A Poem about January

January

By Jasun Chen

The sky's a white blanket,
covering everything from chimneys to trees,
it covers everything ,
to as far as the eye sees.

Happy faces are here and there,
and so are fireworks,
A family sits together,
as one reads a book.

Kids catch snowflakes on their tongue,
and have fun snowball fights,
people go see white mountains ,
and other a snowy sights.

I like to drink hot chocolate,
near the fireplace,
as it warms up
my cheerful happy face.

1/9/08 Today at school

Today At School
"Ding Ding Ding"rang the bell. My class went in. First, we did some math on the white board. Then we corrected some math homework. After that, Mr. Manchester our teacher told us about the math team. He would choose 4 students from the class for the math team. He would choose 4 students for the math team by seeing which one of us is the best math person. To add to our chances to get in the math team, he is giving us a test. Which he gave us and after that it was recess.

During recess I played with my friend Jasper. Jasper and I played Star Wars. Next the bell rang and we went in.

SSR(silent sustained reading) was next. I'm reading The Horse and His Boy.We read for about 20 min. Then we had our DOL Quiz and Wordly Wise test. When we were done we read some more.

Some time later, it was Music. Mr. Manchester dismissed us by our tables. During Music my music teacher Mrs. Gray taught the whole forth grade Jingle Bells. And after that it was Lunch.

For lunch, I ate a chicken bake. During lunch recess I played with Jasper again.

Next was science lab. For science lab, my class studied rocks. We look at the rocks texture and streak. We went back to class.

When we went back to class and we had read aloud. After that Brian passed out cookies and I went home.

Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing

The name of a book I read is Tales Of a Fourth Grade Nothing by: Judy Blume. The story takes place in modern New York. The characters are Peter,a 9-year-old boy, and his brother Fudge, a 2-year-old boy. The problem is that Fudge keeps on messing up everything and gets all the attention, and makes Peter fell like nothing.
For example, at the park Peter's mom leaves Fudge and puts a girl named Shelia Tubman in charge of Fudge. Then Shelia goofs off and plays and Fudge climbs to the top of a playground and tries to fly. But he can't so he fell down and knocked his two front teeth out. But Peter's mom blamed Peter even though Shelia was in charge of Fudge. This made peter feel like nothing.
Another example of Fudge getting all the attention and making Peter feel like nothing is when they went to the dentist and the nurse pays more attention to Fudge than Peter. Then Fudge won't open his mouth and the dentist uses Peter to make Fudge open his mouth. This makes Peter feel like nothing.
At the end of the book. Peter's problem is solved when Fudge eats Peter's turtle. . And he goes to the hospital and everyone pays attention to Fudge but when they get the turtle out, Peter's parents realized that they been letting Fudge take all the attention and to make it up to Peter they get him a dog. Then Peter feels like something.

Bankrupts

The economy is falling apart because of stores going bankrupt and banks also. Most adults know this, but children? Most children do not know because no one tells them. So I'm going to tell you children but adults you already know this. A bankrupt happens when not enough people go to a store. So the store doesn't make that much money. So the problem is that the store owner needs to pay for everything[products, A.C.,employees,and e.t.c.]. Then the store does not have enough money. Now you might be asking,"But what causes customers to not buy products?"The answer is TAXES. PEOPLE ARE GETTING TAXED MORE AND SO THEY WANT TO SAVE MONEY. So they stop spending that much money and stores lose money. And the store closes down.
There is another type of bankrupt. It's the one about banks. When people loan money they take money from a bank because they want a house but they have to pay the bank back per a month, the money given to the bank is called mortgage. And the person also haves to give some extra money because the bank wants to earn money. Some banks failed to check the persons background and how much money they earn. So when the person fails to pay back the bank the bank takes the house. So say a person uses a loan from the bank to pay for a $500,000 house. HE fails to pay the mortgage and the bank takes the house but the house is only $300,000. So the bank loses money. And it also closes down.
There are people who try to save stores and banks. Some succeeded and others failed. But I won't be getting into that now.

The Great Earthquake

The eager earthquake trembled like a mad man. Buildings toppled on to the ground. The noise of the distance screams and falling buildings was so loud my head almost popped off. The earth shacked like the world was going to crack in half. Cracks in the earth dashed toward you like lighting striking. The toppling towers fell like books pushed over. Fired raced for things like racers trying to get to the finish line. Everyone ran like a evil lord has come back alive and is destroying everything in sight until it was a wasteland. Electric wires from building shocked and sprayed shocks every where and burned. After the quake people were as happy as kids after Christmas Eve.

Disneyland, California

October 24, 2008, the night I went to Disneyland. My family and I [my mom, my dad, my brother, and my grandparents] got there right before 9:00. At Disneyland, people were getting ready for the fireworks. A loud speaker announced the fireworks were going of in 15 minutes. We went onto this ride that flew in the air. But 20 minutes later the fireworks hadn't started yet for some reason. Finally it started and my family and I tried to find a good place then after a while we found one. After the fireworks, we went to the "Haunted House". When we got home it was midnight. After a long night I went sleep.

