Cloudy Lesson Stories

We watched 'A Cloudy Lesson' clip on The Literacy Shed and then retold the story.

A Cloudy Lesson by Marshall

One day a boy and his grandad both climbed onto a platform on top of a primary coloured house.  Grandad pulled out a spruce wood case and opened it.  Out came a pole with a hole in it.  Grandad blew and he made a massive cloud then he offered the boy a turn and he blew ever harder and out came … a teeny, tiny little cloud. 

Grandad said, “Blow even harder.”

So the boy blew even more and then nothing came out, so he tried again but he knocked it over and it bent.  The boy tried to make it into its original form but he couldn’t do it.  Then an idea light bulb appeared in his head.  The boy transformed the cloud maker into a star shaped cloud maker.  Grandad blew and he made a star shaped cloud then the boy made a bunny, so Grandad blew again and he made a bunny shaped cloud.  Last of all the boy made a heart and blew… and said at once “I love you.”

A Cloudy Lesson by Quinn

“Where are we going Grandad?”

“Jake we’re going right up there,” said Grandad.

“Wow.  It will take for ever,” said Jake so they climbed to the platform.  Finally they reached the top.  Then Jake’s Grandad opened a mysterious wooden case then carefully lifted a cloud blower out.  Then Grandad blew a fat, fluffy cloud.  Jake asked Grandad if he could have a turn so Jake had a turn and blew a tiny, tiny cloud.  Jake was confused and so was his Grandad.  Then Grandad said to Jake, “Take a deeper breath.”  So he did but this time he was leaning onto the cloud blower and … it snapped.  Crash!!  Grandad asked if Jake was all right.  They both looked at the cloud maker.  Grandad was sad but Jake had an idea.  He stretched and turned the cloud maker and made a star.  “Wow!” said Grandad.

Then Jake offered Grandad a turn to blow it, then they sat on the deck and looked at all the clouds they had made.

A Cloudy Lesson by Vincent

One cloudy day a little boy and his grandfather went climbing a wooden ladder.  They climbed to a platform and grandfather lay down an oak case.  The grandfather pulled out a rusty cloud maker.  The grandfather put the cloud maker in a hole.  Grandfather blew directly in the middle of the cloud maker.  A fluffy cloud came out.  The boy blew in the cloud maker and he made a little could.  He was disappointed.  He blew and blew and blew and he bent it.  He was worried then an idea popped into his head.  He bent the cloud maker into a star.  The grandfather blew in the star and a cloud came out.  Then the boy bent it into a bunny.  The grandfather blew a bunny cloud out then the boy bent it into a love heart.  The boy blew a little love heart then they sat on the platform looking at the clouds.