my silly carnival trip

Hi, I'm Sophie, and I am going to be telling you a story today about a carnival.  Would you like to hear it? Now we are going to begin the story.

Once I asked my dad, "Can I go to the carnival?"  My dad said yes.  We went in the car and my dad drove me to the carnival.  At the carnival there were so many rides.  I didn't know which one I wanted to go on, but I chose a game.  I played Dogs Woofie.  And after that I went on the Ferris Wheel and the merry-go-round and I played Duck Race.  After that, I was walking back to my dad when GUH-GUH-GUH-PSSS happened.  I turned and I freaked.  There were twenty aliens standing in a huddle.  Then, I stood up and I ran!  I finally found my dad when SLOP-BOP-BIP-BOP.  I turned my head again.  It was the aliens.  But this time, there were TRAPS and MAPS and ZIPS and LOCKS, CHAINS and STAINS and SHARP WOOD.  Then that was it!  I tugged my dad's shoulder and I screamed, "Dad, there's aliens with locks, mops and zops!"  My dad didn't believe me, and we went home.

When we got home, I ran right to my bedroom.  I thought about the fun Ferris Wheel and especially the aliens, and I bet you know what happens next.  The aliens came in and the aliens walked to my room, and then I got mad and ran to the carnival ... even though it was closed.  The Ferris Wheel was not on, and I got in one of the Ferris Wheel cars, and I buckled in tight. And then I got my head and I put it away under the belt.  And then I got my toes hanging out from the edge, and I cramped them in.  And then I got a nearby paintbrush and painted myself green like the car.  When the aliens came back to the carnival, my back was kind of sticking up.  The aliens looked and saw me and one of the aliens came and helped me up.  They all gasped!  Another of the aliens said, "Are you an alien?"  I was so scared and trembled, "Yes."  The aliens grabbed me and started shouting, "Nice to see ya! Nice to see ya! Nice to see ya! Nice to see ya!"

But back at the house my dad got worried.  He went to my room and he couldn't find me.  He went to his room and he couldn't find me.  He went to baa-baa-baby's room and couldn't find me, and last but not least he went to Mommy's room and couldn't find me.  And then my dad started shrieking, "Police! Police!"  The police station heard and ran to the house.  The police gasped, "What's wrong? What's wrong?"  The dad said, trembling, "I lost my daughter."  The police just left the house and searched.

Back at the carnival, I gasped to the aliens, "Nice to see you too!"  Then they all went back to their hideout, discovering their evil plans.

One day my dad looked at the carnival.  He could not find me.  But Dad said in surprise, "She couldn't have joined up with those mean aliens!" and he went home.  But the police were not in search anymore.  They were just being greedy for their own business.

Back at the aliens' hideout, I was becoming just like the aliens.  We whispered, "We can make this alien's mother pink polka-dotted.  Or we can make the father into a whale.  Or we could turn the little sloppy babies into a greedy computer."  The other alien had just a great idea.  They could turn those little awful girls into greedy alien boys. "And now I am an alien," I said, "and I got the selfish, greediest plan ever.  We could go to everyone's houses and take all their stuff all for ourselves."  The other aliens jumped in excitement, agreeing with the plan.  And we all vanished to do the plan. But I did something super greedy.  I went to my own house and took all the people except the baby and threw them in the dump.  And then I kind of did it like I said.  When I went to meet up with the aliens all the houses were robbed in our planet.  Now we live in Jupiter, you know.  Our friend alien took some chains.  Before she went outside she told the other aliens, "Know the houses we robbed?"  The aliens nodded yes.  "Maybe we could lock the people up in chains."  They all got some chains and vanished to do it.  I started to fall in love with the other aliens.

When we all came back to our hideout the aliens said, "Let me see your feet."  They looked and they gasped.  There was no slime on my feet.  The aliens said, "You need slime on your feet.  I'm gonna go get one."  I agreed and said, "Give me some extra."  The aliens went and got as much slime as they could, and two of the aliens spread it on my foot.  When the aliens got all the slime on, I shouted, "Too much!"  The aliens ran and took some off.  I started to get calm and said, "That's better."  One of the aliens thought of  great idea.  He said gently, "We could keep our slime on our feet and stuff, but maybe we could turn into good aliens." The others softly agreed, "Yes."  So we all went to our own houses and lived separately again.

The End.

P.S. I got my dad and mom back from the dump,

$4 or More

Me and my sons, Housie and Maple, went to the theater to see this movie.  It's a movie to sit down and enjoy.

Once there was a girl that was at the gift shop with her dad, and she looked around in the shop.  She set her eyes on something that she had never seen before.  It was a beautiful princess doll.  The girl asked her dad, "Can I buy it?"  The dad thought, '$4 or less.'  The dad looked at the price and said, "No."  The girl asked why.  The dad said they were just here to buy $4 or less.  The girl cried.   The dad said that we would buy it another time and left.

