Isabella’s Blog

“Marley & me” is a movie as well as a book. I haven’t seen the movie jet but I have read the book.       Marley & me is a funny book about an owner that is trying to control his dog. Marley the dog is a little bundle of energy and try’s to destroy what he can. However Marley manages to get the family closer together.He prepared john and jenny for kids and helped prepare them for the worst. It is a funny story that will make you laugh. It is also filled with real life experience.

The book is also a ” #1 New York Times Bestseller”. It is Written by: John grogan and in the film Owen Wilson plays him. It has become a very famous book and the people who read it say they thought it was a good book. The film also got good credits.

I hope you take this into consideration and read it.  

A quotation from john grogan: “The world’s worst dog will bring out the best in their family”  

1.What do you think about using a blog/ website for learning at school?

I think it is a very good idea because we can simply type our answer and still have fun while doing it. Edublogs makes it more fun because it helps us learn and we can read each others blogs. It is probably easier for teachers because we don’t have to hand it in. We just have to type it up.

I would like to be able to play games or chat to people on edublogs.

6.Do you think it is important to learn how to use things like blogs? Why? Why not?

Yes I think it is Important because it could be useful in the future.

For those of you who have not heard about molly Moon here is the short version:

Molly Moon a lonely orphan girl growing up in a terrible home with her 2 evil guardians. When one day she goes to a library and finds a book on hypnotism. Molly learns how to hypnotize and soon she is out of the house and on Broadway.

This book has many adventures that when you decide to read will fascinate you. Once you start it, it is almost impossible to stop. Molly, Rocky & Patulia (pet dog) will bring you to a world were almost anything is possible by just using hypnotism. They get chased by bad guys, they turn famous & in the second book they have to un-hypnotize all the stars at the oscars.

Please take my advice and try it!!!!   

Milo the Monkey

AARRRRRRRGGGGGHHHHH It’s not banana season yet Jojo why did you make me eat this their not ripe.

“Ha-Ha got you sucker,” yelled Jojo. “Ahhh you will pay, banana fight!” I said.

“WHAT are you boys up to stop monkeing about” growled Gorge the oldest monkey.

“But we are monkeys” Jojo and I said. Before the old grump could say anything else we jumped away threw the bushes to our secret hide out.

I’m Milo I am a monkey that lives in Madagascar with the rest of the group. I have red brown fur and dark green eyes. If you think about it I’m quite a catch too bad the lady’s don’t think so. My best friend is Jojo we look so much alike the only thing that makes us different is that he has blue eyes. We were born 2 days apart and believe me Jojo lets me know it he thinks he’s superior just because he’s two days older.

Now that you know how incredibly awesome I am lets get on with the story.  Tonight are the star sky’s and almost every body comes to them because they are always fun. If we are lucky we might even see a shooting star and that would mean good luck. When Jojo and I arrived we threw are selves over all the games and we had a blast. When we finished we found a nice branch to sit on and ate the fruits we won in the games. Jojo always won heavy lifting like seeing how many coconuts you could carry. I on the other hand was quick and swift I always won all the races.  Together we were a great team that’s why we always partnered up in sports at our monkey school.

Jojo and me just came back from the star skies and I have to tell you it was great except for that we didn’t find any shooting stars. That’s when we heard it. The blow horn the one sound that can turn an entire night around. Little did I know that this sound was going to change every thing. For you this might not mean much but for us it was a warning. This sound only broke threw the trees when one of our guards saw something dangerous. When finally the guard came of his high tree to tell us what had happened. He said every one guard your children, prepare the slingshots, make sure the traps are ready its time to go to war. It turns out our arch enemy the Malabar was trying another useless attack on us. Boy are they going to be sorry when were done.

First we got all the banana peels we could carry and threw them on the floor. Before we knew it all the Malabar went sliding. Then the slingshots threw big coconuts that thundered down on them. When the Malabar stopped sliding they stood still and took a breath that’s when we opened the trapdoor were they fell into a pit. Seeing as we didn’t have any punishment we decided to let them go with a warning. The Malabar never defeat us anyway.

Once this was over it started to rain were we lived that was not so often so some off the young ones were scared of it and hid under the tails of their mother. This reminded me of when I was still small I did the same the first time I saw those big raindrops. While I was standing there remembering my childhood Jojo said “common lets go its late we have school tomorrow.” So I nodded and followed still deep in thoughts. When I arrived at my tree and slid into my little monkey hammock. My eyes closed and I drifted into a light sleep.

Not for long…

“Milo, Milo, MMMMMIIIIIILLLLLLLOOOOOOO wake up lazy we have to go” Yelled Jojo.

What is it time for school?

“NO the river its… its… flooding!” stuttered Jojo.

What??? I quickly stood up and went to look for myself. I was astound the river had over flown and now the trees that were close to it were beginning to be pulled down stream. “Oh no isn’t that were the mothers and newborns live? Common Jojo we have to help!”

“Right behind you” he said. We quickly ran to river.

When we arrived other people were helping as well. The leaders quickly instructed us to carry the kids inland. Once we had saved about 6 babies and 2 mothers we thought the worst was over but we couldn’t have been more wrong. I turned around when I heard a lowed ripping noise. One of he tree homes near the river had just given in and was being pulled in by the fast stream. That’s when I saw it a small baby monkey was going down with the tree. Splash! The tree plus monkey were in the river. We Bora Bora monkeys have many talents but swimming is not one of them.

