TWG 07-08
Stories that appeared in the 2007-2008 season of "That's Weird, Grandma."
A Chess Learner
By Chris G. , 4th Grade, Hough Street School
When I first started chess I couldn’t even beat my Mother. Then I started chess club. Every year I got better. Soon I didn’t need to think all that hard and I rarely lost. I’m still taking chess club. Recently I have won a first place trophy. Now I am pretty good at chess. I can play billets chess (chess with 5 minutes on the clock) with no problem. In a book I read it said that Bobby Fisher was mostly famous because he competed with the Russians and won. My favorite two openings are the Stone Wall and an opening of my own making (pawn e-3 bishop c4 then knight f3). Now I am really interested in chess. I have lots of chess variations and travel chess boards that I take on vacations. I play chess a lot. Now I am awesome at chess.
A Day at the Beach
By Evelyn A., 4th Grade, Richard Henry Lee School
One day a dad and her daughter were at the beach because it was a very hot day. Then the girl was walking on the sand and something poked her foot. When she looked down it was a sword. Then she showed it to her dad her dad was amazed that she had found a sword. Then he told his daughter that he could put the sword in his mouth all the way in. His daughter was so amazed. Then they went home to see the girls mom and showed the sword to her she liked it too. The family kept the sword in a special place. Where no one could get it.
A House
By Lucy N., Loyola Park After School Program
One day there was a house on ridge elfs lived there and the elfs just bought the house. The next day the elfs lived there one of the elfs went to the bathroom and all of the elf went after him but they all wanted to go to the bathroom in the house. There are 100 elfs waiting for the bathroom. There is one bathroom in the house. All the elf have name their names are 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and on and on to 100 and elf number 1 says “We should have 100 bathrooms in this house.” So number 99 went to the neighbor and used their bathroom. Number 10 went to the school and all the elf went to the school except number 99 and 5 but the school was full so all the elf that are not 5, 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 99 had to go home and hope that 5 is done…with the house bathroom so some one came and built 100 more bathrooms so all the elf can go to the bathroom the problem is solved. The end
A Man and a Shell
By Robert J., 3rd Grade, Gale School
Once upon a time there was a man with a shell on his back. It crawled right on him and said nothing. Every day they went to read at the Aquarium. One day they were reading, they fell into a book. Because of that they were trapped until someone else read the book. The End.
Aliens From Schaumberg
By Claudio, Loyola Park After School Program
In the year 208XX the world Ersh have been almost positive of aliens being real. People were doing that.
The aliens were planning something.
Aliens: We’re prepared for The Projects.
Alien Jon: He Bob, Joits Junying Fain. (alien words)
Alien Bob: The scientists made me into a giraffe.
Alien Jon: Want some Jub Jud (alien food), ya’ll?
