Teacher: Lowrie

Last year I made a snowman shaped like a giant penguin. It was all made of snow, with snow eyes, a snow beak, snow feet, and even snow flippers! I put the penguin in the refrigerator because I knew it was very special. That night I made a magic juice the snowy penguin could drink. I named it 'Ice Penguin'.

The next day I woke up and walked into the kitchen. I went to the refrigerator but there was no refrigerator, no food, and no 'Ice Penguin'! All that was left were big pieces of ice. I looked all around the house for the Ice Penguin. I looked for 3 hours and I became very hungry. I went to find some peanut butter for a sandwich but when I opened the jar there was an ice-poo inside! I tried to drink some milk, but in the milk container there was vinegar, and in the vinegar container there was milk! I didn't know it then, but in a deep dark hiding place, the Ice Penguin was making evil plans!

I went out to the playground to play. Suddenly the penguin arrived, and all my friends laughed at him because he wet his pants. I was really angry at this crazy ice penguin so I went to get my baseball bat to hit him and end his evil ways once and for all. When I thought the penguin wasn't looking I took a sharp hook and put a fish on it. I taped it on the baseball bat then I looked around for the penguin. He was hiding in the trashcan in my house! Unfortunately, the milk and vinegar were magic and caused him to grow into a giant.

He broke through the ceiling! He broke through the floor! He grew all the way up to break the roof of the whole apartment building! The bottles of milk and vinegar spilled on my baseball bat and fish causing the whole thing to grow giant just like the penguin! I climbed up the baseball bat to the broken roof of the apartment just in time to see the penguin gobble the fish and get the hook stuck in his throat. It started raining and the fresh rain washed away the milk and vinegar. The baseball bat shrunk to its normal size and I fell to the first floor. The penguin also started to shrink but he kept getting smaller until he was the size of a pin!

Suddenly my mom came back from work. She said, “Why is my penguin pin on the floor?" Then she put him in her hair and took a shower. The penguin was washed down the drain, forever lost!

Discussion Questions:

Retell the story.

1. What kind of snowman did he make?

2. What do you think caused the penguin to come alive?

3. Why was the author, David, so angry at the penguin?

4. What happened to the penguin in the end?

5. What do you think about this story? Do you like it?