Tiger math

Tiger math is about a Siberian Tiger who's Mother, without warning, died of cancer (and learn graphs from the tiger cub, who's name, by the way, is T.J.). Poor T.J. had no one but the Sheila, the tiger keeper, and Cindy, a vet assistant at the animal hospital, to take care of him, so it was up to them to do it. Their goal: get him as big and healthy as his father, Matthew, was at his age. It was hard to reach it, but, eventually T.J.'s condition was just as good as his father's. About the math? well, this book explains graphs using things about T.J. and tigers in general. for example, there's a pie chart that shows the number of different types of tigers on the globe (the whole thing representing tigers in general). My opinion of their method is, "Excellent!"

39 Clues, book 2 (first half)

The 39 Clues!

I chose to do "One False Note" as its called (book 1 is "The Maze of Bones") in I/IIs, so its not all of the book. OK, now U get that, so lets explain the book. The 39 Clues is about Amy and Dan Cahill. The Cahills are the most powerful family on the face of the globe. They have been fighting for ages and, to me, seem to have no idea what Peace is. ☢=☑ Oᵒ%oO☮=?

Questions from my mom:
Each book has some historical figure that it teaches you about. What person is featured in this book and what did you learn about him or her?
The person is Mozart and Mozart's sister Nannerl. I learned that Nannerl would have become as great as Mozart if women were more allowed to be musicians back then. I think I learned that Mozart was a prodigy.

What do you think is going to happen in the second half of the book?
They were in Venice when I stopped reading. We last left off at a place that it is hard for me to guess from.

Is your favorite character still Dan? Why or why not? (give examples)
My favorite is, yes, still Dan because he's still silly enough. For example, he was trying to operate a boat in Venice and he said he had a lot of experience because he had played a lot on X-box! After he bumped into someone, he said it was better to think of bumper cars. But he ended up being pretty good at it!

Do you think you want to read book 3 when you finish this book? Why or why not?
I'm not sure. I think yet again that I'm not quite at the point where I'm ready to say that yet. I do like the books, especially Dan's jokes, and I kind of like the cat-and-mouse aspect of it, but I might find that we leave off on a really so disturbing part of it that I'm starting not to like it as much, like the way that people are unkind to each other or the way that someone blasts the over violence aspect into existence. And I might just be reading other books too much.

But I will definitely write about part 2.

TO BE CONTINUED....

Do Re Mi: If You Can Read Music, Thank Guido D'Arezzo

Do Re Mi: If You Can Read Music, Thank Guido D'Arezzo

Do Re Mi is a informational book about Guido D'Arezzo, who created Written Music. It all starts out when young D'Arezzo took singing class. A thought popped up in his head saying "some songs may be forgotten forever!" Many people had tried write music (like he successfully did) before he made it happen, but everyone either failed or never got known well enough. Guido Blasted the Barrier to Bits. Even though Guido's original staff had 4 lines,
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and the modern one has 5,
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he still is known as the man who made written music come true. Amasing, right?☺

Polar Bear Math: Learning Fractions with Klondike and Snow

I didn't have a lot of time to write about this one, so that's why it is kind of brief.

Polar Bear Math is a math book that uses the help of two baby (in the beginning) polar bears that were abandoned by their mother to explain fractions.

They talked about how to take care of the bears and they also helped you learn fractions in the doing of that. For example there was one that said that the bears had to be fed 1/12 of their total food 12 times a day. And then they said stuff like what fraction of a week does one person get it out of the three people that cared for the bears. So one person got the bears every three days. So how many times would that person have them in a 30 day month?

I think this is a great way to learn fractions in the way that the book had the fractions and bits about the story of what happened to the polar bear cubs. The story kept me reading the math.

Afterward my mom gave me some fractions to work on and I got them done like BAM! I'm done!

The Ink Drinker

The Ink Drinker is a mystery and a Holloween-horror type book. The main character, a boy who I think it never said the name of, (why the bugonzas didn't they?) and he is left to take care of his dad's bookstore. Then the title character comes in: a dude who sucks ink out of books come into his bookstore. Then the boy gets curious about this dude and follows him out of the bookstore where ever he is going. He follows him all the way to the graveyard and finding out that he is a VAMPIRE! The Ink Drinking vampire tells him that he used to drink blood, but he became allergic to the stuff. Then he bites the boy with his ink-nib shaped teeth. When he wakes up later back at the bookstore he tries drinking ink himself and it works! Weird, huh?

This book was kind of weird, but I learned to enjoy that partly because I've read my Ripley's Believe it or Not Book (enough that I've already mentioned it in another blog post). Even though this kind of weird is a bit different--of course it is fiction and Ripley's only has stuff that is reality, even though it is still weird (yeah, duh!)

Questions from my mom:
Q: Are you an Ink Drinker? Why or Why Not?
In the book being an Ink Drinker means being someone who sucks all the ink out of books (as I already said) but in reality it would probably mean stuff like the phrase "You gobbled up that book!" Am I an ink drinker? It depends. I'd probably be getting drunk on the science section in the bookstore or library but I might want to read some other book again and drinking it means it would be all gone!

Q: Would you recommend this book to someone? If so, who and why?
I am not quite sure who I would recommend this to. Nobody specific. I liked it enough to say that someone else might enjoy it. There's a whole bunch of other ink drinker books so I might want to read those. I'll recommend it for now because of my evidence from this book but all say if I don't recommend one of them after I read some more of them.

The Werewolf Club, book 1: The Magic Pretzel

The Magic Pretzel is a book about a kid named Norman Gnormal that was raised to "be" a dog, in the respect that his parents wanted a dog, not a boy (not that I know why, it didn't say why...) and a group of kids that turn into werewolfs. Norman joins The Werewolf club (though he isn't one himself, being "half canine" helps him just about keep up with the pack) of 3 or 4 "werekids".

A few of my responses to this book were: I like it (that's almost times too broad to be on this thing) partly because it was silly like when he said, "wait a howling, drooling, barking second!" sometime near the end.
Here are some questions my mom asked me and my answers:

Q: Is this book a part of a series? If yes, do you want to read more of the books?
A: On the first one, Yes, but on the second, I have to say maybe. I might have little time since I could have too many other books to read. Wait a sec, yes, I do want to.

Q:Did you have a favorite character? Who?
A: I don't know :P

Q: What is a Magic pretzel?
A: The magic pretzel is a (completely fictional) pretzel that is supposed to take the 1/2 werewolf curse off you if you have it.