Week 11 Review

During week 11, we celebrated St. Patrick's Day.  Almost every year since kindergarten I engineer a leprechaun trap.  This year, I was given the assignment to create a leprechaun trap with my little brother.  This is what I came up with.

It's a shoe box, with a door cut into it, and a sign next to the door that says, "Disco ball with gold this way."  Then I taped a flashing green 4-leaf clover pin on the inside top of the lid.  On the floor was double sided extreme sticky tape, disguised with crystals and gold (the foil from my mom's expensive chocolate bar).  My idea was that the leprechaun would be enticed into the box and then stuck to the extreme double-sided tape.  But instead he left me rainbows and gold (Skittles and Hershey Nuggets).  I'm not complaining!

Also during week 11, I had 12 vocabulary words from two books I recently finished: George Washington's Spy and The Illustrated Tom Sawyer.  I decided to be festive and write a story about Leo the Leprechaun using my vocabulary words.  Here's my story:

LEO THE LEPRECHAUN

Leo was about to play a sneaky trick on this boy, when he noticed an edifice with gold inside.  He went inside, and no sooner had he, when the doors snapped shut and a very wily, snot-nosed kid grabbed him.  While the vane boy shouted for joy, Leo thought of his options.

One:  He could plummet to his doom.

Two: He could plea for the boy to let him go.

Three:  He could play dead.

It was very hard to think with snot all over him.  Leo wished he could decimate all that snot, but his conscience wouldn't allow him to.  Meanwhile, thought Leo, the village was dancing, having fun, and enjoying the balmy weather at the St. Patrick's Day festival.  

When the boy finally calmed down and came back to Earth, Leo tried plan 1, 2, and 3.  The boy caught him on plan 1; said no on plan 2; and just poked him a lot until Leo stopped playing dead on plan 3.  

Leo quickly asked the boy what he wanted.  "An x-box 1!" said the boy.  Leo gave him the gold to buy an x-box 1 and started running.  That was when a second snot-nosed girl grabbed him!  

Leo asked what she wanted.  "A barbie!" she exclaimed.  Leo gave her the gold to buy a barbie and then ran even faster back to where his village was celebrating.

When the whole village asked him where he had been, he told them his harrowing story.  At first they all thought he was crazy!  When he finally got them to believe, they were flabbergasted and then started laughing with frivolity.  Leo felt sheepish.

The End

Some other things I did during week 11, include:

• Learned about the Spring Equinox (it's officially spring y'all!).
• Started to learn about the Three Branches of US Government.
• Explored a new book about Ben Franklin and science.
• Learned about stocks, bonds, and investments with my Dad.
• Filmed 4 scenes in my stop motion book report.
• Completed a lot of iXL math and language arts.

Happy Spring!

Ollie and Mom - Out