Sarasa's Reading Blog

There were more Sunday dinners here than in his wildest dreams...But his plan was not cleaver as he had hoped. There is a sly old wolf. He was hungry for meat. One day he find a sheepskin under a tree and an idea pop into his head. He plan to dress up as a sheep using the sheepskin and join a flock of sheep. But his plan don’t go well as he hoped. In this book, there are other fables of wolf. I could learn moral from the stories. Vocabulary sly ずるい fable 寓話 skinny やせこけた flock 群れ shepherd 羊飼 pat なでる belly腹 rumbleごろごろ鳴る bleatメーと鳴く pen おり snuggle気持ちよく横たわる chew 噛む cauldron大釜 burly たくましい

'What?! Are the men going to steal Zaza Dupont's diamond?'  He remembers an evening at the opera two weeks before. Zaza's green dress. The music. The beautiful White star on her finger. No! They can't steal it. Marcel is a French mouse. He is a very fine secret detective. He hears that two men wants to steal a beautiful diamond ring. While in danger, he tries to put the ring back to the owner. He is very smart and good mouse! Vocabulary  detective / 探偵

He goes to the phone, but forgets to shut Felix's cage. Felix can see an open window. 'This is it!' he thinks. Felix is a blue and yellow bird from Brazil. Now, he lives with Baxter family in New York. He wants to escape from the house and go back to Brazil. One day, the time comes. He travel many places and look for his family. This story was interesting. I felt like I'm traveling with Felix.

It is a flat, yellow stone. Mark picks it up. Then he starts to clean it with his hands. 'But I know this stone,' he thinks. 'It comes from...from...'   Mark and his family are on holidays in Turkey. They are visiting the city of Troy. Mark find a yellow stone there. As he starts to clean it with his hands, there is a white light in his eyes. After he opened his eyes, he is standing in different world. There is a big wooden horse in this story. I was exited when I understood why the horse was made. Vocabulary sword / 剣

  'Look at this old cup, Nina!' he says. 'It's very interesting. But why is it here.' Per and his girlfriend, Nina go to a big forest. They find a hole under very strange stones there. There was an old and beautiful cup in the hole. Per wants to know about this cup. But since they took the cup out, Per afraid someone is following them. I surprised the end of the story. Vocabulary   curator / 館長

I went to Global Lounge today. I listened teacher's explanation about Global Lounge. There are many books, games and pictures to study English. I used iPad. I played games and watched a movie. I want to go there again.

As you get near the north fence, you see something big moving on the other side. You sit up on your horse. There's a large brown animal walking around on the other side of the fence.                                                                                    Today, I read THE NORTH FENCE. You are a ranch hand. Your boss is Gilbert. Your job is to feed the farm animals and to check the fence around Gilbert's farm. The fence is very long. One day, Gilbert, his wife and you go out together and hunt a bear that gets inside the fence. If you watch the bear, do you want to set the traps soon? I decided to look around first.    This book was interesting because I can choose the next scene. There are many ending of story, so I could enjoy many times.

I read Snow-white. Once upon a time, there was a Queen who was proud and haughty. She couldn’t admit that anyone else more beautiful than her. She asked a looking-glass, “who in this land is the fairest of all”. And it answered Snow-white is more beautiful. She knew that this looking-glass speaks only truth, so she hated Snow-white very much. She took her away into the forest and planned to kill her in various ways. First, she laced Snow-white so tightly to lose her breath. Second, she put the poisonous comb in Snow-white’s hair. They were unsuccessful because seven dwarfs helped her. But the queen made her eat a poisonous apple, and Snow-white died at last. She kept sleeping long time. But because of a prince’s love, she woke up. After that, she lived happily with the prince and the queen really died.

I read “Goldilocks and the Bears” written by Flora Annie Steel. The story consists of three good bears, one of them was a Little Wee Bear, and one was a Middle-sized Bear, and the other was a Great Big Bear, and one bad girl. The three bears lived together in wood. One day, bears made the porridge for their breakfast and walked out in the wood while the porridge was cooling not to burn their mouth by beginning too soon. While they were away, bad girl found the house and saw nobody there. And she entered in the house without permission. She ate the porridge, sat in the chair and lay down on the bed of three bears. After she fall asleep, three bears came home to breakfast at last. They started to guess there was burglar because the state of the house was changed, and searched inside the house.

   Manny and Diego are going to have a baby. But their friend Sid had no children. Suddenly he found three big eggs and said 'these eggs are my children now.' Manny and Ellie saw them and said that Sid should find their mother. But before he find their mother, the eggs were open. There were three funny babies. Sid loved them. But a big dinosaur who is their mother came to take her babies. After that the dinosaur went to somewhere with Sid. His friends found him and reached a different valley. In the valley there were dinosaurs everywhere. Sid was in a volcano. Finally his friends helped him. They all went home.