OR Blog #22: Today, I read an article from DANCE magazine called "Start Out Right". It's about how you should do a warm-up before the day so you won't pull a muscle. The article is mostly about dancers being able to stay agile in the winter, but I think it works with anybody, it doesn't have to be dancers. One recommended exercise is pilates core work like 100s. The article says to start out slow, like 10 crunches, and then gradually increase the number. I think it's a good idea to do some exercises in the morning so you stay healthy and fit. That's what I read for today.

OR Blog #21: Today I'm blogging about the All My Sons movie we watched in class last week. I thought the movie was kind of depressing, but I guess that's what the book was like too. The ending in the movie felt a lot different then the ending in the book. In the book when Chris says he didn't mean to and then Kate tells him to go live his life and everything would be o.k. it didn't seem that emotional, but in the movie you can see how upset Chris is and how he's crying and how Kate is trying to comfort him. I thought the ending in the movie was more sad than the ending in the book. That's my blog for today.

OR Blog #20: Today I read a poem from Shel Silverstein's book Where the Sidewalk Ends. The poem is called "Sick". This was probably the first Shel Silverstein poems I've read. I remember in one of my classes, the teacher read this one aloud to us. It's about a kid so is going on and on about how he/she is sick and at the end when they realize they don't have school that day all of a sudden they feel so much better. The last few lines of the poem are, " What's that? What's that you say? You say today is . . . Saturday? G'bye, I'm going out to play!" The illustrations are always fun to look at. In this one there is a giant bed and all you can see of the kid is his/her eyes and the top of the head. That's what I read today, Wednesday December 17.

OR Blog #19: Today, I read an article form Popular Science. The article was entitled "Killer Connection". This article was kind of creepy because it was about serial killers and how new technology can identify the remains of the victims. "If people only knew how many there are... If you go back even 20 years, there are literally hundreds if thousands if families who have missing loved ones" said a researcher. The article says that there are at least 2 serial killers per state in the U.S. Scientists are now using DNA samples from relatives of missing people to find out if they are related to any of the serial killer's victims. I just think this stuff is really gross. How could someone just kill someone at random and not feel guilty and keep killing others. You would have to be really messed up to do something like that. That's what I read for today.

OR Blog #18: Today I read another poem by Shel Silverstein from his book A Light in the Attic. The poem I read is called "Here Comes". It's about how short summer seems. I think that's so true because when you're just hanging around in the summer all of a sudden school is starting again. The last line is "Woosh--shiver--there it goes". That's what I read today for outside reading.

OR Blog # 17: Today, I read a book called Five Minutes' Peace. It is a children's book written by Jill Murphy. It's about a mom who has been very busy and just wants to relax a little. But her kids keep bothering her and not letting her relax, or have "five minutes' peace". I kind of feel bad for the kids because throughout the book their mom is ignoring them. On the other hand, I feel bad for the mom because she doesn't get to rest. I love the illustrations in this book. They're so bright and colorful. That's what I read today. 

OR Blog #16:  For this outside reading I read from Jump Rope Rhymes, Nothing But the Classics.

I remember in elementary school, at recess when we would always jump rope and when I saw this book I wanted to try and find the songs me and my friends would sing. I found a couple of them. One was where it started with "Cinderella, dressed in yellow.." and the other one I found started with "Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear, turn around..." There's a lot of different rhymes that I haven't heard of. That is what I read for outside reading today.