Story Teller

This story is from Hunter's third grade portfolio. I features a made up character, Bobra. Our boys have a tendancy to use the name Bob when they are being funny. (They even know that is my Grandpa Ricks name, but they just think it is funny! I guess I have never meet a boy their age called Bob.)

Secrets by Hunter Warnick

Chapter 1 Secrets
Once upon a time there lived a girl named Bobra B. Jr. She worked at Sonic. She was married to a handsome man name Joe Smoe, Jr. bobra had two kids and three secrets. One, she's a spy. Two, she's a special opps spy. Three, she's pregnant. Eventually she revealed the third but never the first two. It was a bright summer day when Bobra, Joe, Misty Sara and baby Jakey were having a picnic and discussing Bobra's new job as a model. Bobra was modeling a green dress, green flipflops and a green bracelet. Bobra was chosen to be a model because Bobra had beautiful tan skin, brown hair, brown eyes, white teeth and she was very skinny.

Chapter 2 Dark Star!
Bobra was at the OSS waiting for her next assignment when the OSS had received a a code and Bobra had to crack it! A second later Babra cracked it. It said my name is Dark Star and I am here to take over the human race. Bobra knew what to do go home and sadly feed the baby second get Dark star. An hour later Bobra was at the OSS picking up supplies. An hour and a half later Bobra was in Dark Star's elevator. Dooooon doooooooon doooooooooooooonnnnnnnnnnn. His hid out is under Sonic. When she gets into his secret hideout she sings her spectacular theme song. (music notes) To the tune of Bad Romance (music notes) Booooooobra, she is so cooooooool.  Boooooooooobra she works at Sonic!!! Would like a salty sideorder of curly fries......(pause)......With supreme curls. Dooooonnnn doooooooon doooooooooooonnnnnnnnnn.

Chapter 3 Chicken
Suddenly Bobra was capatured in a tremendous, colossal, enormus, mammoth and gigantic steel chicken . The she had a light bulb! Because she remembered that she brought Minnie Man the small size of your thumb. To go through the key hole and find the key then unlock the steel chicken. So then he did the easy kind of complicated task. Then Bobra escaped and went home half an hour later. Bobra got home and recieived a stylish letter from the model company. Saying she was, you better be ready for this okay?!

Chapter 4 Fired

FIRED!So Bobra got depressed. dooonnnn dooooonnnnnnndoooooooooonnnnnnn. It was months of crying and chocolates. Finally she got another stylish letter from the modeling company saying ever since she was fired their money was dropping! So that meant they were in big trouble. So the letter said the only way you can get your job back is if you tell us your secret identity. Bobra was shocked. If she did Bobra would get in big trouble from the OSS. "I can't," she said over and over again in her head! She begged and begged and begged in her non fashinabal letters. Finally, the let Bobra do something else they said in a letter the other thing was that she had to kill her husband. Bobra screamed as laud as could screeeeeeech!! Suddenly Babra stopped because she thought of a way she could kill Joe without really killing him. It was a very, very, very easy plan to follow. Or was it? doooonnnn dooooonnnn dooooooooooooooonnnnn! The plan was that Bobra needed a blow torch, chicken for lunch, latter and a decoy of Joes from supercialifraglelistickexpealladoshushs. Shannatatc Shop! Bobra traveld for hours trying to stay hidden from Dark Star. Finally one million two thousand eight, hundred nine seconds later Bobra was bakc at home setting up her plan to kill Joes but not to really kill him. Then Bobra got hungry and went inside to eat the chicken. Then she went back outside and got decoy Joe out of the smelly garage of doom. Dooooonnnnnn dooooooonnnnn. doooooooooooonnnnnnnnn. Then she put decoy Joe on the ladder then put the ladder on fire and to her surprise she killed Dark Star instead!  
The End


 

How to Make an Italian Grilled Cheese

This is from Hunter's Writing Portfolio from third grade.

How to Make an Italian Grilled Cheese
 
You will need the following ingredients to make this delicious recipe.

1. 1/2 a tsp. of Italian Seasoning
2. a block of cheese
3. Two slices of bread about one cm. thick.
4. A whole tomato.
5. Butter

First, turn on your stove to High and put a medium sized (pan) on your burner that you turned onto High earlier. Then, flick water into the pan until the water dissolves almost instantly. After that, get a butter knife and spread your butter on one side of each piece of bread. Now, spray Pam into the bottom of the pan. Then, put one piece of bread with butter facing the pan. Then put bread in the pan soon after, grab the cheese and a grader and graid square slices of cheese and lay the cheese on your bread inside the pan. Now, get a non-saraded edge knife and cut about 1/2 a cm. thick slices and lay them on top of your cheese. Then, you get a tsp. and fill it half way up with the Italian seasoning and sprinkle the seasoning on your tomatoes then put the other piece of bread on the seasoning with butter facing up. Finally, grab a spachela and flip your sandwich. Then, wait a minute and then flip your sandwich on a plate then, Bon apetiete! 

