Baseball

    Once there was a family that was almost never home.  The mom worked at a marshmallow factory five days a week.  The dad worked at a fire pit factory also five days a week.  Troy, their son, plays travel baseball three or four days a week for two and a half hours a day.  Susie, their daughter, is in first grade and goes to ballet, tap and jazz two days a week for one hour.
    Just two weeks after school started Troy and his friend Justin and the rest of their team made it to the play offs.  They had to play five of the best teams.  And if they won all of the games they would play the team that won last year's championship.

   Finally they won the championship.  That night they celebrated by roasting marshmallows and playing board games.  Troy was happy to spend time with his whole family.  The end

Tall Tale

      Once upon a time there was a very strong man named Henry.  Henry worked on rail roads. Henry could pound a stake in the ground with one whoosh of his hammer.
    One day when Henry was hammering stakes a very tall man named Gorden challenged Henry to break through a wall half a mile long.  
    Gorden said, "If you don't break through this wall before me, I get to use my machines.  If you beat me you can still use your hammers, deal?"
    "Deal," said Henry.
     The next day Henry and Gorden waited to get started.  Henry had two hammers and Gorden used machines.  At twelve o'clock Gorden and Henry started to break through the wall.  It took 
Henry an hour and a half to break through the wall. It took 
Gorden two hours to break through the wall.  Gorden got so mad that he hurt Henry with a gun and killed him.  But from then on they used hammers.

BY. Annika.