My Cub Scouts Meeting

I was tired on Tuesday because my grandmothers were at my house on Monday and I had a sleep over with my brother who talked until midnight.  He blew his nose like a hippopotamus stampeding on the roof!
I was tired in the morning.  I was tired at school.  It was hard to run.  I had a fencing lesson right after school at 3:30.  Dismissal is at 3:27! I had a 30 minute lesson with no breaks.  Fencing is tiring.  I had to go to a cub scouts meeting.  I was tired.  I did not want to go but it was the last one so I went.  When I got there we were 10 minutes late.  There were no cars in the parking lot.  After a few calls my mom figured out that there was no meeting.  My dad had told me to go.  ROTTEN DAD! #Robert

Eleven

This is a changed up part of Eleven:

"It has to belong to somebody", Ms. Price keeps saying.  "I think it belongs to Phyllis I say."  Ms. Price says "Yes I saw Phyllis wearing it one day.  "I think it's Silvia's," Phyllis said but nobody is listening because Ms. Price is all ready turning to page 32.  I whisper to myself "Good thing I got out of it."  When recess comes Phyllis says "Why did you say that?" because I saw you wearing it at recess one day."  

My Allergies

I am allergic to tree pollen.  My symptoms starts in May.  I can tell if there is pollen if there are blossoms on the trees and the cars turn green.  My air purifier clears the pollen out of the air in my room.  I have to take indoor walks in the Spring

My allergies make me sneeze and have a runny nose.  My eyes also get itchy and my eyes water.  I have to take Zyrtec and eye drops.

My Walk By RUF!

I got taken on a walk in West Woods with my Mom, Dad, my neighbors and my 11 year old COMPLAINING BROTHER!



We walked on the yellow circle trail.  I had to rock climb and go through a tunnel.  The rock climbing was fun.  I went over 4 wooden bridges.  Three of them were wobbly.  I got shaken on the bridge by my brother and my neighbor.  I GOT LOST WITH MY NEIGHBOR AND MY CCCCCOOOOOMMMMMPPPPPLLLLLAAAAAIIIIINNNNNIIIIINNNNNGGGGG     BBBBBRRRRROOOOOTTTTTHHHHHEEEEERRRRR!!!!! My neighbor's mom found me and brought us back.

It was hot.  There were too many bugs.  It was sunny.  I heard Pekky! Pekky is a woodpecker. Pekky sounded like a tapping on bamboo.  It was really Pekky pecking on a tree. The trees were big and there were no leaves on them.  I couldn't tell what kind of tree it was because it had no leaves.  There were lots of trees and rocks.  I DON"T KNOW WHAT MINERALS WERE INSIDE THE ROCKS! 

The End

How I sleep

I am a dog.  I don't know how to sleep like the humans around me.  It's very confusing.  I just think it is normal,  just upside down (by that I mean my back on the ground, head on the pillow, and paws in the air).  I am an UPSIDE DOWN  DOG.  My Mom keeps telling me to do what she told me to do the last time she put me to bed, but I don't have a memory of what happened before.  Dogs don't have memories.  I put my paws down the instant my Mom leaves the room.

RUF!

I am a puppy.  RUF! I am officially a puppy because I have a leash.  RUF! I sleep with my 4 limbs up in the air. Like this.    RUF! I do that because I look like an upside down walking dog.  RUF! I have a leash (my mom's belt.  RUF! I eat puppy biscuits (anything I like).  RUF! I like to play a board game called Lost PUPPIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.  RUF!

My typical day as a puppy:
  1. I eat a puppy biscuit.  RUF!
  2. I go to the pound (school).  RUF!
  3. I work on my fairy tail.  RUF!
  4. I have 2 specials.  RUF!
  5. I have recess and then I have more puppy bisciuts.  RUF!
  6. I have a Q.T.A.  RUF!
  7. I free read.  RUF!
  8. I go to bus line or to the caf. for pickup.  RUF!
  9. I have an after school activity.  RUF!
  10. I relax and say "RUF"! for example...                                                                                      RUF!
  11. I do homework/BEAST.  RUF!
  12. I play around.  RUF!
  13. I have more puppy biscuits.  RUF!
  14. I go to sleep.  RUF!

Ranger's Apprentice: The Ruins of Gorlan book report: Part 3

Themes:
Friendship
When Will saves Horace from the boar they become friend instead of enemies.   Then they work together and accomplish more things.

Learning
When Will listens to Halt on how to ride a Ranger horse, he gets good at riding Ranger horses.

My opinion
I think this is an exciting book.  It doesn't have any boring parts.  It's either action or just interesting.  I recommend this book for people who like adventurous stories who are 7+.  My favorite part of this book is when Tug bucks Will off and when Will tries to capture Tug.  It was hilarious.

