AUTUMN has arrived
What a delicious
breakfast daddy and mummy had prepared that morning!
On the kitchen table
there was a plate of toast and big glasses of milk.
Every day, Alba and
Ulysses had a good breakfast. Mum said it was very important to have a good
breakfast to be strong in the morning, and the young lady said so too, so it
had to be true.
When Ulysses finished
his glass of milk - he drank it all - he heard a little noise in the window
panes.
-What's that sound?
-Alba said.
-I don't know, let's
see.
They looked out of
the window and do you know what it was? In the sky, the clouds were blocking out
the sun and it was raining. And the wind
was blowing hard.
-How nice! Mama will
tell us to put on our wellies.
So we did. Mama went
into the kitchen and told them to put on the boots they had bought in the shoe
shop. Ulysses' was yellow, the same colour as the leaves on some of the trees.
They also put on
their mackintoshes and with Alba's umbrella, which was big, they both covered
themselves and left for school.
All the children were
wearing boots that day, some blue, some green... and they were all very happy
because they could step in the puddles and not get their feet wet.
As he did every day
when he arrived at school, Ulysses stood under the tree of Coco, the little
bird, waiting for his friend to come down to eat the little piece of bread he
always brought him.
Coco was a friend of
all the children in the class and when they went out for recess he would
flutter around them. At other times he would fly up to the window of the
classroom and watch the children doing their work.
But that morning Coco
did not appear. There were many yellow leaves on the ground in the playground
and the wind was blowing hard, leaving the branches of Coco's tree bare.
But where was Coco?
There was no sign of him. They looked for him in other trees but he was not
there either. Then the teacher explained what was happening.
When the leaves on
the trees turn yellow, the wind blows hard and it rains, it is autumn.
As the trees have no
leaves, the birds can't live in them. So they go to other places where the wind
doesn't blow.
But there was no need
to worry because Coco would come back. When the trees had leaves again, she
would come back to the school garden. All we had to do was wait.
And colorín colorín
colorado, this story is over.
And then, berry red,
out of the chimney comes a rocket.
The two little
leaves
It was a big tree
full of leaves until one day a great wind appeared and began to blow and blow.
The leaves fell to the ground one after the other. Some of them got muddy,
others were stepped on by children, and others ended up in the rubbish bin when
the street sweeper picked them up.
There were two
leaves on top of a twig that cried because they didn't want to fall to the
ground. They didn't want to get muddy, to be stepped on by the children or to
be thrown in the rubbish. Every time the wind came, the leaves moved, but they
held on tightly to the branch of the tree with their twig. Suddenly the
smallest one said: I have an idea, look at that bird flying in the sky, why
don't we wait for a big wind to come and fly with it.
The other leaf
thought it was a great idea.
When a great wind
blew, the two leaves dropped their twig from the branch of the tree and flew up
into the air, very high, very high, until they disappeared together with the
birds in the sky