"Take My Word For It!" - creative writing for kids

Excerpts from student work at Grattan Elementary (grades 2nd, 3rd and 4th)

 

Nicolas: (Secret Poems/Prompts): “If I lost my secret the ocean’s heart will slowly sink to the bottom and after there will be a drought. I found my secret at the bottom of a pyramid and it is guarded by two gargoyles and a phoenix the last one Dracula.

Emma: (Secret Poems/Prompts):

“I found it (secret) in the middle of the dead sea

thousands of feet underwater

where no fish go

inside a witch’s lair

where glowworms

danced along the entrance

to light my way”

 

Alia: (Secret Poems/Prompts) “I found my secret in a dark closet. It had fuzzies and it was disgusting and smelly.

 Lilo: (Secret Identities): “Black cat is best described as a abnormal male black cat, considering that he’s 5 inches tall. He is also not so normal because he hunts fawns and bears. Black cat can transform…from his scruffy black fur to a small costume…red leotard, a red cape and a pair of red tights.”

Asher: (Secret Poems/Prompts): I found it in the corner of a torn tapestry. It was smiling as if it wanted me to take it from its evil clutches. I thought its heart was dancing as if it was flying towards its home. I felt as if it would disappear forever if I left it. Just waiting for its freedom. I felt as if I found it a million years ago.

 

Zoe: (Secret Poems/Prompts): If I lost this secret my house would explode and my heart would explode…I would die with my prayers and eat a pie on the way…and I would get a friend in heaven…”

Jackson: (Secret Recipes): “ 1 oz. Alcohol / 5 oz. Ice water / 1 oz. Hot lava / 1 Stone / Stir until bubbling – It came to me when my brother died in an old abandoned book that I found in a boarded up library **be careful there is no air when doing this otherwise it will explode ** It was coded but on a folded page I found a decoder. The only other coded word was on the cover. I realized it was (insert Jackson’s code here…)

Noe: (Secret Identities): “My characters secret identity is to turn into a leopard man. He looks like a regular leopard in the grassland and his name is leopard man.”

Shoka: (Secret Identities): It’s name is Paper Fold. It is a girl…she has a ribbon in her hair. She is 9 inches and her power is to turn into a paper crane. Her skin is white.” 

 

After-School Student Writing: Grattan Elementary

We're proud to feature our students' work on our blog! Here are some short excerpts from Grattan Elementary's 2nd, 3rd and 4th grade after-school class:

 

Bridget

(Imagination: What if I had an evil twin…)

My eviel twin is so eivle…My twin even has a secret layer. Now I know I’m doing a lot of erers that’s because this is how she writes. (note: spelling errors were part of the story.)

 
Sophie

(Imagination: What if I had an evil twin…)

Her voice would be scratchy and she would be ugly. She would not be very polite. I would defeat her by turning her into a marigold…

Asher

 (Writing from Photos)

There was a bunch of balloons floating over the mountains. The balloons could feel the wind blowing them south from California to Africa.

Jackson

 (Sensory Details)

The loud hard fast rain came down. Like at the speed of light a drop hit the ground. “Plop!” like two planets crashing together.

 

 Cecilia

 (Imagination: What if I had an evil twin…)

My twin looks exactly like me, she has black hair like the night…she will wear the same thing that I wear and she will say, “did you copy me?” 

Elanor

 (Imagination: What if I had an evil twin…)

If I had an evil twin my twin would look exactly like me. She would always be turning herself into things like elephants, snakes and spiders.          

 

Julius

 (Story Starter)

Once upon a time there was mustard and ketchup and they told each other jokes and laughed all night long while governing in the white house. 

Arly

(Free Word Association Relay + Writing a Story)

It’s a clown. They call it a clown because he’s wearing all the wrong clothes in rainbow color. 

 
Zoe

(Writing Through the Senses)

Once upon a time the cafeteria was noisy…the crash sounded like BOOM! Everybody stared at the alien spaceship and then the aliens threw a pie at me.

Kaya

(Looking Closely + Story)

A long time ago there was a magical bird who loved to sing. When it sang every one became punished but when it cried for help, everyone would become scared. 

 

Natalie 

 (Imagination: If I had an evil twin…)

When we get home she makes me clean her room. She cooks dinner and poisons mine…one night she extra poisoned my food and when wouldn’t eat it she told me she would eat it and got sick and when she got better she not evil anymore.  

 

Izzy

 (Story Starter)

Harry and Cho decided to have a cute date. Cho died her hair blue and green and Harry dyed his pink and purple!

 

Jacqueline 

 (Writing from Photos)

I like the outside of the dress and I also like the design. I think she looks nice and she has plastic on her because she’s deaf.