Season 1, episode 18
Luisa loves winter. She likes the cold because it means snow and ice. She skates on the ice and plays in the snow. There is only one problem: it hasn’t snowed yet!
This simple story is told in the present tense and focuses on the words “snow”, “ice”, “cold”, “snowflake”, and “frost”.
A WINTER STORY
There is a girl named Luisa. Luisa lives in Canada. In Canada it is cold in the months of November, December, January, February, and March. The cold season is called winter. Luisa likes winter. She likes winter’s cold temperature. When it is cold, the lakes turn to ice. Luisa skates on the ice. She also plays hockey with her friends on the ice. When it is cold, it snows. Luisa plays in the snow. She likes winter a lot.
Luisa especially likes the winter snow. When it snows, she looks at all the snowflakes. Every snowflake is unique. The snowflakes fall to the ground and everything is white. Luisa does a lot of activities in the snow. She makes snow angels. She builds snowmen. She sleds and skis down hills in the snow. She makes snowballs to attack her friends. She builds snow forts.
Luisa likes winter a lot. She likes the cold and the ice and the snow. But there is a problem – it is not cold this year. There is no snow and it’s December! Luisa wants to see snow. She thinks that snowflakes are pretty. She thinks that snow is fun. Because there isn’t any snow outside yet, Luisa decides to make snowflakes with paper. Luisa cuts the paper to make snowflakes. She decorates the house with her paper snowflakes.
Luisa likes her paper snowflakes, but the paper snowflakes are not the same as real snow. At night, Luisa looks at the stars. One star moves quickly. It is a shooting star! Luisa looks at the shooting stare and wishes for snow. She wishes for it to snow a lot.
In the morning when Luisa gets up it is cold. She looks at the window. There is frost on the window. The frost makes patterns on the window. Luisa is very excited to see the frost, but she is more excited when she looks outside. Everything is calm and white. There is snow!
Luisa is very excited. She wants to play outside, but first she needs to eat breakfast. She eats cereal and looks at the real snowflakes outside. She looks at the frost on the window. Luisa is happy.
After eating, Luisa puts on her jacket, scarf, hat, and gloves. She runs outside to play in the snow. First, she falls in the snow and moves her arms and legs to make a snow angel. Then she makes another snow angel, and another and another. Luisa makes five snow angels.
Then, Luisa makes a snowman. To make a snowman, she makes a big ball of snow, a medium ball of snow, and a small ball of snow. She moves the big ball of snow in front of the house. She puts the medium ball of snow on top of the big ball. She puts the small ball of snow on top of the medium ball.
She puts tree branches in the medium ball to be the snowman’s arms. She puts a scarf on the snowman’s neck. She uses rocks to make two eyes and a mouth in the small ball. She puts a carrot in the middle for the nose. The snowman is not very big, but it is very handsome. Luisa likes her snowman a lot.
Suddenly, a snowball hits Luisa’s back. Luisa sees her neighbor Gracie. Gracie throws another snowball. The ball hits the snowman’s head. The snowman’s head falls to the ground.
Luisa is angry. She wants to attack Gracie with snowballs, but she needs protection. Luisa quickly builds a snow fort. She pushes snow to form a barrier. Gracie throws more snowballs, but the balls hit the barrier, not Luisa. Luisa forms snowballs. She throws the balls at Gracie. One snowball hits Gracie in the face!
Luisa and Gracie throw snowballs for a while and then Gracie’s mom calls her in to eat. Luisa walks to her snowman. It is not completely destroyed. She takes the head off the ground and puts it on the medium ball again.
Luisa’s mom calls her. It is time to eat. Luisa enters her house and takes off her jacket, scarf, hat, and gloves. She sits at the table and eats a delicious soup. While she eats, it starts to snow again. Luisa eats her soup. She looks at the frost on the window, she looks at the snowflakes. She thinks about skating and playing hockey and skiing and she thinks that it is a perfect winter day.
The End.
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