Ranger's Apprentice: The Ruins of Gorlan book report part 2

 Plot:

The choosing
The choosing is when all the orphans in the ward and the craft masters choose what the orphans will do for the rest of their lives.  Will tries to get in to battle school but the Baron and Sir Rodney deny Will.  Then Halt gives the Baron a note about Will.  Will wants to see what is on the note.  Will climbs the Baron's tower to get the note, but when he gets to the top of the tower and goes in the tower, Halt grabs him.  The note says that Will has the potential to be a Ranger.  Halt was testing Will because he wanted to see how Will would try to steal the note.  Will becomes apprenticed to Halt.

Training
Will starts training with Halt.  Will learns how to shoot a bow, use saxe knives and throw throwing knives.  He learns how to track animals and people.  Will also learns how to camouflage himself well. Will is given a Ranger horse named Tug.  Ranger horses have something you have to say to them, otherwise they will buck you off.  They are very strong, alert and fast.  Horace starts training in battle school.  He learns sword strokes.  He is illegally bullied.

Boar hunt
Will and Halt find angry boar tracks, and the knights and Horace have a boar hunt.  The boar goes after Horace and almost tramples him, but Will distracts the boar and saves Horace.  They become friends.

Fight with bullies
Horace is being bullied.  The bullies go after Will.  Horace and Halt save Will.  Horace gets revenge on the bullies.  The bullies get kicked out of battle school.  Horace and Will become even better friends.

The Gathering
The Gathering is when all 50 rangers come to talk about what has been happening.  Will meets Gilan (Halt's old apprentice).  The Rangers find out that two Kalkara have attacked important people.  Will, Gilan and Halt leave the Gathering to hunt the Kalkara.  Kalkara are BIG, DANGEROUS MONSTERS.  When they look in your eyes you get so terrified that you get paralyzed, and then they kill you.  They are extremely flammable.  The Kalkara work for an EVIL warrior named Morgarath, who wants to invade Araluen.

Kalkara Hunt
Will, Gilan and Halt find Kalkara tracks.  Halt sends Will to get Sir Rodney and the Baron for help.  Halt tells Will to bring them to the ruins of Gorlan castle, because the Kalkara are going there.  Will, Rodney and the Baron go to the ruins of Gorlan.

Kalkara fight
The Kalkara have cornered Halt when Will, Sir Rodney and the Baron arrive.  Halt injured a Kalkara but he is injured and his bow broke.  Sir Rodney and the Baron make the injured Kalkara back into a fire and that kills it.  The second Kalkara is about to kill the Baron and Sir Rodney, when Will shoots it with a flaming arrow.  The Kalkara dies.

Ceremony
At Redmont Castle, there is a ceremony commending Will for killing a Kalkara and saving Sir Rodney, Halt and Baron Arald. Will gets the chance to go to battle school, but he declines and says he can't because he's a Ranger.

Ranger's Apprentice: The Ruins of Gorlan book report part 1

Setting:

This book takes place in Araluen.  Araluen is a country and a kingdom.  It is not real.  It is divided into fifty fiefs like the US.  Each fief has one baron (leader) and one Ranger.  We don't know what time the story takes place.  They don't have technology.  They ride horses for transportation.   

Characters:

Will:
Will is a fifteen year old boy.  His parents are dead.  He lives in the ward of Castle Redmont.  A ward is a place where orphans live.  Will is small but surprisingly strong for his size.  He is good at camouflaging himself.  Will is fast and when he is moving he is almost silent.

Horace:
Horace is a fifteen year old boy.  His parents died.  He lives in the Castle Redmont's ward and always gets in fights with Will.  Horace is strong and tall.

Halt:
Halt is Redmont fief's Ranger and becomes Will's master.  A Ranger is like a spy and a policeman.  They are extremely talented at camouflaging, shooting bows, throwing knives and using saxe  knives.

Sir Rodney:
Sir Rodney is the Redmont battle master.

Baron Arald:
Baron Arald is the leader of Redmont fief.  

Yesterday there were two concerts.  One was a violin master class with my brother playing and the other one was a chorus concert with my Dad singing.  I was so bored that I had to read my book and in some parts and my Mom had to get me out of my book.  I got compliments on my behavior from my grandmothers and a stranger.  The chorus was interesting because there were 3 soloists.  The master class was interesting because my brother was playing in front of a crowd and he never does that.

