Once upon a time, Frog and Toad were in their spaceship looking for Mr. Pigeon, the Bad Guy.  His real name was Neil Armstrong, but Frog and Toad called him Pigeon because when he went on his space walks he looked like he was flying.

Frog and Toad landed in a great big rectangle with great big walls, which was Mr. Pigeon’s home.  It had sliding doors on each side, and when they landed, the doors closed and they were trapped!  And Mr. Pigeon wasn’t even home!

“Frog!” cried Toad, “Why did you lead us into this trap? I knew I should’ve been the leader!”

“Relax,” said Frog. “I’ll get us out.” He pressed a button on the control panel and immediately the front nose of the spaceship opened up and out came a big spring with a boxing glove on the end and it punched the doors down.  Soon, those doors were floating in space and Frog and Toad were back in space, looking for Mr. Pigeon.

Finally, they found Mr. Pigeon, but Mr. Pigeon saw them and got scared and flew to another galaxy. They made a plan. They decided to make their spaceship look like one of Mr. Pigeon’s. They took giant stickers that had Mr. Pigeon’s symbol on them and put them over their own spaceship’s symbols, so they looked like one of Mr. Pigeon’s spaceships.

They travelled to the galaxy that Mr. Pigeon had gone to. Mr. Pigeon wasn’t scared this time, for they had fooled him into thinking that they were on his side. Frog used his puncher (the big spring with the boxing glove) to punch Mr. Pigeon back into the Milky Way galaxy, right into the sun.  That was the end of Mr. Pigeon, and this story.

Once upon a time there were twins, a brother and sister, who were good. Regebook (ree gee-book) was the boy, and Lepogogoo (Lee-puh-go-goo) was the girl.  They were no ordinary kids – they had super powers because they were born from the gods.  Once, when Lepogogoo was jumping, she shot fire out of her feet and she shot straight into space like a rocket.  Regebook, when he flapped his arms to pretend to be a bird, his arms turned into bird wings and he was able to fly!

As they grew up, when they were both 19 or so, they ate a sacred cattle. The cattle belonged to the god, Zeus. After they ate the cattle, they were very, very, very bad.  So they decided to destroy the whole planet that they lived in. Lepogogoo tried shooting her fire to burn up the whole earth.  She held onto a big boulder that was half-buried in the ground so that her fire wouldn’t make her go shooting away.   Regebook had discovered a new superpower – when he banged the ground very fast with his fists it drilled up the earth – and so tried to drill up the whole earth.

But Lepogogoo’s plan didn’t work, and neither did Regebook’s. So they decided to leave the world. While they were flying into space, a very big space alien, as big as the earth itself, ate them up.  And they were never seen again.

The end.

Topic: Goats and Mountains Goats are very close but different.

Mountains Goats are very hairy while goats aren’t as hairy. Goats can live in fields or farms. Can you guess where mountain goats live? That’s right! They live in the mountains! Did you know that they are found in no other mountain ranges but the Rocky Mountains?  Mountain goats are humungous compared to regular goats. But only regular goats can be used for meat and milk.

I’m hungry. I’m going to have goat meat and goat milk for lunch! What are you going to have for lunch?

One spring afternoon in April 2007, Rachel Estabrooks was going for a walk in the woods. She spotted a car in a small clearing. It was a Ford Model-T! She was wondering how the car got into the woods.  She decided to take a peek and was happy that the car door was unlocked. She looked in the back seat, the front seats, and the trunk… and the trunk had a key in it!

“I wonder if this key will turn on the car” she mumbled to herself. She picked up the key and walked back to the driver’s seat, and stuck the key into the key hole. It fit! She turned the key and vrmm-brmmm-brmmm! The car turned on!  She sat down in the driver’s seat and started driving the car.

All of a sudden, the muffler started shooting fire! She started going faster and faster and then she started going up like an airplane.  She began to worry, “How am I going to get down? All I did was start the engine! I didn’t think this would happen!”

As she flew over Calgary, she spotted her brother Stephen riding his bike down the street.

“Stephen! Look at me!” He looked all around him but couldn’t find her. He finally looked up and was surprised to see Rachel in a flying car! He yelled at her, “Rachel! Get down here! I want to ride in the flying Model-T, too!”  “I can’t!” she shouted back.

Stephen rode home as fast as he could. He grabbed a super long rope, about 90ft long, and made a lasso with it. He went back to the streets to look for Rachel in the sky. When he finally found her again he used the lasso to catch the car. He pulled the car down, bringing Rachel to safety, and turned off the car.

