Lesson 4 Memories in Your Heart
What’s a Memory
Wilfrid Gordon Parker was a little boy who ____ next to a nursing home.
He ____ all the people who lived there.
But his favorite person was Ms. Nancy Gordon Cooper because her middle ____ was the same as his.
He told her all his ____
One day, Wilfrid's parents were ____ about Ms. Cooper.
"Poor old lady," ____ his mother.
"Why is she ____ poor old lady?" asked Wilfrid.
"Because she's lost her memory," ____ his father.
____ a memory?" asked Wilfrid.
"It is ____ you remember," said his father.
Wilfrid wanted to know more,
Wilfrid wanted to ____ more, so he went to his neighbors.
Ms. Jordan was enjoying ____ sunlight.
"What's ____ memory?" he asked.
"Something warm, ____ child," she said.
Ms. Mitchell was reading a ____
"What's a memory?" ____ asked.
"Something that brings you laughter," she ____
Mr. Hunter was cleaning his ____
"It's something as precious as gold, young man," he ____
So Wilfrid went back home
So Wilfrid went back home to look for memories ____ Ms. Cooper.
He went into the ____ house and took a fresh, warm egg from under a hen.
Next, he looked for his sock puppet. ____ always brought laughter to his parents.
Finally, he found his ____ in his toy box. It was as precious as gold to him.
Wilfrid went to ____ Cooper and gave her the things one by one.
"What a strange, sweet child!" ____ Ms. Cooper, "He's brought all these wonderful things."
Then she started ____ remember her past.
She held the warm egg and whispered to Wilfrid,
"Long ago, I found a ____ blue egg in my aunt's garden."
She smiled at the sock puppet and remembered ____ a puppet show for her sister.
"My sister ____ a lot," said Ms. Cooper.
She bounced the football to ____ and remembered him.
"Wilfrid? Wilfrid Gordon ____ My friend!"
She also ____ their secrets one by one.
The two smiled at each ____
Ms. Cooper got ____ memory back thanks to the little boy with the same middle name as hers.