A Trip to the Zoo

I wrote a spelling story and I had to use six adverbs and eight spelling words. This story is realistic fiction.

When Ben woke up the next morning he remembered how much fun he had going to the zoo. Yesterday, when Ben was handing in his math homework, his teacher announced that they would be going on a field trip to Lincoln Park Zoo.

After the announcement, everyone in the room went bezerkers. Anna Hallway started screaming at the top of her lungs, Jeremy Bonjo started dancing, and Julia Vero (well you get the point). Everyone except Ben. Ben thought it was a little over the top because all it is is just going to see animals (geez).

2 hours later, Ben stepped on the bus that smelled suspiciously like smoke, (blame the bus driver) and headed off to the zoo. Ben brought a notebook and pencils because his teacher told them they would be taking notes on the animals we saw.

But when they reached their final destination it was much larger than Ben had expected. Maybe this wasn’t going to be so bad he thought. The first animal they saw was the monkeys. They swung from branch to branch enthusiastically. Ben thought they were funny. The second animal they saw were the seals. His mom had given him 2 dollars to spend and he used those 2 dollars to buy fish for the seals. He threw the fish into the air and the seals caught the fish in their mouths and quickly ate them. Third they saw pandas. A sign told them that these were some of the only pandas on earth. One panda slowly lumbered over to some bamboo and gnawed on it.

Fourth, we saw some giraffes. Ben got to touch them. Two kids fought over whether or not they should feed a giraffe a sausage. The giraffe awkwardly walked over to a tree and munched on the leaves. Last, they saw a snake. He was a diamond back rattle snake. He could snatch up a rat so fast you would miss it if you blinked. You had to keep him inside his cage because he was poisonous.

So at breakfast Ben’s mom said, “What did you do yesterday?” And Ben told her about how he went on a field trip and all of that. Though he didn’t tell her about him not wanting to go to the zoo because she was zoologist.

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On Strike

This is a story I wrote back in January for spelling homework. I had to use spelling words in a story. The spelling words are bold.

One day the number ten was walking along a sentence when he stumbled over a wrong decimal point. Forty saw him and said “four hevens sakes are you okay?” “I’m fine.” said ten. “I just hate it when kids put wrong decimals.” And the two numbers walked all across number city. Until they met ninety wheeling her bike back to her garage and then asked her, “Why are you wheeling your bike instead of riding it?” and ninety said “Oh, that, nothing much, I just ran over a wrong decimal point.”

“Really, I stumbled over a wrong decimal point!” said ten. “I just hate it when kids use wrong punctuation” and the three walked and wheeled around number city.

On two thousand thirteen ten’s dad walked in. Ten asked him why he had a bruse on his knee and he replied “I couldn’t keep my New Year’s Eve resolution by trying to be more careful on the sidewalk but today I tripped and brused my knee.”

“But pop, it isn’t our fault it’s the kid’s fault” said ten. “They keep on putting wrong decimal points.”

So, kids have you learned your lesson? If not here it is. Never put wrong decimal points!

Oh, look, now the numbers are on strike!
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The Bathtub Tsunami – written by me of course

I had a homework assignment to write a story using ten of my spelling words and six possessive pronouns. And I did it! My spelling words are bold in the story.

The Bathtub Tsunami

Once my mom left the bathtub running there was no turning back. At the time she was thinking about her overgrown plants outside. But then she realized that it was almost midnight and so she went to bed even though she still had work to do.

But when she woke up it was already 7:25 and she had to be at work at 7:30. She rushed out the door and got a speeding ticket for going to work at 40 miles per hour. When she came home she noticed that her plants were watered. “It’s almost like they watered themselves” she said. The moment she opened the door a giant wave of water fell on top of her.

Nearby, a baseball game that was in overtime had the final catch of the game until the wave of water had taken the ball away and took it all the way to the crowd. It was a grand slam!

Pretty soon the wave got to the Midwest and flooded a school in Illinois. The students were taking their pretests on prefixes. But because of the wave they got pushed outdoors and all of their tests got drenched and they all got Fs.

Last, the wave came to a library and soaked all of the books. The way my mom paid the people is by giving them all prepaid gift cards and returned her overdue library books to the librarian.

The End

Can you guess what my spelling strategy was for this week? Take a look at the bold words and tell me what they have in common in the blog comments.

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Algebra+2x+b=….?

Today was the most complicated day of my life at school. I learned how to figure out this problem. 🙂

formula:x+y=90°

I know it makes your eyes bleed but I am going to tell you how to do it.Sadly, I have to tell you how to do it to make this blog post interesting  😦

1. Look at this example (the answer is 67°)

Boom! I just gave it straight to you:) 🙂

Two field trips in two weeks…crazy I know!

Field Trip #1

I went to the art museum for a field trip last week. I saw one of my favorite paintings, A Sunday on La Grande Jatte, by Georges Seurat. I also learned that one of the paintings was the biggest painting in the museum and it was also painted by one of the students that went to the Art Institute school, Georgia O’Keefe. It was called Sky Above Clouds IV. She had to paint it in her garage while laying down to get the bottom parts. I couldn’t show you the pictures because they are copyrighted but you can click on the links to see them. She must have had a really big garage because if I remember correctly the painting was 24 feet wide and 6 feet tall.

We had a tour at the Art Institute and the first painting we saw was of Hercules fighting the Hydra by Gustave Moreau. Click here to see the painting: Hercules and the Lernaean Hydra.  I think you know what’s coming up – another Greek mythology story. Yeah I know they are boring to listen to but you might learn something so I’m going to tell you the story anyway. So one day Hercules was sent out to slay the Hydra. And on his way he was trying to think of a way to defeat him. But here’s the catch. Every time you slice off a Hydra head (he has seven) two new heads sprout from the old neck. So he couldn’t just slice off all the heads. If he did that he would have 14 heads to deal with. He thought he would shoot a head off with his arrow but then he would have the same result. But before he could think of his plan he got to the Hydra’s lair and he didn’t have time to think of the plan. But as he was fighting he noticed the sun coming up and the sun god, Apollo, was his cousin. So he asked his cousin to set each neck on fire every time he sliced a head off so no new heads could grow out of that neck. And his plan worked. And they all lived happily ever after.

See what I mean? It’s boring. But it teaches you a lesson. Always think before you act.

Field Trip #2

Tomorrow I am going on another field trip to the Adler Planetarium and I had two field trips two weeks in a row.

I’m going to tell you how that happened. So my teacher was planning to watch a show at the planetarium in November but then she was informed that you can go watch a free show at the planetarium in the winter months so she moved it to February. But then another teacher offered her to go on another field trip to the Art Institute but I don’t think she told her the date until the week before so she had already got everything organized and she couldn’t do anything about it so we just had two field trips in a row.

Questions for my readers

1. If you have ever been to the Art Institute please let me know what your favorite painting was (or statue or sculpture, etc.)
2. Who is your favorite artist? Answer the poll below:

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Gods, Gods, Gods Galore

Help me decide which Greek God I should do a school project on. I’m not sure if I’m going to do this school project but I’m pretty sure I am so I want to be prepared. Reply to this blog post to tell me why you voted for a certain God. If you don’t have a good reason I’m not going to count it!