We were working on writing outlines for an essay, one of the kids was stuck on what he was writing about, they often group together and all seems to write about the same thing, the other day they all decided to write about pets as the most important influence on their life.
Here is one of their outlines, I like it better as a poem.


My pet
it's dead
white feathers, black eyes
my cat ate him
I throw him to the garbage.