Fish In A Tree Diary Entries

Diary Entries

BOOK TITLE: Fish In A Tree

TOTAL # of BOOK PAGES: 274

Page Range: 1-15

Entry #1: I just wish I had a mean teacher, every new school I go to the teacher always tries to make me wright. Why can't they just send me to the principal's office. Mrs. Hall’s always pushes the paper at my face and tells me to read it, no one knows that I really can't. Every page I look at the words just move in circles all over the page. I just don't think she understands. The next day it is Mrs. Halls party for her baby, tomorrow we get a new teacher. I really don’t want a new teacher, it’s not that I like her but new teachers always turn out bad for me. At her party I get her a card with pretty yellow flowers on the front. She reads it in her

Daniels, our new teacher has his first day today. I think i’m more scared them he is. He starts out the day with math. I used to love math, but math now has letters and I can’t do it. He asks us how many people have hot lunch then asks how many people were on the bus, so we just subtract both numbers. It’s just like a normal day, but he then calls me to his desk with a previous work sheet in his hand with why written all over it. How does he have this why does he have this. He then asks me what this means, I hate being put on the spot so I just shrug hoping he will just ignore this. With a new teacher i want to have a good first impression so when i ignore him when he tells me to read he won’t get suspicious at first. The worst thing I could imagine happens he says since this happened he wants me to write a paragraph about myself I can’t write either. His excuse is that he wants to get to know me but I bet it’s just because he wants to know why I get sent to the principal's office all the time. I say no to his question of writing a paragraph, just a plain out no. I tell him all the things I like and he laughs in my face. I get kind of offended but if someone just told me they liked buffalo wings I would laugh to. I feel so dumb.After a while he then tells me i’m not going to go see Mrs. Silver anymore and I think there goes my excuse to get out of class. The next day we were supposed to bring in something we love, It was a hard pick but i ended up just bringing in one of

Daniel’s called me to his desk again and said that he talked to my mom. I was so scared and even now i'm shocked. He goes on and says that the test results came back positive for me having dyslexia. I don’t know anything about this disability, did I do something wrong? I have to go stay in his class everyday after school we do fun things like write/read words through shaving cream. That’s my favorite thing to do with him. I left school to see mom and Travis waiting for me and saying we are going to go to a friends house and skype my dad. Once i saw my dad on the computer screen I was embarrassed but I just screamed “Daddy.” I really mim him and I feel like he misses me too. I keep looking back on that talk and all of us are acting like it is just great without him and it’s not. I feel like if we told him what was really going on then he would come home, and we could be the happy family I have always wished for. I told him about my friend’s Keisha and Albert, since we move a lot because of him getting deployed he’s very happy for me to have friends at my new school. I remember when me and Travis said our goodbyes and I just wish I could give him a big hug through the screen, I think Travis does