We all watched helplessly at the riverside as one of our people was gasping for air. The little monkey had just gotten hold of one of the twigs on a log that had fallen of and was now going down stream. Not knowing what to do she tried to climb on the log with the attempt of keeping balance. No such luck she just kept slipping and falling. Know all she could do was hold on to the almost breaking twig with her tiny fingers.

At that moment Jojo nudged me “look a vine if we can get it close enough to the river, I can hold it while you swing upside down and grab her. I can then pull you guys back up.” It was not the greatest plan but it could work. So we grabbed the vine doing as said. I tied the rope to my legs and Jojo lowered me down to the river while he stood on the tree holding the vine. While I was hanging their like a banana stalk I saw the log that she was clenching onto. I quickly offered her my hand witch she tried to grab but couldn’t. After the fifth try she finally managed to grab my pinky. Then with out hesitating Jojo pulled us out bringing us to safety.

When we got of the tree and back on the ground all the people started cheering and the mother came to us thanking us for saving her child. When every one was done whistling and applauding the leader announced us to be true heroes. Jojo and I had never felt so good about something. We took a bow and decided always to help a monkey in need.

THE END

I myself am not a big comic fan but when they are done correctly I think their okay.My favorite comics are Garfield and Wendy a German comic. I think Garfield the cat is hilarious. Most people think that comics are just silly drawings with funny speech bubbles. But if you look at a comic closely you can see all the hard work the artist put into. 

For example think of how the artists have to design the pictures. First, you have to do a basic outline of the body/character,  then  you have to make another outline! Then you can start adding details. And after that, the colors, unless of course you are working for a newspaper and dont have to use color.

If you have trouble making your own comics, like many other do, then these websites may help!

 Here is a link to the site I have described.

This site does not show you how to make one of the more modern comics but it is good for a simple comic doodle. It helps you with colors backgrounds and speech bubbles. If you are looking for something like this please check out this site. 

Here is another link

This site is more of a easy cheat. It tells you how to trace a character and make him you own.It tells you how to trace something and them change it if you want to.  

This is my last link

This link shows you not to give up when you get frustrated while drawing a comic it also explains some tools and other interesting things like step by step.

 For those of you who have never heard of ink heart I will now tell you a little about it. This story is based on a little girl named maggie who finds out her dad can read characters out of books. know this would have been really cool for her because she could just ask her dad to read out anything she ever wanted but their was a twist. First off all maggie did not find out by her dad. She found out by characters her dad had accidentally read out 12 years ago. That was not the bad part the bad part was he had read out bad guys. They now wanted him to read out gold and make them richer.

Know that I have told you about the story I can give you my opinion. I have read ink heart 1,2 and I am on 3 I have also watched the movie. The books were really good and they were written by Cornelia Funke and I think her writing style is pure genius. Don’t get the impression that this means her books are hard to read because it is the exact opposite. She makes the book so easy to read and I admire that. However in her third book I got lost at some parts but caught up quickly. There is not much I can say about this book accept that I thought it was excellent and very exciting. In fact I think the only thing I can say about it is good things.

This book is made for people who like reading about adventure and don’t mind a little bit of fairy tale. Ink heart is not big on Romance so if you are looking for that I would not buy it.

I wish I had the same things to say about the movie it was good but not great. I did not like some of the people they picked for the movie. They were good at playing their roles but it was not how the book had described them for instance the person who was read out of the book with the bad guys has long red hair and in the movie was blond with short hair. I know its not that bad but I thought they should have paid more attention to detail. One character in particular I did not like Capricorn in the book he was a very scary person that was cruel and hurt full but I don’t think they got the right person for that in the movie. Instead he seemed more crazy and weird. There were many things I did like about the movie though. I liked the place they filmed it I thought that looked exactly like how the book had put it. I also thought they got great actors for the 2 main characters and the old lady that played Elinore was perfect.

I recommend the movie but I think you should not read the book first if you are thinking of watching it. I read the book first and when I watched it I found to many things that were different and made the movie a lot worse. Same thing goes for the book just the other way around.                          

I think we all worked really hard on our roald dahl project and I think we deserve to watch the movie. In the group I was a communicator and a listener. Sometimes I’m not a Thinker or I yell like little lucy. In our project I typed,Interviewed and pasted. I think we did well because we didn’t spend so much time on pictures then on answering the question. Thats why I think we should watch the movie.

Middle school has bin pretty good so far we get more homework and we have to move around more, but other then that it’s not that different from elementary. The only thing I don’t like are all the exams.I love that we can go on the roof and other places. We also get more time in lunch recess.     

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I would like to wright about matilda because she is a very interesting child. She was adopted by two horrible people And started using all her anger as mind power. When she was a little girl she had to teach her self how to wright,dress etc..  Quickly she learned being on her own. So one of those days when matilda was alone yet again she went to the city library thats were she learned to love books. Know all she dose is read books.  

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My second choice is Veruca salt from Charlie and the chocolate factory. I would like her because she is interesting and not very known. She is a spoiled brat who gets every thing she wants and gets flushed down the garbage shoot.  

I thought hatchet was very good but not great.I think the author did a very good job writing it but I thought the story was boring at times. I think maybe the author should not have repeated the words so many times. Other then that I thought it was a great book because it was well written and interesting.I recommend it very much and hope you read it.