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The First week of Summer!
Article posted June 12, 2012 at 01:56 PM GMT0 •
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The first week (except for Wednesday) have gone by, and it’s been good. I’ve let myself sleep longer, because now I don’t try to get ahead on work. I enjoy having more time to read books, and reread the Harry Potter series.
It feels weird at around 9:20 AM when I don’t have to leave for school. It also feels weird around 3:45 PM to 5:00 because I’m not doing any homework. The first few days, at those times, I didn’t know what to do with myself, so I just wandered around.
I’ve been to Lake Tahoe once, and the water was freezing! But I still had fun playing frisbee with my brother Mitch, up until he broke the frisbee (he wasn’t very good at it.). Later, I played a game sort of like tennis with my other brother, Wyatt. At about 5:00, all four siblings (Mitch, Wyatt, Nina, and I) played this fun game. In the game, you put a bucket somewhere, and you try and bounce it off of something, and then go into the bucket. Soon we watched the sunset, and went home.
This Saturday I’m going to Catalina Island, for a week. I won’t be able to blog then, so please don’t expect me to blog next week. Anyways, there I’ll sleep in an a-frame. This trip will be extra fun, because Mateo is going too. After Catalina, I’m going to San Deigo for a few days. After that trip, I’ll be ready to stay home for the summer. BV
I hope everybody else’s Summer so far, had been as fun and good as mine. Well, this is the first episode of the fourth season of the Colton Show, and GOODNIGHT=http://
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Article posted June 12, 2012 at 01:56 PM GMT0 •
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Post-Sleepover blog
Article posted June 2, 2012 at 02:55 PM GMT0 •
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This blog is from right after I got home from the sleepover. It was a lot of fun. Except for the part where August accidentally jumped on my thumb, and it was bleeding. But it’s okay because I didn’t know that it happened for awhile, and still had a lot of fun. One of my favorite things at the sleepover was when me and August where jumping through hula-hoops that Corey (the awesome redhead) rolled. I also really liked capture the flag because I scored twice, and on defense, I did well. But I also had fun laughing with Michael, while waited for someone to come. I also enjoyed sitting in our sleeping bags and talking until a teacher came, when we would act asleep. But before that, Reece and I were sleeping bag monsters. It’s hard to explain how we did that, but Reece knows. I enjoyed showing off my shadow skills when I made a gorilla and a hummingbird. But then we had to sleep. By the way, what was that game that we played in the morning? At first I liked it, but then Ethan hurt me! Just kidding! Well, not really, but okay. The only thing that I can say now is… I’m tired!!!
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Article posted June 2, 2012 at 02:55 PM GMT0 •
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My Last Hoorah At Fifth Grade!
Article posted May 30, 2012 at 01:14 PM GMT0 •
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Well, as I was starting to think about my last blog as a fifth grader (this one), I was reminded of all of the fun I had in the two years in Mrs. Crosby’s class. Then I thought of how much that fun helped me improve, to be who I am today.
The thing that I improved on the most in fifth grade is probably my ability to learn more. What I mean is that, in previous years, I would learn one thing, but forget a different thing that I learned. So I was spending extra time to re-learn a lot of things. But in this year I think I improved on cramming more stuff into my brain, and remembering them too. But how did I do that?
One reason that I thought of was that so much work was slammed in front of me, that my brain had no choice to remember things better. I told my brain, “No more being lazy, brain! Start working hard. Afterall, that’s why you’re here.”
Another, more logical, reason is that I started to remember things more because I used what I learned in school, outside of school. Like figuring what the tax on my parents’ groceries is. By using learning outside of school, I helped myself remember more because on a test I could be like, “How do you figure out the tax on groceries? Oh yeah, remember when I was figuring it out for my mom’s grocery list,” And I would get the question right (if my math is right).
My third reason is that naturally, my brain started to grow, and be able to hold more. If it was this option, maybe I could trust nature to fix all of my other school related problems. Probably not. I think that sometimes you can trust nature, and sometimes you have to take matters into your own hands, and try to fix it yourself.
Another thing that I thought I might add is that I really improved on note taking. Before fifth grade I never took notes on anything, and relied on my memory to help me in a test. But now I take notes a lot, and take notes well too. This made me happy, and improved my grades.
