Baseball has been a lot of fun lately. We have been playing well and have only lost one game. It has been a lot of fun playing with the high schoolers, and it is a new, hard challenge. Playing sports for your school feels different than playing in a league because it represents you. I also think that it’s really cool that I get to play sports for high school as an 8th grader.
My Feelings on Portfolio Post Tuesday
Lately, I haven’t found Portfolio Post Tuesday very exciting. I feel like it’s been losing it’s fun vibe that it used to have. I think that they have the potential to be fun, but now, they feel kind of boring.
Trip To Canada
Over break, we took a trip to Canada for French. On that trip, I was introduced to maple taffy. Maple taffy is made by a very simple process. You boil maple syrup to 235 degrees and then pour it on snow. You then wait for 10-12 seconds and take a popsicle stick and roll it. It tastes really good and I hope I can do it in the U.S.A.
Teach-In
Something that was surprising was that our activity was very successful even though it was inside. We didn’t think that it would go well because of the weather, but it turned out better than we expected. Overall, I feel that what we had a very successful time and I am proud of how our hard work turned out.
Basketball Game
Yesterday, we had a basketball game. In this game, the team we played, Dwight, wasn’t that great. What I learned from this game is that sometimes, it can be better to do something hard than to do something too easy. I think that this is a good thing for me to know because I think that it will mean that I will push myself more than I would otherwise.
Basketball Part 2.0
Yesterday at the LREI Knights basketball game, we lost. Though we lost, I thought that we played the best game of the year. This reminded me of a lesson. This lesson was that sometimes the best thing that happens to everyone isn’t always the greatest thing.
Studying
I think that Quizlet is a very useful tool. Quizlet is a tool that is very useful when studying for a test because you can master any test subject in a matter of minutes which I find to be a very useful thing so I can do well on my tests.
Math
In math lately, we have been doing a lot. We have been learning about radicals and scientific notation which I think is really cool because it seems to be a useful skill to have. I think that what I am doing in math is cool and I like how what we’re doing is to my speed and I am learning a lot of new things. I think that this keeps me engaged in math class because I am challenged enough. I think that this helps me call out less because I have more things that I need to focus on.
My Essay Writing
Something that I need to work on for writing essays is writing a conclusion. I think that if I can write a better conclusion it will make my essays more well-rounded. I think that something that I do well is my writing conventions and grammar.
My Fun Break
Over break, I had a lot of fun. What I did over this break was ski. What I did while I was skiing was fun. The fun thing that I did whilst skiing was just regular skiing in Vermont, specifically a mountain called Stowe. Stowe is the name of the town in Vermont where I skied. Stowe is the name of the mountain that I skied at. In Stowe, I skied a lot of different runs, some were greens, some were blues and some were blacks, and by the way, some were double blacks. It was a very fun time in Vermont that I had, and then, I went to a little mountain called Catamount. At this mountain, I am an instructor. What I do is I instruct. I instruct people of all ages. One day, I taught someone how to ski, and I realized that since I taught him how to ski, that is an experience that can stay with him for the rest of his life.