Type Racer

I just found another really cool website called TypeRacer.com! It's a really fun place where you can race with other live people on the site and you type quotes from books, movies, songs, or even plays. It's really addicting and the website even gives you a MPH score and it tells you which place you came in. You can even make an account, if you'd like that better than being a guest. Type Racer is so much fun!

Sony Vaio W

Today I got a new notebook laptop. It's a pink Song Vaio W and has a webcam. It's really cool and easy to use. The Vaio W is very light and it about ten inches across. It's my first laptop and I'm really liking it. If you're thinking about getting a laptop, definitley consider the Sony Vaio W.

Electrify Your Strings

There's a man named Mark Wood who used to play with the Tri Presbyterian Symphony. He is doing another Electrify Your Strings program in Harrison. The elementary schools, middle school, and high schools in Harrison will be doing a concert with him on February 6, 2010. We're going to dye our hair different colors and wear fun clothes. The songs we'll be playing are: Yellow Submarine, Strings Will Rock You (it's just We Will Rock You), and Hoedown. I'm really excited for the concert which will be at the Harrison high school.

Decorating Cakes

I recently found something really fun to do on rainy days. Decorating cakes! It lets your creativity go wild and you can be very precise with your details. I found that it's easier to have a replica of the real object. If you are doing a Coke cake, take a real Coke bottle to copy from. It's really fun but you have to be patient. Always sketch out your cake on paper before starting, in case you make a mistake.

Up

Up is probably my favorite movie ever. It won an award for best animated film of the year in 2009. The big idea in Up is to always be kind to others and to be optimistic. This great movie with Edward Asner and Jordan Nagail is great for all ages. It's sad, but Russel and Mr. Fredrickson have an amazing adventure in Paradise Falls. No matter where you see Up, you'll love it, but 3-D is the best.

5 Best Apps

1. Doodle Jump is an awesome game where you try to jump up to the top of the screen and you can buy it for $0.99

2. Light Bike is a free app that is very addicting and you have to not crash into any other of the bikes but or hit their lines
3. Google is probably the most hand app ever invented; you can talk to it and it recognizes you voice and does a search on the web
4. The Moron Test is a very tricky but fun app where it asks you questions and you see how smart you really are
5. Spin Art is an app where you can create your own amazing pieces of art- art that has been spun by you and it's only $0.99

Spanish Fiesta

Yesterday was the last day of Spanish classes for the fifth grade. We celebrated with a party or in Spanish, a fiesta! Everyone was responsible to make something that comes from a Spanish-speaking country. There were a lot of delicious things like flan, churros, chips with salsa, tacos, enchiladas and so much more. Everyone had a lot of fun down in the school cafeteria. We had music playing and there was a lot of talking in Spanish, seeing how good we'd gotten before moving onto Italian. The fiesta was a lot of fun and all the food was a huge success.

Mary Poppins

Last weekend, I went into New York City. We went to go see the Broadway show, Mary Poppins. It was really good and all the other kids loved it too. The scenes are very realistic and there's a big doll-house thing which they use as their house, but you can see every room at a time. The actors and actresses are very good and they're costumes were amazing. At one point, Mary Poppins comes soaring through the crowds and she's holding that umbrella. The children have a lot of fun with their new nanny and so does Mary. It's a very good show that I'd recommend to almost anyone I know.

Paper Ornaments

Here's how to make an exciting and colorful paper ornament:

1. Chose your colors, the minimum amount is three and you need to have two of each color, accept one that goes in the center
2. Lay out the colors you want to use and put the single strip of paper in the middles
3. Cut the strips so that the one in the middle's the shortest and the other ones get longer and longer
4. Pick the paper up, starting on either the left or right, but NOT the middle
5. Hold them from one end and staple the top, but still hold onto the other papers
6. Take the two colors to the left and right of your center piece and loop them around to meet up on the bottom

7. Keep doing the same process (step 6) until your ornament is finished and just staple it on the bottom

These fun ornaments can be for Christmas or even any other holiday, since you can chose the colors you'd like.

Tuck Everlasting

In school right now, we're reading this book called Tuck Everlasting. I really like it because there is a lot of description so it's easy to create pictures in your mind. The author, Natalie Babbitt, does a very good job of setting the scene. She often uses vivid details like "sunsets smeared with too much color" and "the melancholy creases folded his daytime face". The storyline of Tuck Everlasting is amazing and it feels like you're on the adventure with Miles, Jesse, Mae, Tuck, and Winnie!