Part 2 (2/2)
Me and Mother read the pages out loud together. I read the easy pages. And she read the hard ones.
Then I wrote down lots of important facts we found out. And before I even knew it, I had eighteen eighteen whole facts printed on my paper! whole facts printed on my paper!
I jumped down from my chair very thrilled.
”Eighteen! Eighteen! I have eighteen whole facts! And eighteen is more than my wildest dreams!” I said.
Then I hugged Mother real joyful.
And me and Tickle skipped to and fro.
And far and wide.
And round and round and round.
Just then, Mr. Scary finished taking attendance. And he said to please put our journals away.
”As you can see, we're missing three more cla.s.smates today,” he said kind of frustrated. ”It's going to be hard to do a play with so many people absent. But we'll keep our fingers crossed that our cla.s.smates will be back in time to partic.i.p.ate.”
Just then, we heard a rustly sound.
Sheldon was crossing his fingers inside his sandwich bags.
After he got done, he waved to Mr. Scary very pleasant.
Mr. Scary looked at him for a real long time. Then he waved back.
Finally, he stood up and walked to the board.
”Boys and girls, I thought it would be fun to base our play on the facts you gathered for homework,” he said.
He picked up the chalk. ”If you have a fact you'd like to share, raise your hand and I'll write it on the board. Then-when we've listed all our facts-we can choose our play parts,” he said. ”Now who would like to go first?”
Jose shot his hand in the air speedy fast.
”I would! I would! I have a poem poem!” he said.
Then he jumped right up, and he started to read.
In fourteen hundred ninety-two, Columbus sailed the ocean blue.
He had three s.h.i.+ps and left from Spain; He sailed through suns.h.i.+ne, wind, and rain.
Mr. Scary smiled.
”Nice, Jose. That's a great poem you found,” he said. ”Let's see how many facts we can find there.”
He wrote them down.
1. Columbus was a sailor.
2. He had three s.h.i.+ps.
3. He sailed from Spain.
4. The year was 1492.
Just then, Sheldon started waving his plastic hands very urgent.
”I know the names of the s.h.i.+ps! I know the names of the s.h.i.+ps!” he called out. ”They're the Nina Nina, the Pinta Pinta, and the Santa Maria. Santa Maria.”
”Excellent job, Sheldon,” said Mr. Scary.
He printed the names on the board.
5. Nina, Pinta, Santa Maria Then Mr. Scary started to call on someone else. But Sheldon stood up and read more from his paper.
”Columbus sailed across the Atlantic Ocean. He landed on some islands near America,” he read.
Mr. Scary added the new facts to the list.
6. Sailed the Atlantic Ocean.
7. Arrived in islands near America. ”Okay. Well, thank you again again, Sheldon,” he said. ”Now I think we should let someone else have a-”
Sheldon interrupted. ”My uncle Vern sailed to an island once,” he said. ”He came back with a woman named Bunny.”
Sheldon kept on standing there. ”Aunt Bunny has tattoos,” he said.
After that, Mr. Scary hurried to Sheldon's desk. And he put him back in his chair.
May went next.
”My fact is about the Mayflower Mayflower,” she said. ”The Mayflower Mayflower is the s.h.i.+p that brought the Pilgrims to America. And so I am going to be the is the s.h.i.+p that brought the Pilgrims to America. And so I am going to be the Mayflower Mayflower in our Columbus play. Because both of our names start with in our Columbus play. Because both of our names start with May May.”
Mr. Scary looked curious at her. ”Yes, but the Mayflower Mayflower didn't sail to America until over a hundred years didn't sail to America until over a hundred years after after Columbus,” he said. Columbus,” he said.
”I know it,” she said. ”But both of our names still start with May. May. Don't you Don't you get get it?” it?”
”Yes, May. I get get it,” said Mr. Scary. ”But we can't change history. So I'm afraid the it,” said Mr. Scary. ”But we can't change history. So I'm afraid the Mayflower Mayflower won't be sailing in our Columbus play.” won't be sailing in our Columbus play.”
May sat down in a huff.
Lucille stood right up.
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