Sunday, August 30, 2009

What smart girls do on Friday night...

I found this under the couch. (amongst SO MANY other things. Kids are amazing and I thank them for tempting the cockroaches beyond their insectile self-control....but that's another story.


Written by Taylor, 5th grader, to her brother.

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July 8 2009

There are many reasons I think you should let go of my arm and leave me alone. Through out this essay I shall explain my many reasons in many paragraphs and a variety of sentence structures and three different punctuation marks. I am quite unpleased to say that I am writing this group of pages during movie night. Now I shall use this sentence to bring my summary to a conclusion and I am now pleased to announce that I will begin my second paragraph.
This is my opening sentence to my second paragraph. In this paragraph I will explain my first reason. My reason is that while Payton is holding my arm (as I am sure you have noticed from the many spelling errors I have made so far in this essay) it is very had for me to concentrate on important matters.
My third reason "

It ends there. I'm sure she started screaming at that point. That's how interactions between the Bigs usually end.

But, she's a smart one. Watch out Oxford! She's got her eye on you!

4 comments:

Kelly Bryson said...

I'm at home with sick kids while you're at church. Na na Na na Na NA! What a funny essay. It's too bad you couldn't make it a collapsing post. You should get right on that, okay? Then send me instructions:) -Kelly

Becky said...

So Smart!!

erin said...

hahahahaahahahaahahaha - you MUST send that to Oprah, Ellen or somebody! That's hilarious. She should write children's books, that's so clever.

Angie said...

i have to agree with erin... an author in the making!