wednesday bonus blog: "dinosaurs eat what?!?"

so today . . . i decided to post a bonus blog.

this is why. last week when i posted a blog i had previously written for myspace, i got grief from my friend albert. (i should mention here that he is one of a handful of people who actually look forward to reading my blog every day.) albert is also on myspace, so he read the blog when it was originally posted and i think he felt cheated that so today . . . was a repeat. as i explained to him, most of you are not on myspace, so it would be new to you. but i got his point. i am always disappointed when i go to one of the blogs that i read regularly and there is no new posting--i guess a "rerun" could be equally disappointing.

but i wrote some pretty cute blogs over there on myspace that i want to share.

so here is my solution. occasionally i will re-post those blogs on wednesdays (a day i don't usually blog) as a bonus for those of you who aren't on myspace. since that is a day you usually don't get any sparkling thoughts from my brain, it will be a nice surprise when it happens. and albert (and the other myspace people) won't be disappointed, because that is not a day they are expecting a blog.

i think it is a good solution. we will see what you think.

anyway, here is the first wednesday bonus blog. it was originally written november 22, 2008 and titled "dinosaurs eat what?!?!" enjoy!!

so the other day we had a little extra time before recess, and i suggested that my students look at books until we went outside. joshua always picks either a shark book or a dinosaur book, and this day he chose dinosaurs. now this was not a factual book about dinosaurs--it was one of those "cute" books where dinosaurs talk and do all sorts of undinosaurlike things. on one page the dinosaurs were eating (at a table off of a plate, of course) and the plate was covered with tan blobs of food. so, trying to teach SOMETHING during this time, i said, "what do you think those dinosaurs are eating?" Candice said, "chicken nuggets!!" and looked at me like "duh! why are you even asking us this!" while i was sitting there trying to comprehend how anyone could think dinosaurs would eat chicken nuggets, joshua saves the day (i think) by saying, "no, they didn't have chicken nuggets then." i think "aha! now we are getting somewhere." and then joshua says, "it's sushi!"