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The Water Dancers Have you ever heard of the Water Dancers? Well, I’ll tell you about them! Each night, as the silver, bright moon comes up, and stars start to twinkle, the Water Dancers peek their little heads out from trees, from hidden in the grass, and untangle themselves from the creek weed and begin their dance that they do each night. With great, beautiful leaps, turns, and twirls, they glide across the water, their little toes hardly touching the top of it. The Water Dancers do something amazing while they dance under the moonlight. As their graceful feet glide over the water, the water starts to sparkle and shine! The plants start to become nice and healthy, the flowers become even brighter, and the water starts to sparkle like diamonds under the bright stars, and become clear as glass. That’s right! The Water Dancers make the creek more beautiful each night just for us to admire! But, there is one thing that is very unfortunate about the Water Dancers. Whenever someone throws a pop can down into the water, or dumps a bag of garbage on rocks where the dancers sleep, the dancers start to get sick, and just like you and I, when we get sick, we can’t dance. Actually, we can’t do much at all when we are sick! So as the Water Dancer’s noses start to run, and their heads start to ache, they can’t dance. And when they can’t dance, well of course the water starts to turn murkier and murkier. The plants start to wilt, and all of us start to see one thing in particular – the water is becoming unhealthy, like the Water Dancers! But for every problem, there is a solution, and everybody can help! Next time when you are about to throw a candy wrapper on the ground, think of the Water Dancers, and how it will affect the creek. Also, start thinking where the next garbage can is, so you can do the right thing and throw that candy wrapper away in the proper place! Also, if the water is really taken care of, and there is no trash near or in the creek, they say you can see the Water Dancers at night if you look real carefully! Writing and artwork by Saffron Williams McLoughlin Middle School 6th Grade Mrs. Thomas Page 43 Fresh Water Foggy Mornings oh, so Crisp Rich Soil near the Banks Eager to see the Hidden Fish Swaying Branches in the Creek How Does the Living Survive in This Polluted Water? Wishing That the Long Gone Would Come Back All of us Children Will Help Clean Together we’ll make a Miracle Happen Each of us will Try, Try, Try Returning Next Time, we find New Friends to Play With Kaitlyn Nguyen McLoughlin Middle School 6th Grade Mrs. Thomas
River Cold, River Running River cold River running Never stopping It moves It shakes It quakes It is alive Like a wolf hunting a deer It never stops Until it reaches its destination River cold River running Always flowing Never stopping But beneath roaring waves where darkness swallows up light There is light There is life An abundance From the smallest microinvertabrate To the salmon To the algae on the river floor To the muscles galore River cold River running The river is alive River dead River dead There is death on the river bed Pollution death River cold River no longer running River dead River cold River no longer running River wait – what’s this It’s people! There cleaning up the trash River cold River running Always flowing Never stopping The river is alive And thriving Alec Thornburg 6th Grade Pleasant Valley Middle School Mrs. Thompson Clean Up Time Splash! I jump off my boat right into the Columbia River. The water is freezing and makes me shiver. We decide to go out on the water and enjoy a day of waterskiing. I’m in the water with my skis on and the rope in my hands. My dad starts the engine and I feel a sudden tug and then off I go across the top of the water. It feels like I’m sliding on glass until suddenly I hit something in the water and fall head over heels into the water. I find myself gasping for breath under the water. I swim up to the surface and look around me. That’s when I see garbage everywhere. Plastic bags, bottle caps, old tires, and much more. To my surprise, I see an otter beside me. It’s stuck in a tire and can’t get out. I swim over to help it. When it first sees me it panics and struggles to get free but when I take out its foot it calms down. The otter is bleeding quite a lot. The boat pulls up and I hop into it. Quickly, I get out the first aid kit and gently wrap the otter’s foot. I put it down slowly into the river and it starts to swim. After that I turn to my dad. “I can’t water ski in all of this junk,” I say. We need to clean it up. But how? My dad knew the mayor and told me that he would talk to him. The next day my dad came home with a big smile on his face. “I talked to the mayor and he said that tomorrow there would be a national clean up day and that one of the places that was going to be cleaned up is the Columbia River,” said my dad. I jump for joy and the next day I was at the river. The problem was that hardly any people were there. Something had to be done fast. But what? The news people were there and I suddenly got an idea! I ask the news reporters if I could say something on the television and they say that would be fine. While I was on TV, I told people about trying to water ski and my experience with the otter the other day. I beg people to help come and clean up with me. Suddenly large crowds of people came to help. It took a while but we finally got the job done. At the end of the day there were otters, beavers, and all sorts of animals playing in the river. “Now all we have to do is keep it this way and not just use it as a dump,” I said. Everybody agreed and understood that if we keep our rivers, lakes, ponds, and more clean, then we will all live in a better, more happy and clean place. Sophia Skimas 6th Grade River HomeLink Mrs. Hergert Page 44
Page 1 and 2: 2012 Watershed of Words A collectio
Page 3 and 4: Keeping Our Water Clean Clean water
Page 5 and 6: Congratulations to the students who
Page 7 and 8: Frog Haiku Frogs leap pad to pad Fr
Page 9 and 10: Keeping water clean So the fish don
Page 11 and 12: Clean Camas Here in Camas and acros
Page 13 and 14: Artwork by Sebastian Miranda-Givens
Page 15 and 16: Artwork by Lily Graham Daybreak Pri
Page 17 and 18: Rapping Water Water is cool Water i
Page 19 and 20: Water Animals Water animals, water
Page 21 and 22: How the Salmon Was Saved Once upon
Page 23 and 24: A Day Rafting on the Lewisville Riv
Page 25 and 26: Dear Stream, Every time I try to go
Page 27 and 28: Water blue as blue as the sky Fish
Page 29 and 30: Ducks in a Pond Small duck, big duc
Page 31 and 32: Our Streams Shining, glowing, the w
Page 33 and 34: Artwork by Takumi Veley Hockinson I
Page 35 and 36: Pollution Prevention “Look at the
Page 37 and 38: Watershed Green frogs. Brown frogs.
Page 39 and 40: When You Hurt Me When you hurt me,
Page 41 and 42: Bob and Pollution Once upon a time
Page 43: Crystal, Clean and Clear Clear wate
Page 47 and 48: A Lake of Its Shadow The water, the
Page 49 and 50: Tromping through the woods Running
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