In The Night Kitchen

This short picture book by Maurice Sendak depicting a small child, Mickey who is mistaken for milk, in a world of his dreams where everything is monstrous, and baked into a cake. In the end of the book, in which Mickey is completely naked, he get the milk out of the jug and pours into the batter. He ends up in bed because it is all just a dream.

Today in Journalism we had a bunch of books that all had something in common and we don't know what it is. This book is one of them.

In journalism we are working with Robin. So today she read us a bunch of different books that all relate somehow but they didn't tell us how. Then she put a bunch of other books in a pile and then we had to choose one and read it. My book is Sylvester and the Magic Pebble which is about a young donkey who find a magic pebble and then accidentally turns himself into a rock and has to figure out how to turn back into a donkey.

In journalism we are going to be working with Robin to combine our journalism class with the library. Today we started by reading books with a common theme and trying to figure out what the theme was (so far no one figured out what the theme was). We read some books as a class and then each read our own book. The book I was reading was The Story of Babar (about an elaphant named Babar, who after his mother dies goes to the city where he meets an old lady and goes to school then goes back to the jungle to rule over the other elephants after the lod king dies). Tomorrow I belive we are going to discuess this more and talk about the theme that all the books have in common.

Tessa
Tessa is thirteen years old and doen’t know her height or weight. She likes to “sing dance act and ice skate”, though she said that “I do not have free time”. Tessa tries not be weird. Before living in Woodstock were she has lived for six years, Tessa lived in Brooklyn. Tessa admires her cousins Celeste and Celina because “ they are very kind and they listen to her”. Tessa says she “barely cares about money and she wants to fall in love one day” so love is more important to her than money. By the time she is thirty Tessa hopes to be raising her children. Tessa says that she hopes the “get all A’s in school so that I can have a social life”. And that is Tessa.

Meet Lily!

Lily is a 5’ 3” twelve year old.  Her favorite hobbies are playing soccer, reading, and playing any kind of sport. When she is 30 she hopes to be married and doing something that she loves. She also hopes to go to college. The people that she admires most are her brothers. Sometimes she does weird things like prank calling people on two different phones and putting them on speaker so that they could hear each other. They were arguing about who called because they didn’t know it was a prank. If Lily were an animal, she would be a dog because she likes dogs even though she is allergic to their fur.

Thanksgiving

Since I was sick and didn't know about this homework I am gonna do it now.

Every Thanksgiving I am at my moms house. In the morning my brothers and me and my mom watch the parade and then after we start to cook. Basically we cook all day and then we eat and my dad usually comes at some point during the day. Sometimes my Grandfather comes up from New York City to visit. This year my mom, my brothers and I are going to the city to visit my grandfather and his apartment is right on the parade route so we get to see it when its happening!!

Sammy

Sammy is 12 years old and she is around 5 feet tall. Sammy likes to play soccer, cook, ride horses, listen to music and read. The weirdest thing that she has ever done is jump of a cliff because she wanted to take a risk.  Sammy admires her dad just because he is her dad. When asked whether she thinks love or money is more important she said love because there would be no money without love. Sammy hopes that when she is thirty years old she will own a bakery that she wants to call Sunrise Bakery. She also hopes that she will be able to go to college when she is older. The animal that Sammy would be is a Zebra because they are her favorite. And that's Sammy!