One day after the Halloween 10K, there was family night at my house. My mom came to me about two weeks earlier and asked if Spock and I would do the lesson. While I was hating the idea at first, Spock immediately wanted to when I proposed it to her. We wanted to do something Halloween themed but we just didn't know what to do. Finally, we came up with the idea of reading from one of my favourite Roald Dahl books, The Twits, while she drew scenes from it. It turned out really well and I think my family was all into it.
This is Mr. Twit. He's really gruffy and has a rank beard with bits of sardine stuck in it. Mrs. Twit is pretty nast herself. They hate each other so they play all these tricks on one another. First, Mrs. Twit puts her glass eye in Mr. Twit's beer and grosses him out.
To pay her back, Mr. Twit finds a slimy frog and puts it in her bed one night, telling her that it's a giant skillywiggler that will bite her toes off. She faints.
After that little charade, Mrs. Twit digs up lots of worms and puts them in her husband's spaghetti and doesn't tell him that he ate them until after his plate is cleared. He hates this.
So he figures that he'll take Mrs. Twit's cane ever night and add a tiny piece of wood to the end of it and it slowly becomes longer and longer without her noticing it. Finally he points out that the cane is up to her elbow and that she is shrinking. She believes him of course, and the only way to stop The Dreaded Shrinks is to be stretched. She will do whatever it takes to live and so they go outside and Mr. Twit ties her to an iron ring in the ground and attaches balloons all over her to pull her up. He then cuts the string that is holding her to the ground and Mrs. Twit goes ballooning up. Once she is up in the air, she's like "oh... if i just bite through some of these strings then I will come back down!" And that is exactly what she does.
She's pissed.
She crashes right on top of Mr. Twit. And it is the funniest thing in the world.
That's the first half of the book, so if you haven't read the whole story then you should definitely get on that, because in the end, the Twits get what they deserve!
Way to go Chantilly Lace for being so pro at drawing.
So long and thanks for all the fish!
