This is my polygon venn diagram. It contains quadrilateral, parallelogram, rectangle, square, rhombus, trapezoid, triangle, obtuse triangle, isoceles triangle, equilateral triangle, right angle, hexagon, septagon, octagon, decagon, and dodecagon.
Family Conferences
这是谁的: One Quizlet Set We’ve Learned in the Third Quarter!
My 2nd Music Composition
This is my 2nd Composition! It’s called Under the Stars. It’s more upbeat than my last composition.
My Fiction Story!
1 in a Million
by Olivia Bagan
Chapter 1
“Who wants to read The History of the Universe in 500 Pages for homework tonight?” Asked my teacher Amber.
Everyone raised their hand except for me,
“Do we have to?” I asked.
Everyone turned around and stared at me like I was an alien creature. Once again, I am the one who stands out.
My name is Quinn Blakley and I live in a small town called Bleachville. I’m an 11 year old girl. I am not like everyone else in my town. I have brown eyes, brown hair, and olive skin. I like art, wearing clothes I upcycled, and doing modern dance.
In Bleachville, everyone has blonde hair, white clothes made specifically for them by the tailor, pale skin, and blue eyes. Even my parents are like that. Everyone is super smart and is always in the library.
I personally don’t like school. It’s like a punishment I can never escape. My parents always scold me about not having good grades while my 15 year old sister, Anna, is the most perfect daughter they could ever dream of. She always does extra credit assignments and always finishes her projects on time. On the other hand, I can barely finish my assignments on time, and you don’t even want to know about my projects…
As always, I was caught in another embarrassing moment. I should have kept my opinion to myself. Why did I have to raise my hand? Why did I ask that stupid question? Then the most popular girl in school, Alison Carlindor, says,
“I’m not surprised she doesn’t want to read The History of the Universe in 500 Pages. She can barely read the books we read in Kindergarten.”
Everyone in my history class laughed at me as I burrowed my face into the palms of my hands.
Chapter 2
Even at home I feel different. My family is like one giant computer that is working perfectly but then there’s one tiny glitch. That glitch is me. My parents don’t allow me to help prepare dinner because I’m always knocking over everything.
I can’t stop thinking about what happened in class today. Alison Carlindor is the most popular girl in school. She has perfect straight blond hair, the most stunning outfits, and flawless skin. She’s the queen bee of middle school. I stopped thinking about class as my mother called me for dinner.
As we are eating the same dinner as always, chicken, white rice, and green beans, my sister starts bragging about how she got an A+ on her science essay about evolution. Then, she starts talking about how she got an A+ on every subject on her report card. And then, she starts talking about how her teachers want to enroll her in advanced classes. And that’s when I just can’t take it anymore. I felt like my head was going to explode. I stood up from my chair and screamed,
“Will you ever stop talking about how “perfect” you are? It’s always about you, you, and you!”
My parents stood up and sent me to my room… When I sat on my bed, I had an idea. I was going to run away from home.
Chapter 3
I took out my black dufflebag and packed everything I needed. My toothbrush, toothpaste, hairbrush, hair comb, my favorite clothes, my phone, a blanket, a pillow, a rain tarp, my sleeping bag, water bottles, trail mix, a radio, extra batteries, a flashlight, needle and thread, fabric, pencils, and paper. I put on my black leggings and sweatshirt and climbed out my window which possibly wasn’t the best idea when I realized my room was on the second story of the house.
I threw my dufflebag into the backyard to see how bad the fall was. There was good news and bad news. The good news was that I could probably jump down and not get hurt. But the bad news was that I just threw all of my stuff into the backyard so I can’t use anything to lower myself down. I tried to figure out a way to get down in my head. It was like a thousand tiny little gears just clicked in my brain. I just had to jump! It wasn’t that far down compared to the giant tree in the woods I play on! I braced myself for the fall. 3, 2, 1! As my feet hit the ground, I could hear the leaves crunching. They sounded like when you bite into a fresh apple. I grabbed my dufflebag and ran into the woods.
Chapter 4
I found the tree I usually play on deep in the woods and decided to set up camp there. The tree is a giant willow tree surrounded by little pine trees. The willow tree has big sturdy branches under it’s outer layer of leaves. I find the two top branches that are parallel from each other next to the trunk that has a little peg. I hung my duffle bag onto the peg and take out the blanket and hung it and wrapped it so it was like a hammock. I put my sleeping bag on there and put the rain tarp hanging from two little branches incase it rains.
