Red Alert book review by Alex

Sharing my book review of Red Alert by Jenny Dale.

Skiing with dad!

In a couple of weeks my dad and I are going skiing with my cub scout pack! I am very excited! I have never been skiing. We are going to take lessons, drink hot chocolate, and stay up late. We will be sleeping in cabins with the other families. I think I am going to like skiing. I've seen people do it and it looks like a lot of fun. You have to be careful, though, because you can get hurt. My dad has been skiing many times, so I can learn from him! I can't wait!

PINEWOOD DERBY!

I am in Cub Scouts. This is my third year. I am a Bear! We are having our Pinewood Derby race this weekend. I didn't get to do the race last year. I raced when I was a tiger. It was so much fun! I designed my car. I sanded the car. I worked very hard to paint my car. It took me all day to do two coats of paint! I did everything by myself except cut the car. That is too dangerous. I put the number 64 on my car. I didn't choose the number for any reason, I just like that number. I hope I win first place. When I was a tiger I got fifth place.

I will post when the race is over!

Sharing a couple of special songs...

Today was excellent!

Today I learned how to do something really hard- long division. Crystal taught me to do long division today. At first it was really hard to understand. There were a lot of steps to remember and you have to be really careful not to get the wrong number or put your answer in the wrong place. If you did that you could get a totally wrong answer! I worked really hard to learn how to do it. We did problem after problem with Crystal helping at first to do the whole problem, but showing me the steps until at the end I was doing it by myself! Now I understand how to do long division and I feel good!

Also, we played our multiplication game! I played against my sister Annie. We went over 2s-5s. It was a close game! I won! I got to draw the prize out of the bag. Tomorrow we are having a pizza party and playing a board game called Head of The Class!

This was a fun day!

Silence means playing in the snow!

I have not blogged in a couple of days because we have had SNOW! How I built my snow man. I took a snow ball and rolled and rolled and rolled until it got BIG. I did that again and again until I had three snow balls! Then, I stacked them on top of each other. I stuck two sticks in the sides of the middle snowball. I put two acorns in the top snow ball for eyes. I used my finger to draw a smile! Together with my sister we made SIX snow men! It was a lot of fun! We had snow ball fights, made snow angels, and went sledding on the big hill in my neighborhood. We used a canoe to sled! It was really fast, and super scary! The second time, I crashed, flipped and the canoe was on top of me! I didn't get hurt, though. Then my older sister went in the canoe and crashed into a pole. It was funny. She has a bruise. Crystal baked cookies because we didn't have hot chocolate. The cookies were my favorite part!

I'm pretty excited about next week. I am going to take three classes at the local co-op school. I'm taking Bible study, Spanish and SCULPTING! I'm going to get to build things with clay and wires and other cool stuff. I am a little upset that the LEGO robotics class if full, but Crystal says I can take that class next year for sure! I'm mainly excited about meeting new kids and playing with other children! I hope to make lots of new friends!

Snow angel!