Week of Monday, May 1

Tuesday, May 02, 2006
Kevin brought his frogs today.  Taylor brought his hamster last Friday.  Kevin brought three green frogs and two brown toads; Taylor brought one brown and white hamster.  The frogs were jumping around all over the classroom, like on the carpet, on Jeffrey’s shirt, in and out of people’s hands, and one even jumped up and hit Abby in the eye.  The hamster escaped from Taylor’s hand and ran across the carpet, but Taylor got him back.  All five of the frogs were in a little plastic rectangular prism with a triangular hole and a crack poked in the lid so they could breathe.  Inside there was grass, flowers, a blue wooden block, and a Tinkertoy block.  The hamster was in a cage with wood shavings, a block to chew on so his teeth wouldn’t get really long because their teeth never stop growing, food pellets to eat, and a blue water bottle with a metal part at the bottom for the hamster to get a drink.  And he was running in his wheel a lot.  He crawled out down the blue slide and when people started to talk really loud, he went back up.

Friday, May 05, 2006
We had a field trip to the Seattle Children’s Theater.  It was a long drive on the school bus there and back.  When we got into the play, the girl told us to turn off cell phones, cameras, pagers, and alarms.  When she got off stage, the show started.  Shelby’s favorite part was when Junie B. Jones said, “P. U. What a stink bomb!” about Grace’s baby.  Donna liked the beginning when everyone said their name in the first song and then Junie B. jumped out through the blue paper in the doorway upstairs in her room.  Lukas’s favorite part was when Jim was in his karate costume and he whacked his chair with his hand and said, “OW!” and he started crying.  Brandon never laughed so hard in his life.  Savannah liked how it was like the book, but not too much like the book.  Justyn’s favorite part was when the toilet was flooding, and also when the walls were going places.  There were so many good parts, it’s impossible to tell them all.  After the play we were so exhausted.  We ate our lunches on the grass by the fountain.  Then we came back.  We were so lucky to have so many chaperones come with.  It made the trip wonderful.  THANK YOU, CHAPERONES!