I wrote this in Grade 3...
One day while the flowers were blosomming, I was on the phone with my my friend. We were planing to steal a time machine from the university of mysterious machines.
Then on Friday night my friend and I went to the university of mysterious machines. we were lucky because, the guards were asleep. The gate was electric, so we got a pole and did a pole vault over the electric gate. There was an electronic part at the door. I had a thing that opened the door, so I used that. when we got inside, we went to the machine room. In the machine room there were thousands of time machines.
Quickly, but quietly we took one time machine and ran out of the building. We took the key from a guard that was asleep. Quietly we opened the gate and ran out with the time machine. Then we loaded the time machine into the back of the truck.
When we got to my house we took the time machine into my house. After that I thanked my friend for the help.
When my friend left, I set the dial for 1939. Then I got into the time machine and closed the door.
Suddenly, there was a flash and, I found myself in the middle of world war two. All the warriors were amazed and kept staring at me. Suddenly all the soldiers charged at me. Then all the Germans decided to be on my side. Then the war began. Suddenly one of the Germans threw a spear at an enemy, then all the germans started throwing spears at the enemies. Soon all the enemies were dead.
Then there was a bright flash, I stepped into the flash and found myself at home. Then I went and got my truck. I put the time machine at the back of the truck.
Then I went to the university of mysterious machines and returned it. When I got home, I called my friend and told him to come to my house. When he got to my house, he asked me why the time machine wasn’t there.
Then I told him the whole story.
slip-sliding away..... 
That’s pretty creative for a third grader. It’s like a story from a movie.
Maybe I should sell the movie rights 😉
Great imagination. Never let your dreams/imagination fade.
Aww this is so cute 😂 . I’m guessing this was written on a piece of paper? In that case, why not post the manuscript?
Probably written in faint pencil. And yes – on paper…because computers weren’t a thing for kids in those days .
Yeah the pencil writing must have faded over the years. Ah well, I was hoping to get a glimpse of your (3rd grade) handwriting lol 👍
It was faint from the start, actually. Teacher always complained about that. I might still have the original somewhere… If nobody threw it out, that is.