The Hunger Games Pages 1-191

by 053575 on May 17, 2012

 

Winning means fame and fortune.

Losing means certain death.

The Hunger Games have begun…

The Hunger Games is an interesting, awesome and adventurous book by Suzanne Collins. I haven’t finished the entire book yet, but I think I’ll finish it next week. So far,  16 year old Katniss Everdeen (the main character) is from District 12, one of the poorest districts out of all the districts. She lives with her mother and her 12 year old sister Primrose (Prim) Everdeen. Katniss hunts with her friend Gale Hawthorn to get food for her family. Every year, there is something called the Hunger Games. Children ages 12-18 get their name put in. The day when people from each district pick a name out of the hat, Effie Trinket (district 12′s escort) picks Prim’s name, and Katniss volunteers for Prim to be in the games, because she’s afraid Prim will get hurt. The boy representative for District 12 is Peeta Mellark. Katniss, Peeta and the other representatives go training for the games. The winner of the previous games were from the richer districts with very good weapons and skills. Katniss still tries her best with the other weapons. When the games begin, Katniss, Peeta and a few other tributes (representatives from other districts) still are alive, while the others are killed while playing the games. Katniss finds out that Peeta is with the people who are trying to kill Katniss for getting a eleven on her training test (because it’s almost impossible to get that kind of score). Katniss wants to find out why Peeta is trying to kill her.

I really liked this book because whenever I put it down, or when I have to stop at the next chapter, I always either pick the book up again, or read to the chapter after the chapter I was supposed to stop on. The Hunger Games is also put in a movie. What I really liked about this book is when Katniss is a risk-taker and trying new things like when she volunteers for Prim and when she tries different weapons. I also liked when Katniss tries and still is trying to keep her promise to Prim, she will win, that shows she is really kind to her little sister, even though she might get killed. What I didn’t like was when Katniss got mad at Peeta for no particular reason, and also when Peeta and a few other tributes from districts 1,2 and 4 try to kill Katniss. I’m really excited for the ending and I hope Peeta and the other tributes will stop trying to kill Katniss and I also hope that District 12 wins the Hunger Games. There are also 2 books after this, they are called Catching Fire (2nd book) and Mockingjay (3rd and last book). I want to read those too. I would recommend this book to girls and boys ages 11-16. Hope you can enjoy this book as much as I do!

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Forever Four

by 053575 on May 10, 2012

Forever Four is a awesome and interesting book by Elizabeth Cody Kimmel. It talks about 4 girls Miko Suzuki, Paulina Barbosa, Ivy Scanlon and Tally Janeway the 4 are in middle school (seventh grade). There is the Prom-Queen in Training (PQuit), the Brain, the New Girl and the Actress. Miko is the PQuit and is always into fashion, at school and out. Paulina is the brain, Paulina knows what is right and knows what they need to get done. She also is trying a new school year without her best friend Evelyn because she moved to a different country. Ivy is the new girl, she tries to blend in, she’s cool, and doesn’t really mind her appearance to other people, and actually makes good friends with Paulina. Tally is the actress, she always knows what plays are coming up and sometimes doesn’t follow along with the group, but she still tries her best to keep up. They are grouped together to create a magazine for a school competition, it seems like they can’t agree on a thing. Then their biggest rival The Athletes accuses them of cheating, with their deadline looming and the school dividing behind the different groups, the four girls race to complete their first issue of their magazine called 4Girls. They meet at lunch times but it still doesn’t work, they don’t get enough work done. So Paulina decides to have a sleepover at her house to get work done, the girls finish their work on time and hand in their work and get it in on the deadline. They are so nervous if they would win or not. On the day of the voting, students from their school vote and see which group will win. When the results were in, Miko, Paulina, Ivy and Tally were so nervous. When their principal announced the winner, it was 4Girls!!! They were so happy they won. They have to make a second issue for next time.

I thought that this was a really interesting and awesome book because whenever I read it, I wouldn’t want to put it down. I think I’m most like Ivy because I don’t really care about my appearance but I’m also not the new girl. So I guess I’m sort of like Ivy. I have a good friend who is in my class and she is Alpha-Adventurer 13 (aka. Stargirl) I think she is most like Paulina because she is really smart and she’s got the brains! She also has a best friend who moved to a different country. What I liked about this book is when the girls finally agreed on something, they ended up laughing all together. I didn’t really dislike anything, but I would strongly recommend this book to girls aged 9-13. Hope you can enjoy it as much as I do!

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My PSA

by 053575 on May 7, 2012

Here is my PSA, for this unit, Sharing the Planet, we had to do a PSA (Public Service Announcement) for our summative assessment. We had to make the PSA about a child right. The child right that I did was Article 31: You have the right to play and rest. I think that it is important for children to play and rest, if they don’t, they will be stuck with work.


