My book was Go Big or Go Home and I wanted to read this book because the book sounded very interesting to me. One interesting part is when a meteorite crashes through Brady's roof. Another interesting part is when Brady goes dormant and his cousin and friends try to save him and make him come back to life. I would recommend this book to other readers.It has adventure, funny, and action types of genres and is a very great book. 

One of the most important inventions in my life is baseball. Baseball makes my life better because it's very fun and I love to play it. The person who invented baseball is Alexander Joy Cartwright. A baseball has a white background with red stitches on certain parts of the ball.

 The type of nonfiction I like is sports. I like sports because I'm very athletic and I like to learn about different sports. Sports are also interesting because I like to hear what interviewers and comentaters have to say about the games and other things. I already know a lot about different sports like baseball, soccer, basketball, etc. like the  longest home run ever hit was 555ft. from home plate at the Minnesota Twins stadium and Shaq dunked and broke a goal, and a lot of other stuff.  I also know the score of almost every game played recently and what happens during the games, I always pay attention to the games. 

Have you ever been at a nice, warm campfire and you feel so good, then someone tells you a ghost story that makes you scared to death? Well that happens to a lot of people and it's been happening for a long time to. People believe that campfire stories have been here as long as fire has, that's really old! No one knows who invented the campfire story though. Campfire stories are best to tell when you're in the woods and it's night time because that's when you start to hear things and you think somehting is watching you, which only makes the story more scary and better. Some of the stories are famous old ghost tales . For example every christmas people hear about the story  A Christmas Carol -  the famous tale of Ebenezer Scrooge and his ghost of christmas past , present, and future. Do you have a favorite ghost story? Is it about a scary creature? If so comment me what it is. There are a lot of scary tales to tell. Some feature ghosts, while different ones are scary mysteries, myths, legends or tall tales. As you listen to these your body will react in different ways like your  heart will probably beat faster, you mght get goose bumps or you may start to shiver. Those things happen to a lot of people while listening to scary stories.

tradition - Scary stories are what a lot of people tell while at a campfire.

shiver - shaking in fear.

impact - The amount of fright you feel at a time.

I really like Shel Silverstien and Dr. Suess. I like ryhme, assonance, simlie, repetition, and alliteration. I am good at finding ryhme, repetiton and simile. I think I will use ryhme, repetition, and alliteration. My poems will be silly and fantastic

Have you ever wondered how many hot dogs you can eat in 10 minutes, who holds the record  for how many hotdogs you can eat in 10 minutes or where the hot dog got its name , if so you will find out in this article. No food says summer like the hot dog. Maybe that's why July is national hot dog month. Althuogh nobody knows how hot dogs became such a popular symbol of summer, but there is a guess on why it's related to Fourth of July celebrations. There is a popular New York legend that says that four immigrants had a hot dog eating contest to see who was more patriotic, it took place at Nathan's Famous hot dog stand on July 4,1916. Since then Nathan's Famous hot dog stand on Coney Island has been the site of a hot dog eating competition every year July 4. Today it's the most famous hot dog eating competition in the world. During the contest 20 people compete to see who can eat the most hot dogs in 10 minutes. The winner in addition to bragging rights and maybe indegestion getsto wear a special jeweled mustard-yellow belt. Joey Chesnut of San Jose, California holds the world record for eating the most hot dogs in 10 minutes. On July 4, 2009 He ate 68 hot dogs in 10 minutes, with buns. But you know what's more incredible, how many hot dogs Americans eat each year. According to the National hot dog and sausage council, Americans eat more than 20 billion hot dogs each year. More than 155 million of those hot dogs are eaten on the Fourth of July weekend alone! What's your favorite hot dog topping? Most of the time adults get mustard and kids get ketchup, but I want to know your favorite. If you're wondering how the name hot dog came about then here's the answer, people believe sports cartoonist Tad Dorgan came up with the name. At a 1901 baseball game, a new food- hot dachshund sausages in buns- were being sold. Dorgan heard the people saying" Get your dachshund sausages while they're hot" He drew a cartoon of the seen but he didn't know how to spell " dachshund" so he just called them "hot dogs". The rest they say is history.

Immigrant- A person that traveled from another country to North America.

Average- The average american eats 60 hot dogs a year.

Cartoonist- Someone who draws cartoons. 

