Kids Story Book Two: Pre-Teen Story Book

Kids Story Book Two

Pre-Teen Story Book

All Rights Reserved © 2002 by Sidney Gelb

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This is a work of fiction.

KOJO THE ELEPHANT

A Sight Word Story Using

Reading words Kids Should Know.

ISBN: 978-0-595-23068-6

ISBN: 978-1-4759-1309-5 (ebk)

iUniverse rev. date: 07/09/2010

CONTENTS

PREFACE

CHAPTER ONE

CHAPTER TWO

CHAPTER THREE

CHAPTER FOUR

CHAPTER FIVE

EPILOGUE

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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PREFACE

This book is for the pre-teen reader who likes to read different stories. Its cool to read. Reading a book can make you smart.

The sight words used in this book are found in the appendix in the back of this story.

Knowing these words will help a student become a good reader and writer.

Use a dictionary to look up a word you do not understand.

Special thanks to the librarians of Northern Virginia and Washington, D.C. for providing research.

To the many men and women, who are working hard to protect the elephant from extinction and the harm from poachers.

C H A P T E R O N E

BACKGROUND

Thirty million, (30,000.000) people a year see an elephant at a zoo, circus, game reserve, in a movie or on a television program.

Elephants live in Asia and Africa. The African elephant is larger than the Asian elephant.

An African elephant has bigger ears and a large flat front head.

Asian elephants rest and sleep lying down, while African elephants usually rest and sleep standing up.

Elephants can grow as high as twelve feet, (12 ft.) (365 centimeters) and weigh six tons, (6 tons) (10,884 kilograms). A United States ton is two thousand pounds, (2,000 lbs.).

Thus an elephant can weigh twelve thousand pounds, (12,000 lbs.). A newborn calf is about three feet (3 feet) tall, (9 centimeters) and weighs three hundred pounds (300 pounds) (136 kilograms).

They need food, water and a large land space to roam and walk around. Elephants can eat two hundred pounds (200 lbs.) of food every day. They like green grass, hay, leaves, tree bark, vegetables and fruit. They can drink sixty gallons (60 gal.) of water a day. A gallon is equal to four quarts (4 qt.) in the United States. Thus an elephant can drink two hundred forty quarts (240 qt.) of water.

As they are good natured and very strong, elephants have been used to carry people, goods and baggage. It is a fact that a Greek general used elephants to carry stuff in a war. Elephants are used for lifting heavy objects. They have been used to push and pull cut heavy trees.

Male elephants have two huge white bone teeth that come out of their jaw in front of their face. These teeth are called tusks. They are made of white bone. These teeth are some times called ivory tusks. Tusks are used to strip bark off of trees, dig up vegetables and roots from the ground; and fight off animals. Sometimes bad men cut these tusks off for use in musical instruments, jewelry and health potions. Game reserves protect elephants from hunters called, poachers. The American government does not allow the sale of tusks in the United States.

Both the African and Asian elephants have a big nose, in the middle of their head that runs from the top of the head to the top of the ground, called a trunk or snout. The trunk is like an arm that elephants use to put food into its mouth.

They can shake down fruit off of trees using their trunk. They also pull down branches to eat the tree leaves.

The trunk is used to drink water and to take a bath. An elephant uses the trunk as a straw to suck water into the nose and then sprays the water into its mouth. They love bathing and showering by spraying water over their back or walking into a pool of water. They spray dust on their backs to ward off the hot sun and pest insects, such as flies, bees and gnats.

Elephants stay in a huge herd of up to one hundred (100) animals. The male elephants hunt ahead of the herd, while the female elephants follow behind with the baby elephants. The older elephants walk behind the herd at a slow walk. Most herds have an older female elephant as a leader or head of the herd, called a matriarch.

Elephants stay with their parents until twenty years (20 yrs.) of age. An elephant is not fully grown or an adult, until age twenty five (25).

Elephants have big legs and can run as fast as fifteen to twenty-five miles per hour (15-25 mph). Most elephants are slow moving animals that do not bother other animals. They keep together in small groups as the herd moves across the grassy plain land or forest looking for food and water. An elephant spends most of its time looking for food to eat and water to drink.

C H A P T E R T W O

KIDS WANT To HAVE FUN

Our story is about an African elephant and how he lives on the plains of East Africa in a game reserve with many other animals.

Kojo, the elephant lives in a game reserve with his father, Raja and his mother, Diva. He has two sisters named, Muna and Lexi. They have two girl friends named, Luci and Kati.

His aunt, Feema spends time with his mother, Diva. Feema has three boys named Jami, Toni and Luis. They play with Kojo.

Early in the morning, the elephants go into the woods to eat. The jungle type forest was full of trees, green grass, plants and bushes. These were their favorite foods. Kojo and his friends would find a tree and use their tusks to knock down fruit and dig up plants.

Kojo liked to help his little friends. He would find a nice tree with branches full of leaves and pull down a nice branch with his trunk.

What kind of food do you like, Kojo? asked Toni.

I like lots of things, said Kojo. I like to eat bamboo, yams, roots, tree bark, leaves, green grass, and vegetables. I like to eat small pieces of food. I take small bites of leaves and chew them up into small pieces so I can swallow them.

Kojo took a big pile of hay and began eating. When he was done eating, he said, I can not believe I ate the pile of hay. I can’t believe I ate the whole thing.