I got my pillow and climbed into my sleeping bag and slowly drifted off to sleep.
Chapter 5
As I woke up in the morning I heard voices in the distance. They sounded like children my age. I slowly made my way out of the tree and looked around to see who was there. I climbed back up the tree, packed my bag, and walked around the woods to see if I could find them. I heard them again. I thought they were coming from my right. I ran through the woods as their voices got louder. I heard more voices. I found a clearing in the woods that had a small pathway leading to a small village. I walked into the village as a girl who looks just like me walked up to me,
“Hi I’m Sidney Walker. Welcome to Greoville.”
Chapter 6
After Sidney and I talked for a little bit, she walked me to her house. She introduced me to her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Walker. They are very kind. She showed me her room. I was speechless. There were paintings all over her walls, she had a manikin, a sewing machine, everything I could ever want.
“Oh my god! You have the best room in the world! I never get to do this stuff even though it’s my favorite thing to do in the world!” I said.
“Why don’t you get to do this?” Sidney asked.
Then I told her the whole story of how I got here and what life was like back at home.
“Wow. That’s so sad. You’re welcome to stay with me if you’d like.” said Sidney
“Really? Thank you so much!” I said.
She showed me to the two twin beds in her room. They both had ombré turquoise bedding.
“You can sleep here.” Sidney said as she pointed to the bed on the left.
I unpacked all of my stuff: My toothbrush, toothpaste, hairbrush, hair comb, my favorite clothes, my phone, a blanket, a pillow, a rain tarp, my sleeping bag, water bottles, trail mix, a radio, extra batteries, a flashlight, needle and thread, fabric, pencils, and paper.
“You have a lot of stuff!” Sidney said.
“I know.” I said.
“Let me take some of that stuff and put it in the closet.” Sidney offered.
“Thanks.”I said.
Sidney took my blanket, pillow, rain tarp, sleeping bag, radio, extra batteries, flashlight, and water bottles.
I looked at my phone to see what time it was. It was around dinner time.
“When are we going to have chicken, white rice, and green beans?” I asked Sidney.
“We don’t eat that here. We make our own dinner every night.” Sidney said.
I was shocked. I didn’t have to eat the same disgusting dinner!
“What are we eating tonight?” I asked.
“Dumplings!” Said Sidney.
Chapter 7
I’ve only had dumplings once on a field trip in social studies when we were learning about the asian culture. We went to a dim sum restaurant and I got the pork dumplings. Everyone hated the food but I thought it was the best thing in the world.
I was so excited to eat the dumplings, I thought I was going to explode. As soon as I sunk my teeth into the dumpling I was transported into dumpling heaven. I could see little dumplings with golden halos with white wings floating in the clouds. I quickly finished my dinner and went upstairs for bed.
I put on my pyjamas and brushed my teeth and climbed into bed. I fluffed up my pillow and slowly fell asleep.
I had a weird dream that night. It was almost like a vision. I saw my house and my sister was in her room crying looking at family albums of us when we were little. Then I saw my parents sitting on the porch calling the police. I saw all of the people in my class at school putting posters on every corner looking for me. Then I realized, I had to go home.
The next morning I woke up really early, packed my bag, ran downstairs but just as I was about to leave I heard someone.
“Where are you going?” Asked Sidney.
“I have to go home.” I said.
“But didn’t you love it here?” Asked Sidney.
“I can’t just leave my family.” I replied.
“I understand.” Said Sidney
“I’ll miss you Sidney. I’ll try to see you again.” I said
“I’ll miss you too.” Said Sidney.
Sidney gave me a hug as I walked out the door and into the woods.
Chapter 8
I was right outside of the clearing when I turned around and I couldn’t remember which way to go. When I looked back to see where the clearing was, I couldn’t see it. I was completely lost. I felt like Hansel and Gretel when they got lost in the woods. I tried to remember my surroundings from when I came into the woods. The only thing I remembered is that I only walked forward. So I started walking forward. After around an hour, I found the willow tree! It was almost sundown so I sprinted to Bleachville! I found my house and bursted through the door. My entire family was eating dinner and time seemed to freeze for a second. Everyone was expressionless and everyone started crying when my sister stood up and buried me into her arms.
“Never leave again.” My sister whispered.
“Don’t worry.” I whispered back.
My parents joined in and this was the first time we all appreciated each other as a family in a long time.
