You’re on a Gigantic Roll!
WritingFix has a fun lesson–called ”You’re on a Gigantic Roll“ –that was inspired by the chapter book James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl.
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June 19th, 2008 at 12:54 pm
The Giant Mango
By: Tymoteusz, Preston, and Grayson
Grade: 3-4
Once in a small town at a daycare center beside a mango tree, a troublemaker decided it might be fun to knock over a big bag of fertilizer. He knocked it over on the roots of a mango tree. Soon a mango started growing and growing until it pulled the tree right out of the ground. Then the giant mango started rolling out of control.
The giant mango rolled right inside the nearby daycare center, causing the diapers to explode all over the place. One even exploded right into Tym’s face. He started crying, “My face.” He grabbed the diaper and chucked it on the ground, but then the great “beast” appeared before him. Tym said, “Easy big fellow,” but it was too late. He was as flat as paper.
After smashing through houses and crashing through walls, the monstrous mango suddenly left the destroyed town, heading straight for the town power well. Rolling at a high speed, it crashed into the power well and tipped it over.
Creak ! Kaboom! Mango was flying everywhere, accelerating at a high speed.
While sitting on a bench, a grandma watched the mango explode into the honey bucket. Sparks hit her head and she screamed, “Fire, fire, fire!” When the firemen arrived, they shot their squirt guns at the mango, causing it to absorb the water and pop into millions of pieces.
At last, the little troublemaking kid had to pickup all the pieces of the mango that had exploded all over the town. Then the little bad kid had an idea to sell the pieces of mango on e-Bay. His plan worked and he used the money to fix up the town with his new power tools. After fixing up the town, everyone lived happily ever after…well…at least until the bad kid bought more fertilizer.
September 15th, 2008 at 8:22 am
By: Jordyn, Janelle, Caitlin, and Corrina
June 5, 2008
Grade: 3rd and 4th
While at the Everett Mall Janelle, Corrina, Jordyn, and Caitlin were in the food court ordering a cheese biscuit. They all bumped into one another. As they were talking all of their cheese biscuits combined into one creating a giant cheese biscuit. They all watched in amazement as the biscuit took off into the mall.
Rolling and rolling it ran into the glass window of Jamba Juice. Everything including the banana peels went flying. Orange juice splashed through the air. Carrots poked people in the eye and the sign came smashing down. All the windows fell out of the building. Before we knew it the giant cheese biscuit was rolling again.
The cheese biscuit kept rolling and bumping against walls. Causing the cheese biscuit to go faster and faster. It was going so fast you could not stop it even if you tried. The biscuit ran into Build-a-Bear workshop. Stuffing, clothes, bears, dogs, and rabbits were flying everywhere. Computers were crushed and the Build-a-Bear robots were broken. Quickly the biscuit went speeding past and headed toward another store.
The giant cheese biscuit flattened the books in Barnes and Noble. Smack! Again and again flattening books like no other. “Wow,” one girl screamed, then she said “what is going on,” and “what is this?” It was going out of control and nobody could stop the giant cheese biscuit.
The giant cheese biscuit was out of control. Rolling straight for Nordstrom Rack. It rolled right into the high heel section and smashed all the heels off the shoes. All the people came racing over to see what happened.
At last, the giant cheese biscuit got stuck between two doors when exiting Nordstrom Rack. They did not notice the window was broken causing rain to fall on the cheese biscuit. Each drop of rain made the biscuit shrink until it was just the size to eat.
January 25th, 2009 at 6:09 pm
The Big Beach Ball Story
Don’t you love the beach? The calm salty wind in your hair. The smooth lapping of the waves mixed with the laughter of children. The cries of the seagulls, everything is so calm. But when the Baxter family goes to the beach, it is never calm.
Every time school was let out for summer vacation, the Baxter family like many other families, went to the beach; but they always caused chaos and were asked to leave. The first time Johnny, Sally and, Joe went to the beach, they set fire to a hot dog stand because they wanted to be fire eaters. Johnny pushed Joe into the hot dog stand and it caught on fire. Next year they stole somebody’s boat and crashed into the police boat. This year the teenagers were determined to be good.
