Fantastic! That’s how the stories we have been enjoying could be described. The Stranger, Cendrillon/Cinderella, and Heat Wave! are filled with marvelous events we can only wish were real.
This week, write your own fantastic story. Keep it somewhat simple. Focus on one small event rather than writing an entire series like the Lord of the Rings! You will be able to tell a better story if you keep it small enough to tell it well with the details that will make it interesting. As we noted in Heat Wave!, use specific strong verbs such as rippled, twisted, squirmed, and snagged.
I can’t wait to see what your imaginative minds will create!
Due Monday, March 10.
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Dear Mme Powell,
For my blog assignment I thought I'd do the sequel to ''Heat Wave''. (When you read it, in your mind talk in a cowboy/southern voice!)
Well, since that big to-do last year, Hank is still teasing me. Even when saved the farm from a heat wave! But now it's December and let's just say, Hank won't be laughing at me again.
One freezing mornin', I woke up with my toes icebergs! I went downstairs, to ask Mama thaw them out and discovered that the snow last night had leaked through our roof, that means it also leaked through the barn roof! Quickly I went to the barn to check on the animals, and what do ay know, they're upside down, their purple tongues hangin' out of their mouth and they were down right blue! I called papa and he told me to go get the old red blanket in the barn. So I went up there and found a polar bear sleepin' in our red blanket! When he woke up he didn't sound much like a polar bear! And then I went to go check on our mule, and nope, she wasn't there! And boy when it made sense to me that the mule had turned into a polar bear in the middle of the night, I twisted and squirmed and wiggled, man, I just couldn't get the surprise out! When I went to Mama's room to tell her about everything, she threw on her bathrobe and hustled to the barn to look at her chickens. They were penguins! Little cute ones waddelling around. Mama just about had a heart attack! I think this is called a ''Cold Wave''. Just then the great bald eagle flew and when he came out the other side of the cloud that sucker was frozen. Honest to God, frozen like he'd been in a freezer for a thousand years! And last year since Papa told me I was the fastest thinker in the family....it was up to me to save the family!
Sylvie J#24
Dear Mme Powell,
For my blog assignment I thought I'd do the sequel to ''Heat Wave''. (When you read it, in your mind talk in a cowboy/southern voice!)
Well, since that big to-do last year, Hank is still teasing me. Even when saved the farm from a heat wave! But now it's December and let's just say, Hank won't be laughing at me again.
One freezing mornin', I woke up with my toes icebergs! I went downstairs, to ask Mama thaw them out and discovered that the snow last night had leaked through our roof, that means it also leaked through the barn roof! Quickly I went to the barn to check on the animals, and what do ay know, they're upside down, their purple tongues hangin' out of their mouth and they were down right blue! I called papa and he told me to go get the old red blanket in the barn. So I went up there and found a polar bear sleepin' in our red blanket! When he woke up he didn't sound much like a polar bear! And then I went to go check on our mule, and nope, she wasn't there! And boy when it made sense to me that the mule had turned into a polar bear in the middle of the night, I twisted and squirmed and wiggled, man, I just couldn't get the surprise out! When I went to Mama's room to tell her about everything, she threw on her bathrobe and hustled to the barn to look at her chickens. They were penguins! Little cute ones waddelling around. Mama just about had a heart attack! I think this is called a ''Cold Wave''. Just then the great bald eagle flew and when he came out the other side of the cloud that sucker was frozen. Honest to God, frozen like he'd been in a freezer for a thousand years! And last year since Papa told me I was the fastest thinker in the family....it was up to me to save the family!
Sylvie J#24
The Kid who went Skiing
Kevin was at the top of the hill. There were two ways to go, one way had the most jumps but also the most people, the other one had the least amount jumps and no people. He decided to go on the second one. He started to go down and all of a sudden a jump appeared and the next thing he knew he was 40 feet in the air. Unfortunately the mountain was by an airport. He was starting to feel a slight breeze and all of a sudden whoosh!!! His skis flew off him and were sucked in the engine of the plane. Ten seconds later there was a huge BOOM!!!!! Next he started to go down. Seconds later he hit a snowboarder and the snowboarder went flying without his snowboard. Now Kevin was going down the first hill and smack there was a railing. He decided to ride it but he looked down he was higher then the Sears Tower. Kevin yelled “AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” and as he started to lean a little to far, he fell off and smack he hit the floor of his room “time to go to school… why are wearing your skiing clothes” said Mom.
KevinSW6
27skirts
Once upon a time there was a girl whose name was Hanna. One day she took a walk. When she came home she said’’ I knew I only had 3 and now there are 18 skirts…strange.”
