Block World Adventures—Stories Written by Ms. Gray’s and Ms. Miller’s 2nd Grade Classes

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Cont Alien Baby Yoda and

The Alien and the Bun

The Big Bank Fight ......

Elsa and Anna Save th

tents the Frog ...................... 1

nny-Dog........................ 4

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he Day ........................ 13

Alien Bab and th

by Yoda he Frog

Alien baby Yoda loves to sing and

dance, and has ice powers. In the block world, alien baby Yoda finds a frog in the snow and swallows it whole.

After eating the frog, he can heal people!

There is lava and snow around baby Yoda, and he really likes the snow. The frog can live in any season.

There is a spaceman that asks for help.

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Baby Yoda’s dad taught him how to help people and how to fly!

He flies back in time to help fix a spaceship for the space man with his powers. But, he made a mistake and gets stuck in the

past! He then finds eggs to eat. The eggs look like little clear balls. They are like baby frogs. They are magical and help him get back to the future!

The End.

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The Alien Bunny

n and the y-Dog

Once upon a time,

there was an alien traveling in a lava cave in the lava block world. The alien almost fell into the lava, but flew out with his

moon shoes. Then,

the alien crashed and landed on an island! The alien heard a loud boom and saw his moon shoes melt as they hit the lava.

The alien saw that the island was

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surrounded by lava on one side.

On the other side, the island was surrounded by water that was filled with octupuses, a pirate ship, and eels. The pirate ship had huge rocket boosters

and a parachute to help it fly in space. The island also had coconuts, trees, snakes, and elephants.

On the island, the alien met a bunnydog that looked like a bunny with a dog tail. The

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bunny-dog said it will help the alien gather supplies to build a raft and leave the island.

The alien needed a raft because the moon shoes broke when they hit the lava! The alien and the bunny-dog

chopped down trees to build their raft. They pushed their raft out onto the water. Suddenly, a lava ball hit the raft! The alien and the bunnydog had to jump off the raft and escape to a space

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ship. The space ship is actually the pirate ship from the water on the island.

The alien and the bunny-dog were able to escape and get away safely.

The End

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The Big B

Bank Fight

Dr. Blotch, The

Joker, and Cat

Woman saw Katrina and Wonder Woman use their powers and followed them.

Katrina can make things float and Wonder Woman can fly and has water

and fire powers.

Dr. Blotch went to a bank to rob it and Katrina and Woman Woman went to stop him! Dr. Blotch was holding a bag of diamonds and wearing tons of them too. He was super

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flashy but wanted more! The heroes thought this looked suspicious so they decided to check it out. They went to the bank where there were fifteen people and three employees.

Dr. Blotch and the others helped him

steal ten thousand dollars, someone’s debit card, plus gold! They broke the windows to get away but Wonder Woman flew in to save everyone. Wonder Woman flew in and tackled Cat Woman and Joker before

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Katrina dropped a ton of water on Dr. Blotch. With Dr. Blotch disoriented, Wonder Woman saved six customers and Katrina saved five employees.

Dr. Blotch and the other villains were sad because

they wanted to get away with it but the heroes saved the day again! Police were then called by Wonder Woman and in total there were six arrests.

The End.

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Elsa an Save th

nd Anna he Day

Joker robbed a

bank! Elsa went to go freeze him to stop him from robbing the bank.

But when she went to freeze the Joker, she froze all of the water! This was a

problem because some people wanted to swim.

Not only did some people want to swim, some were already swimming when the water got frozen! The people

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close to a bridge were able to get out, but not everyone was able to, so some people were stuck in the water.

There is a magical rope that Elsa uses. She swung it around to get a bucket full of warm

water, and wanted to use the warm water to unfreeze the river. But wait!

There was also a shark in the water where the people were swimming!

She splashed the bucket of warm water on the ice, but

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the shark ate the bucket! Now Elsa was in trouble, oh no! Anna could save her sister with her floating powers, which she used to float the shark up so that Elsa could use the bucket of warm water to unfreeze

the water.

Joker had all of the money from the bank, so Elsa went to freeze him to get the money back. Elsa and Anna saved the day!

The End.

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