I have greatly enjoyed reading your short stories using the picture from the blog and our new vocabulary words. You guys are definitely progressing in your ability to write in English which means you are also progressing in your understanding of it! You all should be very proud of yourselves! Just for fun I also wrote a short story about picture number 5. In my brainstorm I chose "angry" and "young" to describe the picture. Here is my story, if you come across a word you don't know look it up!
There once was a little boy named Jack who lived in a house near the beach with his mother, father, and two brothers. His family was neither rich nor poor, but somewhere in between. Even at a young age, Jack was a very brave boy who loved adventures. Anything that looked interesting or exciting Jack was willing to try. His mother was always telling him to be careful! Once he came across a crab in the sand who was trying to scurry back into the ocean. He thought the crab might be friendly so he tried to pick it up, but it snapped its pinchers at him. When he told his older brother what he did his brother called him crazy and said crabs are never friendly. Another time Jack saw a glass bottle in the water not too far from the sand. He carelessly swam out to it thinking that it had an important message inside. He thought if there was an important message inside he would become famous for finding it. There were so many popular stories about people finding important messages in bottles in the ocean he was certain he would find one too. But when he got to the bottle there was no message inside, it was just an ugly old bottle. He felt very unlucky, and very sad.
One morning Jack was on the beach walking his dog Spot. He was very happy because tomorrow was his birthday! As he was passing the jetty he looked out and saw the most beautiful seashell sitting on a rock not that far away. The seashell looked so perfect and so beautiful that he just had to go get it, even though his mother insisted he never walk on the jetty because it was very dangerous. But being the clever boy that he was he knew his mom could not see the jetty from the house so he started to walk towards the shell. Just as he was about to grab it a wave came and pushed the shell into a thin space between the rocks. He bent down to reach it with his small hand but just then his mother grabbed him by the other arm and took him off the jetty. "You're lucky you didn't slip and fall into the ocean!" she yelled after he told her why he was on the jetty. Jack made his angry face and looked away from her. He almost had the shell! His mother laughed, "you look so cute when you're mad that I can't stay mad either". She let go of his arm and slowly and carefully walked onto the jetty and got the shell for him. "Consider it an early birthday present" she said.