Facts:     Traditonal Christmas Greeting: "Felize Navidad"     Location: South America     Tree Type: Traditional

 Decorations: The Museum's Columbian tree is dcorated with lights, baskets of candy, ribbons, fabric dolls and homemade ornaments.

Christmas celebrations in Columbia start in early December with a ceremony in honor of the Virgin Mary. On the evening of December 7th, families light a lot of candles and use them to outline streets, sidewalks, and parks so that entire cities are illuminated. December 8th is a national holiday commemorating the Immaculate Conceptionduring which more candles and prayersare offered to the Virgin Mary. On December 16th, Christmas trees are raised and decorated which starts Novena, which in Columbia involes a nine-day prayer ritual with a rosary in anticipation of Christmas day. While celebrating Christ's birth, groups of families and friends gather each night and pray. Villancicos, Better known as Christmas Carolls, are also sung around the nativity scene that plays a significant part of Columbias Christmas celebrations.Most Columbians attend Midnight Mass on Christmas Eve before returning home for dinner. The Christmas meal often includes a speacial chicken soup called Ajiaco, homemade breads, fritters, roast port and natilla, a cornbased dessert. Presents are brought by "El Nino Jesus" at the bottom of the children's beds by the next morning, and after a relaxing day spent with family, the Christmas season is finished. 

In the book The Keeping Room a boy named Joey Kershawis sad to see his father go make peace with the British. Joey and his family live in Camden, South Carolina, it's a small town and Joey's dad is the mayor. So when Joey's dad goes away Joey is the person to take charge and Joey is really scared. Joey is only thirteen years oldand he isn't very self- confdent. So later Joey goes home and studies with his teacher, Euven, Joey thinks Euven should do something else besides teach because Euven is very muscular and a lot of other things, but Euven is Quaker so he doesn't believe in war. Later on in the story Joey and Euven and the rest of the town try to talk with the British to go raid a different town and go back home but then Joey got scared and ran home. Not much later the British come to Joey's house and they claim it for their own use. The British soon build a hangin place in the gardenand Joey and his family are mad but they get over it and move on but Joey doesn't like what they did. Then Joey sneaks down stairs into the keeping room and see's what terrible things the British are doing, he see's them breaking cups and making evering dirty with their boots, but worst of all he saw them playing darts and his fathers head is the target. Joey almost screams but he just walks away. Joey's family is locked up in one tiny room and joey isn't because he is righting notes to all the families to the people who got hung and he is the only person who studies so they allow him in the keeping room. Later Joey finds out that his dad is in the Camden jail so his mom rights a letter to dad and she wants to go give it to dad but the British only allow men to go so Joey went to give the letter to his dad and he nearly missed him, Joey didn't recognize his dad he looked so old, so he did what had to do but his dad said he was leaving to go to Bermuda. Joey was sad that he didn't get to see his father for a long time. Soon Joey gets tired of the British and he sets his house on fire, He takes all the blame and is in chains for three days and he is working for the British. Joey's family goes away and Joey stays to work but when spring comes the British leave and Joey's family comes back and everything is great except the fact that Joey's dad is still in jail.

The way I would show my smart in school is by playing soccer or making a structure with my hands. I would do that because I love to play sports and they're fun to play and I love to do hands on activities because I'm bodily- kinesthetic. I am also smart not just physically, but mentally which means I know where to go, when and why, and I have helped build houses or renew a house with my dad and I understand blueprints. I also love to make my own blueprints and sometomes make them. I really love sports a lot and they are like my life because when it's baseball season I have 3 hour practices 2 or 3 times a week and a tournament every other week and it's fun, and I always play a sport for every season because I love sports. That's how I would present my smart at school!

   I think Edutopia is a cool place to be because you can excel at what you are really good at and show people how you do it. I would like to have something like Smartsville at Voyager because it looks really fun and I can feel like I'm responsible for important things. I like how they changed the school into a "city" and have the kids do different responsibilities like the post office and the cooking class. That stuff looks really fun and I would love to go there for a lot of reasons like the cooking class because I love food and centural park because I think it's a good place to talk and play with my friends. The last thing is the ways they learn about they're smarts and how to make them better at them, and I like how they get to show off they're smarts at a presentation they have every year.Again I would love to have smartsville at Voyager!