Catching Fire

Catching Fire is the second book in the Hunger Games series. Katniss Everdeen has won the Hunger Games. After the games, she returns home with her fellow district 12 tribute, Peeta. Since she won the games, she gets a better house and gets to go on a victory tour. After the victory tour, she goes home. Then she gets the message that she has to go back in the arena for the quarter quell with other victors from the past! She has to survive the harsh atmosphere of the games a second time in a row! While she is getting prepared to go in the arena again, she has been hearing rumors about a district 13 and there being rebels trying to over-throw the capitol. She also learns that she has a choice to be the rebels Mockingjay. Will Katniss be able to find district 13? Will Katniss be the rebels'  Mockingjay? Will Katniss survive the Hunger Games a second time in a row? These questions will all be answered if you read this book!!!

Bananagrams

Hi! This is Popcorn and I have a very fun game for you! It is called Bananagrams. Bananagrams is a little game that you play by making your own crossword puzzle. You have 144 tiles and you place them all face down to start. Then,one player says "Split"! After that person says "split", you start. You can make words that read left or right or top to bottom. Each player may rearrange their words as many times as they want. You DO NOT take turns, you play independently, but you play at the same time, and you do not have a time limit. When you or another player has no letters left, that player says, "PEEL",and then they take a tile from the face down pile. If they say "PEEL" all the other players must also take a tile from the bunch and add it to their pile of letters. At any time in the game and as often as desired,a player may say "DUMP". When you dump or someone else dumps, you may put back a hard to use letter, but you have to take three tiles in return and the person who says"DUMP" is the only one to take three letters.The game continues until there are fewer tiles in the pile than there are players. The first player with no remaining letter shouts"BANANAS"!!!!!!! and then is the winner of that game. Now the other players can check for misspelled or incorrect words, and proper nouns are not acceptable. Feel free to use a dictionary, (only for the use of checking). If you find any incorrect or misspelled words that player become the "Rotten Banana" and then that player is out of that game. If that happens the other players may continue.  That is how you play Bananagrams. Oh, and this is a great game for family game night, and it is also very educational. (Teachers you will want to buy this for your students!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) That is the game of Bananagrams.=)  :)

Wisconsin

As many of you know I visited Wisconsin over the weekend! You also wanted me to tell you about what Wisconsin is like and why I keep going to Wisconsin. Well first of all, I keep visiting Wisconsin because my brother goes to St.Norbert College which is in Wisconsin.  We have always gone to my sister's concerts so now its my brother's turn for us to go to all of his concerts (my sister graduated college so my family doesn't go to her concerts anymore). Wisconsin is very beautiful and for a lot of you it may be cold but for me it is perfect weather!  (I'm never cold!) The geography is very nice. Wisconsin and it's geography is gently rolling with a lot of farm land, and the sunset is the most beautiful sunset you will ever see! There are a lot of cheese stores, so if you like cheese, I suggest you go to a place called Mars Cheese Castle. It is near Racine just off of Interstate 94 and it looks like a castle. At Mars Cheese Castle you can get mugs, key chains, cheese (of course) and stuffed animals + more!

Favorite Things For Thanksgiving

Everyone loves Thanksgiving! For you people who like Thanksgiving as much as I do this post is dedicated for you! Here are the things a lot of people love about Thanksgiving.

1. the turkey! ( I mean who doesn't like Thanksgiving turkey!?!?!)
2. being with family or friends
3. the games
4. dinner
5. everything else you can think of!

This is my Thanksgiving report! Hope you like my post and Thanksgiving!



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Great Migrations

Some of you know I don't watch t.v. much, but I love this show called Great Migrations. Great Migrations is on National Geographic and it's about an animals' migration system and how, why, and when the animal migrates. The reason I love this show is because it is so educational and spellbinding for the whole family! Everyone will love the animals' migration system. It is SO fascinating and the video work is breath taking!!!  The Great Migrations is SO well made it feels like you are actually in that scene where the buffalo are crossing a river with crocodiles. Plus after you watch Great Migrations you are the expert and you are 15% smarter about animal migrations of course! Plus if you are a kid you can tell all your friends at school about what you learned!!! After you tell your friends about what you learned you can play a trivia game to see how well they listned or you could take a poll. For ex. Did you like where the buffalo were crossing the river better or where the Christmas Island crabs are making their way to the sea? You could say that or come up with your own questions!!!

The Hunger Games

Just the other day I finished this amazing book called The Hunger Games.  The Hunger Games is about a girl named Katniss Everdeen. She lives in a place called district 12 which is the mining district. Every year the districts 1-12 have a reaping. A reaping is where the district picks a boy and a girl to fight in the hunger games. Katniss' little sister gets pulled to go to the Hunger Games but Katniss doesn't want her little sister to die in the games, so Katniss fills in for her sister. Then they pick the boy. Then after they pick the boy and the girl they are summoned to the Capitol. At first in the Capitol, Katniss feels like she is in heaven because in district 12 there is hardly any food and on the way to the Capitol there is lots of good food. Then she enters the games. She is extremely good with a bow and arrow so those are her weapons in the arena. The games start and she thinks of a plan to get the bow and arrow first. That works so then she runs to the woods because in her district she always hunts so she feels safer and more comfortable in the trees. Will Katniss survive the harsh atmosphere of the games? Read and you will find out!


( p.s. there are two other books in the series. The second book in the series is called Catching Fire. The third book in the series is called MockingJay)

great website recommendations

I know some of you like to play on the computer,so I have some recommendations.here they are.

• YouTube ( go to the search panel and look up muppet and listen to the muppet songs.or anything else you can think of)
• new grounds.com
• our world.com
• my blog of course! (why wouldn't you visit my blog!)
• shakesandfiget.com
• adventure quest.com
• last but not least evony.com

These are really great websites if you are on the computer and you are totally bored just go to these websites and listen or watch and have fun!!!