My first day in second grade

I put my backpack on my hook and we walked inside. And then there were stations and I sat down at a station and did what was at the station, which was frogs. I was playing leapfrog with my frog and Kaelyn's frog and Mr. Cowan said "transition!" So we moved to a different station - cubes (the kind that have the little bump at the top that you can attach to the other one and stack). And we made a really tall stack, except we don't actually know how tall it was because it couldn't stand up because it couldn't stand up - because it was so tall that it would smash to pieces and fall down -- and it went off the table....so I had to go over and hold it. I held one end of it cause it was going off the table. And then Mr. Cowan said we had to sit at the floor. And then he took attendance. Then we went back to our seats and Mr. Cowan said the rules and we wrote some of them down. Then he drew a little square on the board and told us that if we were good we could earn some points and he would put it in the square and when we got 75 points we got to have a party with a movie - and we could pick the movie. And then he gave us 10 points cause we were good. And then we got break time. We ate snack and then we got to play. Well, I didn't play, I was writing about the morning and then I finished writing about the morning and so I put it in my cubby. And then I got a book off the shelf and started reading it and I had only read a sentence on the first page when Mr. Cowan said "Second Grade!" and then we went over some more rules. And after we went to recess, except for there were construction workers on our playground, so we had to go to the old playground that was really far and first grade went with us. So we got to play on everything, except Mr. Cowan said we weren't supposed to play on the toys or the swingset. We played on the playground and then Mr. Cowan yelled at us to line up, cause it was a short recess, a 15 minute one. So we lined up and went back. And we didn't even have to use seatbelts, cause Mr. Cowan said we were old enough to not use seatbelts. And then we went back inside and when we got back inside we went over some more rules. After we reviewed some rules Mr. Cowan showed us something and we didn't know what it was because it looked like dried grass on bottom and a tree on top and then Mr. Cowan put it in some water and we waited and then we had some lunchtime. Then after we had lunch we had recess time. So Mrs. Platt was being the lunch monitor, so she walked us outside to the playground. And then when we came back inside Mr. Cowan said we could sit on the floor and then he read us part of a story - James and the Giant Peach - which I have already read, on the airplane to go to Pittsburgh. And after that he told us to go back to our seats and he said to put the things that were on our desk in our folders. And then we put our folders back in our cubby and Mr. Cowan said that we would do something with them tomorrow. They were James and the Giant Peach Stick puppets. Then Mr. Cowan told us we had to clean up and we had little name cards that Mr. Cowan put in a thing you put cards in for each job and I was the clipboard organizer, but there weren't any clipboards to organize right now, so I just helped with the bookshelf organizers. And after that we went to PE and at PE we had relay races, the first one there was a cone and 5 people stood in a line behind the cone, and there was a hula hoop behind the cone. And so the first person in line picked up the hula hoop and when Mr. Millis said "go" they all started rolling them to the other cone and sometimes when one of them let go of their hula hoops it went straight for a minute and then curved around, or it just went wild until it fell over. So the person with that hula hoop had to run and catch the hula hoop until they caught it and then try to roll it toward their cone again, and when they got it back to the cone they were standing in line by, the person gave it to the next person and repeated the thing the other person did, and then the next person repeated the thing that that person did, then the next person repeated the thing that person did, then the next person did what that person did. And then there was an even sillier race - we grabbed the hula hoops and tried to spin them on our arm. And sometimes they flew off our arm and they went somewhere and we had to run and get them. And when it was my turn I kept spinning my hand with my hula hoop on it and then the hula hoop went over my head and then it fell down to my leg and so I had to jump out of it and pick it up and do it again. And then we cleaned up our stuff and then left PE. And when we got back to our classroom Mr. Cowan said we could check the plant and before it had been brown and it was this weird shape and, now, when it was in that water, the top part had turned green puffed out, cause before it was all closed up. But when it got water it all puffed out. It was sorta like a tumbleweed. Mr. Cowan said that when it dies it gets out of the ground and then the wind blows it cause it's so light and it's just brown and shrivelled up and closed, until it rolls into a puddle of water and, if it stays in that puddle of water, the bottom soaks up that water and it gets green and comes to life again. Weird! And it could go for 50 whole entire years without getting any water and still be alive. And when that was over Mr. Cowan put it back up and said we had to get our folders and our backpacks and put our folders in our backpacks and line up at the door. So we walked outside and we went to our parents and you had to point to your parent cause Mr. Cowan didn't know who it was and then you could go. And then we went home.