The Terse Realism of Second Grade

In honor of this week’s weather, I offer this piece from second grade. Late ’87 or early ’88. Enjoy the terse realism of “The Snowy Day” and bonus dinosaur reports.

Chris Cocca's avatarChris Cocca

My friend Nathan found this among his elementary school papers.  I love it.  Note the terse realism.

He also found our dinosaur reports.  Mine isn’t bad, but his is awesome.  This is the kind of thing he probably got in trouble for for not following the rules of the assignment, but I think he deserved extra credit.

Mine:

His:

Yeah, that is awesome.

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