Oh, by the way, I need to go out and build a snowman now, it’s life or death!
Have you seen the commercial for Snuggies? They added sleeves to a blanket, and presto, it sells.
I’m introducing Whingles.
Tired of balls stuck in trees? Tired of throwing rocks at the balls stuck in trees?
Whingles is your solution.
With this special offer of one Whingle and side-by-side instructions of how to use it, you won’t be going back to the store to get more balls.
Plus, all your neighborhood friends will be jealous.
My Whingle is a newly designed model. It uses soft breezes under its wings to glide up and knock a ball out of a tree. Plus, if you sharpen it, you can use it to write words.
This special offer is not available in stores; however, you can order it directly from the manufacturer at the low price of $3.00, plus shipping and handling.
If you would like to get a Whingle, please post a comment to make your request.
Here are some You Tube Videos about Praying Mantises:
Baby Praying Mantis Being Born
Praying Mantis - Healthy Praying Mantis on hand.
Nature's Perfect Predator: Praying Mantis - Absolutely terrifying to watch, this Animal Planet video does a great job of describing how
Female Praying Mantis Eats Male After Mating
Sick Praying Mantis - He's so cute!
Praying Mantis Artz - This video shows you how to draw a Praying Mantis, but I used the instructions in How to Draw Insects by Barbara Soloff Levy.
The Lightning Thief
This first book introduces the Lighting Thief series about a boy named Percy who finds out that all the Greek myths that he's read were real. He finds out that his dad is Poseidon, god of the sea, and someone has stolen Zeus' master lightning bolt.
Zeus claims that the thief is Percy, so he must find the real thief and return it before the Summer Solstice when the gods have a big meeting. This lightning bolt is important because it is Zeus' source of power, and if he doesn't get it back, there will be a big war between Zeus and Poseidon.
I like this mystery fantasy adventure, especially when Percy was sword fighting Ares, the god of war. This was one of my favorite scenes because it was exciting fun.
This book does not refer to the Greek myths as much as the others in the series, but it does introduce the Greek gods who are just like what you hear from the Greek myths. This book brings the ancient Greek myths to life.
The Sea of Monsters
This story relates to the myth of the cyclops, like the one in Ulysses. In the original myth, Ulysses has to escape from Calypso's, the cyclops, island.
Percy needs this golden fleece to cure Thalia's tree because the tree makes the magic borders that protects his half-blood camp from monsters. Half-bloods are kids who's one of their parents is a god. Percy is a half-blood who lives at the camp because monsters attack half-bloods who don't live there.
This is an exciting addition to the Lightning Thief series.
The Titan's Curse
Artemis, goddess of the hunt, is captured by the Titans, the gods who existed before Zeus and Mt. Olympus.
Percy has to gang up with Artemis' hunters and save Artemis. Bianca becomes a hunter, and joins Percy in saving Artemis. However, this leads to problems between Percy and Nico.
The Titan's Curse is a very good addition to this series.
The Battle of the Labyrinth
Kronos wants to take down Camp Half-Blood before he tackles the gods at Mt. Olympus.
Now, Percy must find the maker of the maze so he doesn't tell Kronos how to navigate the maze.
I think this is an amazing addition to the series.
Conclusion
This is one of my favorite series, but there is still one more book to come. The final book in the series, The Last Olympian, is coming out May 5, 2009. I can't wait!
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But, one year, one of the kids, named Timothy, is too sick to move. So, Mrs. Frisby, the mother, has to visit the rats of Nimh, because they are the only ones who can move the house. They're called the rats of Nimh because they were abducted by a research lab that made them a lot smarter.
This book is about getting along, and making friends.
Protagonist: Mrs. Frisby, who is trying to save her son, Timothy. She makes friends with the crow, and gets along with the crow and the rats. Mrs. Frisby makes friends with crow when she finds him tangled up in wire, and she untangles him before the cat can get him. The crow suggested that Mrs. Frisby go to the owl for help with her son, and the owl sent her to the rats.
At first, the rats were unhappy and avoiding everyone. They were unhappy because they had to steal grain to eat and live. But, they helped Mrs. Frisby because her husband had helped rescue them from NIMH. As they help Mrs. Frisby, the rats find out about a great danger, the exterminator. They help themselves as they help her. Finally, the rats learn to adapt to their environment in the tunnel under the farm and to live with their new friends.