When she came home from school, she looked in her closet and there was 27 skirts how did this happen? Wondered Hanna
That night she was awaked by a rustling noise. “AHHHHHHHHHH” she screamed. “Don’t worry I wont hurt you’’ “then who are you? “ Hanna asked. I am your fairy god mother” she said.” I was the one who was giving you the skirts”
graceSW#17
Once upon a time there was a hobo that lived in a mansion because Bill Gates gave him all of his money. He was old and raggedy. He had a humongo beard that was fuzzy. He had a pet that was a mouse that he met on the street before Bill Gates gave him all his money. The mansion has a swimming pool, gym and bowling alley and a flat screen TV that was 100 feet by 200 feet. It was very nice. The Hobo didn’t like it though because it wasn’t like his home on the streets. He missed his lumpy bed that had a comfortable leaf blanket that he made. He missed his hat made out of deerskin. One day he found Bill Gates and said “I’ll trade you back for what we traded for.” Bill Gates said “sure, I don’t really like your lumpy bed. I like my comfy bed. I also don’t like the hat you made because it is too itchy and the leaves are too scratchy too.” The hobo said “Yes finally I get my comfortable lumpy bed back.”
THE END Garrett w SW #23
George the King and Lucy
One peaceful morning in No Fun Land one of the King’s servants named George woke up to a yowl. The scream came from the King’s room. George ran straight to the King’s room “what’s the matter”, screamed George? The King pointed out the window. George looked out the window toys and books where falling from the sky. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh screamed George “those are toys something fun”. It is against the law to have fun. George went screaming around the palace for an hour trying to find Lucy the maid. George finely found Lucy and he explained toys were falling from the sky. Lucy said, “Not anymore it’s even worse toys, books, and video games are falling from the sky and the children are having fun”. Just then a window opened and toys shot across the room. The King came down screaming “toys are taking over”. The palace was loaded with toys. The King did something amazing he said “I am going to try to have fun”. The King started playing with a train and everybody watch him. Soon all the people of No Fun Land could have fun together.
Patricia Sw #13
Wild ride!
You may never believe the tale I’m about to tell you!
Once upon time there was a girl named Zoe. Her parents died 8 years ago. The 12year old girl still went far in life! One night shelooked up at the sky and said ‘mom dad I know your out there some where!’ She cried. ‘please help me make a difference. The next day she woke upin the Amazon! She saved 90 chimps from poachers. Every week for the rest of her life she stopped poachers from hurting wildlife! She even opened a national park in her back yard!
The end
katiej4
Dear Mme. Powell,
For my blog assignment I thought I'd do a fantasy-future kind of thing. I hope you like it!
One upon a time, way into the future from now.In Edina, there will be, robots to surve you, flying sawsers that will be the car in the future. Also there will be the choise of , if you make an imagenarie-friend it would actualy come to life whith you!And if you would like to go somewhere quicely, you could have the choise of useing your ownmini flying sawser that would be only your's. So that you could fly.There will also be, this thing like an oven where you put it in and it would make the food you wanted!But that's only in the future.
Kathrine B.sw#3
Dear Mrs. Powell,
Once upon a time, in Sprinkleland, there lived many fairies. Everyday, the fairies would perform their magic to make the land more beautiful. One day, the queen of Sprinkleland, Staralia, asked a group of fairies to bring her The Magic Book of Spells so that she could make Sprinkleland even more beautiful. The group of fairies headed to the chamber where they knew the book was locked up. When they got there, the guard wasn’t there, the door was open, and The Magic Book of Spells was gone. They worried so much. They went back to Staralia and told her. She leaped out of her leather chair and yelled at the fairies and blamed it on them. One of the fairies said that it was the flying horses who stole it.
The flying horses lived on the other side of Sprinkleland. The flying horses lived in a land called Sweet Berryswirl. The queen of Sweet Berryswirl is Rasberrya. So all the fairies went to Sweet Berryswirl and demanded that they give back The Magic Book of Spells.
“Why, we don’t have The Magic Book of Spells,” said the littlest flying horse. “But we sure can help you find it.”
The fairy said, “I know you are lying about that. You’ll never help us because I know you have it!”
The littlest flying horse said, “Well, you can search Sweet Berryswirl if you like, but we don’t have it.”
“We can help you look for it,” said Rasberrya. And the whole land of Sweet Berryswirl headed toward Sprinkleland until one of the flying horses stopped.
“I see something down there, “said the flying horse. “What is that? “
“I don’t know,” said one of the other flying horses. “Let’s just focus on trying to look for The Magic Book of Spells. “ But the horse flew down where he saw that “something” and figured out that it was the guard of the chamber with The Magic Book of Spells in his hand.
“Stop!” cried the flying horse. “Stop!” And indeed the guard stopped. Then he looked everywhere. To the ground. To both sides. And then above him.
“A flying horse!” he gasped. Then the guard started to run. But the flying horse caught him.
“Hand over The Magic Book of Spells!” said the flying horse. “Everybody! I found the perpetrator! Come here, over here! It’s the guard of the chamber who stole The Magic Book of Spells!”
