Teacher: Megan

Hi! My name is Rina. I'm going to tell you about my winter story.

One snowy day, I played with my classmates after school. We had a snowball fight. It was very fun. When I came home, there was a phone call for me from my best friend SoHeun. She said to me, “Let's ride a sled.” I was very glad, so I got out of the sled. When I went to the park, SoHeun and her friend were already there. We rode from the top to the bottom of a hill in the park, but my sled didn't go very well at first. I was very angry, so I decided to ride from a different place. It went much better than before. It was very fast, but I needed to be careful because when I went down I almost hit a tree. So I shouted, “Yikes!” My friends ran and asked, “Are you okay?” I said, “Yes, I'm fine." We went back to the first place, but there was a lot of snow. So, we made a big snowman together, our snowman was the biggest in the park. We turned the sled over to make a table so we could have dessert. The dessert was Oreo cookies with milk. It was extremely delicious. When we ate all of them we decided to have a snowball fight. We put the snowman on the sled and then pushed him down the hill. He hit a tree and his body spread everywhere! The snowman disappeared! We started eating the snow, but it was very cold so our teeth were chattering.

On the morning of Christmas Eve, we rode a taxi to Jessica's Restaurant. They had a lot of food. They had vegetables, fruit, dessert, and jello too. We ate three plates, so all of our family ate a lot and were very happy. The food was so delicious. It was the most fantastic food I've ever tasted. You would agree with me!

We brought gloves to have a family snowball fight. My mom and I made a big snowball. We threw it at my dad. Oops, it hit my dad's face. His face was red. "Oops, sorry." But my dad didn't say anything and was making a return snowball to through at us. It was a fun day.

On the night of Christmas Eve, I turned on the Christmas tree lights and I went to sleep. Around 1:30 AM, I woke up and went to the living room, my present was on the sofa and the Christmas tree lights were off. I thought it was very strange. Why did Santa turn off the tree lights and why did he place my present on the sofa? I expected my present to be shining under the tree with colorful bright lights. But I'm glad anyway that I got a present. We had a good Christmas Eve.

Discussion questions: 

Retell the story.

1. What did Rina do with her classmates on a snowy day?

2. What did they do with the snowman they made?

3. Please tell us about Rina's family snowball fight.

4. What did Rina find strange on Christmas Eve?

5. Tell us your Christmas Eve story? What was special? What was strange?