Chapter 9
The next day at school I walked in the door and everyone welcomed me back. Even Alison gave me a warm welcome. At lunch I sat with Alison and her friends and taught them how to upcycle and draw kawaii. They loved it! Soon everyone wore their own designs and we were all our own individual.
The End!
It’s Just a Piece of Plastic…
It’s the end of the summer so I have one and a half weeks left. Grace invited me to a huge end of the summer Slip n’ Slide party! The people I knew there were Tilda, Piper, Grace, and Olivia Berger.
I thought the Slip n’ Slide would be one of those long pieces of plastic that you lay on a hill in your backyard. But when I got there I was in for a surprise. I looked at the Slip n’ Slide and my jaw dropped. I honestly have never seen a Slip n’ Slide this big in my life. You know bouncey houses? It was a little bigger than an average bouncey house.
Anyway, Tilda and I would go down the slip n’ slide together every time. We would also come up with fun and tricky challenges! One of them was twist on your back two times, then tuck on your back. When Tilda and I were about to go Tilda looked nervous. I saw that Grace was about to push her down the slip n’ slide so I jumped onto the slip n’ slide. I did it! So did Tilda but she almost fell at the end…
A bunch of people were doing forward rolls instead of just pushing themselves so I told Tilda, “Why not?”. It reminded me of two years ago at camp, and I was trying the target jump for the first time. I was so scared. My friends were cheering me on so I had to do it. I couldn’t hold up the line for too long… I jumped and it was so scary but I did it!
Back at the slip n’ slide, everyone sounded like the grownups in Charlie Brown, “Mraw, mraw, mraw, mraw, mraw, mraw.” waiting in line for their turn. The water beating down on the plastic made everyone’s voices muffled. It sounded like rain on a sunny day. Tilda counted down, “Three, two, one!” I did touch my feet to the roof of the Slip n’ Slide but I didn’t fall. As soon as my hands touched the wet, slippery plastic I could feel the water going on my back. I was sliding so fast I couldn’t even see where I was going. I did the tricks that I was supposed to do. I was so scared I felt like the world was upside down. Roll, twist on to my stomach, twist onto my back, tuck, turn my back to the wall. I hit the wall at the bottom just a few seconds after I tucked and turned. It was so fun! Yay! I did it without getting seriously injured!
I feel like that was really fun and I think in the summer I do more risky things (that wasn’t that risky) like climb mountains, do high things on tight ropes at camp, and go in the ocean when it’s not the best time to go in. I felt very proud of myself after that summer and you should try doing more risky things too! It’s really fun.
That summer was one of the best summers in my life. I went to camp, I spent half of my summer in the Hamptons, I went to the beach, and I learned how to surf. I had so much fun!
My Mandarin Project!
This project I had to choose a character. I chose shān. Shān is a pictographic character. Shān means mountain and hill. The requirements were that we had to say the meaning of the character, write the character, and write a paragraph about why I chose the character. Here is a picture of my project:
Music!
Imagine the Future
“When you were in lower school, what was soemthing that you were excited about for fifth grade? How do you feel about it now that you’ve done it?
What was something about fifth grade that you were a little nervous or worried about? How do you feel about it now?
What is something about which you are still a little nervous or worried? What might you do to feel a little less nervous or worried?
What is something that you haven’t done yet in middle school about which you are excited? What are you excited about it?”
In lower school I was excited to be able to walk to my own classes in fifth grade. I feel very responsible now that I’ve done it because it’s your responsibility to get to class on time and have everything you need.
I was worried about the amount of homework because I thought that we would be getting a lot. Now I am not that worried because we don’t have an overwhelming amount of homework.
I’m excited to join the varsity teams in 7th and 8th grade because I’ll be able to play sports I love with my friends and compete.
My Puzzle!
Here are my clues:
My number is a factor of 400, My number is less that 101, You say my number when you count by 25s, You don’t say my number when you count by 15s.
History of the World
In Social Studies last Friday, Heather and Wendy split my split into groups. Each group was given a small pile of the index cards that everyone wrote a part in history. We had to put those cards in chronological order. Once your group was done, your group would check other tables and make suggestions.
It was a little hard when your group had all these cards and you had them spread out when you first started because you had to find the very first thing that happened in history with the cards you had.
When my group and I were putting the cards in order, I learned that the Cambrian Explosion was before the dinosaurs were alive. The dinosaurs emerged from the Permian Extinction. 185 million years later, all the dinosaurs went extinct when a 6 mile astroid hit the earth.