Tell the Raven

I just read a short story about Odysseus and his big adventure.
Odysseus is a Greek hero that went through a lot just in a battle. There was some myths in there and the pictures were very funny.

If you want to go check, click on this http://www.mythweb.com/odyssey/

I think Odysseus is pretty cool because his story is very mythical and adventurous. I love adventure stories and I like mythical stories. I like to read about heroes and I now like to read about Greeks and Greece.

I was reading an article about how teens got asked to take a survey about the hours of sleep they get. The average teen sleeps about 9 hours, and the least amount is 8. When scientists reviewed all the tests, 900 students got nine hours, while the other 2,800 reported 8. Scientists also asked students what could harm your health. Most of them said drugs, alcohol, and overly-sleep. If a person doesn't get enough sleep that could cause things like harder to learn, and physical abilities. You can get obese and sleeping can throw off your body's chemical balance.

I am reading a new book called Taggerung. It is about talking animals on a quest. I have only read 12 pages. It has very small print but so far it is a really good book. It is a adventure and fighting book. The author is Brian Jacques. My librarian says that he is a really good author so that is pretty cool. This book is a New York Times Bestseller.

So this book is about ferrets, hedgehogs and rats so far. The ferrets are trying to find a Taggerung. I don't know what that is. I think it is a lord or mighty beast. I am not so sure. But that's what it is about so far.

Tarantulas are very scary because they have hairy, long legs! The venom from a tarantula is actually weaker then from a bee sting. Tarantulas walk slow on their 8 hairy legs and insects are their main prey but they can also hunt down larger game like frogs, toads, and mice.

The Tarantula loves in the ground and there are are hundreds of Tarantula species in the worlds tropical , subtropical, and dessert regions. Tarantulas do not use a web to catch it's prey, they grab with their legs and paralyze them with venom and they bite with their fangs.

A wasp can paralyze a Tarantula with their sting and then lay eggs on the spider. Then the larvae would chow down the still living spider. The Tarantula can shed their external skeleton in a process called molting. The Tarantula can also regrow the internal organs and can regrow missing legs.

Tarantulas are carnivores and eat mostly insects. After a long meal, the Tarantula may not need to eat for a month. Tarantulas can live to be 30 years old out in he wild. They can weigh up to 3 ounces. To learn about Tarantulas go to http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/Animals/CreatureFeature/Tarantulas

Here are the teams: COLTS VS THE SAINTS. I'm very happy that the Colts are versing the Saints. Please predict who you want to win. I want the Colts to win. I started it for you so please please predict. The final game of the NFL Season for all the teams in the NFL. Well not all the teams but the Super Bowl teams.

Fact: Did you know the Colts won their last Super Bowl game at Miami, and they are going to Miami?

Drew Brees vs Peyton Manning: Who will win? Watch channel 13 or CBS to find out.

Brought to you by Goliath. The regular kid who is a Colt fan.

!!!!!!!!!!JACK I HOPE IS HAPPY!!!!!!!!! :)

Today we went on a pretty cool field trip. We went to a circus - not a real one, but it was close. Carnies, scary people, you no stuff you would see at a real circus. There were huge bunnies that looked pretty creepy, I might add. There were penguins, polar bears, ant-eaters, a giant paper bag, frogs, birds, and others. But one of the things I didn't like was the music. It was the kind of music that made you feel like your were being hypnotized. Other then that it was really cool. I want you to check it out more, so click here Zoo Zoo Circus

A 34 year old man was getting a degree in art and he had a test to make something household. So he made an alarm clock. He went around asking people what they would want to wake up in the morning to. Most of them said bacon.

So when he went home he made an alarm clock that had a wooden pig put an alarm clock in it and a cooker. He cooked bacon in the wooden pig with light bulbs and then the fan would blow the smell out the nose of the pig and BOOM you have breakfast and you woke up!

All you have to do is put in a piece of bacon the night before and then if you set your alarm to 9:!5 the bacon will start cooking at 9:05. The bacon wont spoil because the bacon that you put in is frozen and there is no burning because he uses halogen light bulbs.

Today we went to the Imago Theater, Zoo Zoo. It has different animals like ant eaters, bunnies, and polar bears. I thought some parts were kind of funny and some were not funny. My favorite was the penguins. The penguins played musical chairs and it was the funniest of them all. There was a lot of laughing and people were standing up to see. The worst was ant eaters. All they did was walk around licking the floor and people.

