I'm going to attempt to write this up in the order that she told it, though it's too much to ask me to get her actual words.

Ms. M - her science teacher - woke up and something horrible happened. She was sleeping, and the first thing she saw in the morning (later clarified to "when she got into the classroom") was the stuff that the hamsters use to keep warm and hide in (the bedding) was all over the floor and the hamster wheel was flat. After she swept up the bedding, the HAMSTERS were GONE. And she couldn't find them. They'd rolled on their wheel, and the cage fell off the shelf. And they escaped. And the whole class tried to be quiet like mice, but they didn't hear the hamsters. And Ana is worried that they might get cold, or eaten, or caught in a trap. (I reassured her that, with any luck, they'll come sniffing around again once they realize they're hungry - and that even if they don't they could very easily still be alive and well, just in the walls. Yes, dying is a possibility, but it's not the only one, I explained. I didn't get into probability yet.)

That is a pretty horrible story, but did you see how neatly her narrative - mostly - followed the events? That's a big skill. A lot of kids her age start with the important stuff and then taper off, and she did a little of that, but she worked hard to keep things in order.

Tags: 'cdotes, daily stuff
I'm feeling: sad