I loved fifth grade year. My class had several of my close friends in it, and my teacher, Mrs. Moody, wasn’t moody at all. (And she loved to collect turtles...yeah, she was that cool.) Whenever we were assigned something to read during class, we were usually allowed to get into small groups or pairs to read it aloud together. One of my good friends at the time, Grace Havlin, was my partner. She began to read first. Then after a short time it was my turn. I was a pretty good reader, but Grace was a book fanatic so she could read much faster than me. I decided that I would try to read at her same pace, but it didn’t work out so well. I had been reading for a bit, when I came to the sentence, “the sheep were flocked in two and threes.” This sentence seems pretty easy, I know, but I was so caught up in trying to read fast that I pronounced “twos” as “twas”. Grace looked at me and asked, “What are twas?!?” I had no idea! We were so dumbfounded that we almost asked the teacher before we realized that the world was twos! If I remember correctly, we didn’t read any more of our assignment because we laughed so hard and for so long. This incident is still an inside joke between the two of us and it makes us laugh every time.
A ridiculous picture of Grace and I
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