Chicago

First we went to the field muesuem.  When we were there we looked at alot of differnt stuff like rocks, knives, Ancient Americas, Sue and the Eygptians.  We took a special tour on the Egyptians and we saw mummies and their things.

Shedd Auquarium was really cool, we looked at a bunch of differnt stuff their.  We saw lots of things from the Amazon, Australia and other hot spots where weird fish are.  We also got to see a dolphin show!  That was really cool, there were also Bueluga Whales and a Red Tailed Hawk!  That is all about our trip to Chicago. 

Field Muesuem and Shedd Aquarium

I really want to go to the Shedd Aquarium.  I really want to see lots of sharks and other sea creatures, I have always loved sea animals.  That is what I am looking forward to on our trip to Chicago.

Rules and Things

1). One thing is that never lie to a professor, they know when you’re lying.

2). The second thing is you never feed the dog your food, it throws up and your parents find out.

3). The third thing is never tell a girl’s friend when you are about to date her, the friend always rats you out.   P.S Never happened to me.

4).The fourth thing is never go to the bathroom in a Porty Potty, there are mean kids that sometimes shake the Porty Potty when you’re in it.   P.S Also never happened to me.

5). The last thing is never go to Africa because there are lions and they will eat you if you don’t keep your eye out. 

Valentines Day Folktale

Twenty Valentines

by Marion Mallette Thornton

"Oh," said Millicent, watching the postman's blue coat up the street. "I wish he would come here day after tomorrow and bring me twenty valentines!"

"Will he, Mitty?" Jimmy-Boy asked eagerly.

Millicent shook her head. "'Course not, Jimmy-Boy. I know only six little girls; I couldn't get but six."

Aunt Sara was listening. She was Millicent's very prettiest auntie from the city, and she nearly always found a way to help.

"How would you like to send twenty valentines?" she asked.

Millicent laughed. "Why, auntie, I couldn't send but six, either. I don't know any more girls. Besides, I haven't any more valentines."

"Suppose I should show you how to make twenty valentines, and find twenty little girls to send them to; would you like, to do it?"

Millicent came running from the window with Jimmy-Boy close behind her.

"I'd love to, auntie! Please show me right away."

"Love to, auntie, right away," echoed Jimmy-Boy.

"You can help," Aunt Sara promised. "You can bring the mucilage while Millicent gets the scissors."

When they came back with these, Aunt Sara had a pile of gay pictures on the table, and some sheets of thick white paper.

"We will cut this into hearts," she said, "and you can cut out these birds and flowers and paste them on. Let's see which can make the neatest and prettiest ones."

Jimmy-Boy had to be helped a little in cutting out pictures, but he had learned to paste neatly at kindergarten, and his valentines were so pretty it was hard for Aunt Sara to choose between his and Millicent's.

It was such fun making them that Millicent almost forgot about the twenty little girls they were to go to.

"Who are they, auntie?" she asked when she remembered. "Where do they live?"

"Away down in the city," Aunt Sara explained. "Each one in a little white bed in a Children's Hospital. I don't know their names, but I'll send them to the superintendent, and they will get them safely on Valentine's Day. You can't think how happy they will be."

"Oh, I just like to try to think!" cried Millicent. "I'm glad we made them so nice."

The twenty valentines went off in their white envelopes the next morning.

On Valentine's Day the postman brought Milly six from the six little girls and two from Jimmy-Boy and Aunt Sara. They were lovely, and there were some for Jimmy-Boy, but they did not please the children nearly as much as a letter that came a week later.

It was from the hospital superintendent and said: "I wish you could have seen my dear little sick girls smile when they saw their pretty valentines. They looked at them all day and slept with them under their pillows at night. One tiny girl kept hers in her hand. They all send a big ‘Thank you’ to Millicent and Jimmy-Boy."

"Next year we'll begin sooner and make forty," Millicent decided; "it's lots more fun than getting them, isn't it, Jimmy-Boy?"

Bud, not Buddy

Bud is an African American foster child that lives a the Foster Home in the Great Depression.  He has to go to the Amoses house, they are really mean.  He wants to go back to the Foster Home though.                         

Text to World

I am doing a Text to World about The Hunger Games and the Afghanistan War, when Katniss (the main character) has to fight for her life in an arena.  I can relate that to Americans in Afghanistan fighting the people of Afghanistan.  In The Hunger Games Katniss has to be with one other person, and the Americans are grouped in troops.  In The Hunger Games there is only 24 people, in Afghanistan there are hundreads of the enemies.

15 Things That I am Thankful for....

1.  For good education
2.  For my family
3.  For my dog
4.  For my friends
5.  For my great country
6.  For my town
7.  For my sking equitment
8.  For my home
9.  For the millitary
10.  For the patriots that freed our country
11.  For my state
12.  For my quads
13.  For my food
14.  For my big yard
15.  For grandparents