Adelle

Adelle

“My first soccer game”

            “Go get your jersey and your other gear on for the game,” dad yells.

            I’m all ready doing that,” I lied. It was Sunday; I was just about to go to my first soccer game against another team. Just then mom walked into the house.

            “How’s my little soccer player?” She asked.

            Like I was going to answer that. So instead I said, “Oh, mom I didn’t hear you walk in.” The worlds just rushed out of my mouth before I could stop them.

             Then I muttered to my dad, “Of course  I heard her walk in she is always stomping around every place she goes.” He laughed silently but just had to laugh out loud. Mom heard but ignored us.

            About 20 minutes later. I was slumping out to the car. My heart was pounding like I was running in the Olympics. It was happening, my first soccer game! When we got to Fernhill (my teams home field) my coach was waiting for us and everybody else to arrive. Then we got in a group and made sure our cleats were tied. We didn’t have any hair things besides headbands and hair ties, we had our shin guards on, and our shorts. I love my teammates, my coach and referee, they really encourage me but I was still scared. We lined up and the whistle blew, before I knew it my teammates (including me) were running around scoring goals. I didn’t score any goals but it was still fun, and since it was fun we weren’t  thinking so we won the game. It was the first time fell down but my teammate tripped over me. Oh, and I didn’t say the name of the team. It’s Galaxy Girls. I scored two goals three games later. I was so happy and proud. If you play soccer you know how it feels. 

Mason

            My alarm rang but I was already awake. It was going to be the first time I went to Enchanted forest and I was full of excitement. In the afternoon my cousin Eliyes came over, we had lunch and we were off to Enchanted forest.

            When we got there we had to go through a castle. The castle was blue sign that said, “don’t feed the dragons matches”. Then we got to the rides, the first one we went on was the Bob sled. We went into a mountain, there was a troll there. When we did all the  lids it was time to go. I couldn’t wait to come back!

Everett

“The first time I went underwater”

            The first time I was underwater, I decided that I was scared out of my skin. My heart was competing with my stomach for which would got to jump into my throat first. Then I popped up and thought it was awesome until my nose got filled up with water. So I decided to do it again, the same feeling struck my central nerve system.

            My brain told my body to rise, but my body disagreed; so  I stayed under even though my lungs burned. Finally, I couldn’t take it, I rose to the surface. I grinned and asked if we could stay longer.

Alma

            When we parked our car, I was nervous. Today was my first day of ski school. I walked into the ski lodge, there was so many people. My mom and dad came with me, when we were going out of the ski lodge it was hard to walk in my ski boots because the front of my boot was higher than the back.

            The first thing I learned was how to stop, the second thing I learned was how to to turn, and the third thing I learned was how to ride the lift chairs. At 11:30 we went to the ski lodge to have lunch; I got pizza and root beer.

            My favorite part was the last run down the bunny hill, we got to do whatever we wanted on the last run. 

Elena

“Dancing on the stage for the first time”

            My first day of the show, my mom dropped me off so I could put on my costume before it started. Now it was my groups’ turn, I had a partner, we went on the stage. I felt my heart began thumping.

            I danced and I felt the joy of music in my head. Everyone was quiet so it made me think of what was the surprise. My partner was my friend Ellegra so it made me more comfortable.

            Then I look at what was doing my teacher, so the dance would look good. After the first dance we went to the back stage so we could change for our next dance.

            The next dance was easier; it was the Mexican dance, the last dance. I felt calm, but when I got on stage my hat fell off, I was so scared that I could hear my heart thumping. I acted calm so that everybody would think it was meant to.

            Finally I put my hat on and danced. When it was over, on of the teachers told me that you did well. I was happy after all. The surprise to celebrate was a drink but a good one. 

Ella

            When I got my dress on, and the grownups stopped talking, I got so nervous. My head was pounding with excitement. I went into my living room. What song was I supposed to sing? Oh no, I forgot the song!

            I just stopped and sat there looking around at people. Finally my dad announced the song, so I remembered the song and began to sing. Then the song was over and people were clapping and cheering for me. My family was so proud of me, I was also proud.

            I was so proud of myself after the song was all over. So from that day I wanted to be a singer. 

Great resource for fun math books

Many of these books are available at the library! I encourage you to check out these math books that go along with the new Bridges Curriculum for math.

http://www.mathlearningcenter.org/resources/blog/category/childrens-literature

One of my favorite books is called The Best of Times. Here is a link to the book from Powells: http://www.powells.com/biblio/1-9780439210447-9.

The books teaches strategies for learning multiplication. Each strategy has a fun poem to help children understand and remember the strategy. Most of these strategies we use as part of the Bridges curriculum in the classroom.

Here is a sample strategy:

Four is very fast to do when you multiply by 2.
Here's a little good advice --
please just always double twice!

Enjoy the poems and the books.