Snacks

Chocolate milk,

crackers,

smoothies

chocolate cookies,

salami sandwiches,

boiled eggs

fruits

cucumbers

crisips

kettle corn

muffins

honey yogurt

my favorite 

after school

snacks

Guy Fawkes

 I made up chords for poem about Guy Fawkes.
 Here is the poem about Guy Fawkes with the chords I made for it:
G               G                   D7     D7
Remember remember the 5th of November,
G                 G                D7
Gunpowder, treason and plot,
  G        G
I see no reason why
D7                     D7
Gunpowder and treason
          G    D7 G       GGG
Should ever be forgot

Happy Birthday, Finny

On friday 8th October it was my brother's bithday!!! When we got up on the day, I first went to say
"Happy Birthday, Finny!!" Next we quickly got ready for school and after that, we had breakfast. Then we went to school. When it was assembly we both got a bronze award . Shortly it was time for bithdays but Finny did not get a birthday card. Luckily I had told Mr. Whitfield that it was Finny's birthday on friday so, at hometime Finny got a birthday card. Now it was time for his party! When we got home the people came. When 3 families came we opened the presents then, jumped in the pool! Soon all the families came. After a while in the pool it was time for dessert. Then I made a treasure hunt ! Only a few of the kids did it. The prize was a crystal. Back in the pool we went! Then it was time to go home. The party was over!

Flippers

The tooth fairy has been hovering, hovering, hovering over 23b. Three teeth in one month.

Meow Cats

One day I started looking at books about cats (besides cheetahs!) and then I started to be more interested in cats than I was. There are so many different kinds -- some main breeds and breed groups. For example in the Asian Breed are Tabbies and Asian Smokes and a Red. My favorites of all of the cats are the Chestnut Classic Tabby and the Lavender Classic Tabby and the Chestnut Silver Classic Tabby. These are all part of the Oriental Short-Hair breed.

They are my favorite because they look beautiful, they look like they are good hunters, and I looked up on the internet and they say the tabbies are the best cats to have for pet.

I can't have a cat because our dog chases them away and also because mommy's allergic to them.

We did have cats. They were the Bombay breed (or something that looked like Bombay!)

Too much Muppets? Too many Muppets?

My pool was so green, when Kermit jumped in I couldn't even see him!

My dog is so thin that yesterday his skin split in half!

My tent is so small that a mouse can't even fit in it!

I once saw a book that I could not even read - the font was size one!

My rubber is so useless that it can't rub any kind of car!

My friend is so fat that he EXPLODED today!

One day I went to school and saw a sign that said: Please go pee-pee on your socks for warmth!

My house door is so small that an ant can't fit through it!

Explainer:

I wrote these funny jokes because we watched the Muppets almost every night last week and I like Fozzy Bear! He tells very funny jokes. One day me and Finny thought we could make our own Muppet Show. Finny was Kermit and I was Fozzy Bear. We both thought that the guest could be a little bird on a stick. It didn't have a name - we named it Miss Bird. Miss Bird had a very short act. I was next and I told the jokes I wrote up above.

MADNESS

New York felt cold. It was winter.

The Mad Scientist was working on a project. It was lunchtime but he wasn’t eating. He, Disco, was too busy for lunch. He was sitting on the floor in his laboratory. In his right hand was a pencil. In his left hand was his science notebook. He was starting a new science project and it couldn’t wait.

The top of the page had the following words: I DON”T KNOW.

Why would Disco write “I DON”T KNOW.”

Until that day, Disco really thought he knew everything but something happened in the morning to tell his he did not.

He felt cold. His muscles would not let him write. When he tried to write the title of the experiment his muscles only wrote “I DON”T KNOW.” He had lost control of his hand. He wanted to write “Why do some people lose control of their hands?” but he had lost control of his own. He could not even move his hand; it was just moving on it’s own.

He had been sitting on the floor just looking at the words on the paper for one hour when he remembered that his hand was doing the work. Disco was doing the wrong work. Disco wanted to write “I don’t know” but on accident he was trying to write “Why do some people lose control of their hand?” That was supposed to be the subtitle. Now he had already done his test.

