Week of August 28, 2006

Wednesday, August 28, 2006

Today was the first day of school. We got to meet a bunch of new kids. We talked about some birthdays in August and September. We had an assembly. We had donuts for snack. Mckayla and Savannah read some poems to us. We decorated our name cards and cut out our pigeons to show if we walked home, got picked up, or rode the bus. Then we had more donuts. It was great!

Thursday, August 31, 2006

It was our first physical education class of the year. We walked into the gym and found spots to sit all around the gym. We were spread out. Then Mrs. Smith told us what we’d be doing. The first thing was to play catch with bean bag animals. They were about as big as our hands. We each had our own. We tossed them into the air and tried to catch them. Some people tried to clap as many times as they could while it was in the air. Then she played played a music tape that told us different things to do with the animals, like put them on our heads, or backs, or necks. Then we put our bean bag friends away and ran laps around the gym until it was time to go. We got drinks and lined up to go.

Friday, September 01, 2006

We read a book called Caps for Sale. Then we acted out the story. Some of us were monkeys and the rest were peddlers. The monkeys took the peddler’s caps when he took a nap. Then he got really mad and tried to get them back. When he threw his hat on the ground, they threw all their caps down. Our favorite part was when the peddler said, “You monkeys, you. You give me back my caps.” And the monkeys shook their fingers and said, “Tsz, tsz, tsz.” After we acted out the story, we made our own monkeys and took them home.