Growing Pains and Books

The past few nights I've been having growing pains...really bad ones. I HATE growing pains. Especially at night! They kept me up and it's NOT fun!

Anyway, I officially started the Red Pyramid also by Rick Riordan, author of the Percy Jackson series. The Red Pyramid is about Sadie and Carter, who are descendants of ancient pharohs from Egypt. So, their dad visits Carter's brother Sadie, in England (they got split up after their mom's death, so their dad can only see Sadie 2 days per year) and they go to the British Museum. Later they are told that their father was trying to summon an Egyptian god, Osirius, Lord of the Dead. So it turns out he actually releases 5 of the most powerful gods and godesses. And there's this really bad one called Set. So he trapped their dad, so their uncle, Amos, takes them to his mansion for protection from Set, but when he leaves to do something, a monster comes to attack them and so their cat turns into an Egyptian goddess, Bast, the goddess of cats. She "kills" the animal and they go to a magician training center-kind of. They meet Zia, and she's their teacher of training. To where I am now: They go to Graceland, because Thoth (like Athena in Greek mythology) has a special thing (I forgot) they have to get. Two other, evil, magicians come to Graceland and so Sadie makes the Elvis suits attack them. It was pretty funny!!! So they defeat those guys and get the thing. And Thoth tells them how to defeat Set before the Demon Days are over. And that's where I am. THE END.

Kickball Cont.

The score was 8-2. And then it ended.

We played 3 classes or so and we made it to the finals. We were against the Fighting Fitzys. We were the O-Trains. Everyone was cheering "Let's go O-Trains let's go!" That helped, but we lost. The whole grade came to watch us and some of the sixth graders and teachers. Mr.O gave us a pep talk right before the final game, and we tried. Oh well.

The New Blog

I have another blog!!! It's all about Harry Potter of course. News and pictures about the Wizarding World and the wrap of filming Deathly Hallows! Here it is: Enjoy!

KICKBALL!

The kickball tournament is tomorrow. June 14,2010, Flag Day.

My class will compete against nine other classes to be the CHAMPION OF THE KICKBALL TOURNAMENT.

Our class is going to the EXTREME this year. Our class is P-U-M-P-E-D-! This girl in our class is getting the black stuff that football players put under their eyes. She's letting our whole class use it. Ms. Pizzano and Mr. V (our gym teachers) are the umpires. There will be slush after and we're doing blue hairspray on our hair. Our team's colors are blue and gray, but no one wants gray hair. The girls are doing low pigtails with the spray, and the boys are going to dye their hair...
SLUSH will be after. And I just saw that there will be thunderstorms in the afternoon...

Stay tuned for more on the kickball tournament and the thunderstorm...

The "Countdown"

Sorry! I know I was supposed to do a count down to the last day of school but I never got around to it, so, I'll start over. There are...

TEN days of school left.

TEN classes in the fifth grade
TEN tables at lunch
TEN teachers (and 1 of them is the awesomest!)
TEN days of school left
TEN classes to compete with in the kickball tournament

Really Long Update

May and April seemed like a blur of time to me. School's almost ended, and the bad part about it is that almost EVERYONE I know is getting out earlier than we are. That's saddening. Very. At least our Auntie's pool is almost ready. On Memorial Day we helped clean her icky pool. At least, that was how it was then. It got cleaner. Luckily. It was full of greenish-blue algae and she said it was A SWAMP the day before we cleaned it. Thunderstorms the past few days, BIG ones mind you. The thunder crackled and lightning sparked. Lots of reading the past few days too. I finished the Percy Jackson series--let me tell you, those are THE BEST books I've ever read besides Harry Potter. Finished The Demigod Files too. The funny thing about the book is that there are pictures of the "Big Three" (it's about Greek Mythology by the way-my best friend is Greek and she REALLY likes these books too) all except Hades-which I think is the most terrifying (besides Kronos) of them all. about the funny thing, there's a picture of Poesidon, he's in control of the seas and rivers and anything water. Including drinking fountains. And sea creatures. And monsters, all that kind of stuff. Anyway, the picture of him looks EXACTLY like my homeroom teacher. It's pretty scary. We did this "Memory Lane" thing about fifth grade and my friend wrote, "Mr. Oteri (my teacher) a.k.a Poesidon" my friend Alexis and I were CRACKING UP!!! But I was looking at the rest of the pictures and today at church I showed my friend Max and my teacher the pics and we were like, "That's sooo not how I imagined him or her". I could go on and on about how different they look from MY vision of them. Today I was reading another book in the Mysterious Benidict Society book--they're another set of REALLY good books. My friends and I use book character names when we sign our e-mails (I'm Hermione Granger and Annabeth Chase--a girl from the Percy Jackson series) and her book name is Kate, from the Mysterious Benidict Society,and she always carries a red bucket. And she's really flexible and able to climb things and sneak through things really easily. Anyway, I was reading the Prisoner's Dilemma in the series and it's really good so far. Then I read the first Fablehaven book and THAT was really good so I want to read the second one. *Breathing hard*
Phew, that was a lot to type.

Busy, Busy, Busy

At school there are so many field trips and special things that are going on in the last 2 weeks of school I can't even name them all. Here are the "few" ones I CAN name...

Kickball Tournament--Team Name: The O Trains (?)
Lexington and Concord--Excited about that!
The Hartshorne House--Historic Monument in our town
The Math Walk--Walking to our local lake, with stops at pizza places and places like that to do math problems--takes about an hour to GET to the lake--normally takes 10 minutes
Social Studies "Pop-Up" book due sometime, our teacher won't tell us when...
My end-of-the-year PAR-TAY with 5 of my BEST friends--but sadly one won't be there because she's going to Nebraska (about to type Alaska-who would go THERE for vacation??)
And I have survived my first year of middle school (fifth grade for our town, the 7th and 8th graders are TOWERING over you, especially the really tall ones), and...

SUMMER!
Will be officially started!