Each week, "Flying Horse" features dozens of Central Illinois children's thoughts and drawings on various topics. This week: Games I like to play
Kickball: I love playing kickball with my friends. Sometimes my brother and I play board games. Games on the trampoline are fun.
Isaiah Gardner Grade 5, Calvary
Toilet tag and Roblox: My favorite games are toilet tag and kickball and playing Roblox and Minecraft and Call of Duty: Cold War, and those are my favorite games.
Tinleigh Compton Grade 4, Centennial
Volleyball: The games I like to play are volleyball, basketball, Battleship, Starry Night Sky, and Minecraft. My favorite of these is volleyball because I play it as my main sport.
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Azalea Baier Grade 5, Cornerstone
Lacrosse: My favorite game I like to play is lacrosse. I also play basketball and baseball and tennis and pickleball.
Hayden Heller Grade 2, Corpus Christi
Roblox: My favorite game is Roblox. I like Roblox because Roblox has a large variety of games. My next reason is that Roblox is fun because you can play with your friends on Roblox. My favorite game on Roblox is 99 Nights in the Forests.
Daniel Hay Grade 4, Fairview
Gorilla tag: I love gorilla tag.
Damari Brown Grade 3, Fox Creek
Monopoly: I like to play Monopoly because it is fun.
Mrittika Ghosh Grade 1, Grove
Ghost and the Graveyard: I love to play Ghost and the Graveyard. I like to play with my friends. I also like to play in the dark. I also like to play baseball with my friends. I love baseball.
Bishop Wallace Grade 2, Jefferson Park
Smash Bros: I like Smash Bros. It is a video game. The game lets you pick from a lot of characters. In the game you have three lives.
Aaron Hable Grade 2, Northpoint
Minecraft: A game I like to play is Minecraft because it's fun. I like to play Sonic because it is fun.
Dominic Berry Grade 2, Parkside
Guess Who: My favorite game is Guess Who. I also like Scooby Doo board games.
Jacob Ahrends Grade 1, Prairieland
Minecraft: I like to play Minecraft. I'm building a maze in Minecraft. I like crafting tools, tables and ladders. Minecraft is fun! Do you like Minecraft?
Anikyn Strunk Grade 3, Prairieland
VR: A game I like to play is Roblox. I love the game so much. It's just so fun to play with your friends. I do it every day with my friends. A game I like to play with my friends is called Rivals, a fun gun game to play on Roblox, and it has no blood. Another thing I like to play is my VR.
Logan Wallin Grade 4, Prairieland
Jenga: Jenga is one of my favorite games ever because it is filled with so much excitement. My family always plays Jenga around Christmastime because it is too cold to play outside. This game is so fun because you never know when your tower will fall over or stay. You can play this game when you have free time, and it doesn't make a mess at all.
Penny Smith Grade 5, Prairieland
Flappy Dragon: I like to play Uno and Flappy Dragon. I also like to play falling cat, tag, and I like to play hide-and-seek. I like to play Roblox with my brother.
Sophie Borns Grade 3, Sheridan
Sorry: Sorry is my favorite game because you can get players. When I grow up, I will play Monopoly. I will play Clue when I am a teen. I can beat my family in Uno. My dad and I played golf together. I try not to laugh is a fun game. I grew to play Roblox a day. Nintendo is cool.
Jax Nelson Grade 2, Stevenson
Golden Fire: I love to play soccer! I like to run fast and freely. Go Golden Fire!
Chip Howard Grade 1, Sugar Creek
Freeze tag: I like to play freeze tag and when I get tagged, I have to freeze. I like to play hide-and-seek. We hide and someone counts. I like to play banana race.
Jordy Schonauer Grade 1, Sugar Creek
Hide-and-seek: I like to play Roblox and tag. I also like to play hide-and-seek. I also like to play with my friends.
Henrik Olsen Grade 2, Washington
Blox Fruits: Roblox is one of my favorite games to play. I like that there are many games to play on Roblox. My favorites are Blox fruits and grow a garden. I love Roblox.
