Christmas activities to join in and web quests.

http://www.10ticks.co.uk/christmasmathsactivities.asp
http://ghills.metamora.k12.il.us/webquest/xmas/xmasfun.htm
http://www.mes.rcs.k12.tn.us/teachers/largel/christmas.htm
http://hrsbstaff.ednet.ns.ca/nbarkhou/christmaswq/process.html
https://www.google.com.au/search?q=woodlands+christmas+webquest&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-au&client=safari
http://stjschools.org/emccurdy/ChristmasWebquest/XmasWebquestHome.html
http://ghills.metamora.k12.il.us/webquest/xmas/xmasfun.htm

Christmas stories for your listening.

http://www.storynory.com/category/seasons/christmas-stories/

Book Reviews. Please read and leave a comment.

Book Review

Title: The Secret Garden

Author:Frances Hodgson Burnett 

This wonderful book written by, Frances Hodgson Burnett is about a disagreeable girl called Mary Lennox. She was sent to live with her hunchback uncle, Craven Lennox as her father was held a position under the English Government and her mother had died from cholera when it was in its most fatal form along with Mary's Ayah and servants.

  I disliked how Frances mainly used Yorkshire as speech and how the story was only set in the manor. I also disliked how the story was only about the secret garden and Dickon's tamed animals. I would love this book more if the author could make it more adventurous. 

I would suggest this book to year five and above as anyone lower could find the Yorkshire challenging to read.

I believe the author's hidden message is to, not judge a book by it's cover as this is what Mary did when she discovered Colin crying.  

Benjamin Wang

Book review

Title: The Boy Tales of Childhood

Author: Roald Dahl

The book is about Roald Dahl as a child and the tails of childhood.The main character is Roald Dahl as a child  who gets into trouble a lot and moves schools a lot. He likes playing with his friends. I wouldn't like to be his friend because he gets into a lot of trouble.

The  three things I liked about this book were when his he and his friends put a dead rat into the gob stopper jar and when his family put goats tobacco in his sister's boyfriend's pipe. Finally when he moved to Repton for high school.

Three things I didn't like about this book were when Roald gets beaten, when he gets into a lot of trouble and when he gets hurt. Roald Dahl could make this book better by adding a bit more of his older years.

My favourite character in this book was Corkes because he was a teacher who let the students do cross words and other things instead of maths.

I think this book should be read by children the age of 8-10 years old.

My favourite part of the story was when  Roald and his friends put a dead rat in the gob stopper jar at the lolly shop.

The message in this story is the story of Roald Dahl's childhood and the schools he attended. 

Chelsea

Title: The Witches

Author: Roald Dahl

Book Review

I believe that this book is a must have for all ages, boys and girls. This book is made, in my point of view for mostly young teenagers because some words in this book might be too hard for little kids. It is not made just for young teens but I recommend that they read  the book.

It has a huge amount of interesting characters, lots of descriptive language and  much more. I liked how the author, Roald Dahl tells the reader about the past in the first chapter then in the second chapter he tells the reader about the present. I also loved how in the end that the little boy was living happily with his grandmother.

I really hope that Roald Dahl releases a following book because this book was so amazing that I just wanted to keep reading. That's why I loved this book so much. The Witches is one of the best books I have ever read.

Dallas Owen