Jami, Kojo’s cousin, always ate in a hurry. He would take big chunks of leaves and branches, and try to eat them in one bite while walking around. When Feema, his mother, saw Jami gulping his food, she tried to stop him.

Stop taking big bites, said Feema. You must take small bites and chew your food. You can not walk and chew food at the same time. Do not eat dirt and stones in your vegetables. Stand still or sit down. Do not move around or walk around when you eat. Sit down and eat slowly.

I won’t do that anymore, said Jami. I will slow down my eating and I will stand still when I take a bite of food.

Jami, your mother is right, said Kojo.

You should not take big bites of your food or eat fast or walk around while eating. Do not walk with food in your mouth. Do not chew food and walk around at the same time.

There is enough food for all of us to eat, said Toni. We all can share the trees and plants. We will take turns. Do not chew food in a hurry and walk at the same time. Stand still and eat or sit down and eat. We will take turns eating from the trees. There is enough food for all us.

I will be fair, said Luis. I will not take and eat all the small plants.

I will share, said Kojo. There is enough food for all of us to eat.

Let us get along, said Jami. I chew fast, because I think I will not get enough food to eat.

When Luci saw Feema in the play land she asked, What are you doing here?

I came to watch you play, said Feema. I can help you have fun.

That is funny, a grown lady playing with us, said Luci.

Almost every day after eating, Feema would take the girls to a flat land and play games. One day she took a big vine rope from the trees and told Muna and Lexi to hold each end of the rope in their trunks.

When she was in the middle of the rope, she told Muna and Lexi to turn the rope slowly as she jumped up and down. When the rope was under her feet, she jumped up. When the rope was above her head, she came down to the ground.

Feema sang a poem when she danced above the turning rope.

"Feema is my name,.

I come from Freeland,and my favorite food,is fruit."

Her friend, Dora took a turn jumping rope and also sang a poem.

Dora is my name, I come from Dawntown, and my favorite food, is dates and figs.

As soon as the rope stopped turning, Luci said, My turn, my turn, to jump rope. Let us take turns, so we can all play."

Let us play another game, after we have our turns jumping rope, said Muna. I am tired of turning the rope.

Let’s do that, said Feema. Let us play another game called, Ring Around The Rose Bush."

I call that game, Ring Around The Rosie, Said Muna. I will stand in the middle and be the rose bush said, Feema. You girls have to hold your friend’s tail with your trunk to form a circle and walk around the rose bush. You must walk around me, when I am in the middle of the circle."

Yes, we played that game before, said Muna. All the girls formed a circle with each trunk holding a tail from the elephant in front. As they walked around Feema, they sang a poem.

Ring around the Rosie, Pockets Full of posies, Flowers, flowers, We all fall down.

They let go of each other and all fell to the ground. The last girl to fall on the ground has to be the next rose bush and stand in the middle, said Muna. Luci, you did not fall down fast enough. You have to get in the middle as a rose bush.

Stop, said Feema. Just stoop down or bend down. Do not fall on the ground, you will get dirty.

Let us play a new game, said Muna. Let us play, London Bridge. Two girls hold up their trunks, and we will walk under the trunks and sing the song. When the song stops, the girls under the trunks, have to be the next bridge.

The girls began singing and walking under and around the bridge. They sang the song.

"London Bridge is falling down, Falling down, falling down, London Bridge is falling down, My fair lady.

Take a key and lock her up, Lock her up, lock her up, Take a key and lock her up, My fair lady.

How will we build it up, Build it up, build it up, How will we build it up, My fair lady.

Build it up with silver and gold, Silver and gold, silver and gold, Build it up with silver and gold, My fair lady."

Let’s stop playing this game, said Muna. I am tired of going in circles.

This is fun, I like playing games, said Lexi. Let us play another game. Let’s play one more game called, The mail game.

All the girls joined in a circle. Each trunk had a tail of the girl in front. After they joined hands and as they walked in a circle, they sang the poem.

"A tisket, a tasket,

A green and yellow basket,

I wrote a letter to my love,

And on the way I dropped it,

I dropped it.

Along came a little boy,

And put it in his pocket,

His pocket.

Was it you? Was it you? Was it you?"

The girls pointed their fingers at each other and said, Was it you, Was it you?

Just then, Jami ran into the middle of the girls and in a loud voice said, Do not point at me, I do not have your letter. I do not have any letter.

Go away Jami, said Muna. We are playing a game. We are playing our game.

Jami ran in between the girls again and laughed.

Do not laugh, said Feema. Just go away. You can not play games with the girls. Go play with the boys. Go play with your brother.

I am going to stay here, said Jami.

He ran behind the girls and stepped on their mud pies. He then bumped into Muna and knocked down her little pile of twigs and branches.

Stop, that hurt, said Muna. You pushed me, Jami.

Stop, time out, Jami, said Feema. You can not knock over things, you can not push Muna.

As Feema was Jami’s mother, she ran after him and said, Stop, time out, you can not run into people. You can’t make loud laughing noises. Stand still. I want to talk to you.

Jami stopped running and waited for Feema to catch up to him. When Feema was next to him, she said, "I told you not to play with the girls.

You can not play nice, you have a time out. You must sit in the corner for ten minutes. That is your time out, from play."

All the girls are against me, said Jami.

I am tired of being picked on.

The girls are not against you,