Hot air rushes out of my mouth as I walk to the Amory with my friend. We small talk about my recent trip to Vail, Co. My teeth are clattering, and my cheeks and nose are rosy red from the icy snow and wind. I near the Armory with a smile on my face thinking about the warmth inside the building. I open the door and hear all of my friends shout my name in joy that I am back safely from my trip skiing. My friends and I talk about Colorado and all the tests I had missed that past Wednesday. The teachers turned off the music and rounded us up to go to the school and get ready for a new day.
When we finally got into the classroom, we put all of our book bags and coats on the hooks and went to our desks to get ready for reading. But we weren’t going to leave our classroom until we got finished with saying the Pledge and lunch count. Mrs. McAllister called our names in alphabetical order. As she neared my name, I started to worry about what today’s hot lunch was. She said my name, and then I replied, “Hot.” I had no idea what today’s lunch was! I didn’t worry about it too long because I had to get ready for reading class.
In reading, we read the story “Seeing Things His Own Way” which was about this man named Erik Wheinmayer who was born with an illness that caused him to go blind when he was young. Erik never gave up hope; he went on family vacations to different states. He soon climbed Mt. McKinley blind. No sight. Just sound. But his dream of climbing the tallest mountain in the world (Mt. Everest) made him climb his way to the top. After reading that incredible story, we had to make a poster about what the message is in the story. Reading time flew by like an eagle! We moved on to language arts class.
A while back we had to write stories about our dreams and what you have to go through to succeed. Mrs. Dux read as many stories and she could in the half hour we had. She didn’t get to mine, but there is still hope that she will read it tomorrow! After reading all of those stories, Mrs. Dux looked at the clock and saw that is was 10:00 and time for social studies!
Who likes tests? I sure don’t, and that’s exactly what we had to do for social studies. We had been studying India, Hinduism, and Buddhism. Our test was about 112 questions long! Other people had Wednesday to start the test, but I was on the road to go to Vail. By the end of class, I had finished the test and put it into clickers. The clock showed 10:30, so it was time for spelling class.
“Go to word parts and look up r-a-d-i-o,” Mrs. McAllister said once we got into the classroom. We looked up radio and spelled all of the words under radio. Radiate, radioactive, radiation we spelled so many that my mouth was dry after 3 words! We went back to our spelling lesson, and she went over each part we needed to know. Then she said, “Finish the lesson,” and everyone’s hand picked up their pencils and began to finish the lesson so that they wouldn’t have to have homework for after school. Our stomachs growled with hunger, which showed that it was time for lunch.
The lunch that ended up being breaded beef sticks went in the trash because I don’t like beef. I loaded up on mandarin oranges so that I wouldn’t get hungry later on in the day. The lunch teacher dismissed us table by table until every one was out of the lunchroom and into their classroom for recess.
We had indoor recess today for some odd reason that I didn’t know about, but indoor recess can be fun! You can play with Lego’s, Battle Ship, Sorry, Mancala, or you can draw, or hang out with friends! I ended up watching a game of Battle Ship and talking to my best friends. Mrs. McAllister came in and told us to put the games away and get ready to move desks.
We don’t usually move desks, but today was Monday and we move every week. Mrs. McAllister usually reads a book to us until math. We finally got our desks situated and started math.
Since I was gone, I had to finish my test while everyone else went over theirs. I worked on my test in the hall for about 30-45 minutes. I finally went back in and gave my test to the teacher then started another test! This test wasn’t so bad; it was just a pretest to see what we knew. After that test, people started to take the practice NESA test for math. I only got to get onto the test, and then it was time for music.
Mr. Roby greeted us with a lovely song on the piano. Then we went over our program songs, Top Forty, Davy Crocket, Duke of Earl, I’m Sorry, Henry the 8th, the Chipmunk song, and Yeckety Yak. Singing songs takes up time! Next, was library.
Library started as usual, we went in the computer lab and started a typing test. I’m pretty good at typing. It’s really easy for me but not to others. My highest words per minute is 47. I am really proud of that! After a half hour passed, we went into our classroom to get ready for science.
Mrs. Hudson handed out book orders to everyone who wanted to look at them. I am getting two books, one called “Dream of Night” and the other is “Scratch It!” (Which is were you scratch on a paper and it turns colors). We went over a paper that I had to do about different forces. Then she handed out a new worksheet on forces too! There are lots of different forces in this world. The bell rang 2:30, which meant it was band for the flutes.
At band we did some warm up exercises, and then we did a song called “Regal March”. After Regal March, it was time to go. Mr. Luebbe wanted to go over “Shine” then hand out another piece of music, but we didn’t get to that today, maybe tomorrow! The clock showed 3:00, which meant band was over for the flutes, and it was time for the saxophones to take over the band room.
There was still 20 minutes until it was time to go so, I hurried and did most of my homework including science and some of reading. Then the moment everyone was waiting for from the minute we stepped in the school building at 8:20, time to go home!
Every one stampeded out of the building wanting to get home to play. Even though everyone was so excited including me, all couldn’t wait till the next day of school to meet with their friends and have a great time!
