My Weirdtastic School #1 by Dan Gutman

Author:Dan Gutman
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2022-11-16T00:00:00+00:00

“What are we going to learn in math this year?” asked Miss I-Want-to-Know-Everything.

“Oh, we’re going to learn about percentages and fractions and decimals and three-digit multiplication and blah blah blah blah . . .”

Zzzzzzzzzzz. Oh, sorry. I dozed off there for a minute. It’s hard to keep my eyes open when anyone is talking about math.

“But today I have a special surprise for you,” said Miss Banks.

Uh-oh. I could only imagine what kind of surprise she was going to pull on us. I was expecting the worst. But Miss Banks opened a big box and pulled out a bunch of laptop computers. She handed one to each of us.

“These are called Domebooks,” she told us. “All fourth graders in the district get them.”

“Are they free?” asked Emily.

“Yes,” said Miss Banks. “Just take good care of your Domebook and give it back at the end of the school year.”

Cool! I always wanted my own laptop so I could play video games on school time.

“These laptops are not for playing video games on school time,” Miss Banks warned us. “We’re going to use them for lots of subjects, including math. In fourth grade, you’re going to learn about mixed numbers and blah blah blah blah . . .”

She went on like that for a million hundred hours. I thought I was gonna die from old age. Finally, she told us how to turn on our Domebooks.

“These are very advanced laptops,” Miss Banks explained. “They have a built-in app that produces smells to go with certain numbers. Like when you press the number one key, the screen gives off a smell like an apple. And when you press the number two key, it smells like strawberry. It’s called Smell-O-Vision, and it’s going to help you learn math.”

I never heard of laptops giving off smells. But I guess it could be possible. They’re doing amazing things with computers these days.

“Go ahead,” said Miss Banks. “Try it.”

We all started pressing the keys on our Domebooks to see what smells came out.

“I think I smell it!” said Andrea. “It’s . . . cinnamon!”

“Me too!” said Emily, who smells everything that Andrea smells.

“The number three key smells like roses!” said Neil.

“The number eight key smells like a hamburger!” said Michael.

I pressed all the keys on my keyboard and sniffed the screen. It just smelled like a computer to me.

“I can’t smell anything,” I said.

“Put your nose right up close to the screen, A.J.,” said Miss Banks.

“Maybe you have a bad sense of smell, Arlo,” said Andrea.

“Your face has a bad sense of smell!” I told her.

But maybe Andrea was right. Maybe I don’t smell very good. Wait, let me put that in different words. Maybe I can’t smell stuff very well.

I put my nose close to the screen and sniffed for a long time, trying to catch a whiff of something. And you’ll never believe who poked her head into the door at that moment.

Nobody! Why would you poke your head into a door? That would hurt. But you’ll never believe who poked her head into the doorway.

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