Snow in Spring!

                                                          Oh, silly Colorado! =)

Heidi by Johanna Spyri

My friend Lauren let me borrow this great book.

 It's about a orphan girl named Heidi who lives with her Grandfather in the mountains. But then one day Heidi's Aunt Detie comes to take Heidi to live in a mansion with a very rich family away in the city. Heidi becomes friends with Clara, a girl in a wheel chair. She is happy playing and reading with Clara, but she also misses her Grandfather, the mountains, her friend Peter, and Peter's Grannie and mother. Heidi is very homesick, and starts sleepwalking and crying herself to sleep at night. The doctor realizes this, and says that Heidi must go back to Grandfather in the mountains for her health.

Heidi is overjoyed to go home. But she misses Clara too, and Clara misses Heidi. So Clara's father decides to let Clara go to the mountains to visit. The fresh air, fresh goat milk, nature, and beauty of the mountains make Clara healthier. She even learns to walk! Yes, this is a great book that you should definitely read!!!

St. Patrick's Day!

Okay, so, in my last post (Judy Moody collections box) I thought that St. Patrick's Day was in February. Actually, it's this Sunday. Sorry 'bout that!

Here is a post with lots of St. Patrick's Day fun in it:

St. Patrick's Day homemade chocolate gold:
You will need:
Chocolove (click to see what this is)
Gold foil
Green permanent marker 
Cookie sheet
Parchment paper
Instructions:
Have an adult help you melt the Chocolove in a pan on the stove. Then pour the melted chocolove onto a cookie sheet that has been covered with parchment. Make sure to only pour a little melted chocolove in one place. Pour small amounts of chocolove all over the parchment. Then place the cookie sheet in the freezer, and freeze until it's just frozen solid.   Take off one of the chocolate circles with a spatula, and wrap it in gold foil. Then use the green marker to draw a four-leaved clover on it. It doesn't have to be perfect. It just has to be fun to unwrap and yummy to eat! =)

Leprechaun food:
Here are foods that leprechauns love! (I think. These are just guesses that seem about right.)
Pickles 
Deviled eggs
Sauerkraut
Pickled beets
Coffee ice cream
Chocolate
Maple candy
Pickled cabbage
Corned beef
Ham
Fried eggs
You can have a Leprechaun dinner party with these foods! (Or maybe a Leprechaun feast. That seems more leprechaun-like to me.) With green and gold carnival beads as party favors!

                                            HAVE A GREAT DAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Judy Moody Collections Box

First of all, I'm so, so, so sorry that I didn't do a St. Patrick's Day post!!! I forgot that it was in February! Anyway, here's how to make your own Judy Moody collections box. And when I say collections box, I mean a Judy Moody box that you can put your collections in.

You will need:

1 plain, undecorated, craft box

Packing paper

Large beads, in shapes such as animals, stars, swirls, squares, letters, triangles, and insects

Silly-Bandz (optional)

Glue

Colored glitter glue or just colored glitter

Crayons, colored pencils, or markers

Erasers in fun shapes (optional) 

Band-Aids with animals, stars, swirls, squares, letters, triangles, or insects on them

A computer and printer

Directions:

First, go to www.judymoody.com. Next, click on Way-Not-Boring Fun Stuff To Do, then click on Downloadable Fun. Click on Judy Moody Stamps, and print the them. Cut the stamps out. Cover the craft box with packing paper. But make sure that you can open the box first before you glue the packing paper on. You don't want to cover the opening with packing paper! After you've done that, glue on your favorite Judy Moody stamps. After you've done that, you can glue on the beads, Silly-Bandz, and erasers, and stick on the Band-Aids, draw on fun doodles with the crayons, colored pencils, or markers, and top it off with the colored glitter! 

Collections you can start:

Eraser collection

Stamp collection

Silly-Band collection

Gum-ball ring collection

Wrapper collection

Rock collection

Shell collection

Greeting card collection

Postcard collection

Ask your parents first if you can collect these items before you start collecting them!  

P.S. In case you were wondering, I collect all of the above.  

 

Photos by: Zoe Brozyna

Valentines Day

                             Happy Valentines Day!!!

                                              ♥

                  Here are some fun Valentines Day crafts and books:

 Home-made Valentine gifts:

You will need

Pink and red construction paper

Scissors

A stapler

Glitter glue (optional)

Stickers (optional)

Crayons, markers, colored pencils, or pens

Stick on jewels (optional)

Paper doilies (optional) 

First, cut out two hearts out of the paper. Next, staple them together, but leave room to open it on the top. After you've done this, decorate the "bag" with the things suggested above. You can come up with your own decorations too. Finally, write Happy Valentines Day! Love/From, (your name here) and fill it with fun Valentines day things, such as:

A Valentines Day cookie 

A plastic, heart-shaped ring

Valentines Day chocolate 

Candy hearts

Valentines Day erasers

Valentines Day stickers

A mini Valentines Day pencil

A Valentines Day bracelet

My favorite Valentines Day books:

Juliet the Valentine Fairy

Fancy Nancy: Heart to Heart

Fancy Nancy: Secret Admirer

Cam Jansen: The Valentine Baby Mystery

Happy Valentines Day, Mouse!

