Sawyer is one!

Today is Sawyer's birthday. He had a cake bigger than his head! Sawyer can walk.

2 Weeks of School

I have two weeks left of school. I have a field trip this week, super games, and the family picnic. I have to do an animal report about polar bears. We made clay sculptures of our animals. We have our last day of school parties next week, ON THE LAST DAY OF SCHOOL! Mom is helping out at the field trip. We are going to the Coffman Homestead in Dublin.

School Week

I have been in school for six weeks now.

Next week I will have a reading test. It will last from Tuesday until Thursday. Every day I will have to do 2 and a half hours. That's about as long as when I get to school until my specials.

On Fridays, we get a third grade recess, or movie it if is raining.

I am much better at tetherball than I used to be. Aidan and I take a long time to finish one game - about eleven minutes. I'm serious.

I am in soccer right now. Our team is undefeatable. The first team we versed we beat 7-2. They were called Dundee. The second team we versed was called Celtics. We beat them 4-3. The third team we versed was called Boca, and we beat them 5-0. Tomorrow we will be versing another team. I have scored at least goal each game. The first game I scored at mid-game. The second game I scored in the first 30 seconds and in the last 10 minutes. The third game I scored in the first 5 minutes and scored in the last seconds.

Third grade

I finished summer vacation. I am starting third grade. Yesterday was my first day of third grade. It is very fun. I have lots of fun there. There are two recesses for the whole first week! Today is the principal's birthday. They did not do anything special for his birthday.

I have a lot of people in my class. Hailey, Kiera, Emma, Sahith. I like to play tag at recess. I eat lunch at 12:30 p.m.

Today was the second day of school. Today I had P.E. for my special. Tomorrow I will have art.

The two days before school started, I had a sleepover with Mykel.

We played lots of math games at school. We played lots of learning games to learn people's names and what they like to do and all that. I have a dialy planner this year, and I need some special stuff for P.E.

If it is raining on second recess, we watch movies.

Camps

I had a fun this summer so far! I had a fun week at Invention camp. It was full day camp. I made a homework doing robot. [No it does not work.]

After that camp, I went to soccer camp. It was a half day camp. It was in the morning. At the end of the week, we had a water gun day and Planet Smoothie.

I had a blank week with no camps so I stayed home.

Next week, I had gymnastics camp, also half day. It was Space Camp. The first day we had a trip to find the solar system in the gymnastics place. It was very fun. We played in the bounce house on Friday. The next week, I went to another gymnastics camp when my little brother Sawyer was born. We played in the bounce house on Tuesday. On the end of the week, we got to get slimed and then we got free play.

Magic Mountain and the End of Second Grade

Magic Mountain

For my birthday I received lots of coins for Magic Mountain. I got 1,837 tickets from the games at Magic Mountain. I used the tickets to get:

• a toy motorcycle,
• a race car,
• a bowling set,
• a jump rope, and
• a pencil.

The End of Second Grade

I have 12 days left of school and then summer break! Second grade was very fun. In a couple more days, my class gets to have a field day. We went on a field trip to Slate Run Historical Farm Metro Park. We will get to walk to Dairy Queen as a the entire second grade. For the last day of school, we get to have a party a little before summer break.

Zoombezi Bay

Today we went to Zoombezi Bay at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium. We spent time playing in Baraccuda Bay; I got dumped on by the big bucket. The water was cold.

Today was the coldest day of the summer.

My favorite activity at Zoombezi Bay was the green slide.

A busy week!

Today was the last day of camp for the week. We finished our murals at art camp. At the end of camp, we put on an art show. Dad, mommy, and Grandma Griffith came to my art show. I showed off the mural created in collaboration with the whole camp, my mini-mural that I brought home, and the tree I created for the camp mural.

At Camp COSI we went to the Space exhibit. I played with the table where balls fall in a figure eight pattern. We played with a stop action movie maker. We also watched rats play basketball with their teeth. They weren't very good passers, but they could dunk! These are special rats from Japan.

After Camp, Mommy and I watched a movie about mummies. For a long time nobody could find pharoah mummies, but then somebody found twenty pharoah mummies at once. But, we still don't know the secrets of how to make mummies.Quinn and I also played in the Kid Space. I stayed in the big kid room to make stop action movies and play video games. Quinn played in the water and got wet.

We stopped for dinner at Texas Roadhouse. They had peanuts on every table! Charley the Balloon Guy made me a balloon hat that looks like Brutus Buckeye!

We are going to Utah in a week. I am very excited to visit the Tutoring Toy! I am very excited to see Aunt Diane, Uncle Bill, Cousin Casey, Grandma Jeanne, Grandpa Ray, Ole the dog, Aunt Lisa, Cousin Aidan, Uncle Bob, and Uncle Scott. I am looking forward to hiking the Kirkwood Trail and seeing some bison in Yellowstone.

