A Fairy Tale Playdate

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A FAIRY TALE PLAY-DATE The little red hen has just finished baking her bread and she decides she want to share it with some of her fairy tale friends. Join her friends Hansel and Gretel, Tortoise and the Hare and Peter pig from her farm, as she invites them over and how they interact by sending letters to each other so they all can make it to her play-date.

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3425 Friendly Farms to 75 Racing Ridge Dear Hare , I was wondering if you would like to come over for a play-date I'm having next Wednesday. We will have lots of fun playing and eating some of my best baked bread. Hope to see you soon at my farm. P.S my friends Pig, Hansel and Gretel will be there too. You must be exhausted from your race against the tortoise so the bread will fill you up and give you more energy. If you have any reason not to come than tell me. Love, Hen

Dear Hansel I wish you were at the party because we had so much fun, everyone else was there like Tortoise, Hare, Hen and I, and you're sister Gretel. We also played some games with each other. We even did some stuff I bet you would enjoy. All of us wanted you to come for the challenge, the bread eating contest! I won obviously, but it was fun for everyone. I hope you got the bread that Gretel brought back for you. I Hope you feel better soon. From your friend, Pig

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Dear Hansel and Gretel, I am really sorry that I cannot come to play in the woods, I also wanted to introduce myself to both of you but I am running a race against a slow tortoise. I know I am going to win so I stopped to reply to your letter and take a nap. If we ever get to meet each other we could have as many races as you want. Well anyway, bye for now. Your acquaintance, Hare

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Outside 23 Woodland Roads to 3425 Friendly Farms Dear Hen, Our step-mother kicked us out of our house and we're going to come to your house as soon as we can. At least we don't have to see our step-mother ever again. I'm going to enjoy your bread.We will come on Wednesday as you said,so we can actually make it on time.Please and thank you for inviting us. We will be there soon. Thanks again for everything. Love, Hansel

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3426 Friendly Farms to 76 Racing Ridge Dear Tortoise Congratulations Tortoise for winning against that cocky Hare. He really thought he was going to win and was really surprised when he didn't because he's faster than tortoises. I wonder how Hare felt after that race he probably felt really embarrassed. Anyway I am really sorry I can't come to celebrate the win with you. From your friend, Pig

3425 Friendly Farms to 23 Woodland Roads Dear Hansel and Gretel, I would like to invite you to have lunch with me at my farm next Wednesday. You can come around 4:30 pm. I hope your mother will let you come over. Bring an appetite and we will have so much fun. P.S I'm making my marvelous bread. I asked duck to help me but he doesn't want to. We're going to have a blast. Your friend, Hen

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Outside 23 Woodland Roads to 3425 Friendly Farms Dear Hen, I'm so sorry that Hansel won't be able to come to your party. He is really sick. It's probably because of the freezing cold outside. I wish he could come and you probably do as well. I hope he gets better. Please can I get some bread for him so he doesn't miss out. He'll probably feel left out if we don't give him anything. And tell tortoise that I feel happy for him. I'm coming to the play-date but at the same time I will be wishing Hansel the best of luck. Love, Gretel

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From 3426 Friendly Farms To 76 Racing Ridge Dear Tortoise Hen wanted to know if you could come to her house for a party because there is going to be a lot of friends there. Also I want you to know that she is very happy you won against the Hare. Hope you can make it to the party, you're going to love the bread that she makes. We're going to have so many people coming to the party too. From your friend Pig

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23 Woodland Roads to 75 Racing Ridge Dear Hare, I want to know if you could come to play with me and Hansel in the woods. Would you like to come? We're not so familiar with you so it would be nice for you to introduce yourself to us. By the way, I heard that you are really fast so we could have some races. I just can't wait to see you. I promise that we are going to have lots of fun. We are really excited for you coming here. We don't see so much people around so it would be nice to meet you. Your friend Gretel

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3425 Friendly Farms to 23 Woodland Roads Dear Hansel , I just got the bad news and I'm terribly sorry that you can't come to my farm today. I just wanted you to know that I hope you get better from your cold. Gretel asked if she could bring some of bread back from my farm and I allowed her so you don't feel left out . Sorry again that you can't make it. Your best friend, Hen

76 Racing Ridge to 3426 Friendly Farms Dear Pig, I just won a race against a fast Hare because he decided to stop and he didn't notice when I passed him. Right now I am celebrating my win with my family by eating leaves. If you come over sometime you can see my trophy. It means a lot to beat the Hare. We will have a lots of fun I promise. The Hare learned a valuable lesson today. Slow and steady wins the race. Your slow but determine friend, Tortoise

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75 Racing Ridge to 3425 Friendly Farms Dear Hen, Me and Tortoise are so happy to be invited to your play-date. We will come as soon as we can. It turns out me and Tortoise are really good friends now, we have a lot in common like we both like to watch funny movies and we both like vegetables. Right now I am eating leaves with Tortoise but we will be there in a jiffy. We might even have a race to your farm. Your friends, Tortoise and Hare

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