Since it is the season where people celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah and other holidays I thought it would be appropriate to post some holiday jokes!

Me- I have a jolly laugh, I bring you presents, and I scratch up your furniture. Who am I?                                                                                                            Friend- Beats me. What?                                                                                                  Me- Santa Claws

Darth Vader- I know what you’re getting me for Christmas.                      Luke- How did you find out?                                                                                            Darth Vader- I can feel your presents.

Me- What do you get when you cross frost and a dog?                                  Friend- I don’t know.                                                                                                            Me- Frostbite.

Me- What did one snowman say to the other snowman?                              Friend- I don’t know.                                                                                                            Me- Do you smell carrots?

Me- Knock, knock.                                                                                                                Friend- Who’s there?                                                                                                          Me- Olive.                                                                                                                                  Friend- Olive who?                                                                                                                Me- Olive the other reindeer.

Me- So, what are you giving your sister this year?                                          Friend- I don’t know yet.                                                                                                    Me- What did you give her last year?                                                                        Friend- The flu.

Me- What do snowmen like to do on the weekend?                                          Friend- Huh?                                                                                                                            Me- Chill out.

Me- Where do snowmen keep their precious money?                                    Friend- Where?                                                                                                                      Me- In snow banks.

Me- Why are Christmas trees so bad at knitting?                                              Friend- Since when did Christmas trees knit?                                                      Me- They keep dropping their needles!

Me- What kind of ball doesn’t bounce?                                                          Friend- Which one doesn’t?                                                                                            Me- A snowball.

Thank you for reading these jokes! If you have any other holiday jokes please let me know when you comment!

   Catherine is the daughter of a moderately well-known baron. This story takes place during the middle ages, when daughters with high ranks such as Catherine were betrothed to whoever their parents chose. Catherine has manged to send away all potential husbands, but now her greedy father is determined that she doesn’t send away this one. He’s the ugliest, oldest, most ill-mannered person Catherine has met yet. Unfortunately for Catherine, he’s also the richest. Will Catherine drive away like all the others, or will she be doomed to marry him?

Echo is a book filled with adventure, suspense, sadness, and happiness. You’re taken through the worlds of Otto, Friedrich, Mike and Ivy. Friedrich works at a harmonica factory, and one day mysteriously finds an old harmonica marked with a M. He finds comfort playing it in the midst of Nazi Germany. Mike and his brother Frankie are orphans living during the Great Depression. Mike is a great piano player, and when a harmonica contest comes to town, he decides it would mean a better life for him and Frankie. He also inherits this mysterious harmonica marked with a M. Ivy, living in California during World War 2, is heartbroken when her family has to move again. She finds comfort when she inherits a harmonica marked with a M. Even though the instrument is discouraged by everyone in her family except Fernando, her brother, she finds time to play. Can these kids find hope and comfort in a harmonica? Or will it just lead to more problems?

Winter is here                                                                                                                          Snow is everywhere                                                                                                            Blizzards here and there

White is all around                                                                                                                Can it really be true?                                                                                                            Are we bound to the cold?

Snow is here                                                                                                                              When will it stop?                                                                                                                  Snowmen around every corner

Winter is here                                                                                                                          And maybe, just maybe                                                                                                      We’ll have white holidays

Lina is like any other Lithuanian girl in June 1941. She’s smart, is really good at drawing, and is outspoken. In June 1941, she hears Soviet fists pound on the door. Her family is separated from her father, and her mother is trying to keep her little brother Jonas and Lina with her. They are deported to Siberia, in which they are sold. In a hurry to find her father, Lina draws pictures and sends them to her father. She meets so many people along the way. One day, a list is sent out and Lina and her family are on it. They soon cross the Artic Circle, and still go further north, finally reaching their destination,  Trofimovsk, North Pole. Will Lina have the wits and strength to survive? Or will she suffer the same fate as others have, death?

 This phrase means to me that a picture can describe things that words can’t describe. Sometimes we can’t say how we feel with words but we somehow need to describe how we feel. This is when what you’re feeling is left to your imagination. An artist can be as complex or as simple as he/she wants. Nonetheless, simple or complex, the artwork says a thousand words, and it’s put into a perspective that they can describe without using words that wouldn’t be enough. This is what this phrase means.

My favorite blog that I keep going back to is Grace’s Blog. Her URL is gracek23.edublogs.org. I love keeping track of her posts. She writes a lot about her class’ unit of inquiry, and some of the projects they have are interesting. She has written about different novels that either her class is reading or someone in her class has read. I love just to check out what’s new at her blog. She has awesome posts and totally deserves to be nominated in the Edublogs Awards.