Student vs Faculty Basketball Game


Last week, my school held a student vs faculty basketball game. The tickets were 25 cents and all of the proceeds went to the fires in Australia. The faculty won, but the students put up a good fight. We lost by 2 points. It was a great way to have fun and raise money for the fires in Australia.

Every quarter, a new grade would play against the teachers, starting with the 5th grade and ending with the 8th grade. The 7th grade was the best at basketball. It was awesome to watch because our friends were in the game. Thanks for reading my post and feel free to leave a comment.

Plank Challenge

In the last few months my Language Arts class has been doing a plank challenge. We have been adding 5 seconds every day. Then at the end of the project we planked for as long as we could possibly plank. During this project we tried to encourage ourselves and our friends around us.

On the day that we went as long as we could, I planked for 28 minutes and 20 seconds. I was going to go for as long as my friend went, and we ended up both dropping at the same time. It was a super fun project to do. The period ended, so we couldn’t do anymore. Thanks for reading this post.

Wisdom Tale Comic

In my Language Arts class over the past few months, we have been doing a project where we read around 30 shorts stories. While we are reading them we take notes. Then at the end of the project we pick one of the stories, and we make a comic depicting the story. After the project we take a test on all of the stories.

The story I chose was called The Wild Strawberry. The story goes like this: A man was running, stumbling, and gasping for breath as a tiger chased him. Then he came to a cliff’s edge. He looked around and saw a vine, and he jumped for it. He made the jump and looked up. He saw the tiger at the cliffs edge, but then he looked down and saw another tiger below him. Then he saw wild strawberry growing on the side of the cliff. Holding onto the vine with one hand he got a strawberry and ate it. He never knew how sweet a strawberry could taste.

I made the comic with two apps called Sketchbook and Comic Life. I drew the drawings on Sketchbook, and then I made the comic on Comic Life. Sketchbook is a really helpful app that gives you access to many different drawing tools and many different perks drawing. Comic Life lets you import photos from your camera roll into a comic. You can customize many different things on the template that you choose. Here are the links for both of the apps just in case you want to check them out:

https://www.sketchbook.com/thankyou?

http://comiclife.com

 

Colombia Pen Pal

At school in Language Arts, we were given the privilege to have a pen pal in Colombia. The pen pals were learning English in Colombia. The pen pal that we got sent us a letter telling us about themselves and what life is like in Colombia. My pen pal’s name was Camila. I was impressed by how good her handwriting was considering she had only just started learning English.

I learned a lot about Colombia during this experience and how different it is from North Carolina. They have everything there, they have beautiful landscapes, deserts, beaches, mountains, cities, and forests. I hope to visit Colombia one day!

Family Celebrations

“christmas” by Sean MacEntee is licensed under CC BY 2.0

My family celebrates many holidays, but here are some of main ones.

-Christmas: We celebrate Christmas by decorating the tree with lights and ornaments. We decorate the tree with music playing and all of us drinking eggnog. Then on Christmas morning we wake up at 7:00 and we go downstairs and open our stockings. After that we have Christmas breakfast which consists of waffles, berries, scrambled eggs, and biscuits. Then finally we go into the living room and open the presents we all gave each other.

-Thanksgiving: For Thanksgiving we go up to Connecticut and we see our family friends. We also go grass sledding and hiking. then for the meal we eat and then the kids go in the basement and play video games. We also play flashlight tag.

-Easter: For Easter we go out brunch in Boston and we see my siblings that are in boarding school.

-My birthday: For my birthday, I have a party with my friends, and I get to pick the dinner. I also sometimes get presents from my friends, but I always get presents from parents.

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Stagville Field Trip

Photo by Tyrone Gould

My class went to a plantation called Stagville. We went on Wednesday, and we learned about the enslaved people’s style of life. I learned that 10 people lived in about a 12 feet by 9 room. We got a partner and we cut a piece of wood with a two person saw. Then we went to the owners house and saw how much nicer that house was. It was painted white and it had all this super fancy stuff in it.

We also learned about an enslaved person that looked after the owners daughters. When all the daughters except one died, the one that was alive took the caretaker with her to Philadelphia to find a doctor to cure her of the disease that the other daughters died from. The daughter went to Philadelphia 3 times, and on the third time the caretaker ran away. She came back to Stagville to find her 3 children, but she was only reunited with 2.

It was a great experience and I recommend going there if you have time. Thanks for reading this post!

Videogames!

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One thing about me is that I love videogames. I play a lot of games, but the three that I play the most are: Shinobi Striker, Naruto Storm 4, and Fortnite.

I used to hate Fortnite, but then about a month ago I went back on to my old account, and it was actually fun. I like how in Fortnite you can play multiple game modes. Shinobi Striker is a game based off the anime Naruto. Naruto is a ninja in a fantasy wold, that can do amazing things like: make clones of himself, make a mini cyclone in his palm, and climb trees with no hands(everyone in the Naruto world can do these things). The game is where you customize your own ninja and go on missions, aquire jutus, and get new outfits. Lastly, Naruto Storm 4 is a game where you play as characters in the anime and fight your friends, play the story mode, or play an AI. It is a super fun game that I play with my brother.

Please let me know if you play any of these games!

What I Notice

Heart in the sky” by Tomas Öhberg

I was sitting outside of my language arts class yesterday, and I looked up at the sky and I saw an elephant in the clouds. I disappeared before I could take a picture, and I was disappointed. This post is about things that I notice. The thing that I notice the most is how clouds make cool shapes in the sky. Other things that I notice are the holes and grooves on a tree, people’s shoes, and different cars. I tend to notice a lot of things because I live in a family of five. You might think that has nothing to do with this topic, but it does. In a family of five people are fighting over the attention, so most of the time I have nothing else to do.

I think it is cool how our brain just stops and notices things. Most of the time people notice things that have an impact on their life. I am very lazy so that’s why I look at clouds so much. I exercise my brain instead of my body. I notice shoes because my family will get a pair once every week, so I tend to know when people get new shoes. And finally, I notice cars because I am driving a lot. I have to be dragged from store to store to soccer practice, I have a busy life.

Super Smash Bros Ultimate!

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Super Smash Bros Ultimate is a great game on the Nintendo Switch. It is a game where a lot of the Nintendo characters come together into one game. You can pick characters to battle with against a CPU or a friend. You have to unlock the characters in Classic Mode, where you have to complete different challenges.

You can attack with some different buttons. You can attack with:

-Side + B

-Up + B

-Down + B

-A

-And B

Those are the most basic attacks. They do a lot of damage, but they do even more damage if you add a combo. Combos are when you hit someone once, but then you hit them a bunch more times after that. I love this game because I love all Nintendo games. When I saw this game I knew it would be my favorite game. I only have gotten to play it a few times, because I don’t have a Nintendo Switch, but I am trying to get enough money for it. Here is a picture of the character list if your wondering.

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