John Burns Best School Ever!
Anastasia Dubova
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To the best teacher ever Mr Morden
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My First day at School
I was scared of everyone and everything. The moment I entered the classroom I felt I would better run home to my mummy. 4
Everyone was looking at me when Mr Morden introduced me to the class. I actually couldn’t remember his name for a couple of weeks and called him Mr M. That could stand for Mr. Magnificent or even Mr. Magical , anyway, he was really nice from the very first day and any magical name would suit him. I couldn’t remember the kids’ names as well At the break time 2 boys were playing tricks on me and I didn’t know what they were doing I thought they were teasing me and didn’t like it. Girls were so mean! No one wanted to play with me, so I had to play with those horrid boys instead. Thank God the break ended soon.
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Scootering day It was a really fun day on Wednesday because we were all scootering in a line doing different exercises. I liked riding it sitting down and my hands had to be on the scooter handles. Since that day I started to like my school where you can scooter and have fun for the whole day!!!
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At the lesson Every day is a great day! Mr Morden is cool! He makes us busy all the time. Once he asked me to tell about Russia and me and my mum prepared a big talk. We told about Russian costumes, food and cities. Everyone was listening carefully. They even asked questions. I didn’t know what to answer, actually, because I forgot a lot about Russia but my mum answered them all.
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Spellings!!! Oh no! Spelling test! Again! I hate spelling tests. I should write them all the time and not having my break! Why not to draw a nice horse on the spelling sheet? Or a cat? Or a dog? It looks much better now, does it? And finally, I can write my spellings!
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At least one thig is nice about tests. If I have 10/10 my mum can buy me a present :)
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Plop It was a great day that I had Plop! I was so happy to take him home! My mum told me to dress my Russian costume and to dress Plop and then he looked funny because he never wore a Russian costume before. He sang and his singing was fantastic! I didn’t know owls can sing that beautifully!
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Plop ate pancakes and never stoppped until he was full up and he couldn’t fly anymore. Finally, it was a pillow fight with Plop and he won because he put the pillow in my face when I didn’t see it coming. Then I made him a nice bed and his pillow smelt like daisies. He enjoyed sleeping with his best friend white owl he met at my place. Next day after having a nice breakfast in the morning he went back to school. In fact, He disapeared the next day, my poor Plop. We were all so happy when Rosemary found him!
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Christmas
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It was a nice day and it was Christmas where I was Mary. Junior was Jesus. And I liked being Mary because I liked my costume and my part I was saying. Saddie was a midwife and she was trying to find a new born Jesus. When the three kings found us and they sang a song to the new born king and he liked it. Then we were singing nice songs. My favourite was “We are God Massagers”. I sang it every day. We had lot’s of fun on the stage and our parents liked our play. I want to play Christmas show again!!!! 13
The Great Fire of London It was a great project!!! We went to the The Great Fire of London Museum and saw lots of interesting things there. We climbed 311 steps up the Monument! I thought I would die! I was so tired! We saw a fire machine and tried to put up the fire. That was fun!
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The Monument
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The Great Fire of London Movie Making First, we had to build a scene for our movie. We had lots of boxes and paper rolls, paints and glue, so we used them all to make our scene. We made the characters Elizabeth, Samuel Pepys and Jane.
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Mr Morden gave us computers and we stareted making photos for the movie playing with the characters and moving them around the scene. It was fun! Next, Mr Morden showed us what evry group did then we wrote our parts what we would say. My lines were “OK Bye, husband!� I laughed a lot :) After we recorded our voices it was done and Mr Morden made the whole movie together and put nice music I really liked. We enjoyed our movie making and the film was awesome and funny!
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Owls performance Performance day was great! I was an owl and my costume was beautiful. Leane made me wings and Mr Morden made me a beautiful owl mask. I looked like a real owl! We had bats, badgers, foxes, hedgehogs and other nocturnal animals on the stage. Luke played Plop and was flying around the hall.
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Owls book This is the book I wrote about owls. I learned so much! I loved drawing owls.
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Owls Visit
One day it was an owl visit and I was so excited that I could feel the owls feathers and touch them. The owl man showed us the Barn owl, the Eagle owl, Elf owl and lots of other owls. He brought them in boxes. Each box had a door. It was one of the most amazing days at school! I loved it!
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Then he asked: Who knows how many eyelids do the owls have and I was the only one who knew the answer! Owls have three eyelids: one is for blinking, two is for sleeping, three is for keeping eye healthy and clean.
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Starry night It was the funniest day I ever had at school! We had to wear our pyjamas and bring our pillows and teddy bears and even books that we read before going to bed.
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Mr Morden said Who wants to show the thing that they brought and he called me. I showed him Russian book “Alice in Wanderland�. It has beautiful pictures. After that we were lying on the floor pretending to sleep...
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JB’s Got Talent Show
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JB’s got talent show We had a JB’s got talent show coming and everyone prepared what to perform. Esme made magic tricks, Kaelan was dancing, lots of girls were dancing and one of the boys was playing the guitar, Sasha made splits and cartweels and I was singing a Russian song Katusha with Heryacos marching around me. I was so happy to be chosen for the final show and Esme was chosen too. My mum bought me and Heryacos Russian millitary costumes and we practiced marching at home a lot! I was singing every morning and evening! And then the show began... I was terrified to go on the stage. Everyone was so cool! They were dancing and singing very well! And then it was my turn to go on the stage... I smiled and I couldn’t believe I was singing on the stage! The microphone was a bit far from me and I thought nobody could hear me and then it even made a horrible noise but I didn’t stop singing! I kept singing until the end of the song! And I won!!! I won!!! I won!!! I couldn’t believe it! It was amazing! I feel I am a real singer! 27
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sleep over My mum was so happy that I won that she let Sasha to come for a sleep over! We We until We
had lots of fun with Sasha! We played with dolls, ate ice-cream, we watched videos and we didn’t sleep late! Mum sang us a Russian lullaby but we didn’t sleep! were saying jokes and laughed. Ha-ha-ha!
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The London zoo Going to The London Zoo was fun! I enjoyed watching pinguins because they followed my lead. They were so cute that I wanted to touch them. I didn’t quite love the giraffe because he was standing and eating his meal. But pinguins were adorable!
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Good bye, Mr Morden! Thank you for the trips you gave me and the fun topics we studied together! I will miss you so much! Anastasia
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Anastasia Dubova is 7 years old and discovering the school world in London. In this book she describes her first year in one of the best London schools John Burn’s Primary.
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