Science Week Part II: Scientific Research

Can you guess what Owen's science experiment was for his science fair project?

Science Week Part I: Mad Scientist

Guitar strings and things

I am taking guitar class with four other kids. Finn is taking guitar

lessons with another class. Miss Holly is our teacher!

All guitars have 6 or 12 strings and all guitars have a fret board which can be called the 'neck'. I like to call it the neck. They also have frets. A fret is what you put your finger behind. The main parts of a guitar are: head, neck, and body. In the head are the tuning pegs and part of the strings. In the neck there are most of the strings, the nut, position markers, and the frets (fret wires). In the body there are two strap pegs (if you have them) the soundhold, a part of the string, the waist the bridge and that's it.

You should know how to hold a guitar. You should hold it by putting the body on your lap with the soundhole facing out. Then take your left hand and put it at the top of the neck. Your fingers should curl around the bottom to the front and your thumb should stay in the back. You right hand plays the strings with your pointer finger or with your thumb. If you have a pick you can use your pick. A pick is something that looks like a large, not that pointy fingernail. You hold a pick between your thumb and your pointer finger.

The order of the strings go like this: E - A - D - G - B - E. You can remember them by saying this sentence: Everyone Asks, Do Goats Burp Everyday. If you tell someone and they don't know how to remember by the sentence you should just tell them just to take the first letter of every word in the sentence. We made up a new sentence: Elephants And Dogs Go Biking Everywhere. There is also another one and this is how it goes: Every Animal Does Go Burp Everyday.

BYE!

Hoopty Doopty

Do you know what a nonsense poem is? Well, a nonsense poem is a poem that doesn't make really any sense! I'll tell you my nonsense poem:

Hoopty Doopty sat on a wick.

Hoopty Doopty had a great fick.

All the ning's hoors

and all the ning's boors

Couldn't put Hoopty together again!

See, it doens't make any sense!

BBC Network Africa interviews Manchester’s newest and youngest recruit: Owen Jennings

BBC Network Africa interviews Manchester’s newest and youngest recruit: Owen Jennings

BBC: Owen, it’s quite amazing that Manchester United found you at your Saturday Football practice at LICS. How did they first hear of your spectacular playing on the pitch?

OWEN: My friend Rooney (who plays for ManU) came to Zambia to check out the LICS Saturday soccer players. They were looking for young stars.

BBC: But Owen, you’re seven years old. What kind of performance did Rooney see? What did you do to make him think you would be able to play for a Premiership team?

OWEN: I scored one goal by doing a back kick into the goal. I also scored another one by heading it in. At the end of the match it was two-nil.

BBC: That’s an impressive game for a young chap. What are your other great football skills?

OWEN: I can hit the ball with back of my foot into the goal.

BBC: I don’t understand....do you hit it while running backwards.

OWEN: No! Someone passes it to me while I”m in front of the goal and I turn around and hit it in -- the goalie thinks I’m going to turn around and shoot so he stares at me but he’s not ready to get the ball.

BBC: That’s a very creative move. Does this trick have a name?

OWEN: I just thought of doing it at that match that Rooney watched! I guess would call it “the Tricker.”

BBC: Like “Trick-or-treater?”

OWEN: No, just the “the Tricker.”

BBC: When you head up to Manchester for the next season, do you know what number will be on your uniform?

OWEN: No, but I know that I’m going to be a striker. I’d like to be number 7 but that’s how old I am so I’d like to be number 5.

BBC: Why 5?

OWEN: Because that’s what number I was in the match that Rooney watched.

BBC: And I think number 7 is already taken.....

OWEN: Me too! Michael Owen has number 7!

BBC: How are the ManU guys going to tell you, Owen, and Michael Owen and that other Owen apart? That’s three Owens on one team?

OWEN: I am the smallest and my last name is Jennings, so Jennings will be on my jersey.

BBC: Thanks, O for the interview. Is there anything else you’d like to tell your new ManU supporters around the world?

