Reporting on Nursery Rhymes

This week we began writing news reports.  As an introduction, we looked at nursery rhymes that we were familar with.  We thought about how we could use the inverted triangle of news reporting to change the nursery rhymes into news reports. 

Inverted Triangle of News Reporting:

                   Headline
Who? What? Where? When? Why?
        Detail 1 Detail 2 Detail 3
                    Final Detail

Take a look at some of 4.2's student work:

Girl Missing

by Carlotta

It was reported that yesterday afternoon Miss Muffet a little girl who is 7 years old from Miami went missing because she was scared off by a new type of spider. This happened at her house. She was eating her snack when she saw a spider and got scared and ran away. Miss Muffet's mom said she was 1 minute in the kitchen and then gone the next minute. She hard Miss Muffet scream SPIDER AAAHHH! And went running to the kitchen. Miss muffet's mom saw the spider with her own eyes. The spider had 10 legs and was huge. Miss muffet's mom and dad are searching every were in Miami for her.

Humpty Dumpty DIED!

By: Youri and Zachary

It was reported yesterday at 1:00 A.M. that Humpty was seen on top of a huge wall dancing in Eggyland.  Later he lost balance and fell off the wall.  Everybody heard the crash and came running to see what happened.  The soldiers were woken up by the fussing.  Immediately the came riding on their horses and found out that Humpty cracked. They tried to put back together, but they couldn’t. Other people came to help the soldiers, but it didn’t help.  At the end Humpty died.

Scared Little Muffet.

by Peter and Jason

On Halloween night a giant spider almost attacked Miss Muffet at the spooky house. A person saw it and cal the police up. The police came to the spooky house they didn’t find the spider but they find little Muffet and a giant web in the garden. The police is blocked the house. Scared little Muffets family is so scared that their not coming out of the house.

Old Lady Dies From Eating Living Animals

by Lexi

It was reported yesterday morning that an old lady was found swallowing animals at the ISD fields. A family saw her doing it. They said that a fly flew into her mouth then she ate a spider, bird, cat, dog, cow and horse. The family called the ambulance because they thought she was going to fall ill when they saw how fat she had be was found swallowing animals at the isd fields.

Old Lady Swallowing A Lot of Animals!

by:Julia

Yesterday morning and old lady was found dead in her house.  The police man took her body to the hospital to see what happened.  The hospital found a fly, bird, spider, cat, dog, goat, and a horse in her tummy! Reporters asked the old ladies sister if she had something against flies and she said that her sister swallowed a lot of flies when she was small because they annoyed her but that she never ate all the other animals because she actually liked all animals. Reporters also asked if she knew why her sister ate all those animals and she said “my sister always thought that in her tummy animals could eat other animals.  I think that she ate the spider to catch the fly, ate the bird to catch the spider, ate the cat to catch the bird, ate the dog to catch the cat, ate the goat to catch the dog, ate the horse to catch the goat. My sister was always crazy." The hospital took out all the animals from the old ladies tummy and they found out that the fly was the old ladies couldn’t just turned into a fly with the wrong medicine and that the fly had 15,000 eyes. The old lady was very fat after eating all those animals.

Old Lady Died Because of Swallowing Animals

By Theresa

Yesterday morning an old lady was found dead in her house by two police men.  The police men carried her to the hospital to see why she was dead.  A doctor found out that she had swallowed a fly, spider, bird, cat, dog, cow and a horse. Then the two police men asked the old ladies sister if she knew why the lady had swallowed the animals.  The sister thought she had swallowed the fly because it was annoying her.  Then she swallowed a spider to catch the fly, she swallowed a bird to catch the spider, she swallowed a cat to catch the bird, she swallowed a dog to catch the cat, she swallowed a cow to catch the dog then she swallowed a horse to catch the cow. The two police men went back to the doctor and told him what the sister had reported to them. The lady will be buried tomorrow.  

Wolf Eats Grandmother!

By Mia & Ju Eun

It was reported by a reliable source at midnight that the big bad Wolf has eaten a Grandmother. He went last night to Grandmother’s house in the woods because he was starving and hadn’t eaten for two weeks. People that live in the neighborhood say that this Wolf is the biggest Wolf they ever saw. The Police have caught the Wolf just after his nap and opened his tummy and released the grandmother. So the Wolf died.