Today one of my students came in over the moon excited, waving
around a sheet of lined paper. She proudly handed it over to my teacher
proclaiming, “I got a letter from Mary!” She was so excited because she has
been chosen to play Mary in the Christmas concert and last night Mary (ya know,
the Mother of God) wrote her a nice little note about how well she will do. It
was adorable and she was so proud.
The morning proceeded in it’s adorableness with our journal
prompt: Write about a brand new animal! Make up a name, how it looks, what it
eats, and where it lives.
“If I could make up a animal it would be a fluffy animal.
Its name would be fluffy like the one of the bored. It could be rainbow and
every other coler. It would eat cookies, ice cream sundaes, markers, and chalk
boreds. There sometimes vises but they won’t hurt you. “ (Sometimes vicious
huh?)
“My brand new pet is a jaguar. His name is Heven. He lives
in the jungle with me. Because he is very nice. My brand new pet is a golden
rechreever. His name is Jesus. He lives in Canada with me. Because he is very,
very nice. It has brown fur.” (I’m digging the biblical names.)
“My animal is a flying mandog. It looks like a man and a dog and it haves
wings. It likes all canis of foods. My animal lives evrewhere. It travels by
flying. And never give the flying mandog a jalepenos or he will thro up fire.”
(Not sure what throwing up fire has to do with anything, but thanks for the
info!)
“My animal live’s in the wood’s. I look’s like it has knife’s
on it’s back. I look’s like a monkey and has rotin teeth. It’s a rotten knife!
Monkey!” (Uhm, what?)
‘It is half dog and half cat. It lives in a tree in a hole.
It love’s to go by the moon. It’s a very fun time to play with dog half cat.
You would be feling good today. If I would like it you will to. It eats
animals. Its name is dot.” (Catdog!! Maybe that cartoon is a little too
outdated… oops!)
“It would have 3 heads on it with shorp teeth. It would eat
sharks and it can swim it can breth fire. It will have 2 wengs. It lives in a
cave on a mantin way up high in the mantin.” (Not sure what it is, but I want
one!)
“It is small. It has know teeth. It’s name is bubbolls. It
lives in a lake. It has a tail. It has fins. It has small eye’s. He is green.”
(Bubbolls sounds like quite the animal.)
“My animal is a flying cat. It is called a fliger. It looks
like this it looks like a tiger but smaller and it has wigs like an angle. It
eats grass and lilys. And it lives in Florida.” (Fliger= liger 2.0)
“This is what I am going to mixie up a chaeda and a bull.
This is the werd name is cheebull. I’t is a frenley anaimale. I’t gets the
things that you and me.” (Oh, the spelling.)
“My animal is going to have a cat tale and frog lages. It
eat’s pizza. It has a cat head. It will be named the catfrog. It lives in the
sea. It also eat’s bugs.” (Gross.)
“If I could make a brand new animal. It would be called a
helper man. It helps you with stuff he cooks for you to. I has 10 arms and 8
legs. It would have two heads. And three eyes it moves as fast as a spieder its
legs are sticky. It does all your chores for you. Its made from money so you
can get money.” (Sounds like the Ranter is a little bit lazy…. )
“Its’ a mix of a bunny and a frog. I call it bugs. it has
the tugue of a frog. And the body of a bunny.” (Bugs bunny?!)
I hope you’ve enjoyed reading blurbs of my kid’s journals. I
think reading their journals and tapping into their little brains is going to
be the part that I miss the most!
Speaking of… this student teaching being on the downhill
slide is pretty awesome because I’m less busy. But it’s also pretty awful
because I’m less busy. I am already planning next week and things for my class
in the back of the room. There is noootttthhhhing to do. I’ll let you know
if/when I ever get out alive with my sanity. Stay tuned.
Until tomorrow…
Peace, love, and time to kill,
Jayna
