Hooray For Tacky! Based on Tacky and the Winter Games by Helen
Lester. Retold by LEE 177 Spring, 2011
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There lived a group of penguins in a nice, icy land. Goodly,
Lovely, Angel, Neatly, Perfect, and Tacky. Tacky was the odd bird.
It was time to train for the winter games and Penguin teams from
all over the iceberg would come and compete. The penguins exercised
hard to train for the games. Tacky wanted to train with his
friends.
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The other penguins let Tacky be on the team. It was the first
event of the Winter Games! As the team got ready for the bobsled
race, Tacky fell belly down knocking them all on him! Away they
sailed down the hill. They came in first place!
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But wait! The judges took a closer look at the teams bobsled.
They decided that Tacky was NOT a bobsled and yelled, Disqualified!
No gold medal yet for Tackys team.
Slide 5
. The next event was the relay race. Tackys team was doing
great! Lovely passed the baton to Tacky who ATE it! The judges
yelled, Disqualified. They needed the baton at the finish line to
be the winners. But wait, they had an idea.
Slide 6
They took Tacky to the Doctor for some x-rays, and invited the
judges to come and see. They took the x-ray and there it was, the
baton was in Tackys stomach!
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The judges declared that Tackys team won the relay race!
Goodly, Lovely, Angel, Neatly, and Perfect were happy to have Tacky
as a team mate. Tacky was an odd bird, but a good bird to have
around.