Long Summer

Hello blog viewers. I'm a 5th grader now. That was a long summer and I'm glad to be going back to school. About a month into summer we went on our family vacation to Hilton Head Island- it was the best part of the summer! We found lots and lots of sand dollars. Also, we saw a sand shark that had washed up on the beach.


I cannot belive that I'm a 5th grader!!!Sunday the 23rd is my 5th grade pool party. I'm so excited. The sad part is that this will be my last year at Windermere. I get to be a Safety Patrol this year!! If you drive by Windermere, please pay attention to the guards.


Today is my little cousin's golf outing. Taylor is the cutest baby I have ever seen.

I'm getting my braces off next month!!!! I am so excited. I get them off a week after picture day at school.

What was your favorite part of summer?

Send me your comments.

Little Sure Shot

February Fun

I have been working really hard preparing for my Ohio Heroes project. Annie Oakley is really coming together. My costume is done and I just finished my poster. I'll be "in costume" as "Lil' Sure Shot" for our 4th Grade Wax Museum on Thursday night. I am sure that Mom and Dad will take some photos so we'll post them here on my blog next weekend.

Last month I turned 10!!!!! My family went to the Blue Jackets game against Detroit. Most people in Columbus don't like teams from Michigan so it was a fun game to see Columbus beat Detroit. Rick Nash scored three goals which is called a "hat trick." People threw their hats on the ice. I got a free hat from the Columbus Blue Jackets as a birthday gift so I didn't throw my hat on the ice. We had awesome seats thanks to my Grandpa. :-)

Last Friday I celebrated by having a few girlfriends over for a sleepover. We also got to go to a salon to get manicures. That was cool to be pampered like that. Now I know how a Princess must feel.

Friday at school we had a math test, and a economics test. We also had a party! We passed out Valentine's to everybody in our class. Thanks to everyone who gave me a Valentine.

Saturday my family celebrated Valentine's Day. My mom cooked a great dinner.

This week in gym class we have to make up a jump rope routine. My group is Rachel Drobny, Rachel Dinsmore, Kelly Williams, and Maria Caradonna and me. Coming up this Friday Dana Turtle from Channel 6 is coming in to talk to us about weather. Man I have a busy week.

Send me your comments and let me know if you're excited for Spring to get here. I am tired of cold wind, gray clouds and snow!

Riley

Back On Line in 2009

Hi everybody. It has been a while since my last update. The last time I posted to my blog it was before Christmas. Let me bring you up to date on life in the 4th grade.

In early December the 4th grade class from Windermere Elementary was invited to be the featured singers at the Upper Arlington Christmas Tree Lighting ceremony. It was very cold that night but there were lots of families there to watch us sing. My dad even recorded it on his Flip video camera. Check out this video from YouTube of our class singing our school song - We Are The Hawks led by our music teacher Mrs. Dulcamp.



It was a great Christmas here at the Carpenter house. We got to celebrate three times. First was the Carpenter Family Christmas party where my Nana, aunts and uncles and 5 cousins came over to eat pizza, play and exchange gifts. I some gift cards for Barnes and Noble and The American Girl store and Justice and some body lotion too.

On Christmas Day I hit the jackpot with some Nintendo DS games, a pink Rip Stick (skateboard), stuff for my American Girl dolls, Calico Critters, a rock painting kit and the really fun game called Pictureka.

Later that day we went to my grandparents house and I got new pajamas, an American Girl designing kit, a Kit Kittredge CD and my new Nintendo DS . I also got some really cool mini-martini glasses that my American Girl dolls really like.

It was an awesome Christmas. Thanks everyone...especially Santa!

Then it was time for New Years Eve. I stayed up until midnight with my Dad watching football and then we watched the ball drop. We saw Taylor Swift (and her ex-boyfriend Joe Jonas) on Dick Clark's Rockin' Eve.


Then it was 2009 and we had to watch lots of football. My dad had knee surgery so he was "King of the Remote" for a whole week. If it wasn't football, my little brother Ryan was hogging the TV for Nintendo Wii.



It was back to school on January 5th and I know one person who was excited for us to be back in school. You guessed it...my Mom. We got back on track with Mrs. Lobao's help with math, spelling and our new section on government.



Our new project is about famous Ohioans. We will study the people we have been assigned and learn about them so we can prepare a biography about them. It will all wrap up in February when our parents and guests can come in to the school and see our "real life" displays of our heroes.



Among the famous Ohioans are John Glenn, Jack Nicklaus, Archie Griffin, Doris Day and the person I was assigned to learn about - Annie Oakley. Stay tuned to The Riley Register and I'll let you know what I learn about this gun totin', horse ridin' sureshot.


I hope you're all staying warm.


From,


Riley





PS Send me your comments and let me know what your coolest Christmas gifts were.