Poems of Christmas

Day 1, Herbie "the elf" arrives, be on your best behavior and tell no lies.

Day 2, don't be blue, Santa will come, just for you!

Day 3, it's gotta be, the best day for you and me!

Day 4, kicking at the door, Santa will bring what I'm looking for.

Day 5 for my friend Joe, we are looking for lots of snow.

In the kitchen on day 6, we are fixin' up some cookie mix.

Christmas time on Day 7, the real reason is up in heaven.

Day 8, it's slowing down, Santa will be here in Christmas town.

Day 9, feeling fine, on top of the tree is a great big shine!

Day 10 has just begun, Christmas fun for everyone.

Santa is getting near, Day 11 brings lots of cheer.

Candy Candy everywhere, on Day 12 there is joy in the air.

It's not unlucky #13 because our star brings lots of glean.

Day 14, eleven days left, bring in the tree with lots of heft.

Cookie and cakes by the tree, on Day 15, treats for you and me.

Day 16, stringing the lights, there's lots of stuff, it's very nice.

Day 17, Christmas is getting closer, I know this because it's on my poster.

Day 18 making Reindeer food, every day closer, gets me in the mood.

Excitement on Day 19 is in the air, look out the window, we're almost there!

Visiting family on Day 20, I sure hope my grandma has lots of money!

Day 21, it's getting near, when Santa comes, have no fear.

Day 22 has just begun, your holiday cheer is going to be fun.

2 days left on Day 23, we will open our presents under the tree.

1 day left on the 24, Christmas presents have lots of galore.

Here it is, Christmas Day has not arrived ~~ Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night and go out of sight. (that means go to bed)

This is a Christmas Advent poem written by Brennan Layne Ison.

I hope you enjoy my poems.

I hope Santa bring you everything you wished for.

My cat Dora the Explorer

I really wanted a cat, almost as much as I wanted my Casey dog, which you have seen on my other blog. When I was little I likethe show dora and that's how we named our cat Dora. When I was at Shawna's I asked for this kind of cat which was black and white. So she let us have her. Over the years she has grown and now she is 5 years old. Dora lives outside so she can explore. She is an outside cat. Everytime I open the door, she doesn't come in.

Dora likes to cuddle with us and catches mice and moles sometimes. Last time when Dora killed a mouse, we had to bury him. We had a funeral.

Dora and Casey try to get a long. I know some day they will become friends. Right now Dora lives on the front porch and Casey is on the back porch. They are separated and our living room is the thing that separates them, like the Atlantic Ocean separates North America away from Africa.

Every time when I open the door she comes and when I sit on the step, she purrs on me. I love my cat with all my heart and my dog.

Casey Jones my dog

I really wanted a dog. One day when me and daddy were playing with the dogs. I saw one kind of dog that was black and white and had blue eyes. When me and my mommy were in Lexington going to watch a movie called Despicible Me, we were thinking of going to the pet store and then we were thinking what we should name a dog. Then soon I had an idea, I said Casey Jones and then we decided to name our dog Casey. When there was a rain storm, we saw a package, when we opened it, there was my dog I wanted. I said, Casey, welcome to your new home. We saved her life from the shelter and now she is my dog for ever.

My dog is a bit crazy. Every time I call her like this, "Casey, (whistle) (clap)" she comes really fast. And when I run, she speeds up. She's really fast. She likes to jump on my brother and bite him on his diaper. I hope Casey doesn't eat his diaper. That would be so gross. When Casey gets happy to see us, she pees everywhere. She peed on my foot one time. It was so gross. I had to wash my foot and my shoes.

Casey likes to eat dog food. The usual. But she also likes to eat leftovers and dog treats and the grossest thing of all, pigs ears! Thats all.

Airplane Crashes?!?!?!

An airplane crashed in my backyard! It was AMAZING!

I was in my mommy and daddy's room watching a GeoTrax movie on the computer. My little brother was with me. There was a big BOOM sound and my daddy rushed to see what it was. It was an airplane UPSIDE DOWN! My mommy and daddy went outside the next day with a tape measure. My mommy thought it was 30 feet away from the house but after they measured it, it was 48 1/2 feet from our house. It was cushioned by trees and our log pile saved the lives of the people that were inside the plane.

Guess What! The news people came out and interviewed me on the video camera and I think someday it will be on TV. We saw the plane was on the news at it was cool.

Here are some good tips if a plane crashes in your yard:

1. Get under your bed and wait for the plane to crash safely.
2. If the plane is leaking gasoline, get a fire extinguisher.
3. Call 911
4. Help anyone that is hurt.
5. See if anybody is hurt.
6. If they are hurt a bit, treat them nicely with some soup and bread.

A person with little bolts in her face

I saw a lady with bolts on her skin. They were around her cheek. She put them in her face to look pretty at the party. She had 3 bolts. They were gray in color. She will get them off soon. When the party is over.

