The Exceptionally Extraordinarily Ordinary First Day of School
THE EXCEPTIONALLY EXTRAORDINARILY ordinary FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL Abrams Books for Young Readers New York ALBERT LORENZ
Aren't the murals cool Murals are one of the world’s oldest art forms Murals have been found in prehistoric caves and have been painted through the ages by many peoples including the Greeks Mayans Egyptians and Chinese And they are painted today All schools are the same
Welcome back to school everyone said Mrs Dewey the librarian What do you think about the new murals that were finished over the summer Before we discuss them let’s all welcome your new classmate John where did you move from and how do you like our school so far Well I came from pretty far away We had to travel down crocodile-infested rivers fly in a hot air balloon across a vast jungle filled with wild beasts and then hire a car to get here said John But I like it It’s ordinary enough That is what my family is looking for or-din-ary This is pretty similar to my old school especially especially after my uncle painted these murals Hmmm I wonder why the murals just stay on the wall like that Extraordinary facts Share these with your classmates and you’ll be the coolest person on the bus on the playground or in the hallway especially on the fi rst day of school Murals Wall art The only time you can paint on the wall and not get in trouble Kite The Chinese invented the kite That means they were telling one another to go fl y a kite 2,800 years ago Pencils The average pencil has enough graphite the black stuff inside to draw a straight line thirty-fi ve miles long Paper The major ingredient in spitballs It was invented in China in the second century CE Paper that is The spitball was invented soon after that Dewey Decimal System The system created by Melvil Dewey for organizing library books Globe Once people fi gured out that the world was not fl at they came up with a round map of the earth You can spin it and pick out where you’re going to live when you grow up
