Second-Grade Friends (3)

Second-Grade Friends (3)

Honey was ready to read her story to the class.
She was the biggest and roundest and strongest kid in second grade.

She was also the nicest.
Honey liked everyone.
She always gave anybody who wanted one an extra-big cookie from her lunch.

" Class, Let's all be ready to help Honey with her story, " said Mrs.Rosebroom.
" Rememer, give your opinions in a kind way. "

Honey began.
" Once there was a cute little girl named Lou-Ann."
(That was Honey's real name. )
" She was the strongest in her whole class.
But her stepmother said,
" There  is a dance-ball, and you cannot go to it ! "
So she was crying in the kitchen.

Then a fairy jumped out of the microwave and said, " Come with me, and you will win a prize. "

Suzy whispered very loud to katy, " She is just copying Cinderella. "

The teacher said, " Lot of fairy tales use those ideas, Suzy. And writers always put some of themselves in their stories. "

Then she sat down next to Honey.

" Maybe you could try something that is not quite so much like cinderella. "

Mrs.Rosebroom turned around.
" Have you written anything yet, Jacob ? "

Jacob shook his head. He looked worried.

Katy told Jacob, 
" Once I didn't have any imagination, and I closed my eyes, and I got some. "

Jacob closed his eyes.

" What do you see ? " Everybody wanted to know.

" I see...beavers, " Jacob said.
Once he and his dad watched a TV special about beavers, and Jacob got very interested in them.
Every week he took out the same beaver book at libraly period.

" Beavers are boring, " Franky laughed.
" Jacob, you're wield ! "

" Why don't you write about 'My Fishing Trip with My Father’ ? "
said LaToya.

" I never went on a fishing trip with my father."
Jacob would have loved to go fishing, but his father wasn't really that kind of a father.

" Well, what do you do with your father ? " LaTanya said.

" Sometimes we read together on the sofa. He reads his newspaper, and I read my libraly book. "

" Well, what happens then ? "

" We just read, and breathe, " said Jacob.

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