Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 128, Number 13, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 31 March 2005 — Page 9

Myths according to Woodview sth graders

The students in Mr. Nafziger's fifth grade class at Woodview Elementary School have been studying different writing genres throughout the year. For the past week, they have been studying the different characteristics of myths. The students learned that in a myth, the plot of the story is made up of only one or a few incidents. The setting of a myth is not usually very specific. The characters in myths are not complex; they usually represent just a few qualities. Finally, the story explains something in nature. As part of the myth study, Nafziger had his students write their own myths. The following are examples of the top five myths as voted on by the class. WHY THE OCEAN IS SALTY by Kayla Bear One dark and stormy day in the middle of the ocean Zeus and his son Phinnaeus were riding in a boat. It wasn't exactly a nice day, you see. It was raining and the waves were colossal. The boat began to rock back and forth, back and forth. Phinnaeus fell off the boat and Zeus began to panic. "Oh no!" he said, "my son! King Neptune! Save him!" "Zeus," King Neptune said, "I cannot interfere with matters of life and death." Zeus, overcome with grief, began to cry. The salt from his tears poured into the ocean. The water became filled with salt and Phinnaeus floated to the top. So Phinnaeus was saved, Zeus was happy, and the ocean was to remain saljy forever. WHY DO FLOWERS SMELL GOOD? by Devyn Simpson One day a colony of ants were hungry so they decided to go and visit a picnic. When nobody was looking they snatched a basket of fruit. "This fruit sure does smell good," said one ant. While they were running back to their colony, they tripped over a flower! "Oh-no," said one ant as they were falling on the flower. As they were picking up the fruit, they noticed a mysterious odor, it smelled good, but it was unusual for a flower to have a scent. "I guess the fruit we spilled made the

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flower smell good," said an ant. "I like the smell," said another ant. "Me too!" they all said. So from that day on, flowers smelled good. WHY GIRAFFES HAVE LONG NECKS by Emily Myers One fine spring day, long ago, there were two friends playing in the forest. One friend was a giraffe named Ginger. The other friend was an elephant named Emma. They always played together all day without stopping, but today, they had to stop. They were hungry. "Playing all day makes me hungry," said Ginger, "let's stop and have a snack." "That sounds great," said Emma. "Look at that monkey," exclaimed Ginger, "and look at all those bananas." "I have an idea," said Emma, "you can stand on my back, and then you can reach those delicious bananas." "That's a great idea," said Ginger. So Ginger the giraffe stood on Emma the elephant's back to try to reach the bananas. When Ginger got on Emma's back she found she was a long way from the bananas. "Ginger, stretch your neck higher, I'm hungry," said Emma. "So Ginger stretched her neck as high as it would go. "Emma, push me up higher, I can't reach the bananas," said Ginger^ So Emma stretched her trunk as long as it would go. Then Ginger called down to Emma, "1 got some bananas!" So Emma and Ginger got all the bananas they ever wanted thanks to Ginger's new long neck and Emma's new long trunk. That was the story of how giraffes got long necks and how elephants got their long trunks. WHY MONKEY'S TAILS ARE SOOO LONG by Michelle Bontrager One day Curious Caroline Monkey was down at the watering hole teasing George the Crocodile. She would wave her tail in front of his face and then pull it away real fast. Only a few times did George come

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close to grabbing it. But then all of a sudden, he grabbed on tight, and started swimming to the bottom of the watering hole. Caroline grabbed a hold of a nearby tree and held on for dear life. Some other animals saw her and came to help. Soon there was a long line up of animals trying to help Caroline. But instead of her going down with the Crocodile, her tail just kept on stretching. When suddenly George let go and Caroline's tail came zipping up through the water. And when she started walking away her tail just kept going on and on. And that is why monkey's tails are sooo long. HOW FRUIT GOT ONTO TREES A long time ago, there was a large group of animals. At the time, the animals were dying from starvation. "How are we going to find more food?" said the rat. "I don't know what to do." sad the pig. "But I think we should ask Old Tree for help. He is very wise and will know what to d 0.," . So the leaders of the animals went to seek Old Tree's wisdom. When they got there, fox spoke to the tree,"Excuse us, Old Tree, but we are running out of food. We think that you may have a solution to our problem." Old Tree thought for a moment and then said,"There is a special kind of food called fruit guarded by the lions in their den. Get them and put one piece of fruit on each of my branches. Then, all the trees that come after me will always have fruit on their branches for you to eat." "Thank you, wise one," said the fqx. "1 will go and get the fruit," said the rabbit, "for my long tail; allows me to run faster than any animal." So rabbit went off to the den of the feared lions. When he got there, he swiftly ran into the cave and grabbed the fruit. But when he took it, a lion saw him and said, "The rabbit is stealing the fruit!" The lions chased the rabbit all the way to the exit of the cave. Just when the rabbit was going to get out, a lion bit his tail,off making it very short, just like rabbits today. When the rabbit returned with the fruit, the animals took the fruit and put one piece of the fruit on each branch of Old Tree. Old Tree let some seeds fall to the ground and they grew up into trees with a lot of fruit. And the animals never starved again.