Antagonist: Dragon, the cat makes it difficult for them to move the house, do anything, and to get along.
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Theseus and the Minotaur - written by James Ford and illustrated by Gary Andrews.
Crete and Athens, two Greek cities, went to war. Afterwards, Athens had to make a sacrifice so that they wouldn't get totally destroyed. Every nine years, they would have to send in seven girls and seven boys to be the Minotaur's lunch.
Theseus, the son of the King of Athens, volunteered to take the place of one of the people that was being sacrificed. Theseus went into a maze to kill the Minotaur, who is half bull and half human. Before he went into the maze, he found a girl that gave him some yarn. He used the yarn to navigate his way through the maze. In the end, he found his way through and killed the Minotaur.
On his way back home, he forgot to switch the colors of the sail, so when his father saw that it was still black, he thought his son had died, so he jumped off a cliff. When Theseus returned, he was made king because his father died.
I like this version of the story because of its gruesome but funny pictures.
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster, and illustrated by Jules Feiffer, was a really good book. I was so engrossed in reading it that I read it in one long morning. I recommend it for all ages.
It's about a kid named Milo who gets sent a tollbooth that leads to another world. The main characters' names are Tock, Milo, and Humbug. The whole book is basically a pun on words.
At one point in the book, when Milo has just gone through the tollbooth, he met this man called "the whether man." Milo asked him whether it was going to be sunny or rainy. The Whether Man answered, "How should I know?" Then, Milo said, "Well, you're the weather man." "I'm not the Weather Man, I'm the Whether Man. Don't you think it's a lot more important to know whether there is weather, rather than what kind of weather it is?"
Then, Milo asked him, "Is this the right road to Dictionapolis?" The Whether Man said, "I don't know if there are any wrong ways to Dictionopolis. If it's not the right road to Dictionapolis, then it's the right road to somewhere else."
I love this book because the verbal puns made me laugh.
Feel the sarcasm in the music?
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A philosopher is a person who asks a lot of questions and studies things. They ask why a lot.
Aristotle was a philosopher who lived long ago, 384-322 BCE. He lived in Ancient Greece. His father was a doctor, and Aristotle ended up studying the physical world. He dissected more than 50 different species and wrote up descriptions. Aristotle wrote a book called Physics and he also said that the reason a feather falls slower than a rock is that it is lighter and it has more air resistance. I can see why Aristotle became so famous because he studied so much!
From Philosopher Jokes:
A boy is about to go on his first date, and is nervous about what to talk about. He asks his father for advice. The father replies: "My son, there are three subjects that always work. These are food, family, and philosophy."
The boy picks up his date and they go to a soda fountain. Ice cream sodas in front of them, they stare at each other for a long time, as the boy's nervousness builds. He remembers his father's advice, and chooses the first topic. He asks the girl: "Do you like potato pancakes?" She says "No," and the silence returns.
After a few more uncomfortable minutes, the boy thinks of his father's suggestion and turns to the second item on the list. He asks, "Do you have a brother?" Again, the girl says "No" and there is silence once again.
The boy then plays his last card. He thinks of his father's advice and asks the girl the following question: "If you had a brother, would he like potato pancakes?"
The three above jokes were contributed by Owen Herring.
He attributes the third to Elliot Sober.
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Retold Felicity Brooks
A prince named Jason went on an adventure to find the golden fleece. The current king made him do so to become king because he was greedy.
In his travels to find the fleece, he visited a king and killed the harpies that terrorized him. He also fought two bulls made of bronze that breathed fire and killed people. He went through two rocks that clashed together and destroyed ships. And he married Medea, but awhile after he met another girl that he wanted to marry, and Medea got angry and tried to kill him.
There are a lot of other books that I would rather read, but if you have to pick between Greek myths, then I would choose Jason.
I declare October 4th and 5th are Calvin & Hobbes Days. On these two days, you celebrate everything about Calvin and Hobbes.
Today, I dressed up like Hobbes and had fun. I got a water pistol and squirted my sister. She did not like it, and bit me. I already climbed some trees, and I'm waiting for my dad to get back so I can pounce on him.
Here are some of the things you can do on Calvin & Hobbes Day.
