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Week 36 – I’m An Animal

I am an elephant. I like to have a big trunk to drink water and wrap up hay so I can eat it. I walk slowly and have big huge ears. I go “ooouuuunng” and when I’m thirsty I suck water up my trunk. I have a big family of other elephants and we hold on to each others tails. Our tails are short. I am grey but can change colors by putting stuff from the ground onto me. And I am very heavy and walk slow. I don’t eat meat, and when it’s hot outside I drink cold water and go in the shade.

Week 35 – How Does This Work?

Playing Osmo Newton is easy.

You start by taking it out of the box. You put the iPad in and you put the red thing on the top of the iPad. There is a picture on the side of the box that shows you how to do it. Then you put paper in front of the Osmo and then you turn on the iPad. You press the button on the bottom of the iPad to turn it on. Then you go to Osmo Newton. You switch it with your finger and press the button thing that says Osmo Newton at the top.

Then when the balls fall from the top of the iPad and then you try to draw and get it into the target. You draw on the paper to get the balls into the target. Then if you are really good at it you get to move on to another one and it gets harder and harder and harder.

That’s how you play it.

Week 36 – Budding Playwright

BETH: (looking around) Where are we?
PATRICK: I think we’re at the bottom of an ocean!
BETH: What are we doing here? I thought we were supposed to go to Ancient Rome.
PATRICK: (tap Beth on the shoulder, then point to a black shape in the water) Beth, I think you should look over there.
BETH: I remember that shape from dinosaur movies… it’s a Lysaedon!
PATRICK: Run, Beth! I mean, swim, Beth!

(Patrick dodges behind some coral)
(Beth goes into a crevice)
(Lysaedon swims by)

PATRICK: Beth! Where are you?
BETH: (looking confused) I’m right here.
PATRICK: What’s that humming noise. Where’s the Lysaedon?
BETH: I don’t know about the Lysaedon, but that humming noise is the Imagination Station!

(Beth and Patrick get into the Imagination Station)
(They are back in their regular time where it is raining)

PATRICK: Mr. Whitaker, why did we go to a dinosaur ocean? I thought we were going to Ancient Rome!
MR. WHITAKER: A lighting bolt struck the generator that controls the Imagination Station. It must have caused something to go wrong.
BETH: (sighing) Oh! So that’s what happened. Can we still go to Rome?