1. Though Brother and Sister Bear were usually very healthy, they occasionally caught cold. So when Brother came home from school one day sneezing and wheezing, Mama Bear knew just what to do.
She took his temperature, tucked him into bed, and went right to the phone and called Dr. Grizzly.
2. "Sneezing and wheezing and a temperature of a hundred and one?" Said Dr. Grizzy," Keep him in bed, give him plenty of liquids, and keep him home from school until his temperature is back to normal."
Mama followed the doctor's orders, and little by little Brother's temperature began to go down.
“I feel a little better," He said, “May I get out of bed?"
“I am afraid not," said Mama. “The doctor wants you to stay in bed.
“But there's no reason why your stay shouldn't be as pleasant as possible...Papa!" she called. “Would you bring up the portable TV?"
3. The portable had remote control, and pretty soon Brother was having a fine time switching from one cartoon to another.
When he tired of TV he got out his comic books, and when he tired of those, Mama brought him his dinosaur collection. There was no double about it--except for his sniffles, Brother Bear was having a pretty good time.
So when sister Bear brought home a folder of schoolwork for him, he hardly looked at it--he was too much busy having fun.
4.But while he was at home having fun, his fellow students at school were hard at work...
In the classroom, where teacher Bob was teaching a new math lesson. They had learned to add, subtract, and multiply. Now they were learning to divide.
On the soccer field, where Coach Bruin was getting the team ready for the big game against Beantown...
“Cousin Freddy!" he called. "Take Brother's place at forward. He's out sick."
"Yes, sir" said Freddy. This was the chance he'd been waiting for.
It wasn't until Brother was all better and ready to go back to school that he remembered the folder of work. “Oh well," he thought," I'll study it on the bus."
But that's where he heard about Freddy and the soccer team. He was so upset he forgot all about studying.
5. When Coach Bruin had extra practice during early gym, Brother became even more upset. It wasn’t easy watching Freddy take his place on the team.
Then, when Brother got back to class, Teacher Bob said,”I certainly hope you studied that work folder, because we’re going to have a quiz.”
“A quiz?” said Brother, “on what?”
“On division, of course,” said Teacher Bob as he handed out the quiz papers.
Brother might have managed even then. He was good with numbers and might have worked things out if only he’d been able to concentrate. But all he could think about is was Cousin Freddy out there kicking field goals while he sat on the bench.
6. The quiz was a disaster. Not only did Brother get every problem wrong, but Teacher Bob wrote on the paper:” Very poor! Must be signed by parent.”
Brother didn’t know which was worse: the soccer mess or the quiz disaster. What would he say to Mama and Papa when they asked him how things had gone at school? He was so busy feeling sorry for himself on the bus ride home that he didn’t notice that Sister was coming down with a bad case of the sneezes and wheezes.
“Oh, dear!” said Mama when she saw Sister, “You’ve caught Brother’s clod. Into bed with you!” She and Papa were so busy attending to Sister that they forgot to ask Brother how things went at school… and he didn’t tell them!
7. And the next morning, when the school bus came, Brother didn’t get on the bus! He hid in the tall grass until the bus was out of sight. The squirrels and bluebirds were puzzled—Brother was usually happy and cheerful. But not this morning, this morning he looked unhappy-and angry, too.
“Phooey!” Brother shouted, kicking a stone. But kicking the stone reminded him of soccer and that just made him angrier. The bluebirds took off and the squirrels scattered.
“Phooey on soccer!” he shouted, stomping off through the woods. Stomp! Stomps! Stomps! Grasshoppers hopped. Toads stood stock-still and pretended they were bumps on a lot.
8. “Phooey on school!” Brother shouted, stomping out of the woods. Pansies hid their faces. Ladybugs flew away home.
“And,” he said, reaching into his schoolbag, “phooey on division!”
He had come to the top of a big hill. He took out the quiz, folded in into a paper airplane, and sailed it high into the air. The hill overlooked a swampy, overgrown bog. As brother watched the quiz circle and swoop he noticed something out of the corner of his eye—a familiar house at the edge of the bog.
9. Grizzly Gramps was working on a ship model when he heard the knock. Gran was making cookies. They weren’t catching cold, the folder of work, the soccer mess, the quiz disaster, the missed bus, and paper airplane.
“Come with me, you feller,” said Gramps.”I want to show you something.”
10. Gramps took Brother by the hand and led him deep into the bog.
“There!” he said.” That’s what I want to show you.”
It was a very old wagon sunk almost out of sight in a muddy pond.
“How did it get there?” asked Brother.
“It wasn’t easy,” Said Gramps. “ I went to a lot of trouble getting that old wagon into this swamp.” Then with a twinkle in his eye, he said,” Just the way you did getting in over your head at school”
11. “ It happened a long time ago when I took a wrong turn--just the way you did when you didn’t study that schoolwork that Teacher Bob sent home. Well, instead of admitting my mistake and backing up, I just pushed ahead until I was in so deep there was no getting out.”
“And you lost the wagon,” said brother.
“Yep “said Gramps.” But I learned a valuable lesson. If you find yourself on the wrong road, don’t just keep on going until you’re in over your head—back up and start over on the right road.”
“How am I going to do that?” asked Brother.
“Oh, I think we can manage—but first, look over that,” Gramps said, pointing. There it was: the paper airplane—caught in a berry bush.
弟子规幼儿园学完了一本书。
感觉上小学，时间真的少了很多很多....
andyandjasmine于2014-10-30 09:01补充以下内容：
和论语，学校也在学，但进度很慢。
弟子规幼儿园学完了一本书。
感觉上小学，时间真的少了很多很多....