But after I thought of how I was sad to leave all of the fun I encountered in fifth grade, I thought of how much fun I was going to have in the Summer. Something that we do that I always love is “The Family Circle.” It’s when we visit many family members throughout Utah and Idaho. But this year is different. We are staying at my hilarious and young, great uncle’s. And we are going to watch The Stadium Of Fire fireworks show on the Fourth of July. But I’m really excited to go to Lagoon, a theme park in Utah. I’ve never been there, but on Google Earth I looked it up, and it looks like a lot of fun.
And after that, I wasn’t so sad. And because this is my last Hoorah at fifth grade, I want to end it well. Here it goes. Goodbye fifth grade! Remember to tune in for season three of The Colton Show because season two is ending... now!
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Article posted May 30, 2012 at 01:14 PM GMT0 •
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Saving Sea Turtles!
Article posted May 3, 2012 at 01:58 PM GMT0 •
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I read the little booklet, Saving Sea Turtles. It touched me that people would do that for little Sea Turtles. I really enjoyed reading that. Anyways, five words, teamwork soul, kindness, risk, and diversity, popped out at me. Here’s how I think that they connect with the booklet that I read.
Kindness: In the dictionary, kindness is the ability to behave nicely, or the practice or tendency to sympathetic and compassionate. Knowing that, I think that kindness connects with the people who help the Sea Turtles in the book. I think that people who help them are very kind to the Sea Turtles, especially the volunteers. I said especially the volunteers because they don’t even have a job doing that, but take time from their days to help.
Teamwork: Teamwork is a cooperative effort by a team or group. I think that the connection is that the people who help the Sea Turtles have to work together to get all of the babies into the ocean, and sometimes to keep them alive for when they can get them into the ocean. I also think that if the people don’t get to the nest in time, the babies have to work together to get out of the nest. The babies also have to work together when they get out, to get to the ocean without being eaten or killed.
Soul: Soul is the nonphysical aspects of a person or other living thing. The connection to the book is that the people who help, have to have a good soul. Again, to take time out of your day (some of which are VERY busy) to help a tiny species grow back to normal size and not be paid. It also shows that they have a good soul when they wake up, late at night to go help them.
Risk: Risk is the chance of something going wrong. So the connection is that the people who help take the risk of having something go wrong when they try to save them. The turtles take a risk when they try to make a break for the water. The people take the risk of destroying one species (the birds that eat the turtles), while trying to save another (turtles).
Diversity: Diversity is when something is different. Right now, the Sea Turtle population is diverse from what it should be. The people who help are diverse from others who don’t help. Turtles themselves are diverse from each other too.
Well, I’ve explained the connections from the book to those words. I guess theat this episode of the Colton Show will be ending early! Remember to log onto www.crosbyville.wikispaces.com to keep posted with announcements and other things! Be our friend on Facebook. And if you want to e in a live audience, call 775-IDontWantYouInMyAudience-6459856987092870950987609860987550960963895985! Pretty long phone number right? Okay, See ya next week on the… Colton Show!
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Article posted May 3, 2012 at 01:58 PM GMT0 •
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Air mail
Article posted March 18, 2012 at 07:25 PM GMT0 •
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This blog is coming from approximately 39,014 feet in the air. We are currently at the speed of 547 miles per hour, above Jackson, Mississippi. Can you guess what I’m doing? Correct! I’m in an airplane on my way to fabulous Orlando, Florida. The reason why I can blog from way up here is that our airplane has wi-fi. We couldn’t use it the first half though because it was too bumpy to get my mom’s laptop out. And they wouldn’t let us get up out of our seats to go to the bathroom so I almost peed my pants. Whew – that was a close one! This is just about the coolest blog ever because I’m sending it from way up high in our atmosphere. I bet you don’t have a blog this cool, and you never will! Looking out the window I can see lots of cloud and tiny, tiny roads and farms. Anyways, have a great week and try not to miss me too much!
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Article posted March 18, 2012 at 07:25 PM GMT0 •
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Not-so-new situation in my life
Article posted March 7, 2012 at 03:16 AM GMT0 •
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Have you ever had a new, and hard situation in your life?
A new situation in my life that I had to deal with, is my parents divorce. Even though I had sort of expected it, when they told us, it felt like I had forgotten all about my suspicions. I had no say, so on the Thursday after my parents told us, my mom moved away. Luckily, my mom moved to Fieldcreek, which is only about two minutes away from my dad’s house.
Now comes the tricky part, explaining how I dealt with it. It’s hard because it’s a divorce and it always hurts, so there’s really no way to truly get over it. But there are some things that make it easier and better.
