1 00:00:04,120 --> 00:00:07,240 Speaker 1: Hey friends, it's mister jim Man. Welcome back to Kid 2 00:00:07,280 --> 00:00:11,639 Speaker 1: Short Stories. If this is your first time, welcome to 3 00:00:11,680 --> 00:00:15,320 Speaker 1: the family. We are the podcast that turns your ideas 4 00:00:15,320 --> 00:00:19,200 Speaker 1: into an amazing adventure every single day. You know, we 5 00:00:19,239 --> 00:00:23,960 Speaker 1: couldn't even exist without imaginations from kids just like you. 6 00:00:24,560 --> 00:00:27,040 Speaker 1: So if you have an idea for a story, I'd 7 00:00:27,160 --> 00:00:29,280 Speaker 1: love to see it. Check down in the show notes 8 00:00:29,280 --> 00:00:32,479 Speaker 1: below for how you can submit your own story idea 9 00:00:32,479 --> 00:00:35,880 Speaker 1: and maybe we'll turn it into an awesome adventure. And parents, 10 00:00:35,880 --> 00:00:38,639 Speaker 1: if you're new to kids podcasting, I'm gonna challenge you 11 00:00:39,159 --> 00:00:41,479 Speaker 1: to listen to podcasting for five days in a row 12 00:00:41,520 --> 00:00:44,720 Speaker 1: with your kids. It's going to increase their imagination, decrease 13 00:00:44,760 --> 00:00:46,680 Speaker 1: screen time, and we're gonna have a lot of fun 14 00:00:46,680 --> 00:00:50,120 Speaker 1: along the way. Are you guys ready for today's adventure? 15 00:00:50,479 --> 00:00:59,400 Speaker 1: Me too, Let's go. Aspen woke up and got ready 16 00:00:59,480 --> 00:01:03,680 Speaker 1: for school just like any other day. She hopped off 17 00:01:03,680 --> 00:01:08,480 Speaker 1: the bus, strapped on her biology squad pack, and walked 18 00:01:08,560 --> 00:01:13,920 Speaker 1: into school just like any other day. She entered her 19 00:01:13,920 --> 00:01:17,680 Speaker 1: classroom and walked towards her seat, just like any other day. 20 00:01:18,560 --> 00:01:21,080 Speaker 1: She went to sit down in her chair, but found 21 00:01:21,120 --> 00:01:26,600 Speaker 1: an elephant already sitting there. Definitely not just like any 22 00:01:26,640 --> 00:01:27,160 Speaker 1: other day. 23 00:01:27,840 --> 00:01:29,840 Speaker 2: Oh, hello, ass. 24 00:01:29,720 --> 00:01:31,959 Speaker 1: Ben, the elephant greeted her. 25 00:01:32,680 --> 00:01:36,039 Speaker 2: I'm so glad you're here. I've been waiting for you 26 00:01:36,120 --> 00:01:41,240 Speaker 2: all morning. I'm Albertina Elephant Day, but you can call 27 00:01:41,319 --> 00:01:45,840 Speaker 2: me miss Ellie. Aspin looked up at the enormous elephant 28 00:01:45,880 --> 00:01:47,000 Speaker 2: who was speaking to her. 29 00:01:47,520 --> 00:01:49,920 Speaker 1: Uh, how do you know my name? 30 00:01:50,960 --> 00:01:53,760 Speaker 2: I try to learn the names of all my students, 31 00:01:53,840 --> 00:01:55,919 Speaker 2: and it's written right. 32 00:01:55,840 --> 00:01:59,000 Speaker 1: Here on your desk. See, miss Ellie pointed to the 33 00:01:59,080 --> 00:02:03,480 Speaker 1: name tag at the top of Aspen's desk. Oh, another 34 00:02:03,520 --> 00:02:06,480 Speaker 1: student just came in. Please excuse me while I go 35 00:02:06,520 --> 00:02:10,520 Speaker 1: greet them. The chair squealed and groaned as the elephant's 36 00:02:10,520 --> 00:02:13,960 Speaker 1: weight shifted off of it. Miss Ellie stomped off to 37 00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:20,119 Speaker 1: greet the next student. Aspen sat down, feeling a little 38 00:02:20,120 --> 00:02:23,160 Speaker 1: bit dazed. Had she really just seen an elephant in 39 00:02:23,200 --> 00:02:27,160 Speaker 1: her seat? This can't be real. The elephant really said 40 00:02:27,200 --> 00:02:31,160 Speaker 1: she was the teacher. She leaned over to THEO, who 41 00:02:31,200 --> 00:02:34,760 Speaker 1: was sitting next to her, to get his opinion. Did 42 00:02:34,800 --> 00:02:39,000 Speaker 1: you see that? She said? THEO looked at Miss Ellie, 43 