Emerson in 4th Grade!

 

Friday was a fun day in my classroom!  The kids were excited...really excited...because I told them Emerson was coming to visit!

He came about 11:30.  At first, he was a bit shy...and then his dad (Gabe) went back to the car to get his Monster Truck.  Some of the kids were impressed...and that opened up Emerson!

Around noon, it was time for my class to line up to wash their hands for lunch.  Emerson lined up with them.

I had told him his buddy, James, would be at lunch...so he was excited to hopefully see him.  I saw James, we walked a little past him, and James did a double take, blinked his eyes and said, "Ok, am I dreaming?"  Then he and Emerson hugged...

 

I told Emerson we'd go out to the kindergarten playground after he ate...

Off we went to the kindergarten side...

They sat and talked...about reading, about playing chase, about their shirts... and then James suggested they go over into the field and play chase...which they did.

When recess was over, James invited Emerson to come into his classroom.  Since I know his teacher, I figured it would be ok since I would be in there too.  Emerson lined up with the class...I introduced him to the teacher and in we went.

They sat on the rug together for show and tell..and then it was time for the 4th graders to come back in...

 I let my students sit with a buddy on Friday afternoons and they can read non-chapter books together.  Emerson had an army of 4th graders asking him to sit with them...and I relented on letting more students sit together... He read to them awhile, then one of my students came and told me Emerson wanted to play checkers.

I let them and they sat outside for a good half hour and played...

 After awhile, it was time to move into science.  We just started an experiment on fava beans.  We had planted them the day before, and this day we were writing up the experiment in the scientific process. 

 Emerson sat at a desk and was very attentive.   I told the kids to write their name on their paper...Emerson wrote his. 

 They wrote the purpose and their hypothesis, and Emerson said he'd rather draw.  I said ok.  He drew Gravedigger, a monster truck...and wrote GAVEDIGGR!!!  On his second piece of paper, he drew part of a monster truck and wrote GRVEDIGGR....

 After it was all said and done, he had also written SEED, dirt, DEEP, and Pot. 

He was focused...and very busy...and didn't notice at first that it was 2:20 and his dad had come back to pick him up.  He grabbed his papers...my students were asking him if he wanted to stay...(he wanted to go play with James) and this was all followed by a lot of good-byes!

Emerson left with his dad to go hang out with James and his dad...and my students just wanted to know if he would be back on Monday!

What fun it was!