One really, really good thing is that my parents cooperate, don’t hate each other, and try not to fight in front of us, let alone fight. They cooperate by when we need something at Mom’s house but we’re at Dad’s, the things we need easily get over to Dad’s. Just so you know, that can happen vice-versa too. They don’t hate each other, and I know that because they don’t fight often. But the main reason is that if there is something that one parent wants to take us kids to but it is on the other parent’s night, they usually let the parent take us to it. That also shows that my parents really love my siblings and I. They try not to fight in front of us, and we rarely see them fighting. If we do see them fighting it’s mainly just a small argument.
Another good thing is that we came up with a schedule that I think everyone likes. It’s a two, two, five, five schedule. That means that we get two days (actually days means nights, NOT 24 hours) at Mom’s, then two at Dad’s. After that it’s five at Mom’s, then five at Dad’s. Then it restarts. I think that it’s a great schedule (even though it’s not perfect) because it works great, and each parent gets equal time. Also they each have vacation days, which sets boundaries for how long we can be on vacation with each parent. This schedule also works for all of our activities and sports (cheerleading isn’t a sport, it falls in with activities and requires little exercise, but that’s another story, not for now).
Those are the ways of how I dealt with it. Even though all of those things helped, there are also things that made those harder. One for the “great” schedule is that if a parent lets the other parent have the kids on a night of theirs, it is hard to give a day to the parent who gave a day so that it is a trade. Most of the time, it just ends up as a day given away. Another bad thing is that my parents do fight, just not in front of us. Those are just a few of the bad things, and I can’t say the rest, for we would be here for a long time and it would be an invasion of privacy.
So I ask you again, have you ever had a new, and hard experience in your life?
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Article posted March 7, 2012 at 03:16 AM GMT0 •
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My Aunt's Wedding!!!!
Article posted January 13, 2012 at 05:25 AM GMT0 •
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An awesome story for over Christmas break. The obvious choice for me would be... My aunt's wedding!
My aunt's name was Coleen Ruth Altom before she got married. She got married to a guy named Scott Liddle, so her name is Coleen Ruth Liddle now. Anyways, they got married in the Salt Lake City temple. I didn't get to go to the ceremony because I'm only 10 years old. But me being too young to go into the ceremony led to another good thing.
So instead of the ceremony I went into the youth room. There I saw all of my cousins and then some. So I said hi to everyone, and started playing with my baby cousin Isaac. Soon my second cousin Aubrey came in. She's 24 years old. Aubrey is deaf. And so because of my knowledge of sign language (and what Mrs. Crosby taught me) I was able to have a great conversation with her.
All too soon it was time to go and do the dreaded pictures. But there was a good part, meeting the bride and groom. As we walked out of the youth room we talked to many "long lost" family members. I was keeping my baby cousins' company when we saw them . They walked through these gates and posed for some pictures. I felt Isaac's hard grasp on my pointer finger loosening, and before I knew it, he was slowly inching towards the bride and groom. Soon he was five feet away! The newly weds noticed, and crouched so that they were at his height. He still inched forward nervously until he was face to face with them. As always, Isaac had a worried expression on his face. Uncle Scott and Aunt Coleen waited, and eventually Isaac embraced them in a hug type thing. So we only had to endure half an hour of photos. Coleen and Scott on the other hand, had to do about two more hours of pictures out in the cold. Ha! Ha! Stinks for them!
Later at the wedding reception, something bad happened. I got boiling hot, hot chocolate spilled on me. We were sitting at a table, and Nina asked me to move so that Olivia (my cousin) could sit there. So, like a nice brother, I got up. But Olivia was not paying attention, and walked right into me! And you know what happened next. So for the rest of the party, I had to walk around with half of my shirt stained with what looked like dry blood.
What happened when we were driving back home is classified, so I'll only tell one part about it. It is, that we saw two UFOs over a military base, and after the UFOs went over the base, an air force Truck sped by.
Tell me if you've seen any UFOs. See ya soon!
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Article posted January 13, 2012 at 05:25 AM GMT0 •
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Disneyland at Christmas
Article posted December 8, 2011 at 02:35 AM GMT0 •
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I do lots of blogs about funny things, so I wanted to do something different. I ended up deciding to do one of the most special Christmas memories that I’ve ever had. That memory is when we went to Disneyland for Christmas. How cool is that? Disneyland, one of the happiest places, at Christmas, one of the happiest times! Anyways, one morning Nina, Wyatt, and I woke up. We were walking out to the couch, but our mom stopped us. She said that we have to go into her room and wait for Mitchell to get up. Finally when he did he was quickly ushered into our mom’s room.
