Nicholas' News September, 2003

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Book Review

The Werewolf Club - The Magic Pretzel by Daniel Pinkwater

Would you join a werewolf club if there was one at your school? Here is an unusual book about a school that has a werewolf club and an unusual boy named Norman.      In the book, Norman tells what it was like when the principal signs him up for the Werewolf Club at school even though he isn't a werewolf! Norman wonders who the mysterious adult is who's in charge of the club. He comes to school all wrapped up in a hat, scarf, dark glasses, mittens and rain coat! Norman's in for a lot of surprises. He doesn't  know that he'll be on a quest for a Magic Pretzel to break an evil curse!      I thought the book was really funny and I just wanted to keep reading and reading. It is one of the more unusual books that I've read. You should give it a try.

I wrote this after taking my plane flight on a Piper Cub for the Young Eagle's Program.

Plane Flight

Cloudy Day,           Wait...                     Wait...                                Wait.

Sun starts shining, Time to fly!

Engine roars, Speeding up, Whoosing,                Climbing,                                 Soaring, Flying through the sky.

Extraordinary feeling, Flying like a bird. Amazing, exciting experience!

Monthly Math Challenge

I heard from many people about last month's math challenge! Wasn't it fun?! I hope you did well. Here is this month's challenge and last month's answer is below.

I'd like to have another tie-dy party. There will be 12 kids at the party and we will use the colors purple, red and yellow.      The purple bottle will dye 3 shirts.      The red bottle will dye 6 shirts.      The yellow bottle will dye 2 shirts. Half the kids at the party want to use purple and half of those also want yellow on their shirts. Three of the other kids want to use red and yellow for their shirts. The rest of the kids just want to use red. How many bottle of each dye will I need?

Answer to August, 2003 Challenge The children are lined up in this order, wearing these shirts: Tom(blue), Sue(purple), Jeff(red), Lori(orange), Bob(green), Ann(white)

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