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