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Katie, batter up!

by 053575 on May 3, 2012

Katie, batter up is a really good book by Coco Simon. Katie’s Cupcake Club friends all have other activities besides making cupcakes. Mia and Alexis are on the soccer team and Emma plays the flute. So Katie tries to find a sport that suits her. Katie tries a lot of sports, like soccer, basketball and a lot of other things, but still doesn’t find her sport. She also has to handle the fact of making cupcakes with her Cupcake Club friends for her grandmother’s birthday celebration. Then one day… Katie caught a softball that Mia’s stepdad Dan threw. Katie finally knows what sport she’s good at. Katie tries out for the softball tryouts at school by following her sporty grandmothers words and she makes it! Mia, Emma and Alexis were so happy for Katie. Katie’s grandmother also had a really successful birthday celebration. Later on, Katie quits the softball team because she thought it was so much pressure. The softball coach (Coach Kendall) gave Katie’s place to Maggie (one of the popular mean girls, but also can be very nice). Maggie really wanted to be in, but she didn’t get through, now she thanks Katie so much for letting her have her place. So I think those 2 are sort of friends.

I really thought this was a good book because Katie wants to try new things like her friends and she tries something she usually doesn’t do much. I want to try and be like her sometime. I think Mia, Alexis and Emma were very encouraging to Katie when she tried and tried to find a sport. Katie also was very honest to Coach Kendall about wanting to quit the softball team, Coach Kendall was very understanding to Katie, and she was willing her to join next year. I wrote about one of the books in the series called Alexis and the Perfect Recipe, here is the link. I think that’s also a really good book, actually, all the books that I read so far in this series are good. I really like the cupcake making, they work together and get their job done. They also earn a lot of money for their delicious cupcakes. I would really recommend this book for ages 8-12. Hope you can read this amazing and delicious book soon! :P

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No and Me

by 053575 on April 26, 2012

No and Me (you might think that this is a weird name for a book, but it’s not) this book by Delphine de Vigan. I haven’t finished the entire book yet, but I’ll tell you about the parts I read. Lou Bertignac is a 13 year old girl who is 2 years ahead of her age group at school. Her friend Lucas helps her get through the day. Lou’s family is struggling to hold things together since the death of Lou’s baby sister, and her mother is distant. The last thing Lou wants to do is give a presentation in front of her class, but then while Lou watches people come and go at Austerlitz Station (she likes watching the emotion), Lou meets No, a 18 year old who is homeless. Lou chooses to do her presentation about the homeless, and she interviews No. Thats all I read so far.

I think that maybe Lou will pass her presentation about the homeless and maybe No is going to find a new family. I’m not sure what is going to happen next, but I think it will probably end happy. My favorite part so far in the book is when Lou and No met, it was sort of awkward at the same time because they didn’t ask a lot of questions about each other (if you meet someone, you always want to know more about them).

Their conversation was sort of like this (Black= No. Blue= Lou):

“You got a smoke?”

“Sorry, I don’t smoke. I’ve got some gum though.”

“Hi, I’m No. What’s your name?”

“No?”

“Yes.”

“I’m Lou… Lou Bertignac.”

“I’ve seen you here a few times before. What are you doing?”

“Watching people.”

“Isn’t there anyone to watch at home?”

“Yes, but that’s different.”

” How old are you?”

“Thirteen.”

“You got a couple of euros? I haven’t eaten anything since last night.”

Lou hands some money to No.

“Lou, what class are you in?”

“Year eleven.”

“That’s unusual for someone your age.”

“Well, yes, I moved up 2 years.”

“How come?”

“I skipped 2 classes.”

Their conversation wasn’t that long, so I’ll stop. They didn’t ask so many questions about themselves.

What I disliked…  I didn’t really dislike anything, but maybe later on in the book I will.

If you read this book and you would like to comment, please don’t tell me the ending in the comment. Thanks! :P

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Alexis and the Perfect Recipe

by 053575 on April 19, 2012

Alexis and the Perfect Recipe is a really good book by Coco Simon. Alexis Becker has always been organized and plan and set goals for herself, which is why she is in charge of the business end of the Cupcake Club (a group that she and her 3 other best friends Emma Taylor, Mia Velaz and Katie Brown created to bake cupcakes for customers and earn money). Suddenly, Alexis’s life changes, she has developed a major crush on Matt Taylor, who happens to be Emma’s older brother, then things start to get disorganized. Alexis tries to find out more about Matt, without anyone knowing, but it’s hard to keep secrets from her best friends. There is also 1 mean girl, and a nice sweet girl, but a follower of the mean girl. There is Sydney (the Cupcake club’s enemy and the mean girl) and Callie (A really sweet girl, who was Katie’s former best friend until she met Sydney, but has to follow whatever Sydney tells her to do.) Meanwhile, Alexis has to work things out with Dylan (her older sister), who’s being very bossy and rude to the Cupcake club because she asked them to bake cupcakes for her sweet 16 party, and is being picky about the cupcakes, also Dylan makes the Alexis and the Cupcake club wear a dress/gown that suites the theme of her party (which is gold and black), but Alexis found this pretty pink dress and bought it, and her sister is NOT happy about that. I won’t tell you the ending because it will just ruin the whole book. So you have to read it to find out the ending.

