Blog #6

"We like the things summer brings". I love to open the velvety soft hard cover and the smell of memories and sunshine fill my growing lungs. As a child I read this book in the winter, just in case I forgot how wonderful summertime was. The chalky yet colourful pictures illustrated by Roy Mckie depict dreamlike beaches and soft rolling hills. Short simple words make easy to read sentences, and your inner child come out. The children in the book all have huge smiling faces. For an I can read it all by myself book, it is extremely long, about sixty five pages, and I still love every one of them. One of my favorite things about the book Summer is the attention to the small details. Most people might think of ice cream and swimming, going to the beach, or even laying on the grass, but Alice Low includes the awakening of plants, and the presence of different animals. My favorite part about the season summer is being able to stay up super late and not having to worry about it being too dark, or getting a cold. Besides all the other great things about Summer, my most favorite part of Summer is the fact it is a Seuss book.

Blog #5

Eleven hockey games, four ski hills, and only two weeks to do it all? I guess you could say I have lived the Canadian experience. Today I am going to tell you about the one day of spring break that I got to stay at home and rest my injured knee. The day before, I went skiing at Big White and I hurt my knee, I guess you could say I am not the best skier, and it was my third time skiing, ever. My day of rest was full of television shows and a lot of unhealthy food, but what else do you do when you’re on a school break? The next day my father and I were going to go to a Vees game and I was supposed to clear out my closet before we went to the game, well that did not happen till ten-o-clock that night. I ended up staying up all night clearing out my closet, because I am moving into Oliver in the near future. Most people hate staying at home and doing nothing, but since that was my only day of rest, I enjoyed it more than a Slurpee on a hot day.