School is Planning

School is cool
School is mean
Sometimes you wish
You didn't have to do anything
Just sit back, relax and enjoy the show
"Til the teacher asks for the answer
You wish for no homework, no tests,and more importantly no school.
But then it goes by
Year after year
Grade after grade
School after school
By then you're no longer small
But big and strong
You take on the beast head on
Oh..... Where did the time go?
I don't know
At the beginning you were making new friends
Then it was trying new things
Next was balancing everything
Now its planning for your future
But you've got to answer some big questions
Like what do you want to be?
A vet
A firefighter
A police officer
A teacher
A writer
A painter
An explorer
Do you want to travel before the beast?
Do you want to have kids after the beast?
Do you want a house during or after?
There's so many questions to answer and many others to ask
You're probably thinking "How can I do all this?"
Well you've been training or planning without even thinking
Through school
All the homework
All the field trips
All the tests
All the activities
Everything you've done in the past has prepared you for future or the beast
Or as we parents like to call it collage.
We've prepared you for it and for so much more.

History of Constellations

Have you looked up in the sky lately? Do you see the stars forming shapes? Those shapes are called constellations. Many empires found and named these constellations. They used stories, myths, or legends to example why the constellations are there. Constellations are part of both the Earth’s history and the universe’s history.
The Greeks are famous for their myths. In the myth “The Great Bear” Jupiter, the God of the skies, fell in love with a moral woman named Callisto. Juno, Jupiter’s wife, became jealous of Callisto after she gave birth to Jupiter’s son, Arcus. To get back at Callisto, Juno changed her into a bear. One would think that Callisto would trusted just as before because she was known to be kind and gentle. But no one believed she was still the same kind and caring person. The villagers forced her to leave her child by sending hunters with their dogs after her, while the women of the village took care of her baby. Years later Callisto came back to the village where she once lived. She soon found a hunter about to shot a bird; she soon realized the hunter was her son Arus. But when Arus saw the bear, he didn’t know it was his mother and aimed for it. Jupiter stepped in, even though it had be years since he last saw Callisto in her human form, he still loved her. To protect Callisto from her own son, he hurled her into the night sky. He also changed Arus into a small bear and then put Arus right next to his mother. But Juno was still jealous so she made Neptune, the God of the Sea, to keep the two bears from descending into the ocean like all the other stars. This is the myth the Greeks used to example to themselves why the Great Bear and the Little Bear are the only constellations to never set below the horizon.
They said that their gods made the stars move to make a shape of someone or something that the Gods thought honorable or wanted to honor. The Greeks believed the gods thought a hunter named Orion was honorable enough to be made in a constellation. In ancient Greek and in Greek mythology Orion was a great hunter who accomplished many things. It is said that he killed many beasts. But no one knows just how he died. One theory is that a Scorpios killed him. Now both are up in the night sky as constellations.
Hundreds of cultures have thought that their gods placed their heroes and myths up into the night sky. Were the myths, stories, and legends true? No one truly knows, and no one truly knows which opinion is right. Only you can choice which way you believe.

Raymond's Run

To let someone else win on purpose is usless. If you let the other person win then they never really won. It is better to give the race or sport or any other game you're playing all you've got. It's the fairest way to play, even if you win and they don't. In the story "Raymond's Run," Mr. Pearson tells "Squeaky" or Hazel Elizabeth Deborath Parker to let Gretchen win the race. Squeaky got angry at the suggestion because in her mind she is the best runner and to lose a race would make her look bad. It's one thing to have a friend or a family member tell to not do your best best. It's a whole thing to have your coach tell to.