I love the mud!

It reminds me of Sam when he’s a recess mud monster.

He is a crazy mud monster!

We’re mud friends.

Mud is so cool!

 

No green yet in this area.

Just mud.

Mud.

Hallelujah!

Sing, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah!

Mud!

I am the musher of the Iditarod.

I take care of my dogs

in the blustery storms in Alaska.

I struggle on the trail,

trying my best to trust

and take care of the dogs.

I am the musher of the Iditarod!

Dun dun dun!

Mush!

Whoosh!

There,

off through the treacherous and dangerous trail!

 

First, get a bowl. Next, pour the cat food into the bowl. Then give the bowl of food to the cat. Next, pet the cat gently.  Then, play with the cat. Next, talk to the cat. Then let it walk around. Next, let the cat in when it is cold. Finally, get a blanket.

 

 

Zander is the sweetest dog ever! The first dog I ever got along with! Now I want a pet husky dog named Zander! A Siberian husky! Whatever type of husky he is, that is the type I want! He’s just as sweet and as cute as my own pet cats! Zander would be an important dog if I were a musher in the Iditarod! He’s just so cute I can’t resist him. I even didn’t stop petting him until he had to go! Zander didn’t want to leave me!

Football is in many books.  I chose two to read—Football for Dummies and Tebow Time.

Tebow Time was about a Christian football player named Tim Tebow.  He was trying to be an example for kids by not drinking or doing drugs.  Also, he tries to have a good attitude.  He talks a lot about his college football years and his Christian life.  He played for the Denver Broncos, and now he is going to play for the New York Jets.  He is the quarterback, the one who tells most of the plays.  He sometimes runs and sometimes throws the ball.  He prays at the field, and he talks a bunch about verses.  He tries to teach kids about Christ.

Football for Dummies has everything of football.  There are five, ten, and fifteen yard penalties.  The coaches yell at their players if there is a fifteen-yard penalty.  Penalties are bad when you’re the team that did it.  All games have had one or more penalties.  I learned all the motions for penalties and all the signs like for touchdown or incomplete pass or no good.  Football once was almost banished because of the injuries.  Football has over a million fans.

Both of my books have lots of information about football and how to play.  Tebow Time has God in it, and Football for Dummies does not.  Even though they were both about football, one was a biography about his life and the other was more about specifics of how to play football and the facts about it.

Reading two books about football at the same time was happy because I learned what I wanted to find out.  I was especially curious about penalties and what you can do and can’t do.  Reading about Tebow was so interesting too.  I liked seeing all the parts of his life.  It made me feel sad when people teased him for praying on the field.  These books will give me more information I need to be a great football player.

 

I used supplies like insulation, money, plastic, toilet paper, and an ice cube in my ice cube keeper.  My prediction is that it will last for 60 minutes.

Time	Size in mm
10:00	48mm
11:00	28mm
12:00	5mm
1:00	0mm
2:00	0mm
3:00	0mm

My results are that it started melted horribly fast.  I thought it would be a smaller ice cube, so my plan did not work as well as I thought.  The keeper got cracked open and water started leaking out.  The roof was open, which made it melt really easily.  It was hard to measure.

If I could do the experiment again after our discussion of our results, I would get a bigger cup, make a better closeable door, and maybe make the door protect the water from leaking out.

Some book discussion quick writes from my Iditarod book meetings:

In one of my Iditarod books, Silver was the main character.  She ran away.

In my next book, I predicted that Balto would win the race.  When Kaasen fell through the ice, Balto was the lead dog.

I compared the sport of mushing with the sport of football.  Football is different because it has masks, a ball, helmets, jerseys, and points.  Mushing is different because it has dogs, sleds, woods, and last for days.  They both use strong legs and give you lots of exercise.

Some things I learned in my books about the dogs were that you would have to pay a fine and be out of the race if you hurt a dog.  The dogs have to run the whole 1,049 miles.  The first musher to Iditarod wins the gold nuggets.

 

Some comments on the Iditarod from my writing journal:

I chose to follow Lance Mackey in the race because he has won four times in a row.  I would like to be a musher too because I would like to be first to Nome in the race.

Lance Mackey has a good chance of winning, but he hasn’t had his eight or twenty-four hour rest at this point in the race.  If I were him, when I was in the lead by twelve or more hours, I would have my eight-hour rest.

Lance has been in the lead for the first part of the race, but not for the second part.

If I were Lance Mackey, I would say, “I am wondering what I will try next on the trail as I come to the Yukon River.”

As the end got nearer, I decided that Mitch Seavey would probably win.

I boom!

I explode!

I crash to the world with a booming explosion.

I laugh my evil laugh!

Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!

I soar.

I kill.

I am lightning.

I have a Falcons room.  It is painted a silver gray for the Falcons.  It has a Falcons carpet, table, bed, curtains, pillowcases, and sheets.  There is even a thing for your doorknob.  It says, “Falcon Fans Welcome Here!”  All my father has is the thing that I have on my door.  He says that he loves the Falcons more than I, but I have a big Falcons Fan Cave.  How can he say that?  He’s crazy!