Today I read a book called “Matilda”. It’s written by Roald Dahl, and illustrated by Quentin Blake. The book is about a girl called Matilda. Matilda’s family hates her. One day Matilda’s father sends her to
Agatha, this is Magnus. This is Magnus. It is Magnus and you’d better believe it Agatha. Give my Jenny back her house. Give my Jenny back her wages. Give my Jenny the house. Then get out of here. If you don’t, I will come and get you. I will come and get you like you got me. I am watching you Agatha.
Magnus is Miss Honey’s father and Agatha is Miss Trunchbull’s name. Miss Trunchbull runs away and Miss Honey inherits her father’s wealth.
Today I read a book called “Afternoon on the Amazon”. It’s written by Mary Pope Osborne and illustrated by Sal Murdocca. This book is about a boy named Jack and a girl named Annie. Jack and Annie wish to go to the Amazon. So they get on a magic tree house, and arrive at the Amazon. After getting out of the tree house, Jack and Annie start looking for something they are supposed to find. Then Jack and Annie see animals fleeing. Jack reads that there are flesh-eating ants. Jack and Annie find a river to hide. Then Annie finds a canoe. Jack and Annie get on the canoe and start drifting down the river. Jack grabs onto a vine to slow down the canoe. But the vine is really a snake. Then Annie tries to grab a log to use a paddle to steer the canoe. The log turns out to be a crocodile. Jack and Annie see a monkey. The monkey helps to pull the canoe to the bank of the river. Jack and Annie tell peanut who is a mouse to find the tree house. Peanut finds the tree house, but Jack and Annie can’t find the book that shows the place where they live to take them home. The monkey gives a mango and Jack finds the book to take them home.
Today I read a book called “the adventures of Captain Underpants” by Dav Pilkey. The book is about two boys called George and Harold. George and Harold were very naughty. They were the principal’s most disliked students. George and Harold made comics to sell at the school playground fro 50 cents. One day George and Harold did something really bad. The principal taped it on the video camera and threatened to show their parents. George and Harold did not want their parents to see the video, so they had to wash the principal’s car everyday. Then George bought a 3-D hypno-ring to make the principal give the tape to them. George and Harold hypnotized the principal into being Captain Underpants when Harold clicked his fingers with the ring on. George and Harold followed Captain Underpants into an abandoned warehouse and saw the evil Dr. Diaper. Dr. Diaper had to change and his robots tied Captain Underpants up. George and Harold switched on the self-destruct button on Dr. Diaper’s machine, untied Captain Underpants, and ran away. Harold and George took Captain Underpants to the principal’s office. George got a bucket of water and Harold clicked his fingers. Captain Underpants turned into the principal again. The principal couldn’t remember all this and told them to wash his car. The trick only worked when they clicked their fingers.
Today I read a book called “Aliens for Breakfast”. It’s by Jonathan Etra, and illustrated by Steve Bjorkman. It’s about a boy called Richard. When Richard eats his cereal he finds an alien in his bowl. The alien’s name is Aric. Aric tells Richard about Dranes. Dranes invade planets and divide every four days. There is a new boy named Dorf in Richard’s class and Aric tells Richard that Dorf is a Drane. So they try to think of ways to destroy the Drane. The alien tries to find things to destroy Dranes, but cannot find them. So Richard takes the alien to the mall. They find the Drane and see him eat pepper flakes. Then the alien remembers the things that destroy Dranes are pepper flakes. The next day Richard brings five pounds of pepper flakes to school. He gives it to the Drane and it explodes, killing him. Richard is very happy at the end.