Bad Recess Day November 2011

Hunter had a fabulously bloody head scrap one day at recess in third grade. I was at Teresa Rudd's house getting stuff ready for the Relief Society Super Saturday. My cell phone was dead. Teresa got a phone call and it was really for me. Sara Williams just happened to know that I was at Teresa's house, so when she walked into the office at Indian Creek and saw Hunter sitting there with blood dripping off the front and back of his head and the secretaries that couldn't get through to me, she knew just what to do.

I headed over to the school to find Hunt with an ice pack on his head and blood everywhere. Poor Mrs. Morrill. She was so patient with all of the blood and very good with Hunter. Sara came with me to try to get into a clinic in Kuna. She held the ice pack on his head while I drove. We couldn't get in. So I dropped her back off at school and headed into Nampa to go to the Quick Care there where Lance met me. Hunter's head had quit bleeding so much by the time we got there. He got seven staples!!! The ice REALLY helped keep the bleeding down. The ladies at the school did such a good job handling the mess.

Hunter was out at lunch recess when all the excitement happened. He was playing tag with a few friends and went underneath some playground equipment and just stood up a little too soon and caught the top of his head just right under a slide and it sliced him open pretty long. It wasn't really deep, just long and RIGHT in the middle of his head--so the blood started rolling off his head toward the front and the back. He didn't even know he was bleed until he touched the top of his head and pulled his hand away and saw the blood. It really freaked the other kids on the playground out! His classmates all wrote him get well cards. It was sweet.

Triage Room

What a mess! Partly because this boy has LOTS of blonde hair for the blood to get stuck in.

The gapping wound

Calm and cool! Hunter is our most experienced patient at Quick Care!

Seven staples in! No crying either! Love this kid!

 

 

What a day!

Here is Hunter's letter that he wrote for the letter unit at school.

911 W 4th Street

Kuna, ID 83634

February 9, 2012

Dear Mrs. Morrill,

Have you had a good day today? I have. I've been learning so much! Thank you for helping me with my cracked head. I think you're so smart. You're a big help to the school. Which school do you go to the most Ross or Indian Creek? I can't wait till I go to Ross! What is your favorite food? Mine is pizza! You're so nice. Tell Blake that I thought his invention was awesome! Stay in touch.

Sincerely,
Hunter

Third Grade Art Projects

Last year Hunter adored being in third grade!! I think it is so fun to do art in third grade because those fine motor skills have really started to become finely developed, neatness improves, and the imagination is easier to express. Hunter has ALWAYS loved doing art projects and Mrs. McMurtrey really liked teaching them. They were such a good fit together. (He already misses her this year.) As I was going through his stack of papers, I realized there are just way too many to stuff easily into a file folder and save for future years. So filing them away on my nifty computer and into cyberspace sounds so much less cluttery.

 Enjoy his beautiful work. I have no ideas of the dates on these, except they are all this past school year (okay, I'm sure the Halloween one is from October 2011).

Lines

Hunter's Hand

 

Halloween

Crayon colored Butterfly

Beehive and Busy Bees

Quilted Look

Christmas Design (I spent an afternoon getting these off the wood wall in the classroom!)

Snowflakes

Paper Heart--says I 'heart' U in the middle

Watercolor--Rainbow Circles

Aluminum Foil Owl

Learning to be a Writer

Luke spent a lot of class time in first grade learning how to write. I love his little stories and it has been fun to see how much he learns by DOING! 

I've been going through the 1st grade papers this morning and I just want to share a few of his writings.

First are poems he wrote to get ready for a Mother's Day gift. He wrote several difference poems and then picked his favorite. His teacher, Miss McMorrow typed up his favorite poem and then he added an illustration and then they framed it. Seriously this is the TOP of my favorite Mother's Day gifts EVER!  

Here are his poems:

My Mom (this one is spelled like he wrote it)

Luve
is floing from
the iwl
frum you to
my (me) 

(I think I need to have him help me with what iwl is)


The rest are edited with proper spelling.

My Mom


Like the 
sun
shining up the
day.


My Mom

Like a
bird
bringing the
chicks
food.

(That poem feels very true!!! What a great simile he applied to my life.)

Now the FAVORITE poem he chose to make into my gift:

My Mom

Like a
shooting star
on your
birthday
granting
your 
wishes.

Here's a picture of the present:

 Aww! I keep it right on the mantel. It melts my heart and helps me remember to keep being a good mom. (I think most moms need reminders of how they make their children feel.)

This is one of Luke's earlier writings. This is from Martin Luther King Day in January. Luke is CRAZY about recycling. He likes to make sure we put all the paper, cardboard, milk jugs, etc. in our recycle bin. Mostly though he likes to recycle by reusing things at home. He likes to build stuff with the old cardboard and cereal boxes. He uses lots of tape and staples to build creations. Lance says he was like that as a young boy too. They are so much a like!

