tickets

our school has an annual carnival fundraiser and marcus' mom is in charge of the carnival, so he is privy to carnival information. throughout the day marcus had shared with us the people who he knew were buying tickets for the carnival. during class i happened to mention a student i had last year and upon hearing her name, marcus announced, "she's buying tickets, too...do you want to know how i always know who's buying tickets? 'cause i'm a creep."

secrets

malia and lucy were giggling to themselves after school and i asked what was so funny. malia said, "i was just telling lucy about my first dire. when i was young (last year) i wanted a diary so bad that i asked my mom to give me one. she gave me a notebook and i wrote on the front 'malia's dire' because i was too young to spell diary." "so what deep, dark secrets did you need to record so badly?" i asked her. "well, i only wrote in it once and i wrote: jupute is the largest planet. my mom is having a baby."

colors

we just finished reading sarah, plain and tall and it talks about sarah and papa's wedding at the end. malia told us that her wedding colors were going to be purple and white. marcus said, "guys never get to pick out wedding colors." i replied to marcus, "well, if you want to help when you get married just say, 'wifey, i want to help pick out colors'" he countered, "i will NOT call her wifey, that is the stupidest name. i will call her honey." then lucy said, "not me. i will say, 'for our wedding, baby maker, i want blue and yellow.'"

biography

excerpts from the biographies and autobiographies the students wrote:

"oh and i never broke a single bone. imagen that of my 206 bones not a single one is broken and none have been broken. plus add this to the paragraph. i've been in the hospital 4 times (of course not for a broken bone)." -mac

"hope is a good good good runner. hope is a very good finder person. she finds anything that we lost." -kami

"sierra's mom is very tallented. she works as a hair salon person. sierra's mom was the person who cut alyssa's brother's hair. exsept alyssa's family got mad because sierra's mom wouldn't let alyssa's mom pay full price. so alyssa promises that someday they will pay full price. and sierra promises two things: one alyssa's family will not pay full price and two that she will pay alyssa back for buying ice cream." -alyssa (the biography was about her best friend, sierra)

"she is now a teacher. dosn't want to be married (ore dose she?)"
-davon (this one was about yours truly)

bryson included a table of contents in his biography:

contents:
beginning
body
end

fiesta

the class wanted to put one more stamp in their geography passports before the end of the year, so we decided to have a cinco de mayo fiesta at lunch. they were very excited and actively participated in the planning:

marcus: i'll bring the sombreros!!!

sydney: i'll bring the maracas!!!

carter: i'll bring the swine flu!!!