Each of the three third grade classes had a speaker; all the kids wrote essays on what FPG (the school) meant to them; the teachers then selected finalists, and the kids in each class voted on which essay they wanted to represent their class.
Peter was chosen from his class (Mom beams with pride!). I'll post a video of him reading his essay once I swipe it from his Dad's website, but for now, here's the text:
Hi. My name is Peter Cohen, and I have been at FPG since Kindergarten. I have loved every single minute that I’ve been here. Throughout my years here, I have learned many things, such as:
Don’t touch your teacher’s lava lamp at nap time! That happened when I was in Ms. Story and Ms. Potter’s kindergarten class. We had nap time every day, and on that day I decided to lay down next to Ms. Potter’s desk. I had been fascinated by that lava lamp since the first day of school, so when she got up, I stuck my hand up, and touched it. Big mistake. It had been on for a few hours, so it was very hot. No one ever found out, but I have always regretted it.
Another thing that I’ve learned is that when you make a discovery, and want to tell people about it, don’t. Trust me, because the same thing happened to me when I was in Ms. Del Gaizo and Ms. Farrington’s second grade class. I was outside taking my weekly spelling test, and I noticed a large green caterpillar inching towards me. I told Ms. Del Gaizo, and since we were done with the test, we had to go inside and read quietly. Well, yours truly started talking about how he had made a great discovery, and how he was going to be rich and famous. Well, I did make a discovery that day, but it wasn’t the caterpillar. It was that teacher’s have ears like a hawk. Ms. Farrington heard, and I got silent lunch for the first time ever.
The last thing I will tell you about is this:
Teachers love it when you are a good student. They don’t love it when you hate their favorite sports team. That happened to me this year in Ms. Rigor and Ms. Gray-Ford’s fifth grade class. I’m a pretty good student, but my teacher, Ms. Rigor is a die-hard San Francisco Giants fan, and I’m a big Boston Red Sox fan. There has been a lot of arguing, mostly about Barry Bonds and the upcoming World Series. So, she loves me, and she hates the shirts I wear.
These are some memories I have from FPG, and I hope I never forget
them.
That's my boy! (Mom beams some more)
1 comment:
Never knew about the lava lamp story! Congrats on his graduation - he is a wonderful kid!
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