How the Sea Sponge Came to be in the Sea

by Lucia Kolba

Chapter 1
Once upon a time there was a sponge. It knew about the sea. It wanted to be a thing it made up called a sea sponge. It kept a journal where it wrote down all different things about sea sponges. It imagined that they lived in the sea, and that was why they were called 'sea sponges'. One day it decided that it would go into the sea. It went and took a swim. A biiiiig tsunami came and splashed right over it. It got washed down, down, down to the bottom of the sea, and the water was so dense there that it couldn't swim back up. So, it had to stay there. It kind of ruined the habitat there, but after a while it got to fit in. And this is how it fit in. It turned into a sea sponge like it always wanted to be. And since sea sponges are used to scrub things the fish and stuff like that came up to it and scrubbed themselves on it so they would get clean. And that's how the sea sponge got to be in the sea.

Chapter 2
One day scientists found the sea sponge, and they thought this was very cool because it was a new thing under the water. And so they put it in the news. And they wrote on the news that the sea sponges lived under water and they were good for cleaning. When the people read that news they thought that they could take them out of the water and make them be for the people to clean themselves instead of for the things in the sea. By then the sea sponge had had lots of babies. So there were lots of sea sponges in the ocean. So all different people could have them. So the people started thinking about taking them out of the ocean, and now the scientists didn't know what to do because they didn't mean that the people could have them. The sea sponge had found a way to live under the water, and the scientists didn't want to break the sea sponges' habitat. It already had lots of babies, and the scientists didn't want them to die.

Chapter 3
How the scientists saved the sea sponges.
Before the people could start taking the sea sponges out of the water the scientists sent the news and the people decided that they would look at the news before they started to take the sea sponges out of the water. In the news there was an article that the scientists wrote and it said, "You can't take the sea sponge out of the water. They're for the fish and sea things to clean with. You have to leave them in the water. They have a habitat there, and they already have babies. We do not want the babies to die." The people didn't want to do that, but they knew if they didn't the scientists would get mad. So they thought they had to. So they didn't take the sea sponges. They left them where they were.


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