Gabe: Show and Tell

At Joan's Academy this week I had a lot of fun.  In gym class we played head ball.  In head ball you put a pantyhose over your face with a soft ball in the end and you swing your head in circles. When your balls get stuck together you pull and the last one with the ball still on their head wins. I love this game.

Kiki: Blog of the Week 1 (last week)

Dear Mom,
I just ran my first 5k run, it was fun.  It was hard to avoid the zombies. I kept on tripping so it was lot harder cause I did not use the right shoes.  I saw like eighty zombies and they all went after me. They didn't look like zombies, they looked like people with makeup on.  There were a ton of more people then I thought there would be there.  Some of the people looked like zombies and they got tired quick.  I named  all of the zombies that I saw, my favorite one was Joey.  When I finished I was super tired.

Love Kiki  

Gabe: Weekly Blog Post 1

The Fun of the First Day

We got there and swam.

Then we went and ate hot dogs.

We ate marshmallows.

The Great Hike

We went on a hike.

We got lost in the big woods.

Then we had pizza.

The Slow Last Day

We ate some breakfast.

And burned lots and lots of wood.

Then we drove back home.

Marney: Weekly Blog Post #1

The Falls Gone Wild 

We brought friends along 

It was Miki's birthday, yeah 

We slept in shelters.

We went on a hike 

We got lost Geo Cashing 

We had big fires.

We jumped off high cliffs 

And swam at the upper falls 

We had so much fun.

Kiki: Weekly Blog Post 1

We just went camping

we went to Mc Kinney falls

we stayed in shelters

We went on a hike

we looked for geocaches

we ate marshmallows

We had some pizza

and some super yummy hot dogs

and some yummy smores 

Kiki: Show and Tell

Last week we went camping and went swimming.  When I first got in the water it was super cold until  I went under water.  Then I went to jump off the cliff, it was scary at first but after the first try it wasn't any more.  Then me, Marney and Miki found a log and used it as a boat. We made it half way across.

Connor: Weekly Blog #1

Three Days of Camping

By Connor M. Jones

Last week we went on

A trip to McKinney falls.

It was very fun.

Mason brought manga,

The kids roasted marshmallows.

We told ghost stories.

We sat around the

campfire and ate breakfast.

We swam the first day.

Avery: Show and Tell

       For my show and tell this week I'm going to tell you about my Halloween costume!  I am going to be a skeleton rag doll thing... I'm not sure what to call it.  That's what I'm calling it for now.  I have the full costume planned and ready for Halloween.
      For the makeup I am going to use Halloween face paint.  I am going to put white face paint all over my face, neck, and arms.  Then I'm going to use black lipstick.  Next I am going to make my eyes look bigger and creepier using some eyeliner around my eyes.  Here is a picture from when I was practicing my makeup

       For my hair I am going to dye it all black and then curl it.  Then I am going to drown my hair in hairspray so it lasts all night.
        For the outfit part of my costume I am wearing a black tank top, striped tights that Kalli got me for our thing 1 and thing 2 costumes, and (my favorite part) I'm wearing an old black tutu.  You will see photos of the full costume later!

Avery: Blog Of The Week

Camping With the Jones Family

We make lots of jokes

and end up laughing all day,

Dad makes most of them.

We stare at the fire,

Dad has his own poking stick

to mess with the fire.

We stayed in shelters.

They were crappy screen shelters,

but I still had fun.

We brought two friends too,

They were Miki and Tristan.

They were both funny.

We went on a hike

and got lost in the forest

it was so funny.

Dad told a story

after we ate awesome smores.
He did a great job!

10/8/12 Weekly Blog Post

For this week's blog post, I want you to write a haiku about our camping adventure at McKinney Falls State Park.  Your haiku needs to be three stanzas long (three haikus) and can be about anything we did or saw while camping.

10/8/2012- Show and Tell

You know what to do!

Connor: Show And Tell

      Today we are getting ready to go camping.  We are currently in the packing process.  We are going to be bringing friends with us.  We leave this afternoon and so we have to get everything ready.  Mommio is packing, I am doing school work, and Daddio is getting fire wood to take there.

     We are all excited about this camping trip.  We have two other people going with us.  Tristan, Gabe's best friend, and  Miki.  Boys and girls will be in different cabins, aside from Max and Jack.  When we get there we might all have to unpack.  Except maybe me, but everyone else almost certainly will.