I don't want to have bolts in my face because it would be painful.

They screw the bolts in and when they are done, they screw them out.

The bolts made her look cool.

Please do not try this at home.

Bridge connecting all the Continents

My plan is to put a bridge to go all over the world. People would use the bridge instead of going on a ship or on an airplane. The bridge will go all around the world to:

United States to Africa
Africa to Madagascar (Africa would also go to Antarctica)
Madagascar to India
India to Borneo
Borneo to Australia
Australia to Antarctica
United States to Hawaii
Hawaii to Australia
North America to Greenland
Greenland to Iceland
Iceland to Asia
Asia back to the United States

This bridge will have these types of trains: diesel, electric, steam, and Maglev

A Maglev Train is a train that floats on a magnetic field. It can go 500 miles per hour because it has no friction. There will be passenger cars too, these are the kinds of cars you ride in. Dining cars, sleeping cars, passenger cars are all on these trains. There are also freight cars, box cars, tankers, flat beds, hoppers, cabooses, gondolas, refrigerated cars, zoo cars, dairy cars, breakdown cranes. There will be 8 sets of track on the bridge for any train that is broken down, we can get on another track to go around it.

The bridge is made of triangle shapes. The good news about this bridge, is that it can withstand any types of weather conditions:

Dangerous Weather Conditions
Tsunamis (some people call them Tidal Waves)
Hurricanes
Sea Quakes
Thunderstorms
Earthquakes
Tornados (some people call them Twisters)
Water Spouts

The bad news about this bridge is if a volcano starts to come out of the ground, the bridge will snap in two. The other bad news is that if a shark tries to eat the metal beams, the bridge will collapse into the water. The wooden beams could break if a shark tries to eat them for lunch, dinner or supper.

The other good news is that it will have a drawbridge for ships to pass through. Barges, Coast Guards, Ocean Liners, Ferry Boat, Freighter, Super Tanker, fishing boats.

Thats all. I hope you enjoy my bridge. It's going to be the greatest bridge ever!!!!

Oil Spill in Gulf of Mexico

Please clean up the Gulf of Mexico. If you don't then all the fish will die and then all the fish will have certain death. Here's my plan:

1. Put a dam in front of the Gulf so the oil can't escape while pumping.
2. Put rock or a big giant plug in front of the hole so the oil can't escape.
3. Take the oil water to the water works. There, they will make nice fresh salty water for the ocean.
4. Drive back to the Gulf and put all the clean water back into the Gulf.
5. Lift the dam out of the Gulf so the water can flow free back into the Gulf.

Now the water is clean and all the fish will not die.

Our weekend

The weekend starts on Saturday. We got up and got dressed to go to the Train Show. It was at the Greenbo Lake State Park. We saw lots of trains there. I even got to ride on a small train with my daddy and Brody. It was an old time steam engine with lots of steam coming out of his funnel. After we rode the train, we went to see the little ones. We bought lots of stuff. We bought an old Lionel track uncoupler and we took it home. We also got a wooden Thomas Train Recycling Cars. My mommy bought me a train eraser for my pencil! Daddy bought two new transformers for my HO scale train. Then we went home.

On Sunday, it was sunny and warm and we had a great day. When Brody got up from his nap, we went over by Cave Run Lake to feed the ducks. We fed them bread and popcorn.

On Monday we have to go to school :-(

The end

Black Holes

Black Holes are big holes that are black. Nothing can escape it, even light! Black Holes are outside of our Milky Way. Black Holes can suck up anything in its way. Scientists don't know what is at the end of a Black Hole. Some believe that Black Holes bring you to alien planets or take you to another dimension. It can take you to the future or the past or B.C. Black Holes are scary.

A Worm Hole is a thing that worms could travel through. You would need a big worm, but that couldn't be real. Worm Holes are a real thing in space. First you go through them, then "BOP" you are out the other end. Then you go back in and "POP" you are out of the Worm Hole. Worm Holes are different from Black Holes because they go through a tube thing through a small thing and you go out an end that looks like a trumpet.

Spiral Galaxies
Spiral Galaxies are different from Black Holes. Only Spiral Galaxies spin around and Black Holes only suck like a vaccuum cleaner. You can get lost in a Spiral Galaxy. They are made of gas and dust and our Milky Way is a Spiral Galaxy. The most spectacular galaxies are Spiral. They spin around like giant whirlpools, spreading their stars into trailing arms. The oldest stars end up in a dense central hub. The sprial arms contain young stars, pink neublas, and gas and dust. Spiral Galaxies are disk shape so they appear flat if we look at them from the side. Spiral Galaxies are cool!

I like space stuff because it's awesome and incredible. I have a telescope that I won from Cub Scouts from selling popcorn. I use my telescope to see things far away. We can only use my telescope when the weather is nice and there are no clouds in the night sky. My favorite thing to look at in the telescope is the moon. It has lots of craters, Sea of Crises, Sea of Serenity, Sea of Nectar. It even has a footprint on it from an astronaut. Sometimes there is a solar eclipse. After first contact it takes about an hour for the moon to completly cover the sun. Day turns into night. Stars and planets appear.