Skiing

Last week I went skiing.  I went down the bunny hill first.  It was very easy even though it was my first time in a while.  Also it was a different teacher than before.  So I didn't know him well.  The second time I went down a steeper and longer hill.  It was a little harder, but I got off the chair lift by myself.  I hadn't done that before.  I did it with no trouble. It was pretty easy (we did that about 12 times).  I tried putting my skis parallel to the mountain to go faster.  It sort of worked, but I only went a little faster.  Then I went on the top of the mountain.  It felt like it was 1 mile high.  When I got to the top we passed by a broken down chair lift.  In some places on the mountain it was at a 45 degree angle and in other places it was at a 30 degree angle.  When I went down the mountain, it was pretty of steep in the beginning.  Then it got easier.  We had to stop because someone fell and my teacher had to help even though there was another teacher.  When  I got to the bottom I hadn't fallen yet, but then I fell.  It was funny because I hadn't fallen on a hard mountain and my teacher was sort of proud. 

Last night my family went over to my friends house.  In the beginning we played Minecraft then we ate dinner.  I ate a grape fruit.  There was beef stew with rice with cooked carrots.  We had grape juice mixed with seltzer for a drink so it was grape flavored sparkling water.  We had rice crackers, cheese and olives for a side.  For dessert we had homemade strawberry flavored ice cream ((in small portions) I had one).  There was also chocolate truffles that we brought (36 of them).  After dinner we played a little more Minecraft then we played a board game called Settlers of Catan.  The board and tiles are shaped like hexagons.  The object of the game is to get ten victory points.  There are 5 resources: Ore, Sheep, Lumber, Brick and Wheat.  You start with 2 settlements and 2 roads.  Each settlement gives you one victory point and cities give  you 2.  It costs one Lumber one Brick to make a road, one Sheep one Wheat one Brick and one Lumber to make a settlement and 2 wheat and 3 ore to upgrade a settlement to city.  

My fencing lesson

Last week I had a fencing lesson.  It was different from the other one I wrote about. It was different from the other one I wrote about because it was more learning than practicing.  It was different because I didn't fence against him.  I learned about check steps which is when you make a small step to try to make them attack you and then you parry them and riposte.  I also learned about the 4 position which is when your foil is up, an 8 position your foil is down and if your in a  6 position your foil is a tiny bit up.  

Last Monday I went sledding at Baldwin  hill with my brother.  In the beginning of the hill it was really steep and in the end it was almost horizontal.  On one part of the hill  it would turn me sideways and then backward and then backward and upside down so I had to roll off.  On another part of the hill it would make me get off balance but most of the time not upside down and some of the time backward or sideways.  It was sort of fun.  It wasn't fun because I crashed and because it was very cold.  It was fun because I went really fast.  

Yesterday after noon to this morning there was a snow storm.  There was about 14 inches of snow on average.   When I walked in the snow it was up to my knees.  If I put my hands at my sides, my hands would almost be touching the snow.  I had to shovel some snow off of the porch and the drive way.The windows were half covered in snow.  I didn't have school.  Tomorrow I won't have school.  The snow was very soft and hard to walk on.  

What I do when I'm angry.

At home I will:

1. Wrap myself in a blanket.

2. Do 100 jumping jacks.

3. Stretch out.

4. Eat some salty products like: Gold fish and pretzels.

5. Use 3 chips (on week ends) (3 chips =45 minutes of computer time).

5. Earn a chip and look in my chip bowl to see how many chips I have.

(on a week day) (1 chip=15 minutes of computer time).

6. Take a nap (if I don't have any chips).

At school I will:

1. Ask the teacher if I can read a book.

2. Stay away from person I'm angry at.

my tennis lesson

In my tennis lesson I worked on my backhand.  I worked on bringing my back hand back and using my right more than my left hand (I am left handed).  My teacher made me use my right hand only to hit my backhand (it was very tiring).  My teacher played a game with me and said that if I hit his chest with a tennis ball I would get 2 points, if I hit him in the head I would get 5, and if I hit him any where else, I would get 1 point.  I would get a Skittle for every 5 points I got.  I got 14 points but he was nice and rounded up so I got 3 skittles.

Fencing

Today I fenced with my own gear which are: mask, pants, glove, under arm protector, jacket and foil (weapon)

Here I am.  I learned to attack with a bigger lunge.  I wasn't using a big enough lunge.  You need to use a big lunge because if you don''t then you might get counter attacked.  You need to extend your foil, point your front toe forward, take a big step, plant your back foot on the floor, bend your knee and recover.  I played a game to ten points and lost 7 10.

Skiing

One afternoon I went skiing.  It was below 32 degrees Fahrenheit.  I went up the magic carpet and down the bunny hill (the easiest hill).  My teacher's name is Moie.  She painted flowers on her helmet.  I learned how to get off the chair lift and I got practice stopping, turning and skiing.