A Collection of Stories by Aaron

As promised....I have taken the time to sit down and copy Aaron's stories that he make up for creative writing. He placed 6 in UIL for one of them. He is such a great writer for being in the 2nd grade. They are given a piece of paper that has 5 pictures on it and they must write a story based on one or more of the pictures. I hope you enjoy them!
A Ghostly Tale

A ghost named billybob tried to scare me. This is what the ghost did. One night when I was trick or treating I went to A haunted house someone locked the door behind me. I went farther into the house. Then, liveingroom. He showed up!and then he said...BOO! and I fainted. He manged to wake me up whith slime. And then. I went home.

This is Aaron's first story....I am typing them just as he wrote them. You can really start to see how much better he gets with punctuation and spelling as he writes.

Accident With My Backpack

It all started on my way to school this mornig. Lane and I were sitting together the bus. The bus stopped at Meanie Jim's house. All the kid's were scared. As Meanie Jim got on the bus he was going down the isle knocking our backpacks on the floor. The bus driver didn't even notice what he was doing. My backpack was open and everythig spilled onto the floor. Land and I tried to pick up all my stuff but a little kid stepped on my waterbottle. The little kid hit her head and cried. We asked the bus driver for help. Meanie Jim had to go then princapal's office when we got to school.

Hard Math

Today at math class my math teaher "Mrs. Day" was handing out A hard math quiz. It was twenty-four plus, fourteen. I asked Mrs. Day what it eqals. Before I could ask her what it was it was time for lunch. I grabed my lunchbox and ran to get in line. When we got in the room I took a guss. It was thirty-eight. When we got to class the next morning she handed them out. I got it right!

Wizard Adventre

There once lived A teacher who lived in A cabin. Her school was small but big in heart. One day after school she walked outside. A talking owl spoke to her and said, Follow me you are in great danger. And so she followed the owl. When they got there the teacher said, "WOW! that is some castle you go there owl." Oh, that's not my house said the owl that's my owner's house, said the owl. Then an ugle old which swooped down on her broom and took the teacher. A wizard came up on a water brethig dragon. Up came the water and it hit the wich with A...SPLASH! Down went the which with a ....Plop! and when the which got up she said I'm melting I'm melting! And the which died.

Airport exspress

Jose V. and I went to the airport on Friday. We packed our bags and went. when we got there I asked Jose V. if he had the Astralia tickets. He looked in the pocket. And he said "Yes". And then we took off. When we got in the airplane we said "Hi" to the driver. We took our seats. And then we heard a thumping sound. THUMP! THUMP! THUMP! and then we took off. At seven o'clock the y gave us a bag of peanuts and two bottle of soda. They were delicus! Finlay Jose B. went to sleep. When he woke up we were at Astralia! We were so happy when we climbed up Ayers rock!

(For those of you who remember we did Boomerang Express this year at VBS and I know he remembered Ayers Rock from there!)

Ballon Bash

There once was a girl named Melody. Here mother's name was Zoe but they friends just called her Zo. One day Zoe went to drop off his son Mike. But on Mike's sholder was his pet inchworm named Smart Smity. Smart Smity could talk but nobody knew he could. One day his mom Zoe let him walk to school but on the way there a air ballon showed up right under them! They said YIKES! Mike tried to get down but it was to late. They were in the air. But in the basket was food. water.rope and a picnic quilt. Smart Smity had a idea. He told Mike to buld a paruchute and put him in his backpack. Together they made a paruchute. And when they got ubove the school they jumped off! Mike screamed AGGGGH! And landed on the roof. And they jumped again. And landed on the grass. And met his friend.

Fireman Raising

There once was a boy named Victor. Victor wanted a fire helmat for Cristmas. And Sristmas was almost there. It was December twenty-fourth. It was Victor's favorite time of year. Because he loved to see Santa Claus in the mall. that night before he got into bed his dad Brain brought him to the mall. Because Grampa Miller needed a presant from the familty to Victor got Grampa a poket knife. And a hug from Santa. It was three o'clock and it was time for bed. That day Victor woke up and saw a frie helmat. He was so happy he jumped up and down in his pajama's. He grew up to be twety-five. And became a fireman. But he was ingered. And quit his job. And he game his son the fire helmat and the air tank. And took his place in the fire department.

