says, So you can keep drawing wonderful horses like these. From your Dad Ben.
I am going to draw a horse for Lara.
I take my new pencils to school to show Morgan. She says her cousin had some like that and now her cousin is at the Victorian College of the Arts.
Morgan wants to have a go, and I let her. Morgan draws a cat and she presses really hard. The black pencil will need to be sharpened again. My pencils were so perfect and new yesterday and now theyâre already being used up.
At the end of the day Mr Parks says he has an important announcement to make. Everyone in the class starts trying to guess what the announcement is, which is stupid because Mr Parks wonât tell us until everyone is quiet, so if we want to know what the announcement is, then we should be quiet.
Brianna starts shushing and eventually we are quiet again. Mr Parks says we are going to have a Grandparents and Friends Day. Everyone in the school will bring a Grandparent or Friend to school so they can see what weâve been working on and buy things from our craft stall.
People start talking about who theyâre going to bring.
Mr Parks is standing up the front of the room being very still except for his eyebrows, which are going up and down. That means he wants us to be quiet.
Brianna starts shushing again.
Brendan James says, âAll my grandparents are dead,â just as the room goes quiet, so everyone hears him really loudly.
I donât know why, but it is really funny. We all laugh, even though it is not funny for Brendan.
Mr Parks yells. Mr Parks says it seems like we canât handle the pressure of Grandparents and Friends Day so maybe he will call the whole thing off. He says, âCan you behave sensibly about Grandparents and Friends Day?â
We all say, âYes.â
Mr Parks seems satisfied with that. He tells us that the theme of the day is Australian history. We are all going to do a history project and present it to the Grandparents and Friends.
April says, âCan we choose our own topics?â
Brendan says, âAre we working in groups?â
Teegan says, âCan I do bushrangers because Iâm related to Ned Kelly?â
Mr Parks says that calling out is exactly the sort of thing that would make him cancel the whole day because he would be embarrassed if the Grandparents and Friends had to witness that kind of behaviour.
He looks up at the ceiling and says , âWill this day never end?â
Finally, when everyone is quiet, Mr Parks tells us about the history project. We have to work in pairs. Luckily, we are allowed to pick our own pairs. Last term we did a school project and we werenât allowed to pick our own pairs. And even worse, we were all paired up boys with girls. I had to do a project on koalas with Julian. He canât even do bubble writing so I practically had to do the whole poster myself.
Morgan looks at me and I nod. We are a pair.
The bad thing is that we canât choose our own topics, we have to do the ones Mr Parks has picked. Only one pair can do each topic so Mr Parks is going to draw our names from a hat to decide who gets to pick their topic first.
Mr Parks writes the topics on the board and we have five minutes to work out our pairs and decide what weâd like to do.
Morgan and I decide on our order of favourites: World War II first, obviously, because it was so tragic. Our next choice is the First Fleet. Our final back-up choice is the Gold Rush because Morgan really likes Sovereign Hill.
April and Charlotte are pulled out of the hat first.
They choose World War II. April smiles at us. She knows we wanted that one.
Julian and Tim get to choose next. They pick the 1956 Melbourne Olympics. That is because Julian wants to go to the Olympics because he thinks heâs a really fast runner.
Morgan and I wait and wait. Finally, there are two groups left and two topics: the Depression and the Suffragettes. They are the two most boring-sounding
I am going to draw a horse for Lara.
I take my new pencils to school to show Morgan. She says her cousin had some like that and now her cousin is at the Victorian College of the Arts.
Morgan wants to have a go, and I let her. Morgan draws a cat and she presses really hard. The black pencil will need to be sharpened again. My pencils were so perfect and new yesterday and now theyâre already being used up.
At the end of the day Mr Parks says he has an important announcement to make. Everyone in the class starts trying to guess what the announcement is, which is stupid because Mr Parks wonât tell us until everyone is quiet, so if we want to know what the announcement is, then we should be quiet.
Brianna starts shushing and eventually we are quiet again. Mr Parks says we are going to have a Grandparents and Friends Day. Everyone in the school will bring a Grandparent or Friend to school so they can see what weâve been working on and buy things from our craft stall.
People start talking about who theyâre going to bring.
Mr Parks is standing up the front of the room being very still except for his eyebrows, which are going up and down. That means he wants us to be quiet.
Brianna starts shushing again.
Brendan James says, âAll my grandparents are dead,â just as the room goes quiet, so everyone hears him really loudly.
I donât know why, but it is really funny. We all laugh, even though it is not funny for Brendan.
Mr Parks yells. Mr Parks says it seems like we canât handle the pressure of Grandparents and Friends Day so maybe he will call the whole thing off. He says, âCan you behave sensibly about Grandparents and Friends Day?â
We all say, âYes.â
Mr Parks seems satisfied with that. He tells us that the theme of the day is Australian history. We are all going to do a history project and present it to the Grandparents and Friends.
April says, âCan we choose our own topics?â
Brendan says, âAre we working in groups?â
Teegan says, âCan I do bushrangers because Iâm related to Ned Kelly?â
Mr Parks says that calling out is exactly the sort of thing that would make him cancel the whole day because he would be embarrassed if the Grandparents and Friends had to witness that kind of behaviour.
He looks up at the ceiling and says , âWill this day never end?â
Finally, when everyone is quiet, Mr Parks tells us about the history project. We have to work in pairs. Luckily, we are allowed to pick our own pairs. Last term we did a school project and we werenât allowed to pick our own pairs. And even worse, we were all paired up boys with girls. I had to do a project on koalas with Julian. He canât even do bubble writing so I practically had to do the whole poster myself.
Morgan looks at me and I nod. We are a pair.
The bad thing is that we canât choose our own topics, we have to do the ones Mr Parks has picked. Only one pair can do each topic so Mr Parks is going to draw our names from a hat to decide who gets to pick their topic first.
Mr Parks writes the topics on the board and we have five minutes to work out our pairs and decide what weâd like to do.
Morgan and I decide on our order of favourites: World War II first, obviously, because it was so tragic. Our next choice is the First Fleet. Our final back-up choice is the Gold Rush because Morgan really likes Sovereign Hill.
April and Charlotte are pulled out of the hat first.
They choose World War II. April smiles at us. She knows we wanted that one.
Julian and Tim get to choose next. They pick the 1956 Melbourne Olympics. That is because Julian wants to go to the Olympics because he thinks heâs a really fast runner.
Morgan and I wait and wait. Finally, there are two groups left and two topics: the Depression and the Suffragettes. They are the two most boring-sounding
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