Many terrible tricks had been played between the Twits. Mr. Twit had been surprised by Mrs. Twit´s glass eye at the bottom of the beer mug staring at him. Mrs. Twit had fainted after Mr. Twit put a huge frog, the Skillywiggler, on her bed at night and it jumped right on her face. She was mad because he laughed at her and he also got her wet on a day she had no plans to wash her face. Her evil plan was to dig up the longest and thickest earthworms from her garden and mix them with Mr. Twit´s spaghetti. He eats them complaining about the bitter taste while she enjoys her normal tasting spaghetti. Mrs. Twit is full of joy when she is able to tell him that he ate worms!

Mr. Twit decided to punish his wife with a very clever trick. He glued pieces of wood the size of a coin to the end of her walking stick every night to make it longer without her noticing it until one day the walking stick reached her shoulder. Mrs. Twit was confused. Was she shrinking? Was the stick growing? Mr. Twit told her that she was very sick and that she was going to disappear because she had the shrinks!

Mrs. Twit was completely fooled by Mr. Twit´s trick with her walking stick. She thought she was shrinking and was desperate. He convinced her even more when she sat on her regular chair and it had the same problem. The legs were much longer now! Mr. Twit was evil! He had glued wood on them too! Part two of his evil trick started when she asked him what she could do to stop shrinking. He said that she needed to be stretched! He tied one hundred helium balloons to her arms and hair while her ankles were tied to the ground. The balloons did their job and started to stretch her body like mad. Mrs. Twit made a big mistake when she asked Mr. Twit to check to see if her ankles were well tied because she feared she might fly to the moon. Mr. Twit decided to cut the strings and get rid of his wife.

We have a pretty good idea of how horrible these two twits are. We must go on with the story! They lived in a very strange looking house with no windows and a horrible garden full of thorns and nettles. They had a dead tree in the middle of the garden and a cage with a family of African monkeys that didn’t speak English. Mr. and Mrs. Twit loved to torture these poor monkeys and they made them suffer by watching how they killed birds to eat every Wednesday for Mr. Twit’s famous bird pie.

The Twits made the monkeys stand on their heads for hours and hours each day. They hit them and starved them if they didn't obey. The Twits wanted to have an upside down circus of monkeys. They only wanted to go back to Africa.

The Twits were horrible to them and to the birds in their garden. Every Wednesday evening, the family of monkeys tried to tell the English birds not to sit on the dead tree to sleep because Mr. Twit had smeared it with glue and they would get stuck forever and end up dead in a bird pie. The problem was that they spoke only an African language and the English birds didn't understand what they were saying. Week after week the family witnessed the murder of hundreds of birds and they felt terrible. One day a miracle happened! An African Roly-Poly Bird came to their garden and started talking to them. He spoke their language and English too! They decided to help the birds together.

Every week Mr. Twit would paint the dead tree with glue and birds would come to sleep at night and stay stuck on the branches. Mr. Twit would trap and kill them for Mrs. Twit to cook them in a bird pie. After the Roly-Poly arrived to their garden and spoke to the monkeys and they were able to explain to him what was happening to the birds, they had a plan. The monkeys and the Roly-Poly were able to tell all the birds that came to sleep on the dead tree in the Twit's garden not to sit on the tree because it had glue. Mr. Twit was furious to see that the birds decided to sleep on the monkeys' cage and then on the roof. He had no birds to catch for his bird pie. He had to change his plan too.

Mr. Twit decided to go into town to buy guns to shoot birds to cook them in his bird pie. While the Twits went out the monkeys asked Roly-Poly to get the key to the cage and they were able to go out. Instead of escaping, Muggle-wump, the father monkey had a plan. He decided to paint the ceiling of Mr. and Mrs. Twit's house with glue. He wanted to glue everything upside down so that the Twits had to put themselves upside down too. They didn't have a lot of time. All the birds and monkeys had to work together as a team to complete the work before the Twits returned with the loaded guns.

As the Twits returned to their home, two birds painted the top of their heads with glue and they thought they pooped on them. They were so mad and of course they didn't want to touch it. The birds flew to the top of the house and the monkeys ran into their cage. The Twits went into their house and were surprised to find everything upside down. They thought they were upside down. They were twits which means idiots, not very smart, so they started to panic. Mr. Twit said to Mrs. Twit that they needed to stand on their heads to be in the right position and as soon as their heads touched the floor they got stuck forever with the glue. They stayed like that for days and days until they began to get the shrinks for real until they disappeared. The Roly-Poly flew the monkeys one by one back to Africa on its back so they could return to the jungle. One day a man called Fred came to the Twit's house to read the gas meter and realized the Twits were gone forever. The only thing left were their clothes, the walking stick and the glass-eye and Fred was so happy!

We studied about many animals this year and alligators definitely trapped our attention and we became very passionate about them. We learned two songs, a poem and read three stories with alligators as the main characters. Here is a small sample of some of the work the children produced inspired by alligators.