She said that we could slowly go out and see the table. I was as excited as an elephant who got a lifetime supply of peanuts when I saw it. At where someone sits there was a Mickey Mouse plate, a balloon with him on it was tied to something in the center of the table. next to the plates were a pack of gum and a card that said that we were going to Disneyland the very next day! That part was enough of a Christmas gift to last a lifetime, but we didn’t even go yet.
We got to L.A. at about 8 p.m. We took the airport shuttle to our hotel. by the time that we got there it was about 9:30. Our room had 2 bunk-beds and one regular bed. We put our stuff on the ground, climbed into any bed, and almost instantly fell asleep.
We woke up, and before we walked to Disneyland arranged the stuff that we put on the ground clumsily the night before. It was really warm outside, and halfway through our walk, we noticed an unusual thing. It was a white tip sort of like a mountaintop, and we could hear faint screams of pleasure coming from it. When we got inside the park we saw it, it was a mountaintop! And the screaming came from a ride inside of it. We wanted to head there, but our mom said that first we have to go on the ride called Magic Mountain. As she said it, she pointed to a cool looking building. The ride sounded cool, so no one complained.
As you may have guessed, we loved the ride. I was amazed at all of the sudden twists and turns, and especially at that fact that it was pitch black except for the “stars.” As soon as we were done we headed over to the mountain. That ride was just as cool, so I knew that I was in for a fun filled vacation.
But one of the most memorable things in the entire trip came at the end of the first day. With a grin on her face, our mom led us over to a mysterious building. It was dark outside, and almost every body had left the park. Through the darkness I could make out shapes of things like graves. There was a small line to get inside of the mysterious mansion, and as we entered the line two thoughts came into my head, that my mom had been planning this, and that this was a haunted mansion. As we waited, I heard workers calling out things like, “Move quickly, there’s no time to KILL, “ Keep walking, there’s no DEAD space. and “ Hurry up, people are DYING to be with you.” When my eyes grew accustomed to the dark, I saw graves and any thing else that might go along with a haunted mansion. But I also saw snow and mistletoe. So was this haunted mansion celebrating Christmas? It didn’t seem right.
When we entered we toured the mansion, and saw scary pictures of zombies and other things When our group got into one room the door shut itself. The walls began to move in, and then back out. a voice said for us to get in a vehicle and he would show us the rest of the mansion. The ride was themed like a movie we love. It’s called nightmare before Christmas. We loved the ride. It was our favorite ride. We enjoyed the rest of the trip. Now can you see why it’s a special Christmas memory?
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Article posted December 8, 2011 at 02:35 AM GMT0 •
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Sad Family
Article posted November 17, 2011 at 04:13 AM GMT0 •
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I’m going to tell about something that my parents did that I could never forgive them for. On my list of top ten bad things it’s number 2. We do not need to go into my list though. I bet that you want to know what it is? Am I correct? If not, then you can leave and never come back to my blog. See, now look what you people who aren’t interested did. You got me ANGRY! So now I’ll have to tell about it angrily. GRRRHHH!
The thing is my parents divorce. For you people who don’t know what a divorce is, or don’t have divorced parents, it stinks. It’s worst at first, Then the next morning, It’s really stinks. Then it slowly, and I mean slowly gets a little bit better at a time. But, it will never heal all of the way. I still get angry or sad when I think about the day and day after my parents told me. I guess that this blog is also kind of like one of those things that comforts people about bad things in their life. I don’t really feel comfortable telling you about hat happened, so I’ll only tell some parts.
Our parents brought us together and told us that they were getting a divorce. Then all of us (even parents) started crying. We all took a walk around what would soon become Dad’s House. After we finished the walk, Mom told us that on Thursday we would go to her new house. We went over to Grandma’s house for Sunday dinner. We went to Mom’s House, and it was cool, but at that time we were all to sad to think that. Then we started our schedule, and it was hard to change houses. But after a month or two it got easier. My parents divorce wasn’t nearly as bad as some people’s parents, so you can see that it only gets worse in this case.
I don’t know what the outcome for this would be. It probably will be that my family and I feel better about this, but we can’t feel all the way better. It would also be that I still feel really sad and angry about that, but I maybe would be able to forgive my parents. It would depend on my mood for that day, and if I’d of thought that it was as hard for them as it was for me. So still maybe.
