Un-Journaling 10

Instructions:  Create a sentence with words that begin with the letters in sentence in order.  In other words, the first word in the sentence should begin with s, the second with e, the third with n, etc.

Sam loved donuts.  Eating donuts made him feel happy and all fuzzy warm inside.  Never has he ever turned down an offer to eat a donut- you can see the results if you ever look at him.  Tuesday, he came up with a plan.  Early in the morning, he would sneak out to the local donut store and steal all the donuts before the owners came in.  Next morning, he woke up after eating donuts the whole day, and found out he was 30 pounds heavier.  Cops suddenly pounded on his door and said, "FBI, open up!"  Each of them took the rest of his donuts and then took him to jail.  

Un-Journaling 9

Instructions:  Imagine you are the owner of Widget World.  You have been hoping for a raise, since you know you've done an excellent job. However, the owner of the store isn't exactly the sharpest tack in the drawer, in your opinion, and probably hasn't even noticed.  Write a letter to the owner, choosing your tone carefully as you point out why you should have that raise.

Dear Mr. Bobothy,

I noticed you have been a bit busy with your job lately.  You look very stressed.  I believe that I did a fantastic job on our LEGO department.  So I took into consideration, that you probably have been so busy, you haven't noticed.  I ask you to please go to our LEGO department and look at the work I have done.  Then, tell me if you can see me making a raise in salary because of that.

    Thank you for taking your time to read and consider this,

Your Parter, Mr. Tim.

Un-Journaling 8

Instructions: Write ten sentences that say no in various ways, but without using the word no.

"The answer is negatory."

"I will not do that."

"NEVER!"

"Nope, find someone else."

"Nada amigo!"  (:

"Negative.  Find someone else to try your new flavor of potato.  I'm busy.

"I am about to veto your offer for the ferrari.  It's obviously blown-up."

"The answer is zilch. I haven't finished eating yet.  It's only been three hours."

"I'm still nullifying your offer for the blown-up ferrari!"

"I already said that I refuse!  I still don't want to try your new flavor of potato!"

Un-Journaling 7

Instructions" Write a paragraph that includes twenty words with double vowels.  Examples: Poodle, peep, needle.

The loud, pooch was really getting annoying.  He was a blue-ish color with some grey and he always howled at  night.  The little hound also would sneak over to my neighbors house and eat all of their flowers, weeds and plants.  One day, a poodle named Ralph moved in to the house with the annoying little pooch.  The poodle would never bark or howl, but he would peek over the fence that surrounded him, and creepily stare at us.  I have weird feelings about dogs now.

Un-Journaling 6

Instructions: A bad dude in a cowboy hat is walking into the saloon in a bad Western movie.  He;s looking dangerous and mad.  Tell what happens, creating a happy ending.

I was just about to have a fist-fight with some punk at the saloon, when all of a sudden, a bad looking horrible cowboy bursts through the door.  He looks like he is about to shoot someone.  Instead, he just said, "How ya'll doin'?  I'm Albert, the cowboy."  I looked at him suspiciously.  Anyone who's name is Albert must be kept an eye on.  Albert pronounced, "My buckeroo here is a little hurt and needs some tendin' too.  Shoot, anyone who is able to heal my horse, Buck the buckeroo, can have him.  He is as fast as lightnin'!"  A guy called Gilmore at the saloon who everyone knew, said that he could heal him.  You see, Gilmore didn't have no horse so he got one after he fixed old Buck the buckeroo. 

Un-Journaling 5

Instructions: Describe the gunky stuff that gets caught in the basket at the bottom of the sink.  Don't use the words disgusting or gross.

After I did the dishes the other day, I realized there was a monstrous smell coming from the bottom of the sink.  THE STUFF IN THE BASKET AT THE BOTTOM OF THE SINK!  I closed my eyes, plugged my nose and reached my hand down there.  I grabbed something fluffy and small.  I pulled it out and threw it out the window immediately.  It was a skunk!  It was so smelly!

  By the way, none of these things actually happened to me!  :)

Un-Journaling 4

Instructions: Write a paragraph about a cat attacking something, but don't use the words hiss, scratch, or pounce.