Quinn is vey excited right now.

First week of summer camps

This week I had camp. I have two camps this week.

I am making a mural in art camp, at the Columbus Museum of Art. On the first day of art camp, we started on our mural. We have visited two murals nearby. We are learning about neighborhoods. We made our own buildings using paper, buttons, and fabric. We are using fabric on the background of our murals. We are using lots of paper too.

Every day I come home covered in paint.

My favorite art in the Columbus Museum of Art is a statue of a hairy man. It looks like a real man! I think he is funny.

We are learning about animals at COSI Go Wild Camp. Sometimes we get to go to exhibits. The first day we went to the Oceans exhibit. The second day we went to the Prairie exhibit. The third day we visited the Lost Egypt exhibit. Today we visited the Life exhibit, and we made snot.

Today we learned: "eyes in the front, like to hunt; eyes on the side, like to hide." We also got to hold animal skulls. I held the skulls of a bald eagle, a deer, a rattlesnake, and a bear. The biggest was the bear, the smallest was the rattlesnake.

I have also held a live bearded dragon this week, and we petted a Honduran Milk ShakeSnake. We also saw a life size whale, but he wasn't real.

At the Lost Egypt exhibit I saw a real mummy! It was a girl. She was about 16 to 18 years old when she died. Her "name" is Annie.

Yesterday, we went to Family night at the Columbus Zoo. We rode a log ride, and I got soaking wet! I sat in the front and protected Bryan from most of the water. The second hill was scary.

Both camps serve snacks. We had cookies, lots of Oreo's, and smiley gummies.

Zoo Pictures:

Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss!

March 2 is Dr. Seuss' birthday. I have lots of Dr. Seuss books. I have Green Eggs and Ham, The Foot Book, The Tooth Book, One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish, The Sneetches, The Lorax, Cat in the Hat, Cat in the Hate Comes Back, Horton Hatches The Egg, If I Ran the Circus, The Sleep Book, Mr. Brown Can Moo Can You?, Dr. Seuss' ABC Book, There's a Wocket in My Pocket, Ten Apples Up On Top, and Oh The Places You'll Go. My favorite Dr. Seuss book is The Lorax. It is my mommy's favorite too. I like the funny word Truffula Trees.

We celebrated Dr. Suess' birthday by reading a Dr. Seuss book in school. It was One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish. It is also Read Across America week. At lunchtime, I had GREEN EGGS AND HAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The eggs were green. The ham wasn't green. The made the eggs green with food coloring.

Every night until Saturday, we are going to read a Dr. Seuss book at bedtime. Tonight we are reading The Lorax.

100

On February 11, 2009, it was the 100th day of school. On February 12, 2009, Olde Sawmill lost electricity. I got to stay home.

Saturday is Valentine's Day. I got my Mom a gift.

Long time no post...

I like my brother. He is fun. It is fun to be a big brother. I like to play with him. I like to shake toys with him. I like to hear him laugh. He is funny. Yesterday, in 2008, on the 26th, I went to take pictures with my aunt. I like to play in the basement. I like the house. Mommy made something good to eat tonight. We had pumpkin pie once. But it is fun to be at school every day. I like to do math. We went to a party on Sunday and I made a basket for me and I made a trick or treat basket and it was fun. I made stuff even I got a mug! I like my friends at school. Katie, Dylan, Christopher, Elizabeth, ad Bailey are my best friends at school. I like to go to gym. My favorite teachers are Mrs. Vorris, Mrs. Darnell, Mrs. Martise, and Mrs. Wilkins who is my teacher. Today in October, we had a substitute and today was our 41st day of school. I like to be at recess and play with Spencer and Aidan from my baseball team. They are in different classes. Aidan is in Mrs. Murphy's classroom, and Spencer is in Mr. Kelly's classroom. That is all I want to write. Thats all.

Montana - Day Three

We woke up at 5:30 a.m. We toured some friends around Yellowstone National Park. We went to Gibbon Falls. The first animal we saw was big horn elk, there were 2 big bull elks. Then we went to the Grand Canyon. I saw a chipmunk there. The next animal we saw was a bear. It was a grizzly bear. We were up really close to it. It was fun. It wasn’t paying attention to all the people. There was like a million people.

We hiked up a waterfall on the Beartooth Hi
ghway.

Casey said there is a bat in the Pyke Cabin.

We had a triple rainbow after a hail storm.

Montana - Day Two

We saw some thermal features at Midway Geyser Basin. We saw a movie about Yellowstone at the IMAX movie theater. I liked the bear in the movie.

Montana - Day One

The next day, we had to drive for five hours, which was boring. We finally arrived in Montana.

The day after we arrived, we hiked up a mountain called Mountain Washburn. We hiked all the way up. I had never been to the top of a mountain. It was hard. There was a little rest area at the top. We were 10,243 feet high! The rest area had benches and a spying scope. On the way down the mountain, there was a really bad storm that did not stay very long. It took us one hour fifteen minutes to get down. It took us four hours to get up. My favorite thing about the trail is you could see very far. You could see all the way to Grand Teton, it was pretty amazing!

