Read together · Original writing
Asha asked the bench what it had seen that day. The bench did not answer.
She imagined a marching band, a visiting elephant, and a baker carrying a tower of buns. Her brother laughed.
Then they looked carefully. There was a small leaf on the seat and a wet mark beneath it. They could see those things, even though they could not know who had sat there.
Asha wrote two headings on her page: What we noticed and What we imagined.
The elephant went under the second heading. The leaf went under the first. Both had a place in her story.
Pause & wonder
Which detail belongs to noticing, and which to imagining?