There was a mouse named Timothy in a barn once.  Tim always loved to chase cats and bite them and claw at them.  Then one day, there was a cat that came to the barn named Fredrick.  Freddy made sure that the mouse knew not to bite and claw at the other cats, so Freddy catapulted himself on to Tim, raked his lion sized claws on Tim's nose, and screeched/gurgled at him.  That was the lesson Tim needed, he left the barn immediately and began an organization to help homeless cats everywhere.  :)

Un-Journaling 3

Instructions:  Write a paragraph that includes at least 10 words that rhyme with be.

There once was a bee named Lee.  He always got so scared of anything, that he would always flee like a flea.  One day when he was buzzing away, he accidently hurt his knee!  So he cried to his cousin, Mr. Pea for help because he was a doctor.  But Mr. Pea didn't help him because the bee, Lee, didn't ski.

Un-Journaling 2

Instructions:  Silly is a middle-aged man who combs his remaining limp strands of hair into an elaborate swirl over his bald spot, gluing them in place with hair spray and hoping no one will notice.  Silly is a golden retriever who slinks sheepishly of the sofa whenever his owner comes home, hoping-despite the hair all over the cushion-that she won't notice he's been sleeping there.  What else is Silly?  Give three more examples.

Silly is a mailman who hates mail, and can't drive.  Whenever he delivers mail, he rips open the letters or packages and sees what is inside them.  If it is good, he steals it, but if it isn't he just tapes it over and hopes the owners don't notice.  When he tries to drive, he thinks the brake is the gas pedal and vice-versa.  He ends up having to push his mail car everywhere he goes with him.

Silly is a cook who hates food.  Silly only eats corn kernels and bites them right in half even though he has one tooth left.  Whenever he cooks food for the people eating in his restaurant, he always puts kernels in whatever they are eating even though there is a sign on the front door that says, 'No corn.'

Silly is a football player who is afraid of physical contact.  He is the running back so whenever he gets the ball handed off to him, he runs along the sidelines and when someone is about to tackle him, he pretends to faint and hand them the ball so that he doesn't have to get hit.

Un-Journaling 1

Instructions: Write a paragraph about a girl named Dot, but use no letters using a dot.  (i,j)  See what I mean?  :)

Dot's a very smart person.  She made a new kind of phone called a Dot Phone that can be used as a taser and a bazooka.  When you seem to take a photograph of a doodad, the Dot Phone can transform that target to any other kind of substance at all.  Let's say you took a picture of a rock.  The Dot Phone could transform that rock to a basketball or a cake or coffee, etc.

:)  That is harder than you think!

Un-Journaling

ATTENTION PEOPLE WHO READ MY BLOG:

In the summer, Gavin, Chloe and I are doing pieces of writing called Un-Journaling.  It is a textbook where they have different stories that you have to write about while being creative.  So (almost) everyday in the summer, in my blog I will do an Un-Journaling.  :)

The 5K

Today, not only was it the last day of school, but we also ran the 5K!  It was the hardest thing I have ever done, but it was awesome!  I didn't stop sprinting/jogging until after the halfway point!  My thighs and calfs were on fire, but I pushed through.  I ended up getting in 19'th place out of about 300 people, with a time of 26:41!  :)  The best part of all though, was getting cheered on by the other student still in the race.  It was really encouraging.

Tests

In language, I did really good on my final test.  I got 48 out of 50.  On my math test, we haven't gotten the results yet but I know the maximum questions I got wrong could be 3.  I feel really confident.  And do you know what?  I couldn't have done it without Gavin's help.  Thanks bro!  Oh yeah, and I also realized that we didn't have a science test.

End of the Year Finals

In school, tomorrow, we will have our end of the year finals.  I am VERY confident for my language finals test, 95% confident for my science finals test, but I am really nervous for my math finals test.  I have been studying with Gavin so..... you should get what I mean.  I am becoming better by studying with Gavin.  Those of you who know me really well know that math is definitely not my finest subject.  Mr. Amos has helped me a lot this year and I know it is enough, yet I still question myself.  Wish me luck!  :)

Summer

I can't wait until summer is here!  The sun shining, swimming, basketball, vacations, campfires, ice-cream, almost everything good is in summer!  It will be awesome.  We end school on Thursday, so basically, summer starts on Thursday afternoon!  :)