Once upon a time, a Rainbow penguin named Mrs. Beautiful and Squishmallow named Dr. Pizzo are visiting a magical restaurant in the Amazon Rainforest. They are hungry and want to go
on an adventure, so they ride a unicorn into a magical portal to get there. This isn’t a regular rainforest, this is a magical rainforest.
It is filled with creatures named Tatini that are guarding a magical cake. The rainforest also has magical
buttons that create rainbow slides that can help you travel across a ditch. The rainforest is filled with red and yellow parrots.
Mrs. Beautiful smells like strawberries and Dr. Pizzo smells like pizza. The restaurant has burgers and
lemonade and water, and also Coca-Cola. There are hedgehog waiters running around the restaurant. The smell of marshmallows fills the air. There is piano music playing, but all of a sudden, everyone in
the restaurant starts to hear some quiet buzzing. All of a sudden, there is a fly invasion and everyone’s skin starts turning blue from the bites. Dr. Pizzo and Mrs. Beautiful start to run away into the rainforest. They drop their
leftovers because a giant robot with flyswatter hands starts chasing them. The robots mistake Mrs. Beautiful and Dr. Pizzo for flies and start swatting at them! There is yelling all throughout in the rainforest as they are running away. They
run toward the city. When they get to the city, called Unicorn Town, it looks like a doll city. They see Dr. Pizzo’s fifty foot tall house. “We need to find the Crown of Doom,” Dr.
Pizzo says, “this will help stop the robots from attacking!” They find an evil unicorn book named Daisy Danger who is a TOTAL PAIN. He uses his unicorn horn to create all of the skin-biting flies!
Dr. Pizzo and Mrs.
Beautiful dodge the flies and hide behind a tree. They look to the side and see a giant Squishmallow castle. Inside the castle, the queen tells them that the queen has made the Crown of Doom to defeat villains. Dr. Pizzo and Mrs. Beautiful put
the Crown of Doom on the evil unicorn book and it stops making the skin-biting flies immediately. Dr. Pizzo and Mrs. Beautiful can finally have the vacation that they wanted! The End.
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inspires school-aged students to write with skill and confidence in collaboration with adult volunteers in their communities.
Our writing programs uphold a culture of creativity and imagination and support students in establishing strong habits of mind. Through publication and community engagement, we provide students with an authentic and enthusiastic audience for their writing. Our programs provide an energizing creative outlet for students and meaningful volunteer opportunities for community members.
AFTER-SCHOOL WRITING LAB
In this weekly program, we build a supportive community of writers where students brainstorm, write, revise, and publish a story of their choosing. At the end of the program, students’ writing is published in a book and celebrated with a book release party. Each session includes a mini lesson taught by 826michigan staff and introduction to a new writer’s habit, such as Writers Change their Minds and Writers Make Plans–and Break Them! Students discuss and practice these new habits as they go through the writing process, building their own toolkit of writing practices and preferences.
WORKSHOPS
We offer a number of free workshops taught by professional artists, writers, and our talented volunteers. From comic books to screenplays, bookmaking to radio, our wide variety of workshops are perfect for writers of all ages and interests. One of the most popular workshops we offer is our weekly Wee-bots program for elementary-aged writers.
IN-SCHOOL PROJECTS
Our trained volunteers go into local public schools to support teachers with their classroom writing assignments. In partnership with the teacher’s curriculum, writing projects range from writing fairy tales to crafting college essays to exploring poetry.
FIELD TRIPS & ROADSHOWS
Students come as a class to our writing lab to join a group of volunteers, interns, and staff in order to help solve a problem through writing—whether that is our grumpy editor Dr. Blotch’s insomnia, our looming story deadline, a mystery in need of solving, or one of the many others we encounter. Our field trips and roadshows (where we bring our volunteers, interns, and staff to your classroom with a kit full of 826 magic) always end in a finished publication of original writing that students take home.
OUR STORE
Our Robot Supply Co. store is a one-stop shop for robots, robot owners, and enthusiasts alike. It is designed to inspire creativity and bring awareness of our programs to the community. In addition, our online store is always open; visit the Robot Supply Co. at onwardrobots.com. All proceeds from our store directly fund our free student programming. Onward robots!
