http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/teresapigott/ en-us Homeschool Blogger Fri, 14 Mar 2008 19:53:00 -0500 Fri, 14 Mar 2008 19:53:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/teresapigott/498676/ Fri, 14 Mar 2008 19:53:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/teresapigott/498676/ http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/teresapigott/498674/ Fri, 14 Mar 2008 19:51:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/teresapigott/498674/ Technique to use 2,1,5,3,9,6,7,4,8 An usual setting One bright sunny afternoon Sarah and Jen were walking on a glittering beach. The water was sparkling. Suddenly Sarah spotted a lifeboat on shore. It had peices off of the sides. Sarah and Jen did not know what or where it came from. A sound effect Sarah and Jen went down to a beach to play. It was about the afternoon when they got there. First Sarah and Jen made a sand castle then they walked to the glittering water. Suddenly Sarah heard a squeak. Sarah jumped back. "What was that?" Jen Heard Sarah. She ran to Sarah as fast as she could. When Jen got to Sarah she said to Sarah. "what was that?" Sarah replied "it is a boat that washed up from the sea." http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/teresapigott/481794/ Fri, 15 Feb 2008 20:47:00 -0600 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/teresapigott/481794/ Matching techniques 2,1,5,3,9,6,7,4,8 An unusual setting Jonathan and Michael were walking along a lonely beach. Suddenly they heard a giant wave crash on the beach and the erie sound of a boat settling on the shore. Then far into the distance they saw the most spooky old boat they had ever seen. The sides of the boat had seaweed and barnicles on it.  Nathan had writers block so Bethany took over. Here is her story. Bethany and James barried their toes deeper into the sand on the sun-soaked beach. Sighing deeply Bethany sipped her lemonade, while James adjusted his sunglasses. Both were clad in bathing suits, anxious to plunge into the frothy ocean waves. The beach was empty except for the two lover's and their matching beach towels. Or so they thought. As James was cleaning some lint off his cheap wal-mart glasses he looked lazily across the horizon. His eyes almost missed the lifeboat floating about 50 yards from the shore. The tide must have brought it here from the nearby marina. James poked Bethany. "Hey, look at that!" James gestured to the lifeboad and rose, dusting the sand off his swim trunks. The two jogged toward the boat, curriousity getting the best of them. Neither one was prepared for the sight their eyes were about to behold. http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/teresapigott/481791/ Fri, 15 Feb 2008 20:36:00 -0600 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/teresapigott/481791/ This story takes place in a big forest with animals of small interests. Like Bob the duck. He is a sloppy duck and his one interest is making his house look just right. Which means a pile of clothes heaped on the floor. Dishes still in the sink. Books in a stack. ( Not a neat stack) Sterance the Bunnies interest is easy. Carrott, he just can't get enough carrots. He sometimes has a nasty temper that gets him into bad situations. Then there is me, Bertram the Bear. IT's hard to describe yourself but I'll do my best. I'm a stocky bear and my interest is most likely to have peace between all the animals of this forest, and tasty food. I'm sorry to say but Sterance not only loves carrots but he sometimes steals them too. Bob the duck happens to have at least 100 carrots and Sterance doesn't think Bob has enough appreciation for his carrots. Sometimes, just sometimes Sterance steals Bob's carrots. Luckily Bob hasn't noticed that some of his carrots have gone missing...until today.   Title: Tiger and Tom Nutshell summary: Tom almosts kills Dick when Tom gets angry at Dick and pushes him out a window.   Title: Those Scars Nutshell summary: A boy disobeys his dad when he climbs a tree holding his pocket knife and when he falls from the tree he cuts himself and is scarred for life. Title: The Bad Bunny (this is a working titile) Nutshell summary: Sterance steals Bob's carrots and Bertram sets Sterance straight. http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/teresapigott/481696/ Fri, 15 Feb 2008 17:08:00 -0600 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/teresapigott/481696/   Dingling, dingling. Sarah's fake gold clock went off. Sarah got out of bed and turned the clock off. She got into her blue calico dress. It was her favorite dress because it matched the blue in her eyes. She looked in the mirror as she brushed her long brown hair. She heard her mom calling her to breakfast. Sarah walked down the stairs. She was excited when she saw her breakfast. Bacon and ham, her favorite. Her mouth started to water. Then her brother James walked in the front door. It startled Sarah and she turned her head to look what was so loud. Sarah, come on your late for school. Oh no Sarah said, I forgot about school. Sarah jumped up, she grabbed her books and ran to the buggy. James got into the buggy too. When Sarah got to school the bell rang and she ran into the school.   Title: Katie and the Mustang, book 1 Mr. Stevens wants the mustang shot  so Katie saves the mustang at midnight and Hiram helps. Title: Kingdoms Dawn Leinad learns to sword fight and brings the the Kings message to the people. Title: Sarah and James Sarah wants a horse so Sarah and James set out to catch a wild horse. http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/teresapigott/481680/ Fri, 15 Feb 2008 16:38:00 -0600 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/teresapigott/481680/ Character: Bertram the bear Setting: It is a very cold stormy night at Bertram's snuggly little home. He has a rug in front of the fire place for his bed and a comfy chair to the left of the fire. On the opposite side there is a door. Next to the the door on the right is a little window to peek through. Bertram bear is sitting on his comfy chair reading his favorite book of poetry. Character: Jimmy Setting Jimmy ran through a dark hallway in a creepy old castle. It had spider webs all over the walls and little cracks that looked as if a slimy creature could crawl out of it. He found a door hoping to get out of this horrible place. He opened the door and ran in. The door slammed shut behind him. He tried the door. It was locked. The room was pitch black.  