Tristan Gotschall Grade 4, Washington
Outside games: I like to play games outside. I like running with my brother and riding bikes with him. I like to play with friends in Wolf Park. But when it's rainy I like to draw some pictures inside. I love to play games; they are fun.
Chenxi Xu Grade 5, Washington
Games I like to play: Some games I like to play are apples, apples, and hues and cues. Sports games I like to play are soccer and basketball.
Peyton Brill Grade 5, Calvary
Fishopoly: My favorite board game is Fishopoly. Me and my mom play in the winter while Joanna is napping. It is Monopoly but with anything fish related. I love Fishopoly.
Easton Dailey Grade 4, Centennial
Brawl Stars: I like playing Brawl Stars because it is very high pace. I like Monopoly because it is really competitive. I love playing Madden 24 because it is very strategic. I hope you like games, too.
Theo Kubsch Grade 4, Fairview
Favorite games: I like to play chess and soccer and basketball because these are my favorite games.
Aaron Gangarapu Grade 1, Grove
Uno: I love to play Uno, and I love playing Roblox. And I love playing soccer and Minecraft. And try not to laugh.
Alex Andear Grade 3, Stevenson
Fortnite: I like to play this game, Fortnite.
Santiago Guerara Grade 3, Fox Creek
Chess and tag: I like to play a lot of games like chess and tag. Sometimes I like to play quiet games like games on Roblox and Mario Kart or Super Smash Bros. I would like to play any game except Barbies. And I really like math games. Games are the best.
Armando Malaga Grade 2, Corpus Christi
Football: I like to play football because I like to score touchdowns. I also like to play soccer because I like to score goals. I like to play soccer because I like to be goalie. I like to play football because I like to be a linebacker.
Shep Taylor Grade 2, Jefferson Park
Workouts: I love to play tag, pickleball, baseball, basketball and soccer. They make me happy because they are workouts, and I like workouts.
Troy Shriver Grade 2, Northpoint
Fun games: A game I like to play is hide-and-seek because it is fun. I also like to play tag because I like it. I also like to play duck, duck, goose.
Kris Kartinez Grade 2, Parkside
Barbies: I like to play tag and hide-and-seek. I also like to play Barbies.
Thea Benson Grade 1, Prairieland
Top three: I'm going to tell you about my top three games. First, at third place is CarX Street. It's about being a street racer. Next at second, we have Forza Horizon 5. It's really realistic! Now for the final, first place is Roblox! It's a cross-platform game where people can make games and other people can play them.
Jackson Farmer Grade 3, Prairieland
Soccer: ''I call midfield!'' One of my favorite games is soccer. I love the feeling when I make a goal and everyone is high fiving me. It's SO fun. My teammates are kind, and I learn from my coach. What games do you like to play?
Elizabeth Kim Grade 5, Prairieland
Candyland: I like to play Candyland. It is fun. I like to play it because it has candy. I also like to play Chutes and Ladders. One time I won.
Gratis Muma Grade 2, Stevenson
Trouble: My favorite game is Sorry! Sorry! is a good game. A new game is Trouble. In Trouble some people win and lose. My name game Uno is my favorite game. In Uno you have to get a certain color to win.
Abel Ortiz Grade 3, Stevenson
Video games and sports: I like video games and soccer and sports. I also love playing fetch with my dog.
Finn Carqueville Grade 2, Washington
Funny story: Games I like to play are Mortal Combat and Minecraft. Here is a funny story: One time when we went to Missouri, we found a Nintendo disc on the side of the road, and it was Minecraft. When they got back to the house we went to my mom and dad's room, hooked it up and started playing.
Angel Spivey Grade 5, Washington
Fall/Halloween
Fall is a fun time. You can jump in leaf piles, have cookouts and play football, or you can dress up, tell spooky stories and
go trick-or-treating on Halloween. Write or draw about fall and/or Halloween. Due date: Oct. 13. Publication date: Oct. 26.
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