Year 3 

Elena and the black geese. A long time ago on a cliff far away,a healthy women lived in a house with her two children. One day she was going to go to a shop.&quot;Elena I&apos;m going to go to a shop.&quot; &quot;Ok mum.&quot; &quot;Look after your baby brother. So off her mum went.Elena waited in the house for a little while but she got bored so she went out of the house and she put her baby brother down.Then went to play with her friends.Mean while the black geese saw Elena&apos;s little brother.Then they dived down and snatched him and took him away. Elena came back and he was gone. She thought for a little while and then she knew what had happened.The black geese had taken him. It was time to find him so off she went to find her baby brother.

Elena went deep in the forest and found a fish on the ground.The fish said &quot;Elena Elena. Help I&apos;m dying.&quot; So Elena picked the fish up and put him in the pond then. The fish said &quot;because you helped me I will help you.&quot; So the fish went to the bottom of the pond and then the top. The fish said &quot;Here take this shell. If you ever get into trouble throw it over your shoulder.&quot; Elena didn&apos;t know how a shell would help her but she didn&apos;t want to seem rude so she put it in her pocket then jogged on. After she saw a squirrel trapped in a cage. The squirrel said &quot;Elena Elena I&apos;m trapped in this cage.&quot; Elena opened the cage. The squirrel went up the tree then down again. The squirrel said &quot;Here take this walnut.&quot; Elena put the walnut in her pocket and then jogged on. Soon after she had helped the squirrel she saw a field mouse.

Soon after that she heard the field mouse shouting &quot;HELP!HELP! MY HOUSE IS BLOCKED BY A HUGE ROCK!&quot; Elena went to help the field mouse. She huffed and puffed and moved the rock out of the way. Then the mouse said &quot;You have helped me so I will help.&quot; The mouse went into his house and out, he said &quot;Here, take this pebble. If you are ever in danger, throw it over your shoulder and you will be safe&quot;. Elena said thank you and set off. In no time at all she reached Baba Yaga&apos;s hut and snuck in without making a sound and took Sergi back. When she got out, the black geese spotted her and started to honk. They woke up Baba Yaga and she started to chase Elena. Elena remembered that the fish gave her a shell and threw it over her shoulder. Suddenly a huge pond hopped in front of Baba Yaga and she stopped and she drank it all up. Elena threw the nut over her shoulder and it made a huge forest but Baba Yaga ate it up with her iron teeth. Then Elena threw the pebble over her shoulder and it created a mountain. Baba Yaga couldn&apos;t eat it so she went home and so did Elena with her little brother . Elena got home just in time to enjoy her sugar bun. The End !

The field mouse said &quot;Elena Elena, a big rock is blocking my hole please help me.&quot; Elena pushed and shoved the rock out of the way. Then the field mouse said &quot;since you helped me I will help you. Take this pebble.&quot; Elena took the pebble and then jogged on. Suddenly the trees grew so close that not a speck of sunlight came through. Then she saw Baba Yaga&apos;s hut. She quickly and quietly crept into Baba-Yaga&apos;s hut and went towards her little brother and grabbed him then ran as quickly as she could. The black geese started honking. Baba-Yaga started running after Elena. Elena started getting nervous but luckily she remembered what the fish gave to her and threw the shell over her shoulder and a giant lake appeared. Baba Yaga went down and drank the lake. Then Elena threw the walnut over her shoulder and a grove of trees appeared.

Baba-Yaga couldn&apos;t go threw it so she ate the grove but Elena still had the pebble so she threw that over her shoulder. A mountain sprang up.Baba-Yaga could not get through,she couldn&apos;t eat it nor drink it so she stomped angrily home.Elena went home before their mum came home.

Mordiford C of E Primary School England Year 3

Baba Yaga and the Black Geese By Charlie

On the edge of the dark Forest was a hidden village. There lived a mum and a girl and a brother. Their mum said “I’m going to the town market for some sugar buns, but don’t go outside because Baba Yaga’s black geese are flying over.” But the girl got bored and took her brother and she saw her friends playing and forgot all about him. The black geese came swooping down and snatched him! Elena, the little girl set off to find her brother. But on her journey she found a squirrel trapped. The squirrel said “Elena, Elena can you help me?” Elena was tempted to run on but she felt sorry for it, so she helped and said “You helped me so I will help you.” Take this shell and if you are in trouble throw it over your shoulder, and she put it in her pocket and ran on. After she saw a fish, the fish said “Elena, Elena can you help me?” She knelt down to help. “You have helped me so I will help you.”

Take this and if you are in trouble throw this over your shoulder, and she ran on. She found a little mouse and it immediately said “Elena, Elena can you help me?” She wanted to run on but she knelt down and moved it. “You have helped me so I will help you.” She ran on. Then found a house with rooster legs, she climbed up and found Sergi and Baba Yaga woke up and chased them! They got back home just before their mum did. Mum walked in with some sugar buns.

Many years ago, there was a village on the edge of a humongous forest. In the village there lived a mother with two children. One was called Sergi. Sergi was a little boy. The other child was called Elena and she was just an ordinary girl who would turn into the fearless hero. She becomes a hero by beating an evil with called Baba Yaga who eats children and catches them by sending her black geese to go and get them. But will she survive? If you want to find out then stay tuned and we&apos;ll find out. Are you excited, well I am so lets start the story! Early one morning, Elena woke up and her mother told her, &quot;I am going to the market and you have to look after your little brother and if you do I will bring you a sugar bun.&quot; She wanted a sugar bun so she took care of her little brother but soon she got bored and went outside to play with her friends. She forgot about Sergi and when she came back he was gone. She looked in every corner of the house and shouted his name but he didn&apos;t reply so then she realised that the black geese must have taken him and that&apos;s where the journey begins.

She went into the deep dark forest and came to a pond and saw a fish on the bank shouting &quot;HELP HELP IM DYING!&quot; Elena wanted to keep going but she felt sorry for the fish so she helped it back into the pond. The fish told Elena &quot;you have helped me so I will help you.&quot; The fish dived down and up again and said &quot;If you are ever in danger, throw this shell over your shoulder and you will be safe&quot;. Elena did not see how a shell could help her but she did not want to be rude so she out it in her pocket and set off. Next she came to a clearing and sew a squirrel shouting &quot;HELP HELP MY FOOT IS STUCK IN THE TRAP!&quot; So Elena helped the squirrel. It said &quot;You have helped me so I will help you.&quot; The squirrel darted into the tree and back down. It said &quot;If you are ever in trouble then throw this walnut over your shoulder and you will be safe&quot;. Elena put the nut in her pocket and set off again.

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