Wednesday, November 15, 2006

The Birthday Blog

I made a birthday card for my friend and my mom thought it looked cool. She said I should put it on my blog...so that's what I did!



I made a control apanel with message on the top. The message was made with the electricity that I drew.



I drew a little mouse with a sign that said "From: Brendan" (shown above).

The card came with a present that was an "Angel Wars" movie. We're going to drop it off to him today because it's his birthday.

Wednesday, November 01, 2006

Jamestown

We went on a field trip to Jamestown last Friday. We got to see the ships, the fort, and the Indian village. We went because we were studying Jamestown in history.



I took this picture of the outside of the hull of the Susan Constant. We also went on the Susan Constant. We saw tight beds, the captain's room, and canons down below, but we didn't see any chamber pots.



I took this picture also. It is part of the ropes of the Susan Constant. I took a picture of the ropes because I thought that they looked pretty cool.



This is a picture of me scraping out a canoe. The Indians burned out the middle of burned down trees (they burned them down instead of chopping them down) to make canoes. They burned out the middle so that it would be softer to scrape out with shells.



My mom, my sister, and I made a diorama of Jamestown and this is it here. The little people up on the corner of the fort are me and my sister. Mom cut us out of a photo of Jamestown when we were trying on armor at the fort and made the figurines. The thing in the other corner is a wigwam (an Indian house). We made a little felt baby to put in the house on the bed made of little felt pelts. The two people in the Indian part are his parents. The dad's sleeve got torn off in a fight with a bear. Then he hunted down the bear and got his pelt which you can see by the wigwam. Beside the wigwam, there is a little pelt stretcher. In the front of the wigwam, there is a canoe being burned out. We put a little bit of mud at the end to keep it from burning all the way. We made corn by sticking toothpicks in black Play-Doh and then put paper corn and leaves on with glue. The ships in the back are the ships that I drew of the Susan Constant and the tip to the Godspeed.

The diorama was fun to make and the trip to Jamestown was too.

Halloween!!!

This is me in my Halloween costume. I am a ninja. I picked out a ninja costume because I thought it looked cool and I got to get the swords. My sister was Cleopatra (not shown - see my mom's blog).



I got a whole candy bucket full of candy - it was up to the top because there was a Juicy Juice in it! One lady had little bags of candy with three pieces in it. I also liked trick or treating because I got to see everyone else's costumes. My friend, Alex L. had a mask with a little pump that was shaped like a heart and when you squeezed it, (fake) blood came down the mask.

When we got home, we swapped candy. Here are the rules for swapping candy:

  1. First , you have to sort your candy by type (like any kind of Sweet Tart candies together)
  2. You can't swap lollipops (because they are priceless).
  3. Laffy Taffy's can be swapped for small bags of Sweet Tarts.
  4. I traded two pieces of candy for my sister's Wild Berry Chewy Lifesavers.
  5. You have to take turns.
  6. If we don't agree on a swap (which is usually what happens), we try to swap for another thing.

This is us swapping candy - in full motion. My sister still has on her costume.


This is my loot:

I forgot to add that it was very hot - 73 degrees at least.