OWEN: Yes.

BBC: What would you like to tell them?

OWEN: Uh, we’re playing a match on TUESDAY, that’s tomorrow. WATCH IT!

EPILOGUE, Tuesdays match commentary, the opening minutes of Manchester United versus Blackburn

"Are you ready, Owen?" asks Rooney excitedly.

"Yeah" says Owen as he's warming up.

"One more push up then, Owen, and we'll get on the pitch!"

The match is starting. Manchester has the first possession.

"Here, Rooney!" Owen shouts, passing his teammate the ball. Rooney takes the ball and passes it to Gigs, who hears Owen: "Pass it back! "

Gigs sees that #5 is in front of the goal, and he's ready to do....THE TRICKER!

Owen quickly turns his back to the goalie and when Gigs passes Owen the ball, the Blackburn keeper is watching, but he's not ready to catch the ball which is already flying through the air and into the net!

"GOOOOOOOAAAALLLLLL!!!!!"

World Cup Song

These are the words for the World Cup 2010 song. You download the video from YouTube or Itunes or watch the one I added in above. (mom and I figured out how to embed videos today!)

I am learning to sing the song and I want to learn to play it on my guitar. The singer, K'naan, is a Somali artist who lives now in Toronto, Canada. The football version of the song is called "Wavin' Flag: Celebration Mix." The original song is called "Wavin' Flag." The original song doesn't have anything to do with football but the World Cup has different words and the words are about the beautiful game....soccer, that is.

It goes like this:

Oooooooo, ooooooooo, oooooooooooo,

Oooooooo, oooooooo, oooooooooooo,

Give me freedom,

Give me fire,

Give me reason,

Take me higher,

See the champions,

Take the field now,

Unify us, make us feel proud,

In the streets our,

hands are lifted,

as we lose our,

inhibitions,

Celebration!

It surrounds us,

Every nation,

all around us,

Singing forever young,

Singing songs underneath the sun

Let's rejoice in the beautiful game

and together at the end of the day

we all sing:

When I get older, I will be stronger,

they'll call me freedom,

just like a wavin' flag.

And then it goes back...

and everybody will be singing it!

and we all will be singing it!

Haiku

1.

In the rocky waves

a beautiful ship sailed by

as the morning passed

2.

In a dark forest

the calm wind blew a maple

after the night fell

3.

Brown grass covers me

I reach up to the blue sky

all in the morning

Haiku is a kind of poetry but it's very different than poetry. A haiku poem has five syllables at the first line, seven syllables at the second line and five syllables at the last line. As you can see, the poem is three lines. It is a poem about ONE time, not like: now, later, it just happened, after that, or last week. The lines answer these questions: Where? What? When?

Safari Hunt

Happy New Year!

It has been a looooonnnnnnggggg time since I wrote on my blog. I made a deal with Mommy that I would write something new every week as part of my literacy and ITC homework.

My present to everyone for the New Year is a card game that I made mostly by myself called "Safari Hunt." See if you can download the nine page PDF using one of these two links:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/24669115?secret_password=j6s64ej3bqij5539wxq

http://www.scribd.com/doc/24669115/Safari-Hunt-Low?secret_password=j6s64ej3bqij5539wxq

Do you want to know about this game? I just kept asking my mom to make a present on the computer and finally mom let me and that's the idea I had. I was just thinking of the game and how it would be. I had to find all the pictures using Safari/Google Images and I had to learn how to make the card shapes and fit the photos on the card shapes in "Pages" (the Mac version of Word). Also I had to learn a lot about the animals. Then, I made up the rules -- it's a little bit like "War"-- and I did the typing myself, even after I smashed my finger in the door. OUCH!

*We uploaded the lower-res PDF using "Scribd." This is a bit of an experiment, so please let us know if it will print OK, if the resolution is fine, etc. It was originally a massively large file....20MB. I think our next ITC lesson will be how to manage jpeg file sizes and managing documents. It turns out that trying to convert something back to a manageable size after-the-fact is a total headache.