00:02:39,520 --> 00:02:44,280 Speaker 1: then back at Aspen. Yeah, I uh, I guess we 44 00:02:44,400 --> 00:02:48,360 Speaker 1: have a substitute teacher today. He shrugged and went back 45 00:02:48,400 --> 00:02:54,959 Speaker 1: to coloring. Aspen sat there, confused, so much confusion. Why 46 00:02:55,000 --> 00:02:58,280 Speaker 1: didn't theo react to the elephant in the room, you know, 47 00:02:58,400 --> 00:03:02,160 Speaker 1: like an actual elephant in the room. This new teacher 48 00:03:02,280 --> 00:03:06,720 Speaker 1: was most definitely not supposed to be here. Where was 49 00:03:06,760 --> 00:03:11,440 Speaker 1: the real teacher, mister Jim. After all, the students had 50 00:03:11,520 --> 00:03:15,920 Speaker 1: arrived and been greeted by the elephant, miss Ellie, She 51 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:18,400 Speaker 1: made her way to the front of the room. She 52 00:03:18,560 --> 00:03:25,480 Speaker 1: trumpeted to get everyone's attention. The students quieted down and 53 00:03:25,520 --> 00:03:29,440 Speaker 1: faced her. Aspen snuck a glance around, but no one 54 00:03:29,520 --> 00:03:32,800 Speaker 1: else seemed to think it was strange that miss Ellie 55 00:03:33,080 --> 00:03:33,440 Speaker 1: was there. 56 00:03:34,560 --> 00:03:39,200 Speaker 2: Okay, class, let's get started today. We are going to 57 00:03:39,280 --> 00:03:43,920 Speaker 2: practice writing our sight words. Grab your pencils that hold 58 00:03:43,960 --> 00:03:49,400 Speaker 2: them tightly with your trucks. The first word is leaves, 59 00:03:50,480 --> 00:03:55,600 Speaker 2: as in I ate my leaves for breakfast. 60 00:03:56,240 --> 00:04:00,280 Speaker 1: Aspen looked around at her classmates. They all picked up 61 00:04:00,320 --> 00:04:04,880 Speaker 1: their pencils with their hands, but not trunks. No one 62 00:04:04,920 --> 00:04:09,640 Speaker 1: else seemed to notice what miss Ellie had said. The 63 00:04:09,680 --> 00:04:12,800 Speaker 1: elephant trumpeted again before speaking and said. 64 00:04:15,080 --> 00:04:20,600 Speaker 2: Great job. The next word is bath as in take 65 00:04:20,760 --> 00:04:25,520 Speaker 2: your dust bath every day. The class began writing the 66 00:04:25,560 --> 00:04:30,840 Speaker 2: next word what shouted Aspen, unable to hold it in 67 00:04:30,880 --> 00:04:31,599 Speaker 2: any longer. 68 00:04:32,279 --> 00:04:35,839 Speaker 1: I don't take dust baths. What are you talking about? 69 00:04:36,960 --> 00:04:38,479 Speaker 1: Miss Ellie looked concerned. 70 00:04:39,120 --> 00:04:43,680 Speaker 2: Oh dear, then, how do you cool down or protect 71 00:04:43,680 --> 00:04:44,920 Speaker 2: yourself from bugs? 72 00:04:46,080 --> 00:04:50,920 Speaker 1: Asked? Been fumbled for a response, but then miss Ellie continued, 73 00:04:51,320 --> 00:04:52,000 Speaker 1: all right, all. 74 00:04:51,960 --> 00:04:53,320 Speaker 2: Right, we don't have much die bath. 75 00:04:53,520 --> 00:04:57,960 Speaker 1: Then please get writing, Aspen to know what else to do. 76 00:04:59,160 --> 00:05:03,240 Speaker 1: So she's started writing like the rest of her classmates. 77 00:05:03,920 --> 00:05:06,800 Speaker 1: When they were finished, it was time for art. Miss 78 00:05:06,880 --> 00:05:10,560 Speaker 1: Ellie passed out paints in brushes as she explained what 79 00:05:10,600 --> 00:05:14,599 Speaker 1: they were doing. We're going to be painting pictures of 80 00:05:14,839 --> 00:05:18,599 Speaker 1: animals that live in the africans of Venna. Now wrap 81 00:05:18,640 --> 00:05:22,599 Speaker 1: your trunks loosely around your brushes so they move easily. 82 00:05:23,760 --> 00:05:28,279 Speaker 1: Aspen sighed to herself and began painting the most obvious animal. 