Educating Risa

Gareth also created a story using Alicia’s pictoral story starters for February; I shared Daegan’s story, The Man with the Giant Purple Ear, here. Here’s Gareth’s story, which he dictated to me. It was based on this story starter picture:

 

The Hippo Runs Wild by Gareth

Once upon a time there was a hippo that lived in a zoo. His name was Rhino. This zoo had penguins that wore underwear, and elephants that wore baskets on their heads, and giraffes that danced with blue ballet shoes. This zoo used to be at the North Pole, but is now in Canada.

One day, the hippo used its teeth to bite a hole big enough to get out of its enclosure. He wanted some fresh air. The hippo ran wild! The silly penguins took off their underwear, and chased the hippo, but couldn’t catch him. The elephants used their trunks to take their baskets off, and followed the hippo, and setted up a trap for the hippo. But it didn’t work. The giraffes took off their blue ballet shoes and tried to catch the hippo, but that didn’t work.

Then a man came, a zookeeper. And he knew what hippos ate. Plants, and lots of them, like lettuce. He got some plants and put them into a new hippo enclosure. The hippo came over because he was getting hungry, and the man opened the door and the hippo went into his new home. The man threw more food at the hippo to keep him happy in his new enclosure.

They took the old enclosure to the North Pole to Santa’s elves and the elves fixed it. And they got it back for Christmas, a Christmas present for the zoo. And they put some small mongooses in it, and it was just the right size for the mongooses.

The end.

 

Gareth later drew this picture to go along with his story; he told me it is of a penguin wearing underwear!