Retelling a Story: The Three Bears

There once was a girl named Goldilocks. Her mother had told her not to go by the woods, but one day she saw some beautiful flowers that she had to pick right where the woods started. But then she saw more and more and wandered into the woods even though her mother had told her not to.


Then, she was starting to feel kind of hungry. So she wandered around. And then, after a little while, she found a cottage. She looked through the keyhole and peered around. She saw that no one was home. So she went inside.


She found three bowls of porridge on the table. She first tried Papa Bear's but it was too hot. Then she tried Mama Bear's but it was too cold. Then she tried Baby Bear's and it was just right. And she ate it all gone.


Then she started to feel a little drowsy. She remembered it's past her naptime. So she went into the living room and found some lovely chairs. She first tried Papa Bear's but it was too hard. Then she tried Mama Bear's but it was too soft. Then she tried Baby Bear's and it was just right. But it wasn't long before she sat the bottom part out of it.


So she went upstairs and found three beds. She first tried Mama Bear's but it was too high at the head. Then she tried Papa Bear's but it was too high at the foot. Then she tried Baby Bear's and it was just right. And she decided to take a snooze.


She didn't stir a bit when the door opened. Then Mama Bear said in her medium voice, "Someone's been eating my porridge!"


Then Papa Bear said, "SOMEONE'S BEEN EATING MY PORRIDGE!"


Then Baby Bear said, "Someone's been eating my porridge and they ate it all gone!"


Then they looked in the living room. Papa Bear said in his great, rough, gruff voice, "SOMEONE'S BEEN SITTING IN MY CHAIR!"


Then Mama Bear said in her medium voice, "Someone's been sitting in my chair!"

Then Baby Bear said in his wee, little, tiny voice, "Someone's been sitting in my chair and they broke it to pieces. Ohhhh!"


So then they decided they better check out the upstairs. Then Papa Bear said in his great, rough, gruff voice, "SOMEONE'S BEEN SLEEPING IN MY BED!"


Then Mama Bear said in her medium voice, "Someone's been sleeping in my bed!"


Then Baby Bear said in his wee, little, tiny voice, "Someone's been sleeping in my bed and they're still in it!"


Goldilocks was dreaming so she thought that Papa Bear's rough, gruff voice was in her dream and she thought that Mama Bear's medium voice was in her dream, too. Then Baby Bear's voice was so shrill, she woke up at once. And then once she realized that there were three big bears standing right in front of her, she ran home as fast as her little legs could carry her and never came back again.

Journal: January 29, 2008

I went to a resling trnoment. I got 4th plays. I got to resl 2 times. I allso got a resling trnoment tee shert. I like resling. My fraverit moov is singgl lig take doun [single-leg takedown].

Double O Doggy and the Case of the Crooks

Muffy the Magnificent and her assistant Minnie the Magic were on a case of the crooks who stole the kibbles from Miss Ali Abu. Double O Doggy is actually Muffy, but she doesn't want to reveal her secret identity, and Minnie the Magic is Super Spy. They found a trail of footprints.

Double O Doggy said to Super Spy, "Give me a magnfiying glass! I want to see these footprints."

"Okay," said Super Spy. Double O Doggy used her Super Dog-ifier to see the footprints up close. They led to an old doggy fort in a hollow tree. The found a doggy crook named Kibble Crook Crock. He loves stealing kibbles. His owner won't buy him any so he figures he just take the kibbles.

Muffy the Magnificent said, "Missy Ali Abu, we have found who has been stealing your kibbles. It is Kibble Crook Crock. His owner won't buy him any kibbles, especially the new and improved brand, which I see you have. We will write Kibble Crook Crock's owner a note that says, Your dog has been stealing Miss Ali Abu's new and improved kibbles," which is just what they did.

They wrote him a note that said:

Your dog is going around stealing Miss Ali Abu's new and improved kibbles. Please tell your dog to stop. Can you please buy your dog some new and improved kibbles so we don't need to keep trying to catch him. Thank you.

Signed Muffy the Magnficent and Minnie the Magic

The owner replied, Surely, I understand. I will buy my dog some new and improved kibbles.

And that's just what he did. And Kibble Crook Crock lived happily ever after.

Friday Stories: Is Zero Powerful?

