First, I woke up to my blaring alarm clock and headed for the shower. Then, I had a colossal, warm, fresh out of the oven cinnamon roll that felt like an explosion of flavor inside of my mouth.
Next, it was time to walk on the track in the crisp, cool, fall morning air before school starts. The bell rang and the freezing cold bodies walked into the school for the lunch count and flag salute. Today, we had a change of schedule. Instead of reading right away at 8:30, we had to go to the cafeteria to get our fingers scanned for the new biometric finger scanning system. While we waited for the other sixth grade classrooms to get done with that, Mrs. Dux read a story, The Endless Steppe, for her class only. Finally, the other classes were finished in the lunch room. It was time for reading.
Today in reading, we started 30 minutes late, then, we talked about word origins for our vocabulary that belong with our story this week. We didn’t quite get finished, so, guess what we get to do tomorrow? We’re going to finish our vocabulary practice.
It was time for our Reasoning and Writing class. We had to write two paragraphs that go with our lesson about the biggest living thing on Earth, which is a sequoia tree that is named, General Sherman. The tree is 272 feet tall and 80 feet around with bark that is 24 inches thick.
Next on my schedule is science class. First, we checked our worksheet from the previous day. Then, we learned about solids, liquids, gasses, and plasmas. Most of my class already knew about solids, liquids, and gasses, but almost nobody knew about plasmas, including myself. A plasma, such as gelatin is not a solid, or a liquid.
Then I was heading back to my homeroom (Mrs. Dux’s classroom) for social studies. For starters, we checked a page from our workbook. Then we visited Egypt through Google Earth. We saw pyramids and the sphinx, which has the body of a lion and the head of a human that was made by the Ancient Egyptians.
Finally, it was 11:00 and time for my number one subject, lunch. I ordered a delectable grilled chicken sandwich on pita bread. Off to the side, I had chocolate milk, bread with butter, and some delicious noodles.
After we ate for 15 minutes, it was time for recess. I played a sensational game of three on three basketball. It seemed like we just got out there when the bell rang and everyone raced to the lines on the blacktop to go inside.
Before we could go to music and P.E., Mrs. Dux read some more of, The Endless Steppe. Everyone sat in complete silence, listening for 10 minutes.
Then, everyone walked on the newly carpeted hallway to see Mr. Roby for music class. There, we played a game with mostly flats, but we had a couple of sharps. It was a two team game where two people went head to head. One person from each team tried to guess what the key signature was. The first person to get the question right got to shoot a ball into a trashcan for a certain amount of points (my team won!).
Next, Mrs. Hilton picked us up from music class and it was time for my favorite subject, P.E. Everyone ran five laps around the volleyball court and then stretched. It was time for the best part; everybody played an eye-popping game of kickball. Unfortunately, my team lost, but it was still a lot of fun. Then, we walked back across the parking lot to the school to get ready for math.
In math, we took several quizzes on Moodle, a website to do work online. Then, right in the middle of my second quiz, the fire alarm sounded with its irritating voice that would wake the dead (it almost made Mrs. Dux fall out of her chair). Everyone rushed outside to the blacktop with the other classes. Then Mr. Hippen said it was okay to go back inside. Thank goodness it was just a drill. Then I finished as fast, but as accurate as possible before it was time for spelling.
In spelling, we played my favorite game, sparkle. The first two times, Kadin and I were the last two standing. It must be pure luck because that was the first two times that I won in the whole year.
It was time for band where everyone brought their instruments because it was Tuesday. After band, I went back to my homeroom for study hall where I took one more math test.
Finally, school was over and I walked home with Blake and Brent. As you can see, today was an action packed, fun filled day with all of my friends. I’ll be back in 19 school days for roving reporter.
