Nika's Travel Blog

HALLOWEEN

History of Halloween

Originally the name was Samhain Festival, when people would light bonfires and wear costumes to ward off roaming ghosts. This is where Halloween originated from.

In the eighth century, Pope Gregory III designated November 1st as a time to honor all saints and martyrs and it was called 'All Saints Day'

The evening before All Saints Day was called All Hallows Eve.

Now instead of All Hallows Eve it's just called Halloween and now instead of trying to ward off ghosts its now just a fun friendly kids event.

Facts about Halloween

USA growers produce 1,500,000,000 pumpkins per year.

The world's biggest pumpkin weighs more than 1700 pounds and that would be like lifting 20 Nikas!

Pumpkin is very good for you

in the 19th Century peoplee thought pumpkins could cure snake bites, freckles, and facial wrinkles.

there are 30 varieties of pumpkins. the one you carve at home is a connecticut field pumpkin.

On Halloween the idea with the pumpkins you have carved is that you put it on your porch on the evening of October 31st and mischief makers have 4 hours to try to smash it.

I am not putting mine out because I want to keep it!

WHY PUMPKINS?

Because back in the 8th Century, when Halloween was called All Hallows Eve, people put bread, pumpkins, and other food on their porch to feed the ghosts to keep them out of their houses.

Over time, it became just pumpkins.

WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO FOR HALLOWEEN

We bought the perfect pumpkins and we're going to carve them. We bought them from the pumpkin patch ,and we're going to a party, we are going to dress up in costumes and have fun.

We also decorated the house and had a party!

Memories of Tour so far

Niagara Falls is in New York State, Times Square is in New york City. Times Square is in the middle of New York City and I really liked it because it had the biggest toy shop in the world.

We also went up the Empire State Building it was soooooo high and I loved it but mum was really scared but at least she did it.

I've met a lot of friends on tour, and here's their names and where they are from.

Ellen is from Ohio

Cassidy is from Texas

McKenna is from Cadiz, Kentucky - we wtahced movies in the cold and had lollies.

kayla and lauren from la Porte Indiana

my buddy Blake lives in Mississippi.

In California we visited Disneyland.

In texas we went to Gale and Faith's pool and I jumped off a diving board into a nine-foot pool, it waseven over mum's head and I also learned to swim with flippers.

It was HOT!!!

that's the memories of the tour so far.

Nanny McPhee

Movie Review / questions

1. Outline the Plot of Nanny McPhee.

At the start there are 7 children that are very naughty. Nanny McPhee comes and teaches them lessons.

At the end the children learnt all their lessons and Nanny McPhee has to go.

Their mother died and the father has to marry a horrible person but he ends up marrying Evangeline his servant but she's very nice.

2. List the main characters in the movie and write down one thing that represents each character.

Simon - very naughty but nice at the end.

Tora - Nicest but a little bit naughty.

Aggy - very cute and not naughty one bit.

Nanny McPhee - Teacher of all, magical

Chrissy - Almost stolen and one that carried Aggy to the crock pot, but nice.

Lily - The one that almost put Aggy in the crock pot.

Eric - inventor

Sebastian - hungriest, loves food.

Papa - father , very nice

Evangeline - papa's servant and scullery maid.

3. Tell me why you like the story of Nanny McPhee so much.

Because Nanny McPhee becomes beautiful as the children learn their lessons.

4. Draw one of your favorite scenes from the movie.

MINNESOTA

One day when we were on tour we went to Minnesota to play a concert. I met a really nice girl called Natalie. She's tall and has blonde hair and earrings and she is very pretty.

I also met another girl called Brooklyn, she's medium sized and has brown hair but I forgot is she has earrings or not and she's very pretty too.

I also met a woman named Bridget who was very nice - she even let me go on her back to see dad in the concert and he ended up seeing me.

I also met a woman called Molly but she calls herself the Cheeseball Chick because she has a jar full of cheeseballs that she carries around and the jar has a dispenser that she made.

She was also on Wipeout, a cool but painful TV show.

The concert was held in Long Prairie Minnesota. 3000 people live in Long Prairie and it's very close to Canada and because it's very close to Canada it's cold.

We went to a bowling alley for lunch and we even got to do some bowling, even thought I used a ramp I still didn't get a spare or strike but I had fun anyway.

THE END

BASICS OF FRENCH

BASICS OF FRENCH

Hello - Bonjour

Hi - Salut

How are you? - Ca Va?

I'm good Thanks - ca va bien, merci.

My name is Nika - je m'appelle Nika

I'm 7 years old - j'ai Sept and

I would like to go to Paris - je voudrais aller a la Paris.

THE TWO HEADED MONSTER

Task - write a story with 3 or more characters. use the following words in the story -

Excited, nervously, together.

THE TWO HEADED MONSTER

The two headed monster was excited to go meet some new friends. It's a boy and a girl joined together but it's a monster.

It arrived in the first city but it was all shut so they went to the next city, but it was all shut too.

And then finally they went to the last city and it was all open. The two headed monster was extremely excited so they walked through the city.

But everyone else walked nervously until a little girl said "I want to be friends with you". The two headed monster was more happy than ever before, from that day on they did everything together, nothing alone.

The End.