I really liked this book because it was interesting, and whenever I put the book down, I want to pick it up again. In this whole series that I read so far, I think I’m a mix of Mia and Emma, because I Mia is nice and caring, and not afraid to tell someone something that is true about them, and Emma is a shy girl, and I can sometimes be shy. In this series (called the cupcake diaries)  I believe there are 8 books. Here is the order: Katie and the Cupcake Cure, Mia in the Mix, Emma on Thin Icing, Alexis and the Perfect Recipe, Katie Batter Up, Mia’s baker’s dozen, Emma all Stirred Up and lastly, Alexis Cool as a Cupcake. I think there will be more, but I might be wrong. The Cupcake diaries is a fantastic series, and I recommend it to girls age 8-13.

Here’s a link to know more about the Cupcake Diaries.

Here is a video about the cupcake diaries:

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Student Led Learning Review

by 053575 on April 18, 2012

The Student Led Learning Review is about your parents coming to your class and you are guiding them around and telling them about your learning. I went with my Mom and I guided her around. I showed her my locker, Physical education, unit of inquiry, French, Chinese, Math, my blog, how to embed a widget to my blog, literacy… and we all prepared it by ourselves (now how shocking is that!) I think I done well that day.

My Mom: It is impressive what you have learned, more importantly is to understand how you learn and how you feel about it when you learn. Good to know that some subjects have more of your interest and some less. Also good to learnt from you that you know in which area you are good and which areas still need some more efforts.

I think that my learning improved, and I’m happy about how I showed my Mom my learning. I hope she enjoyed it! :)

We had a AWESOME time! :)

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Save our Home

by 053575 on April 12, 2012

Our Earth is a wonderful place with wonderful nature, animals…etc. It is also our home, and we need to care for it. I think that we don’t care for it that well, and we need to care for it more. Not caring for the environment will effect us and might give us bad health. It might cause air pollution (that effects our health) and water pollution (which also effects our health). All these things also effects animals, wildlife and the environment. All electricity (switches, light… etc), vehicles (cars, taxis, trucks…) and trash that we put on the streets or in the water are caused by US, not the animals, it’s US that’s doing it. Do we really need to use so much electricity a day? Do we always have to ride a car? Do we always have to throw trash in the ocean or in the streets because we can’t find a rubbish bin? What can we do to stop these things happening to our home? We can recycle, compost…etc. Theres also another alternative, participate in the 2012 Earth Hour event on Saturday 31st March, 8:30 pm (I’m sorry if this is late, but if you participated this year, GREAT!!! Participate next year again!) During Earth Hour, you have to switch off your electricity in your house for 1 hour and use candles or any source of light (that is not wasting electricity) instead. This idea was found by WWF (World Wildlife Fund) Australia came up with this idea in 2004. Then they got most people to do it.

I think that it’s important to live in a clean environment, and to have one, we need to care for it, so please participate in Earth Hour whenever you can each year, that will be a big help towards the environment. Thank You :) !

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Easter Holidays

by 053575 on April 1, 2012

Hi Everyone!

I’m now doing this blog post in the Netherlands (Amsterdam, Holland). I’m there for the easter holidays. In the spring, there are a lot of tulips in the fields. Unfortunately, this year the weather in Holland is not that good, there are a lot of grey clouds and not much sunshine. There are also windmills in Holland, and Holland is very environmental friendly. I’m here in Holland in the spring because I can’t be there in the summer to see my Mom’s family because I’m going on the cruise to Alaska and Vancouver. Hope  you can go to Holland sometime! :)

The Netherlands Flag:


 

 

 

 

 

The Tulips:


 

 

 

 

 

The Windmills:


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Texploration (Sound Cloud)

by 053575 on March 29, 2012

Sound cloud is a cool tool that is related to music. Textploration is about exploring new apps on the computer, or web 2.0 things. Sound cloud is a really cool tool where you can explore different kinds of music and upload your own music that you create, . You can also follow people who have a account on sound cloud. If you want to have a account, you will have to put your email address, type a password, say your name… etc. I think that sound cloud is really interesting and you should try it. You can also follow people and give people requests. If you want to take a look at sound cloud, here is the link.

Here is the sound cloud icon thing:


 

Here is how the tab looks like:


Here are my followers so far:

Hope you enjoy sound cloud, and make a lot of music for the worldwide to hear! :)

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