Well another time the girl went to the gift shop.  The dad didn't have that much money.  He just had $4 or less.  The girl asked again at the gift shop if they could buy that doll.  The dad said, "No."  He only had $4 or less.  The girl pounded the glass and threw a fit.  The dad screamed at the girl and went home, dropping his money behind him.

The next time they went to the gift shop, the girl said, "Can we buy that doll?"  The dad said, "No."  So she jumped inside the glass.  The dad screamed and screamed and screamed and screamed.  The girl said, "Ha ha ha-ha-ha, I'm going to grab this doll."  After that the girl shrieked, "I'm gonna steal it!"  The dad screamed and he turned around and did a disco dance.  The girl laughed, grabbed the doll and ran out the door.

Well the dad took up the taxi behind the girl, but the girl was still playing.  When the dad came in her room, he came for a surprise.  The girl was wrecking her doll.  She was 'skreaking' and tearing her clothes, but most of all, making a brand new dress.  The girl screamed, "$4 or more!"  The dad grabbed the girl.  The girl screamed.  The dad said peacefully, "You have to go to jail."  The girl asked why.  The dad answered, "You stole the doll."  The girl sighed, "I would return it."  But the dad said, "The police are coming tomorrow morning."  That night she just sat in her bed and cried.

The next morning the police came.  The girl explained to the police that she would return it.  The police didn't believe her.  They grabbed her as tight as they could and threw her in the car.  The dad called, "Wait, wait!" but they were already in front of him.

When the girl was locked up in bars, she had fun because she did sneak $4 or more, and one day she escaped.  She put some money in the basket and she ran out the door, dropping her doll behind her.  Well she really hated the doll.  She finally got home on the taxi.  Her dad shouted, "Hello!  Hello! Welcome in!"  And they had a party and danced.

The End.

the poem tree

We are doing poems today.  Our first poem is:

I Know How to Sing My ABCs

How to do your ABCs is like this:
L-O-L-C-O-O
And that is your alphabet.

(Grace: Is that really your alphabet?  Mom: No.  Grace: I guess he doesn't know his alphabet, huh?)

The Tree Is

Did you know that trees are made out of bark?
And they're made out of soil.
But there's only one problem with that:
They have a million heads.

Swings

Hello hello hello.
I have swings in my backyard.
I have one, two, three.
I swing on them each every day.
And now they're getting took down..

I am

I am a bird.
I fly through the sky
Until...
My wings drop
and I fall.
And I guess that's the end of flying.

Quiet Web

My web is very quiet today.
I am a little spider.
It's so quiet
I think I should go get some bugs
And eat them.
Oh, look!
There's a bee flying by my web.
Let's catch it!
One, two, three...
Catch!
Now I'm not hungry anymore.

Three Little Chickens

Hello.
We are three little chickens.
We run around the barn
and say bak-baaak, bak-baaak.
And we run so fast.
At night we finally get up
and find some spiders to eat.
And then we get some hay
and go back in bed.
And that is good-night
to all of you.

My Strange Bottle of Mustard

Look! Here's a bottle of mustard.
Maybe I'll put some on my hot dog.
Good, it's dinner time.
I'm putting some of this mustard
on my hot dog.
SQUIRT.
Uh oh, I'm using all of the mustard.

dinner dinosaurs

Dinner Dinosaurs is a movie by Silver Eck.  There's more than 3,000 stories about Dinner Dinosaurs.  Now the movie may begin.  And this is a very long and nice movie.

CRASH! CRASH! CRUMBLE! CRUMBLE!  ROOOOAAAAR!  I am a Dinner Dinosaur!  I am rushing and crumble into somebody's house. CRASH! CRASH! CRUMBLE! CRUMBLE!  I am eating your French toast and beans.  I like it.  I am going to other houses now. CRASH! CRASH! CRUMBLE! CRUMBLE!  I am in somebody else's house.  Yummy yum yum, I ate their French salad!  CRASH! CRASH! CRUMBLE! CRUMBLE!  All the Dinner Dinosaurs are here.  CRASH! CRASH! CRUMBLE! CRUMBLE!  We ate everybody's dinner in the whole entire world.  Now a little lady comes out and serves us a bowl of French toast and pollen.  We all jump in and eat it!  CRASH! CRASH! CRUMBLE! CRUMBLE!  We eat all the flowers.  Three hundred more dinosaurs come.  CRASH! CRASH! CRASH! CRUMBLE! CRUMBLE! CRUMBLE!  Three thousand million butterflies come.  We get eating them.  That is our dinner.  Now back to our caves with a little bit of grass. 

the best sprinkles trip

It was Taco Tuesday today.  That means that we had tacos today and today is Tuesday.  And then we talked about going to Sprinkles.  Dad said, "Go get your shoes on" and I got my shoes on.  And I got my coat and ripped down the coat rack.  It fell down and I was freaking out.  Then we drove to Sprinkles.

