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Fall 2010

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 Water Play

By Gus Russell

I decided to write my news article on why water play is so much fun. If you’re wondering what water play is, it’s when we get to take one of the two hoses that the school has and make a waterslide, shower, river or lake. Mason and I, and some of my friends, take one hose while Ben and Emma take the other. Ben usually uses the hose to make the water go out of the school.

Recently my river and his river have been connecting on some part. On Friday it was in the middle of the jungle gym and on Thursday it was before my river started.

Water play is fun because Mason and I get wet and dirty. We also like creating stuff. The way that we made the largest waterway ever took a long time. We just did little parts for the last few weeks and then we put those parts together. We used to make the water go out a little secret way that Mason has known about since the beginning of the school year. It was a fence board that was kind of broken at the bottom. We dug and dug and dug until eventually we found a hole in the middle. Then, we set up a very small way and we made the water flow out of there.

Water play is like setting up a business because Mason and I always make the water go around a very fragile part and we don’t want the mud at the top to fall off so we charge money (acorns) to go on the monkey bars. Then we made a pool which we charged five acorns a turn (2 minutes) to go in. We also made memberships which cost one “you are lucky rock” which meant that you could go on the monkey bars without having to pay. Two “you are lucky rocks” gave you a membership to the mud pool for a month. Water play is also like building an ocean and you are a God. You can create whatever you want just as long as it doesn’t go into other’s territory. I like to pretend that I am Poseidon Greek God of the seas.

In all, water play is one of the best parts of lunch. The other kids that don’t do water play should really try it out.