My trip to the Atlantic Ocean was really dangerous. Our submarine was surrounded by hungry sharks like an army surrounding a castle. They kept banging on the glass because they wanted to eat us! We made our submarine speed up so we got away from the army of sharks, but then we ran out of gas! We started sinking down to the bottom of the ocean. We wanted to go back up but without fuel, we couldn’t. So we got on our diving gear and got out of our submarine and we started paddling our feet to go up. Then we saw a huge gulper eel and we started to swim even faster. The gulper eel ate one of us 🙁 I alone made it back up to the surface and swam to land. I did not ever want to go in the ocean again.
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Week 3 – Fairy Tale Dialog
“Witch, get away from our castle otherwise we’ll kill you!” said Snow White.
The witch cackled, “Not if I destroy the castle and you first!”
“How can you do that if you don’t have any weapons?”
“Well, I don’t need any weapons. I can just make you die.”
“Let’s see you do it!”
The witch couldn’t do anything because her hands were tied behind her back by a guard. They led the witch to jail. Snow White said, “All the stuff that you tried to do you couldn’t.” The witch sighed.
The End.
Week 2 – Like What?
Original from Week 1: Elephants are grey and very big with white tusks and a little tail. They have very rough skin which looks like armour. They smell a little stinky, because they poo a lot. They poo a lot because they eat a lot of straw using their trunks to scoop up straw into their mouths. They can be very loud when they blow though their trunk – it sounds like a trumpet!
Elephants are grey like dark storm clouds, big like mountains, with tusks as white as snow. They have very rough skin which looks like armour. They make you want to go “bleh!” because they are as stinky as a rotten egg. It’s not their fault – they smell because they eat a lot (because they’re big) which makes them poo a lot. They can be very loud when they blow though their trunk – it sounds like a trumpet, and when they stomp on the ground it sounds like there’s thunder.
Week 1 – Describe an Animal
Elephants are grey and very big with white tusks and a little tail. They have very rough skin which looks like armour. They smell a little stinky, because they poo a lot. They poo a lot because they eat a lot of straw using their trunks to scoop up straw into their mouths. They can be very loud when they blow though their trunk – it sounds like a trumpet!
Week 36 – Budding Playwright
BETH: (looking around) Where are we?
PATRICK: I think we’re at the bottom of an ocean!
BETH: What are we doing here? I thought we were supposed to go to Ancient Rome.
PATRICK: (tap Beth on the shoulder, then point to a black shape in the water) Beth, I think you should look over there.
BETH: I remember that shape from dinosaur movies… it’s a Lysaedon!
PATRICK: Run, Beth! I mean, swim, Beth!
(Patrick dodges behind some coral)
(Beth goes into a crevice)
(Lysaedon swims by)
PATRICK: Beth! Where are you?
BETH: (looking confused) I’m right here.
PATRICK: What’s that humming noise. Where’s the Lysaedon?
BETH: I don’t know about the Lysaedon, but that humming noise is the Imagination Station!
(Beth and Patrick get into the Imagination Station)
(They are back in their regular time where it is raining)
PATRICK: Mr. Whitaker, why did we go to a dinosaur ocean? I thought we were going to Ancient Rome!
MR. WHITAKER: A lighting bolt struck the generator that controls the Imagination Station. It must have caused something to go wrong.
BETH: (sighing) Oh! So that’s what happened. Can we still go to Rome?
Week 35 – And Then What Happened?
Extended ending to “The Sword in the Tree.”
When Lord Weldon opened his eyes, he didn’t see Lionel or his men. He said, “Shan, will you tell me what happened now?”
Shan began to share his adventure, about escaping from Lionel by night. He told of the woods where he met Magnus and Phoebe and Adam. He told about King Arthur and the fight between Lionel and Sir Gareth (one of the knights of the Round Table). He was proud of proving to Sir Gareth that this was his home by taking his father’s sword out of the old oak tree. Shan told his father how delighted he was to see him alive. Lord Weldon thought it was a cool adventure and couldn’t stop thinking about it.