Is zero Powerful? Yes or no? By itself, it is nothing. But add it to other numbers and they can be very, very big. Take one, for instance. It's not very big, is it? Add a zero to one, and you get ten. Add another zero, then you get a hundred. Another zero and you get a thousand. Zero is very weak alone, but add it to other numbers, and it is very, very big, just like every other number.

Journal: December 17, 2007

I have a bead bisnis. The hiest prise is $7. The loist prise is $1. I make braislits and neclisis and ornomints. I have discount cards. Spend $20 and git $2 off!

Letter to Santa

December 11, 2007



Dear Santa,



I would like a spy set. I would like a ligo set to please. I would rilay like a reamote cintrol batl helocaptter set please.



I have been vary good Santa.



Love,

Max

Journal: December 10, 2007

My Christmas wish list.



1. * dijitl camro from Mom and Dad

2.* long shot nerf

3. bild your own car

4. spy sets

5. ligo sets

6. memry card

Journal: December 6, 2007

I made a Oreo pie. I used oreo coms [crumbs]. There were four steps. I made my frst pie ever. It tastets dlishish. I had about for slises.

Journal: November 29, 2007

We went to Colorado. In Colorado we went to a gold mind. I found som gold. We also went panning for gold at the gold mind. Wen we wer panning for gold I thot I saw a peas.

Journal: November 13, 2007

We went to the new movie theater. We watcht the Bee Movie. It had 14 cinemas. We got jumbo popcorn. With nocho cheas. It had a bolling ally with two lanes.

Journal: November 5, 2007

I bilt a raft out of postikl stiks I used lots of popsikl stiks. I did pirrpendikuler to giv it xtero soport. I used glue to hold the sticks toggethher. I salled it at Corry Hil.

Journal: October 29, 2007

I got batl gise [battle guys]. The real name is Attacktix. I got Star Wars vs. Transformers. Hew ever git's the moset guys wins. Two players can play.

Friday Stories: Birthday Gifts

For my eighth birthday, I got rollerblades and a chem lab from my mom and dad. Mitch got me a Fantastic Four game for Game Boy. I got a gift card for Target from Grandma Antognini and Grandpa Kent for $25 and I picked out a Star Wars Lego game for Game Boy and a Spy Watch XP-6. It had world time, alarm, night vision, an infrared scope, and a couple other features that I can't remember. It had at least twelve features. From Heidi and Dan and William and Wes, I got a science kit that I've been wanting for ages. I got the Littlest Pet Shop pup from Mommy and Daddy. It came with a pup and a treasure map, a treasure chest, a shovel, and a chew toy. I got a remote control kit for TV from Mom and Dad. I got Trivial Pursuit for Kids from Mom and Dad also. I got a Transformer from Angie and a book that said, Do You Doodle? I got a Expert Jumper parachute guy from Gumdrop and an outer space book and I got a Super Hero DVD from Gumball.

I went to the Mall of America for my birthday. We went to Mall of America on the 17th. I wanted to go to it on the 18th, but the field trip to the Mall of America was on the 17th. We went to Underwater World. At Underwater World, they had a tunnel where you got to walk through and look at the fish. The glass walls were so clean, it looked like you were actually by the fish. We saw sawfish, sharks, guitar sharks, stingrays, yellow puffer fish, sand sharks, and more that I can't remember. Dad and me got to have a behind-the-scene tour. We got to see where they feed the fish and also learned that an iguana has two eyes where we have it, and an eye right in the middle of its head. The littlest turtle took five people to lift it if they had to weigh him or if it was sick, to move it into a different place. I got rocks for my souvenir.

I got to look in Motor Madness. It's a place where you get to build remote control cars. At Motor Madness, you got to build a car. You got to pick out the body, the wheels, how it looked, you could put on stickers. I've never seen a store where you can build your own remote control cars. You also get to use real power tools. I didn't get a remote control car 'cause each car costs fifty dollars to make it.

We also went to Lego Land. I got to pick out a Bionicle and so did Mitch.

Journal: October 22, 2007

We went to Mall of amarico for a feeld trip to andder wadder wirlled [Underwater World]. Dad and me went on a beahined the sean toower. I got rax [rocks] for a soovonnear.

Friday Stories: Mystery Mouse House

Once upon a time there was a little gingerbread house with an upstairs, a downstairs, and another upstairs. It was three stories high.

Two little mice lived in there but nobody knew, because whenever they looked in, the mice were hiding under the bed. When they walked past it, or when they were in bed, they heard little giggles and chattering, and they couldn't figure out what it was.

