Writing as a Gift

For my writing as a gift I wrote a couple letters to a couple people.

Final Reflection

1. Uh-Oh was probably my favorite thing that I wrote. It was so much fun creating my own book and getting feedback on it. Childhood was a really fun writing post too, it really helped me look back on when I was younger and all of the great times I had.
2. My favorite thing to read this year were the children's books. I really like Meredith's Macy and Chip story. It really showed her personality and take on life.
3. Setting up my blog was so easy that I made it difficult. I never mess with technology most of the time. I just made my blogs name my name to keep it simple. I think the people at my table read it and a couple other people from around this room. I don’t really care who reads, as long as they enjoyed reading it. I might use it in the future when I write some random stories.
4. Journaling can be hard for me if I don’t have someone tell me what I need to write. I can come up with something eventually but it’s usually really hard. I have all sorts of things in my journals, unfinished stories, poems. I don’t want anyone to read it. I probably will not continue journaling if I do it’ll be to finish the story.
5. Drugs

Makeup is a type of drug. You start out every so often just for fun and then you realize you like it, like the way it feels, like the way you feel. So you wear it more and more and more and then it slowly becomes a need to wear it. Eventually you get to the point in which you don’t want to leave the house without it. If you’re ever running late and don’t have the time you spend the rest of the day avoiding eye contact at all costs or you just skip whatever you were going to. Makeup can be a problem, it can be an addiction. But, can’t anything?

6. She blinked in the overwhelming darkness, her senses slowly coming to life. She questioned herself as to why she was awake. Her alarm hadn’t woken her up so what did? There was no possibility of going back to sleep now, grumpily sighing and swinging her legs out of bed she put her foot down. Silently cursing she yanked it back up and was muttering incoherently when she felt the prickle of someone watching her. Warily she glanced around the room as the prickles continued traveling up and down her spine. Disturbed she put her feet on the floor again wincing slightly at the biting cold. She suspected it was probably her stupid brother, and if it was she was going to punch him in the face and happily go back to bed while his blood dried on her knuckles.
7. I plan on continuing to write my stories. I don’t really get anything other than the satisfaction of knowing I can write a story. My story writing is something I want to do, writing at school is something I have to do.
8. Thank you for reading my stories and offering me feedback, critique, and encouragement.

Uh - Oh

In the middle of the night only one stays awake. He's always ready to protect. All you need to say is "Uh-Oh", and he's there ready to help and save the day. One day he heard it. "Uh-Oh". He rushed to the sound. He looked up when he heard a whooshing sound. Meatballs were falling from the sky! He hid in a cave till it stopped. When it finally did he began cleaning up the meatball mess. Later that day when he was taking a nap he heard it again, " Uh-Oh". Running to the sound he slid to a stop. A loud creaking noise coming from above him scared him. A skyscraper was falling over! Using his strength and speed he ran to the skyscraper and tried to hold it up. He held up the bottom but the top fell off! Carefully he stood the bottom back up and then lifted the top and put it back on. After a long day of hard work it was time to go to bed. There were no other "Uh-Oh's" for the rest of the night.

About the Author

Katelynn Sandford is a young girl who lives with her mom and two siblings. She is the oldest of three. Her best friend is her dog rascal. 

Books for Kids

Title: Time to go home, Little Bunny

Author: Emily Hawkins

Cover: Field with a tree, multiple creatures meandering at dusk, little bunny in the center. 

Page num: 14

Characters: Little Bunny, Bunny's parents, mice, fox, deer, owl, squirrel.

Summarize: Baby is scared of the dark. He gets lost in the woods. Gets over his fear of the dark with the help of friends.

This book includes: animals as characters, a lesson of some kind, illustrations, color, actual photos, lots of words per page.

Favorite sentence: It's time to go home little bunny.

Appropriate age: 6 and older, a certain age is necessary for them to be able to understand and read the words.

I would've liked this book as a kid because it had plenty to read but still has pictures.

Comments

I love the smell of freshly blown out candles too! I've always loved family game night, My great grandma is still the same way. We have to show her which card we're playing and then suggest what she should play.

I loved the Junie B. Jones books too! They we're always a good thing to read when I needed a distraction. I absolutely loved The Tigger Movie. When my siblings we're finally old enough to understand a movie it was the first movie I made them watch with me.

I too have had many injuries in my life, I feel that it kind of effects the way you grow up in a good way. I still love monopoly but it is very hard to find people who want to play it. I still eat the entire box of fruit snacks in a day.

Childhood

 2.) The most important person to me when I was a child was cousin Josh. My dad has never been in my life so I've always looked at him like a father figure. As I grew older he became more of a brother. He always helped me in anything I've ever needed. When I was little I tried to be like him as much as possible. If he liked a band I liked that band. If he liked boots I liked boots. If he cut his hair I cut mine. He has influenced me to be a better person, a more kind person.

4.) Kayla Burkholder, we enjoyed doing everything together. We would play tag together, jump rope, play on the swings. It all changed when she became a cheerleader and her new friends decided I wasn't cool enough to play with them.

 

5.) A family fun night was and still is very rare in occurrence. We would start it off by playing lots of board games, when we got hungry we went and got dinner at a restaurant. After that we would go get tickets for a movie, while we waited for the movie we would go to a close park and play until it was time for the movie. After the movie we would get desert and go home.

12.) I went to the E.R. so many times when I was younger that they thought my mom was abusing me. They realized I was just accident prone when I went to the E. R. from the school. I've pretended to be superman on the swing resulting in a busted head. I fell out of a window and shattered my collarbone. I tripped on my blanket and hit my ear on the corner of a table and cut it in half.