Luke's Schoolwork

Scott's note: I'm cross posting this for Luke's blog. This is such a nice collection of his work.

Here is a collection of a year's worth of Luke's writing that came home from school. There are some real "Luke" gems in some of his writing. ("My [pet rats] are very pretty. But my dog isn't to pretty.")

The pages in here aren't arranged chronologically, yet it's pretty easy to tell which stuff came from the first of the year, and which stuff was later in the year. He didn't enjoy writing at the first of the year, and would only write short declarative sentences, but by the end of the year, well, he was on a roll!

The other interesting thing about his writing is that it pretty well serves as his autobiography for his seventh year!

The Three Days of Fun

The Three Days of Fun are the three days that are two days before the end of school, and we do on Wednesday we read and wear our pajamas to school. On Thursday, we play board games all day that we bring to school. On Friday, it's movie day--we just watch movies all day long. And I am bringing The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again.

The City of Taboo

The thing I thought was neat about the City of Taboo was that it was a pretty small island with a lot of buildings on it. I thought the more we stacked the buildings on top of each other, the more buildings we could fit. Although most of the buildings were pretty small.

The dock that you see is kinda blackish with the little speedboat on it was a dock that I built. The guy sitting on the end of the dock was the night watcher. He watched all the boats to make sure none of them got stolen in the night.

Eddie started the thing, but I asked if I could help build it, and he said "Yes" and pretty much all we were doing was waiting for Eddie's friend to come over and play, but she didn't come. So we built this thing without Eddie's friend. And Eddie and I are still going to add more.

Field Trip to Great Country Farms

On Friday, I went to Great Country Farms for my field trip. At Great Country Farms, we got to feed animals like goats, sheep, and horses. We saw a great big ostrich sticking his head out of a gate at us, and he said, "Where's my corn, I want some!" There was also a big slide called the double barrel slide and there were these big sewer pipes, they were like about at least 30 yards long. I went down it backwards, head first, upside down. We also got to go on the big moon bounce things that was actually a whole bunch of pillows with plastic on it. It was a gigantic pillow, at least 20 yards long!

And the strawberries we picked were from a great big field. We saw some that had a perfectly good one, but the big nose was the only problem. And Ben was taking pictures away with his mom's camera and his mom was yelling at him because he was taking too many pictures because it was a disposable camera. Oh, and there was also big duck race where on one end there were these pumps that pumped out water, and you tried to push a duckie across with the water. Whenever somebody finished their race, the water that they pumped would go into our bucket. Whenever we finished a race, the water would go into their bucket. The only colors for the ducks were blue and yellow.