He ran his hands along the walls hoping to find an opening. He felt the spider webs and cracks and goey stuff all along the walls. Suddenly he felt his hand move and he heard a click.  The wall started moving. It opened up to another long dark hallway. He continued through hoping to find an excape. http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/teresapigott/472783/ Fri, 1 Feb 2008 18:34:00 -0600 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/teresapigott/472783/ Character: Penny-a horse Setting: Penny was running through a field of flowers. It was a prarie full of flowers. Yellow flowers, red flowers, blue flowers, orange flowers, and white flowers. Then a four foot tall yellow lion came from a forest near by. Penny's heart was pounding. The ground rumbled as Penny galluped away. Character: Sara Setting: Ocean Beach That sunny afternoon Sara was happy walking down a golden beach. She had a smile on her face. She got sand into her pink and red flowered bathing suit and then went into the blue sparking water to wash.   http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/teresapigott/472775/ Fri, 1 Feb 2008 18:26:00 -0600 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/teresapigott/472775/ 1. Character, setting, problem, plot, soulution 2. The Hat. Lisa, Hedghog Winter in a farmyard and woods Problem for Hedgehog, can't get a stocking off his head and he is embarassed Problem for Lisa, to get her stocking back The hedgehog talks to farm animals, they laugh at him but he tells them the good things about having the stocking on his head.  Lisa chases the hedgehog. She gets the stocking off the hedgehopgs head but then all the other animals went and put on Lisa's clothes from the clotheline so now she has bigger troubles.  The hedgehop is happy he got rid of his hat and thinks its funny that all the other animals have "hats" on and says "animals should never wear clothes". 3. My character is a 9 year old girl. Her name is Joy. She smiles a lot so you can see her sparking teeth but sometimes it makes people think she is up to something. Her red hair is short and curly so her mom puts barrettes in her hair to hold it out of her face. Joy hates her hair back because it makes her hair stick out and kids make fun of her. She likes to draw and paint. She hates bullies because they pick on her best friend McKenna who is only seven. She tries to protect McKenna and she tattles to the teaher and sometimes tells lies about the bullies to get them in trouble.  Joy tries very hard in school but she doesn't think she is very smart. She gets into trouble a lot because she talks so much. She is a kind girl that tries hard to think of others and she loves her family very much. 4. a. shocked b. bored c. frightened 5. There once was a girl named Alice. She had brown hair. One day she woke up droopy eyed and yawning. She stretched out her arms and rubbed her eyes to get the sleepies out. She went downstairs to get breakfast because her stomach was rumbling. She found that no one was there. She went to the living room and turned on the light. Her family was all there. They all jumped out and said surprise! Happy birthday!  She opened her presents. She got a new tan coat and bonnet. She had a big smile on her face and she gae her mom a bear hug and said thank you. Her mom told her she had another surprise for her, she was going to take her to town to her favorite ice cream shop. Later in town Alice had on her new coat and bonnet and they went to the ice cream shop. Her mother bought her a large crunchy pink ice cream bar. Alice thanked her mom. Then they went outside and ate their ice cream as they walked down the sidewalk. http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/teresapigott/464093/ Fri, 18 Jan 2008 18:40:00 -0600 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/teresapigott/464093/ 1. character, setting, probem, events, the solution 2.The Mayflower Secret Elizabeth Tilley, On the Mayflower, that she knows a secret of how someone died and when she's asked if she knows how he died she lies and said "I don't know", Her parents die, at the end the truth omes out about how the man died. 3. As I gazed into the mirror I rubbed my tired hazel eyes. I started to brush my already shiney teeth. After all of that I combed my short curly red hair. Then I remembered that I said I'd play with my friend and I'd stay loyal to that . I ran down the stairs , all of a sudden my mom stopped me and asked if I made my bed this morning. I gulped. I knew I didn't but I didn't want to get in trouble so I said, "umm yes mom, I did" and at that I kept running till I saw my friend. Phew! What a run, I told him I ran all the way from my house to here.  We played around for awhile till I had to go back home to have dinner. When I was all most there I saw the school bully. I never forgave him when on the first day of school started he pushed me into a mud puddle. I dodged around behind a house and ran down the alley and contined to run all the way back home to finely have dinner.  The end. 4. a. shocked b, bored c. frightened 5. You see in this picture there is a chubby little penguin wearing his little black and white tuxedo. He is standing on a large black rock that is sitting in the clear  icy blue ocean.   http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/teresapigott/464051/ Fri, 18 Jan 2008 17:38:00 -0600 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/teresapigott/464051/