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