niknotes: I'll ask Jack to tell us about his field trip to Fernbank museum. He claims Lewis and Clark were not in the movie. He told me about other stuff he saw, too, on our way to Mick's eye appointment right after school today. For one thing, Jack said that he rode the bus, but it was a little bus with just enough room for Jack, Mrs. Penoncello, Mrs. Avitabile, and the driver. I don't know why they didn't just take a car, then. It must have really been a big bus because it was for half the first-grade classes. The other half went yesterday, I think. Anyway, he seemed to have enjoyed it a lot.

jacknotes: I saw a white tornado in a glass, and it was not a snowy tornado. It was a wet tornado. And a scientist showed you how it formed. Sometimes it disappears when you're trying to see it. If you're already seeing it, then it's all big now. Davin always says, "Tuh-nado." It makes me laugh.

I saw my eye. It was blue with light green freckles in it. I saw it through a metelescope, to see your eye and make it big, very, very big. Davin's eyes were brown, but Ryan's eyes were green. And Aaron's eyes were blue, like my eyes. He had no freckles in his eyes. I'm the only one who has freckles in my eyes.

I did not see the IMAX movie. The IMAX movie had Indians in it. The Indians fed everybody watermelons. And it even had buffaloes and bears in it. It had the flight in it. It made me feel scared. It made me fly too much fast, and then I crash-landed on a strange ocean. It did not really crash. It just felt like it. I was imagining it.

niknotes (part 2): Well, that's all we'll get from Jack. Mick came into the kitchen with the "quilt" wrapped around him, and I said he looked like a king. Jack immediately took the comforter from Mick and wrapped it around his own shoulders and began singing the Cowardly Lion's song: "If I were king of the forest, not queen, not prince, not duke ..." He actually said, "Not juke." Mick was not upset by the usurpation because he sat on the train of Jack's cloak and got dragged halfway across the floor.