Strathcona Tweedsmuir School - Paidia Yearbook (Okotoks, Alberta Canada)

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-- A . - .- ..,.....-S. .- f 4-af--..J . X ,fs .fa--' LOST IN THE MIST One day I went to California to fish for some salmon. I got on a big boat early in the morning when the sky was clear and the sun was rising. I went up the river and into the Pacific Ocean to where the salmon were feeding. An hour after we arrived the mist and fog rolled in over us and we could not see anything. We were lost for ten hours in the mist and then a wind came up and blew the mist away. lt was very scary to be lost in the mist for so long, but we did catch lots of salmon. David Holt Grade 4 YELLOW IS Dandelions and Daisy hearts - Custard pies and Lemon tarts! Richard Balaz 8. Barbara Faenzi Grade 2 WHY AN ELEPHANT HAS A TRUNK One hot summer day Elea got up. She was wondering if she would get smacked again. Every day in her life was happy, except that she got smacked. Sometimes her Mum did it, sometimes her Dad did it, sometimes her aunts, uncles, grannies and grandpas smacked her. Elea was tired of getting smacked so she decided to run away and stay there until she could defend herself. She started out right away. At midday she stopped to rest. She rested in some water. Then she saw a log. She decided to use it for a pillow. She put her head on it. It moved and started biting her all over. She jumped out of the pool and was just about to go when sharp teeth jumped and held onto her trunk. They would not let her go and her trunk grew longer and longer. Finally, it left. Her trunk was very long. Soon she realized that she could smack her Mum, Dad, aunts, uncles, grannies and grandpas. And so she did. Now all elephants have long trunks. Gordon Hamilton Grade 5 ' SQWQ . XXXY f XX W' X I

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1 YELLOW IS 'xx f l The color of the sun 'Q , The feel ing of fun l X X The yolk ofan egg , ft ' A duck's bill , , Y Q-ri Acanary bird i XE W ,. ,g And a daffodil is x ' Jamie Kilb 81 Billy Rollins Grade 2 I Wonder I wonder why the sky is blue, lwonder why l'm me and you are you, A I wonder why the grass is green, X ll Iwonderwhy I haveadream. I wonder why you look at me as if to say, I wonder . y You can smell blue In manyathing: Gentian and Iarkspur i Forget-me-nots, too. l i l Blue 'l i Grade 2 Blue isa heron, Asapphire ring. ' .X Elisabeth Higgs l Grade5 Darin Ekstrom ix Blue isthe colour of the sky, When you're climbing in the mountains high. Blue is the colour of water All soaked up in a bright-blue blotter. Light blue is the colour when you're frightened and cold. Navy is the blue that is bright and bold. Q , David Diskin X Grade 6 i Red is the colour of. . . 1 l Anice big shed, ' l Someone's bed, l i A hot fire and A thermometer rising higher. , A speeding boat, A fishing float, L '1 Q 'Z Apainted sled and 1 Lipstick is the colour red. Lx, L , Rod Heard Grade 6 'i-lil ., , .S , ,,- - ' Bi - L ,Ziff 1 , V ll ,fa if , .X -X

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4,-P' . f lpv- s NA- ' NUMBERS Man cannot comprehend the size of large numbers. There are many number periods groups of three digits that are rarely used in day-to-day life. One of these is a google that is a one with a hundred zeroes af- ter it. A googieplex is a one with a google zeroes after it. billion a one with a mere nine zeroes after it is a huge number. To prove the true size of a billion l made some cal- culations. lf a person could say a number every second for seven hours a day seven days a week it would still take him over 108 years to count to a billion. But saying N . l 1 f 1 ' 5 1 F g J T Nz ' ' f ' J J N- ' - J Q K' 'J' T 1 lx- ..i, X '- l 1 'r X X X 1 --f ff ..2 . , X These are the two largest-named periods. Yet the lowly o -. iliii X 1 1 l 3 ly I 1 , is l Q Xx Ig! k i it xi .J Mil - it J - lt it , 1 A . X. F s is N1 R my l xstxbst, X! M SNL, W 1.x 1 1 'w 1 i l i Win43 at War A M' l 1 Y Ml 'i llllfli lGliil' tl ft l X x'5?5 r E, N lig- a number a second would become impossible after a time ltry, 1,867,902l! The time period would be even greater. The approximate weight of the earth is 6.6 Sextillion tons or 13.2 septillion pounds. lt is hard for me to imagine such a weight. lt would mean 16.5 trillion tons for each and every inhabitant on earth. Think of the biceps Atlas must have! But for a more realistic example, let's use a moun- tain. To be specific, Turtle Mountain, famous for the Frank Slide in southern Alberta. lt has been estimated that anywhere from seventy million to two hundred mil- lion tons fell into the valley below. lf you look at this mountain, you can see that very little of the whole has actually broken off, maybe one-tenth. Yet if the total of the fallen rock was evenly split between the four billion humans, there would be from thirty-five to one hundred pounds each! Distances are also difficult to comprehend when using large numbers. The circumferance of our earth at the equator is 24,902.45 miles. To walk at a pace of five miles per hour for ten hours a day, it would take almost one year and three months to complete the distance. Yet, by going at the speed of light, you could traverse this distance seven times in one second. It sounds in- credible but it is true. The speed of light is 186,000 miles per second. The ninety-three million miles between the sun and the earth is crossed in eight minutes. But the nearest star, next to the sun, Alpha Centauri, is 4.3 light years away. Travel- ling at the incredible speed mentioned above, it would take 4.3 years to arrive there. At the end of the observable universe are galaxies five billion light years away. It would take five billion years for us to realise if it has died, another five billion years to send our condolences. l believe l have proven my point. If we use them for mathematics, weight or the vast distances of space, large numbers are incomprehensible. David Komlodl l 1 - I wz-- - - S- . . X , If f ' ' Grade 9 if I XXX