Mateo

Blankets for Bunnies and the Sly Fox

Once upon a time there were bunnies who were very careful about foxes. They lived in a little bunny village by the meadow. In the meadow sheep liked to graze.

Also in the meadow were many foxes. The foxes liked to eat bunnies and sheep. So the bunnies made wooden doors on their burrows to keep the foxes out.

In their burrows they had little bunny beds made of goose feathers. They didn't sleep under anything because bunnies have fur.

Then on one freezing winter day the bunnies were cold. They were so cold they had goosebumps under their fur. They stayed in their houses, but the bunny children wanted to go outside.

One bunny family had an idea. "Let's go to our sheep friends to get wool."

That bunny family hopped over to the sheep and all of the other bunny families followed suit.

"Of course we can give you wool!" said the sheep. The sheep gave them wool and then they were off to the East Meadow.

"We are going to graze in the East Meadow!" said the sheep.

The children and grown up bunnies played and played. Soon they got tired and fell asleep, forgetting all about foxes.

Out in the forest a hungry fox smelled sheep."Yum, Yum. Some sheepies are near by. Smells like dinner!"

The fox pranced to the meadow. He had been tricked by his nose. There were no sheep, just pieces of wool spread around the meadow.

"Awwww. No dinner for me." Then he looked closer at the wool and realized they were blankets with bunnies cuddles in them.

"Ooooo. I got some dinner. This is my lucky day!"

The fox picked up some bunnies still in their blankets. He ran back to his den. Then he went back to get more. He captured 20 sweet, juice and soft bunnies.

One bunny yawned and slowly started to open his eyes. He smelled the smoke of fire. He froze.

"Where am I?" he thought. The bunny slowly crept over to tickle his wife with one ear. She twitched her nose and woke up.

"Wake up, wake up," he whispered. "We're in a fox den. We have to get out of here."

"We should wake up the others so we can come up with a plan."

They woke everyone up and formed a plan.

Padding footsteps trotted over to the bunnies.

"Quick everybody. Hide in your blankets."

The fox opened its jaw and picked up a bunny with its mouth. "Ptwa," he said. "I hate bunny fur. Well, it'll burn off in the fire."

He trotted over to the burning fire. As he prepared to drop the bunny in, the other bunnies yelled in unison, "Mr. Fox, Mr. Fix, we know where the sheep are!"

The fox gaped and opened his jaw in surprise. Out dropped the bunny on the ground.

"The sheep are in the West Meadow," lied the bunnies. (They were really in the East Meadow.)

The fox ran over to the West Meadow. The bunnies wasted no time in escaping.

When the fox got there, he found nothing but farmers and dogs.

The bunnies escaped and learned to be even more careful about foxes and to never fall asleep in a meadow again!

The Scared Ghost - A story for you to finish!

The Scared Ghost

 A long time ago, in the rainforest lived a ghost. There was also a t-rex living in the rainforest. The ghost was the t-rex’s neighbor. The ghost lived in a big wall of stones. It felt safe in its stone wall, but it was really scared of the t-rex.

 Whenever he saw the t-rex he would turn ghostly pale. That’s more pale than even a ghost normally is. He would turn so pale he would become visible! (Ghosts are normally invisible.)

             The t-rex lived in a mansion made out of trees and sticks. He was really strong and created the mansion himself. He didn’t know that an invisible, friendly ghost lived next to him.

        One day the ghost decided to try to talk to the T-rex. The invisible ghost went to find the t-rex, but the t-rex was not in his mansion. He was hunting for food.

    The ghost walked into the t-rex’s mansion. His invisible heart almost left his chest, he was so nervous. He glides into the toothium. In case you don’t know, t-rex’s have a LOT of teeth. They spend an immense amount of time cleaning their teeth. Unlike you and me, they have a whole room devoted to teeth cleaning, called a toothium.

    What does he see in this room? He comes face to face with a model t-rex mouth with real teeth. “Ahh” screams the ghost. He is so scared, he become visible.

Who should walk in at that moment, but the real t-rex. This is no model! It had claw like short arms and massive jaws that opened and shut. “Snap, snap, snap!”

"Who are you?" screamed the t-rex. "How dare you come in my house! Especially my toothium." Even though the t-rex was putting on a big show of being mad, he was actually quite frightened. 

The ghost, of course, was visible pale. It ran out of the toothium and right through its stone wall. The t-rex followed him to try and chase him away.

He  ran into the wall of the house. "Owch that hurts. Where is that ghost?"

The ghost came out and said, "can we talked together?" And they talked. And they talked. As it turned out, they decided to become friends and they both lived as neighbors happily ever after!

Mateo

Don't scare the babysitter!
A story dictated by Mateo.

Mommy and Mama lion were going to the watering hole to get some water. "Little cub, your favorite babysitter is coming, Melanie. Be good!"

Scott was very excited. Scott and Melody loved it when their babysitter Melanie came to watch them. But when Scott became too excited he tended to ROAR (because that's what lions do), and scare the other animals.

"Hey! Let's go to the park," said Melanie.
"OK," said Scott and Melody.
"We need to get on your paw shoes."
"Help me."
"Try again!"
"Will you please put on my paw shoes?"

Melanie put Scott and Melody in the cub car seat and they drove to the park. They got on the swings. They went high on the swings. Scott got so excited that "ROOOOOOAAAAAR!" All of the other animals ran away from the park.
"AHHHHH"

"Scott, I think we should go somewhere else. Let's go to playdate PDX. This time let's use an inside voice so you don't scare everyone."

They got in the cub car seat. They drove carefully to playdate PDX. Melanie paid the tickets and they both got stamps on their paws."

Melanie and Melody climbed up to the big green slide. They slid down together. Melanie and Scott held paws and slid down the big slide. Scott got so excited that, "RROOOOOAAAAARRRR."

Everyone very quickly ran out of playdate PDX.

Melanie took them out of playdate PDX and drove them home. When they got inside, Melanie said, "I think that's enough scaring for today. I think it's about bed time for both of you."
"I don't want to go to bed," said Melody.
"I don't want to go to bed. I just want to drink juice all night," said Scott.
"I don't think that's a very good idea," said Melanie, "It's bed time. Now."

Scott and Melody got in their beds. "I'm not tired," said Scott, as his eyes started to look sleepy. Soon he fell asleep.

He started to dream. He was in Egypt. "Oh look," he said, "Camels! I've always wanted to see camels. RRRRRRROOOOOOOOAAAAAAARRRRRRR."
"AAAAHHHH," said Melanie. She ran and hid in the closet. Her paws and all of her were shaking.

Soon, his Mommy and Mama came home from the watering hole. "Were you good for the babysitter?"

"Yes," said Scott, looking at his paws.
"Where is the babysitter?"
"I don't know."
"Did you scare the babysitter away? You're not supposed to scare the babysitter."
"Here I am," said Melanie. I wasn't scared, just a little startled. Scott and Melody were good little cubs.