Utah - Breaking Down

We went on Antelope Island. It is in the Salt Lake. We saw a couple pronghorn antelope, and tons and tons of bison.

We went to go hiking and then the Suburban overheated. Near the driver’s seat at the front, the Suburban was leaking. While we waited for the tow truck, we hiked a quarter of a mile up the hill. We could see a lot of Antelope Island. Next, we rented a car and they came to pick us up in his new Cadillac. We rented a minivan.

The next day, we got the Suburban and about 20 minutes later, Bryan and I we were driving the Suburban. Mommy was driving Casey’s car. Then something flew off the road and it went boom into our windshield. It cracked everywhere. The glass flew into the car. We could not see through the middle of the windshield.

We rented another car, a Toyota Highlander. We were planning to go to Grand Teton the same day the windshield broke. We could not go because of the windshield. So we had to stay there one more night.

Pokemon

This week I went to Math Camp. I got a new stuffed animal called pokemon and I got a pokemon gamecard from Burger King. I worked on a 100 chart. You have to count all the way to 100 with no numbers on the chart. You have to draw them all. We play games in the computer lab that are rather unusual. I don't know the games. I see Jeremy at Math camp and at science camp I saw Angel. We played with pattern blocks. You dont make patterns with them. You make stuff with them. They are 2D.

Brad and Abbey got a new house. It is bigger than their old house. They could roller skate in their basement! They have a nice upstairs. There was a humongous bathroom and a humongous bath tub and the shower was small and separate. The bathtub looked like a sink. A LARGE sink.

We are getting ready to go on vacation to Montana. Cousin Casey is coming!

I cant think of anything else. Goodbye.

Comments

I really like reading all of your comments. It is really fun! I want to answer some of your questions.

From Anne:


When are you starting school? Do you know who your teacher for this year yet?

I am starting school at the end of August. I do not know who my teacher is for this year yet. I am going to first grade this year. I am going to a new school called Olde Sawmill Elementary. They have a big playground. It has tires, and there is a tire bridge there. It is hard to cross!


From Matthew:

What did moths do at night before electricity?

I dont know! They just flew around. Maybe they flew towards the moon.


From Grandpa Jim:

How is you brother doing?

He is doing good.

From Uncle Brad:

I hope Bryan was gentle when he pulled your tooth out. Did it hurt?

It kinda hurt.


Thank you for your questions! Please ask more!

Love,
Riley

Zoombezi Bay!

I went on four water slides. A humongous one and a couple of small ones. The first one we went on was pretty fast. It was curvy. The second water slide was squiggly. The humongous one was straight and bumpy. It was big. It was like 100 feet tall! I saw Spencer from my baseball team at Zoombezi Bay. He went down the squiggly slide with us. Grandpa Jim didn't go down slides. Elizabeth was scared because she is afraid of heights. There was this cool water slide called Storm Ride. It was shaped like a funnel. It got smaller and smaller. You go down a water slide until you get to the tub and then when you get in the funnel you go to side to side. I did not go on it though. It was my first time at Zoombezi Bay! It was with Elizabeth and Grandpa Jim.

Today is July 25, 2008.

Today at Science Camp, we did experiments. We did four experiments. The first experiment was putting pepper into a cup of water. It bubbled. We rubbed a finger in soap and put it in the water with the pepper, and the pepper spread apart. I cant remember the second experiment. The third experiment was with raisins and craisins and soda. We put the raisins and craisins in the soda. It got lots of bubble and the raisin floated up. Mine was going up and down, dancing. Then we played with slime. Mr. B. made the slime. The slime was orange. It felt gooey and cold. It was sticky. Peyton was covered from chin to hair. Peyton is from my baseball team. My baseball team is the Marlins.

Next week I am going to math camp.

Science Camp

Yesterday we searched for butterflies. We went outside first. We played on the playground. Then we searched for the butterflies, and then we had snack. Then we played a game with Skittles. You have to put them in your hand and guess which one they are in. No one guessed! I hid them and I ate them! We colored butterflies. Mine was the hardest one to find because I hid it behind something under a table.

Today, we made marble tracks. They are these black things that go down and you can make loops with them. Then you put the marble down and it goes where you want it to go. Sometimes it falls off the tracks. Before science I went to breakfast at Bruegger's Bagels with Bryan. I had a blueberry muffin.

The date is July 23, 2008.

Yesterday it was July 22, 2008.

Tomorrow, on the 24th, I get to go to Zoombezi Bay! I am going with Grandpa Jim and Elizabeth. I am excited about it because I've never been there. It is my first time! Tomorrow is the 24th of July, 2008.

That's all for today! Goodbye!