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Why I am grateful for my home

I am grateful for my house because of the people there, my pets, my favorite room, my yard, and my community. Now I will tell you about my home. I am grateful for the people in my house such as: my sister, my dad, my mom, my brother. My sister is kind of annoying because when I am working she looks over my shoulder, and it is when I need lots of concentration or I will get a bug, I hope that she doesn't do it when I am working on an open-world game; because there is at least 6,000 items, each item is one sprite (6,000+ characters that you can not play as), music playing all the time and if she distracts me when I am adding the music then I might forget the ‘wait _ seconds’ block wich will make only the beginning play. My dad is kind(ish) because he gets angry when I look over my sister's shoulder when she is on a device and gets angry with me when I tell Samantha to stop looking over my shoulder, and by angry I mean super angry. And when Samantha gets angry with me for just sitting down, he gets happy with Samantha, but I prefer not to think about that. I am also grateful for my baby brother because he is cute and kind of crazy. He is kind of annoying when I am working on Scratch because he always is trying to close the chromebook lid, often when I have to concentrate so I won’t have a crack in the code, and if he doesn't do that then he’ll type in random stuff in to the blocks causing a bug making my game stupid :( but I just have to delete stuff that he typed in :) Before I share (publish) it, then he goes crazy on the computer and tries to rip off the screen, then he will cry then throw up then I have to turn it off. I am also grateful for my mom she is a nurse (an underpaid nurse at that) she makes 100% of the money in the family now, my dad used to make 69.7% of the money in the family, but now mom makes all the money now (my dad is in the RCMP). I have three dogs and one cat. The dogs in order of chunkiest are: Moose, Bruce and Beanie. Moose and Bruce used to have dog fights often so we separated them and now the moment one sees another they just go at it except when they are outside, then they have so much fun together then once they come inside they try to hurt each other very badly. Beanie has been here since I moved here six years ago, she is a good dog and for some strange reason she is like 10 and Moose and Bruce are 2 (not dog years) and are larger than her. To make a long story short: My favorite room is my room since it is ‘Winston proof’ and I can do my work in it without disturbances. My yard is not much, just some grass, a dead tree (pretty cool if you ask me), two stumps and a rock garden(cool but not as cool as the dead tree if you ask me). My community is very cool and small . It has a hospital, police station, fire hall and a swimming pool. We also have a yearly event called the fire chase (yearly if I am correct) . Last year I got to turn on the lights and sirens to start two of the three races, on the last one I got to wear a deputy chief helmet. (the firefighter that helped me was a deputy chief) Then after all of the races were done I got to finish them off with the same procedure as to start the races. That is why I am grateful for my home. Why are you grateful for your home?

Theodore T.

Grade 5

High Prairie, Alberta

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