A Trip to the Zoo

I wrote a spelling story and I had to use six adverbs and eight spelling words. This story is realistic fiction.

When Ben woke up the next morning he remembered how much fun he had going to the zoo. Yesterday, when Ben was handing in his math homework, his teacher announced that they would be going on a field trip to Lincoln Park Zoo.

After the announcement, everyone in the room went bezerkers. Anna Hallway started screaming at the top of her lungs, Jeremy Bonjo started dancing, and Julia Vero (well you get the point). Everyone except Ben. Ben thought it was a little over the top because all it is is just going to see animals (geez).

2 hours later, Ben stepped on the bus that smelled suspiciously like smoke, (blame the bus driver) and headed off to the zoo. Ben brought a notebook and pencils because his teacher told them they would be taking notes on the animals we saw.

But when they reached their final destination it was much larger than Ben had expected. Maybe this wasn’t going to be so bad he thought. The first animal they saw was the monkeys. They swung from branch to branch enthusiastically. Ben thought they were funny. The second animal they saw were the seals. His mom had given him 2 dollars to spend and he used those 2 dollars to buy fish for the seals. He threw the fish into the air and the seals caught the fish in their mouths and quickly ate them. Third they saw pandas. A sign told them that these were some of the only pandas on earth. One panda slowly lumbered over to some bamboo and gnawed on it.

Fourth, we saw some giraffes. Ben got to touch them. Two kids fought over whether or not they should feed a giraffe a sausage. The giraffe awkwardly walked over to a tree and munched on the leaves. Last, they saw a snake. He was a diamond back rattle snake. He could snatch up a rat so fast you would miss it if you blinked. You had to keep him inside his cage because he was poisonous.

So at breakfast Ben’s mom said, “What did you do yesterday?” And Ben told her about how he went on a field trip and all of that. Though he didn’t tell her about him not wanting to go to the zoo because she was zoologist.

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The Bathtub Tsunami – written by me of course

I had a homework assignment to write a story using ten of my spelling words and six possessive pronouns. And I did it! My spelling words are bold in the story.

The Bathtub Tsunami

Once my mom left the bathtub running there was no turning back. At the time she was thinking about her overgrown plants outside. But then she realized that it was almost midnight and so she went to bed even though she still had work to do.

But when she woke up it was already 7:25 and she had to be at work at 7:30. She rushed out the door and got a speeding ticket for going to work at 40 miles per hour. When she came home she noticed that her plants were watered. “It’s almost like they watered themselves” she said. The moment she opened the door a giant wave of water fell on top of her.

Nearby, a baseball game that was in overtime had the final catch of the game until the wave of water had taken the ball away and took it all the way to the crowd. It was a grand slam!

Pretty soon the wave got to the Midwest and flooded a school in Illinois. The students were taking their pretests on prefixes. But because of the wave they got pushed outdoors and all of their tests got drenched and they all got Fs.

Last, the wave came to a library and soaked all of the books. The way my mom paid the people is by giving them all prepaid gift cards and returned her overdue library books to the librarian.

The End

Can you guess what my spelling strategy was for this week? Take a look at the bold words and tell me what they have in common in the blog comments.

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