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The Princess Diaries is by Meg Cabot.

This is a really pretty picture of flowers.

Creative Commons image by El Frito

Creative Commons image by El Frito

Creative Commons photo byLadyDragonfly

My A-Z list of jobs:

Actor/Actress- acts in movies

Business teacher- teaches business

Carpenter- works on wood

Doctor- helps people to get better from sickness’s

Electrician- someone who works on electrical stuff

Farmer- someone who grows crops or takes care of a bunch of animals

Geography teacher- someone who teaches about the land

Horse trainer- this is a person who trains horses

Insurance seller- someone wh0 sells insurance

Judge- someone who decides if someone is guilty or not guilty in a crime

Karate master-someone who teaches how to do karate

Librarian- someone who works in a library to organize the books and check books in and out

Mechanic- someone who works on your car and fixes it

Nurse- in this occupation you assist a doctor you would get your patient ready to see the doctor

Orthodontist- someone who is like a dentist but they determine weather you need braces or other extra stuff

Pharmacist- someone who works at a Pharmacy which is a place where you go to get prescription medicine

Quarter Back- a position in football for someone to play

Reporter- someone who goes around getting all of the new news

Surveyor- someone who asks peoples questions to get their opinion on something

Tutor- someone who helps someone else on schoolwork

Undertaker- someone who directs funerals

Veterinarian- someone who helps animals they are a animal doctor

Waitress- someone who comes and takes your order in a restaurant

X-ray technician- someone who takes x-ray’s

Yarn Maker- someone who weaves and makes yarn

Zamboner- someone who drives a zamboni to clear a hockey rink/ ice skating rink

This is my book project for the month of March it is called The Hundred Dresses.

My favorite posts were:

•Colum Y’s Blog about Courage

•Lauren’s Post about making a Barn Quilt

•Anna S’ post on her book “Shark Girl”

My genius project was a blanket.

I got a kit from Michaels.

It is a fleece rag quilt.

Me tieing the blanket!

Before!

Dropping The Rubbing Alcohol on the Design

After!

For genius hour I designed a shirt. I found out how to do it by looking on Pinterest.

Here are the steps how:

1. First I got my supplies. Which are Sharpies, A shirt, plastic cups, rubber bands, and rubbing alcohol.
2. Second I put the cup in the spot I wanted to put it in.
3. Then I made a design when you draw on the design you draw it a little bit bigger than the size of a quarter.
4. Fourth you use a eye dropper and drop about 10 drops in the middle and it spreads.
5. Then you let the rubbing alcohol dry.
6. After you let it dry you take the rubber band off the cup and then you move the cup to the next spot
7. Then you repeat this until you find the way you want your shirt to look.

If you want to find it on Pinterest go to www.pinterest.com and search “sharpie tie dye” in the top left search bar.

Final Product!

I read a book called Flying Solo. My favorite part of this book is when the class is all alone and have a rock ritual and they take the matters very serious. It is very cool how they go to different places without getting caught until the end of they day at the program they need four teachers. There is one teacher missing of course when the principal asks. Then the principal asked the kids why there wasn’t a teacher and they said that they had no teacher all day.

Comment and tell me what your favorite part is if you have read this book.

Thanks for reading this post on Flying Solo!

James And The Giant Peach is a book about a boy named James. His parents died when he was very young. James has to live with his two Aunts, Aunt Sponge, and Aunt Spiker.

One day when James was out working in the garden in which an old peach tree grew, that tree did not bear any peaches anymore. An old man was in the bush and handed him a bag of beans. The old man said that the beans were magical and wherever he put them something would grow. As James was walking back through the garden he tripped and the beans fell out of the bag and they spilled all over. When he was trying to pick them back up they sunk into the ground.

The next day James’ Aunts were in the garden and were looking at the tree. One of James’ aunts spotted a peach. Then they were looking at the peach and it was growing before their own very eyes!

After a couple of days the peach was huge! People came from far and near to see the great peach on the side of the hill. That night James’ Aunts got very mad at him for some reason. James’ Aunts made him stay outside for the night without supper.

James got very hungry so he went to take some peach and as he was walking around the peach James found a giant hole and James went into the whole. James thought he was getting close to the middle of the peach so he looked up and he saw a wood-like substance. James remembered that there was a pit in the peach and he knocked on it and a door came open and James went in it.

He got in it and he saw that there were these huge insects. A giant grasshopper, spider, centipede, glow worm, earthworm, and a silk worm.

James was overwhelmed. James couldn’t believe it.

The insects started talking to him they were saying they where hungry James started to feel that they were going to eat him and the Spider could see that he was thinking that. So the Spider said ohh we wouldn’t ever eat you. We have been waiting for you now we can begin our journey.

The next morning the centipede went to the top of the peach and started to chew on the stem and the two Aunts were out looking at the peach. They started to see that the peach was starting to fall they went to the other side of the peach and the peach dropped and flattened Aunt Sponge and Aunt Spiker!

If you want to know the rest of the story then you can read it! I want to tell you it is a pretty good book!

Thanks for reading my blog post on James and The Giant Peach!

The 7th and 8th grade boys and girls are making barn quilts for the gala in February.
The steps we used are:

1. First, we sanded the edges then, painted the plywood white, as a primer.
2. Second, we drew our design on the white primer.
3. Third, we painted a border black because most barn quilts have a two inch border of black.
4. Fourth, we taped off the black and the design, so we could paint the background green.
5. Fifth, we painted the background green. We painted about two or three coats.
6. Sixth, we taped the green and the other areas to paint the yellow.
7. We did the same with the blue.
8. We fixed all of our mistakes.

Progress on the Barn Quilt

"The Grand Star"

Thanks For Reading my Blog Post on Barn Quilting!