Words of Mine ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Learning Means Sunday - August 25, 2002 "A mind too active is no mind at all." Learning Means Learning means studying my abc’s. Yick. Why do I need to learn abc’s? My mom says with abc’s in combination they make words but why do I need words? A is for apple Okay, so now I can say apple, ball and cat. Why do I want to spell them? Mom says someday I may be a great writer and it’s important to know how to spell. Why spell when I can tell stories? I like to tell stories. I like to tell stories about my cat. He chases the grass I tease him with. He purrs when I pet him and rub him behind his ears. He rubs my legs when I come home from school. Sometimes he even leaves dead mice, moles and birds on the doorway mat, looking at me like “look what I did for you.” I like my cat. Apples are the best. We have tree in our back yard. They’re small green apples and sour. Mom says I mustn’t eat too many or they will make me sick. I still eat them though. The worst is when I find a worm in one and I’ve bitten through it. Yucky. Sometimes when the apples turn red, mom will make an apple pie. I like her apple pies. Dad, when he knows there’s apple pie for dessert, he will bring home vanilla ice cream. My teacher says this is apple pie ala mode. Me, it’s apple pie and ice cream. I don’t like talking about balls. I’m not good at playing ball. I always get sent out to the outfield. Nothing happens out there. I end up sitting in the grass and watching the ants and any other bug I find. Once in awhile a ball will be hit out to me but by the time I realize it’s coming I’m too late. I don’t know why my parents think I need to play ball. I like to take a tennis ball and bounce it on the driveway and catch it. I like to throw it against the barn door and catch it but I don'’ care about baseball. What I really like to do is go adventuring. I find all kinds of neat things. Grasshoppers. Frogs and sometimes toads. My auntie told me I could get warts with holding toads and grasshoppers leave tobacco juice on my hand when I hold them. I don’t think it’s really tobacco juice but it’s brown like the juice my grampy spits out. So that’s my stories for today. ABC. Emmy Lynn 11:42 a.m. - 2002-08-25 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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