It's a Digestive World

Yesterday I read the kids a FUNNY story a friend of mine wrote about the digestive system and a poor Turkey Sandwiches Wild Ride (click for link). They loved the story and it is packed full of great information. After we read the story together we made up our own story titled "Hamburger Helper Help Me". This is our second family story we have written and I just wanted to EXPLAIN how it works. First we make our story plan....

Characters: Beef and Noodles
Setting: In the box and In the body
Events: Cooked, Chewed, Swallowed, Esophagus, Stomach, Small Intestine, Large Intestine, Toilet
Conclusion: a trip down a whirlpool and here they go again

After we have our story plan we take turns one sentence at a time. This story began with Matthew, went on to Spencer and then Maggie. The sequence continued until the story was finished. Last time dad and I took turns with the sentences but the kids were so excited and had so many great and funny ideas that I let them go on their own. They worked so well together and even helped each other with their sentences. So here it is our digestive story.....

Hamburger Helper Help Me

One day I was just lying around peacefully on my bed in box land. When all of the sudden I got poured into a hot pan and there I met Beef. Together Noodle and Beef became one hot dish. We were just hanging out when we were thrown into a bowl. This made us pretty mad but after about ten minutes we finally cooled off. We were then eaten. Full of terror we entered the cave of no return. Beef and I were struck by teeth and broken into smaller pieces. It looked like it was going to be a straight plummet into certain death as we were pushed into the esophagus. We traveled down the esophagus into the stomach where I grabbed hold of what looked like may have been an apple once. I heard Beef yell, "Help, I'm loosing more pieces." We waited in the stomach for the door to open into the small intestine. We continued to break up into smaller pieces and some of our pieces were being left behind. We journeyed on to the large intestine. This is where we began to clump together and started to look like a monster. We headed down the pipe of certain death and plopped into water. We were going to be cooked again? No, we couldn't be we were full of bacteria. "AHHH", we're falling and we are taking a trip down a whirl pool through a pipe. Here we go again!

It was so fun and they came up with such funny ideas, I know my friends story helped get their gears turning. Working together and putting our heads together to come up with a GREAT product is so much fun.