      Here is a picture of Mommio getting everything packed

                                             

Connor: Weekly Blog #1

Dear Mommio,

     I just ran in my first 5k run.  It was exciting and thrilling.  I was running as fast as I could and dodging obstacles.  It was an very quick race and each wave was ten min. after the last.  I was happy to be racing throughout the entire thing.  I was not the fastest person there, though.
     In this race the goal was to dodge zombies and other obstacles.  Basically a night of the living dead/ walking dead type of race.  Each racer got to wear costumes, mine was Leon S. Kennedy from Resident Evil 4.  We all formed teams to survive the apocalypse.  Some of us were zombified after we crossed the finish line.  Those who survived got medals that had the word survivor on them.
       The race was long and I was fatigued afterwards.  After my wave I went and watched other contestants.  My wave wasn't easy, for I had to dodge zombies and obstacles.  If the zombies get all your flags, then you are declared dead once you cross the finish line.  A lot of the people I had worked with had survived, only a few became zombies.  Fortunately, I was able to outrun the zombies and dodge the obstacles.

Marney: Show and Tell

For my show and tell I want to talk about Joan's.  I think that my favorite class in Joan's would be art.  I also like how I am in Middle School now and if I was not I would not get to see all my friends.  The first four weeks of school have been fun but one time I had to spend 20 minutes picking stickers out of my shoes.  I have finished reading Odysseus for English.  I am going to start inventing some things in Invent and Engineering.  I have been having so much fun with all of my friends.  I start to get tired half way though the day on Monday because I wake up early and am doing stuff all day.  I love Joan's.  Here is a picture of this week in Strategy Games.

Kiki Show and Tell

This week we went swimming at Devil's Waterhole and I had a lot  of fun.  First I  didn't want to get in because it was super cold.  I also found a lot of lizards, I got two. I named all of the lizards, like Lily and Rickey.  Then I swam to the end of the lake and there were a lot of minnows.  Then I  jumped off the cliff like twenty times, it was my favorite time of the day.  I had a great day.

Avery: Show and Tell

       For my Show and Tell, I would like to tell you about Teen Night.  On the 1st and 3rd Tuesday of every month Mason, Connor and I get to meet up with our friends at Dairy Queen or someone else's house.  This week we all met up at the Benac's house (Laura and Christopher's house).
       Connor, Mason, Bentley, Jonah, Chase and Christopher hung out playing video games and the Game of Life.  Since the girls and guys didn't want to hang out with each other Laura, Kalli, Elise and I all played Apples to Apples (I won!), listened to lots of music and sang really loudly, played Just Dance 3 on the Wii, watched Raising Hope, and took a ton of pictures.
       Here is a few pictures we took.  Elise is censored out because her face can't be shown.  But she said she would enjoy being a cat.

Avery: Blog Of The Week

Dear Mumzy,
       I had an interesting time at the Zombie Run.  The thing I didn't tell you before I left is that I'm a zombie!  I decided that I would like to be a zombie in the race.  I know I'm to young to be in it, but I know a guy that helped me get in.  I got to dress up, get covered in fake blood and three pounds of zombie makeup, and the best part was that I got to chase people around!
       The only bad part was that I almost got kicked out because I accidentally ran into a runner.  But they said they were fine and all was good and none of the other zombies saw, so I got to stay in the race.  No one was really hurt though, I just bumped into them while chasing others.
       I caught four health flags, all from different people.  I was so proud.  But I had a competition with another zombie to see who could get the most flags and I lost.  Harold (the other zombie) got seven flags, two from the same person.  I gave him five dollars. I said I would give him ten, but I forgot and spent half of it on a shirt.
       Be home soon,
       Love, Ava

Gabe: Show and Tell

I did my Discover Green event this weekend and it was awesome. We cleaned a lot of trash out of the creek including some weird things like a chain.  We made it flow much better and we will be going back on the 20th with older kids to get the harder stuff out of the creek. Look at what we did.

10/1/2012- Show and Tell

Tell us something interesting about yourself!  Remember to include details and add pictures if you can.

10/1/12 Weekly Blog Post

See that up there?  That's someone running the 5k Run For Your Lives Zombie Run!  What?  A 5k race where you have to avoid zombies?  That's right.  Go here to read the rules.  Then for your post, I want you to pretend that you just ran your first 5k zombie run.  Write a letter to Mommio explaining to her what it was, how it worked and how you did.