Superb Story

Elam got this certificate at his weekly assembly yesterday for a wonderful story that he wrote last weekend. We are very proud of him!

Here is the story below. He did have some clipart that was strategically placed throughout the story as well...I can't get it up on blogger though.

The Marvelous Magnifying Glass

It was a hot summer’s day, and Rolly and Diane were on summer holiday. Just after they had watched a football game, Rolly said, “That was a good game! Newcastle to Manchester, 2-1.” They went out side, and Diane said, “This wind could blow my hair off.” As they were playing leap frog Rolly spotted something! “Don’t move!” shouted Rolly. Then Diane spotted it, too. Right in front of them was a…Magnifying glass! “How did that get here? Oh well. Maybe if the owners turn up, we can give it to them.” Diane picked it up.

Just then, their mum told them to come inside. She said, “There is a phone call for you.” They picked up the phone and heard a familiar voice. “I have a mystery for you,” said their grandma. “I have some valuable coins, and they have been stolen. I want you to find out who did it.” “Are there any people who would want to do this to you?” asked Diane.
“Well, there are a few people,” said grandma. “One of the people is Ben. He wants money to go to a football match. Another is Francis. She would do anything just to get a few of those coins. James thinks he’s poorer than 75% of the world, but he’s really not.”
“Okay, grandma, we’ll be right over.” So their mum went with them to grandma’s house.

After they arrived, they asked when the coins were stolen. Grandma said, “I checked on my coins at 2:30, but when I came back at 3:30 they were gone.” Rolly and Diane ask their mum if they can go to the suspects’ houses. When they leave to go to Francis’ house, they noticed a muddy footprint on the pavement.

When they were going to Francis’ house, they tested their magnifying glass. When they looked down on the ground on a grassy patch, all they could see was dirt! They suspected that it was a x-ray vision magnifying glass.

When they got to Francis’ house, they ask her what she was doing between 2:30 and 3:30. “I was unloading boxes for my new neighbor. Ask my friend here.”
She says, “Yep, she’s been here almost all day.”

Next, they went to James’ house. “What were you doing between 2:30 and 3:30?”
“I was watering my garden, and stopped to write a poem.”
“May we see your poem?”
“I don’t know where it went.”
“Why don’t you have it?”
“I don’t know.”
“Have you seen it recently?”
“No.”
“Why is your garden only half-watered?”
“I thought I told you already—because I stopped to write the poem.”

Next, they went to Ben’s house. They asked Ben, “What were you doing between 2:30 and 3:30?”
“I was watching the Newcastle-Manchester game. Wasn’t funny that Manchester won? You would think that Newcastle would win.” Do you know?
Rolly was not impressed. “You can’t fool us. You are the one who stole the coins. We can look all around you because we have the x-ray magnifying glass!” Rolly and Diane searched all around the thief until they found the coins in his pocket.
They called grandma and the suspects to come over to Ben’s house. When they arrived, they asked Ben why he did it. He said, “I won’t tell you.”

“Let me explain,” said Rolly. “He wanted to go to the big game in Newcastle, but he didn’t have enough money.” He saw James watering the garden, so he got a shoe and put some mud on it and stamped it on the pavement.
James said, “Let me go try to find my poem.” Ten minutes later, James arrived back. “I found my poem. It was right in my garden. It got stuck in a bush. I guess the wind blew it out of the house and into the bush.”
“That’s why the magnifying glass was over here. Maybe a big gust of wind blew it over the fence,” said Diane.
“Thank you for solving this mystery,” said grandma.
Later that day they returned the magnifying glass to the rightful owner there neighbor. “That was a fun thing to do,” said Rolly. “I want another one,” said Diane. And they will.