Student Responses to a Creative Writing Prompt

Ms. Rebecca just announced that her students are going to get a class pet.

What animal would you want to choose?
Why do you think that animal would make a good class pet?
What would the students and teacher need to do to take care of this animal?

We started by brainstorming possible class pets and then separated them into two columns: Realistic (ones that make sense) and Peculiar (a word that comes up very often in Roald Dahl books, therefore, a word that I get asked the meaning to every time I start our afternoon reading). Their responses were pretty great, take a look.

Realistic:

hamster: i like the hamster because he is a good pet because we can whatch them run around and he is so safe and they dont bite and beacuse they are so small and they dont take a lot of smace in the classroom and they like exercise.

i will take a hamster as a realistic animal. i love hamsters because they are fuzze, soft and cute. Feed him, play with him, make him sleep, let him wake up by himself and take care of him.

I do not like rabbit. hamesters let pepole laugh. the chiks is fast. the mise is stink becouse it goes in the garbage. the lady bug is very red. turtles can swim and bite and have a litel hose. the fish is very smoll and then we can watch them. the butterfly his wings is very colry.

hamsters do not bite and they can't hit and they eat good and nice and the hamster cages can slide and hamster wheel can take exercise and good training that they can get good running that he get strangths and speeds hold a lot of hierd muscles that he get very stronger!

Peculiar:

I like dragon because it can fly me to my house and birn the lodyes. dogs because is strong and gardy.

a gorilla: i like the gorilla becose they are so strang. the gorilla sits on ms. Rebeccas desk who will take him home.

i will bring a grizzly bear as a really bad peculiar animal. let him play with me and my class mates a game called hide and seek, paper sciss or rock and race.

dogs can get bones or biscit bones for dogs and peoples hold leash ropes. dogs follow for the people that he can take in a banks or restaurants or the bisness works and taking home then dogs cans stay at doghouses so that he can not get very sick.