One man’s voice

A Beautiful Snowday in Asia

Posted on January 10th, 2007 in General, On Homeschooling, On Parenting

This is a story written by my nine year old daughter Rebekah as part of an assignment I gave her and her older sister yesterday. Her items for part 1 of the assignment were:

• Living Room: Lamp and Music
• Kitchen: Light and Microwave
• Bedroom 1: Lite Brite and Money
• Bedroom 2: Lion and Minnie Mouse
• Bedroom 3: Lamb and Mickey Mouse
• Bedroom 4: Laptop and Mirror

Here is her story, reprinted exactly as originally written, entitled A Beautiful Snowday in Asia…

Once, there was a girl named Lina. She lived in China. She had a friend named Rayla. They were playing outside. “I wish it would snow.. After all, it is winter.” said Lina. “We haven’t had any snow for, um, let’s see, 50 years. My grandma told me.” said Rayla. “No chance of it this year.” “Well”, said Lina, “it is possible.” “That’s silly.”, said Rayla. “Let’s go get some lunch.” “Fine.” said Lina. But she was still thinking about snow. After they had lunch, they went for a walk. “Still, I wish it would snow.” So they went home for dinner. After dinner, bedtime. The next day, they met each other at the pond. “We’ll eat lunch at our meeting spot.” said Lina. But when they got to the pond it was frozen. “That’s funny”. Pretty soon, it started to snow! “Let’s have wonton soup for lunch” said Lina. So they invited there friend Rebekah over for lunch. Lina heated her soup in a pot. Rebekah heated heres in a thing called a microwave. “How do you use it” asked Lina. “Well” Rebekah began. But Lina’s mom interrupted her. “Girls” she said. “Eat.” So she told about it over soup. “There are buttons that you push. You put food in the microwave & for minutes you do 2 zeros & for seconds, you do 1.” “Let’s go play outside in the snow!” said Lina. So they spent the rest of the day playing in the snow.
THE END