Homework and tall tales

Here is the homework for the week.

Due Thursday:

• Read the below tall tail then write a short tall tail about one of your parents at we can put up at school. Be mindful of your presentation (how your page looks) and write it on a piece of paper*
• Maths complete all three sheets. Two sheets you only need to use your knowledge of times tables to work out. The third sheet you will always have a remainder (r). Remainders are when you have numbers left over (if you have not done this before don't worry as we will be learning it this week).
• Spelling sheet*

Due Friday

• Reading diary*

*Students in EAL beginners do not do this.

Birth of Paul Bunyan

Maine Tall Tales

retold by

S. E. Schlosser

Now I hear tell that Paul Bunyan was born in Bangor, Maine. It took five giant storks to deliver Paul to his parents. His first bed was a lumber wagon pulled by a team of horses. His father had to drive the wagon up to the top of Maine and back whenever he wanted to rock the baby to sleep.

As a newborn, Paul Bunyan could hollar so loud he scared all the fish out of the rivers and streams. All the local frogs started wearing earmuffs so they wouldn't go deaf when Paul screamed for his breakfast. His parents had to milk two dozen cows morning and night to keep his milk bottle full and his mother had to feed him ten barrels of porrige every two hours to keep his stomach from rumbling and knocking the house down.

Within a week of his birth, Paul Bunyan could fit into his father's clothes. After three weeks, Paul rolled around so much during his nap that he destroyed four square miles of prime timberland. His parents were at their wits' end! They decided to build him a raft and floated it off the coast of Maine. When Paul turned over, it caused a 75 foot tidal wave in the Bay of Fundy. They had to send the British Navy over to Maine to wake him up. The sailors fired every canon they had in the fleet for seven hours straight before Paul Bunyan woke from his nap! When he stepped off the raft, Paul accidentally sank four war ships and he had to scramble around sccooping sailors out of the water before they drowned.

After this incident, Paul's parents decided the East was just too plumb small for him, and so the family moved to Minnesota.

taken from: http://americanfolklore.net