Skill Drill:
Has a few, small brown stains
The solid colored zipper meeting the colorful pattern full of peace hearts
The neon pink thread looks like minuscule dashes touching each other form a line that stretches to the top
My crumb-sized eyes stared up at my backpack. I thought the task of getting my homework was an easy one, but when you are suddenly an inch tall, things get hard. Math was starting, and I didn’t want to be late. My thought came back at my backpack, which could have been a pink, purple, green, blue, and orange mountain at this point.
“Giuliana, you are not getting a lecture from Mr. Lamich about being late to class, not today!”
With this thought echoing in my mind, my puny little feet ran for the mesh pocket on the side of the towering object that contained my homework. When I got to the pocket, my fingers, that were the size of grains of rice, met a hole in the pocket. I tightened my grip around the hole and jabbed a foot in a hole under me. Little by little, my body inched up the climbing wall until I was at the top. The light green, unopened zipper popped out against the colorful pattern of huge circles and lines that formed peace signs with a diameter two times the length of my body laying down. With all the strength I had, my minuscule body climbed its way to the top of the backpack, where a loop of pink strip of thick fabric connected the backpack with a hook on the wall. I hopped on the hook and pushed 5 pounds of backpack with pea-sized hands off the hook. When the backpack started falling, my legs pushed off the hook, making me land on the backpack as it fell. I was on a roller coaster until the backpack hit the floor. Without thinking, my hands flew to the pink zipper and pulled it. Inside, a dark cave in which my homework laid greeted me. My bite-sized feet stepped inside the backpack. I saw my homework and when my hand felt the soft, cool surface of my notebook, my extended hand got bigger. And bigger. I looked down to see my feet farther away than before. In about 10 seconds, I was 4 foot 6 again and ready to go to math class.
Has a few, small brown stains
The solid colored zipper meeting the colorful pattern full of peace hearts
The neon pink thread looks like minuscule dashes touching each other form a line that stretches to the top
My crumb-sized eyes stared up at my backpack. I thought the task of getting my homework was an easy one, but when you are suddenly an inch tall, things get hard. Math was starting, and I didn’t want to be late. My thought came back at my backpack, which could have been a pink, purple, green, blue, and orange mountain at this point.
“Giuliana, you are not getting a lecture from Mr. Lamich about being late to class, not today!”
With this thought echoing in my mind, my puny little feet ran for the mesh pocket on the side of the towering object that contained my homework. When I got to the pocket, my fingers, that were the size of grains of rice, met a hole in the pocket. I tightened my grip around the hole and jabbed a foot in a hole under me. Little by little, my body inched up the climbing wall until I was at the top. The light green, unopened zipper popped out against the colorful pattern of huge circles and lines that formed peace signs with a diameter two times the length of my body laying down. With all the strength I had, my minuscule body climbed its way to the top of the backpack, where a loop of pink strip of thick fabric connected the backpack with a hook on the wall. I hopped on the hook and pushed 5 pounds of backpack with pea-sized hands off the hook. When the backpack started falling, my legs pushed off the hook, making me land on the backpack as it fell. I was on a roller coaster until the backpack hit the floor. Without thinking, my hands flew to the pink zipper and pulled it. Inside, a dark cave in which my homework laid greeted me. My bite-sized feet stepped inside the backpack. I saw my homework and when my hand felt the soft, cool surface of my notebook, my extended hand got bigger. And bigger. I looked down to see my feet farther away than before. In about 10 seconds, I was 4 foot 6 again and ready to go to math class.