An English Adventure
Posted on January 11th, 2007 in General, On Homeschooling, On Parenting
This is a story written by my 10 year old daughter Sarah as part of an assignment I gave her and her younger sister two days ago. Her items for part 1 of the assignment were:
- Living Room: Lamp and Myself
- Kitchen: Mom and Microwave
- Bedroom 1: Lampshade and Marisol
- Bedroom 2: Light and Me
- Bedroom 3: Lamb and Mickey Mouse
- Bedroom 4: Legal Pads and Mirror
- Bathroom: Lightbulbs and Light Switch
Here is her story, reprinted exactly as originally written, entitled An English Adventure…
It was a snowy winter day in England. Genevieve, Anneliese and Sarah were playing with Sarah’s new lampshade. Well, probably not Sarah. She was just trying to get it back. Genevieve and Anneliese were putting it on Genevieve’s lamb toy as a ballet skirt, and Anneliese’s dool Marisol, as a cone, like one of those flea or cut cones. I mean, not that, that makes as much sense as lightbulbs being cooked in a microwave. Well, they put it around Marisol’s neck upside down. Sarah grabbed it and called their mom. “Mother! Genny and Annie were messing with my lampshade!” “Girls!” called mom. That was all she said but everybody knew what it meant. Me, I don’t know, myself. But everyone in the McCormick household knew. Now, back to the story. After mom said that, Sarah felt herself slipping away into darkness. in the darkness she heard a faint ‘Sarah! Sarah!’ Then she saw a light, the the one from the lamp in the family room. Then she saw someone who looked like they had Mickey ears. The person looked an awful lot like Genevieve. In fact, it was Genevieve. “GENNY! What happened to your ears?!” Genevieve replied “What, these? They’ve always been like that!” “They have?” said Sarah. She made a note of that in her legal pads. She looked in the mirror, and she has a lightswitch for her nose! And she didn’t have a mouth, either! She felt herself suffocating. Then, all of a sudden, she woke up with her face in her pillow! It was all a drea,! Anneliese saw her face and said “Boy, Sarah! What happened to you?” And Sarah said, “Phew! It was all a dream. Just a dream! I LOVE YA, FOLKS!”
the end
P.S. It was still winter in England.
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