To the tune of “Happy Birthday”
Jets are fast and they blast
And they never come last,
And they ca-a-rry people,
And they get them there fast.
Monthly Archives: June 2015
Week 35 – And Then What Happened?
Extended ending to “The Sword in the Tree.”
When Lord Weldon opened his eyes, he didn’t see Lionel or his men. He said, “Shan, will you tell me what happened now?”
Shan began to share his adventure, about escaping from Lionel by night. He told of the woods where he met Magnus and Phoebe and Adam. He told about King Arthur and the fight between Lionel and Sir Gareth (one of the knights of the Round Table). He was proud of proving to Sir Gareth that this was his home by taking his father’s sword out of the old oak tree. Shan told his father how delighted he was to see him alive. Lord Weldon thought it was a cool adventure and couldn’t stop thinking about it.
“Father, why did Uncle Lionel want to take your castle, your sword, and your life?” asked Shan.
Father answered, “I don’t know. I think it’s because he was jealous of the castle and afraid that I would take it all back if I was alive and free.”
In the doorway stood Shan’s mother, Lady Marian. Lord Weldon was very excited to see his wife, so excited that he couldn’t speak. He ran over to her and hugged her tightly. Lady Marian exclaimed, “I thought you were dead! But you’re alive and safe!”
Shan, Lady Marian, and Lord Weldon talked and laughed and had a merry time until sun down. They were very glad to be reunited again.
Week 32 – Story Elaboration
Original Story: Ed taps a drum. Pam sings. They create music.
Gabe’s Story.
Once upon a time they were playing music at a building where people play music. Ed was banging the drum really hard and he was even jumping on it to make an even louder noise. And soon, Ed fell into the drum and the drumming stopped. And then Pam looked and she didn’t see him and when Ed fell in through the drum, he fell through the floor. Pam stopped singing and she didn’t know which hole he went down. She went down the middle one and the hole came out to a cliff and there was a huge room. And the cliff was in the huge room. They both tried to climb up. There were lots of things to grab onto because there were lots of twigs sticking out of the dirt. And soon they got up and they also got a new drum and the drum that they got was stronger then the other one that broke.
They they played more music. Ed banged the drum and Pam sung again. And they made music again.
The End.
Week 34 – Pickles in a Pickle
A cave man’s cave goes on fire so they come to help but when they put the fire out pickles explores the cave and finds a passage and gets stuck in it.
Now, you remember Fireman Joe and Pickles from our last story, right? Well, this story is about those same people, Pickles the Cat and Joe the Fireman. Why don’t we start the story now.
Once upon a time, Pickles the fire cat heard the chief talking on the phone. “I wonder what kind of trouble there is this time?” he said quietly to himself.
Joe, having overheard him, said, “The trouble is, there’s a fire down in a small clearing in the Hundred Acre Woods, in a cave man’s cave.”
Pickles asked, “What’s a cave man? What’s a cave?”
“A cave is a place is that is dug into the ground, sometimes carved by water, sometimes dug by people, cave men, for example.”
“Well then, ” said Pickles. “I’ll have to go and see for myself.” And with that, he slid down the pole to the fire trucks and hopped on.
It was a very bumpy ride to the Hundred Acre Woods. When they got to the cave, Pickles said, “I don’t see a cave. All I see is a big fire!”
“The fire is IN the cave,” explained Joe.
“Oh!” exclaimed Pickles.
When the fire was out, Pickles explored inside. “What a cool house!” he said out loud to himself. “Full of sharp, cone like things on the roof, passages and hidey-holes.” Pickles went into one of the passages. It got narrower and narrower, and harder to squeeze through, but Pickles wanted to see what was on the other side. But instead of getting to the other side, all he got was STUCK.
He couldn’t back out, so he called for help. Joe heard him and got an axe from the fire truck. He chopped carefully around Pickles, aiming carefully so that he would not hit Pickles. Soon, the hole was wide enough for Pickles to back out, so he did.
“I’m never going into a passage again!” said Pickles.
And when they got back to the fire station, Pickles went straight to bed for he was tired from trying to back out of the hole.
The end.
Week 34 – All a Dream?
Once upon a time an American ship set sail for Holland. There were 1,000 sailors, the whole Stephens family, and a couple of other people on board. It was a huge ship called the Wave Surfer. When they were about in the middle of the North Atlantic Ocean, one of the sailors saw a killer whale. He called the other sailors and they quickly planned a trap to capture the dolphin-like whale. They Wave Surfer surfed after the killer whale and they trapped it with a rope. The whale pulled and tugged at the rope. It was only a baby, but finally it broke free. Nathan Stephens, who was on the ship, liked the killer whale so he quickly jumped after the whale and grabbed the rope, pulled himself to the whale, and climbed on his back. The whale was faster than the Wave Surfer and pulled him all the way to Holland. When his parents and siblings arrived, they found Nathan waiting at the dock. Suddenly, the place lit up, and he heard Emily shouting, “Light turned on!” and Nathan realized it was all a dream. The end.
Week 31 – My Favorite Game
My favorite game is Battleship and this is how you play it. You take the computers out of the box and the extra pegs you leave in the box. You take out the grey computer and open it and then you put the ships where the holes are so you can attach them into the board. You put them where you want them to be. The other person does the same as you. He puts them where he wants it. And you make sure that they can’t see them, because that would be cheating.
So there is numbers at the top and letters at the side and if you say “A10” you find the A and go to the 10 and if your ship is not there, you put a white peg, but if you hit a boat there you put a red peg. You put his guesses on the bottom and your guesses on the top. You’re trying to get the other guys boats. You win by getting all the red pegs on all of his boats before your boats have red pegs on them. And that’s how you play.
It’s my favorite game because I like the fighting stuff and it’s a fighting game.
The End.
Week 33 – My Friend Venn
Week 30 – Blown Away
Once upon a time there was a windmill. It was very windy and the wind blew the blades so fast that it blew the windmill off the ground. An airplane was flying by beside it in the air and it was making the air go even stronger. John (the guy in the windmill) peeked out and waved his hand at the pilot and he waved back. John wondered why he saw a pilot – “That shouldn’t be here!” John looked down and got a little bit scared when he realized they were up so high. The wind stopped blowing so the windmill blades stopped turning so they went down really fast and John got even more scared. They hit the ground really hard and that shook the inside a lot. John was still looking out of the window so he fell out of the window head first. He died because he broke his brain. The end.