Hi, everyone! Last week we took three days off school to go to Bangkok. We said good-bye to some friends who were going to Wales for a year, and hello to friends who just came back from meetings in Bangkok. The other special thing was getting in-line skates or roller blades (whichever you like to call them) from our Uncle Ted! Since we used to skate in Canada (notice, people there don't say "ice skate" or "ice hockey"!) it didn't take long to get skating on a parking lot!

Today, for our journals we described characters in books that we're reading.

Nate wrote about "Master Christopher" from the book, "The Skippack School"

It seems that Master Christopher is gentle but he will discipline kids if he needs to. But he hardly ever canes kids. But he'll give gifts if the kids do a good job at school. I would like to be one of his students because he is so gentle.

Pete wrote about "Big Bob," who is a cop bug and catches thug bugs:

Big Bob is a clever policeman. He is good at acting and he is good at making plans and he is good at nabbing bad bugs. I'm glad that Big Bob is alive.

Now, don't you wish you could read about these characters?