83 00:05:29,080 --> 00:05:33,760 Speaker 1: As she was finishing her elephant painting, miss Ellie trumpeted 84 00:05:33,760 --> 00:05:39,800 Speaker 1: for the class's attention once more. If your paintings are 85 00:05:39,960 --> 00:05:42,800 Speaker 1: very wet, you could place them in the drying rack, 86 00:05:43,520 --> 00:05:46,640 Speaker 1: or wave your ears back and forth over them to 87 00:05:46,680 --> 00:05:50,719 Speaker 1: help them drive faster. Then she walked around and looked 88 00:05:50,720 --> 00:05:52,279 Speaker 1: at the classes paintings. 89 00:05:52,720 --> 00:05:59,120 Speaker 2: What a lovely lion, Wow, marvelous mirror cat, Maizie, good job. 90 00:06:00,040 --> 00:06:04,320 Speaker 1: Miss Ellie stopped when she got to Aspens. Is that 91 00:06:04,360 --> 00:06:05,279 Speaker 1: a painting of me? 92 00:06:05,480 --> 00:06:05,960 Speaker 2: Aspen? 93 00:06:06,680 --> 00:06:13,960 Speaker 1: She asked, Well, yes, I guess, so, responded Aspen. It's excellent, dear, 94 00:06:14,800 --> 00:06:19,000 Speaker 1: but I actually live over by Main Street. Not the 95 00:06:19,040 --> 00:06:24,799 Speaker 1: African savannah. Patting Aspen's arm, miss Ellie chuckled and stomped away. 96 00:06:25,960 --> 00:06:29,360 Speaker 1: At lunchtime, miss Ellie took the class to the field 97 00:06:29,400 --> 00:06:35,080 Speaker 1: out back. All right, students again, miss Ellie called out. 98 00:06:35,360 --> 00:06:41,160 Speaker 1: She began grazing, eating the grass leticious lunch options at 99 00:06:41,200 --> 00:06:45,600 Speaker 1: this school. The elephant munched her way around the field 100 00:06:46,400 --> 00:06:49,280 Speaker 1: as the students opened their lunchboxes and began to eat 101 00:06:50,080 --> 00:06:54,440 Speaker 1: who Thankfully the other students didn't follow along and eat grass. 102 00:06:55,800 --> 00:06:59,080 Speaker 1: That would have been hilarious. Aspen tried to talk to 103 00:06:59,120 --> 00:07:03,520 Speaker 1: her classmates again about their new teacher. She tapped her 104 00:07:03,560 --> 00:07:07,880 Speaker 1: friend Fallen on the shoulder. Hey, Fallin, did you notice 105 00:07:07,880 --> 00:07:14,720 Speaker 1: anything strange about miss Ellie? Fallin nodded, Yeah, she lets 106 00:07:14,800 --> 00:07:20,000 Speaker 1: us eat outside instead of the cafeteria. Okay, anything else? 107 00:07:20,800 --> 00:07:24,600 Speaker 1: Aspen prided, like when she told us to keep all 108 00:07:25,000 --> 00:07:30,680 Speaker 1: four feet to ourselves when lining up, Fallen shrugged her shoulders. 109 00:07:31,400 --> 00:07:35,440 Speaker 1: Aspen threw her hands up and cried or that she told. 110 00:07:35,280 --> 00:07:39,360 Speaker 3: Us to use our trunks to hold things or dry 111 00:07:39,440 --> 00:07:40,520 Speaker 3: stuff with our ears. 112 00:07:41,200 --> 00:07:45,120 Speaker 1: Do you have trunks? Do you have a trunk? Fallen laughed. 113 00:07:46,120 --> 00:07:49,160 Speaker 1: She's funny, though, isn't she? And then Fallen went back 114 00:07:49,200 --> 00:07:54,760 Speaker 1: to eating her lunch. Aspen was exasperated, which is a 115 00:07:54,760 --> 00:07:56,440 Speaker 1: big word for feeling like. 116 00:07:56,880 --> 00:07:58,440 Speaker 3: What in the world is going on? 117 00:07:59,640 --> 00:08:03,200 Speaker 1: She did understand why no one seemed to notice miss 118 00:08:03,280 --> 00:08:08,560 Speaker 1: Ellie was no ordinary substitute teacher all day long. It 119 00:08:08,680 --> 00:08:13,320 Speaker 1: continued that way, with miss Ellie doing elephant things and 120 00:08:13,400 --> 00:08:18,400 Speaker 1: her classmates not even noticing. In math they counted peanuts. 