63

63
The giant number that you see is how many bundles of crayons we collected for kids in need!

HOORAY! HOORAY! HOORAY!

I Love To Paper Punch

Lately, I've been doing a fun craft- paper punching! I paper punch animals, food, and other things and add them to the growing city on my group's desk at school.
I sit at a table at school with 4 other nice girls. Together we have constructed a place called Paper Punch World. Here are all the cool features:
1. An announcement board.
2. The sidewalk.
3. SC's Pets. This is a store that sells paper punch animals.
4. LF's Food Store. A food store that we're still making food for!
5. The Jackpot Toy Store. This store sells paper punch animals, toys, and food.
6. The Eraser Hotel. A bed and breakfast inn you can send your erasers to. It features tables made from bottle caps, beds made from erasers, and hippie posters hanging from the wall...
7. The Tourist Center. Still under construction....
8. The Recycling Bin! When we have old math worksheets, old spelling papers, etc. we put them in the Ziploc bag hanging from SW's desk and they later get used as building materials. This feature makes our little world 100% GREEN!
Got any other ideas?

Choosing Colors

My parents are painting the family room red. They brought at least 5 color sample sheets home from Home Depot.
Here are the colors they brought home:
Cool Melon
Youthful Coral
Lipstick
Red Tomato
Modestly Peach
Candy Mix
Coral Expression
Daredevil
Coral Serenade
Sahara Sun
Mineral Red
Roasted Pepper
Rosy Outlook
Peony Pink
Red Jalapeno
Briquette
Pink Eraser
Cheery
Firecracker
Poinsettia
Here are the colors we are trying to decide between:
Red Tomato
Daredevil
Here is the color that will probably win:
Daredevil
Thinking of names for paint colors sounds like an interesting job. In fact, I bet I could think of a lot of names for red.....
Raspberry Jam
Fire Truck Red
Brick Red
Scarlet
Red Rock
Ripened Apple
Valentine Red
Island Bird
Burned Pink
Saucy
Baseball Stitch
Sunset
Tropical Flower
Crayon Red
Fiery
Red Laser
Crimson
Cranberry Juice
Anger

Too many colors to choose from......

Comfortable Evening

My mom and my sister and I walked around the block. We watched sprinklers and kids and looked at neighborhood landmarks. Then we did our chores and had a nice dinner of spaghetti with homemade sauce. For dessert, we filled the car with blankets and drove to Sonic, where we ordered Sonic Blasts and milkshakes. We peeled off the Limeades for Learning stickers so we could go on their website the next day.
Then we took a little drive around other parts of our neighborhood. We saw teenagers partying at the Lakeview Pool and fancy houses at Stephen's Manor. Then mom showed us some of the houses that she thought were interesting. Then we went home and brushed our teeth. My sister and I ran downstairs, hoping that Mom would let us stay up later.
She did. That night, we talked and talked until out mouths hurt. We laughed at old photos on the digital frame. We waited for Mom to whisk us upstairs, but she was so caught up in the talk that he forgot about the time.
We finally headed up to our bedrooms many minutes later. We fell asleep and dreamed about the comfortable evening.

Finally! The Weekend!

Finally! The weekend is here!
Now I can do all those creative projects I was planning to do......
1. Make origami
2. Do paper punch art
3. Hang out with one of my neighbors and draw
4. Melt crayons. And while I'm still on this topic, I'd like to thank everyone who donated crayons! You helped us a lot!
5. Find some way to get Mom's permission to make a paper-maiche sculpture out of bathroom cups
6. ?
7. ?


Okay, I think I have enough now!

Welcome!

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Happy blogging, Soso!

Math Is SO Confusing!

Q: If a triangle has 2 right angles, then it isn't a triangle. For some mysterious reason, it's impossible. The triangle I'm dealing with looks like a triangle, but it's not now because it has 2 right angles! So what shape is it now?
A: ??????

I don't know the answer! A lot of you wise bloggers probably know, but I don't! It just goes to show you that math is SO CONFUSING!