A FUN Song

Here is a song that is by my favourite band, FUN!
This song is called Some Nights.
If you really listen to it carefully, it'll make you wonder what the meaning of it is.
We did this in class, talked about the meanings of songs.

I'm not quite sure exactly what it means-well nobody really does.
But what I think so far is that he/she is talking about the nights that happen and how they are so bad for him/her, and how much he is struggling to go through them!
Leave a comment, and tell me what you think the meaning this song is?
 Here's the song:

A Video For You!

Hi,
Here is a song that is related to Harry Potter.
So if you like Harry Potter, you'll like this!
Hope you enjoy!!!!
It actually recaps a lot of the story, don't you think?

My teacher made an great point!!!!! It's the same guy doing a duet with himself! I didn't know that, Did you?

A Book For You To Read.

If you are looking for something to read, here's what book/series I recommend:
I recommend to you, The Series Of Unfortunate Events.
This series is about a family, The Baudelaire family, Violet-The oldest kid, Klaus-The 2 oldest, Sunny-a baby, and there parents.
What happens in this book, is there parents die, and they are filled with fortune but they aren't aloud using the money until Violet comes of age. They are sent to a uncle far away they are never heard of, and this uncle's name is Olaf, Count Olaf. He wants to steal all there fortune, but the Baudelaire kids are to smart for him and has out-smarted him many times!
Now you know what the main idea of the book is. You will have to read the books to find out the rest. Also there is a movie of the series of books 1-3.
I have not read the whole series, only up to book 5. This book is a very cool book, I think because the author  Lemony Snicket leaves a lot of stuff for you to figure out!
If you are wonder what the book are called here is the list of book names (in order 1-13):

1. The Bad Beginning 
2. The Reptile Room
3. The Wide Window 
4. The Miserable Mill
5. The Austere Academy 
6. The Ersatz Elevator
7. The Vile Village
8. The Hostile Hospital 
9. The Carnivorous Carnival 
10. The Slippery Slope
11. The Grim Grotto
12. The Penultimate Peril 
13. The End

Lemony Snicket is just a pen name for Daneil Handler, I did not know that until now!

Lemony Snicket wrote the series between 1999-2006

Magic Tricks That Confuse Your Eye's

On Sunday, me and my sister put on a magic show for our family, they are still confused how we did some of the tricks.

Here is 2 magic trick that we presented. 

Hope you enjoy!

Were you confused by them???? I actually learned them on the internet, you should try doing some magic tricks at home.

A Cool and Quick Craft!

  If you are looking for something to do around the house, here is a really neat craft that me and my sister did.
All you need is:
-paper bags
-construction paper
-buttons (optional) for the eyes
-and glue
What you do for this craft is make a bunch of different parts to a sock monkey and glue them onto a paper bag. Then you can add lots of details like, earrings, bows, capes, etc. Oh, and make sure that you add a personality to your puppet! And there you have it, that's how to make your own sock monkey paper bag puppet, it's that simple! And if you want to, you can make a different animal like, lions, turtles, pigs, etc.
Here are some examples of what me and my sister came up with !

Our sock monkey puppets, chillin' out together!!

Anne (my sock monkey puppet)

Super Monkey (Julianna's sock monkey puppet)

We had so much fun making these, and I hope you will to!

Electives!

At our school, on Friday December 21st we did art electives. There were a bunch of different categories like    
poetry, computer art, watercolour, building flying junk sculptures  etc. I went to poetry, we wrote some poems together passing them around in a circle each adding parts, it was a really good way of doing poetry!!!!!! I hope we do it again ,because it's a really fun!!!!

New Years Goal !!!

I hope you have all been thinking on what your new years goal is, I sure have!!!!! My New Years goal is to read 99 books recommended for kids, I got the idea from this section of the newspaper a long time ago. It's going to take a long time, but hopefully I can finish it by Dec 2013. If you guys are interested in reading some of the recommended books here is the list (not in order) :

