2014 Winning Poems
Dark Wonder
Abbey Cameranesi, Grade 5, Grafton Elementary School
Teacher: Mary Beth Wild
Space is beautiful.
With glowing stars.
Rocks flow by
Like fireflies in the night.
We are stargazers.
As we watch,
We stare. We
See something up there.
Everything is different,
Than how it is on Earth,
As it is in space.
The Ho-Chunk signed a total of six treaties with the United States. The first three were efforts to create peace with the United States and neighboring tribes. In 1816, the first treaty between the United States and the Ho-Chunk was signed to end hostilities heightened by the War of 1812 in which the two nations were on opposing sides. After the war, the Ho-Chunk and other Midwestern tribes began to fight among themselves, with war parties avenging past wrongs and fighting to secure new hunting territories.
“Time is not measured by clocks, but by moments.”
~ Author unknown
Eclipse Reflections
Robert Ritzenthaler and Frederick Peterson: An “Ethnographer’s Paradise” (1954)
Long, long ago, people did not live on the Earth. Instead, they lived in the Sky World, and things were very similar to what we think of as life on Earth. There were people, birds, animals, and everything else in the Sky World.
“If you don’t see the book you want on the shelf, write it.”
- Beverly Cleary, American Children’s Author
