How many weeks would it take for Carlos to earn enough money to buy the bike seat How should Bean know Poor Carlos Was he riding his bike without a seat Ouch Maybe if he walked the dog more he'd get more money What was the matter with his grandmother Had she broken her legs Or was she just old And what about the dog Was the dog old too Did Carlos have to pick up its poop Three dollars wasn't very much for that Bean thought Carlos should get a different job Maybe in an ice cream store That's what Bean would do If you work in an ice cream store you make money plus you get to eat ice cream Okay people Ms. Aruba Tate called You should be finishing up Finishing I'm still on the first problem Bean yelped 8
Ms. Aruba Tate clapped her hands It's time to come to the rug for a special presentation Marga Lee you are our Colorado today Everyone but Marga Lee groaned Marga Lee put her hands in the air and yelled I rock The rug in Ms. Aruba Tate's classroom was a big problem It had a picture of the United States on it It was supposed to teach the kids where all the states were But the kids didn't care where all the states were The only state 10
I ROCK they cared about was Colorado because it had the Rocky Mountains in it That meant whoever sat on Colorado got to yell I rock One day fourteen kids tried to sit on Colorado at once and Drew had to go to the nurse's office to lie down After that Ms. Aruba Tate made a Today's Colorado Is chart Even though none of the other states were nearly as good as Colorado it was still hard to choose the right one Bean and Ivy squished into Michigan together Eric wanted to be North and South Dakota 11
