1.What Makes You Beautiful- by One Direction: What Makes You Beautiful
2.Call Me Maybe- by Carly Rae Jepsen: Call Me Maybe
3.Stronger (What Doesn’t Kill You)- by Kelly Clarkson: Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You)
4.Set Fire To The Rain- by Adele: Set Fire To The Rain

You might find your FAVORITE songs here! (don’t worry, I checked them)

Book Reviews By Leah

This week, we are focusing on Newbery Award books.

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Read this book! It is amazing and I’m sure you’ll like it! Five star!

More books after this..

Preparation

1.  Buy fenugreek seeds, lentils, and other seeds, also buy a potato and a bunch of carrots.
2.  Cut the potato in half, and cut the bottoms off of the carrots.
3. Soak them in water overnight.

1.  Line plastic cans with paper towels.  Place one type of seeds in there with a 1/4 cup of water. Repeat for all 4 seed types.
2.  Get three plastic dishes and put on potato slice in each, and carrot tops in the remaining one. Fill with water.
3. Sit plants/seeds until you see roots growing. Make observations every day!
   

Preheat toaster oven to 225 degrees F
- Insert popsicle sticks into marshmallows, and place them on baking sheet

- Bake the marshmallow pops for 8 minutes

- Turn the marshmallows upside down carefully
- Drizzle melted chocolate on it, and wait 10-12 minutes to cool.

Looking for inexpensive games for young gifted children?  Most of the lists available online contain fun, but often complicated games intended for older kids.  We’ve put together a list of our top 10 games of all time for young gifted children in preschool, kindergarten, 1st grade, 2nd grade, and 3rd grade.

Most of the games are around $10 or less, and are fast and fun for the entire family to play!

Top 10 Games for Gifted Children – Fun for preschool to adult.  Essential criteria for a game to make our top 10 list is that adults agree it’s enjoyable to play too!

Websites for Gifted Children – Science, math, and general knowledge websites that our gifted children enjoy.

Group A: Webkinz
Group B: Petsmart Gift Card

My mom (admin) told me that the reason I wasn’t getting any entries was because I didn’t put up any guidelines. So here they are!!!

• Your story has to be between 50-300 words.
• The theme of the story is pets.
• There are two groups: Group A- 6-10, and Group B- 11-14
• Your submission has to have your name (if permitted, but if not, put Anonymous), and your address to send your prize to if you win.

Email Lucy

So far, we have got 0 stories sent to us. You better hurry to send your stories in! The judging begins on 1/5/12.

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