Here’s our final interview with Bluffton third graders for the 2012-13 school year. We talked with Jonah Brown (Mrs. Kingsley’s class), James Buxton (Armstrong), Micah Minnig (Raeburn), and Ian Reed (Bogart).

What’s your favorite subject?
Jonah: Math. I like it.
James: Math. I like to play with a whole bunch of numbers.
Micah: Lunch. I like to eat food.
Ian: Gym. I like to work out.

How will the fourth grade be different from the third grade?
Jonah: There will be books for homework. There will be homework that you write on paper. There will be 100 division facts.
James: There will be chapter books with no pictures. There will also be different numbers of people in classes. It will be harder than third grade.
Micah: Bigger lunches.
Ian: It will be harder. More division and more multiplication.

Tell me about a new sport that you might invent.
Ian: Brain activity. You run around and think what others are thinking.
Jonah: Totem soccer. You play it on stilts. Kick the ball into the goal but you have to really balance yourself.
James: Frog ball (everyone laughs). You toss frogs at people.
Ian: Stickball. You take a stick and carve it and take a golf ball and try to hit it with the skinny bat.

How long can you hold your breath?
(Everyone tries it)
Ian: 20 seconds.
Micah: One minute or something.
James: One minute.
Jonah: 40 seconds.
(After taking a breather, the interview progresses.)

If you could add some new equipment to the playground, what would you add?
Ian: Sketch ball. Using invisible pencils you’d make something and it pops into a real thing.
Micah: Stickball, or a golf field.
James: A sandbox.
Jonah: A trampoline with 10 on it at a time.

How long would it take to cross the universe?
Jonah: That’s impossible.
James: It never stops.
Micah: You can never count all the way to the end.
Ian: You could never find it.

What’s your favorite all-time movie?
Ian: Water boy. It’s a football movie and the water boy dies but they still remember him.
Micah: Bandslam.
James: Halloween 1. There are 10 altogether.
Jonah: The Harry Potter series stuff.

What’s at the center of the earth?
Jonah: Melted rocks and lava.
James: The same, but also gemstones.
Micah: A little space ball that you can’t dig around. Bedrock.
Ian: Bedrock, lava and rocks.

If you could be a bird what would you do?
James: I’d fly until I passed out.
Ian: I wouldn’t have to go to school.
Jonah: I’d fly really high. There would be nothing to bother you except for being hunted, airplanes and windmills.
Micah: It would be stupid to be a bird.

At this point in the interview a fire drill occurred. We will be back in 10 minutes. During the drill the boys each asked if we would be able to finish the interview.

Did you expect that fire drill?
All: No.

What’s your favorite smell?
James: Chocolate chip cookies.
Ian: A clean house.
Jonah: Bleach. It’s a good smell.
Ian: Gasoline, but it’s toxic.

If you were to add one subject to study in the third grade would that be?
Ian: Science of the Pacific. We’d study the ocean.
Jonah: Science of fire. We’d study wildfires.
James: Tornadoes and gemstones.
Micah: Trying to get out of school (everyone laughs).

If there’s one thing in this world that you could solve, what would it be?
Ian: Keeping bad guys from robberies.
James: Trying to solve how and why tornadoes form and why.
Jonah: How lava got there in the first place.

What do you want to be when you grow up?
James: A storm chaser.
Micah: A specialist in eating food.
Ian: A miner.
Jonah: A zookeeper.

Thanks for talking with me. Sorry about the fire drill. You may go back to you class.

Note: All third graders interviewed this year received an Icon book mark pen until we ran out of pens. After that each student received an Icon pencil.