Jenn found this story and others in Oakley’s school bag tonight.  She had torn them out of her notebook from the summer and placed them in an envelope titled, “Short Stories for School”, by Oakley Rhea Martin.

I’ve captured it precisely as she wrote it…

“Caw, Caw, Caw,” the crow flew up into a pine tree up high.  Oh, how those three girls loved nature.  But best of all they loved birds.  But maybe they didn’t like it when the birds ate their blueberries.  That was just kind of upseting.  The oldest sister, Aspen loved how beautiful and shiny the wings were.  Oakley, who was the middle sister, loved how swift they were in flight.  Lindy, who was the youngest sister, loved how beautiful the birds eggs were, for example the light turquiose blue of the robins egg.  One day, the 3 girls heard a female and male cardinal chirping a song.  Then the three sisters knew what they had to do.  They had to keep birds in their hearts forever.  Keep nature exist in the world.  The cardinals had sent a message to keep them them birds and whole safe.

Keep the Birds!

the end

Oakley has had a brilliant first grade year. Literally, brilliant. Credit can go to many… her school has served he so well this year, her teacher, well, we’ve talked about that… and her mom is OK, too.

I’ve got two things to share… first, as video. Oakley’s school play took place last week, and her school deserves a lot of credit for doing these things right. All of the kids get their moment to shine, it’s fun, it’s brief, I even enjoy going. That’s an accomplishment.

So, enjoy Three of a Kind, including Oakley’s muscles and her trio…

Read on for some of Oakley’s most recent writings

Like other 1st grade students, Oakley was asked to complete a writing assessment sometime in the last couple of weeks. This is something they write at school in which they are encouraged to use all of their writing tools. I think Oakley comes with a truckload…

My favorite snowy day activity is sledding. I like sledding because sledding makes me feel like I am soaring down a massive hill with very swift and jerkey moments. Another thing I like to do is sip hot chocolate. Sipping hot chocolate makes me feel all warm and toasty inside. It makes me feel like I do when someone I love is surounding me. Hot chocolate makes me feel spectacular. When hot chocolate has marshmellows with it the hot chocolate makes feel even better. I also like building snowmen. The chilly snow on my fingertips makes me remember how fortanate we are to be having this much snow. It is so fun to roll the snow balls all different sizes. I wonder how many cinemeters it takes to get across the bottom sphere. Finnaly when I am on the last object I know every time that I am going to be satisfied with my snowman. When I am finished, I make sure that I have added every single part. Then I stand back to admire it. Sometimes I might say its to big. Sometimes I say its just right. And sometimes I might say, “Its to small. I will make it bigger next time!” I positivly love snowy winter days! I love playing in the snow, hot chocolate with marshmellows, and last but not least, building snowmen. I wish the whole world was of snow.

I have it on pretty good authority that this would have been a good writing assessment for a 5th grader… How awesome is Oakley!?