I love how Luke always draws pictures of himself. Orange hair, of course,and almost always a striped shirt. He really doesn't have that many striped shirts. They must just look good for self portraits though. 
 

Here are some links to more of Luke's writing featured on his teacher's blog.

http://foreverin1st.blogspot.com/2012/01/andee-revised-small-moment-about-her.html

http://foreverin1st.blogspot.com/2012/04/strong-voices-are-contagious.html 

 

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First Day of School 2012

Yeah! It's school time again. A schedule. Kitchen stays clean for a few hours at a time instead of just minutes. The floor can stay picked up for a while. Everyone goes to bed so much earlier (except Lance--he is pretty consistent all year long).The house is quiet during the day. "I'm bored" is a saying for summer.

Dallin started his junior year at Kuna High School. He has three different ag classes this year--one from each teacher: plant and soils, a speech class, and flower arranging. He also has US history, language arts, algebra II, men's choir, and seminary. For the third year in a row he has been pleased with his schedule. Math has a challenging teacher though--she does not really explain things and he needs that. Good thing Lance is so

good at math so he can help Dallin. Dallin didn't tell me a goal for this school year yet. But I bet he has several like: get good grades, play football hard, do his senior project and Eagle Scout project (it can be the same project), and get to districts with discus during track season. 

Bruce is a 7th grader at Kuna Middle School. He is a Golden Eagle. The middle school divides the grades into teams and each team has a group of teachers in a specific hallway making things easier for the students. It also helps the teachers because they can collaborate together in working with student's needs. Bruce was a bit exited to be a Golden Eagle at first because the hallway were their teachers are is the only hallway in the school with big lockers. So it is rumored that all the Eagles get a full-sized locker. Unfortunately that is not

always the case. Poor Bruce. His locker is around the corner from the main hallway and he got a half-sized locker. He was also bummed because most of his friends from Ross were not on his team either. However, school has been better than the inital "get your schedule day" and he's found several other friends in some classes. He did take a typing test on registration day and he was able to get out of "Input Technologies I" where they learn basic document skills and typing. So his schedule got changed and now he's in drama for a quarter and hunter's education for second quarter. His other classes are band--he's playing the

baritone saxophone or bari sax for short. He and Thayne are in band together--pre-algebra, language arts, and  world history. Before school started, I asked the boys to each make a goal for school this year. Bruce's goal is to get straight A's.

Thayne is a 7th grader at Kuna Middle School. He is a Mighty Duck! Dallin was a Mighty Duck too--so he has some of the same teachers Dallin had. Thayne really likes his teachers, especially the p.e. teacher, Mr. Crusat. He has a friend, Blake Morrill, in his p.e. class and they share a locker together because they trust each other. They have to change clothes for p.e. This the first time he's ever had to do anything like that. School started Wednesday and that night Thayne asked Dallin, "So how do you change your clothes for p.e.? Just out in the open in the locker room?" yup!! Dallin agreed that it feels a bit freaky, but warned Thayne to get used to it. That's how it works. (I found the question quite funny because T is the lest modest child in our house!) Thayne's main locker is in the same hall as Bruce's but down the hall from each other.

All the boys have bottom lockers this year--which are less than desirable. He is playing the baritone, aka euphonium in band. He and Bruce both think that Mrs. Peterson is cool. She is too! She makes band really fun from what my flute students have told me. Thayne also has pre-algebra, language arts and world history. Thayne's goal for school this year is to have no zeroes!

Hunter is a 4th grader at Ross Elementary. Ross is a new school for him this year. The elementary schools we are zoned for are split between two building. Indian Creek Elementary has the kindergarteners through third graders. Then they move around the street corner to Ross Elementary for fourth through sixth grade. The schools have the same principal, p.e. and music teachers. Hunter has Miss Cunningham for fourth grade. She is a cute, petite blonde teacher--right up Hunter's ally! He has always had really cute teachers. He already loves her. And that is no surprise, she's a super teacher. He is sitting next to a boy from his

class last year, Sean. He and Sean were a bit competitive with each other last year. Sean's really athletic--I see the future KHS quarterback in him and Hunter's really good at school. I think they were a bit jealous of each other last year. So this is a good year to become friends. Most of Hunter's really good friends all have a different teacher this year. Hunter told me his goal for school this year is to make more friends. I told him it needed to be an academic goal. So he agreed to get straight A's. Although I think his original goal of making new friends will be accomplished too!

Luke is a 2nd grader at Indian Creek Elementary. He has Mrs. Doan who is sweet and kind. He likes her and is happy to go to school each day. I'm really interested to find out what his speech teacher thinks about his speech over the summer. He has had a huge backslide every summer, but I think this summer he continued to improve instead. I don't know much about what has happened at school yet because he isn't much of story teller unless we're totally alone. We haven't had that since school started. Wednesday night we had a pack meeting/boy scout court of honor, Thursday night we had the JV football game, Friday I was doing corn. Maybe today we'll get to hang out and talk. His goal for this year is to be able to read books all by himself--chapter books like Nate the Great. 

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