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Advance News • Thursday, March 31. 2005 •

Updated honor roll Editor's Note: Because of a computer error at the high school, some students names were left off the Distinguished Honor Roll list that was published in the March 17 issue. Here are all the names. Distinguished Honor Roll GPA 4.0 Seniors Wesley BeMiller, Heather Casteel, Jessica Farmwald, Brooke Hartman, Katherine Hartman, Brian Huff, Andrea Kurtz, Samantha Lewis, Haley Metzler, Courtney Miller, LeAnn Parson, Jessica Raber, Allison Reynolds, Natalie Rummel, Danae Schaffer, Payne Tatich, Justin Tierney, Justin Weaver, Cody Yerger, Lauren Zeltwanger. Juniors Sarah Baugh, Jesse Beer, Krista Bontreger, Jordan Evans, Samantha Hahn, Amanda Hajicek, Carly Hartman, Lana Hartman, Kathryn Henke, Kara Hershberger, Brittany Hommerding, Jennifer Kurtz, Alison Leavitt, Megan Lengacher, Joseph Love, Gregory Miller, Bradley Paulus, Paul Schmucker, Heidi Stutzman, Amanda Waters, Samantha Wigent, Kristopher Yoder. Sophomores Victoria Brown, Melissa Burckhart, Megan Egolf, Erin Hoffer, Asha Holsopple, Brett Johnson, Kyle Lichauer, Jarron Lincoln, Allison Maust, Janae Nunemaker, Christina Prochno, Kathrine Sheets, Tyler Slagle, Kayla Smith, Jaclyn Sonner,. Jaclyn Swain, Zachary Troyer, Rachel Wenger, Shawn Yoder, Sheila Yoder, Amy Zeltwanger, Krystal Zimmerman. Freshmen Samantha Carney, Leslie Eisenbeiss, Ashley Goorhouse, Amanda Korsmo, Mackenzie Lechlitner, Monica Lengacher, Angela Miller, Kierstin Schalliol, Joshua Stump, Ty Stutsman, Karen Wakefield. Soccer League The deadline for the Nappanee II "Early Bird" Kiwanis Youth Soccer League Was Thursday, March 31. Team tryouts are tentatively scheduled for 1 p.m. on Saturday, May 21. Reminder postcards will be sent to all registered players. The location will be the high school soccer field at Nappanee Elementary School. Ypur child needs to attend this team tryout if they are between the ages of nine and 14 and have never participated in this league, or if your child is moving up to either the U-ll (9-11) or the U-14 divisions (12-14) and does not have a sibling already on a team in that division. If your child cannot make the team tryout, they will be randomly assigned to a team. The league is currently contacting the coaches and assistant coaches who have so generously volunteered their time for our youth. The coaches will be contacting the players by the first part of June about practice times and other season information. The season opener is on June 20 for the U-14 and U-8 divisions and July 5 for the Beginner Clinic and U-ll division. If you w’ould like to do more than cheer, then volunteer to help. All coaches and referees are volunteers recruited from parents and other interested people in the community who enjoy the game of soccer. Experience is not required. The league provides training for coaches and referees through clinics. The first clinic will be on May 21 at the high school soccer field at Nappanee Elementary School. Volunteers are also needed to set up tne fields on June 4. If you would like to be a coach, an assistant coach, referee or help in other ways, please contact Jennifer Odiorne at 773-7240. The next meeting is scheduled for April 25 at 7 p.m. at the Nappanee Public Library. Anyone who would like to be involved or can offer positive suggestions on how to improve the league is invite to attend.

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