Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Clementine's Letter




Clementine's teacher is competing in the Great Adventure for Teachers. If he wins he will go live in Egypt for the rest of the year and Mrs. Nagel will be their teacher for the rest of the year. There's only one problem about that. Clementine doesn't want Mr. D 'Mats to go to Egypt. She want's him to stay and teach them for the rest of the year. One day in class they are assigned to write their teacher a letter to wish him good luck. Clementine starts to write her letter and says some pretty mean things about her teacher. When the time comes they go to the place where they choose who will win. Every Teacher has to choose one person from their class to read their letter. When it was Mr. D 'Mats turn to choose. He chose Clementine. If you want to see what happens find out in Clementine's Letter.


This Book Earned: 5 Book Worms!

Saturday, November 15, 2008

The Talented Clementine


Clementine is getting ready for a talent show but she has no talents! Clementine has tried to get her teachers to cancel The Talent Palooza Night of the Stars show but it just wouldn't work. She couldn't sing, she couldn't dance, she couldn't even hop! A couple days before the show they started rehearsal and because Clementine didn't have a talent she helped direct the talent show. First there was a Dozen Doozy Cartwheelers. Then there was a boy who could burp the National Anthem. Then there was a boy who would blow a note in his harmonica and his dog would howl it. Clementine has to do something but what will she do? Find out in The Talented Clementine!


This book earned: 5 book worms!



Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing

by Judy Blume
This book is about a boy and his little brother. Peter is in fourth grade and Fudge (Farley) is his pesky little brother. Peter thinks that Fudge is the most annoying little brother in the world! He is always copying him and he is goofy and weird. He only mostly likes him when he is asleep. One day in the park Sheila Tubman asked Mrs. Hatcher if she could watch Fudge. She started to hesitate but finally said yes. So she started to watch Fudge and of course Peter had to help. So after they start to watch Fudge Peters best friend Jimmy Fargo came along. They start to get in a fight when they hear a scream. They turn around and see Fudge lying on the ground crying. So they rush over and find out that Fudge was trying to be a bird. When he fell he lost his two front teeth and he swallowed them. How much trouble is Peter going to get into? Find out in Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing.



This book earned: 5 book worms

Sunday, November 2, 2008

Clementine




Clementine is a trouble maker. Margaret is her best friend or maybe I should say her only friend. The only thing that is different about them is that Clementine is in the third grade and a trouble maker. Margaret however is in the fourth grade and bossy. They aren't the perfect pair. They don't get along very well. This story is about what happened one day in art class. They were doing a project when Margaret asked to go to the restroom. After a while Clementine decided that she had been gone for a while. So she decided to go to the restroom to go look for her and see what she was doing. As she walked in she saw that Margaret had cut off a big chunk of hair. She was crying when Clementine asked her what she was doing, she said that she was trying to cut out some glue she got in her hair in art class. clementine told her that her hair didn't look so bad. Her long dark hair covered most of the hair that had been cut off. But Margeret said it looked horrible. So Clementine said that she would make it look better. So she started to cut parts if hair off to make it look better. Pretty soon was cutting off all of her beautiful long hair. Find out what sort of trouble she gets into in Clementine.


This book earned: 5 book worms!