Inside a Peach Pit

Peaches, nectarines, plums, apricots and almonds are all closely related fruit trees with very similar pits. In all these fruits, the pit must be broken open to reveal the almond-shaped kernel within. In fact, this is what almonds actually are: the kernel within the pit of the fruit of the almond tree! The kernels of all these species contain high concentrations of a chemical known as laetrile. Research has shown that laetrile induces programmed cell death in cancer cells while leaving healthy cells alone. 

New Book Club

Hi everyone! We are hosting a new book club! We are reading Number the Stars and its about a Jewish girl in WWII. We are going to talk about the book, bake, giggle, and play board games. The reason we are playing board games is because in WWII the Red Cross would send the prisoners of war special Monopoly games with hidden things inside them to help them escape. Some of the most common things they would send were a map of the prison inside the hotel pieces, a metal file hidden within the board, and German currency hidden within the Monopoly money.  We are also playing a game called Spy Alley. Anyway, there are 8 people in our book club and I'm super excited. It is on Friday.

iPod (part 2)

Hi! We got our iPods! Mine is gold, Joy's is hot pink, and Graham's is red. We got it at the Apple store for $250. It has 32gb and is 6th generation. I got a really cute cover. It is sea foam green and says "smile" in cursive. The case comes withe a stylus and screen protecter. I switched from an iPad to an iPod because an iPad is kind of bulky and heavy. Our iPods are super. It took about 15 minutes to get it all set up.

Ipod touch

Hello! I'M GETTING AN IPOD TOUCH!!!!!!!! All the Clark children are selling their Ipads and getting their own IPod touch!! We are all getting the 32 GB gold 6th generation. I'M SOOOOO EXCITED!!! We will probably get it today!! We are buying it at Huppin's.

CHRISTMAS

Our aunt, uncle, and our older cousins came to have Christmas with us! They live in California and  got here on Tuesday evening. They drove. On the day after Christmas we all went skiing! for Christmas we got a TV, 2 computers, a nail set, instant oatmeal packets, money, gift cards, bath towels, a sleeping bag, headbands, an American Girl magazine subscription, and balloons.

Christmas Poems

(I didn't write these, I just found them off of the internet)  :)

Carolers 

Holly
Reindeer
Ice
Stockings
Tree
Mistletoe
Angel
Santa

Bethlehem
Amazing
Baby
Yawned

Joy
Everlasting
Son of God
Under
Stars

Silent
Night
Outside
Winter

Book club

Hello! I joined a book club! Although I HATE reading, I LOVE book club! Book club is every month. There are 8 girls in it, including joy and I. I am actually starting too enjoy reading (FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER)!  We read The Royal Diaries Book series and right now we are reading Kaiulani the Island princess. It's about a 12 year old girl who is princess of  Hawaii and her father is making her go to Egland for 1 year to do her schoolwork. We have also read Cleopatra, Princess of the Nile.

DANCE LIKE NO ONE'S WATCHING

Hi everyone! I had my first dance lesson on Monday! It was really fun and our teacher is really nice. She comes to our house and a few of our neighbors/friends come and dance too. We dance to Future Husband by Meghan Trainor We practiced a jazz routine this week and we will practice hip hop next week. I have never done hip hop before but it looks fun. This is a video of the jazz routine: (It may take a few seconds to pop up) 

Podcasting and Pumpkins

Hi everybody! I am going to start a a podcast this year! It will probably be called The Awsome Podcast. I will just be using my dad's microphone and my mom's computer. Anyway to earn a little cash, Joy and I sold 34 pumpkins from our garden. We sold them in a empty dirt lot across from some apartments. I made a sign that said "Pumpkins fresh from our garden $1 - $5." We sat there for two hours! It was worth it, we made so much money.

MADISON!!!

My dad said we could get this kitten that we really wanted! We are going to name her Madison. We are going to visit her tonight and pick her up on October 7th or 14th. She is 3 weeks old and VERY fluffy. As you can see in the picture, she is pretty small and cute. I love her soooo much!

AWANA!

Hi everyone! I recently started going to AWANA. It is like youth group except for all ages. In AWANA you recite verses, play games, and worship God! AWANA happens once a week.  I am in T'n'T (truth and training) which is 3rd through 6th grade. In T'n'T, boys and girls are separated and split up in teams. There is blue, red, yellow, and green teams. Joy and I are on the blue team along with 4 other girls. Each team has 2 leaders which you recite your verses to. You get a book full of verses and each verse you memorize you get a fake plastic dollar. I have been going to AWANA for three weeks and I have 40 fake dollars! I get 15 fake dollars for inviting friends to AWANA and I have invited 2 friends.

 

Finally!

MY DAD FINALLY SAID WE COULD GET A KITTEN!!!!! We are getting one next week. We have been looking at kittens for sale online, and we've seen a few we like. There is one free kitten we were looking at that comes with a free litterbox, littermat, food,and food dish! I want a young kitten so it stays cuter longer!

OH NO! My pet frog just ate my kitten!

Is he gone yet?!

Nail polish is my favorite snack!

KITTY!

Hi everyone! Graham, Joy, Mom, and I all want a kitten. We asked Dad if we could get one and he said he would let us know on Monday! I don't think I can wait that long! :-) If we do get a kitten these are some names we came up with:
Oreo if it is black and white.
Nugget if it is orange.
Marshmallow if it is white.
Hershey or Snickers if it is brown.

I'm back!

Hi everybody! I haven't been blogging this summer so I have a lot to say! My summer was FANTASTIC!! I went to California for two weeks and visited friends and LOTS of family! I'm now 11! I had my birthday in July. We started school September 8th, and it's going great! On the first day of school I had waffles shaped like pencils! I also went to Silverwood (a theme park in Washington).

Zendaya

I invited a celebrity to my birthday party! Her name is Zendaya. She is an actress, singer, and dancer. She stars in many Disney shows and movies like K.C. Undercover, Shake it Up, and Zapped. 

This is Zendaya.

Pencil. Check! Paper. Check! Test. Check!

 Hi it's Grace. I finished my test. It was not very hard at all. It was actually really easy! I haven't gotten the results but I think they're going to be good! I think I will get 89% of my answers right! My results will probably come back in late June.

Test

 Hi, It's Grace! We had our first day of the test! It was so much fun! The problems were really easy. I had so much time left when I finished my paper, that I checked my work and read a few pages of a book. We just did English today. I'm pretty sure I got at least 90% correct. Tomorrow we are going to study math. I'm kinda nervous because I'm not very good at math. But I'm sure it will be easy.

Test

Hi everyone. It's Grace. I'm taking an end of the school year test in 13 days, which is 4 hours long and goes for three days. The test is on math and language arts. I'm kind of nervous but every time I'm nervous it always turns out to be something NOT WORTH WORRYING.  ;)

Kites

Hi it's Grace! I finally got a new kite (well actually my siblings and I are sharing 3 kites).  We went to Sky Prairie Park to fly our kites because it's almost always windy there. One is tie-died and the others have rainbow colors.

Flextangle

I am making a flextangle for school. It's a paper toy.  I colored a flextangle template that we found at babbledabbledo.com.