All of the Above is the last book I am reading for Battle of the Books, unless, of course the librarian asks me to read another one. This was a really quick read and was also very easy to write questions for. It was not my favorite of the three I have read for Battle of the Books, but it was still a good story. It is basically about middle school kids in an urban area who try to get into the Guinness Book of World Records by completing a huge tetrahedron project. It reminded me of the tetrahedron project I did with my 6th graders one year, but ours wasn’t going to break any world records. Anyways, good book, fast read, but not my favorite.
Archive for February 3rd 2009
Some of my fondest memories from childhood are of me, my oldest brother and our cousins running around our grandparents’ house on Sundays. We always sat in the living room during family meals and ate on card tables while the adults sat at the big table in the dining room. (We still talk about Mark and his ham and olives…that’s all he would eat.) 🙂 Since they lived on a farm, there was always plenty to do. We jumped on the hay bales after crawling through the electric fence (once I got shocked-ouch), went exploring the fields, stepping over cow patties to get to the creek at the back of the property, we shot BB guns at aluminum cans and played on the swing set they got for us (which is now a big pile of rusted junk). We also had Easter Egg hunts outside and played hide and seek. I think the big propane tank outside was base. If it was too cold to go outside we would play endless rounds of LIFE and there was another card game that I remember playing a lot with them, but I can’t remember the name of it to save my life. (It had a bell that you would ding and cards that had picture of various grains on it.) Anyways, I feel so lucky that I got to share those memories with my cousins and I am even happier that my own children have cousins that live close so that they, too, can remember Sunday dinners, birthdays, Christmases, Easters, etc. playing with their cousins. Even though there aren’t any cow patties or BB guns involved, they can make their own memories.