Tooth, goats, soup and stories

Aaron got his ultra-wiggly tooth out today. And oh dear, the tooth fairy’s secret identity has been exposed. I knew I should have hidden Caleb’s extracted tooth in a better place than the drawer in my craft cabinet here, but when Aaron went hunting for glue today for a science activity sheet he came across the tooth. Some questions put to their honest mother revealed the truth – which they had been suspecting all along, but now it is confirmed.


Caleb and Aaron have been getting friendly with some goats – apparently Caleb has gone so far as to actually have a ride on the back of one! I haven’t verified this and find it slightly hard to believe, but they definitely have been petting the goats, and Aaron came rushing in today declaring that they needed the hammer in a hurry as the big billy goat was nearly free from his tether, so I guess they were going to hammer the post in deeper… “No dilly-dallying”, said he, frantically looking for the tool!

I made soup for supper, so yummy. The boys actually enjoyed it which is unusual (they’re not big on soup) and Aaron even had a second helping. I think that since we have been learning about “What’s Inside You” in school, they are aware of the fact that bodies need the four main food groups, so when I pointed out that the soup contained three of those they were happy to eat it. Speaking of school, the boys started at 7.30 this morning, just for fun…they got most of their maths out of the way, as well as most of their written work, well before 9 am! I was very happy for them to go ahead with the stuff, but surprisingly we didn’t end school very much earlier – but I think Wednesdays tend to be a slightly heavier day, work wise. The boys had to write stories in the Language section, which I took down on the laptop – I type much faster than I can write. Here they are:

THE MAN CRAZY
By Aaron
Once upon a time there was a man called George and he didn’t like bats in his house so and they came in from the chimney, and so he scared them out with a big blowy thing and then he farted them away. Then this shuttle came down and the x-men came out. And the man that didn’t like bats in the house, he wanted to rule the world and the x-men killed him.
The End.

THE END OF THE WORLD
By Caleb
Once upon a time a boy was being born and when he was about five years old he was told that if he ever saw an alien space shuttle that looked like a flying saucer come down, then it would be the end of the world. So the boy also was told that he must never be unkind or the space shuttle could come down and when he was fifteen years old, he forgot what his father said and a woman asked him for water, but he said, “Go and get your own”. And at that moment he heard a rumbling sound and he saw the space shuttle coming down and suddenly everything went dark. His dog stopped barking; the houses started to crumble; he felt the earth closing in to him and he saw that the sun and the moon were becoming one. Then, when the space shuttle went back up into the sky, it shot the sun and the moon and earth until there was complete nothingness, and then the boy found himself alone, floating in space. Then he saw that he was above the space shuttle and one of the doors were forgotten to be closed so he climbed in and closed the door, and then the space shuttle went to another world.
So when it was unloaded he saw all of his friends, everything on earth too, being unloaded so then he wanted to know how to get around and then he saw his dog being unloaded and the dog had a piece of paper and that showed the boy how to get around. The piece of paper pointed north to get to the post office and pointed south to get to his house and pointed east to get to the police station and west to the fire station. And then he saw that there was a building that looked like his house so he went into it and he saw his mother and father and they lived happily ever after in the new world.
The End.