Today at school

Today I got to the door just in time. We went in and got out our instruments and the first thing I did was look at the agenda and music was the first thing in the morning .I got out my homefun [what Mr. Manchester calls homework] and then got my whiteboard and started to do the questions on the board. Then Mr. Manchester told us to go to music.
At music I got out my name tag and my book. The teacher talked to us what to do with these cotton balls we received a long time ago. We also played a song in our book. She then talked to us about our hand positioning.
Then after music we went to science lab and today where learning about seeds. We talked about the parts of a seed [which is the seed coat, the embryo, and the food supply]. Then we got our seeds and measured them. We also got a wet seed and measured that.
After recess we had SSR. I had finished a book so I got a new one. Then we did some pages and corrected our math homefun form last night. I thought it was hard. Then we had language arts and we wrote about a giant ship crashing through a small canal. Then we had lunch. I talked trough the time while we were eating. Then when we went out to play I played tag with some people. Then the bell rang and we went inside. Then we got ready to go home and did our jobs. Then Mr. Manchester told us to go to computer lab. We did our science and math test on the computers. Then after we were down with that we went to freerice.com. Then it was time to go. It was a great day.

Billions

This is too true to be funny.

The next time you hear a politician use the word 'billion' in a casual manner, think about whether you want the 'politicians' spending YOUR tax money.

A billion is a difficult number to comprehend, but one advertising agency did a good job of putting that figure into some perspective in one of it's releases.

A. A billion seconds ago it was 1959.

B. A billion minutes ago Jesus was alive..

C. A billion hours ago our ancestors were living in the Stone Age.

D. A billion days ago no-one walked on the earth on two feet.

E. A billion dollars ago was only 8 hours and 20 minutes, At the rate our government is spending it. While this thought is still fresh in our brain...let's take a look at New Orleans.It's amazing what you can learn with some simple division.

Louisiana Senator, Mary Landrieu (D) is presently asking Congress for 250 BILLION DOLLARS to rebuild New Orleans Interesting number...What does it mean?

A.Well.... If you are one of the 484,674 residents of New Orleans(every man, woman, and child),you each get $516,528.

B.
Or... If you have one of the 188,251 homes in
New Orleans , your home gets $1,329,787.
C.
Or... If you are a family of four...
Your family gets $2,066,012.

Washington, D. C
HELLO!
Are all your calculators broken??

Accounts Receivable Tax
Building Permit Tax
CDL License Tax
Cigarette Tax
Corporate Income Tax
Dog License Tax
Federal Income Tax
Federal Unemployment Tax (FUTA)
Fishing License Tax
Food License Tax
Fuel Permit Tax
Gasoline Tax
Hunting License Tax
Inheritance Tax
Inventory Tax
IRS Interest Charges (tax on top of tax)
IRS Penalties (tax on top of tax)
Liquor Tax
Luxury Tax
Marriage License Tax
Medicare Tax
Property Tax
Real Estate Tax
Service charge taxes
Social Security Tax
Road Usage Tax (Truckers)
Sales Taxes
Recreational Vehicle Tax
School Tax
State Income Tax
State Unemployment Tax (SUTA)
Telephone Federal Excise Tax
Telephone Federal Universal Service Fee Tax
Telephone Federal, State and Local Surcharge Tax
Telephone Minimum Usage Surcharge Tax
Telephone Recurring and Non-recurringCharges Tax
Telephone State and Local Tax
Telephone Usage Charge Tax
Utility Tax
Vehicle License Registration Tax
Vehicle Sales Tax
Watercraft Registration Tax
Well Permit Tax
Workers Compensation Tax

Oh yeah, I forgot Welfare recepients are pretty much tax free!!
STILL THINK THIS IS FUNNY?

Not one of these taxes existed 100 years ago...And our nation was the most prosperous in the world.

We had absolutely no national debt...We had the largest middle class in the world...And Mom stayed home to raise the kids .

What happened? Can you spell 'politicians!'

And I still have to Press '1' For English. I hope this goes around the U S A At least 1 Billion times.

What has happened?????

Puzzle of the day

There are there men, one of whom is blind. They go into a dark room with 5 hats, 3 of them white and 2 black. Each men takes a hat and walks out. None of the men can see their own hat The first man looks at the other to and says I don't know what color I have on.The 2nd guy looks at the other two and also says I don't know what color hat I have on. The 3rd guy is blind and based on the other 2 said before him,he says I have a white hat. He's right.

How does he know?

Puzzle of the day answer

The blind guy knows he's wearing white because if guy number 1 says is" I don't know" it means that Guy number 2 and himself can't both be black. Then guy number 2 knows that based on what guy number 1 said, it means that they both can't be black so if the blind guy is black , guy number 2 knows that he is white, but he says "I don't know" because the blind guy is white. Which gives the blind guy enough information to know that he is white.