Today I went to the Hollywood Premier Cinemas with Brenda to watch the movie “Holes”. It is about a boy called Stanley Yelnats. One day
Someone finds out that Zero digs
Today I read a book called “The Ersatz Elevator”. It is written by Lemony Snicket. It’s about Violet, Sunny, and Klaus Baudilaire who have to live with Jerome and Esme Squalor. Their apartment has seventy rooms. One day Klaus sees something and starts thinking about it. He figures something about the elevator. When they get to their apartment, they find an up button the highest floor. Violet pushes the button and they climb down with rope. They see their kidnapped friends and want to help them. When they return with something to help their friends, hey are gone. Later Esme pushes Violet, Klaus, and Sunny down the elevator shaft. They fall into a net that breaks their fall. Sunny wants to use her teeth to climb up. Sunny screams “top” when she is at the top of the elevator shaft.
Today I read a book called “Katie and the Mona Lisa” written and illustrated by James Mayhew. This book is about a girl called Katie whose grandmother takes her to an art museum. In the museum Katie sees a painting of the Mona Lisa. Katie asks the Mona Lisa why she smiles Mona Lisa says she smiles because she is supposed to. Katie wants Mona Lisa to be happy so she takes Mona Lisa to other paintings. They go to other paintings called: St. George and the dragon by Rapheal, Primavera by Sandro Bottecelli, The Lion of St. Mark by Vittore Carpaccio, and An Angel with a Lute by a student of Leonardo de Vinci. In the first painting, Mona Lisa sees St. George trying to kill a dragon, in the second painting, she sees people dancing. In the third a lion lets them ride on his back. In the last painting an angel plays a lute. At the end Mona Lisa is happy because when she thinks of Katie it makes her laugh.
June 5, 2003 Saturday
Today I read a book called “Harriet’s Hare”. It’s by Dick King Smith and illustrated by Roger Roth. It’s about a girl called Harriet whose mother died when she was little. One day Harriet sees a big circle in the wheat field. She goes to the circle in the wheat, and sees a hare standing still. The hare says “Good Morning”. Harriet names the hare “Wiz” because he is a creature from Pars who can turn into anything. Harriet tells Wiz that her dad is going to combine the Wheat today. Wiz turns himself into a gold finch and flies away. After Hariet’s dad combines the wheat, he tells Harriet he shot two rabbits and a hare. At breakfast the next morning, Harriet tells her dad to give the two rabbits and the hare away because she does not want to eat them. A few days later Harriet finds Wiz eating the tops of the carrots. One day a lady called Jessica Lambert comes to buy some eggs. On the way home, she sees a hare, and her car goes down the ditch. Then Harriet’s dad uses his tractor to pull the car up. After a few days Harriet’s dad invites Jessica Lambert to a dinner party. Then her dad asks Jessica to marry him. At the end Harriet gets a new mother and Wiz has three children who can sit still someone approaches them. And that reminds Harriet of Wiz.
Today I read a book called “The Word Eater”. It’s written by Mary Amato and illustrated by Christopher Ryniak. It’s about a magic worm called Fip that eats words. Whatever word Fip eats disappears from the word forever. A girl called Lerner finds Fip and puts it on an article from a magazine. Fip eats Jay’s Star and Jay’s Star disappears. The next day an article says that Jay’s Star disappeared. Lerner finds out that whatever Fip eats disappears from the world forever. Lerner deletes everybody’s exam so they have detention. Lerner deletes Bobby Nitze’s dog. Bobby gets angry at Mr. Droan their teacher and steals Fip to delete Mr. Droan. Then Lerner tells Fip to eat more. Mr. Droan’s suit disappears. Then the SLUGS want to delete the MPOOE club. It works. The MPOOE CLUB breaks up and joins the club. Lerner tells them about Fip. Someone wants to delete the school. Someone steals Fip to delete the school. Lerner tries to stop them. They stop. Fip only eats Clevel. On TV Clevel hair color disappeared forever. Then Fip eats the words “Fip’s Magic”. Fip doesn’t have any magic so Lerner sets him free.
On
On the first day we went to the Smithsonian. At the Smithsonian we visited several boring art museums. Afterwards we went to the Capitol and the Library of Congress. On the second day, we visited the White House, Washington Memorial, and the Lincoln Memorial. We then went to the national
After five days we left
We drove from
