Friday, December 2, 2011

Book Summary by Thalia Bou Malhab




The Silly Gooses



Once upon a time, there lives a very silly goose. He was so silly that the more serious geese wanted nothing to do with him. Then one day, another silly goose flew over in her hot- air balloon. Now they are living happily with their children.

Tuesday, November 15, 2011

G4 are discovering the different NGOs!








Unicef...WHO...WWF...IRC...UN.....They know who created them, when, what is their job, how do they help...

Monday, November 14, 2011

Book Summary by Caren Ohanessian



Junie B. Jones has a Monster Under her Bed


You have to read this book. It is extremely funny. It talks about monsters and things like that. Than, Junie gets scared and starts telling her parents. I loved this book and I hope you would take it.





Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Book Summary by Mia Saade




A to Z Mysteries


The Bald Bandit

A bandit has robbed the Green Lawn Savings bank. Dink and his friends, Josh and Ruth Rose, want to help. Then a private detective came to Kink's door and asked if they saw the kid that video taped the crime. Dink and his friends must find the kid and his tape before the bandit does. 

Christmas in Camelot

I liked it! It is about two kids, Jack and Annie who went to Camelot for Christmas, transported in their magical tree house. A big adventure is waiting for them there. Will they come out of it alive? I encourage everyone who likes adventures to read this book.



Book Summary by Mark Yeretzian




Don't count on Dracula


Zack Files

I liked this book because it talks about a boy named Zack and his friend Spencer. They win a contest and win a dinner with a movie star. At the dinner Zack and Spencer find blood in his inibar! Zack droped a glass and picked up the pieces. When he picks up the pieces he gets a cut in his hand. After the dinner his grandma is worried. At the zoo, his grandma meets the movie star and falls in love with him. Zack knows his grandma is in trouble but he can't stop his grandma. The movie star takes his grandma to a party and for dinner. Zack, and Zack's dad go to save grandma. Will they save her or not...

Book Summary by Michael Haddad



The Zack Files



I'm out of my body Please Leave a Message


That book is about a little boy and weird things happen to him. One day Zack invited his friend Spencer for a sleepover. When it was bedtime Spencer opened a book that can make you get out of your body just like a ghost. He opened the book to page thirteen and read the directions to get out of your body to Zack. They followed the directions and after some minutes, they were floatingin the air in there astral bodies. They went floating through the houses, walls and to the zoo. When they arived they went to see the lions . The cage was closed so they went through it into the lions cave. The lions couldn't' see them but could sence them so one ate Zack and Spencer. They floated out of him and went to the statue of Liberty. There they went up to the torch. When they came back down they went to watch a scary movie and Zack was so scared so they went home. Spencer tried to open the page to page 14 where the directions are to go back to normal but with his astral hand he couldn't so he told Zack. They were both worried about what Zack's dad would think. Spencer got the idea to go to there science teacher and she was wierd to. So theywent to her house . They were thinking maybe she could tell them how to go back to there bodys. They went through the walls of the house until they found her room. They tried to wake her up for several minutes but a little voice was saying "I'm here" She was in an astral body. When they saw her they were exited and they new that if she could ahve an astral body she can comem back to normal. So they asked her how to come back to normal and she said" You guys should find out". So they went back home. Well i told you a lot about that story maybe you could find out what happened after that part if you read it.

Book summary by Kevin Chabab


The Talent Thief



By Alex Williams


I just finished the best book. It's an extraordinary tale of an ordinary boy. 
BEWARE
There's a villain on the loose. He's a monster. Find out more about him and what he's going to do in
The Talent Thief

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Skeleton Key


By Anthony Horowitz


I love this book because I love ALEX Rider. He is my favorite character in Skeleton key. Skeleton Key is an adventure book. It is so nice. Please read it and enjoy!
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The House of the Scorpion

By Nancy Farmer

The house of the scorpion is a very interesting book. It has 380 pages. The characters are: Matti the clone, El Patron, a powerful drug lord...It's a very interesting book. PLEASE read it!


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Murder my Tweet

By Bruce Hare

This book talks about a walking lizard and his pet is a bird. They are under cover. The fight crime. A very good  story. Hope you read it!

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Ricky Rickotta's Mighty Robot

By Dav Pilkey

Illustrated by Martin Ontiveros

I love the book Ricky Rickotta's Mighty Robot because its an adventure book. I like adventure books. It talks about an evil William who lives on Mars. He is bored because he has no one to talk to and no one to tease. So he decided to take over earth so he kept on building robots when he finished ...

IT'S TIME TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD!!

Hope you read it.

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The Black Belt Club Night on the Mountain of Fear

By Dawn Barnes

This book is about four students who learn karate in the dojo. They try to defeat a very dangerous dragon. It is a very interesting story and I hope you read it!

