Written and Illustrated by Mrs. Petro’s and Miss Richards’

2nd grade class

Jesse the Turtle

Jesse the turtle is a girl. Jesse is very nice. Jesse’s hair is medium length and it is a reddish color. Her hair is always in a bun. Jesse wears a pink dress with no sleeves.

Jesse is in between tall and short. Jesse is very, very smart. Jesse is a hard worker because she works hard in her house. She is very pretty. Jesse likes to read.

She has one kid. The kid’s name is Eleanor. Eleanor’s hair is dark brown. She wears a rainbow dress with two sleeves. Eleanor is short. She is smart and pretty. Eleanor is both funny and sassy.

Jesse lives in a cloudy jungle. It is a good place to live. It is made of plants. It is huge!Nobody can find their way out. It is warm in thejungle.

The trees have red and blue leaves and the trees have purple bark. Some trees have clear bark so you can see bugs moving around in the tree.

Jesse’s house is a teepee made out ofleaves, vines, and twigs. There are a lot ofwild animals running around loose and goingto her teepee.

Jesse’s friends would never leave because shewould never say no to her friends. She would make dinner.

Her friends said, “Can we have breakfast?”

She always did whatever they wanted. She would always make their beds. Her friends would stay forever and never leave her house.

One day, Jesse was walking home when she saw allthese animals:

5 monkeys, 3 birds, 6 lions, 10 large cheetahs, 5 funny parrots, and finally one big elephant. She could not believe her eyes!

She got more mad while she was walkingthrough her house. She saw chinchillas, foxes,hens and all kinds of animals.

She was hungry so she tried to get a pot pie, but all of her food was gone. She got furious!

The animals were acting crazy. They were jumping all over the house. They startedthrowing toys at each other.

Jesse yelled, “Get out of my house!” Theanimals were surprised because Jesse neveryelled at them because Jesse was always beingnice.

But now, she was getting very angry and mean. So the animals all ran out the door because they were so scared of her. Jesse was happy she got all of those silly, crazy animals out of her house!!

The End!