This is the Imago Theater Zoo Zoo: http://www.imagotheater.com/zoozoo.shtml

Today we went to the ZooZoo performance and we went with our cute little biddies. It was really fun to watch and there were many parts that were my favorite. The ZooZoo performance was kind of about a zoo. There were a lot of animals. Actually it was people dressed and acting like animals. The main animals that were in the play were anteaters, rabbits, frogs, polar bears, and penguins.

Each animal had something funny to do. Some parts had nothing to do with animals, but it was still very interesting. My favorite part was when the Anteaters would go out in the audience and lick peoples heads. It was really funny and people had lots of fun.

There was also a very funny part when the penguins would play musical chairs. It was funny because sometimes, the penguins would cheat. The polar bears would go out and sniff peoples heads. It was really fun. The frigs would hop around and be silly. The rabbits were doing something funny I guess. It wasn't that funny but the rest was very funny.

The ZooZoo performance was very funny and I really enjoyed it. And so did my buddy!

ZooZoo is a performance with neon clothes and animals. Plus, it had people dressed as animals doing acts. They dressed as frogs, polar bears, penguins, anteaters, & rabbits. First, they performed as anteaters.

During the anteater act, a anteater was at a restaurant and the waiter was also an anteater, so they started eating ants. Then, they came down into the audience! They started..."licking" everyone. But, it was just near the first row.

For the second act, it was green frogs. What happened was the frogs were jumping up and down, looking around, and then stacked on each other. I thought it was kind of dull.

Next, was the polar bears. They stood on their hind legs and roared! They were four bears at first; then when they brought out a big blue balloon, one left. A bear laid down in-between two bears, kicking up the balloon. The bear in the middle kicked it to the one on the right, then the right bear nudged it to the one on the left. They juggled it around a bit until it went to the ceiling. One bear left when the two other went into the crowd. That was my favorite performance!

Today as a field trip; my class went to the Hering Auditorium. We saw a performance entitled Imago Theater: Zoo Zoo. It was really cool, though parts of it I thought were, well, lame. We went there with our kindergarten buddies. After we arrived at the auditorium, we took our seats and the show began.

The lights turned out.

First, a snake came out. A neon green snake. Very long. And thick, too. It slithered, and twirled, and spun and weaved, and made a whole bunch of "S"'s.

Then an anteater came out and I think the set was supposed to be a diner, because the first anteater sat down, and another came out and that was supposed to be a waitress anteater, I think.

Then some guys dressed as frogs came out. This piece was really dull and boring to me because they hardly did anything!

Then the polar bearish things came. They just ran around and crawled all over the seats in the audience. Later they started playing with a large balloon that I'm pretty sure had bit of helium in it because it went up and up and up, but still slowly came down.

Today my class went on a field trip with our buddies to the Zoo Zoo Theater at Hering Auditorium. My favorite part was in the beginning when everything went black and a glowing snake came out and flew around. Then it curled up in a ball and turned blue which was cool. The rest of the show was boring so I fell asleep until the end of the show. Also I don't think my buddy liked it much either because he told me he didn't like it.

Today, we went to a Zoo Zoo Performance. It was our own zoo in Fairbanks. It was people dressed in animal costumes and they acted like the animals they were dressed as. I thought some parts were cool and I didn't like some parts as much. There were birds, a snake, frogs, anteater things, polar bears, penguins, and evil bunnies. I thought the frogs' costumes were the most realistic looking.

What I didn't understand was the audience. They were really giggly. They laughed at some things that I didn't think were funny at all. I was confused on why they were laughing. Our class only laughed at some stuff, but not nearly as much as the other people.

My favorite animal was probably the polar bears. I liked them because they had a balloon and they bounced it around and I thought that was pretty funny. They also got up on two feet and growled. They were cool.

I am glad we all went to the Zoo Zoo performence. It was very fun and I would like to go and see it another time. It was a cool field trip.

"Look out! It's the monster!"

"Raaaaaaaaugh!"

"Oops, sorry. I started in the wrong place. I should tell you the story from the beginning."

I was working in my lab and I put the last piece on. "I done it! My invention is finely complete! I shall be known as the greatest mad scientist ever! My name will be known throughout the universe! I have figured out how to reverse the aging process, and all I had to do was harness the power of 25 nuclear power plants!"

"I don't mean to be a bother sir, but I already know all this. I have been your faithful assistant for 13 years." my elderly assistant Edgar."

"Yes, I know Edgar, I wasn't talking to you."

"Then who were you talking to? I'm the only one here."