Night of the Raccoon

There once was a raccoon named Sly. Sly was nocternal so he could see in the dark. When he was walking around he saw a trashcan. He jumped on the lid into the trashcan. When he was in it he saw a bag of peanuts. Sly loved peanuts so he gobbled them up. But once he got out SPLASH! He went into the steam. And he hit a rock in the stream PLOP! He opened the lid into the tree stump and he went. Once he got in he climbed out. Then he noticed he climbed out of this house! And got back in. Then everyone jumped out of nowhere and scared him. They he fogot it was his birthday. So he got in and at some cake and played and played until it was day. And went to sleep. With his teddy raccoon Sly Junior.

Barnyard Bash

There once was a girl named Rosie. Rosie was four years old. One day at school Rosie went to the farm. Rosie met a farmer named Bob. bob owned the farm. "Framer Bob" Rosie yelled. Rosie was in the sandbox Farmer Bob owned to. Her freind Kelly and Jenna were making sand castles. Then Farmer bob yelled "over here" so they came over. Farmer Bob said "Were goint to play a game" in a whisper voice. "We have to find one thing" he said. "We have to find a toy helicopter" he said. So they set off to find the toy helicopter. First, they went past the cow pen then, they went in the barn. Rosie yelled "I found it!" she picked it up and took it. She retemered it. And rosie, Jenna and Kelly got a sticker that said "Good Work!" and they went home.


I hope you had fun reading these! He did a great job! I think Night of the Raccoon was the story that he entered in the competition. Hope you have a great new year!

Love,
The McGuire's

School is Out!

Yippee! Yahoo! School is out for 2009! Two whole weeks to play and do nothing....OK maybe not nothing but it's going to be good! What have we been up to since my last post in October?????? Blowing and going! Caleb rounded out his junior high football career and promptly started basketball. They only lost two games in football and did great! However, basketball is not going to be so lucky. They have one of three games so far. Caleb sits on the bench most of the time until someone gets in foul trouble. He is having fun but is starting to rethink all of the sports stuff. He is figuring out that he has to practice just as hard to sit on the bench as they guys who play. Anyway, he has already mentioned dropping everything in High school except for Band. Band was fun this year. He got to go to all of the football games and march, plus UIL competitions and all district try outs. Plus, their band director, Mr. Bro, has an annual Halloween party and Christmas party that are fun. Also, he got to go the the Sand Dunes of Monahans for a fun trip with the band. During the middle of all of this, Caleb also was in the junior high one act play and did a great job. They won a lot of point toward UIL competition. Caleb also, did UIL Science in Winters in December and placed 8th in district. We are very proud of him.
Jared has been busy with UIL also. This year he was a part of the Art Smart Team and placed 5th in District. He had to memorize 40 paintings and their authors plus know how to spell them. He worked on them every night and did great. However, I think next year he is going to try something different. Learning to spell, "Fantasy View with the Pantheon and Other Monuments of Ancient Rome" by Panini was pretty hard and that was only one of the 40! He also won the kids of Character Award for December for his 4th grade class and was on the "A" honor roll this whole semester!
Aaron was also able to do UIL competition in creative writing. He placed 6th in district! However, he didn't get to go to Winters because he was only in the 2nd grade so they write their story and sent it in. His teacher was so proud of him and let him call me from school to tell me the good news. I think he did awesome!
The boys are loving Miles and loving a small community. We love the fact that homework is so much easier out here. They don't have a lot of extra work and their AR points required are much less! They have loved being able to spend time outside and working with Brian on the pump house.
Brian has been working on home improvements around the new house and has just finished the new well house. It will protect it from the weather and keep my water from freezing! Our "town house" in San Angelo still has not sold. We are in need of a God miracle soon. Our loan is due on January 15th and we must have a contract on it before then. We had a contract for a month and a half but it fell through 6 days before closing because they could not get the loan. It was so disappointing! Now we are back to square one and we only have 26 to sell it. I know God can do this! Please, please join us in prayer that a buyer will step forward.
I have been busy with parents gifts, kids crafts and kids gifts to finish off the year at St. Luke. I have a great class this year and it's much easier than last year but, all the stress of the house and finding a new church is making life seem a little harder. I just try to rest in the fact that God will answer our prayers and that we just need to be still and listen. We have tried many churches since leaving Hillcrest and have even been back to Hillcrest a couple of times. I don't know what God has in store for us still but, will continue to seek him. I know he will never leave us or forsake us and that is enough for now. I hope you and your family has a very blessed and wonderful Christmas! We are blessed and I give thanks for my family and my friends! God Bless!