Hello ,
A
mother of a 9-year-old boy named Mark received a phone call from his teacher in the middle of the afternoon. Marks teacher said Mrs. Smith; your son did something that surprised me so much that I thought you should know about it immediately."
The mother was uneasy and nervous by such a beginning to a phone call. The teacher continued, I have been teaching a long time and nothing like this has happened. This morning I was teaching a lesson on
creative writing. And as I always do, I tell the story of the ant and the grasshopper.
The ant works hard all summer and stores up plenty of food. But the grasshopper plays all summer and does no work. Then winter comes. The grasshopper begins to starve because he has no food. So he hops to the ants house and begins to beg. Please Mr. Ant, you have so much food please let me eat, too. Then I challenge them to write an ending to the story.
As in all the years past,
most of the students said that the ant shared his food through the winter and both the ant and the grasshopper lived. A few children said, "No, Mr. Grasshopper. You should have worked in the summer and not played. Now, I have just enough food for myself." So the ant lived and the grasshopper died. One student wrote: Absolutely not!
But your son ended the story in a different way. He wrote, "So the ant gave all of his food to the grasshopper and the ant died. Your son Mark had drawn three
crosses at the bottom of the page. Under the crosses he had written, "Jesus died so we could live."
What a great lesson for anyone from a nine year old boy!
Have a great day and God bless!
