3. Thankful Bags

3 Thankful Bags Tuesday Dear first-grade journal, Today is still the month of Thanksgiving. But hurray! hurray! We are going to have Show and Tell for the whole entire day today! That is because yesterday, Mr. Scary gave us Thankful

Bags to take home with us. And today we had to bring them back with something we are thankful for. We are keeping them a secret till Show and Tell. I brought something that I love very much. Here is a helpful hint. It is not my brother Ollie. Your friend, Junie B., First Grader I put down my pencil. And I looked around the room. All of the children had their Thankful Bags next to their chairs. Some of the bags looked emptyish. And some of them looked fullish. My Thankful Bag looked middle-ish.

I picked it up and put it on my desk. Then I leaned over. And I tapped on May's arm. "My Thankful Bag is middle-ish," I said real pleasant. May did not pay attention to me. I tapped on her arm again. "You are probably wondering what is in my bag. But I cannot tell you. On account of it has to stay a surprise until Show-and-Tell," I said. May turned her back on me. This time, I tapped on her head. "Helpful hint: It is not my brother Ollie," I said.

Just then, May exploded out of her seat! And she tattletaled real loud! "MR. SCARY! MR. SCARY! JUNIE JONES WILL NOT STOP BOTHERING ME!" she hollered. Mr. Scary frowned his eyebrows at me.

I waved my fingers very friendly. "Hello. How are you today? I am fine," I said. "I was just showing May my Thankful Bag." I held it up in the air. "It is middle-ish," I said. Mr. Scary kept on frowning. I put my bag on my desk. And I folded my hands very polite. "Okay. I guess that about wraps it up," I said. Mr. Scary got a teensy smile on his face. Sometimes he enjoys me, I believe. Pretty soon, he stood up at his desk. And he clapped his loud hands together. "Okay, boys and girls. It's time to get started with our very special day of Show- and-Tell!" he said. "Please put your journals away and arrange your chairs in a circle." We slammed our journals shut. SLAM! SLAM! BAM! SLAM! BAM!

SLAM! SLAM! BAM! Mr. Scary sucked in his cheeks at us. We quick opened our journals again. And we shut them very quiet. After that, we put our chairs in a circle. And we got ready for a whole entire day of Show-and-Tell. "Woo-hoo!" I said to Herbert. "This is a dream come true! A whole entire day with no learning!" Herb laughed and clapped. "I wish every day had no learning," he said. "Me too!" I said. "If every day had no learning, school would be a lot more popular." May butted in to our conversation. "Well, I am thankful for learning," she said. "There is nothing I like better than learning learning learning." After that, she started skipping around her chair.