Okay, if anybody who wasn’t interested in this was still reading, I have no idea why you were. But I bet that you are somewhat interested in this now. This is the one and only time that Colton Reid will be signing off of the Colton Show in a sad mood. Okay, Hee we go. This is Colton Reid signing off. Boo hoo.
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Article posted November 17, 2011 at 04:13 AM GMT0 •
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Me Secretly Shhhh!
Article posted November 2, 2011 at 05:18 AM GMT0 •
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Article posted November 2, 2011 at 05:18 AM GMT0 •
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Disaster Response!
Article posted October 27, 2011 at 03:01 PM GMT0 •
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Disaster response. It sounds so… epic when you say it. It rolls off of your tongue and into your brain when you say it. By that I mean that when you say it lots of questions pop up in your head. Some of them are, what is it and what does it mean? How does our world need do to better on it? And, why would someone as cool as him be interested in it? I’ll explain each one.
Disaster response (my guess) is how we respond to things like earthquakes, tsunamis, and tornados. In other words disaster response is how we help the victims of disasters. The dictionary doesn’t say disaster response, so I’ll tell you what a disaster is. A disaster is something like an event or occurrence causing great distress. So that would mean that disaster response is how we deal with the distress, and how we help the people who have or are victims of the distress. An example is the earthquake in Japan.
Now it’s time for the next thing we talk about. It’s how our world needs to improve on disaster response. Recently in Nevada there was the Air Races. At the Air Races there was a crash, and many people were either killed or seriously injured. The Renown hospital was on code triage. That is when the hospital finds all available workers, and everyone has to do something. My brother was at the Air races that day, but he left before it happened. Anyways, I think triage is a good idea. I think that because the more people you have, the more people will be healed. But there are some bad things about code triage. One thing is, say you had a hospital and you were on code triage. One of your patients has a very serious injury. The person who specializes in your patients category is missing. Then you go and look for the second best, and that person’s missing too. So it keeps going on, and on, and by the time you find a person to do the job, your patient’s dead. So I think that if the person isn’t very far away, you should fly them there to help.
Now it’s time for the final part of my blog. I tell you why I’m interested in this. I think that everyone should get the right kind of doctors for what they need. I think that because I would want the right doctor, and I know everybody else would. I also feel bad for the victims, and the doctors on code triage. I think that it must be terrifying being a victim, because when I saw the crash, I was scared! My final reason is that if I had a horrible injury, I would want to get better as fast as I could.
Well, I hope that you learned about disaster response. If you didn’t, this was a big waste of time for both of us. I learned a lot too! I had a good time writing this, and getting writer’s cramp. See ya!
P.S. Kids, do your homework ! I don’t want to be held accountable for some kids reading my blog instead of doing homework. Get good grades! Bye!
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Article posted October 27, 2011 at 03:01 PM GMT0 •
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Typing V.S. Print
Article posted October 6, 2011 at 05:29 AM GMT0 •
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Typing or handwriting? I would go for typing. I like typing better because you can always check grammar and spelling. I would also go for typing because it’s fast and easy to fix mistakes. You can save typing on your computer, but you could lose writing fast because you might have folded it up and put it into your back pocket and lost it when you put your pants in the wash. The only way that you could do that with typing is if you printed it then did it (which would be easy to print again), or folded your computer up and put it in the wash. Typing is fun because you can watch your hands fly around the keyboard and with every letter they drop a tiny skydiver onto the city of E, forest of W, or the ruins of Q. Of course that’s just imagination. With typing you could do Word Art or fancy colors. With writing you have to use crayons which rubs off, and you could never turn it in to your teacher. What do you think about my blog? Remember to tour the forest of W!
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Article posted October 6, 2011 at 05:29 AM GMT0 •
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My Nickname
Article posted September 30, 2011 at 05:04 AM GMT0 •
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Welcome to the first episode of season two of The Colton Show! Today we’ll talk about nicknames. My totally cool nickname is C-train. My brother Mitchell’s football coach (Coach Matt) gave me that nickname. It means something like freight train. He gave me that nickname because he said that I hit hard in football, and a freight train would hit hard if you jumped in front of it. I really like my nickname because... well... I don’t know exactly why, but I think that I might have a few reasons. I think that C-train is a really cool name because it goes along with my theme song Crazytrain, and that nickname fits me well. Better than my old nickname at least. Colton could be a nickname for me because my name isn’t Colton Reid, it’s J Colton Reid. That would be a horrible nickname. Tune in next time for more! Remember, you can send feedback and suggestions at www.idon’tcareunlessit’sgood.com!
