Jayden

 Jayden told us he got his name because his mom just liked the name.  She likes to call friends by nicknames so with the name Jayden, she can call him 'J' or 'Jay.'   Jayden also means "thankful" and "God will judge."

 Jayden LOVES video games, bringing one to show us.  He said he spends about 5 hours a week playing because, he said, "you know in winter it's too cold and too hot in summer."  His teacher (that's me) stopped him on that statement.

"Too hot in the summer?" I asked.

Room 5 got a laugh on that one.

He brought a plastic army guy because he told us it was just his favorite thing to do!

Jayden shared lots more with us.  He brought a bike glove because he LOVES to ride bikes a lot.  He then proceeded to show us the scrape on his arm and ones on his leg from sliding on crashing.

He had a friendship bracelet from his friend, Aiden.

I couldn't tell what one of the things he was holding was...but he won it at the local ice cream shop on the CandyMan Machine.  He told us he really likes gangsters and thinks they're really cool.  (Once again, his teacher interjected.  "Jayden, we need to talk about that!  Gangsters?"  Again, Room 5 thought it was a rather humorous exchange.

He had a magic deck of cards.  You can buy them at Target.  He loves them and told us he was "pretty muc a geek at it all!'

Jayden brought a pen because he likes to draw...and a lego guy who is a swimmer.  Jayden loves to swim and he also likes legos.

His plastic spider was to show us how he likes bugs.  He catches them, keeps a few days, and then lets them go.

When he showed us his nerf bullet, he told us that nerf was his '3rd favorite thing,.'

We were definitely entertained learning about Jayden!