The fantastic day started off with the soft spoken voice my mother screaming at me to get up and out of bed, for I was running 15 minutes late for school. I jumped out of bed with my body awake and my eyes asleep. It was a mistake to move so accurately when first waking up, I practically ran into every wall in the house.
After getting ready, it was time to go to school. While I was locking up, the bitter wind slapped me across my face so sharply, that all the heat had escaped from my body. I began to partially jog down the streets, hoping to make it before the bell range.
Luckily, I got to school just in time to do one lap around the track. People were jumpier than ever. The cold weather must have made everybody frisky. My face began to numb as I walked around, and my fingers began to freeze. By the time this occurred I had already managed to finish my one lap around the track before the bell rang.
I stumbled inside along with everybody else, wanting to be the first one to get out of this weather. I was relieved once the warmth hit my face and began to defrost my fingers. By the time I got to the class room, the heat that had escaped, I could feel seep back into my body.
Time for reading. I sat in my desk and watched people come and go into the classroom. When everybody got in their seats, we all opened up to our new story, Night of the Pomegranates. The story was wonderful. It wasn’t serious or boring, it was funny and relatable.
Next was language arts. Today, we heard Paige’s Roving Reporter. Paige did a pretty good job, I was impressed. After that, we checked lesson 37. I didn’t have it done, but no excuses!
Science was our last class before lunch. We did a baseball drawing between the two teams, The Texas Rangers, and The San Francisco Giants. Most people voted for Texas Rangers to win, but I was a trader and voted for San Francisco Giants. We began to learn about molecules afterwards, and got a worksheet titled Millions of Molecules.
Once science was over, we were off to lunch. The lunch ladies were serving turkey wraps with tomato soup. It doesn’t sound too appetizing, but it was still pretty good. Once the teachers dismissed us for recess, my friends and I headed for the tire swing. We spun round and round, and swung back and forth until our stomachs were churning and our heads were spinning. The tomato soup wasn’t so delicious coming back up.
Recess was over too soon; 30 minutes seemed like 30 seconds. As we took our seats, the teacher began to read us a little bit of a book called The Endless Steppe. The story takes place during the Holocaust in 1941. It’s about a Jewish family that gets arrested by Russians. For five years the family has been farming and working hard to stay alive. The only hope they have is the hope of the future.
Once the clock struck twelve, we were on our way to music and P.E. In music, we practiced on our pianos, and practiced our note names. We played kickball in P.E. Of course, I was pretty bad at it, but it’s just a game.
Math was next on our daily schedule. Our teacher organized us into four groups of four. She gave each group a cup full of M&Ms, all of different colors. I was curious about what the M&Ms were for at first, but then she explained that we were doing graphing with M&Ms. We got to eat our M&Ms after graphing them; they were delicious. Hopefully we can do it again!
Spelling was our last subject for the day. We were handed a cursive handwriting worksheet and the rest of a lesson for homework. I was relieved that I didn’t have much homework for today. If we had any more, I probably wouldn’t have bothered to get any of it done.
The final bell range at last, and it was time to go home. While walking home, I began to think about today’s activities. As I began to walk further, I realized that today was better than most days I have. Today was probably the best school day I have ever had.
