Have you ever felt a ghost? I have. Today, in the yard, there were ghosts. They flew around. OOOOooooooo! They cried. That’s how I knew there were ghosts, more than one.
I’ve been told that ghosts have no hands, so they can’t grab you or hold lasers. I’ve been told that ghosts have no mouths, so they can’t eat you. I was thinking, cool, I don’t need to worry. And then, a ghost flew through me. And another and another, again and again.
It felt strange. I wonder how you would describe what it feels like to have a ghost fly through you.
I slept in Mom’s bed. Me: Where did your Mom sleep? She was there. Me: Did she sleep on the floor? No, it’s a big bed. She slept in the bed too. So did Dad. So did In. Me: There were four in the bed?
Someone else described sleeping five in the bed. Someone said they went to their mom’s bed when they were scared. Me: I had a blue bear pillow.
We’d been roaring like lions and bears, so I explained how my blue bear roared and scared the scary things away when I was little. We practiced roaring some more. Someone told me about having a singing goose that sang Itsy Bitsy Spider and made Zombie TRex Bad guys fall asleep. After they fall asleep, you throw them in the trash.
This sounded like something I should definitely have. Then .. there was the singing sword.
And then someone told me about a dream they had, and we started talking about dreams and dream catchers.
“I’m up here,” said the baby cow from the rooftop. Mama cow could hear baby cow clomp clomping on the rooftop. I wonder how baby cow got up on the roof. Did baby cow climb a ladder?
I looked behind the pole. You’d hidden there earlier. I looked behind the tires. You’d hidden there too. I looked behind the tree, in the airplane, and in the house. Where were you? Someone pointed at the slide.
There wasn’t anyone on the slide. Then one person popped out from under the slide. Then another and another and another. One person was still missing. Where could they be?
Love, Teacher Michelle
P.S. It was so nice to see you after three weeks that I forgot to write down our morning news. Whoops!
It was the darkest one. We’re going to have so much fun. We’re going to see a skeleton. We’re going to see a night owl. We’re going to see a witch. We’re going to see a dinosaur. It was the darkest one. We had so much fun.
With candle fire and camp fire and presents and yummies. Thank you for celebrating the darkest time of the year with me. The dark needs the light, and the light needs the dark.
You had a plan today. You were going to climb the tree. You decided to move the triangle from the Pine Forest. It scraped along the concrete. Yikes! The sound. You asked if I would carry one side while you carried the other.
I reminded you that if you fall from high onto the hard concrete your chances of breaking a bone and getting hurt increase. You put the triangle on the dirt between the concrete and fence. You climbed up on the side of the triangle nearest the tree. You were able to reach from the triangle into the tree and sit between all the big branches.
Another person wanted to climb into the tree too, so you spun around so your legs hung out the side away from the triangle. The second person climbed up the far side of the triangle, the side away from the tree. Their legs are not as long as yours. They had to reach a little farther and use their arms to pull themselves into the tree.
They made it. The two of you sat in the tree. Pepper the squirrel peered down at you from the branches above. Others came over and climbed the triangle. There was no more room in the tree, so they went to play leaf chase.
Little Sheep felt afraid, but brave. Spotted Dogs were there and White Dog too. They would scare off the wolves. The wolves howled but didn’t come near. Then along came a T-Rex. Big Sheep wasn’t afraid.
They fought. There were lots of big booms. Then Little Sheep had an idea. They gathered all the dogs together and said, “Pizza.” It turned out T-Rex didn’t like pizza or steak or hamburgers or chicken. T-Rex wanted a little girl t-rex to eat, a pink one.
Little Girl T-Rex came, but she didn’t want to be eaten. Instead we all ate pizza and candy. Then T-Rex built Little Sheep a house. The roof was tricky. All the animals wanted to move in, and that was tricky too.
I was surprised by rain this morning! I went back home to gather my rain gear. It’s good I live next door. You spotted a bluejay on my roof, peck, peck, pecking in the moss.
We all put on our rain gear. We tested out our boots. Two of you ran all the way around the bike path. Then we tried jumping. You had an idea to jump off the edge of the sandbox to give us extra height. Then you did a running jump.
You felt rain boots were designed for the wet and would be great climbing to the top of the slide. They were. You wanted me to test how slippery the slide would be going down in rain gear. It was slippery but not super slippery.
It stopped raining, and you took off your rain gear. You put on hiking boots. Three of us tested different foot gear for running: rain boots, hiking boots, and tennis shoes. We raced around the bike path. Two others took a leaf bath in their rain gear. The leaves were wet.
In the Dark House, someone pointed out the shadows on the ceiling. Everyone felt a little scared of the shadows. They fluttered and moved. What could they be? Everyone was brave and watched the shadows. They encouraged each other when they wanted to look away. I wonder what made the shadows. I wonder if you can make a shadow with your body, your hands, or an object.
There’s a mountain in the sandbox. Some say it’s made from lava. Others say it’s not. I saw a mama pat pat patting the mountain smoothing it all around. I went to the mountain and saw that I’d made foot prints, and hand prints, and leg prints. I decided to pat pat pat it smooth again.
You went to the top of the mountain. “Up.” You went down the mountain. “Down.” “Up. Down. Up. Down. Up. Down.”
