Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Jacob Van Antwerp                                                                                                      4/15/14

My Blog about an ATV

That's a very, very fast thing that I rode on, an ATV! My dad's friend, Lori, drove me, Sierra, and Lori's kids to their dad Dave's house on Sunday and Lori took us for a ride one at a time, one by one. Then when it was my turn, I had to hold tight to Lori, and she went through trees revealing trails and went SUPER FAST!! So fast that my sleeve was rapidly flapping through the wind! So fast, what an allegro! Lori never made the ATV go adagio, because the ATV speed switch was in the "SUPER FAST/ALLEGRO" position. Unless she stops the ATV and lets someone else ride the ATV. No one under 16+ could drive the ATV, and that includes me, until 2017, and I'll take driving lessons in my OWN car. Man, were my ATV rides fast and furious! Before we left, Lori told me I could go for another ride on the ATV next Sunday, so I could have more fast rides through the trails! I had an idea when I went to Mom's: I figured I could set up a speed control panel, with paper with the words written on them. My idea explained like this: To get to SUPER FAST, Lori and I would have to start at ADAGIO, so we'd have to start by going slow, then we'd move on to MODERATO, so we'd have to make the ATV go a little faster by speeding it up a little, then we'd speed the ATV up to ALLEGRO, so we'd have to go even faster, then finally, we'd reach PRESTO, so when we get to the tree trails, Lori would bring the ATV to full speed ahead!! That means we would go...SUPER FAST!!!! I love when Lori and I go SUPER FAST! It's my favorite speed! And then I had another idea: I would set up three speed buttons, with paper, different colors, with the words written on them, the ALLEGRO, STOP, and ADAGIO buttons, so when Lori touches one, she'd send the ATV into that speed the button has the word on. I'm excited to ride the ATV again!

Tuesday, April 1, 2014

Jacob Van Antwerp                                                                                                       3/31/14

My Blog about April Fool's Day

"April Fool's!!" That what you say when playing tricks on people that day! It comes April 1st, once every new April beginning! It comes once a year, and it comes tomorrow! I learned what Mrs. Woodworth told me before I wrote this blog: You and I and EVERYONE should ONLY PLAY GOOD AND FRIENDLY TRICKS, NEVER BAD AND EVIL TRICKS, EVEN IF YOU'RE TRYING TO PRETEND! Or someone will play evil tricks on you back and will guffaw at you! Besides, nobody should get hurt. Well, sometimes, you and other people can play tricks with about 64% of Scientific Discovery, 96% of Adventure, and, of course...1% of Evil. That means nothing gross in tricks. That's a very important protocol of April 1st. Plus, no mean tricks either. Here are some examples of good tricks you can play on people: If someone has lace less shoes and you say, "Hey, your shoes are untied!", say, "April Fool's!! You don't have laces on your shoes!" If you tell someone else to look behind, you say, "April Fool's!! Made you look!" And I would trick someone, like teachers, like Mrs. Buckner, or helping teachers, such as Mrs. Woodworth, into thinking that I didn't do all my work or had such a terrible time in class when I did my work and had a great time in class, and I say, "April Fool's!! It's the opposite of what I did in class!" Our tricks we play on people on April Fool's Day should always have some Scientific Discovery, more Adventure, and VERY, VERY less Evil. We will have very good tricks planned BEFORE April Fool's. People, even kids, probably play tricks on others on April Fool's day and night, maybe without stop until it's over, not even if tricked people say "pretty please, knock it off?!"! It does sound pretty fun, but it'd somewhat be kind of confusing.