Where is Ms. Mann? by Ms. Mann's Second-grade Class

hhhhhhhhhhhh i hhhhhhhhhhhh i M s s . i M e a r e nn? hhhhhhhhhhhh h W i hhhhhhhhhhhh i hhhhhhhhhhhh i hhhhhhhhhhhh i hhhhhhhhhhhh i hhhhhhhhhhhh i Ms. Mann’s Second-grade hhhhhhhhhhhh i hhhhhhhhhhhh A Collection of Stories Written by Holmes Elementary

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About Our Story.......

Locked! .............................

Finding Ms. Mann ......

She Wasn’t There .......

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About Ou

Characters

ur Story

s & Setting

Character 1: a 4 foot-tall girl w

tallest person on the basketball

and tennis shoes with her bask

basketball so, so, so good and c

mermaids and has a lot of frien cookies, cupcakes, and cake.

Character 2: A blue and red m Setting: Our story takes place

night time in the summer. Our

and you can hear the creaking

next to you. Outside you can al

collecting honey. Where is Mrs missing?

with long hair. She’s kinda the

l court and wears pink clothes

ketball uniform. She plays

can slam dunk. She likes

nds. Plus she’s good at making

medium-sized robot beast at Holmes Elementary at

r classroom has no kids in it

g sound of the grasshoppers

lso hear bees buzzing and

s. Mann? She seems to be

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Lock

ked!

O

nce upon a time, t

that was 4 feet-ta

basketball. She was pla

park. She was playing

so she fell and got hurt

get up, and she turned

she went into the wate

red robot helped her. T

there was a little girl

all that played

aying basketball at the nice, and she got hot,

t. Someone helped her

d into a mermaid! So

er and then a blue and

The water messed up

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the robot. It got damag Then the girl turned

person. She dried the r

fix-it place by driving a

Then the girl and the

Holmes Elementary an Mann.

One day, the girl goe

the police found her an

was locked in the locke

lunch and she went ho

ged and it didn’t work. back into a normal

robot and took it to a

a car.

e robot went to

nd looked for Mrs.

es missing and then,

nd Mrs. Mann. She

ers. Then she ate

ome and her mom and

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dad were worried abou “Mom! Dad!”

They cried so hard be To celebrate, they all

vanilla cake with choc

Mann’s 10th birthday. T

friends, her cousins, he

her god sisters and the

kinda sorta likes cake.

pajama party and sleep

out her. She cried,

because they love her. make a big, giant

colate. It was Mrs.

They invited her

her auntie, her uncle,

e robot. The robot

. They have had a

pover.

The End

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Finding M

Ms. Mann

O

nce upon a time, a

beast was looking

Mann was missing.

Our robot was havin

Elementary School wit

basketball player name looking for Ms. Mann.

likes mermaids. It was

summer. The robot is s

a blue and red robot

g for Ms. Mann. Ms.

ng fun at Holmes

th a four-foot-tall

ed Moon while Moon is a girl and she

s nighttime in the

so fun. The robot is big!

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And then the robot fo

looked inside them. Th

food! Ms. Mann wasn’t robot did eat the food.

Then the robot and M

bathroom for Ms. Man there!

Finally, they checked

WAS there! The robot a Mann!

ound some bags and

he bags were FULL of

t in the bag. But the

Moon checked the

nn, but she still wasn’t

d the closet, and she

and Moon found Ms. The End

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She Wasn

n’t There

I

t’s nighttime in the s

classroom has no ki

hear the creaking soun

grasshoppers next to y

also hear bees buzzing

honey. Where is Mrs. M be missing!

Sam, a little girl who

decided to go to Holme

summer! Our

ids in it, and you can

nd of the

you! Outside, you can

g around collecting

Mann? She seems to

o plays basketball,

es Elementary and

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hide. It was a summer

challenged a robot bea

basketball which she w

get to 20 points—they u

shooting from far awa

After the game, they

Ms. Mann. They looked

first—she wasn’t there.

hallways. She wasn’t th

They checked the offi

Mann on the phone wi

night and she had

ast to a game of

won. They each had to

used the strategy of

ay.

y decided to look for

d in her classroom

. They looked in the

here!

ffice and found Ms.

ith her friend Myla!

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Sam and the robot gav

Mann said, “I was scar

didn’t want to walk alo

Sam and the robot to and walked her out.

ve Ms. Mann a hug. Ms.

red of hallways! I

one.”

ook Ms. Mann’s hands The End

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