First Grade Writing

Just thought I'd share a few excerpts from our writing time today....

"If I could give one gift to the world, I would give every person a pet dinosaur bird. It has blue feathers, a blue tail, and a brown neck. It comes with a tree to stand on and a home and a tank. You have to give it meat because it is a carnivore. It will eat any kind of meat you give it. It really loves meat...but do not put your finger inside the tank!"


"If I could give one thing to the world it would be water because some places don't have water. They have to get in a line. 100 people are in the line."


"If I could give one gift to the world it would be recycling! I would not cut down trees to make a house, so I wouldn't have to pay 300,000 dollars. It can be fun recycling!"


"If I could give one gift to the world it would be dogs because they are so cute and fuzzy and they lay on you. I love them because they are dogs."


"If I could give one gift to the world it would be 400 guinea pigs. I think the people would be happy and they would not even have to thank me. Then I would love this place."


Hahaha...some of the kids wrote really thoughtful things...but some were just hysterical. First graders are great.

Laziness

SO here's what's going on right now...

I have a to-do list a mile long, my classroom is a wreck, I have ten phone calls to make and a stack of paper work a mile high, plus I haven't cleaned the upstairs portion of our house in months (literally, probably 6 months)....but for some reason, at the end of the day, I find myself perusing blogs and CNN.com instead of doing what I need to be doing.

All this to say that I honestly struggle with laziness -- I have no will power or drive to do the "musts" in my life. And, as a consequence, my life is what most would consider pretty chaotic.