Category Archives: Language Arts 4/5

Writing assignments from Sonlight’s Grade 4/5 Language Arts.

Week 2 – Story Starter

LA 4 - Week 2Luke Skywalker began to shoot, he was in the middle of a battle. All of a sudden a lasso was cast over his head and his dog’s head. It began to pull tighter. He was tossed into a big bucket made for digging and the lasso was taken off. A gruff voice recognizably a storm trooper’s voice said, “That should keep you for a while! We’re going to use you for target practice.”

The bucket he was in began moving towards a place with open roof and guns on a table. And just as it was about to dump him into the room, the Millenium Falcon flew and hovered over him and tossed him a rope. He grabbed the rope and the Millenium Falcon began to fly away. Bullets were zooming past his ears. The dog was biting onto the rope with his teeth and pulling Luke’s hair while trying to hold on. And the Falcon flew them away to safety.

(Or if you don’t want that… There was a snap and they fell into the middle of a battle and were shot to death.)

The End

Week 1 – Family Heritage

(Retelling a story from Daddy’s childhood)

I just found a tub and it floats. I think we could turn it into a boat. Let’s make a good strong paddle that will turn.

“How will it turn?” said Ryan.
“We will turn it,” I said.
“How?”
“With bicycles. Let’s bring it to the pond.”

So we built a boat with the tub in the front and a barrel in the back and wooden propellers attached to the barrel. We attached bicycles on each side of the tub so when you pedalled it turned the propellers. It worked like a paddle boat.

We pulled the boat into the pond and started pedalling. I looked down and one of my chain links had fallen off my bike’s pedal chain and into the water! So I dove in after it which made the boat unbalanced which dumped Ryan into the water.

I never found that chain link, and we never used that boat again.