Contents
=> “Wishes From Elementary School Kids”
=> Word Origins: “Limey”
=> What’s Happening
=> In the Next Issue

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“Wishes From Elementary School Kids”
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Kids from the ages 5 - 12 go to ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. In some schools, at the end of the year, they publish a YEARBOOK. It’s a book with pictures of all the students and teachers, and a few words about each person.

Kevin’s sister’s kids go to Glenmoor Elementary School in Fremont, California. For their 2003 yearbook, each kid completed the sentence “If I could do anything, I would…”

Below you will find TRUE examples of what these kids said.

<><>“IF I COULD DO ANYTHING, I WOULD…”

1. John (age 5): “… spell words.”
2. Samantha (age 6): “…go to the French Fry store to get
FrenchFries.
3. Brian (age 6): “… make my bike float.”
4. Larry (age 6): “listen more to the teacher.”
5. Amy (age 7): “… gather all the flowers in the world and make the biggest bouquet ever.”
6. Jaibir (age 7): “…ride in a rowboat.”
7. Corrina (age 8): ” …buy a pet cat named Colleen.”
8. Christopher (age 8): “…fly to space and rescue all the people that are in space.”
9. Caitlin (age 8): “…become a parakeet and fly to Hawaii.”
10. Navpal (age 8): “…get a tank.”
11. Dallin (age 9): “…make everyone in the world rich except robbers and kidnappers.”
12. Jerame (age 9): “…go to Australia and help the koalas.
13. Nick (age 10): “…bring my sister back.”
14. Eric (age 10): “…stop people from wars.”
15. Joyce (age 11): “…either help the endangered species or be an actress/singer.”
16. Yahya: (age 11): “…go and clean up Iraq.”

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Activity Ideas
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These kids’ wishes should generate discussion. Print them or read them to your students.

Of course, you can ask your students–whatever their age–what they would do if they could do anything.

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Word Origins: What’s a Limey?
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A Limey is a Brit. Someone from the U.K. It is not particularly rude to call someone from England a Limey, but neither is it polite. You should be
familiar with that person to do so.

The word was first a nickname for British sailors. Long ago, sailors were served lime juice during voyages to prevent them from catching scurvy.

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What’s Happening
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Kevin will be in Washington, D.C. this week, the capital of his country, whatever it’s called.

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In the next issue (@September 3rd, 2003)
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Something indescribably great.

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Copyright 2003 Kevin McCaughey & I.M. Poosheesty
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