Tuesday, September 9, 2008

#1 The Out-of-this-Universe Key


Kindergarteners:  
There is a man, a window, and a key.  The key is floating.  The man is reaching for the key.  The key starts up his spaceship.  He flies around all of the stars.  His body is on the moon up in the sky.  He only brought his arm and his head with him.  Hopefully the key will float toward him and not away from him.  If it floats away from him, his body is stuck on the moon.

Space Aliens:
Greetings.  Dorien is reaching for his key which seems to be trapped in a zero-gravity area.  The key starts his spaceship and he is constantly dropping it!  If it floats toward him, we'll all be happy.  If it floats away from him, you may need to be patient with us.  His body is still stranded on Jupiter.  If you wouldn't mind taking care of it, we'd be forever in debt to you.  Oh, and his left arm reportedly is separated from the rest of his body.


1 comment:

Jellyfish said...

This is a very interesting picture and I like the explanation you thought of to explain it...

In regards to the Kindergarten description, you did a good job of keeping the sentences short and the vocabulary relatively simple.
I don't know much about kids, but I think they tend to understand what they can see, so the spaceship-body-window concept might be hard for them to grasp.

The picture really does fit with the Alien description, though, since it's a pretty fantasty/science-fiction picture. I love the Kindergarten "The key is floating" and how it becomes "... trapped in an anti-gravity zone."

It took me amoment to figure out, but I realized you wrote it from the perspective of one of the aliens, not an earthling. That's a cool touch and I like the outcome!

Also, Dorien is a cool name.