I got my ice cream.  I got mint chocolate chip with gummi bears.  That's my favorite kind and that's the kind I wanted first.  The ice cream was really good.  After a little while I saw Debbie.  She's the girl who works at the ice cream parlor.  I talked to Debbie and then I went and talked to Paul.  Paul is Debbie's husband.  Debbie gave me a present.  It was a pink Sprinkles shirt.  It made me feel happy.  And then I finished my ice cream and went home.

When I got home I finished my picture.  My picture was a mommy and  daughter and a toystand.  And then I started writing this blog.  And that's what happened to me. 

The End. 

P.S. The tacos were yummy!

special ingredients

We are going to learn about special ingredients today.  We'll start with spray.

Now we are going to start the story.

My sister and I have been working very hard at getting ingredients out of the cupboard and making a meal.  The ingredients are spray, peanut butter, maple syrup, honey, salt, vinegar, chocolate, and vegetable oil.

Now let's start telling how the foods were made.

The spray was made by tiny little juice that you've got to mix together.  And you dump another kind of special spray in it and that is how the spray is made.

Now let's start telling about the peanut butter.

You put peanuts in a little machine and blend them all together and then you take them out of the machine and put sticky gooey stuff on them.  And then you mix it.  And them they put them in jars.  That is how peanut butter is made.

Now let's start telling how maple syrup is made.

You hang a bucket on a tree with soot sap inside and let it stay there for a week.  And then you put it in a bowl and stir it.  That is how maple syrup is made.

Now let's see how honey's made.

You open a Y coconut and find trim.  Stir it in a bowl and mix it with very strong cheese and then put flavor juice inside.  And that is how honey is made.

Now let's see how salt is made.

You take big white pebbles and then you put it in a pan with very salty water.  And you rub them around and put an air freshener against it.  And then you put it in a bowl and let it cool.  And that is how salt is made.

Now let's learn how vinegar is made.

You rip a butterfly's wings and you find oil inside.  And then you go home and put it in a bowl and put it in very warm water.  And then add ice water in and let it cool for an hour.  And that is how vinegar is made.

Now let's learn how chocolate is made.

You put powdered sugar in a bowl and then you put special chocolate juices in there and stir it together very slowly.  Then put regular powder and put different kinds of chocolate juices.  Let it cool in the sun for eight minutes and that is how chocolate is made.

Now let's learn how oil is made.

You rip a blue horse and then you find little juicy blobs.  And then you let it fry for six hours and it melts a little.  And then you let it cool on your deck for one hour and that is how vegetable oil is made.

My little sister Zara said we didn't need salt but we really did.  Me and Zara together decided if we wanted that or not.  Some we decided no and some we decided yes.  And we made all the ingredients and a drawer gave us hints.  Zara was just chattin' with a drawer.  And then we worked very hard to make our meal.  Our  meal turned out really good.  We made delicious pie.  I hope you enjoyed it.  You're invited over any time for some pie.  All we have to do is use all those ingredients.  Daddy was checking on us to see if we were getting in trouble.  Our pie was orange flavored.  Zara loved the orange flavor.  But all the way, drawer was telling us tips.  Dad kept making meatballs and watching us.  We ate up our pie and our meatballs.  We had a delicious night and had so much fun we didn't want to go to bed.  And then we had a very good night.

Dunkin' Pig

This is about a pig and a girl.  It's a movie that Housie and Maple have.  Housie and Maple are my sons.  Now we are going to get going on the movie.

Once upon a time there was a girl inside a restaurant named Hailey.  All she did was sit in a chair with nothing.  It was Friday on the weekend.  She was very lonely, except once a week on Fridays.  Once when no one was at the restaurant she got up from her chair and noticed something.  She noticed that Annie dropped a piece of bread.  She picked the piece of bread up.  She placed it in her chair and picked it up and suddenly she heard knocking on the door.  She opened the door.  She looked.  She saw nothing.  She didn't notice a little piece of blonde hair.  She shut the door.  And then she heard punching and hitting.  She opened the door again.  She noticed a face.  She had a customer!  She gave the piece of bread to the customer and the customer walked out the door and shut it behind her.  As the customer got in her car she dropped the piece of bread on a rock.  Hailey heard a little thump.  She looked out the door and saw her bread on a rock.  She went outside and picked up the bread and went back in the restaurant. 

