Since ideas for a post are hard to come by in this day and age, I instead want to share a story. An unusual story written by my daughter last week for her weekly “3H activity” class on Friday. On Thursday, my wife got an expected message detailing what the 3H activity class this week was about. The unexpected thing was this activity was first of its kind. The kids were supposed to write a story given the following picture prompt:
They were to draw and colour this picture and write a story about it in class but they could prepare at home, that’s why the advance “warning”. As soon as she saw this picture, my daughter got thinking and wrote some sort of a draft story in her rough notebook. She did not show that to me but next day after school, she showed me a colourful page with her drawing and her story.
The story had the “usual” typographical and grammatical errors expected of a class 3 kid but the story made sense and incorporated all the elements of the picture. At first, I thought her mother had helped her with it, but NO!, it turned out to be her own idea, her own creation. It was a good story with a setup, some action, and a funny ending. I was quite impressed so I share it here with those trivial errors fixed for your reading pleasure.
The Pet
It was a sunny day. A girl was walking through a garden. She saw a caterpillar in the grass. She followed it. Then it disappeared. But it had left her in a place where a snake was sleeping. When the girl went near it, it woke up. It hissed loudly and angrily. The girl found a rattle and picked it up, then she made some sound with it. The snake calmed down. She took the snake and kept it on a bench. And she said, ‘stay here’ and the snake understood. She left it and bought a collar. She put it around the snake’s neck but not tightly so it would not get choked. She had the rattle with her, she put the rattle in his tail and the snake held it! The girl had a pet now. (She didn’t have any pet before.) The caterpillar came back again. This time the girl picked it up, the snake watching closely. The girl said, ‘You got me a pet!’. ‘I don’t have to pay for it, right?’, she giggled.
The End
Hope you had a good read. Enjoy the week and till next time when I share what she really thinks of me!
