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Type in the content of your page here. DAILY REPORTER By Olivia Park

Today, we began the morning by waiting in a line outside the classroom. When a substitute came out we were all surprised since we thought that Mrs. Moline was going to be there. She called us in and we started by unpacking, taking down our chairs, and preparing for the school day. On the board our substitute had written her name in all capitals like this: MS. SINCLAIR. When everyone had settled down, Michael, Emma, and Kevin all stood at the back of the room to do the Daily Doings. Since the day was February 4th, the number fact for the day was that there were 4 years from one leap year to another. After that, Joshua took lunch count and then the school day officially started. Ms. Sinclair explained that we would be starting the day by working on the Mid-Atlantic States map. She also passed out a checklist, which was to help us keep track of what we needed to do on our map. I learned that adding major cities, rivers, and mountains to the map was a lot harder than I had thought. The class got about an hour to work on the map before it was time for P.E  When we got to the gym, Mrs. Jackson told us that we would be doing the 6-minute jump with a partner. I ended up partnering up with Apphia. Mrs. Jackson explained that we would be alternating each minute and we would have to do as many jumps with the rope as we could in one minute. While our partner was jumping, the opposite partner would be counting the number of jumps before time was up. I thought it was going to be easy peasy but nooooooo, it was like there was lead in my legs and they felt like they were going to fall off any second. In the end, I miraculously ended up doing a total of 181 jumps and Apphia 231. When we were walking back up to our room, I almost collapsed since I was so tired. As soon as we got in the room, our substitute teacher said that it was time to focus on our Jr. Great books. Today we were going to focus on the story A Game of Catch. It was a story about boys named Scho, Monk, and Glennie. The story started out when Monk and Glennie were tossing a baseball around. Scho came and asked if he could play. They tossed the ball around with each other for a while until Scho got bored and started climbing up a tree. He ended up sitting in an unsteady chair of branches. He began telling Monk and Glennie that he was making them do the things that they were doing. Monk soon became mad at Scho and started climbing the tree too. Monk threatened Scho and eventually pushed him out of the tree and hurting him. At the end Scho said that he wanted them to do whatever they were going to do for the rest of their lives. After the story, our class had a discussion about our questions and connections. Soon after we had shared a few ideas, it was time for lunch and recess. When recess was over, it was time for math and we headed towards Ms. Water’s room. In math we got to learn a lot of new things especially some important skills. We have a jar that we fill with m&m’s and when it is full, we get to eat them all by dividing them up into fractions. Before we could say “MATH ROCKS”, Math was over. We headed back to our homeroom with our brains still sucking in all that important knowledge we had just gathered. We soon learned that we were going to do 30 time. I ended up doing Hansel and Gretel which is an activity where you have to make a word have something to resemble the word like the word cane would maybe have the top part of the a hook over and look like a cane. Eventually, it was time for recess. Noor, Apphia, and I ended up playing four square for the whole recess. When the whistle blew, we froze then headed towards our line. Ms. Sinclair came and took us back to the classroom. We wrote in our planners, packed up, and then were dismissed for the day.