We had a beautiful spring like day last week so we went to the zoo. We’re learning about Africa in school so we took pictures of all the animals that were from Africa and Brooke made a travel brochure with them.
We read a story called How the Ostrich Got Its Long Neck so then Brooke wrote a story called How the Zebra Got Its Stripes.
A long, long time ago in Africa something strange happened. It happened so long ago that the zebra was still black and they were very timid. Also zebra didn’t stay together. They went wherever they wanted. Now in the United States there was an artist named John la Newbert. This man wanted to see how many different patterns of white stripes he could make on lots of black things. But Mr. John did not have lots of black things. So he decided to search for some. He looked all over the world but nothing was quite right, so at last he had searched everywhere but Africa. He decided to finish off his search and go to Africa. As soon as he got there he realized he had found what he was looking for. The zebras were perfect. He immediately got to work. He rounded up all the zebra and began to paint and paint and paint. Soon he painted all the zebra. Then he sprayed them with stick in a can (which made the paint stick on). Then he let them loose again. By now the zebra had gotten so used to being together and were so scared of the stranger that when he let them loose the zebra stayed together even when they ran. After that all the new baby zebras had stripes too. As for Mr. John, he went back home to draw snowmen. The End.
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