I just wanted to show you this guy's art. His name is Todd Lockwood, and he did some of the first art for the published Dungeons and Dragons books. Now he does magic cards and stuff.

The U.S.S. A story of sheep shearers.

This was the U.S.S.'s big day. They would finally go to Earth. After weeks and months of training and training, The crew of M.S.S. Fleece was ready to go.
  Who were they? They were the Unidentified Sheep Shearers. A top secret Martian team of shearers who were ready to take on any un-sheared sheep!
  Captain Pluton was ready for takeoff. He fired the plasma rockets. BOOM! They were off!
What was their first mission? They were getting a transmission now! "All hands, this is are first voyage to Earth, it is time for you to hear our mission," said the speaker. "Our mission is to fly over a village in what the Earthlings call 'New Ham Sure' and shear sheep at one of their farms to test our equipment."
  Zoz was really exited! He had joined the Martian Navy because he wanted to help the dumb Earthlings to really easy things. Like shear their sheep in efficient ways!
Well, He had finally gotten his wish.
They Flew through Earth's atmosphere and neared the surface.
They flew over the barn and tractor beamed the sheep to their ship.
IT WAS ALREADY SHEARED! The U.S.S. returned home sad.

The End.

Fellow Martians!!!

Hello fellow martians,

There is a new threat in the galaxy. This threat is: THE EVIL SPACE MONKEYS!!!

We must post more things on this blog or the space monkeys will take over Mars!
We must distract them so they won't stop reading this blog!

I know you will all do your part.

FORWARD MARTIANS!!!

- General Sam of the 32nd Martian Space Troopers

Alexander the great by smoog

when Alexander was young he wanted his fathers horse so He asked his father "if I tame Bucephalus will you give him to me?'You'll be killed"said his father but Alexander did. Later he went to the city of Gordium ware  he saw a chariot fastened by a complicated knot no one could untie.''What's that?'' he asked a citizen. "it is part of an ancient legend."whoever undoes the knot will rule all of Asia but it is impossible. Alexander smiled he raised his sword  in the air and cut the knot. Later he went to India but he had to cross the Indus river so he made a bridge with boats  and wooden planks.

Sam has completed the first of Hercules' tasks. I hope no one is in Hades yet!

BTW, this is a baby hippo.

For slaying the Nemean Lion:The Hippopotamus

The Hippopotamus rivals the Rhinoceros as the second largest land animal and can grow to
16' long and 5' tall.
   Hippopotamus means River Horse in ancient Greek.
The Hippopotamus is a herbivore and eats grasses but is very dangerous with their huge tusks that can grow to be 5' long!

The Hippopotamus enjoys to lie around in the water all day and at night it leaves and goes off to eat.

Sam has completed the Jason quest.

Smoog has completed the first of Hercules' tasks.

Good job! Hope to see some blog posts by Sam soon.

Here's some info about Hades:
If you don't read at all one day, you are instantly brought to Hades.
In Hades, you cannot complete quests (except for the final Hercules' quest).

To leave Hades, you must read Cerebus a bedtime story, but since Cerebus is immortal, he has heard every story ever written. You must write a new story for him. It must be at least three paragraphs.

Chameleons by Smoog

Chameleons are known for three things.
1 they can change color.
2 they can move there eyes in different directions.
3 they can move there tongue (that is longer then there body) at lightning. speed


they live in Africa south of the sahara desert and southern spain.




                                  -Smoog

My exerience from Sam's book by Beth

I thought it was good but some times he would not turn the page. He read Pickles to Pittsburgh.

I thought it was fun.

                                                   -Smoog

Martian Summer Reading Program

Before starting these quests, you must sign up with Emily.

Bellerophon Quest:
Read about a famous pilot. Write a blog post about it.

Pandora Quest:
Read a book no one else in this family has read before. You must find it in the library by yourself.

Theseus Quest:
Read a puzzle book, or a book about a game.

Orpheus Quest:
Read a biography about someone who has already died. This is a book quest (you may not find the information online). Afterwards, write a short blog post about the person you read about. If you do not finish this book within two weeks, you are lost in Hades (more about that and other penalties later!).

Perseus Quest:
Read a book with no pictures. Then write a sentence that can only be read in a mirror.

Jason Quest:
Read a book to someone else. Have them write about the experience.

Hercules Quest (Extra credit if you do them in order!):
1. Read about an African animal and write post about it. Extra credit if you watch the Lion King.
2. Read three books in a series.
3. Read a book with a pig in it.
4. Bring ALL your library books back to the library.
5. Read 20 pages in two hours!
6. Clean out your bookshelf. You need proof from Mom.
7. Read online about a famous woman. Write a post about her.
8. Read 15 pages straight without eating.
9. Read a book about a monster.
10. Read a red book.
11. Read a recipe in a cook book and make it. Extra credit if it uses apples.
12. You are immediately lost in Hades (more about that later!).

Opening doors and holding them

We're all strong and healthy and should all be more careful to open the door and, more importantly, to hold the door open, for people following us.  We should hold the door for older people, women trying to open the door and hold a baby while watching toddlers, the UPS man with lots of boxes, and just to be nice.

When you just open the door and don't intentionally more around to hold it open, you are left in a very awkward situation.  You either need to continue walking, handing the heavy door to the person behind you, or you stand there holding the door, but so "in the way" that the person behind you can't get by.

So I propose that we all be gentleman ninjas, or pirates. 

Of course, we've always known there were gentleman pirates.

Bob Peak the Illustrator

Hey look at all the awesome stuff this guy designed. There is so much more too!

Birthday Salmon

YAY!!!!!!!!

I just wanted to say that tomorrow is my birthday.

Polly the Parrot

Once upon a time there was a parrot.
This parrot was owned by a pirate named Finny McRonald.
One day Finny McRonald was out digging for treasure and his parrot,who's name was Polly, took command of the ship and sailed away on a quest to look for crackers.
After sailing for 2 weeks Polly came to a French town and decided to stop and visit the governor.
The governor introdused Polly to his daughter, and his daughter asked Polly to go to the ball with her.
Polly said "OK." and they went to the ball.
At the ball Polly danced (not very well.) with the governor's daughter and dipped her.
After the ball the governor's daughter gave Polly 3 presents to choose from.
The presents were a pistol, a silk fencing shirt, and a purple hat with a white feather in it.
Polly chose the hat because it was the only thing she could use.
After 3 more weeks Polly went back to the island to get Finny McRonald because Polly couldn't find any crackers.
When Polly went back to the island she found Finny and some of his crew sitting next to a treasure chest eating crackers!
Polly jumped for joy and flew over and ate 47 crackers and fell asleep.

The moral of this story is: If your owner is digging up treasure you should wait for him.