Diary

Today at St. Mark’s I had Blue and Gold day. First we got our yearbooks the way we signed them was to just write our name. We could go out of the classroom and sign teachers yearbooks and they could sign ours. At 8:30 we all came back inside and signed each others. We could go in Mrs. Brooms class and sign her students yearbooks. Nathan got almost every single person. Then we had Blue and Gold time. All of squad 1 are together and they are just first and second graders. So the colors are for something like this. So like the dads would say “Red and green over here and yellow and blue over there.” That’s how the colors work. We also played a game where you have this tray and there is a plate with a sandwich, a cup of water, a container of ketchup and an orange on your tray. There are cones set up. What you do is you zig-zag through the cones and back then you give it to your teammate. If your water spills you have to fill it back up. You could also get water. You just press something down and it will squirt water into your mouth. Another game that squad 1 played today is a game where you have to dress up like a Hockaday girl do a hula-hoop two times then you hit your next teammates hand. We played tug of war I think you know that game. We played a game where you have an egg on your spoon and the next person in line has a spoon. When the egg is on your spoon yoou have to go around the cone and back. If you drop the egg the next person with the spoon has to come help you by putting the egg back onto the walkers spoon. Finally, we played a game where there is someone at the front of the line and that person puts a ball from the bucket over their head and a little bit behind which is up and the next person has to take it and put it in between their legs which is down. Then it is just a pattern. Up down. When the person at the end of the line puts the ball in the hula-hoop then that person comes to the front of the line and it starts all over except there is one ball in the hula-hoop. We saw how many balls we could get into the hula-hoop. Then we watched the dads play tug of war. Abels dads team lost both times. I don’t know why. Moms were also there but they dd not play. They just watched. Then we had a cookout. After I threw my plate away I got a popsicle. As soon as I took it out it was so cold there was steam and I saw it.

Today at St. Mark’s I had art and drama. In art I did something where you do one dip in the printing ink then you rub in on the tray one way and then the other way and make a square and then you do the same thing on your stickers that we put on the wooden board last class. The paper that I painted on two classes ago will have you paint that you rubbed on your stickers. So you flip your sticker board over upside down and then you press hard then you take it off and then your picture is on the paper that you painted. In drama both classes came to the drama room and we watched our show that we did because Mr. K was working with the fourth graders for their music show. They have a drama show, a music show, and an art show. In PE we ran one lap around the whole track and then we did jump roping and then we played Supersoccer on the field. The game was hard even though it was very hot. It was a tie. 10 to 10. Wow!!!!

Today at St. Mark’s I had science and library. Daddy wants me to not scratch at school and I did it. In science I made a thank you card to Mr. Broom the same way we wrote cards to Dillans grandfather except it was flight. I wrote “Dear Mr. Broom, Thank you for teaching us about flight. Thank you for” and so on. The way I colored it was I flattened the card so that the back and the front were like one side and then I drew a picture of an airplane in the sky. yesterday I played Chess against Mommy and I stalemated her. That means that she is not in check but she cannot go anywhere with her king. Unless she wants her king to be taken by my knight and my king and the pawn and the king can take her king in one square so the pawn can take something or the pawn won’t be helpful at all. The king was her only piece that was available to move. Both of us did not have a queen.

Today at St. Mark’s I had spanish and drama. In spanish we read a book called the very hungry caterpillar but it was in spanish. Then we did something wear if you had the food you would put it in the caterpillar until it got so fat! In drama we did the Little Red Hen or Taxi the Turtle storys but you could make a backround. my group which is Sioux, Tristan, Benjamin, and me all chose Taxi the turtle and we had a backround. I was the mother Robin and the Baby Robin which are the two Robins. Adams group had a backround where there is this tunnel and one side is closed. I helped Adam put tape across and there were two paper signs. Do not disturb!!! and Do not enter!!! So you could only go in and out on one side. In PE we ran two laps on the track and then we did some jump roping. I am working on my cross-overs.