One day, the child who made the house looked and found the mice. And he became best friends with them. The mice had a baby mouse. They named it Max. They had great fun.

People found out one day about the three mice but couldn't figure out where their home was. So they kept looking and looking but they never found it. The child gave them hints every day but they never figured out what it was.

One day the parents found out where the mice lived. So the child had to make them another gingerbread house and a hiding place and he also hid the gingerbread house. And the mice lived happily ever after.

Journal: October 15, 2007

We went to an appl orchrd for a feeld trip. I went to a for the feeld trip. We went on a hay ride. We got to pick a free appl.

Friday Stories: Mysterious Mystery Manor

Once, a long, long time ago, there was a city called Spooksville. Every year, kids went trick-or-treating to every house but one. That was Mystery Manor.

It had booby traps all over the yard, but also had the best candy. Only the most daring of kids went to Mystery Manor.

Once, a kid, eight years old, went inside and got super powers and had lots of candy. But one thing the kids didn't understand was that nobody was at the house when they got candy from Mystery Manor. But what they didn't know was that it was a ghost haunting it. Every year, five kids turned into ghosts because of the candy.

The ghost planned to make thousands of houses to overpower the little town. But that would take many years. The ghost didn't give up. He put more ghost powers into the candy so it would work faster. Nobody knew how it kept happening, but once they found out, they started building their support more and more.

And finally it happened. The battle lasted for ten years and then it was over. The people won.

Journal: October 10, 2007

I got a optis [Optimus] Prime costume. Mitch got a Diego costume. I lookt at sun glasis. We went to the noo Target. We got candy from the doller sekshin.

Journal: October 8, 2007

We went to happy Joe's. I got three scate bords, three poppers, two bounsee balls, one posl [puzzle], one frog, and one gie [guy]. We got 218 ticits. We went to onolasco. We tooc a wac by the mississippi.

Journal: October 1, 2007

We went an apl orcherd. I found som big apls. They wer the best apls I've ever tastide. We bot apl sider. I licde the apl orcherd. We allso went to the hous on the roc. We allso went to a pumcin pach.

Journal: September 24, 2007

Mom got wonderful present and beautiful cake. She had oreo cake. Mom got a pirs. She allsoe got Fiesta dishes. She got these colors: scarlet, heather, shamrock, and tangerine.

Journal: September 18, 2007

We had a lot of rain. Our hows reesently flooded. I was up a 7 in the morning and awayc til 7 in the morning. Mike came over to help us. We got an inch of flooding.

Journal: September 17, 2007

We went to the reservoir. I cot a dragine fly. Dad let my badr fly go 3 times by acsodentlay. I walked 4 miles. The reservoir is 4 miles long.

Friday Stories: The Haunted Cave

Once upon a time, two twelve year-olds once discovered a cave. So they went and took a look and found that it was haunted. They also knew that it had great treasures in but they were afraid of the ghosts that lived in the cave.

So they built a robot that would go and it could stand up to anything. It had a camera and it shrunk stuff with a laser beam so it could carry it. It had a little pouch to put the treasures in.

They realized that they could hook up a wire to the robot so they could see where it is and tell it what to do. But they never saw how far the robot went. So they wouldn't know how long of a cable. But they did know that it must be pretty long. So they got a ten-mile cable. They bought a cable that was ten miles long. The robot also had a drill to drill through walls and a camera that could see through walls to see where the treasure is. After a couple months, the two twelve year-olds were billionaires.

The cave had thousands of stalagmites. Stalagmites are a kind of icicle, only though made out of minerals. The deepest pool in the cave was a hundred feet deep. It was a hundred degrees below zero. You could smell the ice.

One day, when the robot went in very far, it broke. So they did with the money that they earned and made a new one, only though this time, more fancy. The robot drilled deeper and deeper and suddenly hit a giant treasure pit and made a ladder so the two twelve year-olds could climb down and grab all the treasure. The two twelve year-olds had to make a hundred robots to carry up all the treasure. Each robot could fit a hundred pieces of treasure in it.

But what they didn't know is that the robot triggered a lava vein and the pit filled with lava and froze all the treasures. The twelve year-olds and fifty of the robots escaped. They were wishing the other fifty had escaped but they didn't complain. They still were rich. Also, that lava vein triggered heaps of other ones around the globe. It flooded all the underground caves.

Journal: September 11, 2007

The spase needle is at the State Fair. I like the State Fair. Dad did the cross bow game. Mitch stade up the hole way home.

