Yearly Archives: 2010
The Great Backyard Bird Count 2010
This weekend until Monday is the Great Backyard Bird Count!!!! I have already started mine!!!! Click here to go to the website and learn what to do!!!!!!! It’s lots of fun!!!! I want to share some of the photos that I took when I was birding today!!! They are not […]
Tomorrow February 12, 2010
Tomorrow is the big day!!!!!! It is the day that Percy Jackson and the Olympians, The Lightening Thief movie comes out!!!! I do not know if any of you are as excited as I am!!!! It looks really good. I am soooooooooooo excited!!!! If and when you see the movie, […]
Snow Day
It snowed yesterday. An awful lot. Schools were closed. Roads were impossible. Even the birds stayed in their trees. It was a day for chicken and dumplings. Hot chocolate with whipped cream. A roaring fire. But guess what? There was somebody out….. The mail truck! The United States Postal Service […]
Weather
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Word of the Week
by Guest blogger M.O.M. ♥♥♥♥Valentine ♥♥♥♥♥♥ ˈvalənˌtīn|noun A card sent, often anonymously, on St. Valentine’s Day (February 14) to a person one loves, likes, is attracted to, or maybe just teasing. ORIGIN late Middle English and from Old French Valentin, from Latin Valentinus. It is celebrated on Saint Valentine’s Day in memory of St. Valentine who was […]
A Dangerous Path (Warriors Series #5) by Erin Hunter
Summary Fireheart is the new ThunderClan deputy, and he finds himself taking on more responsibility because his leader Bluestar is mentally and physically ill. To add-on top of that there is Tigerstar, the leader of ShadowClan, and the pack of dogs running wild in the forest. Also his leader, Bluestar, […]
Word of the Week (cont.) Groundhog Day
Groundhog Day Groundhog Day occurs on February 2 in the United States and Canada. It is believed if the groundhog comes out of his burrow on this day and doesn’t see his shadow winter will end soon, but if he does see its shadow winter will continue for 6 more weeks.
Word of the Week – Guest Blogger M.O.M.
In honor of an established and loved American tradition that occurs on February 2 each year (GroundHog Day) the Word of the Week this week is Groundhog. Groundhog (noun) (Marmota monax – a rodent of the family Sciuridae) also known as wood chuck, whistle pig, or land beaver. They are widely […]
Horrible Histories: Edinburgh
Edinburgh by Terry Deary *The three questions are from the back of the book. Summary Want to know: Whose pickled skin became a sought-after souvenir? Why it’s alright to spit on the High Street? How the pupils of Edinburgh High School got away with murder? Want to know these gruesome […]
Word(s) of the Week – Guest Blogger M.O.M.
With so much of the country experiencing wild and wet weather here are a few weather related words and phraes to help with understanding what the weather person is talking about. Blizzard – An intense winter storm with winds of 35 m.p.h. or higher with falling and/or blowing snow that […]
Great Backyard Bird Count
I know I am a book blogger but I also love birds. Next month there is something called The Great Backyard Bird Count and I wanted to share it with you. It is a combined project of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and the Audubon Society. The website has lots […]
Odd and the Frost Giants
by Neil Gaiman With Illustrations by Brett Helquist Summary In a village in the Ancient Norway there is a boy named Odd, though there is nothing odd about him. His mother loves him, his father is dead, and his step-father is just there. His leg had gotten crushed some time […]
Spy High
Mission 1 by A. J. Butcher Summary ****Deveraux Academy is not what it seems. The football team practicing beside the ivy-covered dormitory is merely a hologram, and the elderly receptionist could break your neck in three seconds flat. Deveraux’s students rarely call the school by its proper name. They call […]
Percy Jackson and the Olympians The Lightening Thief ...
The movie is coming out. I am really really really happy. I just finished the book and I cannot wait to see the movie. It is a PG movie but, I think it is a bit more than PG. You decide. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xko1Mx5w4tg] If you do not like scary images or […]
Percy Jackson and the Olympians ...
Summary Weird things are happening to Percy. It stated a long time ago but it gets weirder still. When his class goes on a field trip, he gets into trouble. When his teacher takes him inside the museum to talk to him a weird thing happens to her. She turns […]
The Secret DIARY OF ADRIAN MOLE aged 13 3/4 by ...
Summary ‘I felt rotten today. It’s my mother’s fault for singing “My Way” at two o’clock in the morning at the top of the stairs. Just my luck to have a mother like her. There is a chance my parents could be alcoholics. Next year I could be in a […]
Inkheart – Movie Review
This move stayed pretty darn close to the book. It was funny, it was creepy, it was weird, and it kept you entertained. It was atmospheric, and it was stunning. Brendan Fraser (who is in movies like Journey To the Centre of the Earth, and The Mummy) played the part […]