"I was talking to myself. All mad scientist do it."

"Oh. Sorry sir."

"Edgar."

"Yes sir?"

"Find me an old willing person. I need to test out my invention."

"I you don't mind I'd like to test it out. I'm getting a little long in the tooth myself."

"Okay, but don't expect too much."

"Of course, sir."

Edgar gets into the machine and I turn it on.

Did you no that Sea Turtles are going extinct? Dr. Wallace J. Nichols said in Net Geo that they were going extinct from people eating them in soups and or turtle stake.

When I read this I couldn't believe it. I was shocked. One, I didn't know Sea turtles were going extinct, and second, I had no idea that people would even consider eating turtles!

If you live in the U.S then you probably don't eat turtle, but people who don't most of the time get very ill or even die from it. Do you know why this is? Well I do, and it is not something you really want to hear, but it is our fault.

Its from the pollution in the water; it is making the fish and turtles sick and then if you eat them you can get sick as well. If you want to know more, click on this link.
Sea Turtle Soup? No Thanks!

I learned from the Chinese horoscopes that I am a tiger. What are you? Find out http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/Stories/PeoplePlaces/Chinese-horoscopes

If you are something like a panther you are vicious. If you are a bunny you aren't vicious. Have fun with the experience and you are about to be engulfed.

Today I read a story about right whales.

In 1992 a right whale was hit and killed by a passing ship now the government has a law about if your in an area where right whales are you have to slow down.

Researchers have tagged a baby right whale and named it Calvin. They have tracked the right whale and seen where it goes and what it's adventures are. One time Calvin got stuck in a net and was lucky to get out... most right whales die from caring around a fishing net.

The funny thing about it is that they found out that Calvin was a girl but chose to keep the name because it fit the right whale.

To get more information on Calvin and other right whales just click on this http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/Stories/AnimalsNature/Slowdownforcalvin

Tell the Raven is a fun site for Mr.Noon's class. We make blogs and we write about what's happening, or what's going on in our life. We usually are on this site a lot because it is a class website.

There is a story about this website and I think that it is true. Our school has a totem pole in our playground made out of red cedar wood. There is a raven a panther and something else. Sixth graders from like 10 years ago made that totem pole with a true Alaskan. The raven is on top so then it can tell the world about all the great things that happens in our school.

Greece is located in Europe on the Balkan Peninsula. Greece is the country that we are making a map of. The first map we made was the Nile River. I think the Nile River map is easier than the Greece map. There's not as much things we have to include in the Greece map, but it was tough to copy it from an official map.

Right now I'm behind. I was absent for two days so I was not able to complete as much as my classmates. I'm coloring it in right now while they are finishing up! We also have to read the chapter of Greece in our Social Studies, and then write three facts about each topic, and draw a small picture describing the facts. I think this project will be fun!

On January the 12th, Haiti was struck my an earthquake that was magnitude 7. The International Red Cross estimates that a third of Haiti's citizens will need special aid. The earthquake destroyed many houses, schools, hospitals, and the national palace of Port-au-Prince. Now, the city is without electricity or phone service.

People are very sad that this has happened and many of people have been injured. With lots of hope, those people will will get new homes. To read more about this tragic event, go to http://kidsblogs.nationalgeographic.com/kidsnews/2010/01/haiti-devastate....

A couple days ago, I wanted a hair cut. And my mom said that she will cut my hair the next time that I take a shower, she will cut my hair. But we were having toilet problems so the toilet was backing up and it was backing up into the bath tub so we can't take a shower.

So I had to wash my hair in the sink. Then I got my hair cut. I was scared because when my mom cut my bangs, she cut them too short and I thought that she might cut my hair too short but she didn't!

I really like my haircut because now it's not always in my face. I had to sit in a chair for a long time while my mom cut my hair. But my hair turned out pretty good. I think it turned out pretty good. done

Today our class went to the Museum of the North and liked at all the cool paintings. We went with different people to different stations. The second station that we went to was I think the best because it had passion and cool figurines. The first thing that caught my eye was the outhouse. The outhouse that I saw in the museum was really cool! It had license pates decorating it and little mini things. I think that, that was the coolest.

The other things that I found cool was the relief paintings because they were 2-d and 3-D. It was 2-D because it was flat but, then again it was 3-D because it was carved in and nothing was sticking out to where you can see it unless your really up close.

