
The bell rang, and Jeremy exiting his class room seat, bumped into Stella sending her sprawling into Peter, causing triple embarrassment and one hostile glare. Stella, extricating herself from Peter’s embrace, rounded on Jeremy screaming, ” You clumsy elephant, watch where you’re going”. The rest of the class trumpeted their amusement and in that moment Jeremy acquired his new pet name “Clumsy Elephant”.
Jeremy was a big boy, he hated exercise and enjoyed his food. He preferred eating chocolate chip cookies to conversation and was more comfortable with his pet mice than his class mates. He was teased a little, because of his weight, but he never let it bother him. But that changed the day he was given his pet name. Whenever he entered class he was greeted with a trumpeting call and laughter. The first time he just smiled and waved his hand graciously, but over time he became irritated at the immaturity of his class mates and was determined to put a stop to it. So he conferred with his teacher and they came up with a plan.

The next morning, as class attendance was called, there was no affirmative answer from Jeremy. A few of his classmates assumed it was because of the snow falling outside. Soon the morning’s math lesson started and the students settled down to puzzling over arithmetical problems. At the end of the lesson the teacher announced to the class that she had a surprise for them and loudly clapped her hands. The classroom door opened and in walked Jeremy dressed in a circus ringmasters costume, carrying a large object covered with cloth .

Jeremy, entered the classroom, placing the large cloth covered object on top of the teachers desk. He then turned to the class proclaiming in a loud voice ” Ladies and gentleman I am delighted to introduce to you the Clumsy Elephant”, here he made a sweeping bow to his audience, ” and his charismatic mice”. With that he swept away the cloth to reveal a doll house with four little mice scurrying inside. Jeremy proceeded to entertain the students with all kinds of tricks performed by his amazing mice. They chased each other in a circle, did cartwheels on mini trampolines, went up and down on a teeter and totter and rode a tiny skateboard around the house. For the grand finale the mice ran up the stairs to the bedroom, slid gracefully down a slide and repeated this process over and over. The end of the performance was met with a great cheer from the students and Jeremy beamed with delight.

Jeremy gave another great, sweeping bow to his class mates. In doing so, he swept his arms a little too wide and knocked the dolls house from the table, sending it crashing to the floor, with the mice escaping and scurrying all around the classroom. Great hilarity ensued with the boys chasing the mice and some of the more timid girls screaming and jumping on top of their desks. It was quite a while before order was restored and the mice returned safely to the doll house. The whole class was abuzz and gave a tremendous cheer to Jeremy for the mornings entertainment. Jeremy gratefully acknowledged the accolades from his class mates and from that day on was known as ” Jeremy the Magnificent “.
My kids will love this, thanks! God bless!
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Thanks Ryan. I am trying to experiment with different themes.
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What a lovely story, and a happy ending is always appreciated. Good for Jeremy for being brave and turning things around. Thanks for taking up the prompt. I’ll get it lined up for a reblog! Happy Writing!
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Thanks for visiting and your kind words and such a head scratching prompt.
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I figured everyone would have to stretch a bit this month, and they are! The stories have been so varied. It’s been a delight to read them all. π
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This was wonderful
What a feel good story Len
Very well done!
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Thanks Violet. My first instinct was the same as yours, ‘ the elephant in the room’. However, I could only think of dark political satire and decided to change to family friendly.
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Aww, what a good story and with a happy ending! Well done.
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Thanks Eugenia. Elephants are a symbol of luck, so it had to end well.
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What a marvelous story to help teach about bullying. Greta job and cute as well.
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Thanks Anita. I hate bullies.
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Really very good
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Thanks for the compliment
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Bravo!
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Thanks Chelsea. I was cheering for Jeremy as well.
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Great story with a happy close. I would have loved having a kid like Jeremy in class.
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Thanks Robert. I was trying to formulate that’s it’s how we react to situations that matters.
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Reblogged this on Myths of the Mirror and commented:
A story from Len – another creative take on the prompt. π Enjoy!
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Thanks Diana. Like you I am amazed at the creative variety to your prompt…..and thanks again for prodding my imagination.
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You’re so welcome. The variety of responses has been so fun and surprising to me. I appreciate you’re playing along and hope you do again!
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How lovely!
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Thanks for visiting and the compliment.
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You’re most welcome.
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Kudos all a around, Len! A happy ending and a teacher who knew use her creative skills to solve problems in the classroom. π
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Thanks for visiting and following Bette. Team work, that’s what’s it all about.
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Reblogged this on anita dawes and jaye marie.
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Thank you Anita and Jayne. That’s very kind of you. I appreciate it.
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You’re welcome…
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Aw, very cute!
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Thanks for visiting Jessica. Diana asked to keep it family friendly.
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Do wish this was possible for those being bullied, even that the teacher cooperated which is to my understanding is rare in most cases … well written Len!
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Thanks Kate. I was reading an article on schools in New York where the teachers are bullied by the students.
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my heavens this world is topsy turvy !
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A delightful story Len! I love that Jeremy was able to turn his persona around! I felt sorry for him as Clumsy Jeremy. A great well written tale!
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Thanks for your kind words and for visiting Jordy. I also liked your child friendly, Hindu Gods version.
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Thank you, Len!π
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Fascinating story! Excellent. Thank-you
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Thanks for visiting and your kind words.
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What a lovely story! Great job
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Thanks for visiting and your kind words Ari.
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Such a warm and happy story. I like that although it had an “incident” in it, no one really got hurt at all, and it was made into a laughable situation at the end, which is good for little children especially as some of them might have been upset by the house falling over. Children will ultimately transfer from scenes like these into the more realistic things, but good to give them room to develop in their own time frame. Thank you kindly.
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That’s exactly right Anne. Children develop in their own time frames.
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