Our family likes to go hiking. My favourite hike is Big Hill Springs because when you look down from the top it looks like all the trees are toy trees because you’re so high up. There’s also lots of pretty waterfalls. Actually, it’s one big waterfall because they’re all joined together. We’re going there tomorrow!
Category Archives: Sophia
Week 34 – The Painting’s Story
Once upon a time there was a mom. She had children and was going on a picnic with them on the Prairie. It was warm and sunny. The sky was blue. There were flowers everywhere. It was a beautiful sight. Then suddenly they heard a rustling in the bushes. It was a bear! They started running. The bear started chasing them. It was big and bulky. Then the bear saw a rabbit. It started chasing the rabbit instead of the people. But they didn’t know that the bear was chasing the rabbit. It got the rabbit instead of the people. The bear went back into the bushes. They had their picnic and they lived happily ever after. The end.
Week 32 – Letter to a Relative
Week 27 – Living in Historical Times
Sophia is imagining that she is Venicius’ daughter Claudia who lives in Rome.
It is hard for me to read and write because only the boys are allowed to go to school in Rome. I stay at home with my mother and take care of the house. I wish I could go to the baths and play in the swimming pool. I’m also not allowed to go and watch the gladiators or the horses racing at the circus. It’s not fun being a little girl in Rome. Too bad I’m not a boy in Rome.
The End
Week 26 – Fairy Tale Smash-up
Cinderella and Snow White
Once upon a time there were little dwarves and they made a mess in Snow White’s house. When Snow White and her friend, Cinderella, got home they found the big mess. They started to cleanup. When the dwarves came home, they made an even bigger mess! Cinderella and Snow White had to clean it all up!
After they finished cleaning up, they found some instruments and made music. Cinderella and Snow White took turns dancing while the other played music. The dwarves felt bad that they made such a big mess. They gave Cinderella glass slippers and gave Snow White an apple.
The End
Week 24 – You Are the Teacher!
Today Sophia will teach us how a siphon works!
A siphon is when water goes up a tube and land out the other side. Water normally runs down, but in a siphon it runs up!
For a siphon you need water in a tube and water in a cup. Then you put one end of the tube in the cup and the other end of the tube into the sink. This makes the water go up the tube and down into the sink. It’s very important that the cup is higher than the sink!
The End
LA Week 23 – Finish the Story
Bob and his mother need groceries. They need bananas, bread, and milk. They get in their car and drive to the grocery store. Bob pushes the cart and his mother gets the food.
—————- The following in Sophia’s ending ——————
But there were no bananas, bread, or milk! They were going to make banana bread with bananas, bread, and milk. So they went to the zoo to get bananas from the monkeys. The monkeys tossed them some bananas but the rhinos were on the other side and the bananas fell into the rhino cage! Eek! Then the rhinos bucked the bananas up and they landed on the path. Rhinos don’t like bananas. Bob and his mother picked up the bananas and went looking for bread and milk.
They went to another store that had bread and milk and they bought it and made yummy banana bread. Suddenly they heard the monkeys scream. So they gave one slice to the monkeys.
The End!
Week 23 – An Odd Place to Surface (Story-Starter)
Once upon a time there was a guy named Sam. Sam was small. He was about 1 inch tall. He lived in a boat at the bottom of a fish bowl. The fish in the fish bowl nibbled on the boat and it cracked. Sam came out of the fish bowl to repair his boat.
Then Ron Ron, who has making food in the kitchen, heard a noise in the living room. The noise was coming from Sam climbing out of the fish bowl. Ron Ron peeked in and saw Sam. Ron Ron thought, “No one can swim in our fish bowl except fish!” Ron Ron’s mouth was wide open.
Then Ron Ron came into the living room. He tried to get Sam but Sam was too fast. Sam went back into the fish bowl and into his boat. Ron Ron thought he was dreaming.
When it was dark, at night, Sam went out again and repaired his fish bowl.
The End
Week 21 – Read Aloud Summary (The Year of Miss Agnes)
The Year of Miss Agnes is about children in Alaska part of one big classroom who didn’t have a teacher until Miss Agnes came.
When Miss Agnes came the children thought that she wouldn’t like the smell of fish and leave. Miss Agnes said she couldn’t smell fish because she didn’t want the children to feel bad. The children started to like her.
She also took away all the old books in the school and brought new books. She also bought new pencils and made new books for them. She taught the children how to properly draw “o”‘s so they don’t look like a six.
The children loved Miss Agnes.
At the end, Miss Agnes had to go away. Teachers came to the school for only one year. The children were very, very sad. But Miss Agnes came back because she loved the children!
The End
LA Week 20 – Favorite Story Narration
The Rag Doll
There once was a girl named Emily. Emily went to her Auntie’s house. She saw her favorite thing. A rag doll in a pram. She went to the garden with the pram and rag doll. And when it was time to go, she didn’t want to leave the rag doll! And so when they got home, her Auntie had taught her mom how to sew. So her mother gave her a present. And inside the present was her very own rag doll (but no pram)!
The End