Wheels and sports are two subjects that students like from the time they're very young, up through the years and into the blurry distance. We asked kids what they usually do when there's a big sporting event on TV, and also what kind of car they wished their family had. Answers popped up like popcorn. By the way, popcorn is also a favorite snack while watching sports on TV. Even most moms don't mind popcorn because if it's unbuttered, it's not so messy. As for cars, why do kids like the cars that have the most difficult names to spell? Those names should be in the annual Spelling Bee.

We went to a friend's house for Super Bowl Sunday. All the adults stayed downstairs to watch the game while my friend and I went upstairs to play. We stayed up there until Emily's mom called up and said we should come down to see something funny. It was a commercial with nuts that had a guy who sings "up-a-gum-gum" style and up-a-cracking style with the nuts cracking open. There were people dressed as nuts, dancing. Yes, the little green part of the nut was a dancing person. It was funny and made us like the Super Bowl.

Malena Villasenor, Grade 5, Markham

I like cars and trucks and motorcycles, but right now I want to learn how to make a paper boat. We are studying shapes in math at school and I got the idea of making a boat out of paper when I looked at the shapes. Can you show me how to make a paper boat? Hey, that does not look like a boat. It looks like a hat. Oh, you fold it another time and it turns into a boat? Cool! Now I will go back to learning my multiplication and division facts. In our class we're supposed to memorize them all, 0 through 9. We're doing fractions, too: If you have three quarters, three dimes, two nickels and four pennies, what fraction of the coins are the dimes? I have to do that. Yes, I am 7 years old but soon I will be eight.

Aiden Fisher, Grade 2, Suisun Elementary

If I had an alternate way to travel to school, my choice would be jet pack.

Kyle Knutson, Grade 12

We just got a new Camry. I wish we would get a Audi R-8.

Zachery Vale, Grade 6, Ace Charter School, Hemlock

When I'm old enough to drive I'd like to have an old blue z28 Camaro.

Joe Bouwman, Grade 8, Jepson

I'd like to have a purple Lamborghini.

Inayah Morris, Grade 7, Jepson

Is it okay to talk about books? I like Jan Brett books and I just read the one called "The Hat." The girl takes all her wool clothes out to wear because it's winter. Do you think she had wool pajamas? Which would you rather wear: wool or silk pajamas? Wool would be itchy but silk would be slippery.

Victoria, Grade 4

I have a friend who went to Disneyland in January. I wish I could go there right now, but I'm going in May.

Abbey Watson, Grade 5, Callison

Everything's good at Disneyland. Everything. I haven't been there in forever because now we go boating in Arizona.

Joe Bouwman, Grade 8, Jepson

I have my permit for driving and I practice driving by driving to school with a parent. I missed two questions on the written test. One of the questions was confusing. I think the Drivers' Handbook could be written better. Does the State take suggestions?

A guy, Grade 10, Vaca High