121 00:08:19,120 --> 00:08:22,240 Speaker 1: She watched as miss Ellie snuck a few. As they 122 00:08:22,280 --> 00:08:26,320 Speaker 1: went on the playground. Miss Ellie taught the students how 123 00:08:26,360 --> 00:08:29,480 Speaker 1: to grab the monkey bars with their trunks. It didn't 124 00:08:29,520 --> 00:08:33,400 Speaker 1: even matter that Aspen pointed out that she had no 125 00:08:33,600 --> 00:08:39,160 Speaker 1: trunk therefore could not swing with it. No one seemed 126 00:08:39,160 --> 00:08:43,480 Speaker 1: to care about it. I'm very confused, are you? They 127 00:08:43,520 --> 00:08:47,000 Speaker 1: were all having a great day, but even Aspen had 128 00:08:47,000 --> 00:08:49,720 Speaker 1: to admit it. This is a lot more interesting having 129 00:08:49,760 --> 00:08:53,960 Speaker 1: an elephant at school. Finally, it was the end of 130 00:08:54,080 --> 00:08:57,520 Speaker 1: the school day. Miss Ellie asked everyone to pack up 131 00:08:57,679 --> 00:09:01,160 Speaker 1: get ready to leave. She called them up one by one, 132 00:09:01,280 --> 00:09:02,520 Speaker 1: asking everyone. 133 00:09:02,720 --> 00:09:05,600 Speaker 2: Please line up at the door in a straight line. 134 00:09:06,160 --> 00:09:08,720 Speaker 2: Grab the tail in front of you with your drugs, 135 00:09:08,800 --> 00:09:10,080 Speaker 2: so we say together. 136 00:09:11,320 --> 00:09:13,920 Speaker 1: When Aspen got home, she tried to tell her parents 137 00:09:13,960 --> 00:09:17,520 Speaker 1: about Miss Ellie the elephant teacher, but they thought she 138 00:09:17,679 --> 00:09:22,120 Speaker 1: was just being silly. She went to bed early, exhausted 139 00:09:22,160 --> 00:09:26,959 Speaker 1: from the day's events. The next day, Aspen walked down 140 00:09:27,120 --> 00:09:32,319 Speaker 1: the hall to her classroom. Who let's hope everything gets 141 00:09:32,360 --> 00:09:36,640 Speaker 1: back to normal today, she told herself. Aspen walked towards 142 00:09:36,679 --> 00:09:41,640 Speaker 1: her seat, which was empty. No elephant there today, she 143 00:09:41,840 --> 00:09:45,240 Speaker 1: was relieved. Aspen looked toward her teacher's desk, ready to 144 00:09:45,280 --> 00:09:46,280 Speaker 1: see mister Jim there. 145 00:09:46,960 --> 00:09:53,520 Speaker 3: Hi, class, Ah, my name's mister Terence Tiger. We're gonna 146 00:09:53,559 --> 00:09:58,959 Speaker 3: start the day with a roaring contest. Aspin watched the 147 00:09:59,000 --> 00:10:03,079 Speaker 3: tiger write his name Aim on the board. Oh no, 148 00:10:04,080 --> 00:10:11,080 Speaker 3: not again, Holy smokes, I'm the This is hilarious. 149 00:10:11,320 --> 00:10:13,959 Speaker 1: Has that ever happened to your school before? Have you 150 00:10:14,000 --> 00:10:17,400 Speaker 1: ever had an elephant or a Tiger as your substitute teacher. 151 00:10:18,160 --> 00:10:21,880 Speaker 1: That would be hilarious. Even though this is the end 152 00:10:21,920 --> 00:10:25,320 Speaker 1: of our story, it is definitely only just the beginning 153 00:10:25,640 --> 00:10:32,240 Speaker 1: of Aspen's insane adventures at school. The end. We'll be 154 00:10:32,360 --> 00:10:40,959 Speaker 1: right back after a brief word from our sponsor. Great job, 155 00:10:41,000 --> 00:10:43,320 Speaker 1: you listened all the way to the end, and you 156 00:10:43,360 --> 00:10:47,480 Speaker 1: know what, tomm it is. It's time for kid shout out, 157 00:10:47,800 --> 00:10:50,359 Speaker 1: So I want to say hey to you. Shine from Taiwan, 158 00:10:50,600 --> 00:10:55,800 Speaker 1: Sam Wise from Ontario, Judah from Tennessee, Jony from Passed 159 00:10:55,800 --> 00:10:59,840 Speaker 1: Sadina Francis from New York City, Willow and Juniper from 160 00:11:00,000 --> 00:11:04,880 Speaker 1: New Hampshire, James from Washington, Caitlin from Oregon, and Mia 161 00:11:05,000 --> 00:11:08,719 Speaker 1: from Atlanta, Georgia. I'm so glad that you're all on 162 00:11:08,800 --> 00:11:11,360 Speaker 1: the Kit Short Story's family. We definitely could not have 163 00:11:11,400 --> 00:11:15,800 Speaker 1: this much fun with imagination without you, my friends. Well, 164 00:11:15,880 --> 00:11:18,680 Speaker 1: you have a super duper day and I will see 165 00:11:18,720 --> 00:11:22,880 Speaker 1: you on our next adventure. Bye.