Bobo the Robot — A Collection of Stories Written by Ms. Koeppe’s Second-grade Class

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A Collection of Stories Written by

Ms. Koeppe’s Second-grade Class Carpenter Elementary

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Bobo the Robot..................

Ms. Koeppe’s Class

Bobo on the Mountain ....

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Bobo's Pool Party ............

Group 2

Bobo in the Jungle ..........

Group 3

Bobo and Friends ............

Group 4

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Ms. Koepp

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pe’s Class

Once upon a

time, there was a robot named Bobo.

She wore bows and was nice. She loved baking and pretending like she was human.

Bobo lived in a

cottage in Australia that had a pool and spiders. The robot lived there with three other people.

At this cottage, you can smell the ocean, and people talk like it’s a party.

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Bobo on the

Grou

e Mountain

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Bobo will be going

on a trip to go down a mountain. Bobo has her robot mom and robot dad. They have to climb up the mountain so they can get on the top to slide all the way

down. They decide to go on a hike because that is the mom’s favorite thing to do.

They move up to the mountains so they can live quietly.

There is snow at the top of the mountain.

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There’s also rocks at the top. There are some big rocks and some small rocks.

The mountain slopes downward. They don’t like the snow, so they have to go sledding down the mountain. They try to climb back up

the mountain but because they went up the mountain it starts to crack!

Now that the mountain is cracking they run away to hide behind a tree!

It is a really tall tree and it has sharp leaves, but the

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leaves are high up so they won’t get hurt. The leaves are also very strong so it protects them from the cracking. The mountain collapses and now they want to know how they can get up to have some more fun. They

have a little leftover rock from when it collapsed, and they can use the little rock to make cement.

Instead of using it to climb they use it to make stairs. While they climb they find a big rock, but then the mountain

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collapses again!

They find some people that are walking by, and ask for help. There are four humans: a mom, a dad, and two boys. They have nearby bricks that the people were going to use to build

their house. They are magic bricks! The magic bricks are pretty light but feel like they’re metal if you try to pull them.

If it’s one brick, it can turn into a lot.

They ask, “Can we use these bricks to get up the mountain?”

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The people say yes and they use the bricks to rebuild the mountain. The house at the top is a mansion with a master piano, and it has a big balcony with seats. They thank the family and then ask the

family to have hot chocolate with them.

Then they all have hot chocolate with marshmallows on the balcony! There are quite a lot of cups!

The End.

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Bobo's Po

Grou

ool Party

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Bobo the robot is

a girl who loves

bows and baking!

She lives in a cottage in Australia, with spiders and a pool. Bobo has a pool party, but the pool has too

much water and overflows! Bobo is not waterproof and has to run away. If she gets wet she might be destroyed or broken! When she tries to get the water under control,

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everyone sees she is a robot.

Bobo runs away to the ice cream shop. She calls a waterproof robot to get the water under control.

At the ice cream shop there is banana ice cream,

cinnamon rolls, and streamers all around that say, “Ice cream for free!”

Bobo puts flowers around the ice cream shop. Once she leaves the ice cream shop, a big dog barks at her while someone

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walks it. Bobo is allergic to dogs so she has to start running, but the dog starts chasing her! She gets back to the cottage and the dog jumps into the pool. She goes into her kitchen and bakes some cookies,

and gives some to distract the dog and get it out of the pool. She also gives some cookies to the waterproof robot.

Then all the people come back and see Bobo and think she is a robot and she tells them

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the truth and they all throw food at her, except the waterproof robot.

Bobo and her friend, the waterproof robot, go back to the ice cream shop!

The End.

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Bobo in th

Grou

he Jungle

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Bobo the robot

likes to cook

Lamingtons. Bobo lives with her parents. One day, Bobo’s dad came home saying he was fired and they had to pay off their house

bills and they didn’t have enough money since that happened.

Bobo’s dad, whose name is Wawa, went looking through the jungle to find hidden gold. Bobo went, too.

Inside the jungle

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there are booby-traps and chimpanzees. It also has a big, big, giant tiger. She gets very scared in the jungle. She meets up with an ancient tribe of people and someone who just comes out of nowhere and helps

them. Bobo eventually has to leave after camping overnight, but one of the people comes with her to help her through the temple.

The person’s name is Coco.

When Bobo and Coco are going

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toward the temple, Bobo hears someone yelling her name. It sounds like her dad.

Some of the bricks fall off the walls because they’re super old.

Bobo’s mom at home is working with the police

to find Bobo and Bobo’s dad, Wawa.

The mom’s name is Sally. The police go searching, but the police can’t find Bobo or her dad, so the mom goes searching and she gets lost and can’t find her way out.

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Bobo finds her.

Then, Bobo, the mom, and the dad work together to find the gold.

They use the marks Bobo left behind to find their way out of the jungle and go back home. Bobo forgets

she had a rope with her and then she has a great idea.

She ties the rope to a tree branch and climbs up. Then she figures out the way home when she sees the high view and tells her parents.

The End.

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Bobo and

Grou

d Friends

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Once upon a

time, there was a Robot named Bobo.

Bobo had bows on her head and she loved baking, and sometimes she pretended to be a human. She

lived in a cottage in Australia in a magical forest.

All of a sudden, a robot kitty and a robot dog came along. When the robot petted them, they felt a little bit

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wiggly, fuzzy, and metal. Bobo was taking a walk and ended up at the beach; she smelled the ocean. The robot dog went into the water and Bobo had to figure out a way to get the robot dog out of the water!

There was a boat along the shore and Bobo got on it.

Bobo had to be very careful, but she got the dog out of the water and the boat came back to shore.

They went back home and decided to take a little nap.

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When Bobo woke up from her nap, she started baking a cake. When she was done with the cake she started making cupcakes. She made the cupcake batter and then frosted the cake.

The puppy helped

frost the cupcakes after they cooled.

The cupcakes are chocolate with blue frosting and rainbow sprinkles.

They couldn’t eat them all by themselves, so they had friends over.

They each took one

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bite and said it was very good. Then they ate a lot but not too much.

The End.

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