Once there were two boys, Nathan and Gabe. They were looking for home and wandered into a forest. They hoped a giant wouldn’t find them and eat them. The wandered around the forest and got lost even more. Then, they saw a nice giant who said, “Welcome to my house. I will feed you so you don’t get hungry.” The giant kept asking them questions. The next morning he kept asking them questions. This morning he finally let them eat. Then they went outside the giant’s house and saw a tree. The giant said he wanted to cut it down and make more room for his garden, but it was a magic tree and when he tried to cut it down, the tree went higher instead of falling down. Now there was a gap between the stump and the rest of the tree. He asked Nathan and Gabe if the tree was really magic. Nathan started looking at the stump and said, “It must be magic!” They went back in the house and said, “Can we have some more food?” The giant didn’t like their answer or question and he turned into a bad giant and smoothed them. The end.
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Story Elaboration – Week 13
Pat built a house. The house collapsed.
Pat built out a house out of sand on the beach. He put sand on the roof and then he put shingles on the roof to keep the sand from falling off the roof. Then, as soon as he built the house, the house collapsed. It was blowing a strong wind and it was raining. The house collapsed because he built it out of sand and shingles.
The End
Week 12 – Fruity Poem
Week 12 – Chore Training (How to Put the Dishes Away)
After breakfast, lunch and dinner we wash the dishes by putting them in the dishwasher. When the dishwasher is full we run the dishwasher. When it’s done we put the dishes away. Our dishes go in the cupboard, and the cutlery goes in the drawer with the knives. First you take the cutlery basket and carry it over to the counter on top of the cutlery drawer. Then you take the forks and put them with the other forks. You make sure you put the small ones with the small ones and the big ones with the big ones. Now you put the little spoons with the other little spoons and the big spoons with the other big spoons. Be careful with the knives, be sure you dont’t cut yourself. Only hold the handles, not the pointy part. Then you put the basket back in the dishwasher. I stack the dishes on the counter then Mama and Daddy put them in the cupboard because I’m not tall enough to reach. Then you closes the dishwasher. The end.
Week 12 – Imagination
Once upon a time there was a big huge castle. Inside the castle there was a princess named Abigail and Abigail was married to Prince David and Prince David was a fighter and Abigail was a writer. One day when the prince was gone to fight, Abigail was writing. And when the prince came home he told Abigail what had happened and Abigail heard the prince say, “I was shot in the leg!” Then Abigail started to cry and she brought the prince to his bed. Abigail started making a good lunch for him and served it in bed. Then she slept beside him and the prince’s leg felt better after he ate and slept.
Week 11 – Journal
Week 11 – The Cat Book
Once there was a cat named Emily. She wanted to play with her boat at the beach. She brought her bucket to the beach and made a sand castle with a moat around it. She was excited.
She noticed that there were rocks and grass in the moat, but the water was missing from the moat. She needs water to play with her boat in the moat.
She grabbed her bucket.
She ran to the water and filled her bucket up with water.
She ran back with her bucket as fast as she could.
Uh-oh! She tripped on an umbrella that was left there by another family of cats and the bucket went up in the air…
…and then down on her head. The water spilled out. She doesn’t have any water left for her boat so she was sad.
She went back to the water and filled her bucket up again and then she slowly went back and this time she stepped over the umbrella. She went back to her boat and put it in the bucket and then she was happy to play with her boat.
Week 9 – Picture This
Once there was a very greedy robber. This robber had a sword. When it was midnight, at 12 o’clock, he climbed up into a castle window. When he came out he had stolen the king’s cape and crown and he also had a stick with a bag of gold hanging from his shoulder. He couldn’t hold the crown so he had to put it on his head! It was also really hard to climb because one of his hands was holding the stick with the bag of gold.
As he was going down the crown fell off his head and it smashed on the ground. The guards heard this so they rushed out. The archers on top of the castle wall started firing their arrows down at him. Then he flung himself into the castle window and he killed some of the people inside. Guards came to get him too but he killed all the guards with his sword. Then he killed the king and queen. While the archers were still looking for him he snuck up behind them and sliced all of their arrows with his sword. Their quivers shook as he did this. The archers turned around and when they grabbed for their arrows only the back of the arrows were in their quiver. The robber had the pointy tips!
In the morning enemies of the castle came and catapults started firing boulders over the walls and all the soldiers in the castle had no weapons. The robber had taken all the weapons and broken them or kept them himself. The enemies got the castle. The robber was on the enemy’s team.
The End.
Week 10 – Invitation
Dear Lola and Lolo and Grandpa and Grandma,
May you please come to my birthday party on December 4? It’s going to be lots of fun. There will be balloons blowed up, chocolate cake and vanilla ice cream, and other kids will be playing outside in the backyard or riding their bikes on the bike path. Also, other people will be watching Treehouse on the television. The boys will be playing Lego upstairs.
The party will be at our house at 180 Riverbrook Way SE. Please tell Mommy that you are coming. Good bye.
Oh, and I forgot, we are going to have pizza and the Stephens family is also going to be there. Good bye again.
Abigail
Week 9 – Imagination
Abigail the veterinarian.
One day a lamb was sick. I put the lamb in an ambulance then I drove the lamb to the animal hospital. Then I carried the lamb out of the back and brought her into the animal hospital. I brought the lamb to a little house, like a little dog house. I gave the lamb some strawberry medicine and I gave the lamb a little bit. Then I called another animal doctor to get out the bad stuff in the lamb. The animal doctor found a bullet in the lamb and she called me and I came. The other doctor said, “I found a bullet in the lambs body.”
“A what?” I said.
“Maybe the lamb got shot in the stomach by a soldier.”
The lamb got better and I brought her back to the other lambs.
The End.