Educating Risa

My friend Alicia writes an online column about homeschooling for the Examiner in Minnesota, and a few weeks ago she published some wonderful pictoral story starters. Gareth was amused by the photo of a polar bear lying down beside a Christmas present, and wrote a story about it, which Alicia published here. (You can see both the pic and story there). Here is just the story below:

The polar bear was lying down sleeping and when he woke up beside him was a present and Santa gave it to the polar bear. And the polar bear wondered what was inside. The polar bear thought that a fish was inside. But the polar bear knew of Santa and he found the present and it was actually the thing that attached Santa’s reindeer to his sled.

And the polar bear thought, "Huh? Santa wants me to pull his sled? What does Santa think I am? A reindeer?"

And then he says. Wow! Look! Santa!" But the man says, "No, I’m just a polar bear policeman."

And then the polar bear found a deep cave that actually went back to the time of the dinosaurs. And then he heard a tuba and it was actually a T rex roaring. And then he turned into a T rex and then he got back to his own time and back to being a polar bear.

The end.