“Are we there yet?” Joe asked for the millionth time.
“No, if you listened you would know it was another half an hour.” Sally said, “ Remember you promised to be good and not cause any trouble so we could stay on the beach for more than two hours.”
“Yeah whatever,” Joe said in his I AM SO TOTALLY BORED voice. Sally sighed heavily and got back to work fixing the GPS.
“Earth to Johnny, Earth to Johnny we have landed!” Joe shouted in his ear. “We are here?” Johnny woke up quickly from his dream of being the best boxer in the world. “Let’s go and explore!” said Sally “There is a new store on the boardwalk!” “Awesome,” said Johnny as they ran off into the crowds.
As the siblings ran into the cool dark store, Joe got a bad felling about this little store, he felt that trouble would start here. They looked around the store for things to use. They didn’t have enough money to buy three things so they all decided on a beach ball. “Let’s go and blow it up,” the siblings cried in unison. Laughing they ran outside the dark store and got blinded by the bright light. Covering their eyes Sally and Joe went to find a good place to put their stuff on the overly crowded beach. As soon as they had set up the umbrellas and blankets a dark shadow loomed over the beach. There was a silence as everyone looked over at Johnny (who was as surprised as everyone at the time) standing next to the monster beach ball. It was bigger than the Ferris Wheel which was the biggest shoreline Ferris wheel in the world! Then a lady screamed, which started the chaos! Everyone was running and screaming! Then the monster started to roll down the beach to the amusement park. People started running after it. No one could catch up to it, even the people riding on quads. It crashed through hot dog stands as people dived out of its way. Then suddenly it rolled into the ocean and everyone cheered! Then there was a big splash and a big blue whale jumped out of the water hitting the beach ball back to the shore! This gave Johnny an idea.
Johnny quickly ran through the amusement park looking for the perfect thing. “Yes, I found it!” he cried jumping up and down. He got fifteen of the strongest men he could find on the beach. Then he told them the plan, “ We will pop it with that big pencil on the school ride.” They all detached the pencil and carried it over to the beach. People moved out of the way so they could go through. “One, two. three!” Johnny shouted as all of the fifteen men popped the big beach ball. Everyone cheered, even the whale.
“Let’s go, we got into trouble again,” Sally said sadly. As they walked to the car the owner of the beach stopped them, “Don’t go, you brought so much publicity to my beach!”
“Yeah!!!” they all yelled. “We are finally staying for more than two hours!” cried Sally.
“I have also upgraded your hotel room to the Seahorse suites!” said the owner “Wow! This will the best vacation ever!” the siblings shouted. Now they come here every year still causing trouble but never again were they asked to leave.
March 30th, 2009 at 4:56 am
Sandwich Mayhem
“Ding!” the gi-normus oven sounded. It was the sandwich! “Finally! It is done!” exclaimed the baker at Subway. “I have made a sandwich as big as an elephant and I am going to give it to my father for his birthday!” Or……. so he thought!
As the baker took the Italian sandwich out of the oven he slipped on a yellow banana peel and the sandwich slid out the door like a penguin on ice. “Now my father will never get is birthday sandwich!” the baker cried. It smashed the door in half and slid down route 72! The gi-normus sandwich crashed into kids playing on the playground! It slammed into the high school and jolted around to crash into the Pretzel Factory! The town will have to face the horrible music! No one knew what to do!
Screaming came from all over the town and did not stop for hours! Now……… this gi-normus sandwich knew that it was going to the baker’s father’s house, and that was exactly the plan! The sandwich slid into Fawn Lakes leaving parts of food, schools, and some restaurants behind! Soon the Italian sandwich hearled to a stop and the screaming turned into rejoicing! Suddenly, the baker’s father dashed out of his house and began eating the, NOW DISCUSTING SANDWICH!!
