Can a person go to school with a broken butt bone? This is the question I asked myself as I flew down the stairs on my tailbone. Then at school, when I stepped out of the car and onto a patch of ice disguised as sturdy concrete, I almost fell again! I could already tell that today was not going to be a good day.
Mrs. Dux took lunch count first thing in the morning. We were having fried chicken for lunch. Then we went off to reading.
In reading, we are learning about Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor of China. I know what you are thinking, “Wouldn’t you learn about that in Social Studies?” Well, as a matter of fact, we are! We have been studying Chinese history in social studies, and then in reading, we learned more about the silent army made up of clay statues that guards Qin Shi Huang’s tomb. I hope this is just a coincidence. I sure don’t want to have to learn about math in more than one class.
Since reading ran long, we didn’t have language arts, so we bounced off to science. I say “bounced”, because we were going to be making silly putty with Dr. Dave. He showed us how to mix glue, cornstarch, and Borax to make putty. You have to knead it in your hands like making bread. What a mess!
After we were all cleaned up, we went to social studies. As you know, we are learning about ancient China. Our teacher, Mrs. Dux, went to China in the summer of 2010, and has been telling us all kinds of stories about her trip.
With growling stomachs, we walked to the lunchroom to get our fried chicken. We had to have recess inside because of the snow, ice, and freezing temperatures, so I played the game Apples to Apples.
When the bell rang after lunch recess, we went to our seats and listened to Mrs. Dux read aloud from the book Hunger Games. As always, we begged her to read more, but it was time to get lined up to go to music class. We wouldn’t want to miss practicing for our upcoming musical, Top 40. We have a blast singing popular songs from back in the day.
At the end of music, Mrs. Seibolt, our PE teacher, came to lead us through the below zero cold over to the Armory for our dance — I mean PE class. You guessed it, we are learning some popular dances in PE. Today it was the Cha-Cha Slide. Even though my tailbone hurt, I cha-chaed my way through PE and into math.
In math, we are learning about everyone’s favorite,
FRACTIONS! We were assigned a worksheet on graphing fractions.
Every Thursday, we have L to J in spelling class. Mrs. Mac will read the definition of a vocabulary word, then we have to write the word on our paper that we think matches the definition.
When I got back to Mrs. Dux’ room, I had to grab my flute and hurry off to mass band. When band was over, I gathered up my stuff and walked outside and onto the bus. Even after flying by the seat of my pants down the stairs, bouncing off the walls in science, and Cha cha-ing my way through the rest, I guess it wasn’t such a bad day after all.
