Mrs. Stewart’s third grade class has big plans for summer vacation. Some class members will travel to faraway places in the United States and even Europe while others will spend most of their time closer to home, doing fun things with family members.
“I’m going to summer camp in the mountains,” writes Amber Smith. “My sister and brother are going, too. We’re going to sleep in log cabins like Abraham Lincoln.”
Johnny Cooper tells us:
My family is going on a car trip to visit my Grandma in Arizona. We go every summer. It takes a few days to get there and it’s very hot. Last year I went fishing in the pond behind my Grandma’s house. I didn’t catch any fish but I found lots of golf balls. I gave them to my dad for when he goes golfing with his friends.
Some other places Mrs. Stewart’s classmembers are going to include:
- Nancy Carlson: New York City
- Jimmy Drew and Cindy Olsen: Disneyland
- Billy Jones: The Grand Canyon
- Peggy Ann Williams: England
Mrs. Stewart will put all of the summer vacation essays from her class on the wall in the hallway outside her classroom this week so other students and teachers can read them.
Join the Writing Club!
What are you going to do this summer? You can write an essay about it for our new writing club. Talk to Mr. Riggle about how you can join the club.
Filed under: English | Tagged: Essays, Grade 3, Mr. Riggle, Mrs. Stewart, Writing Club
I have concerns about this trip. I’ve recently read reports of other schools taking Board of Education-sanctioned trips to remote places like Spain, where they’ve never heard of good old American values. These teachers — teachers, mind you! — who were “leading” and “supervising” these trips actually asked permission to allow the students to drink Sangria while in these foreign lands. Just because these Spaniards are willing to contribute to the downfall of their children by letting them drink Sangria with their dinner, doesn’t mean we should let our children sink to their level! Why, next thing you know, they’ll want to drink wine, too! We must put our foot down where our mouth is before it’s too late and insist that when we Americans travel to foreign lands, they have the common courtesy to adapt to our ways.