Wednesday, July 6, 2011

July 6, 2011-Travel and Reading Day

Hi all.  I hope that you will take advantage of the reading deal at Barnes and Nobles.  If you read 8 books,then you can turn in the names of those books and get a new free book.  My daughter got her book before we left Fayetteville.  She chose the book, Batboy by Mike Lupica, a #1 New York Times Bestselling author.  I wanted to read this book because, #1, my daughter said it was good and #2, it is set in a town with a major-league baseball team.  I was thinking of the Naturals in Springdale. 

I travel to Aruba, an island in the Caribbean Sea today.  It is 14 miles north of Venezuela.  Read about Aruba online.  Ayo means goodbye i the Aruban language.

Tuesday, July 5, 2011

July 5, 2011-Finished

I hope your 4th was as fun as mine.  I am in sunny and hot Arizona and then traveling tomorrow to sunny, hot, and windy Aruba.  I finished Jerry Spinelli's Fourth Grade Rats.  This definitely will be a 4th grade book club in the fall and maybe a third grade one in the spring.  It is a story of growing up and acting a certain way due to your class at school.  The main character, Suds, finds out a lot about himself at the beginning of 4th grade.