Nice blue tail...

Good morning,

Today I would like you all use the following prompt.

While eating your bowl of breakfast cereal one morning, something very strange  starts to happen to you. Is it that you are shrinking, growing, turning blue, growing a tail, or something else? Explain what happens and how you get back to normal.

Shhhh...I work for the Secret Service...

Choose one prompt and write a response below. Remember to write like a GREAT author!

You are a Secret Service agent, and your job is to guard the president. Write a story about your job.
Or
Your teacher asked you to visit a third-grade classroom to tell the students why drugs and alcohol are dangerous. What would you tell them?

You're from where?

Choose one and write a response. 

If you worked for a candy company, what new candy would you invent? What would it taste and look like? How would you package it and what would you call it?

Or

When you opened your mail this morning, you had a message from someone who claimed to be from the planet Zeron. What did the message say? Write a response to the message.

Who sent you a talking bird? ;-)

Imagine that you come home from school one day and find a large wrapped package on the kitchen table. It has your name on the label with no return name or address. You quickly open it and gasp in surprise! Describe what is in the package, who it is from, and what effect this unexpected gift will have on you.

Or

Have you ever listened to two birds chirping in the trees and wondered what they were saying to each other? Make believe you could actually understand their language for one magical morning. Write down what the two birds said to each other word for word.

Making Connections

When you read it is important to make connections. These connections help you comprehend the text. Comprehend means to understand and remember what you read.

You can make connections by making -
a text to self connection.
a text to text connection. Or a
a text to world connection.

The Relatives Came

The Relatives Came by Cynthia Rylant

Think of a time when your relatives came to visit. Use descriptive words to tell about their visit. Remember to use punctuation and capitalization in your writing.