My thoughts on the Constitution of the United States

Today I've learned that the Constitution is the law. The Constitution has some very important things in it like getting rid of paying to vote and that you can't be arrested until they have some proof that you should be arrested. The Constitution also says that you can vote for President every 4 years and that everyone over 18 years old can vote. It says that you can't be arrested and put in jail for years without a trial because then you would just lose a whole bunch of your life for nothing if you hadn't done anything wrong. A cop can't just find something that isn't good, they can't just barge in but have to go a judge and tell them that "I think this guy has this thing in his house. Can I go and check?" and if he finds something else, you still can't be arrested.

What I did this weekend.

This weekend contained the best day of my life! I went to a birthday party on saturday, where I got to do a treasure hunt. I had so much fun at Elevens house, as I had a sleepover there. I got to play Peanut butter and jelly, munchkin, and some of Pirates of the great salt lake while eating dinner, then I got to play slamwich, which was a lot of fun. Then, I tried going to bed, but I couldn't because my knee was hurting. Then, I woke up and started talking to eleven, then, at 11 o clock, I started playing Peanut butter and jelly with eleven and zinnia, and I played a PS3 game with eleven and zinnia, until their dad woke up. then, he made us raspberry waffles, which were delicious, and we had milk to drink. Then, I went outside, put some water into a cup, which I then poured into a container. Then I went inside to play on the PS3. Then we went to Christopher's Birthday party.

I beat my brothers and Ian! ha ha ha!

In the first game, I beat all my brothers and Ian! They stink! Ha ha ha! However, in the second game, Ian beat everyone. I had quite a lot of fun playing Time crisis 3 and two crane games. One of them contained stuffed animals, the other contained all sorts of small toys and candy, which was quite easy to win, and I also got a jawbreaker. On the one that had all stuffed animals, however, I didn't win. I can't wait to go back to bowling next week.

11 More Days!!!!

I am so excited to go to Eleven's house for a sleepover because she's my closest and bestest friend and I just want to see her because sometimes I don't get to see her for a whole month. I'm going to bring a flashlight and a whole bunch of books and some games and movies when I go over to her house. I just saw her for her birthday party 2 days ago and I'm going to get to see her again in 11 days for a sleepover the night before my brother Christopher's birthday party. We've been wanting to have a sleepover since forever since we met back in May and now we are finally getting one.

*Mom's note: For the record, I tried to convince him to talk about any of the cool things we learned about during school time today but absolutely nothing compares to his seeing Eleven again.

President Obama's Speech to Students

Today President Obama gave a speech to students about listening. He told us that if you give up on your work you are not just giving up on yourself, you are also giving up on your country. He also told us that if you keep on working you can get better at whatever you are trying to do but if you stop than you'll never get better at it. He talked about if you do stuff that you like and you don't want to stop until you master it, that's good. Michael Jordon was the best basketball player but he got kicked off his high school basketball team because he wasn't as good at the time but he kept practicing and got better.

He told us to think of ways we can do better at getting an education. I am going to focus on listening and not goofing off so much when it's time to work.

Vikings at Sunrise by Mary Pope Osborne

It was a very good book and I really liked it. It was about two kids that found this magic treehouse that could take them back in time. They had to go find a book in ancient Ireland. The Vikings came to capture people in the monastery that the kids had found the book in. The kids got away and managed to run back to the magic treehouse and get home safely.

Now I'm going to read another book in the Magic Treehouse series called Night of the Ninjas. It looks cool cause it's got Ninjas!

How to have good manners

**Note by mom giving some context**
We started reading and learning about Little House in the Big Woods. In the first chapter, we saw Laura interrupt her sister Mary and her Pa told her that it was not good manners. After that we read a book about interrupting.
**Now to Jonathan's thoughts**


If you talk to somebody while they are reading, that is interrupting them. And if you watching a movie, you should not put your hands up and talk loudly because that is very rude. If you are screaming and you are nearby someone taking a nap, that is bad manners.

I'm going to tell Nick that if mommy is working, we shouldn't run around screaming. That would be better manners.

The A says "AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!"

There is this movie called the Letter Factory by Leapfrog that my brother Nicholas watches ALL the time in the car. It gives me nightmares. The letter R was at bowling and it broke my legs by ramming into me. Then when I fell down, the Rs all ran me over and killed me. This was after I was bowling.

I hid this movie from Nicholas so we don't have to watch it any more. Mom says I have to give it back in a couple of days because it's his favorite and it's good for him. But I don't want to because I don't want to see it any more because of my nightmare and it makes me want to throw up.

Asian Art Museum

Today we went to the Asian Art Museum on a field trip with Linda and Ian to see the Samurai exhibit. We saw really cool armor, swords, fans, and artwork that all belonged to one family from the past 600+ years. Their family crest was a pattern of nine dots called the nine planets. We went on a scavenger hunt to find the crest on as many things as we could. It was a lot of fun. The coolest place I found it was on the armor pictured here.

We got to see some cool stuff from their theater. My favorite was the monkey mask.

One of the rooms was set-up with a replica of a Japanese living room with kimonos to try on and even a samurai helmet. There was a lot of manga in there too. There was a go board in the room. I had fun dressing up in the clothes but the helmet was really heavy.