Yesterday Joshua’s first grade teacher sent home a wonderful gift in his backpack: his first semester journal. She has been giving the students topics to write about and it was SO fun for Bobby and me to go through and read what our little guy has written. I’ve never gotten to get inside of his mind like this and it was a real treat. It was also pretty stinkin’ hilarious! Bobby and I laughed until we cried over some of his entries. Here are a few of my favorites. I am leaving the spelling as he wrote it but I will translate in parentheses if necessary.
On the subject of Jesus
“Jesus is big and awesome.”
On the subject of pumpkins
“Pumpkins are fun Because they are orange and orange is my favrit color and Pumpkins are my favrit frut I like to make skary faces out of them.”
On a “real snowy day”
“When I was walking in the street it was realy snowy my shos got all snowy I ditint lik it at all.”
On Thanksgiving
“On the first Thanksgiving the pilgrims wanted to go to a new world. They called it the New World.”
On Angels
“Angels can fly they sreve God they are Good but one Angel was trund into Satton.”
On preparing for the 1st grade Speech Meet
“A Good Speech! On a speech you have to stand still and speck clear! Don’t put your paper on your face. Do the speech right!”
On Christmas vacation
“My Vacation”
“On vacation I had a Good Christmas And for Christmas I got a nitendo Dsi and on Vacation my Grandma stayed at my House for some days to take care of the baby and on vacation it was one of my coisins birthday!”
On Christmas
“Jesus was born in the stable and Mary was the mom of Jesus and Joseph was the Dad of Jesus and Jesus grew up and christmas is Jesus’es birthday and one of the best gifts for Christmas is the bible so you can lern abouwet Jesus.”
On Veterans Day
“Veterans are nice they save are contrey and they fly in planes.”
…and my PERSONAL FAVORITE, which just goes to show how enlightened my little boy is…
On Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Martin Luther King Jr. was nice the withe people didint treat the black people nice Martin luther King Jr. thot it was totaly not fair.”
And that’s the world according to my little boy!
love first grade journals! I still have both of the girls.
That’s not just cute. That’s stinkin’ cute! No wonder you laughed till you cried. Adorable!
Wonderful Share ~ as they say “out of the mouths of babes”….:-D
How wonderful! I even got a mention. Thanks,Joshua. I am so glad that I live in the New World.Joshua has a super set of parents and a super teacher.
Love it! 🙂
Terriffic..on the “UP side”, .he has a blog future…on the “down side”, he spells better than many adults I know.
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