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Article posted September 30, 2011 at 05:04 AM GMT0 •
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Harry Potter 7 part 2
Article posted July 15, 2011 at 06:31 PM GMT0 •
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Hey Mrs. Crosby, guess what I did last night… I saw Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows part Two, AT MIDNIGHT!!! Oh yeah. I bet that you didn’t do that. And I dressed up as Colin Creevey. And on top of it all, I was interviewed on Channel 2 News! But, a bad part is that Wyatt invited Gabe. Wyatt dressed up as a quittich player, Nina was Luna Lovegood, you already know who I was, and Gabe wore the Sirius Black costume that Wyatt wore to school. Mitch didn’t dress up. We’re all so bummed that there aren’t anymore movies. Sorry that I don’t have the Hawaii thing on my blog yet, we’re having problems getting pics on. The best part of my trip was the helicopter ride we did. Until next time!
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Article posted July 15, 2011 at 06:31 PM GMT0 •
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I have a Blog Prob
Article posted July 1, 2011 at 03:26 PM GMT0 •
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So, as my title might have given it away, I have a blogging problem!!! I'm so sad because I know how much you LOVE my work, and you haven't been able to read it. I hope that this will go in so you can try to fix the problem.
Oh right, you need to know my problem if you want to fix it. Here it is... Okay, so I recently checked (this morning) if you had posted all the blogs I've sent and you only posted one! I don't know if you're even getting them. Just telling you. I'm at home and working on the Kauai slide show. I'm going to Utah in a couple days. All right. Goodbye!
P.S. Still don't have all the pictures from Kauai. Happy 4th of July!
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Article posted July 1, 2011 at 03:26 PM GMT0 •
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First Day Off of School
Article posted June 10, 2011 at 03:31 AM GMT0 •
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Ahh. Finally some relaxation! Today is the first day off of school, and man it is happy! When we were walking home from school yesterday, my mom said that we would go up to the lake. But this morning, we decided that we all wanted our first day off to be a “stay at home and relax day.” It was. We wanted to ride our bikes up at the park, so we did! When we got home and were eating lunch, our dog Trixie started barking. We looked outside, and there was a big coyote in the backyard! Then later, my mom took us over to our dad’s house, because it was his night. He told us that my uncle Rory, and cousin Mason were coming over, and we were going to go fishing tomorrow! We played outside for a little while. After that we came inside for dinner. We’re still waiting for Rory and Mason though. How’s your first day off? Well, just wanted to tell ya what was goin’ on. See ya!
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Article posted June 10, 2011 at 03:31 AM GMT0 •
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Goodbye 4th Grade... Hello 5th Grade
Article posted June 2, 2011 at 03:41 PM GMT0 •
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Goodbye 4th grade... Hello 5th grade!
This ninja awesome year is almost gone! I don't know if there's anything that can cheer me up! I took advantage of 4th grade, and now we've only got like 5 days left. WAAAAAAAAA=http://=http://!! At least I've got the same teacher next year. I will tell you all the good things that happened to me this year... That's to hard! I know; I'll just tell you what I improved on this year, and what I want to keep working on next year. This year I improved on nothing! No, that's a joke. I improved on my typing skills. But most of all, I improved on putting more effort, time, and meat into my work. Believe it or not, I improved on talking! Next year I think I'll improve more on the same stuff, because it's the same teacher. Do you know what I mean? It would be just marvelous if Mrs. Crosby would try to be a little (actually a lot) less critical of me. I would like to do some more work on the Thomas Creek Trail next year, and I swear, If those guys vandalize it again... I'll SCREAM!!! One thing I'm really looking forward to in the summer, is going to Kauai for the first time! Well, this is the end of season one of The Colton Show! Send in some comments, and watch the next season! If you're in 4th grade (Mrs. Crosby's class) too, tell me what you thought of the Thomas Creek thing. Goodbye 4th grade... Hello 5th grade!
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Article posted June 2, 2011 at 03:41 PM GMT0 •
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Honesty
Article posted May 26, 2011 at 03:58 PM GMT0 •
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I think honesty is telling the truth even when there is an “easy lie.” The dictionary says:
1.The quality or fact of being honest; uprightness and fairness.
2.Truthfulness, sincerity, or frankness.
3.Freedom from deceit or fraud.