In another country there was a boy.  He had a pet.  It wasn't just any pet.  It was a pig superhero.  While the man was off doing karate, the pig got out of his pighouse and went to the store.  He saw something that he had never seen before.  It was a brand new, shiny cape.  He went and paid for it.  Just as the man got home from karate, the pig rushed back to his pighouse.

Hailey, off at the restaurant, put her hand on her tooth.  Her tooth began to wiggle.  She took a little piece of the bread and ate it.  Suddenly her tooth was gone!  She saw a little fairy.  It dropped some chocolate coins.  She picked up one of the chocolate coins.  She ate it.  All her bottom teeth almost broke. 

The pighouse had two baskets of grain and corn.  And there was a little puddle of mud in a little cup.  There was some water and some squeaky toys filled with mud.  Squeak squeak squeak squeak squeak squeak squeak.  Smush.  Yum yum yum, delicious corn.  The pig smashed his head on his gate and looks out at a little purple house.

Hailey walks to that country and she sees a pig.  Hailey says, "Hello pig."  The pig put his cape on.  Hailey hopped on.  The pig was starting to fly.  The pig flew up into the air and into the restaurant, asking the girl, "Could I have your bread?" Hailey said, "We can share it together."  And they ate and then danced.

They went into town.  They saw horrible ocean waves.  Hailey went with the wave.  The pig jumped in there and got Hailey and ran out of the ocean and onto the beach!  They figured that they made a hundred sand castles.  They had more fun sifting for gold.  And they lived happily ever after.

Beauty

This is a list of things we want to do for Martin Luther King Jr. Day that would make him happy:

1.  Buy some food for people who don't have as much as us ... and extra warm clothes.
2.  Get the candle that Mrs. Marks from church gave us and light it to make the world brighter.
3.  Be thankful for the world.
4.  E-mail someone and say thank you for anything nice they did.
5.  Smile at Mom 'cause I love her.
6.  Make a picture that is beautiful.

 

poems to earth

The Sport

I made up my own sport
but how can I do it?
I don't have a basketball.

The Pumpkin Patch

Did you know  the pumpkin patch
is full of pumpkins?
Except I don't have pumpkins
in mine.
Instead I have balls.
And at Halloween I carve balls.

The Dollar Bird

Did you know that we don't have a mailbox?
Well instead I just call the Dollar Bird.
He gives us our mail
and we read the newspaper.

The Sweater Machine

The sweater machine washes sweaters
did you ever know?
The sweater machine
makes them clean.
And that is how we get our sweaters clean.

The Sheep Mower

Did you ever know
that we didn't have a lawn mower.
We have a sheep mower.
It mows up the grass
and makes pictures in the grass.
We do it to the snow.
We do it to the grass.
We do it to the leaves.
And that is how we get our lawn mowed.

Jimmy the Hippopotomous

Did you ever know that I have
a brother that's a hippotomous
named Jimmy.
Sometimes he cuddles
with his baby hippopotomous
and the hippopotomous bite each other.
They're not very nice.

The Surprise Underpants

Did you ever know
that everything can be a surprise.
And I gave my brother a surprise.
It was
UNDERPANTS!
He threw them away.
My dad screamed at me.

The Homework Machine

Just put your papers
in the homework machine
if you have homework to do.
It will make them clean
and then you can start all over again.
And then you can even
do it with your clothes too.
Especially your pants
and your underpants.

sad e-mail

I got an e-mail from Sophia the day before yesterday.  This a copy of the e-mail because on the real one I spilled water and oil on it.

Now we're going to do the real e-mail.

At the start of the e-mail there was a stamp that had an American flag on it.

Dear Grace,

I hope you're not heartbroken because Vanessa and Mario are heartbroken.  And Nathan has his cell phone calling 9-1-1. And Nathan is wiggling around all over the place trying to get the spider webs off his car and get him uncrashing from the mountain.  I am thinking about putting chocolate melt on the mountains and the spider webs so Nathan can get unstuck. 

I'm sorry to say this, Mario is in time-out.  He was being bad because he missed Nathan.  You might not like this.  Mario is in time-out because he bonked the Wii remote into Vanessa's head on purpose.  And then Vanessa finished his game.  When he got out of time-out, he got really mad because Vanessa finished his game and he wanted to finish his game. 

And Vanessa was running over to the refrigerator.  She opened the refrigerator and I said, "What do you want Vanessa?"  Vanessa said, "I wanted to help you make the chocolate pudding."  I said, "Later we're making the chocolate pudding."  And then it was later and we made some chocolate pudding. 

And then we went and brang brought it to Nathan.  And then Nathan got ready and he drived drove his car to speed.  And then Nathan got to the doctor's office.

I have to go to work now.  See you soon.

Your Friend,
Sophia