Picture Books

Animalia, Graeme Base

Joyful Noises,Poems for Two Voices, Paul Fleisman

Gossie, Oliver Dunrea

I Took the Moon for a Walk,

We the Kids: The Preamble to the Constitution, Carolyn Curtis

What Shall we do With the Boo Hoo Baby, Cressida Cowell

Puss In Boots, Fred Marcellio

An Egg is Quiet, Dianns Hutts Aston

Grumpy Bird, Jeremy Tankard

Interrupting Chicken, David Ezra Stein

No No Yes Yes, Leslie Patricelli

Yoko, Rosemary Wells

What do we do With a Tail Like This?, Steve Jenkins

Llama Llama Red pyjama, Anna Dewdney

Hi!,Fly Guy!, Tedd Arnold

Peek-a-who?, Nina Laden

Owl Moon, Jane Yolen

Tea with Milk, Allen Say

Are you my Mother?, P.D. Eastman

Blackout, John Rocco

The Magic School Bus at the Waterworks, Joanna Cole

Counting Kisses:A Kiss and Read Book, Karen Katz

Birds, Kevin Henkes

My Truck is Stuck, Kevin Lewis

Diary of a Worm, Dorren Cronin

The Lion and the Mouse, Jerry Pinkney

Head, Shoulder, Knees and Toes, Annie Kubler

Dear Juno, Soyung Pak

Harvesting Hope: the story of Caesar Chavez, Kathleen Krull

Living Sunlight, Molly Bang and Penny Chisholm

Smile!, Roberta Grobel Intrater

Through My Eyes, Ruby Bridges

The House at Pooh Corner, A.A. Milne

Sylvia Long's Mother Goose, Sylvia Long

Martin's Big Words, Doreen Rappaport

Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do you see?, Bill Martin,Jr.

Not a Box, Antoinette Portis

The Composition, Antonio Skarmeta

Good Night, Gorilla, Peggy Rathmann

What do People do all day?, Richard Scarry

Moo, Baa, la la la, Sandra Boynton

Zen Shorts, John J. Muth

The Little Mouse, the Red Ripe Strawberry, and the Big Hungry Bear, Don and Audrey Wood

Freight Train, Donald Crews

Swimmy, Leo Lionni

The Runaway Bunny, Margret Wise Brown

The Mitten, Jan Brett

My Rotten Redheaded Older Brother, Patricia Polacco

Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!, Mo Willems

The Little Engine that Could, Watty Piper

Corduroy, Don Freeman

Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale, Mo Willems

When Marian Sang, Pam Munoz Ryan

Pat The Bunny, Dorthy Kunhardt

The Dot, Peter H. Reynolds

Madeline, Ludwig Bemelmans

The Very Hungary Caterpillar, Eric Carle

Frog and Toad Are Friends, ArnoldLobel

The Giving Tree,Shel Silverstein

Green Eggs and Ham, Dr. Seuss

Where the Wild Things are, Maurice Sendak

The Snowy Day, Ezra Jack Keats

Goodnight Moon, Margret Wise Brown

Where The SideWalk Ends,Shel Silverstien

Team Moon:How 400,000 People Landed Apllo11 on The Moon, Catherine Thimmesh 

Chapter Books/Novels

Charlotte’s Web,E.B. White

A Wrinkle In Time,Madeline L'Engle

Harry Potter and the philosopher’s stone,J.K Rowling

The Diary of a Young Girl,Anne Frank

Anne of green Gables,L.M Montgomery

The Wind In The Willow,Kenneth Grahame

Tuck Everlasting,Natalie Babbitt

Bud Not Buddy,Christopher Paul Curtis

The Phantom Tollbooth,Norton juster

The Giver,Lois Lowry

Where the Mountain Meets The Moon,Grace Lin

Black on White,Tana Hoban

Are You There God?It's Me Margret,Judy Blume

The Secret Garden,Frances Hodgson Brunett

Diary of a Wimpy Kid,Jeff Kinney

Matilda,Raul Dahl

The Lion ,The Witch and The Wardrobe,C.S.Lewis

Hatchet, Gary Paulsen

Sarah,Plain and Tall, Patricia MacLachlan

The Lightning Thief, Rick Riordan

The Bad Beginning,Lemony Snicket

The Invention of Hugo Cabret, Brian Selznick

The Maze of Bones, Rick Riordan

Esperanza Rising, Pam Munoz Ryan

Bridge to Terribethia, Katherine Paterson

Holes, Louis Sachar

Mrs. Frisby and the rats of nimh, Robert C. O'Brien

Lincoln :A Photography, Russel Freedman

Ivy + Bean, Annie Barrows

Tales of a fourth grade nothing, Judy Blume

Rules, Cynthia Lord

a Single Shard, Linda Sue Park

The Adventures of Captain Underpants, Dav Pilkey

Have you've read any of these books?, If so, what do you think of them??????? What books would you add to this list??????? What books would you take off this list?????????

The List Of 99 Hundred Books For Kids!

Also If you guys have any suggestions on what order I should read the books in, Chapter books first  picture books first, etc, I would love to hear them.

I've also figured out that I would only have to read an estimated 1 book every 3 days, since their are 365 days in a year. Plus if I did that, I would have 65 days of reading what ever I wanted too.

I hope some of you guys are going to read some these books!!

Oh and by the way............Happy New Years/2013