The Tree

By Tyler

            When I first joined St. Martins during spring in 4^th grade, I saw a lot of trees around the driveway, but I noticed one tree at the end of the driveway where I was dropped off. It was the first thing I saw. It had pretty white flowers on it. The next school year, the leaves turned yellow, and fell onto the basketball court at the end of the blacktop.

 Kids would break the rules and climb on the tree during recess, and the teachers would tell them to come down. In the spring, bees would make a colony on it, and scare the kids away. That tree would make a great photo if it was taken from the middle school building. Sometimes, we can see it out of our classroom’s window, and it would seem to make class prettier. When we play manhunt (which is hide-and-seek tag with teams), we hide behind it, and when we play hunger games (tail tag with teams on the whole school campus), we meet under it.

The tree usually doesn’t have all of its white flowers on it, but when it does I admire it very much. The tree is usually the first to grow leaves, and white flowers, on it in the spring. During fall the leaves turn orange and fall everywhere. During winter it protects the court at the end of the blacktop from snow.

That tree will always remind me of my time and good friends here at St. Martins. After I graduate, I will visit and always look for that tree, and remember everything.