Hurry up Houdini

In this story Jack and Annie are going to get a secret message from Houdini. They go to the tree house. they wish to go see Houdini act onstage. They go to the park and Annie wants to go get ice cream. After they eat Jack wants to go get the tickets for Houdini. But Annie wants to go on a ride. So they go on the ride then an hour later they go get there tickets. There was a big line. they go to get the tickets but this guy says that the show is ruined. They tell the man can we get to tickets. The man says no can't you read the sign sold out S-O-L-D O-U-T. They were sold out an hour ago. Jack was right Annie felt sorry. Suddenly she had an idea. She went and talked to the manager. In a while she came out and said the Bandandi brothers stole the theater again. Annie went back in and told the man that me the awesome Annie and jolly Jack have been performing all around the world. The manager said they could play instead of the Bandandi brothers. so they got there clothes on and they used the magic mist and they performed on stage. After the magic almost wore off the Houdini s were not there. So jack and Annie had to fill in for them. they didn't do good at all me cause the magic mist wore off and then the Houdini s came a little late. They performed very good after though jack and annie couldn't find them.. But they remembered that the Houdini s said after the show we eat ice cream. So they found the Houdini s at the ice cream shop and the girl Houdini said the real story and the ring began to glow and they said it's time to go so the Houdini s go with them and they show them the magic tree house and they show them that it is magic and then they go home. 

Jack and Annie with Alexander

Jack and Annie go to the Greeks. They see this man teaching some boys. Jack and Annie go by him. The man said the earth is the center of the universe. Annie said that guy is totally wrong. Then Annie said the sun is the center of the universe the man said you are totally wrong but you think so well for a girl. The man dismissed the class and talked to Jack and Annie. They told him other things and he was so amazed. He said what is your name. She said my name is Annie whats yours my name is Aristotle he said. He told them to come meet the king he would ask the king if Annie could go in. In a while he came back and said yes you can come. So they went in and they taught the king about bears they came to the Kola bear and said that the Kola bear was not actually a bear suddenly someone interrupted it was prince Alexander. King Phillip the second said how dare you interrupt these to people from telling me what a Kola bear is. Oh sorry dad I didn't mean to. He looked at Jack and Annie and he was bored. when they finished the king let them go with Alexander. He said that he was the best athlete and he was the son of a Greek God. He challenged Jack to a race to the fence and back up the hill. When Jack got to the fence Alexander was already going back up the hill. He was so tired.

At the starting of the book they have a ring and a mist bottle.

 Annie asked jack  if he wanted to wish to be the fastest athlete in the world but jack didn't want to. Then King Philip the second came and he bought some horses he picked a wild one he wanted to give it away tomorrow. In the night Jack and Annie go to tame the horse with the mist they became very good horse riders and they rode the Stallion. He was all black but this little star on his forhead they rode him for a long time after jack fell asleep they learned that the stallion Bucefelus  was afraid of shadows. After an hour the magic went away and then the stallion was not that wild anymore. They rode back and they saw Alexander. He said why did you steal my horse. We didn't steal him we made them calmer and he is afraid of shadows. He rode him and the king said that he could ride Bucefelus. They went back home after that.       

A history battle

I've recently been playing a game called CIV. I am now playing as the Mayans. The computer somehow just made me have my special unit his name is an atlatlist. He has this special weapon that throws this spear and it fires. 

I conquered a city state at the starting of the game. Its name was Alamaty and it is a warrior city. 

That means that if you give it a lot of gold you become an ally and it gives you units. I just decided to conquer it though. After that i met Greece, The Celts, and the Ottomans. I decided to attack with my swordsmen. They are 14 strong. but the Greeks had hoplites and they were also 14 strong they replace spearmen which are 11 strong. I fought the hoplites but i had bad luck. I retreated. Went back to my capital. I waited til I had more advanced technologies. Then I got musketmen and I conquered The Greeks and I went down and I conquered the Ottomans and then I conquered the Celts and the last one I conquered were the Huns.

There was one last civ to defeat but i didn’t know where it was.

I had conquered the whole continent so they had to be somewhere across the ocean. I got my guys in the water I searched and searched and settled a city and at last my scout found it. The last empire was Egypt. I brought my army down and started fighting. I fought and lots of my musketmen died but there were three left and i had one cannon and I fired with the cannon and i fought with my musketmen but it had one hit point left I saw my knight and he attacked it and I won the game by battle. I looked at my rankings and I had Augustus Caesar.

Abe Lincoln

I just read the Magic Tree House book Abe Lincoln at Last.

In it Jack and Annie go to meet Abe Lincoln to give him a message of hope and get a special feather.

I learned that :

Abe was not famous when he was a kid.

He grew up in a log cabin made by hand and was very poor.

Life was very hard for him. He had to do a lot of chores like making corn bread, cutting wood, getting water from the stream and the last thing was grinding the corn for the corn bread.

He also taught himself how to read and liked learning from his sister Sarah.

When he grew up he was very honest and he believed slavery was wrong. When he became President he stopped slavery and freed the slave but some states didn't like it so they left the country and then there was the Civil War.

The Perfect Day

If I could do whatever I wanted on one day then these are the things that I would do. I would read a lot I would play a lot of soccer and I would watch a movie and I would play some wii and civ and I would play lots of fun games like dixit and settlers of catan and I would play Gubs and stratego and I would play an I touch game called settlers.

Now i’ll tell you what will happen when I do all of these things. I would do an amazing goal in soccer and an amazing save. I would cook some food and the food I would cook would be over easy eggs and meatball soup.

I would read all day but the day would be 38 hours and I could play outside with my family and I would go to the library and get Tin Tin and read it in one day or less. I would do math in Khan and I would get everything mastered and I would have the best soccer game in the world and play professional soccer and I would score a hat trick. I would also be a chef and cook all my favorite foods and the last thing I would do is go to bed.

Legionaries

Legionaries have big shields. If they all stand together and put there shields up in the air and a catapult fires at them and falls on there shields nothing  happens because all the shields are together and the rock falls on there shields.

They call it a tortoises shell because nothing can break through it. Legionaries are also good because they can build and fight. Like they can build a fortress and the guys that are fighting them can not get them easily.

The  legionaries also need to know science to know how to build a catapult and tents. Legionaries cut down trees to build weapons.

Railroads

Today I played Ticket To Ride a game about building railroad tracks in Europe and in America. You build them by getting cards that are different colors and if you get like 4 of the same color as the track you are trying to build then you can put it down it is worth seven points.

Tracks were originally  made for horses to pull carts faster where the ground was bumpy.

Later steam engines were invented that made the train move faster.

Back then it took them six months to travel across the U.S.A. but after they built the transcontinental railroad it only took them six days! 

The railroad's usually carried coal, steel and other material that are used for making things.

the people that built the railroads were super super super rich. Some of them used their money to help the poor and also to build schools and universities.

Seattle to New York is my favorite route to build.