Mercury, Venus, earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto are the planets.

These planets have moons:
Jupiter has 36 moons, Earth has 1 moon, Pluto has 1 moon (Charon), Saturn, Uranus, Mars has 2 moons, Neptune 8 moons (Triton is the largest). I don't think Mercury and Venus have moons.

I hope you don't get into any dangerous places folks. And remember, don't try this at home!

Extreme Weather Blog

Tornados:
Tornados are just swirling clouds. But they can swirl around fast like a car. Sometimes torados are called twisters. Twisters can move fast like a car like the story of the Wizard of Oz. Some of these tornados end up in a place called Tornado Alley. Tornado Alley is in the United States. A state called Florida has lots of tornados. They end in October.

Hurricanes:
Hurricanes are the biggest storms. They can be even seen from space. The center of a hurricane is called the eye. Some people call it the eye of the storm. Hurricanes are located over water. (WATERSPOUTS) Water spouts are not tornados. They are shoots that swirl up on water. They suck up fish and frogs from the water and it takes them inside the spout and when it's over it might leave fish on the ground and frogs on the roof of a house!

Thunderstorms and Lightning:
Thunderstorms shoot lightning during a storm in the summer. Lightning is the sound of explosions. It makes a loud sound called thunder. That's why they are called thunderstorms.

Earthquakes
Earthquakes are vibrations that a volcano makes when it errupts. And the plates could turn on the earth. It's called shifting plates. When one plate moves against another, they rub. Like when you wash hands. Earthquakes can make cars crash, trucks tip over and buildings tip over. Or they could fall apart.

Volcanos:
A volcano is a mountain with a giant hole inside that squirts lava out of the top. The magma chamber is located in the heart of a volcano. It's where the lava is stored.

Snowstorms:
Snowstorms are cold storms that blow snow everywhere. They are also called blizzards. When a blizzard blows so much snow on your doorstep, you are then snowbound. It's when you can't get out of your house.

If you are caught in a storm, here are some safety tips:
1. Don't go to water
2. Don't go into an open field
3. Don't hide under a tree
4. The safest place to be is indoors.
5. You should stay calm and don't panic.
6. Get games and your stuffed animals.
7. You will need a flashlight and batteries or candles and a lighter.
8. Get a radio that runs on batteries and you can listen to what the weather is like.

Clouds:
There are several types of clouds in the United States.
One is the Stratus. It's a big blanket in the sky that makes rain fall.
Another one is cumulus. It means good weather. They are white puffy clouds.
Another one is cirrus. They are the high whistly clouds. They mean bad weather is coming.
Another one is Nimbus. They make rain fall too like stratus clouds.


My favorite type of weather is SUNNY! I am scared of thunderstorms because they have big booms and lightning flashes. I feel safe in my house with my mommy & daddy. Sometimes we go to the basement when there is a tornado. Or you could go to a place called a storm cellar.

That's all folks.

Brennan's Brain Malfunction

Sometimes I have a malfunction with my brain. When that happens I don't concentrate. When I do that, I can't do anything with my brain because I have to take pills to make my brain be calm. When I take the pills, they just go away and dissolve. My brain is bigger than the pills. I use my imagination several times when I am working at school. I can't concentrate when I am using my imagination. I can concentrate when there is no school. My teacher wants me to concentrate and pay attention but nothing works. When I do concentrate though, I can do anything because the brain molecules are scrambled when I do my work. When I am not at school my brain molecules go back where they belong. My brain is not really smart when I have school.

Is Pluto A Planet?

I went to school and my teacher told us about the planets. She said that there were 8 planets. But I knew there were 9 planets. She was leaving out Pluto!! I knew that Pluto was a planet so I told my teacher that there were 9 planets. But my teacher said Pluto isn't a planet anymore. So we had an argument and I said I would blast you into space for a mission to Pluto so that you would know whether Pluto was a planet or not. So they blasted my teacher into space on a rocket. Then she went all the way around the Solar System then she saw Pluto waaaaaay far behind Neptune. Then she saw that Pluto was still there. When she came back down to Earth, I asked her, "Did you see that Pluto was still a planet?" She said "Yes! I was wrong, Pluto is still there!" I said "Do you take all that back about Pluto not being a planet?" She said "YES!"

Brennan's 1st story

Train Goes Boom Down The Line

Trains goes boom by pulling a big load of oil tankers to the gasoline station at San Francisco. That's where the Golden Gate Bridge is. Train has a leaky tanker at the front of his tanker. Oil leaks to the fueling gague that makes it go boom. The people actually run to the disaster and try to help the fire department to put it out and stop the fire from spreading.