The Lonely Snowman
Last night I had the pleasure of dictating a story while Jacob thought it up. This was an assignment from school that he started but wasn’t able to finish during class, so together we completed it last night. I love story telling from all different angles but I have usually been the story teller not the audience. Getting a chance to hear Jacob’s story about his “Lonely Snowman” was intriguing. His idea throughout the story was that the snowman was lonely and wanted some friends to play with. The snowman and his friends did whatever they could to ensure they continued to have fun – including the annihilation of planets and alien species in the process. Fun. You have to love boys. His story was all over the board but the general idea remained the same.
A part of the assignment, which I didn’t really understand originally, and was confused somewhat when he started talking about, was that he had to incorporate various terminology from his math class into the overall story. Currently he is learning about various shapes and the parts that make them up – such as a circle which has a radius and circumference or a rhombus and its angles. Many of the characters in the story come from distant worlds and take on such shapes.
Even in the role of stenographer the story was fun. Granted hearing it vs. reading might have been different, especially with the enthusiasm and speed with which he delivered it – I can type fast buddy – but certainly not as fast as you can talk – and who the heck knew Rhombus was spelled Rhombus? Spell check couldn’t figure out what a “rumbas” was – thank you Google for the assist.
Here is Jacob’s story:
The Lonely Snowman
Once there was a very lonely snowman. He had no one to play with. All that he had to play with was a fake snowman that was not alive. It was plastic! All he had to was throw snowballs at the snowman and it was really boring. One day a snow saucer came down to snow earth. A he saw a snow alien coming out. He was so excited because he thought they were friendly. And he thought they would play with him. Then the snow alien came out of the snow saucer and he looked mean. And the snowman said “Oh No!!!”. And more and more came out of the saucer. And when they finally all came out there was a hundred million. The snow saucer was so big it that if filled up the whole snow earth. Then they took out their blasters and zapped all the snow men on earth. Then a snow alien baby was born. And then a parallelogram from another planet was born. And then more and more and more. Then there was a trapezoid from the trapezoid planet. Then a rectangle from the rectangle planet. Then a square was formed from kryptonite from a distant planet from the far off side of the universe that the snowmen could not find at all because it was on the other side of the universe. And then circles from the circle side of the universe. And the circle drew a line through the middle up from top to bottom and this was its diameter. Then he drew a line around the circle and that was called the circumference. Then they all came to snow earth. Then there was a tiny winy square that was born but it had super power. And then a rhombus, but it did not have super powers. It was just ordinary. and then the grew up until they were bigger and they were thirty years old. When they were old enough to use blasters. The snowman was thirty-two so he could use a blaster too. And the quadrilateral was just born and he was very tiny tiny tiny and his mother was like four hundred years old. And the rectangle, the parallelogram, the square, the rhombus, fought the snow aliens and they won. But this is not the end yet. After a few years some more snow aliens came and they were ready to fight but these ones were friendly. And they came and there was only five or six of them and they came in a snow cruiser. And then they all played and had fun playing board games: chess, checkers, backgammon, and any kind of game you can think of, including risk. They played and played and played until their deaths. And then more and more and more children came alive from all the humans in the world. And then our whole family made most of the snowmen. They also made snow bunnies and rabbits and ants and turtles and they added a sea of snow marine life and snow land animals. Plus made snow dinosaurs and birds. They all came alive and then some more space aliens came to play. They came and played until they were the same amount as the beginning of story. One hundred million plus one hundred million equals two hundred million. A hundred million more aliens came and there wasn’t enough room for the snowmen. And the children said they need to make the world builder and then they make the world ten times bigger. Now they have enough room for the snow aliens, all the polygons from all the different planets so they call all play big boy games and baby games. After a few years the children got bigger and bigger until almost all of them turned nine. And they got bigger until they were grownups and they didn’t want to play with the snowmen or the polygons so they left the snow earth and went somewhere else with snowmen and polygons.
The end.
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