Wet Pants
- By Laura Phillips
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- 23 Sep, 2014
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PANTS
To a third grade classroom….. There is a
Nine-year-old kid sitting at his desk and all of
A sudden, there is a puddle between his feet and
The front of his pants are wet. He thinks his
Heart is going to stop because he cannot
Possibly imagine how this has happened. It’s
Never happened before, and he knows that when
The boys find out he will never hear the end of
It. When the girls find out, they’ll never speak
To him again as long as he
Lives.
Believes his heart is going to stop; he puts his
Head down and prays this prayer, ‘Dear God, this
Is an emergency! I need help now! Five minutes
From now I’m dead
Meat.’
From his prayer and here comes the teacher with
A look in her eyes that says he has been
Discovered.
Teacher is walking toward him, a class mate
Named Susie is carrying a goldfish bowl that is
Filled with water. Susie trips in front of the
Teacher and inexplicably dumps the bowl of water
In the boy’s
Lap…
Pretends to be angry, but all the while is
Saying to himself, ‘Thank you, Lord! Thank you,
Lord!’
Sudden, instead of being the object of ridicule,
The boy is the object of sympathy. The teacher
Rushes him downstairs and gives him gym shorts
To put on while his pants dry out. All the other
Children are on their hands and knees cleaning
Up around his desk. The sympathy is wonderful.
But as life would have it, the ridicule that
Should have been his has been transferred to
Someone else –
Susie.
Help, but they tell her to get out. You’ve done
Enough, you
Klutz!’
The end of the day, as they are waiting for the
Bus, the boy walks over to Susie and whispers,
‘You did that on purpose, didn’t you?’ Susie
Whispers back, ‘I wet my pants once
Too.’
Us see the opportunities that are always around
Us to do
Good..
Church doesn’t make you a Christian any more
Than standing in your garage makes you a
Car.
Everyone one of us is going through tough times
Right now, but God is getting ready to bless you
In a way that only He can. Keep the
Faith.
Media Mentions
Our Book Fair is March 9-13. We look forward to visiting the “jungle” to search for some great books!
February top readers are as follows:
Kindergarten: Allison McElvy and Phoebe Benson (11 points)
1st Grade: Rowan Benson (21 points)
2nd Grade: Yates Lashley (20 points)
3rd Grade: Layton Caldwell (22 points)
4th Grade: William Lashley (29 points)
5th Grade: Beth Landrum (10 points)
These students will enjoy lunch off campus!
My seventh grade science class has been doing some labs this week. We grew bacteria that was collected from different items in an incubator. They got to see how much bacteria is lurking and what it actually looks like. They compared bacteria and fungus. They also used the scientific method in performing this experiment and discussed independent and dependent variables. This was a nice break from note taking!!!
Hello Everyone
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! We hope you all had a GREAT winter break. We are happy to be back in class. First grade has been working hard in January. We celebrated our 100th day of school. We are working on the first story of our fourth reading unit. This school year is flying by. We are all working hard to reach our goals for AR quizzes. First graders ARE SMITTEN with books. Our top AR reader in January is Rowan. Keep up the good work First Grade.
We are looking forward to February; we will be doing a “Tell me something good” project for Valentine’s Day. We will write a nice comment about each student in the class on hearts. The ground hog did not see his shadow so we hope we can start enjoying the warmer weather of spring. We had a great time doing an experiment to see if we could blow up a balloon inside a bottle. Thank you to Mrs. Flanary and everyone else who helped us conduct our experiment. Do you think you can do it? Give it a try! Well that is all the news for now. Have a Wonderful February!
January was a busy time in 4th Grade! In Reading, we read stories about puzzles and mysteries. We focused on literary elements and plot/theme. In Alabama History, we started discussing Alabama’s Early Statehood – specifically the first 5 capitals. In Science, we talked about Earth’s Changes like erosion. We did our first Weird Science Wednesday and completed an Ice Castle STEM Challenge. WOW – it is hard to believe how quickly the year is passing!
Our
great year continues!
January has been a busy month in the library! We’ve gotten back in the groove after the break, and we’ve enjoyed making books of our own, and performing Readers Theater scripts!
Our Spring Book Fair is coming up! It will be held during the week of March 9-13. We will be open from 7:30-2:30 Monday-Thursday, and 7:30-11:00 on Friday. “ Finger Foods with Families ” will be held Monday morning from 7:30-8:00. Please come and join us for shopping and snacks. Grandparent luncheons will be held on Tuesday, March 10 for grades K-3, and Wednesday, March 11 for grades 4-6. More information will come home with students soon.
Top AR readers for this month are:
K: Phoebe Benson- 10 points
1st: Rowan Benson- 30.3 points
2nd: Yates Lashley- 34.4 points
3rd: Layton Caldwell- 18.3 points
4th: Eben Sasser- 14.4 points
5th: Beth Landrum- 36.5 points
6th: Easton Janowiecki- 18 points
Congratulations to these students!
The second graders are learning a new way to write ----- cursive!
Cohen had a tooth pulled and has now joined our Tooth Club. We have 6 members now!
Harleen guessed the closest number of triangles in the Triangle Tree! She guessed 32.
The first week after Christmas break was “Frog and Toad Week!” We listened to 4 books about two very good friends, wrote about our favorite Frog and Toad story, and practiced letter writing by writing 3 Frog and Toad letters. We read “A Lost Button” and did an activity with that story with K-5.
We continued our letter writing the next week by writing 2 letters to our classmates and mailing them via Class Mail. After reading “Flat Stanley,” we mailed Flat Fred/Freida letters to someone who does not live with us! After visiting for a week, they wrote back telling us what Flat Fred/Freida did and saw. We are sharing our letters with our classmates as soon as the letters come in.
January 27th was our 100th Day of School! We celebrated with activities, refreshments, and goody bags! Many thanks to Mrs. Dianne Lee for baking our cake. We ate every bit of it! For several years, Lowe’s Pharmacy has blown up 100 balloons for us! The children enjoyed weaving through all the ribbons in our hallway!
We have had a great month! The students are making great progress learning sight words and sounding out simple words. We made Christmas ornaments and decorated our tree.