“Father, why did Uncle Lionel want to take your castle, your sword, and your life?” asked Shan.
Father answered, “I don’t know. I think it’s because he was jealous of the castle and afraid that I would take it all back if I was alive and free.”
In the doorway stood Shan’s mother, Lady Marian. Lord Weldon was very excited to see his wife, so excited that he couldn’t speak. He ran over to her and hugged her tightly. Lady Marian exclaimed, “I thought you were dead! But you’re alive and safe!”
Shan, Lady Marian, and Lord Weldon talked and laughed and had a merry time until sun down. They were very glad to be reunited again.
Week 34 – Pickles in a Pickle
A cave man’s cave goes on fire so they come to help but when they put the fire out pickles explores the cave and finds a passage and gets stuck in it.
Now, you remember Fireman Joe and Pickles from our last story, right? Well, this story is about those same people, Pickles the Cat and Joe the Fireman. Why don’t we start the story now.
Once upon a time, Pickles the fire cat heard the chief talking on the phone. “I wonder what kind of trouble there is this time?” he said quietly to himself.
Joe, having overheard him, said, “The trouble is, there’s a fire down in a small clearing in the Hundred Acre Woods, in a cave man’s cave.”
Pickles asked, “What’s a cave man? What’s a cave?”
“A cave is a place is that is dug into the ground, sometimes carved by water, sometimes dug by people, cave men, for example.”
“Well then, ” said Pickles. “I’ll have to go and see for myself.” And with that, he slid down the pole to the fire trucks and hopped on.
It was a very bumpy ride to the Hundred Acre Woods. When they got to the cave, Pickles said, “I don’t see a cave. All I see is a big fire!”
“The fire is IN the cave,” explained Joe.
“Oh!” exclaimed Pickles.
When the fire was out, Pickles explored inside. “What a cool house!” he said out loud to himself. “Full of sharp, cone like things on the roof, passages and hidey-holes.” Pickles went into one of the passages. It got narrower and narrower, and harder to squeeze through, but Pickles wanted to see what was on the other side. But instead of getting to the other side, all he got was STUCK.
He couldn’t back out, so he called for help. Joe heard him and got an axe from the fire truck. He chopped carefully around Pickles, aiming carefully so that he would not hit Pickles. Soon, the hole was wide enough for Pickles to back out, so he did.
“I’m never going into a passage again!” said Pickles.
And when they got back to the fire station, Pickles went straight to bed for he was tired from trying to back out of the hole.
The end.
Week 34 – All a Dream?
Once upon a time an American ship set sail for Holland. There were 1,000 sailors, the whole Stephens family, and a couple of other people on board. It was a huge ship called the Wave Surfer. When they were about in the middle of the North Atlantic Ocean, one of the sailors saw a killer whale. He called the other sailors and they quickly planned a trap to capture the dolphin-like whale. They Wave Surfer surfed after the killer whale and they trapped it with a rope. The whale pulled and tugged at the rope. It was only a baby, but finally it broke free. Nathan Stephens, who was on the ship, liked the killer whale so he quickly jumped after the whale and grabbed the rope, pulled himself to the whale, and climbed on his back. The whale was faster than the Wave Surfer and pulled him all the way to Holland. When his parents and siblings arrived, they found Nathan waiting at the dock. Suddenly, the place lit up, and he heard Emily shouting, “Light turned on!” and Nathan realized it was all a dream. The end.
Week 33 – My Friend Venn
Week 28 – Book Review
A Child’s History of the World, by Virgil M. Hillyer
This is a book about history, and it’s very detailed. You can learn about the first Punic War, Sparta, and Rome, the Parthenon, Alexander the Great, the Pharos of Alexandria, and many other things that happened a long time ago. It’s better than all the other history books we’ve read, because the author sounds as if he were there when it all happened. It’s very exciting that way. I like it and think you will enjoy it.