Those are all really good definitions, and they all kind of said the same thing. When I said easy lie earlier, I meant a lie that no one would notice for a long time and if you were caught, you could explain easily. I chose honesty because I feel that everyone (me, you, you’re family, the government) tells lies one way or another. If lying is as big as most people think it is, where did the quote “Sometimes it is better to tell a small lie, rather than the truth.” come from? I agree with that fully, and I bet that most of you do to. Here’s the problem, if you tell a small lie and the person you did it to finds out, they could get really mad. There is a big difference between a small lie, or a “nice lie” and a full-on rotten, mean lie, or an “easy lie.” The first two are to help someone, and the last two are just mean. Everyone tells lies, even if you try your hardest not to. I wonder if some people consider the “helping lies” are bad. I sure don’t. Do you? I think that .it is better to keep quiet and as my mom says, don’t say anything at all, if you can’t think of something nice to say.
I think everyone needs to work on honesty, but no one will perfect it. I think it’s too hard for a human to perfect something this big. For example, sometimes honesty is owning up to your mistakes, sometimes it’s not telling lies, sometimes it’s telling someone that you were planning to do something to them, and sometimes it’s just telling someone you’re going to do something. I need to work on it more than some people, and so do you. I think that kids my age should really try as hard as they can to not lie, but remember, no one’s perfect so you might still lie. I think that even adults should try hard too. The economy needs to work on it too. They should tell the consumer all the ingredients in their product so you won’t have an allergic reaction or something. They should tell what risks there are to taking a certain medicine. Those are just a couple of examples. Those are my thoughts on honesty, what are yours?
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Article posted May 26, 2011 at 03:58 PM GMT0 •
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A Vacation that I LOVE
Article posted April 21, 2011 at 12:02 AM GMT0 •
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There are a lot of places that I would like to go on vacation, but for me to blog about it I need to LOVE it. After about 5 minutes of extremely hard thinking, I’ve come down to two. The first place is a place that no one who has read this (or is reading it) has ever seen, and I just LOVE this idea. I’d like to travel back to the time of the dinosaurs. Not just any time of the dinosaurs, the cretatious period. I’d like to see how dinosaurs really got extinct and witness it but escape just in time! before I did that I would scuba dive with dinosaurs. Speaking of scuba diving with giant creatures, I read in a scuba magazine that a guy scubas with an elephant named Rajah. That’s no joke. Anyways, doing what I would do (if I did it successfully) would probably make me go down in the books as a famous something. I could also find new kinds of dinosaurs. I could go on and on about this but I’ve got too much more to write about. I guess that this “vacation” really isn’t much of a vacation, but an exploration would be a better description.
My second place is another place that I just LOVE. It would be going back to Orlando. I would like to do that because the rides at their theme parks never get old. I also love the warm weather that never leaves Orlando. The only bad part is that Disney World and Universal Studios are just big “money pits.” A money pit is a place that kind of sucks your money. This vacation is more of a vacation.
Now’s the most fun part in my opinion, as you might have guessed, it’s time to debate the two places. I’ll start with good things and move into the bad. One good thing about the dinosaur trip is that I good become really famous and rich. Another good thing is that I would be the first to ever travel back in time. The last good thing (that I’ve thought of so far) is that I have always wanted to meet a real dinosaur, so that would be a great accomplishment for me. Okay, so that’s 3 good things for the dinosaur trip!Shall I tell you the good things about the Orlando vacation? (again, that I’ve thought of so far.) One is that I would get to do all the wonderful rides that I love again and again. I’d also love to get Butterbeer a lot. The last reason is that I would get a lot of exercise from doing all the running to get from ride to ride. That’s 3 good things about the Orlando trip! A tie! How extraordinary! So now I guess that we’ll have to say the bad things. Let’s start with dinosaur trip again. One obvious bad thing is that I might get eaten. Another is that I might not escape the meteor in time. 2 bad things for that trip, and so now we will say the bad things about Orlando. One is that I could get sun burnt so I can’t do rides. An easy one to see is that I might run out of money with buying food, getting into the parks, and the room fee. I highly doubt this one but it’s a possibility that I could get tired of the sunshine. 3 bad things for Orlando!
I guess we have a winner! The dinosaur vacation wins it all! Do you agree and why? Comment your answer! I really liked both, so it was really hard to choose. What did you like about the choices? You can comment that too! Wow, this was really exciting. I sure do LOVE the winner! Stay tuned for some more episodes of The Colton Show, (my other blogs) and you can see older episodes by going to www.crosyville.wikispaces.com, going onto Mrs. Crosby’s blog, clicking on Colton, and scrolling down. See you next time on The Colton Show!
