Thursday, June 19, 2008

Today was Beach Day. Everyone came to school with their bathing suits on. Lots of people were laughing and being silly because they weren’t used to seeing each other in their bathing suits…especially at school! Some people noticed that Ms. Stern was filling up water balloons. She told us that weren’t for the class and that she and Mrs. Caverzasi were going to have a water balloon fight after school. She was just kidding. We played lots of games with a beach ball inside. One game was story telling. Ms. Stern started by giving the class a sentence about the beach or swimming. Everyone then took turns adding one more sentence to the previous ones. Joel’s favorite story was about boys turning into sharks, eels, and dinosaurs and the girls turned into fish and mermaids. Madison B. liked the same one. Erin liked the story about the girl whose sister likes to go to the beach to eat sand. Another game we played was Phonics Toss. Ms. Stern gave us a spelling pattern and the class had to think of words that went along with it. We had to think of short vowel and long vowel words as well as blends and digraphs. People continued working on their writing. We had a water balloon toss. Ashley and Alexis were the winners of 2 of the rounds and the championship round. Joseph V. and Jonathan also won a round, as did Joel and Justin. Kelsey thought the water balloon toss was really fun. Everyone wanted to keep playing but we ran out of balloons. Next, we played Duck, Duck, Squeeze. It’s played the same as Duck, Duck, Goose except we used a sponge filled with water to tag the person who had to chase them. People ended up getting very wet! The last part of our Beach Day before lunch was to lay out and read from our book bags. Lots of people started to complain that they were getting too hot. Finally, it was time to go inside and get ready for lunch.