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Week 22 – Character(istic) Story

Language Arts 2

Once upon a time there were two Aliens that lived in space. Their names were Yoda and Grievous and were brothers who wanted to see people because other Aliens were talking about them.So Grievous said”Maybe if we flap all four arms we could fly to that planet that’s named,”…um…um…”I don’t know!” So they flapped their arms and began to fly and drifted into space and began to cry! After a few hours of crying their feet touched ground! Soon they saw a person and shouted”HI, WEIRD LOOKING ALIEN!”.The person began to run! They ran after the person still calling “HI, WEIRD LOOKING ALIEN!”. They tripped on a twig and fell into a trash can ! Then they saw a passenger jet and ran toward it “LOOK,”shouted Yoda,”a space ship ! They finally got to the airport. They saw a jet  being boarded and they got on too! The jet began to rise and everyone [except the pilot] saw them then Grievous shouted”WE’RE GOING TO BE DEHYDRATED!” Yoda objected. The pair began to fight.They fought so hard that they fell out the window and died.

the end

Week 22 – Write a Dialogue

Language Arts 4/5

“I wish I could go to your house without having to go out the front or back door .”sighed Pippi.

“How asked ?” Tommy 

“A tunnel .”replied Pippi 

“What about the floorboards ?”asked Annika,”and the cement foundation?” 

“Rip and dig .”answered Pippi happily

“But cement is hard ?”said Tommy

“I am the strongest girl .“said Pippi.

“YAY!”shouted Tommy and Annika.

Week 21 – Dialogue (Strangest Day)

Abigail, Language Arts 1

“Yesterday was the strangest day!” said Emily, who was laying down on the sick couch. 

Sophia said, “What happened yesterday?”

“Well, yesterday I saw two people talking about Milly Molly Mandy.”

“What about Milly Molly Mandy?” asked Sophia.

“They were talking about Milly Molly Mandy’s manners.”

“What manners?” asked Sophia.

“Like, ‘Yes, Mommy’ or ‘Yes, Daddy’ or ‘Yes, Uncle’ or ‘Yes, Aunty’ or ‘Yes, Grandma’ or ‘Yes, Grandpa’,” said Emily back to Sophia.

“That is strange,” said Sophia.

“Well, you’re right, Sophia,” said Emily.

“Do you want to play the piano?”

“No thanks, ” said Emily. “I would like to continue the story.”

Week 22 – When I Was Sick

Emily

One time I got really sick and had trouble breathing. Daddy took me to the hospital and the doctors put a band on my finger to check my blood pressure. After that they gave me a puffer which helped me to breathe. I had pneumonia. I had to stay at the hospital and they didn’t let me go home. I got to ride in an ambulance in the night to another hospital. Lolo and Lola came to visit me. So did Tita Kakin and Tita Jessica and Tita Alyssa. And Uncle John. He played dots and boxes with me. Then Mommy and I rode an ambulance back to the kids’ hospital.  The doctors at the other hospital said the kids’ hospital was better for me, that’s why we took the ambulance back.  At the kids’ hospital, I had a button I could press and then the nurse would come and I would ask for a popsicle and she would ask “What colour would you like?” And first I picked a blue one and the next day I got a green one.  Ava and Mia came to visit me.  Tita Kakin and I played with play-doh and she helped me put a puzzle together.  Mom also stayed with me.  The nurses kept giving me the puffer until I could breathe better. When I was all better, my brothers and sisters came to visit me and pick me up and we went home together. Tita Jessica was already at our house and we played Trouble which she gave me at the hospital.

Week 21 – Story Elaboration

Emily

Bill climbed a hill. He saw a city below.

Bill climbed a hill by pulling on a string tied to a branch because the hill was a very steep hill. He climbed up when no one was looking. It took him just a short time to climb the hill because he used his string.

When he came to the top of the hill, he saw a city with a big sandbox in the middle with lots of children. There were two cities beside it with children running and some of them were playing leap-frog. This made one big, big, big city that was full of kids.

The End

Week 21 – Read-Aloud Summary

Emily

Are You My Mother?

A mother bird sat on her egg, and her egg jumped. She thought the egg would hatch today and she also thought the bird would want to eat. So off she flew. The egg jumped, and jumped, and jumped, and jumped. And then, out came a baby bird. And he said, “Where is my mother? I must find her.”

He closed his eyes and walked with his eyes closed and then, down, down, down, he fell. He walked right past his mother and didn’t notice her but soon he came to a cat, then a hen, then a dog, then a cow. And they all said, “I’m not your mother.” He called to a car, a boat, a bulldozer, but they were not his mother. The bulldozer dropped him right in his nest and soon his mother came. His mother said, “Do you know who I am?” He said, “Yes, I know who you are, you’re not a cat, or a hen, or a dog, or a cow, or a car, or a boat, or a bulldozer, you are a bird and you are my mother!”

The End

Week 21 – Garage Discovery

Language Arts 4/5

I dedicate this story to Dad, for the stories he tells.

Once there was a good and adventurous teen who was bored.He went to the garage of the old, deserted house of Redbeard the pirate. He found a secret door to a spooky room with a twisted stair. He ran forward to explore. All of a sudden the floor separated under his feet and he found himself in a dungeon with the bugs and the rats. He was a black belt in karate so he kicked out the barred window and jumped out. He ran under a table, through a window and toward a cliff with a ledge on the other side. He saw a rope by witch he could swing across the space. He began to think, was it safe? He ran forward and began to swing but it pulled down a staircase and he wondered, where should he go. The cliff or up the staircase ? He decided to go up the stairs. He got to the top of the staircase and found a room filled with gold, gold coins and bricks, gold rods and staffs even gold swords and spears ! When he finally finished stuffing his pockets with gold coins and grabbed a gold sword and shield, one question remained: how would he get back to the garage? He had fallen in! He ran back to the dungeon when all of a sudden he had an idea. He ran back to the staircase and used the sword to cut off the rope and ran back to the dungeon with it. Using the rope as a lasso he got it caught on the door knob. He climbed the rope and ran out the door to his own house.                                                                          

THE END