Tuesday, 2/5/08 Reported By: Sofia

The school day started promptly at 8:00 a.m.  I was sad to hear that Miss Jensen was still sick and that she would not be in today.   We were lucky to have Ms. Rodriguez as a substitute teacher.  As usual we first did our D.O.L. (Daily Oral Language).  Our prayers with the Pledge of Allegiance came right after.  During the special intentions part of our prayers I asked God to bring health to my Mom since she has the flu.  We were allowed to read for a while after prayers.  Following reading time we corrected our D.O.L. assignment.  Religion class (my favorite) was next.  We read the first page of the new chapter 10 and we learned about how we can make the world more beautiful and we all had different ideas about how to do that.  I chose to plant more roses and to recycle more each day.  When religion was finished we did our reading stations.  10:20 and it is RECESS TIME!  We all went to recess and had fun playing outside and eating our snacks.  It felt good to be able to play outside and see the sun after all the rain we have had.  The bell sounding telling us to go inside and back to class came too soon.   We sat down and started math class.  We had a math quiz and we were timed for 1 1/2 minutes.  I got 71 problems answered during that time.  We reviewed the math lesson of the day on our white boards and corrected the math homework from Monday.  Once math was finished we had our English class.  Ms. Rodriguez passed around a worksheet which most of us finished but some did not.  My tummy made hungry noises and I looked at the clock which told me lunch time was now here.  We ate our lunches and played with our classmates.  When the bell rang and we had to return to the classroom we had music class with Mr. Howell.  I was happy that I finally had my recorder to practice in class with.  After Mr. Howell finished the music lesson we went back to our English work and finished correcting the handout Ms. Rodriguez had given us.  At 2:30 Ms. Lorraine called me and told me to get my things together because my mom was coming to pick me up early because she was sick.  I got my things and was waiting for my mom in the office when she got to school to pick me up.  I left school today with thoughts about how to make our world a more beautiful place.  I had a lot of ideas but one of them would be to create a special medicine so that people don't get sick anymore.  I thought about how wonderful that would be when people aren't sick and don't feel pain.