We did a bean experiment! We did it by putting a paper towel in a pasta jar that was washed and had no pasta left in it. We put water in the jar, and then we put beans in between the paper towel and the jar. The beans stayed up because they were squished against the jar by the paper towel. We waited a long time, I don’t know how many days, maybe four or five days. After those days we saw roots growing down from the beans and a little shoot growing up. Even when we tilt the jar, the roots still go down to get the water. So I learned from it that shoots grow up and roots grow down.
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Week 8 – The Family Photo Album
Last week, I was playing with my sisters and brothers. We were pretending to be butterflies. We built cocoons out of blankets. We went under them and we pretended that we were caterpillars inside cocoons. Then we wiggled, put a hole in our cocoon, popped out and we turned into beautiful butterflies!
Week 17 – Race Notes
Once upon a time, Daddy and Gabe were going to a race track made of ice. When they got there they saw that it was a very long track. They put their skates on. The ice was very slippery because it had no snow on it. When they tried going on it they slipped a lot. They saw a sign that said “Big Race Today” then Gabe said, “Can we race, please, in the race that’s going to happen today?”
Then Don came. He said, “Whoever is going to have a race on the race track today, stay here, it will start soon.” When everyone was ready, Don said, “Ready… Set… Go!” And everyone began skating and slipping. When they got better at skating on the slippery ice they were all going really fast.
Daddy jumped on the ice to have fun. He jumped so high that he went over the walls of race track. He was trying to find a way back in while I kept on going to the finish line. When Daddy finally got over the walls I was already at the finish line.
Daddy was so impressed that I won. The end.
Week 6 – The Day I Was Two Inches Tall
Once upon a time, I tried getting out of my bed but I couldn’t because I couldn’t hold on to the ladder because I was only two inches tall and my hands were too small to grab the ladder. So I called Mommy and Daddy. They came and helped me down.
They said, “What happened to you?”
“I shrinked” I said.
“Would you like to walk downstairs?”
They helped me walk because I was too little to walk. I walked into the toy room. I walked near my sister, Emmy. Emmy said, “why are you shrinked?” “Because when I got out of bed I didn’t notice when I was shrinked.”
“Emmy, watch out where you’re walking. You might step on me!” Emmy got a T-Rex out and I ran as fast as I could but I can’t ran any faster. I was slow because I was too little. I was scared because I thought the dinosaur was going to eat me. Then I stopped running but the dinosaur came near me and ate me! I was saying, “don’t eat me, no, don’t eat me.”
The story is done because that was my dream.
Week 5 – How Do You Do That?
I am going to teach you how to do Lacing. You will need a long shoelace, and a lacing board. A lacing board has holes everywhere except the inside. The holes go around the picture. First you take the end of the shoelace and pick up the picture, and put the shoelace through whatever hole you want. Pull the shoe lace through a little bit. Then you take the same shoelace end and pull it through the next hole. Then you take the same end in pull it through the next hole again. Keep on putting it through the next hole until you are back at the start. If you run out of shoelace, you can take the other end of the shoelace and put it through the hole behind the first one that you did. Keep going. If you have no more holes left, then you are done.
Week 4 – Story Elaboration
Original story: Luke swam, Luke won.
Once upon a time there as a boy that was named Luke. One morning he saw a beautiful day. He went outside and felt like winning. He thought it wasn’t too cold, it was hot outside. He put on a sweater. He took off his sweater and put on his swim stuff and jumped inside the pool. His friends were in the same pool. They wanted to have a swimming race. Luke said, “You guys won’t win. I feel like winning today!” They said, “How bout we try winning? If Luke wons, we won’t win!”
Luke had a baby sister that didn’t know how to swim so she went on Luke’s back. She made him go faster as she waved her arms in the water and said, “Too hot! Too cold!” Then she said, “Are you going to win?” Luke said, “I think I’m going to win.”
Luke won by going faster than his friends. His friends said, “You won, you won; we didn’t win. You won, you won…” After the race they went inside and told their Mom and Dad that Luke won and the friends didn’t win. “That’s not good,” said Mom.
The End
Week 15 – The Perfect Pet
I would love a cat that is red and black and very playful. If we had any mice, we wouldn’t have to put down mouse traps because the cat would get the mice instead. He wouldn’t just be playful, he’d also be snuggly and furry. I would like it if he snuggled with me in bed before I went to sleep. I would feel really comfortable and I think I would have happy dreams.
Week 9 – Imagination (the Vet)
One day, I was waiting in my vet office for pet owners and my dad came in with his pet eagle. I didn’t know Dad had a pet eagle! My dad said that his eagle’s mouth couldn’t snap shut. The eagle’s name was Fred. I looked inside Fred’s mouth and I saw that something was holding it open. It was a rock shaped like a fish. Fred must have eaten it because it looked like a fish. The rock had cut the roof and the bottom of his mouth and it was bleeding a little bit. I pulled it out. It stopped bleeding. Now Fred can snap his mouth shut again. Dad said “thank you for helping my eagle” and I told him that Fred can only eat soft foods until his cuts heal.
Week 8 – Story Starter
Once upon a time, Abigail wanted to go and have an adventure in the middle of the night. She walked down the road, into a forest. It was very dark, but she could see stuff because of the moon. She came to a clearing and then she sat down on the grass for a little bit. She heard some cracking noises, and it sounded like it was coming from behind all the trees. Abigail was scared because she thought it was a big bear but then she saw a little deer coming out of the trees and now she wasn’t scared. She liked the deer and wanted to bring it home. She decided to bring it home and see if the rest of the family wanted to keep it. When it was morning, she showed them the deer, and they wanted to keep it. The end.
Week 7 – Journal
