialists Creative Writing Muses Daniel is the white board Laura is new to the studio this wizard. He can persuade even year. She teaches elementary Director, Melissa Edwards, has been teaching English for 22 the most reluctant writers to and middle school home- years. She has experience teaching K-12 and college. She is get their thoughts out. He has a based classes, and loves having certified to teach language arts, English, reading, and journalism degree in English from Rutgers her students use sensory and she has been teaching English on the college-level for 9 years. University. perception with their writing. She loves teaching in the studio and also teaching her own two She is currently a substitute elementary school-age sons. teacher for three different school districts. Look out for Heather and her Laurel is a fantastic teacher Chis York is the Creativity huge water bottles! As the with several years of experi- King. He enjoys being animat- ence. She encourages children Punctuation Princess, Heath- ed when brainstorming ideas Jess has taught freshman er will use her colorful pens to be creative, while helping with students. He is currently composition and fiction at to whip your grammar into them master spelling, punctu- pursuing a Master’s in Early shape. ation and vocabulary. Laurel Childhood Education at Rut- the University of Wash- teaches in homes and in the gers University and will begin ington, and she has taught studio. student teaching in the fall. writing at an arts camp. She also taught at a camp for gifted middle school students. The creative writing muses work with students every week on grammar, punctuation, spelling,vocabulary, writing and confidence! www.citykidzworld.com 3 The Awesome Days of Stacey Hopkins By Mirnalini Boopalam Day 1 (last day of school) are going to Paris, YAY! School was finally over! Stella (twin sister) and I (Stacey) France, around the were planning our summer ahead. Before our annoying little mid August! I am so siblings could come to interview us, we tried to sneak up into excited! our room, but we were busted! The little sibs conduct a short My best friend Julia and weird interview with us and this is how it went: called and said that Kate and Kyle (little sibs): How was school little people? somewhere at the Stella: We are not little people, we are 9 years old (well, 10 in end of July she is a month and a half). You are little people; you guys are only 6 going to Italy. I wish I years old (well 7 in two months and a half). could go to Italy and Kate: Hey! Who are you calling little people! France. Kyle: WE ARE NOT LITTLE PEOPLE and that’s that! Anyways, we are Me (Stacey): Ok, you don’t have to get so mad at us. Now let’s going to fun Buys get away from each other for some time… today! This is my And that was the end of an awkward conversation… wish list: -Glitter Pens (Obvi- Now back to the topic ... we went up to our room after the ously blue) awkward conversation. Over in our room, we started planning -Swimsuit Mirnalini Boopalam is a 5th grader our coming up summer and there is one thing we will do for -Tag-off organizer with significant promise as a writer! sure: Have an end-of-the-year party with our neighbors. (mom and dad say Then another interruption came, which was good news: To that I need one) celebrate the end of a perfect school year with perfect grades - Art Kit Mom and Dad said we were going to Fun Buys! It is one of my -New Backpack favorite stores ever! -Drawing Book But the bad news is: We are going to Fun Buys tomorrow! That is pretty much of my wish list so far, but it will get longer Ughhhhh! when I go to Fun Buys. I have $125.75. Stella has $117.24. Who we’re going with: Alex – age 13, Anthony- age 12, Kyle- Anthony has $128.00. Alex has $113.92. Kyle has $42.00. Lastly age 6, Kate- age 6, Stella- age 9 and Stacey (me)- age 9 Kate has $41.90. Why does everything have to be postponed? It is so annoying I also I heard that there was a swimming contest held next to be having to wait! week, so I am definitely signing up. My friend, Noelle taught me how to do flips, headstands, can- Well, I have to go eat my dinner now so this is your reporter nonballs, and cartwheels in the water. I am definitely showing Stacey Hopkins signing off… off on that! Day 2 Dad says that we are going to Fun Buys in 15 minutes so I Yesterday, while eating dinner, I asked if we were going better get all my money from my piggy bank to my little blue anywhere for summer break and this is what they said. We purse. Awesome con’t on Page 5 After School and Weekends Available! City Kidz World Creative Writing Studio “We’re in this to Make Writers!” 732-514-7373, [email protected] www.citykidzworld.com 4 www.citykidzworld.com Awesome con’t from Page 4 I feel bad for Kate and Kyle that they have the least money, well They opened it! The whole family looked really nice. They Kate has the least, but it is only $0.10 away from Kyle’s money. invited us inside to help them. Also me and Stella told Mom and Dad about the end-of-the- The girl is sitting across me in the sofa. I am going to say hi year party and they said it was a great idea. now. I have to say that I thought that summer wouldn’t turn out so I said it and she said, “Hi want to help me set up my room?” good, but it is coming out really good so far! I said, “Sure, come on.” Going to go to Fun Buys so bye-bye… She is pretty nice and now we are in her room.