p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"June 20th 4pm/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"Summer vacation was bittersweet for Amy. She loved moving up the school and getting lots of time to study and make schedules for the next school year but she missed school and the teachers. It was only a week into summer and she was already longing to start first grade. Amy had spent the first week mapping out study schedules for the next year and then she'd decided to get a bit ahead with the work and do some research on that. After a week of her daughter being cooped up in her room with books, Mrs Santiago decided she needed to go /"Amy, the boys are going to the park, I want you to go with them please," she said in her daughter's /"But Mom I've nearly finished this book," Amy /"Amy honey, that is a textbook for second graders, you're only going into first grade. You shouldn't be worrying about all that stuff yet," Mrs Santiago replied, taking the book and taking it on her daughter's perfectly tidied /"I just want to be prepared," Amy /"I'm pretty sure you're the most prepared kid going into first grade, in 3 months time. Can you just go to the park with your brothers please. I'm sure you'll have fun and you need to get out of this room," Mrs Santiago /"Ok fine," Amy agreed./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"The 7 Santiago boys and Amy wandered in a group along the sidewalk. It was only a couple of blocks to the park. Her brother David led the group, urgh David he was so perfect, checking everyone was holding hands before they crossed the street, his perfection annoyed Amy. Her little brother Max tripped and David knew just what to do, obviously Amy was glad Max was okay, but it didn't stop her glaring at David the whole journey./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"When they reached the park David stood and supervised them all. Amy didn't like playing with her brothers, they usually hanged up on her. Her brother Acer decided they should play piggy in the middle, with Amy in the middle. It went on for some time as they all laughed and giggled as Amy frantically leapt and scurried around trying to catch the ball. Eventually she had enough and dived at Acer, wrestling the ball out his hands. She retrieved it and Acer rolled about on the floor laughing, Amy could help but laugh too. The next hour the siblings chased eachother round, played hide and seek and then decided to play Amy's favourite game Cops and Robbers. The Cops, led by Amy, /"Let's play piggy in the middle again," Liam /This time Amy volunteered to be in the middle, partly because she knew they'd probably make her anyway and partly because she was determined to beat them. The game began and Amy ran around chasing the ball as it flew through the air, but never managed to grasp /Then she heard something that made her stop. Someone had made some pig /"Who was that?" Amy called, her brothers all looked round /She shrugged and continued with the game. After 5 minutes or so, she heard it /"Who's doing that?" She /"Doing what?" A voice /"Jake shut up," another voice /"Jake? Gina?" Amy questioned walking over to where the voices were coming /"Abort mission abort mission," she heard Jake say and then she saw him rise from behind the slide and try to make a break for it. Gina grabbed him and pulled him /"No, you made me stop dancing to come and do this, so we are doing it," Gina /"Hi guys, what are you doing here," Amy asked, surprised, Jake and Gina didn't live that near here and there were definitely parks closer to their homes than this /"Jake wanted to ask you something," Gina /Jake stood there in silence, staring at the /"Jake?" Amy /"Umm I was just wondering if you wanted to go to the water park with us over summer?" Jake /"Oh yeah. Who's going?" Amy asked excitedly, David hadn't been asked to go to any water park with his /"You know the whole crew Jake, me, Charles, blah, blah, I forget all their other name," Gina /"I'd love to come, when are you going?" She /"Next month, the tickets are really cheap then. I think my Mom will take me and Gina and Charles' and Rosa's parents might come to, I'll get my Mom to arrange it with you Mom," Jake said hurriedly, still looking at the /"Ok cool," Amy /"Cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool," Jake said really fast, then he and Gina hurried off./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"Amy joined her brothers again. It wasn't long till David worked out they had exactly the right amount of time to walk home before the sun set. Usually Amy would have been annoyed at this, but she smiled the whole way home, daydreaming about going to the water park/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"Summer vacation was bittersweet for Amy. She loved moving up the school and getting lots of time to study and make schedules for the next school year but she missed school and the teachers. It was only a week into summer and she was already longing to start first grade. Amy had spent the first week mapping out study schedules for the next year and then she'd decided to get a bit ahead with the work and do some research on that. After a week of her daughter being cooped up in her room with books, Mrs Santiago decided she needed to go /"Amy, the boys are going to the park, I want you to go with them please," she said in her daughter's /"But Mom I've nearly finished this book," Amy /"Amy honey, that is a textbook for second graders, you're only going into first grade. You shouldn't be worrying about all that stuff yet," Mrs Santiago replied, taking the book and taking it on her daughter's perfectly tidied /"I just want to be prepared," Amy /"I'm pretty sure you're the most prepared kid going into first grade, in 3 months time. Can you just go to the park with your brothers please. I'm sure you'll have fun and you need to get out of this room," Mrs Santiago /"Ok fine," Amy agreed./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"The 7 Santiago boys and Amy wandered in a group along the sidewalk. It was only a couple of blocks to the park. Her brother David led the group, urgh David he was so perfect, checking everyone was holding hands before they crossed the street, his perfection annoyed Amy. Her little brother Max tripped and David knew just what to do, obviously Amy was glad Max was okay, but it didn't stop her glaring at David the whole journey./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"When they reached the park David stood and supervised them all. Amy didn't like playing with her brothers, they usually hanged up on her. Her brother Acer decided they should play piggy in the middle, with Amy in the middle. It went on for some time as they all laughed and giggled as Amy frantically leapt and scurried around trying to catch the ball. Eventually she had enough and dived at Acer, wrestling the ball out his hands. She retrieved it and Acer rolled about on the floor laughing, Amy could help but laugh too. The next hour the siblings chased eachother round, played hide and seek and then decided to play Amy's favourite game Cops and Robbers. The Cops, led by Amy, /"Let's play piggy in the middle again," Liam /This time Amy volunteered to be in the middle, partly because she knew they'd probably make her anyway and partly because she was determined to beat them. The game began and Amy ran around chasing the ball as it flew through the air, but never managed to grasp /Then she heard something that made her stop. Someone had made some pig /"Who was that?" Amy called, her brothers all looked round /She shrugged and continued with the game. After 5 minutes or so, she heard it /"Who's doing that?" She /"Doing what?" A voice /"Jake shut up," another voice /"Jake? Gina?" Amy questioned walking over to where the voices were coming /"Abort mission abort mission," she heard Jake say and then she saw him rise from behind the slide and try to make a break for it. Gina grabbed him and pulled him /"No, you made me stop dancing to come and do this, so we are doing it," Gina /"Hi guys, what are you doing here," Amy asked, surprised, Jake and Gina didn't live that near here and there were definitely parks closer to their homes than this /"Jake wanted to ask you something," Gina /Jake stood there in silence, staring at the /"Jake?" Amy /"Umm I was just wondering if you wanted to go to the water park with us over summer?" Jake /"Oh yeah. Who's going?" Amy asked excitedly, David hadn't been asked to go to any water park with his /"You know the whole crew Jake, me, Charles, blah, blah, I forget all their other name," Gina /"I'd love to come, when are you going?" She /"Next month, the tickets are really cheap then. I think my Mom will take me and Gina and Charles' and Rosa's parents might come to, I'll get my Mom to arrange it with you Mom," Jake said hurriedly, still looking at the /"Ok cool," Amy /"Cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool," Jake said really fast, then he and Gina hurried off./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"Amy joined her brothers again. It wasn't long till David worked out they had exactly the right amount of time to walk home before the sun set. Usually Amy would have been annoyed at this, but she smiled the whole way home, daydreaming about going to the water park/p