April 12

Interview with The Hibbens’ Cats

News Woman: Good Morning Snort Town I’m Miranda Cheesepuff. I’m here with the Hibbens’ Cats, Sharon and Nancy

Nancy: When is this over?

Sharon: I’m going to be late to lunch.

NW: So how to you know Ike?

N: He’s annoying.

NW: I said h-

S: He’s our neighbor. Next question.

NW: So how do you feel about Ike?

S: WE

N: HATE

Both: IKE

NW: Should he have run away from IBCA

Both: N-O NO

NW: What should have happened when Ike came back?

N: He should have gone to Doggie-

S: JAIL

NW: Ok, Final question. What lesson should Ike have learned

N: To get out of our busi-

S: BUSINESS

NW: Ok, thank you for watching ST-TV! I’m Miranda Cheesepuff. Signing off have a Good Day, Snort Town

March 29

Dueling Mandates in Yellowstone

Our dilemma is: How do you balance the park’s dual mandates of preserving parks resources while allowing for the enjoyment of the people?

We have come up with a simple solution to solve the dilemma:

Limit the number of snowmobiles that enter the park each day.

So We have come up with Pros and Cons.

Pros: We can reduce the number of crashes that happen. Less pollution will be in the air because less snowmobiles will be running. Also it will protect the wildlife that live in the park.

Cons: Not many snowmobile owners will come to the park, which will cause a drop in the money area (this was a combination of 2 cons). You will also have to wait longer to bring your snowmobile into the park if the limit is filled.

Thank you for reading

March 28

Gertrude Chandler Warner

Gertrude Chandler Warner or the author of the Boxcar Childern, grew up in a middle class home. She is famous for writing The Boxcar Childern Mysteries. She had a kind face and was very creative. Her very first book was made at age 9 and it was called Golliwog at The Zoo. As a child she lived near a railroad station and she always wondered what it would be like to live in a boxcar. We are very alike in two ways, we both like mysteries and we both want or wanted to live in unusual places. We are different in one way because she lived near a railroad and I live in a neighborhood near my school. Some interesting things I found out was that she had 2 siblings John and Frances Warner, she playedthe cello, her favorite book was Alice in Wonderland, and her favorite flower was a violet (the name of her 10 year old character Violet Alden).

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February 15

Women of the Revolution

To me  Colonial Women are my heros. They put themselves in the face of danger and wouldn’t let men tell them what they could or couldn’t be.

Emily Geiger volunteered to travel almost across South Carolina to save her country. General Green thought it would be to dangerous for a women to do it, but finally he gave in and let her go. On her first night she stayed with loyalist, she had to pretend to be a loyalist! As she traveled she was caught by British soldiers and brought to Fort Granby. They locked her in a room and the soldiers went to get a loyalist women to search her. She pulled out the note and memorized it, then she ATE IT! By the time the loyalist women came the note was gone. She was released and she carried on her way. She recited the note to General Sumter and he ordered his men to follow the directions of the note. SHE HAD SAVED THE REVOLUTION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Captain Molly (Margret M. Pitcher) believed that you shouldn’t let anyone tell you what you can or can’t be. She was a very brave woman. She was a country girl and was staying at Fort Tryon (under Fort Washington). After her husband was killed she took over his canon, loaded it and fired until she couldn’t anymore. Fort Tryon and Washington were taken over that day but Molly is still considered a heroine

Sybil Ludington was the daughter of  General Ludington. She thought that all men and boys old enough should fight to save the country. When the British attacked Danbury she rode to get her father’s militia. In Danbury Patriot homes were set on fire but the loyalist homes were  spared. When she got home British Loyalists were in the trees getting ready to attack the home and kidnap General Ludington. But Sybil thought fast and got her father brothers and sisters to walk around with brooms or guns if they had one in there hand and walk around a window to look like the militia. She had saved her father and the Revolution.

Debrorah Samson was and indentured servant until she was eighteen when she was granted her freedom. She wanted to fight for her country so she diguised herdelf as a boy and used the name of her deccsed brother Robert Shirtliff. She was shot and brought to the feild hospital. When she woke up she didn’t want the doctor to know she was really hurt so she grabbed a scapel, needle, and thread. She went outside and got the muskett ball that was stuck in her leg out. Everyone thought she was deed until she woke up. She had to tell Dr. Binney her secret (that she was really a girl). Then they brought Debrorah to Dr.Binney’s house. Debrorah Samson is a heroine to the country.

I hope you see why I wrote about all four instead of one. Coloniel women are amazing women!!! I hope to be as strong and brave s they were.

February 14

Patriot Poem

Commander in Chief of the United Students Continental Army

Saved Soldiers with the Smallpox Inoculation Program

Instead of surrendering he retreated

a spy master

George Washington

A National Hero

Signed the Declaration of Independence

Present at both of the Continental Congress

He led the Americans to victory over the British

 

Picture Credits Wikimedia Commons

 

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January 25

MLK Service

I don’t think this is full service, but what I did Monday is create a play on the Challenger explosion. Like I said it wasn’t full service but it was fun and we were active, by moving from room to room, starting over and over and over again, and setting the scene. I kinda think it was a service to my cousins and my sister because it was a great family time and a great time to learn (and improve) our acting skills. I lost my temper a few times getting them to cooperate but it was great in the end! Right now we have a ton of bloopers (some have us getting mad and one is really long cause I forgot to turn the video off) and the correct 9 scenes. I’m going to build this service by showing the video to my family and friends! (after I get someone to edit it) FYI the play is called The Survivor!

 

Why I think MLK service is a good idea:

We can learn to be kind and generous to others! When your kind to someone else they will be kind to another person and that will keep on going!!!!!!!!!!!!! So serve others like MLK  would want us too! Treat others the way you want to be treated (THAT’S THE GOLDEN RULE)

 

 

Thank you for listening!!!

 

January 18

The Midnight Ride

Minutemen grabbed weapons to defend

In the North Church, is where they began

Dawes and Prescott got away, but Revere was arrested before Concord

Now Revere sailed across the Charles River

In the belfry two lanterns hung. One if by land, Two if by sea 

Got Revere’s horse from John Larkin

Have to warn Sam Adams and John Hancock 

The Regulars are coming” was the warning

 

Revere, Prescott, and Dawes the riders

In Lexington and Concord

Dawes and Revere never made it to Concord but Prescott did

Eighteenth of April 1775       

 

 

 picture from Wikipedia Commons

November 14

Colonial Homemaker

The Life of a Homemaker                                                      August 18, 1722

Dear Diary,

I finished drying the herbs and fruits. Tonight is my birthday celebration, friends and family are coming to eat and celebrate! I am going to make the best Vegetable Meat Soup and for dessert my signature Apple Pie! I mended all the clothes (I worked extra hard on my favorite work dress. The children are asleep so i’m going to haul water for laundry. The laundry is done and and the family is here. I have had the best day ever! Tomorrow I teach the children to read, also next Wednesday all ladies and girls will quilt, make soap,and make candles! Like I said BEST DAY EVER!!!!!

Goodnight,

Lexi