The first day of school can be tough no matter who you are.

• noun

• adjective

• preposition

• adverb

Tags

CCSS.L.1.1F

CCSS.L.2.1E

CCSS.L.K.5B

For Jordy, the Child Ninja, the first day was a terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad, day.

• noun

• pronoun

• conjunction

• preposition

Tags

CCSS.L.4.1E

CCSS.L.7.1A

CCSS.L.9-10.1B

To start things off, he woke up on the ceiling, which always makes his neck hurt.

• adjective

• pronoun

• adverb

• noun

Tags

CCSS.L.2.1E

CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.3.1G

The heater was on, and since heat rises, he was sweating like a baked ham.

• adverb

• preposition

• verb

• conjunction

Tags

CCSS.L.3.1A

Then when he flipped down, he bonked his head on the bedpost and stumbled backward into his science project that was sitting on the edge of his desk.

• pronoun

• conjunction

• preposition

• interjection

Tags

CCSS.L.1.1I

CCSS.L.K.1E

e had stayed awake far too long working on his science project that was sitting on the edge of his desk.

• adjective

• adverb

• preposition

• noun

Tags

CCSS.L.3.1A

His teacher hated students who got F's, and now he was going to disappoint his teacher, his parents, and his Great Uncle Flynn, who believes in his soul that Jordy is going to save the world one day.

• adjective

• verb

• adverb

• conjunction

Tags

CCSS.L.1.1G

CCSS.L.3.1H

CCSS.L.5.1A

CCSS.L.5.1E

Jordy picked up the pieces of his project and tiptoed down the stairs, where he stepped on his little sister's roller skate.

• conjunction

• adverb

• adjective (article)

• pronoun

Tags

CCSS.L.1.1F

CCSS.L.2.1E

CCSS.L.K.5B

Apparently, the skate was large enough for a ninja carrying a science project to slip on and tumble down the stairs.

• noun

• preposition

• adverb

• pronoun

Tags

CCSS.L.3.1A

His mother opened the front door at just the right moment. Uggg!

• adverb

• interjection

• conjunction

• preposition

Tags

CCSS.L.5.1A