Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
In third grade you have to do a few different book reports and this is my second book report. It is on Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and here is her timeline, but there will be another one on her character traits!
39 Clues
I just finest the book the 39 Clues, The Maze of Bones. There are ten books in this whole series and the cool thing is that all of them are written by all different authors so you get a feel for a different witting styles. The first book is written by Rick Riordan who wrote the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series. If you have read the Artemis Fool books, another good series, it is a lot like that. I t is about two kids who go on this big clue hunt to become the most powerful person in the world. If you read the first two pages you will end up reading the rest of the book and the whole series.
Arrow of Light Ceremony
Tonight Alexander bridged up from Cub Scouts to Boy Scouts, and received the highest award in Cub Scouting: The Arrow of Light.
I used the free iTalk application on my iPhone to record most of the ceremony, and later used Audacity to amplify the recording so it is much louder. This is the recorded, edited ceremony, which is just over 29 minutes long.
More information about the process of using the iTalk application and the free iTalk iSync program is available.
I also used my iPhone to snap photos during the ceremony.
We are so proud of you and your accomplishments, Alexander!
Alexander’s Indian name, which Shelly and I gave him together, is “Purple Shirt.” He is always wearing purple KSU shirts and sweatshirts, so this is a very appropriate name for him. Alexander also received his God and Family award tonight, which he has worked hard to complete.
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Webkinz (cheats)
If you are a Webkinz owner you would say,”I don’t want cheats they might take away my Webkinz!” But Wait! There are other ways where they don’t take away your Webkinz. In gem hunt where are the gems? Is there a rare item on right now? How do you make all the Webkinz recipes? How do you get a Webkinz Trophy?
I have all these links and more and now you can too:
- webkinz gem hunt
- webkinz curioshop tips
- webkinz secret (blog)
- Webkinz World (blog)
- webkinz recipes
- Webkinz Trophies
- CSO (curioshop items) & Rare Items
- This Month rare items (today)
photo credit: bourgeoisbee
Which star do you like better?
We don’t have disney chanel so I wattch it at my friends house. My favrite shows are Hannah Montana and the suite life on Deck. I’m inrstd in what you like. So I made a pole about which do you like Hannah Montana or Miley Cyrus.
Try this audience polling system at Poll Everywhere
The Wide State
Today after church, following a youth deacon meeting I (Dad) had in our church computer lab, Sarah and Rachel used one of the microphones to record this short, impromptu song. Rachel titled this, “The Wide State.”
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Rachel’s Splinter
Audiobooks
Lately, I have been listening to Brisinger on my iPod. When my mom or dad ask what I am listening to they always laugh when I tell them I am listening to a book. I think I can go thought it faster listening to it than reading it. I think listening to a book rather than to listen to music. I wonder what book I am going to listen to next?
A nightly spelling bee for Dad
I’m glad Alexander is in the midst of a writing assignment for school, but I honestly feel like I’m having to compete in a nightly spelling bee with all the words I’m being asked to spell now in the evenings.
It has been abundantly clear to me for several years that Alexander has similar spelling abilities to his mother: Spelling is very challenging for him. I think this stems from him not being as visually oriented in his natural learning style. I am a pretty decent speller, and I think that has a lot to do with my ability to visualize words. Even when he is asking me to spell words for his writing assignment, I have to visualize them in my mind to spell them aloud. I MUCH prefer to write down a word than to spell it out loud. Really, spelling bees are such a DUMB idea, I wish they were not so common in schools. The ability to verbally spell a word upon command is not an important “life skill.” Of course it is important to write well with correct spelling, but being able to do that is very different from being able to succeed at oral spelling exercises.
Don’t bother me Dad, I’m on Club Penguin
This was of the more notable scenes around our house this past Christmas break which I had to photograph. Rachel was playing Club Penguin.
Rachel set her protective blanket (to fend of the bright rays of the sun) herself.
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Rachel’s writing and drawing skills developing
It is amazing to see how fast our 5 year old is growing up. Last night before Rachel and I watched the movie “WALLE” together, she drew the following picture on our living room whiteboard. If you click on this image and view it on Flickr, you can read the annotation notes I added with Shelly’s help. These explain what the different parts of the drawing are, according to Rachel. She is showing a great deal of attention to detail here, and also starting to try drawing in three dimensions instead of just two.
Rachel REALLY enjoys using our family iTouch and my iPhone whenever she can, and this morning spent some time watching part of the first Harry Potter movie in the living room.
During the morning, Rachel (who is 5 but has not started kindergarten yet since her birthday is after September 1st) wrote the following note to her mother:
In case you can’t read all the words, here is the text:
Dear Mom:
Do not mess with my movie.
Love, Rachel
We can see Rachel is not yet getting the idea that text is written and read from left to right and top to bottom, but this is her best effort writing to date I’ve seen. This is great work developmentally for her age, I think.
Even more amazing than seeing her attention to detail in drawing and writing, however, is hearing her observations and questions. During WALLE, for instance, she asked me if our earth ever WAS really “like that.” (All full of trash.) We had a discussion about pollution and our responsibility to be good stewards of the earth, keeping things clean and working to pick up trash.
She had lots of other good questions during the movie which I don’t remember now. I love the movie WALLE. Like all other Pixar movies, it has important themes which are big but also simple, straightforward messages that are easy for anyone to understand. The love story here, and the journey WALLE and EVE take to eventually hold hands, is very touching. It was special to share this movie again with Rachel! How amazing we can watch a movie like this, which we own on DVD, anytime we want. That was not the case when I was growing up, before the advent of the VCR. My kids probably can’t relate to the idea that there was a time when we couldn’t listen to a song or see a movie with just a few clicks on a screen.
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Tongue-Twisters
I was thinking this week of different tongue-twisters and I would like to share some with you.
1.Five friendly friends fight for fun, Five friendly friends fight for fun, Five friendly friends fight for fun
2.Sarah sings silly songs softly, Sarah sings silly songs softly, Sarah sings silly songs softly
Wookieepedia
I am a star wars fan.
I love star wars so I found this very interesting and you will probably to. I know about wikipedia but this is different. Wikipedia does not have a lot about star wars so that is why (for all the star wars lovers) they made Wookieepedia. Wookieepedia is almost the same in every except wookieepedia is all star wars information. I hope you will enjoy this website.
I hope you are star wars fan to.
Cooking Sausage Balls on Christmas Eve
Little sister and I made sausage balls this afternoon and shared our cooking over the web via Ustream.tv.
The recipe we used for these sausage balls is available on last year’s post, “Sausage Balls: The Culinary Delight of the Holiday Season.”
Wordle
I have been having fun with wordl a free website that you will see below. I made two, one for our blog and one for my delicious account. What’s your most popular word for your blog, delicious or maybe some other site?
