Frog's First Interview

Today's quick write-courtesy of Jo Knowles-from Teachers Write

Hello there friends.  I am Fred the frog...I am green and slimy with 4 legs.  A funny thing about my legs, they've stretched and grown.  Soon after I hatched from my egg, I had a tail and no legs and I swam through the water like a fish.  Then my back legs grew out.  Before I knew it, I had front legs too and could hop onto the land nearby instead of only living in Carol Pond.  On top of all this growing excitement, I also lost my tail!  Who knew?

So now, my favorite place to hang out is in the small hole in the garden. I dug it out to keep cool during the hot summer days.  I slowly creep out on hot summer evenings to hunt for my dinner of bugs.  I don't like sharing my corner of the garden with anyone else, I love to keep all the bugs for me...

Here's some news about my family!  When I was first born, I had lots of brothers and sisters.  We all hung out as  small black eggs together in the water connected to the roots of the lily pads.  After we hatched, I got to spend lots of time swimming with the family in the water of the pond.  Sadly, some of my siblings (my brothers and sisters) were eaten by fish, like Koi or birds, like Blue Heron or Hawks.  I don't see my family much now that we've left the pond.  We all went our separate ways.

I'm going to tell you about my favorite part of me-my tongue!  I love how I can stretch it out and use it to catch my prey, like beetles, flies and ants.  I want to fill my belly with good things to eat.  The least favorite thing about me is my skin.  People stare at my skin and comment about its ugliness when they see me.  That makes me feel sad sometimes.

My biggest pet peeve is the myth that people always blurt when they see me and try to pick me up-I'm going to pee on their hand and give them warts.  This is completely untrue.  I think that mommies made this up so their kids wouldn't pick up frogs.  However, I do have warts on my skin that can pass along bad bacteria to people-so you might not want to touch me after all.

The thing that I am most afraid of are birds.  I don't like birds for two reasons.  One reason is they can be big enough to swoop down out of the sky and eat me.  The other reason I don't like them is because the smaller birds swoop into my garden and eat the bugs I was spying on for dinner.

So now that you know a little bit about me, how about telling a little bit about you?

The Journaling Markers

Tuesday's Slice of Life from the Two Writing Teachers
During yesterday's quick write from Jo Knowles, I worked to make a list of everything in my scrapbooking room...the item I love best is my journaling markers...Here's their story!

Looking at all our colors, we're different shades and hues.

Wondering about today, which of us she'll choose!

Giving life to pictures, the story in addition

When our scrapper picks us up, she is on a mission.

Loving it when we open up, our skinny end or fat,

Scribbling, scrolling across the pages, that's where the story's at!

Selecting colors carefully to complement or contrast

Wondering if the journaling will move along slowly or really very fast

Thinking of the extra things we sometimes get to do

Our scrapper let's us decorate with little doodles too!

Admiring us for what we do, we love our scrapper friend!

We love it when we get to write completed pages near the end...

Admitting that we might be done and soon be put away

Lid capped tightly, back in the basket, we'll story another day!