Continued Readings of January

The Cool Crazy Crickets by David Elliott, Paul Meisel (Illustrator)
Digging Up Dinosaurs by Aliki (Illustrator)

I read the following but don’t remember the authors.
Six Pigeons
Dinosaurs
Hurricanes
Tornadoes

More Boxcar Readings

More from the Boxcar series by Gertrude Chandler Warner which I have read this month:

Mike’s Mystery
Lighthouse Mystery
Houseboat Mystery
Old Motel Mystery
Campout Mystery
Mystery Cruise
Mystery of the Singing Ghost
Mystery in Snow
Mystery of the Dog Show
Mystery of a Purple Pool
Mystery of a Missing Cat
Mystery On Stage
Mystery of the Stolen Boxcar
Mystery of the Lost Mine
Hurricane Mystery
Outer Space Mystery
Panther Mystery
Soccer Mystery
Mystery of the Stolen Sword
Boxcar Children
Amusement Park Mystery
Mystery at the Fair

Field Trip to the PLANETARIUM

The third graders were studying planets and because I am in a mixed class we all got to go to the planetarium. On our way, I sat next to my best friend Leon. Leon’s mom was driving us for this field trip. We were going to San Mateo College Planetarium. At first I was curious about the planetarium but when we got there it looked very boring, it was all white on the outside and there was nothing to do. We had to wait a long time outside before we got in.

Finally when we got in it looked very cool – it looked like a theater and the theater part was a dome. But everything we did was not cool at all. We were given special glasses which are used by astronomers. These glasses help identify the kind of gas a star is made up of – neon, helium and hydrogen are some of those gases. Then we watched a movie which showed How the Universe began – Did you know that the whole universe was created with a ‘BIG BANG’? Then it talked about all of the galaxies and planets in our Solar System. It also talked about the asteroid belt and the stars. I thought it was really interesting to learn about the stars but everything else I didn’t care much about. I also have a planet puzzle which I never liked.

My Piggy Bank Pops and Graduates

One day my dad told me and my brother to race to a thousand dollars to get more dollars. I knew that my piggy bank wouldn't hold a thousand dollars - so I got a bank account inside Citibank.

The first time I deposited $140 which I got from my dad and my grandmother. I plan to save all my money inside the bank.

Saving money is a good thing and I hope you will do too.

My Field Trip to Woodside Store

My second field trip from school at Woodside Store was the best! (My first field trip before I started blogging was Redwood Grove Nature preserve). After reading in class we got to go in the school bus to the Woodside Store. My whole class went and I sat next to Leon, my friend.

Once we got there we had to wait long to do the activities, so we ate our snacks. Outside we started playing with toys that children played with when the store was made. When we finally got in we watched a slide show on all the people that came before us. Then we did a treasure hunt where we had to get the right object that was hidden in the store. Then we split up into three groups for three activities - being a shopkeeper from before, cutting wood shingles, and washing clothes like before. We first washed clothes and hanged them to dry. Then we got to be shopkeepers and get all of the things on the customer's list unlike today where the customer has to bring their own stuff. If you wanted a shirt you would have to take length and width and then give it to the shopkeeper - shopkeeper will give it to San Francisco who makes the T-shirt. Then we went into Doctor Trips and dentist office and we got to see some real teeth that were found underneath the store. Then we made shingles outside to make the roof of the house or store by smashing a big piece of wood on to a saw then the saw cuts a shingle off. After that we had to go back to school.

I really liked the store and the activities because it was Kreative just like me!!!!

This Week's Readings

"Just So Stories" by Rudyard Kipling

Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner - The boxcar children lived in a boxcar when their parents died. No one knew wher ethey had come from.
Here are the books I read in this series:

the mystery on stage
the old motel mystery
the mystery cruise
the hurricane mystery
the old hotel mystery
the houseboat mystery
the mystery of the lost mine
the mystery of the seceret message
the mystery of the stolen sword