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April 16, 2010 @ 10:17 AM 3 Comments      




These are cute and funny! The first two are of my own two cats even! Enjoy!! :-)

Pictures from:

http://rulingcatsanddogs.com/contents/funny-pics/page-3/large-files/funny-kitty-picture-sniper-kitten-cat-holding-rifle-saying-dogs-beware.jpg

http://www.funnycatpix.com/_pics/jazz_hands_cat.jpg


April 15, 2010 @ 10:32 AM 0 Comments      

I woke up one morning and everything was green. It was an odd sort of green land. Of course that’s only what I could tell from the little green bedroom I had woken up in. There was a green mattress with green bedding, a green side table with a green vase and two little green flowers in it. But in the midst of all this green there was a gold closet door. Almost like, from the color it was important. This was one of the many things I had scanned through when I had woken up from my very faint dream. That was only until I noticed how strange this land really was. So I made a quick decision to go and investigate.

As I settled my feet on the ground I noticed a key, a golden key. I thought it might become useful so I tucked it into my purple pajama bottoms. I kept walking over to the door. When I got close enough to realize the real deatail on the door I noticed a small key hole in the middle of the left side. I quickly took out the golden key I had found and used it to open the golden door.  After putting the key into the lock I turned to the left and jiggled the doorknob. Nothing. Then I turned the key the opposite way and turned the doorknob slowly. The golden passage clicked open. As I pulled it wider and wider, closer and closer to me, I noticed that the dark, green bedroom was getting filled with light. Finally the heavy door was all the way open and I was just standing there staring into a bright green world, but before I took my first step in I took one deep breathe and, Instantly all the thoughts from the time I woke up to now came flooding back into my head. Waking up to green, seeing the golden door the first time, finding the key, opening the golden door, and now seeing this bright new land in front of me. So I walked right through that door nothing would stop me now.

I stepped out into the green grass, I felt it in between my toes. To me it looked empty, except then I noticed the green people on the green background filled with green trees and bushes. They were little green (of course) people and they all seemed to be working on something, trimming the trees, loading wood into a pile, it was almost like it was a busy beehive. If beehives were green! I had only walked a couple steps and they all noticed me at the same time. Shot their heads up all at once. One very old one that looked like he was supervising all this work, waddled over to me and silently took out a piece of paper and wrote out in messy handwriting “What are you doing here?” I thought about responding and saying ” I don’t know” but I wasn’t sure if they could hear. I couldn’t see any paper or writing utensils anywhere so I just thought that I would give it a shot and just speak to them.

So I said what I had planned to in the beginning.  I said, “I don’t know.” It looked to me like they heard because the older one began writing again. ” Well then help us prepare for St. Patrick’s Day by working with us.” He wrote.

” What is your name?” I asked so I could at least refer to him as a proper name.

” Johnathan, the leader Lepercaun.” He wrote again on the small piece of paper which was now running out of room.

” Ohh, so they are lepercauns. I had read about them in a story but I obviously never thought they were real short people.” I thought to myself. ” Okay what should I do?” I asked Johnathan. He wrote back with a million other lepercauns behind him quickly taking out a notepad and writing different jobs.

” Choose” Johnathan wrote on his. I scanned through the millions of tiny notebooks in the air. One caught my eye. It said ” Sewing costumes” I nudged my way through the crowd of little people until I got to the young lady that supported the notebook that I saw.

” This one” I said to the lady. She pulled back down the notebook and wrote,

” Come with me, by the way my name is Martha”

I followed Martha into a little shop that had a “Tailor” sign above it. When I walked into the small store I immediatly noticed how cluttered it was with many different sizes, shapes, and colors of fabric there were scattered around. It looked like they had been working in there for days. Next I noticed two little girls behind the counter that were sitting at two different sewing machines. They were sewing little green sequins onto green skirts and dresses. I didn’t feel like taking the effort to learn their names, since I probably wouldn’t need to know them. I then turned back to Martha when she tugged on the back of my shirt. I turned and looked down at her. She was holding a big book that said “Manual” on the top. Martha handed it to me. Inside there was pages and pages of information from operating the sewing machine to making the St. Patrick’s Day costumes. From the looks of the sewing machines they looked like ones I already knew how to operate so I walked behind the counter and took a seat at one of the sewing machine tables far away from the little girls. (since that was the only available one) I turned to the section in the manual Martha gave me that talked about how to make the costumes. The first one it showed was a regular T-shirt with sequins on it. I had never put sequins onto anything before. This would be interesting. Then I saw that down at the bottom of the page it said ” If you don’t know how to sew on sequins, just give it to someone who does.”  Then I remembered the little girls I had saw when I first came in, so they must know how to sew them on. I started sewing my first costume (shirt) and it had only taken about twenty minutes. Already knowing how to use the sewing machine easily helped too.

Eventually it ended up taking me about four hours to sew at least twenty full costumes, as in shirt and pants or shirt and skirt. I was told to stop by Martha. She then took all of my work and gave it to the little girls at the other sewing machines, so that they could start sewing on the sequins. I just watched over their shoulders for a little bit hoping to see that its not as easy as it sounds and make me look like the dumb one. Soon, out of the corner of my eye I saw Martha take out her writing pad. She wrote, ” Thanks for making the costumes. Now we can send you home. All your work here is done and so is ours.” The way she said it, she made it almost seem like the already knew I was coming and that it was like some type of lesson. But really the only thing I learned was that one crazy dream can change your life forever.


March 31, 2010 @ 10:25 AM 4 Comments      

These are the cutest puppies ever. They are just pictures but still so cute. See if you can guess which kind of puppy each one is and comment if you can! :-)


March 30, 2010 @ 9:56 AM 1 Comment      

Witch and Wizard

By: James Patterson

Witch and Wizard is my favorite book. I like how at the end of the book everything tied together. Witch and Wizard is about a brother and sister that find out that they are a witch and wizard. Then they get taken away from their parents in the dead of night and are taken to a jail just for kids! After being stuck in jail and then an old hospital. They finally escape. Then its up to them to save more of those innocent kids from jail by going to the extremes with their powers… But when fear comes over them that their parents might not be alive or they are also trapped in the jail they have to choose between the helpless children and their parents they just can’t decide. See what they will choose when you read Witch and Wizard.


March 26, 2010 @ 12:17 PM 2 Comments      

My Haiku
My Haiku

 

This is my haiku that was a project in our classroom. We wrote them on a watercolor wash. We used a calligraphy marker to write the words and a Japanese bamboo brush to draw a simple picture.

My Haiku is:

Awaken by birds

Flapping all day and all night

Migrate for winter