Be My Valentine, Amelia Bedelia

Love, Ruby Valentine

A Flower Fairy Valentines Day

P.S. To see what books these are, click on them.

Chapter 6: A discovery

Charlotte took the hand off and whipped around. Paige was standing there. "I thought you stayed at home." Charlotte said, frowning. "And why did you just-" "Um, I'm sorry, but can I borrow Charlotte for a minute?" Paige said quickly. "Thanks." Paige grabbed Charlotte by the arm and started pulling her away from Elizabeth, Flora, Aunt Olivia, Mama, and Mr. Elkon.

 "Paige, what on earth-" Charlotte started to say, but Paige interrupted her again. "Charlotte, WERE YOU JUST GOING TO ASK HIM IF HE KNEW WHY HE'S ON THE SECRET CODE???!!!" She screamed. Charlotte thought for a minute, then replied, "Well, yes, I think I was, but now that I think about it, I'm glad you put your hand on my mouth so I didn't say it. I just realized that would have been really stupid of me." 

 Paige nodded. Then Charlotte asked, "So what are you doing here?" "Oh." Said Paige. "I decided that I wanted to come over to the surfing classes place, The Splashing Surfers, and fill in a form to start taking classes."
Ding! Went a little light bulb in Charlotte's head. Paige had just given her a brilliant idea!

"Hmmm..." Charlotte said. "That's good idea. I'm going to ask Mama if I can take classes too." So they headed back towards The Splashing Surfers school, and saw Mama and the others standing on the beach. Oh man! Charlotte thought. Jack Elkon had left. 

"Mama, can I please take surfing classes too?" Charlotte asked as soon as they had reached them. "Sure." Mama answered. After Charlotte had filled out a form, Mama asked suspiciously,"Honey, what were going to ask Mr. Elkon?" 

"Ummm..." Charlotte said. She looked frantically at Paige for help, since Mama couldn't know that she was going to ask Mr. Elkon about the secret code. Unfortunately, Paige didn't know what to do either. So Charlotte glanced at the sea, hoping for inspiration. 

Luckily, she did get inspiration. Charlotte pretend to fall on a wave as it crashed against her ankles, and 
Mama forgot about wanting to know the answer. "Oh are you all right??!" She cried, and helped her out. "I'm fine." Charlotte said, and, when they weren't looking, winked at Paige.
         
The next day, Charlotte and Paige set off for their first surfing lessons. Charlotte's plan was to spy on Mr. Elkon during the classes. After an hour, the lesson was over and Charlotte hadn't spotted Mr. Elkon anywhere. Disappointed, she and Paige started to walk back to Aunt Olivia's house.

"Wait!" Charlotte exclaimed. She'd spotted Mr. Elkon, walking into The Splashing Surfers building. "What is it?" Paige asked, stopping. "Err..." Charlotte said. "I, uh, have to go to the bathroom. You go on ahead." "You sure?" Paige replied. "I can just wait for you." "No,no, that's okay, I'll meet you back at Aunt Olivia's house." Charlotte said. "Okay. See you soon!" Paige answered, and left. 

Charlotte made sure Paige was a good distance away before going in. She looked around just in time to see Mr. Elkon turning the corner. Quickly but quietly, Charlotte followed him. Mr. Elkon went into a coat closet. Now what on earth does he think he's doing?? After waiting for a minute, Charlotte tiptoed to the closet door and looked inside. Mr. Elkon had disappeared. Carefully, she throughly touched the floor. Suddenly, a very large loose board flipped open, and there was a slide on the other side. Aha! She thought. A trap door. Well let's see where this leads.

And she slipped down the slide. 



        

Drama

                                                  DRAMA book review

Callie Marin and her best friend Liz are on the stage crew at Eucalyptus Middle School. Callie's the set designer. But things start getting kind of hectic, when Callie meets two cute twin brothers, her crush's X-girlfriend won't leave her alone, the other stage crew members aren't getting along too well, and the faux cannon that Callie's working on isn't cooperating. As if that isn't enough, she and the stage crew can't sell any tickets for the play! 

And I really like the drawings!
Note to anyone reading this review: READ THIS BOOK! IT'S GREAT!!   

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http://www.amazon.com/Drama-Raina-Telgemeier/dp/0545326990/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1357089323&sr=1-1&keywords=drama+by+raina+telgemeier