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Halloweenies

by David Wisnieski


This story talks about three kids who go watch several monster and scary movies. One of the movies is called "Curse of Warewess". It talks about a lady called Ramona she gives a pedicure for a monster at a very spooky night. It's a spooky book . Read it if you dare!


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Shredderman

By Wenbevin Voun Draanen

Illustrated by Brian Biggs


This is the best book I read! It talks about a kid named Nolan who's afraid from a bully called BUBBA- Bixy.Bubba-Bixy bullies everyone and Nolan always stops him so he called himself SHREDDERMAN. This book is a very cool book. It has 16 chapters.

Have fun!


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The Plot on the Pyramid

By Terry Deary

Illustrated by Helen Flook


A long time ago a girl named Nephoris was sitting on sand throwing rocks at the river. Her dad was telling people what to do to build a pyramid for the king. He treated them like slaves.


I learned that when you treat people bad, people have to treat you bad. It's the best book when you read it!



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The Thief The Fool and the Big Fat King

By Terry Deary

Illustrated by Helen Flook


There lived a family who tell the people that they were poor to get a bride. The dad almost killed his son after that a girl knew it was a trick and they all ran to get their money and the king saw everything. Then when they went to the king, he challenged them to a competition in pranking the people.


- "If I won, you're not allowed to prank the people anymore"


- "But if we won" said the dad "we'll be a royal family and you will be a begger"


Who won? You'll find out if you read the book.

Welcome to the 2011 - 2012 G4 students

New year, new students, new book summaries, same teachers! Waiting for your summaries and drawings so we can publish them! Good Luck ....Read...Read....Read!

Friday, June 3, 2011

Book Review by Talal Alaeddine



The Maid, the Witch and the Cruel Queen
I like this story . I think you have to read it. It talks about a cruel queen that burns her enemies at the stake! Lors Scuggate gets ready for the visit by counting up victimes. But when he picks on an old, wise woman, he finds he's made a big mistake.

Thursday, June 2, 2011

Grade 4 celebrating National Reading Week!

During the National Reading Week Grade 4 students have an activity where they can show their creativity. After choosing a book and reading it, they imagine a new cover for the book. i am sure you will see master pieces published on this blog soon! G4 students now...but who may become future Leonardo da Vincis or Michael Angelos later on!



Parrots



By Roberto Rahhal



If you want a nice pet to live in your house, you should choose a parrot. It will dirty the floor, but you can have fun with it and talk to it. I have one I took the book "Parrots" to read aobut my pet. If you only feed your parrot grains, it will die because parrots need parrots vitamines gust like humans. If cold air comes on parrots they will get sick and die. Sugar also kills parrots. Carefull my parrot bit me once. And it hurt a lot. But still... a parrot is a very nice pet...




Foolish Jack and the Beanstack


By George Cavalcanti









I like this book because it's a funny story. It has different titles and it talks about how foolish Jack and his mom lived. Every day they had milk so then he got beans. They started eating beans every day. it reminded me about Jack and the beanstalk but t eh difference is that Jack made a beanstalk not a beanstack.



Alex Rider: Stormbreaker
by David Mansour









Alex Rider is one of my favorite book series. This is the first one i read. It is full of action and adventure. I'd rather read the book than watch the movie because i can picture what's happening in my head. It is about a new computer a person is using to kill many children. I definitely suggest this book to other people.





Nicky goes to Paris


By Tammy Gebara










Nicki is a small girl who wants to travel to some country different then hers. Along with her, she takes her pet cat Miaw! She discovers the culture, the history, the sites and more...She visits all the wonderful places to see!





Goosebumps Horror Lands: The Horror at ChillerHouse


By David Mansour






I liked this book because it's scarey. It's about six kids who get trapped in an amusement park and they are being shot by crossbows. I suggest this book to others.

Friday, May 27, 2011

Book Review by Tammy Gebara




Mary Margaret meets her match
This book was long but simple. It is about a girl named Mary Margaret. Once Mary's mom had to work in a ranch, so they had to stay there for the weekend. Mary Margaret loved the ranch because she got to ride on horses. She found a horse over there that was suitable for her. I really enjoyed this story. To find out what happened next, borrow the book!




Freckle Juice


(Judy Blume)


This story is about a boy who wants freckles. A girl tells him the secret recepie called freckles juice. He has fun with the freckles so he tells the girl again. She gives him another secret recepie to remove the freckles. He is happy now!!!


Eloise in Paris


This is a story about a girl named Eloise. She travels to Paris with her Nanny. Eloise likes Paris a lot! She had a wonderful trip to Paris! By the way, she is very rich! This story was easy!

Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Book Review by Khalil Sayegh




Summer of the Sea Serpent
Jack and Anie had a merlin mission. It is called "Summer of the Sea Serpent" It talks about Jack and Anie . They have to get the sword of Light before night fall and give it to merlin the magician. Mirlin gives them a rythme to follow. The rythme started by telling them they have to call the water night for help and they did. The water night helped them. The next thing to do was to go into the spider queen cave. Anie was not scared of everything only spiders. She saw that the cave was filling with water so the spider queen created for them a ladder. They went up the ladder and saved themselves. Then Jack and Anie saw two seels and played with them and slept with them. In fact these seels were Teddy and Kathleen.
To find out what happened next, borrow the book!

Book Review by Andrew El Khoury



HAHA!HA!
This book has jokes, riddles, facts and more. It has about 1,000 jokes. The book has different parts: Part I:Knock! Knock! Part II:Toot Toot Hoot! Part III:Is your computer running? This book makes me laugh so i would like the class to read it!

Friday, May 20, 2011

Book Review by David Mansour




Ricky Ricotta's Mighty Robot vs. The Stupid Stinkbugs from Saturn



I liked this book because it was funny and full of adventure. I recommedn this book to people.


Abou Abed

I liked this book because it is full of jokes. It is hilarious. The jokes are in english and arabic.
I do suggest this book to all of you!

Book Review by Lea Fakhir



Karen's Unicorn

Karen's unicorn is a story about a girl who loved unicorns and always believes that one day she will see one.

So one day the school was taking Karen's class to a field trip to a circus. There they saw clowns and acrobats best of all for Karen was when they saw the beautiful and magical unicorn. She could not believe her eyes she was thrilled with joy. I learned, if you love something always believe in it and someday it might come true.

Book Review by Jeremy Bechara





The Spiderwick Chronicles


The story is about twin boys called Simon and Jared and their older sister Mallory. They moved into a strange house, a spiderwick house. Jared found a book about the secrets of the demons. Everyone wants that book and that is it causes a lot of trouble.



Garfield eats crow



I like this story because it's funny and it's about Garfield most of the book and it's Christmas and the spider keeps going in Garfield's face.



It is a very funny book. You should read it! They have it in the library.


Judy Moody was in a mood not a good mood, a bad mood


Judy Moody wants everything. She shouts out what she's doing. She is a drama queen who is forced to go to school when she doesn't want to.
It's a very funny book and i wish there was one about Stink, Judy's funny brother.

Book Review by Georgio Barakat



Dragon's Merry Christmas

This book is really nice because it talks about Christmas, a holiday which I really like. It is funny, enjoyable, and colorful. If a person wants to read a book I would definitely recommend this one. Dragon finds the perfect Christmas tree but feels bad when he has to cut it. So he decides to decorate ths tress and make the most of this holiday.

Book Review by Marc Racoubian



Why The Owl Behaves As It Does
This a book that contains several short stories. i liked this specific one because it shows that liars get their punishment. An owl was lazy and intended to eat the whole family of birds one by one. The owl lied to them all the time, day and night until the birds figured it out.

Book Review by Oliver Rizk



Diary of a Wimpy Kid

I liked this book and I think it is really interesting and funny. It is about a kid whose mom bouhgt him a diary. She wanted him to use this diary to write about his middle school days. By reading Gregory Heffley's diary, you learn more about his brothers and his best friend Rowley. The library should get hs series of books, I am sure everybody will enjoy it.


Dogzilla


I liked this book a lot. I thought it was funny. I chose this book because I love animals and it looks interesting. I've read this book before when I was in Gr.3 but I loved it. There's another one like it called "Cat Kong"

Book Review by Nabil Abdallah


Weird Planet 1: Dude, Where's My Spaceship

In the beginning of the story, there were aliens who crashed on earth. Earthlings came and took their sister. So they ate gum and became human, but only for one hour. Then they stole a car and saved their sister. However their spaceship was busted, which caused them to go to Las Vegas to fix it!

Book Review by Maria Chedid






Living with Vampires


I enjoyed reading this story and found it easy. There is a boy, called Adam, who has vampires for parents. There is a dance in his school but his parents have to come along and chaperon. He wants to ask a girl to this dance but he is scared his parents might suck her blood! With the help of his yo-yo and a library book he learns the truth behind the identity of the girl he likes and the art of hypnosis.


Ramona the Brave



This book is really easy and nice. It teaches you how to be brave. So there is a girl called Ramona and her older sister is called Beatrice. They went to the park. There, bullies began to bully Beatrice. She was frightened. Ramona came and she was brave enough to take care of them.


And that's how I became brave...


Sweet Valley Kids


Sweet Valley kids is a collection of books. They're easy and very nice to read in your freetime. It talks about 2 twins called Jessica and Elizabeth. They always say " We're sisters and best friends"
The collection is about the twins their friends and how their life goes on!

