Category Archives: Language Arts 2

Writing assignments from Sonlight’s Grade 2 Language Arts.

Week 22 – Character(istic) Story

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 16 – Describing Day

Tanks are full of excitement. Some of them are almost invincible, like the Panzer. The Panzer is very loud, powerful, smells like gas and mud. It shoots big, scary shells a long way. When a shell is fired it sounds like an explosion. The Panzer is fast like a rabbit but strong as a bear. It is hard, cold, and rough. I wish I could drive a Panzer. But be careful if a Russian soldier runs up and throws a bomb in  the window!

The End

Week 15 – Be Persuasive

Dear Dad,

When it is summer can you throw puck and chains into the water? You know it makes us so happy and it also helps us to learn to open our eyes under the water and helps us to learn to dive for stuff. It also helps us to feel for stuff under the water because the chains are hard to see. (As for the pucks, you can see them.) Please can you do this?

Your son, Gabe

Week 14 – From Grid to Story

One day Big Penguin said to Small Penguin, “Let’s swim to the other side of the world.” Small Penguin said, “Yes we will!”

Small Penguin jumped into the water but the water was cold so he jumped out. But Big Penguin said “Boo!” so Small Penguin fell back into the water. Big Penguin went into the water too. Big Penguin and Small Penguin were in the water together.

Big Penguin got eaten by Leopard Seal! Polar Bear tried to bite Leopard Seal but to his mistake he bit Small Penguin. Polar Bear fought with Leopard Seal after that.

The End

Or, if you don’t want that, Polar Bear died from Leopard Seal.

The End

Week 11 – Write Like You Talk

One day God told Joshua and all his soldiers and all his priests to march around the city of Jericho six times, once each day. And on the seventh day, march around the city of Jericho seven times. Joshua did exactly what God said. On the seventh day, on the seventh time they marched around. The priests blew their horns and the soldiers shouted as loudly as they could and the walls of Jericho tumbled down. The Israelite soldiers took over the city.

The End

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 7 – What’s So Funny?

“What’s so funny?” asked Gabe.
“I’m thinking of silly stuff from Winnie the Pooh,” said Abigail.
“What part of the Winnie the Pooh movie, Abigail?”
“When piglet wrote ‘Help P..P..P..Piglet me'”
“I don’t really think that part’s funny.”
“It is to me,” said Abigail.
“The part I think is funny is when Pooh says, ‘I must save my supper.’ Piglet wants to save his life and Pooh wants to save his honey.”
Abigail said, “I think the silly part about that message is because Piglet ended that message with ‘me.'”
“Piglet always ends her messages with ‘me,'” said Gabe.
Abigail said, “But I still think that’s funny.”
Gabe said, “Let’s just go and watch it together.”
“OK,” said Abigail.

The End.

Week 6 – Journal Entry

When we were doing school, when we were done all the books, then we were doing Math (I’m in Grade 2) Mom says we’re going to watch finding Nemo the girls are going to watch without us we started to do our work faster my brother had another page to do but I had only 4 questions when I came they started it again. And when my brother came. We had to start again! When we were done the movie we had breakfast.

The End

Wednesday, September the 28th