Melbourne Cup Day

Today is 2/11/2010 which is a very special date because of Melbourne Cup Day.

Here is a video of the 2009 Melbourne Cup race:




I can't wait for this year's Melbourne Cup race and all the others.

By Jake.

My amazing school

The things we have at school are:

1. A science teacher who also teaches us other things like maths
2. A fabulous classroom
3. A hall for doing lots of fun stuff like PE practice (when its raining), assembly and sometimes we get to watch movies there
4. A PE teacher who gives us lots of cool activities 
5. A chess club on Tuesday at lunchtime. It takes nearly the whole of lunch time to play a game. Once I got a silver medal.
6. An art class room and teacher. She is fabulous because she also lets us play the piano and we get to do really awesome drawings
7. Mini-halls and portables
8. 4 roads around the school
9. A vege garden
10. An oval for sport activities, footy and soccer and Kelly Sports
11. A giant chess set. The pieces are taken out on Thursdays and Fridays.

My least favourite things

A list of stuff I really hate.

1. Fighting with my sister, Ella.
2. When I don't have anyone to play with.
3. When someone invades my privacy.
4. Being left out of everything.
5. When someone is a space invader.
6. Being sent to the corner.
7. When people don't want to be my friends.
8. Being interrupted (especially during a test).
9. Fish (except for salmon)
10. When people say "You can never be that" or other mean things.
11. When people don't let me concentrate and think.
12. Macaroni.
13. When Ella doesn't share her party food with me.
14. When Ella has a tantrum.
15. When I feel like nobody cares about me.

What Ella (My sister) Doesn't Like

We already have a post about my sister's favourite things.
Here are some of her least favourite things:

1. Scary things
2. Yucky food
3. Vegetables (except for cucumber)
4. Being left out of play-time
5. Butter
6. Losing a star from her star chart
7. Being sent to the corner
8. When I feel lonely.
9. When I fall over.
10. Being interrupted.
11. Losing in games.
12. When people don't let her wear what she wants.
13. When I don't have enough money to buy stuff.
14. When people ignore her.

 This is a picture of my sister, Ella.

Me and Catdog

Thursday 10th June
On Thursday I took Catdog to Milli's.   It was great fun.  My teacher Rikki, as you can see in this photo, is very nice and played a game of bingo with us.  We also learn about Hebrew.

Tuesday 8th June
On Tuesday I went to swimming lessons.  Catdog ate some cheese flavoured rice wheels with me.  Dog was very greedy, so he ate most of them.

Saturday 12th of June
Me and Catdog went to Sorrento with Mum and Dad and Nanny and Pa and Uncle Brian and my sister Ella.  We played a game of Monopoly Junior against Nanny and Pa and we came second.

Alan at Auskick

A few weeks ago I met a Collingwood player, Alan Toovey, at AusKick.  Here we are together:

Alan is the tall one on the right.

My family's favourite things

1. Watch Doctor Who
2. Go to Packer Park
3. Tell jokes
4. Play the mix-up game
5. Have hugs
6. Family outings
7. Play games
8. Shabbat dinner
9. Cooking
10. Eating cookies
11. Holidays
12. Going to other countries
13. Reading stories
14. Snuggling
15. Jumping up and down
16. Playing pretend
17. Playing "I Spy"
18. Singing and dancing
19. Play dates and sleep overs
20. Spending time together

About my sister Ella

Ella's favourite things:

1. When Jake plays with me
2. When Jake lets me play with his stuff
3. Thomas
4. Pink
5. Barbies
6. Dollies
7. Dora
8. Fairies
9. Playing the mix-up game
10. Watching TV
11. Blankie

My Mum 2010

Hi. I'm Jake's mum and this is my guest post in honour of Mother's Day 2010.

My favourite things are:

1. My family
2. Sewing
3. My friends
4. Going out
5. Seeing my own Mum and Dad
6. Going on holidays
7. Singing songs
8. Going to concerts
9. Blogging
10. Sleeping in
11. Having a fun day on Mother's Day

Thank you Jake for inviting me to write in your blog.

I love you more than anything.

Mummy xxx

Crazy horse

Crazy Horse is really fun and you need at least two people to play - a grown-up and a kid.  Have a look at this video before you read on:

Stay tuned for other fun games!

My favourite things in 2010

Here are some of my favourite things:

1. Thomas the Tank Engine
2. Building models
3. Building Lego
4. Working on this blog
5. Watching the Lava Lamp when it is dark
6. Riding on my scooter
7. Reading books
8. Playing at school in the sandpit
9. Making new friends
10. Dancing
11. Going to Milli's after-school class
12. Going to Ros's swimming lessons
13. Spending family time
14. Going to the Aquarium
15. Going on family activities when I have earned all my stars
16. Having hugs with my Mum and Dad
17. Playing the mix-up game with Ella
18. Eating spaghetti
19. Swimming on a holiday
20. Going to the beach and making sandcastles there

Premier's reading challenge 2010

Jake has entered the Premier's Reading Challenge for the first time. Books read:

1. Roald Dahl, George's Marvellous Medicine
2. Andy Griffiths, Just Disgusting!
3. Andy Griffiths, Just Annoying!
4. Andre Maurois, Fattypuffs and Thinifers
5. Dav Pilkey, The Adventures of Captain Underpants
6. Dianne Bates, Big Bad Bruce
7. ?, The Magic Porridge Pot
8. ?, Friday Cats
9. ?, You Little Monster
10. ?, The April Fool's Day Mystery
11. ?, Coyote Not-so-clever
12. Andy Griffiths, The Day My Bum Went Psycho
13. Dr Seuss, To think that I saw it on Mulberry Street
14. Dr Seuss, The Cat in the Hat Comes Back
15. Dav Pilkey, Captain Underpants and the preposterous plight of the purple potty people.
16. Cartoon Network, Ben 10, The Insane Inventor
17. Mordecai Richler, Jacob Two Two's first spy case
18. Mordecai Richler, Jacob Two Two and the dinosaur
19. Dav Pilkey, Captain Underpants and the Big Bad Battle of the Bionic Booger Boy, Part 1: The night of the nasty nostril nuggets 
20. Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
21. Dav Pilkey, Captain Underpants and the Attack of the Talking Toilets
22. ?, The Pied Piper of Hamlyn
23. Enid Blyton, The Faraway Tree
24. Roaring Rockets, Tony Mitton and Ant Parker
25. The Twits, Roald Dahl
26. The BFG, Roald Dahl
27. Beastly Basil, Tessa Krailing
28. Disgusting Denzil, Tessa Krailing
29. Captain Underpants and the perilous plot of Professor P. Poopy Pants, Dav Pilkey
30. Asterix at the Olympic Games
31. Asterix and the Cauldron