Book Review by Daniel Beylerian



The Spiderwick Chronicles




This story is about three ordinary kids named Jared, Simon, and Mallory Grace. Jared and Simon are twins and Mallory is their older sister. The story is that these three kids and their mother moved into a new house where their great uncle Arthur lived with his daughter Lucinda. They have an amazing adventure. I enjoyed the book and it was easy.

Book Review by Roberto Rahhal


Penguins
If you like penguins, you should check out this book from the library. It has lots of interesting facts and it shows you all the different kinds of penguins. I liked the king penguin best, because to me, they are the most handsome and friendliest kind.

Book Review by Leila Balaa



The Minpins
This story is about a kid called Billy, whose mother always tells him what he is supposed to do. All the things he was allowed to do were boring, while all the things he was not allowed to do were exciting. He was definitely not allowed to go alone through the garden gate and explore the world. However, one day Billy decided he was tired of being good all the time, and went alone into the big forest. This is how his adventure started in this world of dragons and minpins without his mother knowing anything about it!

Book Review by Tatiana Rebeiz


The Genie

I liked this book. There is a girl called Fudge and she has a sister called Sarah. It's their dad's birthday and they are shopping to find a gift for him. Sarah brings cloth for him and Fudge, a small box written Genie on it. One day Fudge touches the box and a Genie comes out. Fudge askes if she could make three wishes and the Genie got three witches! One day, Fudge has to go to school. She asks the Genie to change the bed and dust the room. When she's back, she finds the beds are different and the room is with gold dust! Fudge starts shouting at the Genie because he can not understand things right. So one day she decides to sell teh box and have no more trouble!

Book Review by Sara Akkawi


Beetle Boy


This book was easy. I like Beetle Boy.
Gregory Sampson woke up one morning and found himself as a beetle , a giant one. He stared in the mirror on the back of his bedroom door. He had a large purple brown beetle body. He had two big dark beetle eyes. He had two long beetle antennae and six long thin, hariy beetle legs. Gregory thought this wasn't happening. Gregory tossed himself down on all sides and went to the bathroom. He had to get dressed but his tshirt had two holes only. So he cut to more for his two other legs and pants for his two legs. He tripped down on the stairs and went down to eat breakfast. When Gregory was eating breakfast, no one from his family noticed that he was a beetle. And no one else noticed him in the school and the bus, except his friend Michael?! But when he came back home he was hanging on the celling of his room and his parents believed him and found out he was a beetle but the next day he turned back into a human.

Book Review by Lea Saroufim

Punished



This book was fun and interesting. First, I thought it was lame but then I read the back of the book I felt it was going to be fantastic! This book is about magic, the main character Logan, and how he gets punished. Logan was running in the library when he got caught by a professor, not any professor but professor Robert! The professor blew on the book, he was holding and...If you want to know what happened borrow the book!





Robyn Makes the News!


Robyn wants to make a newspaper for the school but she's having trouble. Her headline is an insult. It's Mr. Lee's Insult. The principal got mad very mad. And she doesn't allow Robyn to put a next addition. Robyn talks to Mr. Gillis. And she told him: Our school is against freedom of the press Mr.Lee askes Robyn if she needed him to help him. The principal accepts and now Robyn is going back to theschool newspaper.
This book was easy and i read it in 45 minutes!!

Thursday, May 19, 2011

Book Review by Yves Achdjian







Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone



By Yves Achdjian

I loved reading this book and I consider it the best book I have read so far. Throughout the book, Harry gives himself the responsibility to keep the sorcerer's stone out of Voldmort's hands. While doing so, his friend Hagdrid wins a dragon's egg and takes care of it until it hatches. The climax of the story occured when Harry Potter discovers Voldmort's trye identity. I hope that you take the time to read this book and complete the series.

Thursday, May 5, 2011

Book Review by Farah Katreeb






Leo the magnificat


By Farah Katrib


This book was easy for me, I liked it because it's a true story. It's about a cat that Mrs. Moody found outside the church. Mrs. Moody tried to find out for whom it belonged to. She took him to the vet, the vet told her tit was a boy. The girls called him Leo. Leo stayed every meal. He was friends with everybody. The children gave him toys, brought him a basket to sleep in but his favorite bed was the sheep costume for the Christmas pageant. He even made Mr. Tate sit next to Miss Hadley not for long. Mr. Tate and Miss Hadley got married. Leo lived there for twelve years! He got old. The vet gave him an injection so he would die peacefully. Everybody came to his funeral. Leo wasn't for anybody but he was for everybody.

Friday, March 18, 2011

G4 and the human body

Next week, grade 4 students will view a video about the skeleton and the muscles with
" The Magic School Bus Flexes Its Muscles"
Some pictures will follow about 1910 G3 students who are now in upper elementary and learning more and reading a lot and asking many many questions.