Tater’s Second Story

Now the second story is harder to see… but I wanted you to see it took five pages for him to write this story. I did help with this one. We talked about it and created an outline together. From the outline he wrote this (with some questions asked from mom and dad to help him think it through):

Here is the story:

We have many Christmas traditions. One tradition is making gingerbread items. We have made gingerbread men, houses and Christmas trees. It is fun to eat the candy when I am making them. Another tradition is going to Mamaw’s house in Pensacola and opening gifts from her on Christmas eve. I like opening presents early. We put up Christmas lights and go look at other people’s Christmas lights at night. I like our house best because we decorate it ourselves. Another tradition is making a Christmas tree star and ornaments. My favorite tradition is making Christmas ornaments. I like using glitter glue to make them pretty. I like giving the to people. I put the ornaments on the Christmas tree to decorate it. Now I would like to show you some of the ornaments I have made over the years. * I also have this picture of me making the ornaments. * I love our traditions because we do it as a family. Now I will like to give everyone an ornament.

He put stars in it to remind himself to stop and get the stuff to show to the classroom. I attended his reading of the story to his class. He read slowly, kept the paper down so it wasn’t in front of his face. I was very proud of him. I have a video of him, and nw I have a video converter… I have to figure out where to put the videos. I want to ‘password’ protect them and send links to family without them having to sign up to goodness knows what. Any suggestions?

For a kid who h.a.t.e.s to write… he has great stories.