ALL OF MY BEST FRIENDS

By Helia Upsher
Grade 5
IDDS

I have a lot of friends.  They are really cool.  Sometimes, I get really mad and don’t talk to them.  They always come and check on me and ask what’s wrong.  I tell them so then they might try to make me laugh and I do so then we just start talking and all of a sudden there is another one of our friends just sitting at a table by herself.  We all go and check on her and ask what’s wrong.  She tells us so then we try to make her happy.  We do so she comes and sits with us and starts talking again.  Then, one of us gets mad and doesn’t want to be our friend anymore because of us say’s the wrong thing and goes somewhere else so one of us goes and talks to that friend.

Here are my friends: Tanea, Migizi, Mary, Nancy, Dais’jah, Alonna, Idella, Emma, Maddie, Jamie, and a little bit more.  Sometimes when one of us is mad we try to make each other feel better.  Here are some things that make my friends mad: ignoring each other and telling each other what to do and some other things I cannot remember.

It’s kind of weird the way we handle our problems so when we make each other happy we just talk about different things so we won’t make each other mad again.  The next day at school, we always talk at breakfast but we don’t always play with each other at recess.  Sometimes we play with somebody else.  We play tag and football.  Sometimes we play house or tennis against the window.  We play Five-Hundred with the tennis ball.  We even played it today.

Some of us are not in the same classroom but most of us are.  We are not all friends but most of us are.  We don’t even just sit around and talk.  We all are different.  Sometimes when we are really mad at each other we don’t talk to each other.  But sometimes we don’t know what we did wrong so we try to fix it.  We sometimes may even be in a bad mood and we don’t want to talk to anybody so we just try to make each other feel better.

The main thing we need to work out is staying best friends.  A lot of us don’t talk to each other.  If we play tag and one of us is IT, sometimes the person who gets tagged will get mad.  Then somebody else has to be IT.  Then it’s time to go in and we all just have some boring times doing read aloud and drawing.  We can’t sit with our friends anymore.  We always promise to be quiet but she never believes us so we just have to sit at our desk being bored just drawing and to me that’s boring.  Mostly the only thing I do the whole time is read my own book and when she looks at me I just quick look up at her and then she start’s reading again.  I start reading again.  Then I get bored and start writing my name in bubble letters with a marker.