A Super Imaginative Tale

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Have you read Redwall? I devoured this 300+ page tale after my friend introduced it to me. I love ♡ the characters and the plot. The author Brain Jacques is so imaginative.

Redwall is about a mouse whose name is Matthias. He is an orphan that lives in Redwall Abbey.  His quest is to get the famous sword of Martin the Warrior and kill Cluny the Scourge. In this story, some of Matthias's friends die, which is kind of sad 😢, but there are lots of happy parts 😊, too. 

Redwall is a great tale. The book is divided into three sections called "books": The Wall, The Quest, and The Warrior.

This book is full of adventure and is action packed. I love the way you can see the characters in your mind. Brain Jacques is such an imaginative author.

Brian Jacques wrote Redwall  for children at a school for the blind in Liverpool, so he focused strongly on descriptions. That must be why you can see the characters in your mind. After that, an English teacher read Redwall, and showed it to a publisher without telling Brian Jacques. This resulted in a contract for the first five books in the Redwall series and a dedication to the English teacher in the front of several Redwall books. I think it is funny that someone showed Brian Jacques' work to a publisher without permission,  He must have been upset at first.  (I would be really mad if I were Brian Jacques 😠.)  After that, though, I bet he was happy. 😀

SPOILER ALERT

In this book, I like how Cluny is crushed by a the St Joseph's bell.
I don't like how Methuselah and Abbot Mortimer die in the book.


I really enjoyed Redwall and think you would to

Have you read Redwall?

Please tell me if you like Redwall.

You can learn more about Redwall at the Redwall website.
   

Check Out What We Did at D.I.!

Hi, guys!

Some of you might know what D.I. is.  For those that don't, D.I. is Destination Imagination.  It is a competitive program where you work for months on a challenge and then compete others who chose the same challenge. 

This was my first year competing.  My team chose the tech challenge.  Here we are before we competed:

On the day of competition, we got to the contest, ate, watched a few other teams, and, then. got into our instant challenge. (Sorry, we can't tell you about that yet.  We are sworn to secrecy until Memorial Day.) Then, we went to do our team challenge.

This is us during the challenge:

In our challenge, we had to make a stage that used a technical method to move someone from one spot to another.  We also had to have two tech effects, one in our opening act and one in our headlining act.  We also had two choice elements.  Ours were a waterfall/projection screen and our stage design.

For our stage, we combined everyone's ideas into one, so we had a football field, a wrestling ring, and two jungle islands with a waterfall all at a circus.

We were surprised at the end of the day, because we came in third place!  (My mom did not even think we would place.  She was happy for us just to get to the competition, but, I wasn't.  I wanted us to place.)

Bye!
Luke

P.S.  I am sorry it has been so long between post again.  Life is super busy, and I have been doing other things.  I have a Youtube channel now where I post Mincraft, Kodu, and Civ videos.   I also just had other things to do.  I want to post more here now again.  Please tell me what you'd like to hear about.

 

Geo Club

Hi, I am back. This past Wednesday my family, friends, and I did Geography Club. 

    
 We made paintings inspired by Georgia O'Keefe, because she lived and painted in the area we were studying for a while: the Western Mountain states.  She used desert scenes and a lot of color. 

These are my two paintings:

This painting is of a scene from homesteader times in Montana.  I had done a report on homesteading.

This one is from a desert.  It has a lavender sky, because Georgia O'Keefe liked lavender skies.
 

This is Nina's one.  She writes sometimes at Nina Beth Creates.

This one is Jack's.

 

Mommy made this one.

 

My friend did this one.

My friend's mom made this one.

 We all  had a lot of fun and made beautiful paintings.

Byyyyyyyye!

Have you had a Geo Club?

Make A Space Ship

Sorry for not writing.

We made rockets.This is me making mine.
    

It was hard work but it paid off. Our things were great. This is us and our things.

Aren't they great? I thought that my friends made very great spacecrafts. Mine is called HMXguner600. Isn't that a good name? I thought it was super good. This is a closeup of the HMXguner600.


     

I had a lot of fun and saw some friends.

I would love to see your spaceships!

My Favorite Video Games

My favorite video games are Civ5 and Minecraft. 

I like Civ5 because you build a civilization, you get to build wonders, you get to go to war, and you own empires in the world.

Minecraft I like because you can create almost anything in it.  There are two options.  You can play "creative" and "survival", but those are just the basic two.  There is also "adventure" mode.

I own Civ5 and have played it alone, with my dad, and with a friend.  I own Minecraft and have played it with friends.  I have also read about it.  There are awesome novels and how-to books about it.  I also like watching a guy called Stampy Cat.  He plays Minecraft and makes youtube videos about it.  These videos are just for entertainment, but I learn from them, too.

BYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYE!

What are your favorite video games?

Animal Cemetary

Hi, again.

Sorry about how long it has been since my last post.  I was busy.

Meanwhile, could you guess what this is:

It is a toad's grave.  My sister made it for a toad that was squashed by a car.

Do you see the top rock?  What is it shaped like?*

 

This is the name of the cemetery that we built for animals like the toad.

 This is the graveyard.  We made it with stones from the parking lot that the toad had been squashed in.

I had the idea to lay down palm branches and my friend is laying them down in the picture.  (They are not really palm branches.  They are ferns.)

We buried a few inchworms in the cemetery we made, too.

BYE!

*P.S.  Here's the answer about the stone on the grave.  It looks like a heart.

Have you ever made an animal graveyard?  Tell me what animals you buried in it, please.

Luke the Soldier

Now for a story...

Once upon a time, there was a soldier.  He was the general.  His name was Luke.

General Luke began a battle.

Boom! Bang!  Boom!  sounded the cannons.

Boom.  Boom.  Bang, went General Luke's gun.

Bam!  Boom!  Boom!  Bang!  Again, the cannons roared.

  General Luke's troops won the battle.

The next battle holds another story, but for now, Luke is strong.

The end.

The photos for this story were taken at The Old Colony Historical Society Museum. I was there for a scavenger hunt field trip.  We got there before a few other families, so we had some free time to look around and try on soldier's suits.

After the field trip, I put on the soldier suit again for more photos.

The museum had a few things upstairs to touch, too:  a canon and a school bell that I rang.  Putting on soldier suits, wearing a canteen and holding a gun is fun.  Pretending to fire the cannon was, too.

I like history.  Do you?