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Article posted April 21, 2011 at 12:02 AM GMT0 •
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Disneyworld, a Complete Surprise
Article posted April 1, 2011 at 03:39 PM GMT0 •
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One sunny Sunday afternoon we went on a walk. We decided to walk to the park by our school. On our way back our mom told us something sad, "Kids I'm really sorry but we can't go to Disneyland for spring break, there just won’t be enough time." "WHAT??!!" US kids all asked together. "There won't be enough time because we have to go to Disney World." Our mom told us. "Awesome!!!" We yelled. I hugged my mom like 80,000 times then. We were extra excited because this would be our first time going to Disneyworld! Ever since then I couldn’t buy anything (with my own money) because I was saving up for Disneyworld. Well, everybody thought that I was saving up for Disneyworld, but I was saving up for a big birthday present for my sister that I haven’t given to her yet. (It’s a pet, but still don’t tell ANYONE!!!) I would use whatever was left over from the pet for Disneyworld of course. Oh no! Nina’s coming! Quick! Everyone, hide! Whew, she’s gone. Do you think that she read this? If she did, I would cry forever because I’ve been working on her present for over 2 months!!! Anyways, after I hugged my mom 80,000 times, we talked about everything that we were going to do, and guess what? Our aunt Caroline (who also went to Hunsberger) is coming with us! I guess talking the way I do isn’t so bad, or is it, Mrs. Crosby?
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Article posted April 1, 2011 at 03:39 PM GMT0 •
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Hagrid, a Person of Pure Awesomeness
Article posted March 16, 2011 at 12:46 AM GMT0 •
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As you might of guessed from the title, if I was a character I would be Hagrid from the Harry Potter books. One reason that I chose him is because if I was him, I would be tall! Also I think that if would be cool to know Harry Potter and his friends. It would be awesome to have a pet giant spider named Eragog, and get to see and do stuff with dragons. Having a pet hippogriff named Buckbeak would also be cool. Going to see quidditch games and, of course, being a wizard and getting to do awesome spells would be really fun too! I would also like to get to play with dragons, hippogriffs, and giant spiders, well, let me just say that doing that would be...
TOTALLY NINJA-AWESOME!!! The only bad part would be that I would have to teach a lesson everyday. Going to Hogsmeade and getting Chocolate Frogs, Bernie Bott's Every Flavor Beans, and many other cool candies would be super cool. My last reason to be Hagrid is that I would own, ride around in, and fly in a flying motorcycle! Isn't being Hagrid satisfying?
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Article posted March 16, 2011 at 12:46 AM GMT0 •
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My Career
Article posted February 10, 2011 at 12:01 AM GMT0 •
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When I was younger I wanted to be so many things like, a scientist and a painter, all at the same time! Now I have narrowed it down to one thing. That thing is... an architect!!!! Amazing right? I would like to be an architect for many reasons. They are, first, I really like to build stuff. Personally, I think that I'm pretty good. My family thinks so too! Sorry Ben, you're on your own now with not being good. Anyways, another reason is that I already practice making plans for houses, office buildings, hotels, and what I hope to be historic landmarks. I may want to go smaller and make things like dollhouses or treehouses. Hey, maybe I could work at the future... the one and only... Shepard's Shop!!!! Well, my final reason that I can think of right now is that I think that it would be nice to make plans for homes for poor people, make plans for homeless shelters, and make plans for a house in Hawaii for my mom. Goodbye!!!
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Article posted February 10, 2011 at 12:01 AM GMT0 •
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The most embarrassing day of my life
Article posted January 26, 2011 at 05:22 AM GMT0 •
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So, the most embarrassing day of my life ... let me think. Oh yeah! The most embarrassing day of my life was at Disney Land. We had just gotten off of the Star Tours ride when Wyatt (my unusual big brother ) said that he didn't feel to good." Okay, we'll sit here." our mom kindly told us. We sat down on a small cement wall that was at most ten feet away from Star Tours. A couple minutes later Wyatt said that he felt better. Three seconds later he barfed like none other. Everybody stopped to stare, we had to get some workers to clean the horrifying mess up. I was surprised that they didn't use gas masks! That is the end to ... Colton's most embarrassing day ever! Pretty embarrassing right? Oh yeah! Hey Reece, try to top this.
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Article posted January 26, 2011 at 05:22 AM GMT0 •
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