MUSEUM FREEBIES: I've been meaning to tell you for days now, Sept. 29 is National Free Museum Day, thanks to a promo by the Smithsonian. So, it's time to get your tickets now for NEXT Saturday's freebie now. Go to this Web site: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/museumday/ticket/ and you can browse the list of participating museums by state. There are so many to choose from, all free Free FREE!
After you make your selection, you will be able to print out a ticket that's good for two admissions to the place you chose. Love it!
CREATIVE WRITING: We turned to Scholastic's Story Starter tool as fodder for the kids' writing exercises today.
Since we've last used it, Scholastic has updated the gizmo that generates story starting ideas with the virtual pull of a lever. Now, there is the option to choose a genre before starting the story idea machine.
Annabelle immediately chose sci-fi. CJ chose the "scrambled" category, which is random.
Annabelle was instructed to write a story about a mind reading space pirate who can predict the future. Here's what she did with that. ...
There once was a space pirate and he liked space treasure. This space pirate was very mean and nasty and wanted all the treasure in the universe he could get his hands on. one day he came to Earth, and seeing all the money and minerals there, he got as greedy as can be! He went around grabbing money from wallets, stealing tips from people at stores and restaurants,and anything else he could do to get his hands on money.
This pirate gt every single bit of money he saw, then went back into space. When he hit the earth's atmosphere though, all the money spilled out! the pirate grumbled and started to predict the future (which he always does) and he saw he would go back to Earth. And he did. the pirate, when he got back to Earth, the pirate read a guy's mind (he does that too) and avoided him, getting money and minerals. once the pirate left Earth, he was very happy with all the money he gathered.CJ's prompt instructed him to write about a brainy lawyer who was shipwrecked on an island. Here's what he came up with.
Just a few days ago, a criminal suit happened and it was filed against a pirate who murdered a innocent man. The lawyer the pirate hired was smart, and the pirate choose J. Williams to defend the pirate. After a few hours in the trial, the lawyer had a 1-week recess to find evidence that the pirate was innocent, so the lawyer sailed on a ship. After 5 days, the lawyer got the ship wrecked on a island. The ship was sinking, so the lawyer got on the island. The next day, the lawyer was attacked by Jaws, a great white. The lawyer was nearly killed by Jaws, so he tried to build a fire, but he got lit on fire by the shark. The next day, the lawyer realized that he needed to report to the court, but he was already too late. A tree fell down and hit the lawyer, and it nearly killed the lawyer. He had no food, no water, and no will. Jaws strikes again, and he ate the lawyer. If you do not spread this news, the same thing will happen to you.I suppose those who say lawyers are sharks would see some karma in CJ's story.
MOVIN' & GROOVIN': For fun and exercise, we did a half hour plus of Just Dance 2 for Wii this morning, and this afternoon, the kids spent over an hour outside, enjoying the September sunshine. They rode their scooters in the alley for a spell and then played soccer in the yard.
This afternoon they also went to their yoga class in Ballard. That's always time well spent.
CJ's story made me laugh out loud.
ReplyDeleteWell remember, "If you do not spread this news, the same thing will happen to you."
DeleteI hope you're warning everyone you know. ;)