The town of Manahawkin will always remember the day a huge sandwich slid through it! The town felt relieved after the sandwich stopped! The towns’ people hope that they don’t experience this sandwich again! The town has decided to all pitch in to help repair the town!
March 30th, 2009 at 5:00 am
The Pineapple of Destruction!
“It‘s alive! It’s alive! ,” screamed Dr. Phil. His enormous, prickly, pineapple creation came to life! There was one thing wrong with it; the pineapple was as clumsy as a baby walking for the first time. “Boom!” the pineapple destroyed Dr. Phil’s shrink ray! “Crack!” now it snapped the doctor’s important, delicate flying car in half!
“This pineapple is a pain in the neck!” cried Dr. Phil. At that instant, the giant fruit flew like an eagle right into the time machine! “Where did my juicy fruit go?” Dr. Phil nervously asked himself. Dr. Phil ran to the time machine and pressed a large, red button and a robotic voice quickly said “Latest destination traveled to: New York, New York Yankee Stadium, 1923.” Suddenly he screamed, “My pineapple went to the Big Apple without me?!!?”
As Dr. Phil went back to 1923 in his car he turned on the radio. While he was listening to the noisy radio in his classic automobile he heard “This just in, there is a strong, colossal pineapple heading towards Yankee Stadium!” Dr. Phil followed a trail of sticky pineapple juice and large pineapple chunks to the historic, monumental stadium. When Dr. Phil arrived at the large baseball arena he realized that today was the day that Babe Ruth hit his famous pointing homerun! “Oh no, my pineapple creation is going to make a mockery of a historic game!” cried Dr. Phil.
The worried doctor saw his over sized fruit tumble into Yankee Stadium. The baseball fans were screaming, trying to escape, and the opposing manager even wet his pants! The batter, Babe Ruth, kept pointing to center field where the pineapple was located, but the pitcher threw a pitch that Babe wacked deep into the stadium’s parking lot that became one of his most memorable homeruns. Eventually, the Air Force was called and the pineapple was vanquished when they pushed it into the ocean, by an enormous net that fell from above.
The scientist felt horrible for the terrible chaos he caused. The police decided that the creator of destruction will be sent to prison. The people of New York hope that something like this will never happen again. The memory of seeing the ruins of a beautiful city was awful.
March 30th, 2009 at 5:02 am
Humongous Baseball
“Whoosh!” went the baseball zooming onto the target. “Ding, ding, ding, ding!” the buzzer sounded. I had just hit the dunk-tank record for the St.Mary’s carnival in Manahawkin, all three balls hitting the target. That ball didn’t stop though, it kept rotating, and rotating, and rotating, and growing, and growing until it was as big as a giant. Then, it started to roll and squish everything in its path.
It started to go faster and faster until it was so fast it seem invisible. The ball was humongous, hard, speedy, and seemingly in-destructible.”Everybody run!’ one man screamed. Everybody was running all over the place. It was mad chaos. When it was done with the carnival, it didn’t stop. It revolved down Route 9 and crashed into the Ocean County Library. It swiveled into the park, “Boom,” it hit everything. Nothing could stop this monster. It pivoted into the nearby Wawa. “Bang,” the baseball was now rolling to the high school. The chaos was increasing, everybody was running, screaming, hiding, and two people called the cops!
The baseball was wheeling into the high school. “Crash,” it hit the high school. It felt like nothing could stop it until it began to slow to a stop. Everybody cheered with happiness. Suddenly the cheering stopped, there was a ticking noise like a time bomb. The baseball was going to explode! Everybody hid behind debris until it was over. When they got out, it was raining baseballs. Everyone was all thumbs tripping over the balls. But, they were happy it was over.
The people of Manahawkin will always remember that monster baseball. They hope that kind of chaos will never happen again. They felt very happy when the disaster was over. The people have decided to clean up the entire mess of bits of buildings, flatten cars, and damaged buildings.