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Week 27 – Painting with Words

Language Arts 2

Once upon a time the Stephens family (that’s us) wanted to go camping in the woods. So we packed up everything we needed, including burgers.  We put everything in the car and we drove for a long time to the woods. When we finally got there, we unpacked everything. 

While we were getting everything ready, Abigail wanted to go exploring. So she wandered off into the big woods. She wandered for hours while the rest of our family was looking for her. She saw all sorts of animals. Then she saw a baby deer. She ran fast to the baby deer and she named it Faline.  She held out a piece of lettuce that she took from the camp, and the deer ate the lettuce. They became friends.

Abigail hopped on the Faline’s back and made her ride around the woods so she could find our family’s camp.  It took a long time, but she finally found the camp. When she climbed off the deer’s back, she noticed that her family wasn’t there. So she sat down in a big pile of food and began eating. When Mommy and Daddy arrived back at the camp, they found her sitting in a pile of food, with a stomach ache. They said, “We have to go home now because we don’t have enough food for camping'” So the kids cried, and they packed up everything and went home.

The end.

Week 24 – You are the Teacher!

Emily

Do you know how to brush your teeth? I can teach you how to brush your teeth. First, you get out your own toothbrush and the toothpaste. And then you squirt a little piece of toothpaste (about half a pea) on your toothbrush. Then you turn on the faucet and wet the toothpaste on the toothbrush. Then, you carefully brush your teeth: the top and bottom, your tongue, the bottom of your tongue, and under your tongue and the insides of your cheeks. You should brush your teeth after breakfast, lunch and dinner. You brush your teeth to get rid of the germs that put holes in your teeth and give you bad breath.  Everyone should brush their teeth. If you don’t know how to brush your teeth, your Mommy and Daddy will help you.

Week 23 – Finish the Story

Emily

Original story:
Bob and his mother need groceries. They need bananas, bread, and milk. They get in their car and drive to the grocery store. Bob pushes the cart and his mother gets the food.

Emily’s ending:
They buy the milk and eggs at Superstore but they need to go to Costco for the bananas and bread. So they went to Costco to get the bananas and bread. The bananas were in the first aisle, and the bread was in the second aisle. They needed those things to make a cake. Except for the bread. The bread was for peanut butter and cookie butter and cream cheese for breakfast, or egg salad at lunch. Then they drove home and Bob made a cake for his mothers birthday all by himself because because it was a surprise. They had eggs leftover because they bought a lot of eggs in a big carton and thy didn’t need it all for the cake. So they made egg salad for egg salad sandwiches for lunch.

Week 23 – An Odd Place to Surface

Emily

One day a boy was on his knees and hands and was looking from the door to his fish bowl. And he saw a sunken boat and there was a diver half way out of the fishbowl and half way in the fish bowl. One fish was swimming up and the other was pointing to a sunken boat. The diver was trying to get that boat because it was his boat before the fish could bite him.

Now, the diver was just a toy because he is so small. The boy came and turned a switch on the diver and it made him grab the boat and then the boy picked the diver up with the boat in his hand and he’s out! The diver got his boat. 

The End.

Week 23 – Narration (Jonah)

Abigail, Language Arts 1

Jonah is a man that God sent to Nineveh because he wanted Jonah to tell the people of Nineveh to turn away from their sins or else God would overthrow their town.  Instead of going to Nineveh he caught a ship and went to Tarshish. Before he could get there, the Lord sent a bad storm and Jonah told the sailors to throw him in the sea so that the storm would stop. The sailors didn’t want to throw Jonah in the sea, but they did because the storm was getting worse and worse. And then, God sent a great fish and told the fish to swallow Jonah. Three days later, Jonah prayed to God and God told the fish to spit out Jonah onto dry land. Then Jonah got up and God said to him for the second time, “Go to Nineveh and tell the people to turn away from their sins.” This time, Jonah obeyed and went to Nineveh and told the people to turn away from their sins. And Jonah said, “If you do not turn away from your sins, God will overthrow your city.” The people believed Jonah and turned from their sins. Jonah’s message got to the king and he said, “We have disobeyed God. We should turn away from our sins.” And they did. Jonah felt angry about that, that God didn’t overthrow their land.  And God asked him,”Why are you angry?” Jonah was angry because God didn’t overthrow their land and Jonah wanted God to overthrow their city because of their sins. But God wanted to give them another chance.

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.