And the whole group of flying horses and fairies flew down to capture the guard. They brought the guard back to Queen Staralia to let her fire the guard. Queen Staralia told the fairies and flying horses to put the guard in Sprinklejail. The fairies and flying horses put The Magic Book of Spells back in the chamber and Staralia found a new guard whom she could trust.
The End.
Maria j4 #5
The Smart Boy and the Fabulous Pig
Once upon a time there lived a boy named Sam. He was a very smart boy and loved the circus and juggling. He lived on a farm with his mom and dad. Everyday Sam would go out to the fields and juggle then do his chores. He fed the cows, the pigs, and gave the horses water and hay. One day Sam was going outside to feed the pigs and when he got to the barn, one of the pigs began to speak to him. The pig said, “Good morning Sam, I heard that you were fabulous at circus juggling. So am I. Someday we could juggle together.’’ Sam boasted, ‘’What do you mean you are as good as me!? I am better than anyone, I am the best of the best!’’ So the pig said. “Then lets have a contest and see who really is the best .” “All right” said Sam “tomorrow!”. So early the next morning Sam and the pig had the contest. Sam brought his juggling balls and one at a time juggled. First one then two then three then four balls went whirling through the air like lighting. Sam says to the pig, “Try to beat that!” Then it was the pigs turn. He stood on his hind legs and took two balls, then three, then four then five then six each whirling through the air faster than Sams. Sam was amazed. He had never seen anyone so good at juggling. He now admitted that the pig was better than him and asked the pig to teach him. The pig was not happy that Sam said he was better, so he said “No”. Sam learned his lesson to not be mean and say he was better than someone else. The end.
Estee Welo SW#26
Ben World
There was a place called Ben World because everyone who lived on the world was named Ben. Even though they all had the same name, they looked different. I am sure this probably sounds confusing but they didn’t get confused because they had numbers after their names like Ben1, Ben2, etc.
All of a sudden one day, a person accidentally came to Ben World and his name was not Ben. It was John. He wanted to return home. He introduced himself to people and asked if they knew the way home to earth.
Then, the mayor of Ben World, Ben1, was angry with John because his name was not Ben. He called John in and asked him if he would change his name to Ben but he would not. The mayor and town council met and decided that if John would not change his name, he should be banished from Ben World.
They gave him directions to go to earth and he left. All the Bens lived happily ever after.
BenfJ7
There is a land named Hosakon.
All the people there read a book called “Hosakon”. It is a great legend of the man named Ukane.
The book began something like this.
In the year 2098, there was only one man left on the planet of Yino. His name was Ukane. At one time, he lived with his five sisters and his mom. On the morning of February 29, 2098, at 6:30 AM there was an emergency announcement on the radio,
“Get to your nearest shelter. There is going to be a big storm”.
He and his mom took his sisters to a safe spot (he thought) because there was no more room, he ran to a different shelter. The storm was made up of tornadoes, two tsunamis and earthquakes. Eight hours later the storm stopped. He ran to the place were he left his sisters and mother, but there was no sign of them. While Ukane was wandering around he noticed he was alone… all alone. Then he thought to himself “I should go back home and get the golden box my dad gave to me’’.
When he got home, his house was a pile of ruble, but he had to find his most prized possession… the golden box. In his search he found his dad’s diary. He would read it after he found the box. At sunset before giving up, he caught a glimpse of something shiny… something gold. Ukane’s exhausted body moved on adrenaline to get to the location.
He found something very mysterious in the dairy, there was a “code” in it, it was 97493649525195154919. After he was done reading the diary he fell asleep for one and a half days.
Following his rest he woke up and he was determined to find out if there was life out in the littered world. He decided to go find a radio station and broadcast to see if anyone was out there. He kept going but nobody was there so he gave up. Then that night he thought about that “code” thing. He knew the solution.
The next day he got the golden box and the diary, he entered the code: 97493649525195154919 on the keypad. He heard this rrrrrre over and over like, a million times. Then a click. It… opened! Inside was a map, it showed all of the planets on it, including one extra, Hosakon. He planned to leave on Sunday, but he didn’t have a ship. He got an escape pod for his journey, and after he gathered some stuff that he might need. Ukane was ready for take off, 54321 launch off! It was a smooth ride to Hosakon.
Upon reaching his destination, miniature people surrounded him. There was somebody who stood out, he wasn’t mini, it was his dad! That day Ukane and his dad went to court, out the window they saw a meteor coming toward the planet. something had to be done within… one hour. They made a laser in fifty-five minutes, there was five minutes to move the meteor. The laser was activated and it moved the meteor so Hosakon was safe.
That day the people of Hosakon realized the two giants were their heroes. The people of Hosakon would never forget the name Ukane. Thomas J21
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