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

Toys

Dear Santa,

How is that cold weather over there in the North Pole?  I am happy that you're going to come this year and I hope you don't sleep too late.  This is Grace writing this.

What I want very much for Christmas is a Lalaloopsy doll.  It looks fun on TV and I have a good imagination for it.  Another thing I want is a pretend donut shop.  I want a donut shop because I have a good memory to tell people what kind of donut it is.  And with it I am hoping for all kinds of different donuts.  My favorite kind is a mint chocolate chip donut.  I want a couple stuffed elves because its Christmas and that's good for the holiday.  Elves are for Christmas.  Santa, I want a beach set too and I want it to come with an umbrella and pretend seashells and pretend sand and a pretend ocean.   It will remind me of summertime and I'm in a beachy mood right now.  I want an Oscar-shaped nutcracker that's green.  For Zara I want a Slimy (like the worm) little chewy toy.  And I want glitter.  I want to make super special crafts sparkly, especially the one I'm sending to Grandma and Grandpa.  I want a cool basketball because Daddy and I will think its cool.  I also want a Backpack doll and a Map doll because I want to have more Dora stuff.

Santa, I hope you have a good trip in the sleigh.  I'll keep my listening ears on when I'm sleeping so I can hear your reindeer.

Love,
Grace

The World is Made of Poems

The Silly Watermelon

I squeezed a watermelon
and there wasn't any juice coming out.
I wonder what happened
to my watermelon?
Perhaps my little sister.


The Nail Polish Dance

I was putting nail polish on my nails
only if you know why.
Perhaps I'm getting ready
for the nail polish dance.
The nail polish dance?
Whoo hoo!
And I danced
at the nail polish dance.


Drippy Ice Cream

I went to the ice cream parlor
to get some ice cream.
When the ice cream parlor
was holding my ice cream
it dripped.
When she was giving it to me
it dripped.
When I was holding it at the table
it dripped.
And when I licked it
it dripped.
Drippy drippy ice cream.


Broken Glass

I was washing a glass at the sink
and I dropped it
and it broke.
Perhaps my mom was mad.
I hit my mom.
(Editor's note: I asked Grace, "Do you want people to read this and think you hit your mom?" to which she replied, "No ... I'll tell them it's just a poem.")


My Puppy Poodle

I had a poodle
and I was walking it.
My poodle screamed at me
and I said, "Shhh,"
and he calmed down.
He was running away
and I said, "Come back,"
and he came back.
He was running in the grass
and I said, "Time to go in,"
and he went in the house.