Mom always wakes me up very late for school. I try to tell her to wake me up earlier but its like she cant hear me. My class has 2 teachers: Carroll (Reading, Writing) and Lewis (Math and science). My class starts the day with Carrol, and then switching to Lewis midday. The other class starts with Lewis, and switches to Carroll.
Since mom always wakes me up late, I’m tired when I walk into class. On Mondays and Tuesdays, we have to get 20 minutes of Istation which is extremely boring. When we finish that early, we have to read or go on typing.com. Everyone is so slow at typing. I am a bit slow too but its about 3x faster than them. They also type with 2 fingers. Then at 7:45 (the time you have to get to school), we go to music, art, or PE depending on the day. I think art is the most fun. They keep making us play in the mud with balls, so we have to pick the muddy balls up with our hands, and so they also get muddy. We then go back to class. Carroll then makes us read City of Ember, which is about a city that is “the only light in a dark word.”. Its an okay book. We are going to watch the movie on 12/22, but today I saw the cover of the movie and the characters looked nothing like the characters in the book. Carroll keeps making us write so much on the paper which makes my hands hurt. Im too lazy to get my headphones when getting on brain-pop or Istation, so I just put on subtitles. There are no subtitles for Istation, but you don’t even need them.
We pack up before going to lunch, which is the most exciting part of the day because I can sleep. When Im putting my head down to sleep, people keep asking me if Im okay and I have to keep telling them Im fine. It wouldn’t be a problem if it were different people everytime, but its the same people over and over and over again. They know that I’m trying to sleep. Then comes recess. Recess got kind of boring because the people playing kickball were fuming over random stuff so I just stopped playing. I usually just sit on the bench because my friends are either playing kickball or in another class. Sometimes I play pass with this random person, and their friend is very annoying. She keeps trying to take the ball.
When we get back to class, we grab our stuff and switch to the other classroom (which is next to ours). I like Lewis better than Carroll cause she is more fun and we get to do experiments. I have to sit behind this guy named Eric, who likes to annoy people and mess with them. He isn’t even supposed to be in our class. He is in Lewis’s class. Apparently he was causing such a ruckus in the other class that he had to be moved into our class. He likes to mess with me the most because I am behind him. Right when we walk in, we have to solve 4 questions. They call it Math 4 Today. Then, we do something called What Year Am I? We have to write the correct year using the clues they give us. They give us a small cone if we get it right. People love to flex their cones. Then we do some lessons and then we move onto science. We went to the science lab for the first time. Its actually just a portable. We are seeing how insulators affect how long it keeps water warm. Lewis said that there are groups of fours, and everyone in the group will get the same grade, so choose wisely. I don’t think I was wise enough though. I chose a group with all my friends, and 2 of them are smarter than the others. However, all of my team mess around too much. We recorded 2 out of 5 trials, and we were going to do the last 3 tomorrow. But the guy who weren’t as smart as my other friends had do it by himself because the rest of us had to go to gifted. He was also the guy who loved to mess around the most. Our grades rely on him. We still don’t know what grade we got for that.
On Thursdays, we go to gifted. 4 of us go, but last year I was the only one who went. I came mid-year when I first went. We start the day off by getting our laptops and going to Armstrongs class. I think Armstrong is the best teacher Ive been with. There is an open ended question on the board that we have to answer. We then get on the carpet and form a circle. There is also another question she asks and we have to answer it in a circle. We actually get recess first, and she also gives us snacks before we go. After we get back from recess, we do some math. The math isn’t easy but it isn’t hard. Its fun sometimes. About an hour after recess, we go to lunch. Lunch is pretty much no different, except that nobody asks if I’m ok. After lunch, we listen to a book called “I Love You Micheal Collins”. Then we do some researching for a topic that we pick. I probably shouldn’t have picked communication because its hard to find info about it. At the end, we go back to our class and then leave to the car line.
The end of the day is my second most favorite part, but I have to sit in the hot sun waiting for my car. Grandpa picks me up after 15-25 minutes. I cant go home right away because we have to pick Khang up, which is about a 25 minute drive from my school, to his school, and back home.
This was boring