The Exceptionally Extraordinarily Ordinary First Day of School
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
school bus Pee-ew Phrrp Phrrp Burrrp Mary had a little fish little fish little fish Mary had a little fish whose scales were orange and blue She followed her to school one day I want a fish Hissss
School bus A terror-fi lled nightmare on wheels Where you sit depends on who you are Life only gets worse from here on out Backpack A place to store squished bananas sandwich crusts and broken pencils Fish The only pet your parents might let you have They don’t bark yowl or spit up hair balls Cat A furry creature that poops in a box You know like your PE teacher Anthropomorphism The practice of thinking that your pet cat or rat or rhino has human qualities Praying mantis The glamorous green cousin of the cockroach Mantises lay their eggs in autumn and the eggs don’t hatch until early spring That’s how long it takes for a human baby to be born Pogo stick A hopping mechanism for hyper active kids or those with rabbits as ancestors Snorkel A tube one breathes through while invading the privacy of underwater creatures But Mom I went to school last year Did he asked Mrs Dewey They seem so lifelike Tell us what was an ordinary day like at your old school Well here I walk to school whereas before I had to take the bus It was always a rowdy scene
