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    Student Story-Spring Branch-School Bus 116

    In the summer of 2010  I drove a school bus route for Spring Branch Elementary School in Independence, Missouri.  Between the time I arrived in the morning and the time in which some of my students were to depart I had approximately 5 to 10 minutes with them on the bus.

    I thought it would be fun to have them give me an idea for a story instead of me telling them short stories as I have recorded from the Chicken Festival.  So I asked them the questions below along with what interests they had.  I thought it might be fun to put together a story using as many, if not all, of the suggestions they gave.

    As I knew I was going to record in video the story.  I thought it better not to use the copyrighted names used on the cartoon program SpongeBob SquarePants, which are Barnacle Boy and Squidward in the story.  Therefore I have changed the name to Squid for the bad guy and Barnyard for the popular kid in school.

    Please note that this is not a fully refined and finished story as is “The Little Witch Doll”.  But I had promised to have the story would be on my website by 1 August 2010 and I have made every effort to do so despite life getting in the way.

    The following is the list of the things that the students on School Bus 116, which I drove, said that they would like to have in the story.  Go through the list and listen to the story and see how many of the things I have included or what has not been included:

    Foreign country: Mexico
    Wild animal: tiger
    Girls name: Lexie
    US State: Mississippi
    Boys name: Isaac.
    Character trait: courage
    Height: 4’6″
    Age: fifth-grade
    Favorite sport: baseball
    Favorite food: cheeseburger.
    School: Spring Branch Elementary School
    Favorite Teacher: Ms. Richards.
    Bully from TV: Squidward.
    Good guy from TV: Barnacle Boy,
    Favorite music: Hip-Hop
    Best friend: Chris

    Enjoy, Brother Beno

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    Tags: bullying, Chicken Festival, children, children learning, growing up, school stories, stories, storytelling, tale, video story

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