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     People like to go to the coastal areas for all 

kinds of reasons, but Sallie Ann Blackmon liked 

the coast for a specific reason. She loved sea life! 

She played with hermit crabs, picked up conch 

shells, and collected sharks teeth. There wasn't 

anything that Sallie Ann didn't like about sea life. 

So, it seemed only fitting that Sallie Ann voted for 

her class to go to the aquarium for their annual 

field trip at school. 

     The day of the field trip, Sallie Ann got up early, 

dressed, and put on her favorite walking shoes.           

She could not wait to get to school that day. She 

packed a few things for her trip and it was time to 

leave.

     Once she arrived at school, Ms.Fleming prepared 

them for the field trip. Sallie Ann sat at her desk 

anxiously waiting to leave. When the buses arrived, 

the students lined up together in front of the school, 

got onto the buses, and left for the aquarium.

    On the ride to the aquarium, Sallie Ann thought 

about all the different fish and sea life that she would 

visit, but she could not have possibly prepared herself 

for what was about to happen next.

     Once inside the aquarium, their first stop was to see 

the sea turtles. Standing in front of the large vat of 

water, Sallie Ann and her classmates watched two 

large turtles as they swam right up to the glass. It 

looked like they were putting on a show for the 

students when all of the sudden someone whispered, 

Something Smells Fishy. 

     Instantly, Sallie Ann jabbed John in the side with 

her elbow because he always played jokes on her and 

she was certain that it was him. 

     "Hey, why did you do that for?" John asked. But 

Sallie Ann only looked at him and squinted her eyes.

     Then, just as they were turning to walk away from 

the turtles, Sallie Ann heard it again. 

     Something Smells Fishy.

     "Who's saying that?" Sallie Ann shouted.

     "Saying what, Sallie Ann?" Jill asked

     "Well, didn't you guys hear someone say, 

Something Smells Fishy?"   

     "Cute, Sallie Ann." Everyone laughed. Sallie Ann 

realized that she had been the only one in her class to 

hear it. No one else had heard a sound.

     "What's happening to me?" She thought to herself.

     The class walked forward through a large glass tank 

of all kinds of large fish and sharks that swam above 

their heads and all around them. The students were 

fascinated at the display. But when Sallie Ann 

confronted a giant shark, she heard something whisper, 

     Something Smells Fishy.

     "Stop that! Who's doing that? Didn't you guys hear 

that?" Shouted Sallie Ann.

     "Hear what?" Her classmates laughed. "Aren't you 

a bit young to be hearing voices, Sallie Ann?" 

     Embarrassed, Sallie Ann hung her head down and 

hurried off ahead of her class to the next exhibit.

     Sallie Ann arrived at the seahorse aquarium all by 

herself and spent time with the little seahorses before 

her classmates caught up with her. She had been 

waiting to see the seahorses because they were her 

favorite. She walked up to the glass where a cluster of 

seahorses were hanging out together.

     "Hi there little seahorses." She said quietly as she 

gently placed her finger on the glass. 

     "You are my favorite of all the sea life." She 

whispered to a small seahorse that came up to the glass 

to investigate her finger.

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