Today at St. Mark’s I had science and drama. In science we did an activity. We got a CD with a gray thing on it. Then we got a balloon that had no air in it and connected it to the gray thing by putting it over it. Then we would tturn the CD over and blow air into the small hole. When you blow you let go. When you don’t blow you pinch. When it is big enough turn the CD so that the balloon is on the top. Then give it a little push. Now it is hovering. That means that it is not all the way on the ground. It is a little above the ground. We tested it on the table and on the ground. In drama we said plays. We didn’t act it out we said them. My groups story was called The Little Hen. The other groups story was called Taxi the Turtle. You were allowed to use a kind of voice to try to match the character and expression and stuff like that.

Today at St. Mark’s I had computer. In computer we did some games on kahoot. I wasn’t as good as them because I am so used to Gimkit when we have game time like that. Unless it is some other game time or if I can do whatever I want. Usually I do Gimkit when someone says we can and have to play on it. We also chose our animal that we are going to do recearch on. At Armstrong we would do research on an animal and then try to find it at the zoo since we were going to go to the zoo. This year at St. Mark’s we are going to the zoo but I don’t think we will have to try to find our animal there since the animals that the votes were were in the savana. Back to where we were, I chose a zebra Alex and Milton also chose zebra in Mrs. Beacoms class. Three people is the maximum of each animal in both classes. So there are six packets of each animal in all first grade. Three packets in one class and three packets in the other class.

Today is Cinco de Mayo. I had spanish, library, and music. In spanish I told Señora Russo that it is Cinco de Mayo. She tried to find a Cinco de Mayo movie but she couldn’t find one. She didn’t tell us about Cinco de Mayo because she thought it was going to tell you on the video but she just found a Mexico video and we watched that one. In library we read a little more of Scare School but we didn’t finish it. When it was checkout time I couldn’t find a book to check out. So I just watched the kids play Chess. The Staar Wars Chess didn’t have time to play but in the Harry Potter Chess Charlie won but they didn’t finish the game. Benjamin got a lot of checks but since Sioux is so good he helped Benjamin black the checks. I hope you nave a great day at school when you go to school. Please have a wonderful day at school.

Today is May 1. At St. Mark’s I had science and library. In science we watched two videos. The first one was a Bill Nye the Science Guy. It was about air. The second video was about a mini parachute that you can do at home. I forgot how to do it. In library Mrs. Montgomery read us a book called Scare School. We did not get to finish it. There was a funny name in it. He was the cook. His name was Captain Loosebeard. I was sitting next to Willie and the first time he heard that name he, me, and some other kids laghed at that name. In PE we ran one lap on the track and went in through the lions gate to go to the gym. We did some jump roping. We did not get to do anything else. I am working on my cross-overs. We did two minutes. The first minute was the first minute. That was a minute where it is just regular jump rope skips and you are going for a speed. The second minute was where you could do a trick or fancy footwork or something like that. It is called a trick minute.

Today at St. Mark’s I had spanish and music and drama. In music and drama we practiced the hymns that we were going to sing on Friday. One of them was called Love Divine and that one was a pretty hard one but we still did it. After that we watched Sing. We watched a planetarium show. It was all about Dinosaurs. In PE we ran in the Spencer gym because it was raining so hard today and played Capture the ball. The way you play is each team has a ball and you have to try to go to the other team and take their ball. But when you are in the circle you cannot be tagged. When you have the ball you can either run to the middle with the ball without being tagged and that is 1 point or you can throw the ball to your team and someone has to catch it and that is 2 points. If your teammate doesn’t catch it then you are out. You are also out if you are tagged. You are allowed to rescue people from jail by running to that person without being tagged and walking back together to the middle. You can only rescue one person at a time.

Today at St. Mark’s I had science and art. In science I made a parachute. WE went upstairs and dropped our parachutes from way up high. Then we went outside and did an experiment. So we did something where you get a tablet and when it is your groups turn you put the tablet inside the water put the cap on and hear that snap, turn it over, and stand back. There were four groups with four people. One group had 5 milometers of water. On group had 10 milometers of water. One group had 15 milometers of water and one group had 20 milometers of water. Tristans went so high and he got first place. Alex got second place. His went so high. Jack got third. His was higher than everybody elses except Alex’s and Tristan’s. In art we put our sculptures up. I did make dinosaurs and a nest but we couldn’t find them so Mrs. Davis said she will look for them.