The Coolest Homeschool Day

  This was the coolest school day in my life. I was really excited about all that happened.

  To start off with, we had company. Miss Penny and Mr. Chas were visiting from Virginia. They had never been to our house before. That day, we were having breakfast on the patio when Mr. Chas saw a coyote. We decided, since it had just rained, that the coyote might have left footprints. We looked around the yard and we saw javelina prints instead of coyote prints. They looked like small deer prints. We even saw baby javelina prints. We had never seen baby javelina footprints before! Days before, my sisters and I had made a path in the yard and we think that the javelina liked it because that’s where we found some of the footprints. We wanted to keep the footprints, so we made plaster casts of them. Now we have them on our mantel.

  Later that day we decided to go down in the wash below our house to look for more footprints. We saw some coyote prints. We think we found a geode, too. On the way back we split up and Miss Penny and my sister, Julie, discovered a javelina skull. We’d never found anything like that before! After our company left and we were doing school work, we couldn’t take our mind off the javelina jaw. I couldn’t wait to show Dad that night. That was the most exciting school day of my life. I’m glad I homeschool.

Sarah