My Elf on the Shelf returned!!

Black Friday morning, I walked down the stairs still half-asleep, and sat on the couch. Eureka! I had remembered that my elf would be coming back soon. Then, I looked to the left, and... my elf scout was sitting on our nook next to the heater!! YAYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Now Jolly would be hiding places until Christmas morning. If you don't know what an Elf on the Shelf is, well I'll explain. You can buy them, or sometimes they just arrive at your house, and they return on Christmas morning to go back to Santa. They move almost every night to a different spot in your house, and they usually hide on high things. You can even write your elf a note, and sometimes they write back. They sit still all day, and then only move at night. I encourage you to but one if you like elves, and if you like little company.

The Soccer Ghost

                                                The Soccer Ghost

By Nuala Rodgers

One day a girl named Jenny was playing right forward in a soccer game. The other girls on Jenny’s team thought she had been acting a little suspicious. Like when she would be shooting on their goalie and BAM!  She would be gone. Well, it was getting closer to Halloween, but the girls just thought they were seeing something.

This suspiciousness had been in their minds for a couple of weeks.  Jenny’s mom or dad might have been in on this. It would only happen when she would be playing soccer, and her mom or dad were watching.

But on Thursday, they had a game. Jenny was so psyched!!!! When she got on the field, and she was playing, she seemed to magically disappear from the field to the bench, and then the coach started yelling and screaming “WHERE’S JENNY?? WE NEED HER!! GOSH!! WHERE COULD SHE BE??!!” And sure enough you couldn’t see Jenny on the field which made them think she was a GHOST! But the coach was too focused on the game that she was still in shock of where Jenny went.

And, if you were listening closely, you could hear Jenny speaking in a very low voice saying “How am I weird?”

And the girls on her team now thought that Jenny was half-girl, half-ghost, but they still acted like it was so normal, and everything was cool.

But, the girls on Jenny’s team panicked so much when they were at home. At night they panicked, at mealtimes, and at school. And then their next game came around…..

And the same ghost thing happened again!! But this time the girls knew something was up. So, at the end of the game the girls asked Jenny “Why were you turning into a ghost in different times at the game?” “What are you talking about,” said Jenny.

After the game Jenny told her parents about this ghost problem. Jenny said “The-e-ey-y we-er-re ask-k-ing m-e-e-, as though she were on the verge of tears, but her dad stopped her and said, “Oh honey, we just put a fog machine with a foggy ghost on the bench. We really didn’t mean to scare you and you friends.”

“You never even told me that,” said Jenny. “No, we didn’t”, said her parents. “We just thought that because Halloween was coming up, we thought we would try to like seeing a foggy ghost on the sidelines during the game.” “Wow! now I won’t have any friends”, said Jenny. “Oh yes you will said her father”.  “But how did you make me invisible on the field”, Jenny asked.  “Oh with a shadow casting projector, it didn’t make you disappear, it just made you look really dark and hard to see”, her mom added.

Jenny couldn’t wait to tell her friends, or wait she wondered, maybe she should keep the secret until after Halloween?

What do you think she should do?

The   End.

About the Author

Nuala Rodgers is 8 years old.  She plays soccer on the B travel team and loves it. She lives in Dedham, Massachusetts, and goes to the Avery school. Nuala enjoys traveling, and thrives on school, and soccer. Nuala has a dog named Sunny, and a cat named Benny, and loves hanging out with them. And she has a family with whom she laughs a lot.

Sadly, soccer is ending

Sadly, soccer is ending. It has been a great season, and I only have 1 more game in Milton  at Houghtons Pond/Blue Hills Reservation.

I made a lot of new friends, and we've only lost 1 game against Mansfield 2-1. Yesterday we beat the Mansfield team that we previously lost to 2-1. I had both assists, and this girl whom is really good on my team scored both goals. But, in the first half, I let in 1 goal playing goalie. I was about half of a second behind it, but it slipped of the grass and into the net. Since we won, we clinched 1st place in our age group for Dedham. We were all jumping on the girl who scored both goals for us. WOO-HOO!!!!!!!!!!

Some of the girls on my team I had already known, but some I hadn't so it was fun to still have close relationships with the friends I knew, but also meet new girls. But since most of my team were in town before, we knew each other. And some of us were even on the same team.

What was sad was you had to leave some of your friends from your team, and from school (etc.), because there are an A, B, and C team. For example, I had a best friend Sarah, and we were in 2nd grade together, and now she is not in my 3rd grade class, she's not on my soccer team. She's on the A team, and I'm on the B team.

I can't forget my soccer COACH!!!!! My coach was my coach in town, and now in travel. He is a very nice guy, and I feel he teaches us a lot of things that help us improve on our soccer skills. What's also funny is that my coach gave us nick names, like I'm Nualr, theres Mace face, T, and a lot of other names. Well, at least I'll be with my same team in the spring!!!!!