“You ruined all my fun!” she shouted angrily at Stephen.

“You shouldn’t have been up there. It’s not safe,” he answered kindly.

As the two tired siblings went home they had dinner and Rachel said sorry to Stephen for yelling at him and thanked him for rescuing her. Stephen forgave her. Uncle John and Auntie Jen asked them what they were talking about. Stephen answered, “It’s a long story!”

The end.

Wednesday, August 25, 1333 BC

Yesterday I was slaying a dragon and told the dragon, “You’re not going to get away with the princess, mean dragon!” and then plllllp!! I was in Egypt! I didn’t know where I was. I had never seen such a hot and sandy place before.  For a moment, I thought that I was at the beach on a vacation! But I looked around and saw on my right were three great pyramids and realized that I was in Egypt. Where did I put my ice packs? I’m sweaty.  I joked. On my left, there was a battle going on with fleets of arrows and spears in the air. There was a lot of screaming and shouting. I wondered if I could help the Egyptians in their battle. As I rode towards them, I thought, “They don’t have any armor.” And then I thought, “Now I get it, they don’t have any armor because it’s so hot!” Then I saw another thing, there are no catapults because they aren’t even invented yet! After a lot of battling and fighting the Egyptians won. So I said, “Yay, I can go home. Wait a second. I can’t go home, I don’t know how.”

I started to look around for a way to go home. Finally I found a red button in the sand and I pressed it. And then, vrmmm vrmmm rummm, I went home.

The end.

You should have seen how my red panda was acting last night. He was on the bottom bed of our bunk doing a hand-stand. Its striped racoon-like tail was up in the air and touching the top bunk. The lights were out and his glowing blue eyes were the only light in the room. He ripped the mattress as if it were a kleenex, using his claws which were like sabre-tooth tusks. He was so tired from all his activities that he finally fell asleep. What a crazy red panda!

Dear Daddy,

I know you guys want me to be responsible, and I think taking care of a baby red panda would help me to be responsible. Being responsible means taking care of things well, and I promise I will take care of it well.  I will feed it, bath it, clean up after it, and take it outside when it needs to go potty. It won’t be any extra work for you.  Taking care of a baby red panda will help me appreciate what you do for me.  I’ll use all of my own money to help buy it.  It would be a lot of fun buying a baby red panda, don’t you think so? It would make me feel happier than having the biggest Lego set in the world.  May I please have a baby red panda?

Your Hopeful and Thankful Son,
Nathan

The Army

At the edge of the forest, there was a cottage.  One spring morning the boy who lived in the cottage with his mother was playing Lego. The only other person in his family besides his mother was his sister, Sally. The boy was named Josh. He had always wanted to have army Lego pieces for his favourite thing was the army. 

One day, after breakfast, he ran up to his room to play with his Lego. He was surprised to find that his Lego had turned into real army men! Right in his room! That is a crazy thing to happen. 

He told his sister and mother, “There’s army men in my room!” 
Mother said, “Oh stop. You’re trying to fool me.” 
Josh cried, “Mother! My Lego really has turned into army men! It has!”
Mother said very sternly, “Go back to your room, Josh.”

Josh cried all the way back to his room.  When he got back to his room, the army men asked him,”Why do you have so much Lego? Do you even fight?”
“No,” said Josh, “I don’t fight in the army.” The army men said, “Then why are you wearing a camouflage shirt and pants and backpack?” Josh said, “Because I like to pretend to be army men.”

Meanwhile, Mother heard all the talking upstairs and thought, “Sally is outside, but I hear a lot of unfamiliar voices upstairs. Maybe Josh was right after all, maybe there are arm men in his bedroom!”  She went upstairs, and sure enough, there they were, standing and talking to Josh. She was so surprised that she just stood there with her mouth open.  

Finally, the army men had to go. Josh was sad to see them go, but he knew that they had a good job to do so he said his goodbyes and they left. After they left, Mother said to Josh, “I’m sorry that I didn’t believe you.” And Josh said, “I forgive you, Mother.”  Then Mother asked, “How did your Lego turn into army men anyway?” “I don’t know,” said Josh, “but I’ll tell you who did it – it was an invisible magician!” This time, Mother believed Josh.

The end.

Bananas are great.
I put them on a plate.
But because of the dish,
the bananas went Squish!
Bananas are nice.
I eat them with rice.
I really love Grandma
because she loves Bananas.