Friday Stories: Ghost Pirates Attack!

Once upon a time, there was a ghostly pirate ship that carried thousands of dollars' worth of treasures. The ghost pirate ship sailed the seven seas in 1999.

The ghost pirates used an old, old, old castle for a hideout. It wasn't long before other pirates discovered their castle and the battle lasted ten years. They had cannons and other sorts of pirate weapons. They also invented a cannon that could shoot out swords.

The pirate captain was named Skull Moon Scar. He was the most powerful ghost pirate on the whole ship. Not even the bravest pirate would face him. He was also the most spookiest pirate. He had four gunpowder guns and two swords. He raided every ship he saw, then sunk it. His nickname was Raider Sink.

Then he came face to face with the next most powerful pirate: Scary Skull. The battle lasted five weeks. Finally, Skull Moon Scar won the battle and raided Scary Skull's ship and sank it. But before Scary Skull went under, he said these last couple words: You haven't seen the last of me!

Friday Stories: Story Starter

Editor's Note: Max began his blog in tears today because he said he had no words in his head today. When I replied that his head was full of words, he said, "They're in a traffic jam." The sentence below is a story starter to break up that terrible traffic jam.

Today we went shopping and Mom bought me a pair of magic shoes ...

We went to Stride Rite and they said, "Would you like to get a pair of new Magical Power Shoes? They cost twenty dollars and it has pockets and it has little tablets that come with it and you just get it wet in a glass of water and it pops right out and turns into a Game Boy. Also, if you put another tablet in, if you write on in what kind of a Game Boy game you want on the tablet, it will get what Game Boy game you want out of the separate tablet."

"And it also comes with a pack of a thousand tablets and each shoe has one pocket on each side and each one can hold twenty-five of the tablets."

So Mommy says "yes" to getting the shoes and we take them home and we realize that they had jet packs built in the shoes. You also put a tablet in the grass and it would turn into a whole stand of lemonade and each glass of lemonade is only fifty cents.

All of that started when I put on the brand-new shoes. I also figured out that I could be invisible and I could just say the name of the toy and it would be right in front of me in the the box, brand-new, never been used. When I put the shoes on, the very moment, I had super powers. I could fly, I could travel back in time, I could travel from inside to outside without breaking anything or using the door, and I could also make something else invisible ... only invisible for other people, but not me! Like if Mom said I couldn't watch TV, I could make the TV show black for Mom, but it was really on for me. ("I could really get you, couldn't I?" said Max.)

We got them for a really, really, really, really low price !!! You can take off your shoes and then a little pocket appears on each side with a zipper. You can put money or little toys in there.

When you put them on, you can shift into different people!

Friday Stories: Garage Sale Shopping

Note: Friday Stories are creative writing exercises we enjoy each Friday as part of our homeschool curriculum. Stories are composed by the boys and typed by Mom.

We went to a garage sale today in our neighborhood. I got this cool spy set, that it has three motion detectors. It has a little antenna on it. I also have three little dots on the package that they light up whenever somebody walks past it and it goes, "Doot, doot, doot, doot ... doot, doot!" like an alarm, and then I know if somebody passed it and then I could see what they are doing. The spy set cost twenty-five cents.

I also got a Polly Pocket car with Polly Pocket accessories. We also got a fake plastic jewel. I got a red one and Mitchell got a blue one. I also got a mini Palm Pilot for free. Mitchell also got a Palm Pilot for free. And Mitchell also got a mini spy set too, because it's not a very big one.

I am going to earn my spy set by doing errands. Doing errands means my mom gives me something and I put it away.

We went up to the park after we went to the garage sales. I went down the slide four times. I went down the parallel bars two times. And I also ran. And our friend William rode up to the park with his tractor. We got there ten minutes before William did. I rode my bike up to the park also and I rode my bike to all the garage sales. We felt some sprinkles and went home. Thirty minutes later, it started to pour.

Baseball Equipmint

I got a new bat. And I also got a new glove. The bat cost $20.00 and the bat was medl.

The glove cost $20.00 too. I also got baseball shoos. My baseball practise got rained out last night.

Squirrel Fun

A squirrel allmoste walked up to me. We watched the squirrel for 30 minits.

It was cute. The happy squirrel was taring holes in the bag of birdseed on the deck. The squirrel cept thinking about scampering away. I could reach out and grab him.