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By Aayush Mehrota, Grade 2, Floris Elementary, art teacher Joan Hussey

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Dear Readers:This week, the Oak Hill/Herndon Con-

nection turns over its pages to the youthand students.

We asked principals and teachers fromarea schools to encourage students to con-tribute their words, pictures and photos forour annual Children’s & Teens’ Issue.

The response as always was enormous.While we were unable to publish every piecewe received, we did our best to put togethera paper with a fair sampling of the submit-ted stories, poems, drawings, paintings,photographs and other works of art.

We appreciate the extra effort made byschool staff to gather the materials duringtheir busy time leading up to the holidays.We’d also like to encourage both schools andparents to mark their 2019 calendars forearly December, the deadline for submis-sions for next year’s Children’s & Teens’

WelcomeConnection. Please keep us in mind as yourchildren continue to create spectacularworks of art and inspiring pieces of writingin the coming year.

The children’s issue is only a part of ouryear-round commitment to cover educationand our local schools. As always, the Con-nection welcomes letters to the editor, storyideas, calendar listings and notices of localevents from our readers. Photos and othersubmissions about special events at schoolsare especially welcome for our weeklyschools pages.

Our preferred method for material isemail, which should be sent to [email protected], but you canreach us by mail at 1606 King Street, Alex-andria, VA 22314 or call 703-778-9414 withany questions.

— Editor Kemal Kurspahic

A Rainy Day by Parsa Sharifahmadian, 6, of Fairfax, Kindergarten atNysmith School for the Gifted in Herndon

My Family by Aarul Panganamala, Grade 2, Lutie Lewis Coates Elemen-tary, Art Teacher Mrs. ClaessenBy Sally Yu, 9, of Herndon, Grade 3, Navy Elementary School

By Kali Collins,Kindergarten,Floris Elementary,art teacher Joan Hussey


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Artwork submitted by Art Teacher Joan HusseyFloris Elementary Art Gallery

By Diya Kotha, Grade 3 By Aiyana Bage, Grade 3

By Zoe Muchnik, Grade 3 By Amaira Kishore, Kindergarten

By Ashvika Vinodh, Grade 4

By Milly Navarro, Grade 4

By Lavina Colac Grade 5

By Lara De, Grade 5

By Kushal Medikonduri,Grade 4

By Abbie Meng, Grade 2



Radial Design by Alexandra Seemueller, Grade 6

My Familyby SetarehTrapp,Grade 2

Mom by LenaRussell-Skeels,Grade 1

Lutie Lewis

Coates

Elementary

Mom by Dristi Pokharel, Grade 1My Family by James Martinez, Grade 2

My Familyby Aarul

Panganamala,Grade 2

BirthdayMeal by Ibis

Fuentes Leon,Grade 3

Submitted byMrs. Claessen, artteacher.


Youngest Person on EarthAbbey Hearts Aybeesee was the youngest person on

Earth. She grew to be 99,000 years old. Everyone else waslong dead. When she was 1001 there was still one friendwith her. When she was 1040, the news in the newspapersaid there would be monsters arriving in a few weeks, butthey did not show up until she was 99,000.

Abbey went in a spaceship because she knew there werepeople on another planet. She had dusty pictures of herfamily in her pocket. She tried to find people who lookedlike them. She didn’t find anyone.

— Carys Lauren Dahlin, 5, Herndon

Wild Hair Day by Sophia Wang, 9,Chantilly, Grade 3 at Oak Hill Elementary.

Soldier by Winston Wang, 11, Chantilly,Grade 6 at Oak Hill Elementary.

DrawingbyCarysLaurenDahlin

Submissions fromart students of Yan’sArt Studio teacherMs. Yanshun Sui

Book Festivalby Winston

Wang, 11,Chantilly,

Grade 6 atOak Hill

Elementary.


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My Favorite SeasonFall oh fall, where do I begin?When I look around I see a pigskinThe leaves are turning oh so brightJust happy I survived the Halloween frightI jump into a giant leaf pileIt’s time for long pants after quite a whileGetting excited to eat lots of foodI’m definitely in the Thanksgiving moodAround the corner then Christmas cheerHurry, hurry Santa get hereFall you are my favorite seasonHolidays are the main reason

— Brody Neihardt, 11, of

Herndon

Grade 6, Crossfield Elementary

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Poetry Corner

By fourth grade students at Flint Hill School,Oakton, submitted by teacher Lori Emerick.

Where I’m fromI am from games,electronicsnaturewoodssleepingSportsTvBooksSuper MarioYep - that’s all about me.

— Demetrios Demetriou

What am I?I’m round and orangeI’m quite smoothI scare the little ones away and I glowI have very very triangle eyes I have a round noseAnd I have a scary smile.

You can make pie out of me You can smash meup

You can technically make anything you want outof me.

— Mira Dunn

It’s Halloween!It’s Halloween, It’s HalloweenEveryone is filled with cheer,tonight will be a special nightBecause they are coming to haunt you here.They will steal all of your candy,without any second thoughts on why to do it or

howBut keep in mind to be careful,because it could happen right NOW!

— Erin Doran


More Artwork from

Herndon/Oak Hill


Drawings by SamanthaAvery, 7, Floris Elementary,Herndon.

The Rabbit and the Big Visit by Chloe Mia Zhu, 7,Herndon, Grade 2, Fox Mill Elementary

Gym by SelinaSun, 13, ofFairfax, Grade 8,Rachel CarsonMiddle

By Sally Yu, 9, of Herndon,Grade 3, Navy Elementary School

By Ailee Byington, 7,of Herndon, Fox Mill

Elementary, artteacher: Yanshun Sui

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