1. You play the national sport, Calvin Ball, where the only rule is that you can't play the same way twice.
2. You steal cookies.
3. You have to get in loads of trouble.
4. You have to be very specific about how your parents should make your PB&J sandwich.
6. You have to throw water balloons at the kids in your neighborhood, preferably girls named "Susie."
7. You have to climb loads of trees.
8. Get a water pistol and squirt everyone.
9. Play with a bunch of cardboard boxes.
10. Read a bunch of Calvin & Hobbes to get your own ideas.
Find out more about Calvin & Hobbes on The Funniest Comic Strip - Calvin and Hobbes.
I used the Animoto Website to make this video about games I like, mostly FunKeys. It was between easy and hard to do.
It was hard to get the pictures, but I did a Google Image Search. Then, I uploaded them by using "Save Picture As" and then on Animoto I just hit the upload button. Clicking "upload" was the easy part.
This is a picture of me next to an ammonite. An ammonite is a creature that lived in the ocean long, long ago in the time of dinosaurs. When it got fossilized, all the flesh and meat and tentacles rotted away, and the shell is all that's left.
I first found out about this good book while playing on Fun Brain. It's a really good book about a kid named Greg, but it's not exactly a book. It's a diary. Although Greg likes to say it's a journal, because he doesn't write about his feelings like his mom would like him to.
Greg lives in a world of stick figures. In this book, the cheese touch is like a plague.
I highly recommend this book to kids who want a good laugh.
Thank you for the pants. They look so good on my legs. My friends will be so jealous that I have my very own pair of pants. Thank you for making this the best Christmas ever!I thought that was pretty funny.
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Anton van Leewenhoek is a famous scientist. He was born in 1632 in Holland. He was the first person to look through a microscope because he invented the microscope. His microscopes were basically really powerful magnifying glasses. Still, he was able to see microorganisms. And, he was the first person to see bacteria. We have learned a lot from him.
We found this picture and pictures of his microscope on the Antony van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723) website.
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Is this a Spectrobe? Just kidding, it's Leperdy.
Beyond the Lemonade Stand by Bill Rancic.
This is a fun book for people who want to make cash, quick and easy. In the book, it describes different money-earning stories.
I like the part where the kid earned $300 from a car wash. I wouldn't mind earning that much money!
The Thief Lord by Cornelia Funke.
This book is about two children who run away to Venice, Italy. I didn't care for the story because there wasn't that much action, and it was extremely unimaginative. It was too realistic.
I didn't like it because there wasn't any fantasy in it at all. There are a lot of runaway children in the world, and this seems to be a story about two of them. All in all, I say you should not read this book because it's extremely boring.
Inkheart by Cornelia Funke.
In this book, 12-year-old Meggie's father reads evil villain Capcorn out of a book. When Meggie finds a mysterious figure on her yard, her life changes forever.
I recommend this book for older Tweens, but I didn't really enjoy this book at all. I loved it at the beginning but I lost interest after awhile.
The 13th Warning by R.L. Stine.
It's a really good book about a boy named Lucky, and it's almost his birthday. He's thinking about stuff when his doorbell rings, and he thinks it's someone with a present. Instead, it's really old dudes warning him not to get 13 "13s" by midnight.
I read the whole book in one hour!
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Yesterday, I was at a Tea Tasting Workshop at Verdigris in Hudson, NY. I made my own tea. It's called Leperdy. They made us make up a story for it. It had to be at least one sentence long. My story was:
Leperdy regurgitated the tea.
In this picture, the store owner was showing us the different herbs that are used for making tea.
We were only supposed to choose three herbs for our tea. I chose chamomile, King Tut Lemonade, and Lemon Balm.
This is the package that I made for my tea.
I am cutting out dough to make scones. Later, we put in strawberries and butter, and we sprinkled sugar on top.
Here, I am serving the scones.
On this picture, my tea is brewing so that I can try it. I brewed it until it was strong.
On my way out, I stopped at the Tea Library in the store and did some sniffing around.
My Mom likes it that I play this game because it's educational. She says that they build logic skills. it is rele fun.
Boy grabs sled. Boy rides sled. A simple concept yields endless fun and the
latest Internet Phenomenon is born! In Line Rider the player draws their own
landscape with a simple pencil tool creating as many ramps, hills, and jumps as
they can imagine. Then they send a virtual sledder careening down the course
until he wipes out. The possibilities in Line Rider are only limited by the
player's imagination.
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