The thing that people thought was fascinating was the listening room but I thought that it was pretty boring. The person who made it was John Luther Adams. The only thing that I was interested in was that he had devices that went all over the state I think and the device transmitted earthquakes, morning bells, night bells, and northern lights. After a while though the sound got pretty annoying.

Today we went to the museum of the north. There were some great paintings. The building was built in a weird shape. There's a lot of workers that work at the museum. One of the people that work there said that even the building was art.

The museum was really cool. I got to see old pictures from 1956. My favorite part was the listening room. The listening room changes the sound when something happens in Alaska. If an earthquake happens the sound changes to a low sound.

I talked to Karissa about the museum. I asked her 3 questions and the first one is what she thought about the paintings.

"It looks like they took a long time working on those paintings," she said. The second question was about the listening room. "It was my favorite part of the trip," her second response to the second question. The final question was about the port a potty."I thought it was weird that someone wanted stuff on there bathroom," her final response to the last question. What she meant was that ice cream boxes, deers antlers, and other stuff were on the port a potty.

We went to the museum yesterday and when we got there it was so big and cool, and we got to look around for like a half a second, and then we were split in to different groups and shown around there was four groups and you got like thirty minutes in each group and we saw all kinds of cool artifacts.

I like all of the pictures and all the art because I love to draw, so I was thinking some day that my art would go up in the museum some day. And the coolest thing I saw in that place was a bird made out of nails. Oh no, that wasn't; the coolest thing ever was a room filed with lights and sound, and when we went out a lady talked and said to move and listen and when we did she also said to look at it close - you can see stuff, and hear bells and people singing. It was so cool.

This morning we went to the museum of the north, over by the university. We talked about the pieces of art they had. My class was put into four groups and were taken on a tour then rotated.
I was in group four. The first piece looked at was the Alaska Music Room. All the sounds were based on how high the sun was, or how high the moon. There were five different sounds and lots of colors. It made me feel nauseus. I did not have as much fun as I thought I would. I don't want to go back there again. I have more fun doing math.

I talked to a friend of mine to see what she thought of the museum. So I made some questions and started asking, "So how did you like the museum today?"

"I thought it was very colorful and enjoyed it a lot."

WWhat did you enjoy about the museum?"

"I loved it how they put so much hard work and time into the building itself, the walls weren't even strait they were diagonal."

"If you were to go back who would you take and even would you go again."

"I would go again and I would bring my friend Bridget.

Before we left North Carolina my whole family and I made new year resolution. Mine was too make it to the Junior Olympics again this year and at least get 4th place in one event. Then after we did that we had to read them out loud. Here are some of my aunt's.

My aunt Ruby said that she would stop letting her kids take money from her so much and start doing stuff for her more.

My Aunt Vivan said, lose 25 pounds and stop working so much and take a break.

It was fun to hear what everyone wanted to do this year. They also read the '08 resolutions and '09 resolutions. They were really funny. I had a great time.

This week my class went on a field trip to the Museum of the North. When we got there the class was divided up into 4 groups, in those groups we learned the different types of art besides just paintings,some of those different types of art were things like sound, real photograph,wood,an art can even be made out of and buildings! I think that the coolest kind of art that I experienced was sound! I had never thought of sound being art. People that make music are called composers.

The composer to the sound we were listening to was named John Luther Adams. We went into this room that is called "The place were you go to Listen" and they had us sit and listen to all these different sounds and when we talked about it they told us that they were coming from signals around the University campus that measure things that are happening in the environment like the amount of wind or sun light, and it even measures earthquakes. Then when they put all the sounds together it sounds like music.

I made a garden for you to see.
I planted roses for you to smell.
I grew ripe strabaries for you to taste.
I got you some birds for to hear.
I grew soft grass for you to feel.
But you did not feel my grass,
and you did not hear the birds,
and you did not taste the strabaries,
and you did not smell my roses,
and you never saw my garden.

Today we went to the museum and looked at art. The museum was awesome!!!

At the start of my experience we saw 2D, 3D, and relief. After 15 minutes or so we looked at abstract and regular paintings. I liked the 2D, 3D, and relief center but all that mostly happened was we had to listen. All that happened in the abstract and regular center was I was looking at pictures. The third center was the outhouse center, and it was entertaining. It was entertaining because I got to touch all sorts of stuff. It's not a stinky outhouse, it's a art outhouse with car plates, shop signs, and all sorts of things on it. The final center was the listening center; it was good. It was good because at the start we had to look down at the ground. Which was 1 of my fears. After that was the listening room. Once the listening room and the final center was done we got ready to go back to school.