A Dead Mouse

Have you ever seen a dead mouse in your house?  I have!  

There was a mouse in my house and it was really bothering me because it escaped the first time.  The mouse was brown and pretty big.  It grossed me out.  One day I set a trap and the mouse got the cheese from the trap.  I was sitting on my couch and my younger brother started yelling, “A dead mouse!  A dead mouse!”

I looked right beside me and saw the dead mouse.  It was disgusting.  I tried to tell my mom but she was sleeping and she said to just leave it there. Then I told her it was on the couch.  My mom looked at it. Its head was still in the trap and it was all slimy and wet.  It was wet because my dog, Maggie, was chewing it.  My mom said it got stuck in the trap and crawled underneath the door and that’s when my dog got it.  We eventually threw it in the garbage.  That was one of the most disgusting things ever.

Have you ever found a dead mouse on the couch?

~Mr. Folafogas

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Blue Sheets

What do you think of the blue sheets that we get every week?  I think it is cool because it is a very good way to learn our spelling words.   If we hand them in all the time we can get a free lunch at Subway or something else.  Last year there was seven kids that got to go because they handed their blue sheets in.  Do you think that you will go and be one of the seven?  Do you or do you not like them and why.  

They’re fun sometimes but if you don’t do a good job at them she will read them out loud and that will be embarrassing.  

There was a kid that never handed in her blue sheets.   Then one day she did all of her blue sheets.  That was a mountain!  It was an inch of paper off the ground.  

Do you think it is okay to not do your blue sheets?  

-Space Unicorn2244

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Sickness, Late & Staying Home From School

Have you ever stayed home because you weren't well enough to attend school?  Our class had pretty good attendance towards the beginning of the year with many days of "Perfect Attendance."  Lately, there have been days where we have had many students absent for any number of reasons.  Also, we have had many other students attend late everyday.

Throughout my school career, I can count on ONE hand the number of days I've missed school because of illness.  That includes four years of university.  I grew up with parents who made me attend school.  I wouldn't have been able to get away with not going to school, nor did I want to.  However, it seems like these days students miss school for even the slightest reasons.  Now I completely understand being sick and not being able to come to school.  I wouldn't be able to concentrate either if my nose is stuffed with snot and I'm tired all the time.

But I've heard that sometimes students are allowed to stay home from school "just because" their parents are giving them a day off.  Or sometimes, there are students that don't attend because they are on vacation DURING the school year.

Another topic that has to do with attendance is students who show up late.  Now of course, there are always circumstances where we are late because of traffic or we slept in or the alarm didn't go off.  These are very valid reasons and they can happen once in awhile.  What concerns me is the number of lates.  There are students that come in late EVERYDAY.  Why does this happen?

What is your perspective on these topics?  In your blog response, answer the following questions:

1.  Have you ever missed school because of any reason?  How long did you miss and for what reason(s)?  Do you ever wonder about students who miss all the time?

2.  Have you ever been late to school and for what reasons?  Does this happen to you all the time?  Do you ever wonder why students are late all the time?

3.  Do you think it's alright for students to miss school because of vacation or just having "a day off?"  Have you ever been allowed to do this?  Why did you miss?

~The BIG HAM
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Amsterdam

At the beginning of July, my family went to Europe.  We spent one week in Amsterdam and five weeks in Russia.  My dad didn’t go to Russia because it was too much money.  Still it does not matter.

We flew from Edmonton directly to Amsterdam.  The flight was about eight hours long.  When we arrived we took a train to our hotel. I think that it took half an  hour or maybe even an hour.  I was tired because the plane was LOUD plus I only slept one hour.

The hotel was really cool;  there were two beds, a table, bathroom, coffee-maker for my dad, and a window that shows the town.  I saw the planes go by and I wondered, where did come from?

When we were in the beautiful park my dad wanted to see the “Van Gogh's Museum!”  My mom bought tickets and we went inside the museum.  It wasn’t that big, but it looked very, very beautiful!!!  Then we went to a different museum that was bigger than ever.  It was the pretties in the whole world because the pictures were so famous!!!    It seemed like it was a trap but finally we finished.  It wasn't a trap after all!!!   That’s our amazing nice trip!

Have you ever gone away on vacation?  Describe your vacation.  Have you ever travelled to either Amsterdam or Russia?  Where else have you gone?

~awesometiger

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