This is the grade I got a few days ago. The first pop quiz we did in this format I got a 2. (Which means I got 2 out of 4 correct.) After getting that grade, I started practicing at home. I started to get better grades like a three and then eventually I got a four! I’m going to keep studying at home and hopefully I will keep this good progress up!
This is my progress report in XtraMath. So far my score is an 88. The first time I took the test I got a 67. I think my multiplication skills have improved and if I keep practicing, I will finish it! My goal is to finish 3 second multiplication by 1 month.
Here are my reading and writing goals:
Reading: I want to read almost every genre by the end of the year.
Writing: I want to write at least 2 pages when I have a writing assignment.
This summer has gone by so fast! Most of the time I was swimming in a lake, pool, ocean, or natural water source. 75% of the time I was with my friends which was great. I probably only slept in my own bed for 5 days this summer. I went to camp for a month and then stayed in the city for one week and then went to the hamptons for two weeks. So I was always on my feet doing something. The list of activities is pretty much endless. I’m excited to go back to school because I won’t have to organize my activities. 
. I am sad that summer is ending but I can’t wait for the first day of school tomorrow!
DO NOT READ IF YOU HAVE NOT READ THE HUNGER GAMES OR CATCHING FIRE
Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins is the third book in The Hunger Games Series. Now that the rebellion has started in Panem, Katniss Everdeen is taken to the rebel base, District 13. District 12 was blown to bits by President Snow because of Katniss’s rebellious actions in the arena but Gale saved as many people as he could and brought them to 13. Johanna, Finnick, Beetee, Haymitch, Effie, Gale, Prim, and Katniss’s Mother were all saved and brought to 13. But Peeta was taken by the Capitol. Katniss is overwhelmed and has a lot of decisions to make. How will she overthrow the Capitol? Read the book if you want to find out!
My favorite part of the book was when Finnick and Annie got married because everyone was having a good time and not stressing about the capitol or the rebellion.
I would recommend this book to people who like action because there are a lot of battles. I would also recommend this book to people who like sci-fi because this isn’t necessarily realistic fiction. Lastly I would recommend this book to people who like The Hunger Games and Catching Fire. I rate this book 5 out of 5 stars.
This is a picture of me jumping off a boulder into Emerald Pools in New Hampshire! It was freezing cold! It was mountain water so that is why it was that cold. Everyone jumped off. It was so much fun! It felt really good since the day before that we hiked Mt. Washington.
This is part of my cabin who hiked Mt. Washington with me because the rest were not able to since they were injured. It took us 13 hours to hike up and down the mountain. We got up at 3:00am! We got back to the campsite at 4:00pm. The hike up was so hard! There was a lot of bouldering and false peaks. At the top of the mountain, it was 55 degrees! So cold! HIking down was just as hard as hiking up. The last hour and a half were brutal! I thought my calves were going to explode! When we got back to the campsite we were all exhausted. We had hamburgers for dinner and went to bed super early.
Counting by 7s by Holly Goldberg Sloan is a book about Willow Chance. She is a twelve-year-old genius, who is obsessed with nature and diagnosing medical conditions. Her favorite number is 7. She comforts herself by counting by 7s. She doesn’t have any friends. It’s hard for her to find people like her. She is an only child and was adopted by James and Roberta Chance. She has lived a happy life with them until now… One day James and Roberta Chance get into a car accident and die. This rocks Willow’s world. It is no longer comforting to count by 7s. How will she recover? You will find out when you read the book!
My favorite part of the book is when Dell Duke and Quang-ha are watching TV and Willow doesn’t understand what is going on, “Dell and Quang-ha appear to be hunting for two things: Mostly they are looking for acts of violence. (They watch with great amusement as a man in a cartoon gets stabbed in the eye socket with an ice pick.) The rest of the time they seem to be stalking the airwaves for appealing females. When they find either thing, they stop to enjoy the visual stimuli. They call girls “hot.” The girls are not untouchable, like truly high-temperature objects. No. They mean attractive. Dell even yells out “Super-hot.” And I hear Quang-ha say “Smoking!” It all seems very inappropriate. There is a whole language to be learned here. This is an education.” That is my favorite part because I thought it was very funny.
I would recommend this book to people who like books that make you cry because Willow loses a lot but her new friends help her and are like a family. I would also recommend this book to people who like books that they can relate to because even though Willow has a completely different life than I do I can still relate to her loss. Lastly, I would like to recommend this book to people who don’t stop reading if it doesn’t seem interesting at first because it is a little slow in the beginning but then it gets really good. I rate this book 41/2 stars!
Margaret and I had a bake sale today! The money would go to a foundation that is trying to stop the Yulin Festival. The Yulin Festival is a dog meat festival where over 10,000 dogs are killed every year in Southern China. They are robbed and snatched from their families and homes, dragged by a rope attached to a car, boiled alive, skinned alive, tortured, kept in small cages with other dogs, and beaten very badly. We raised $82.50 to help save the dogs. There are many pictures on Instagram of dogs saying to repost to raise awareness with the hashtag #stopyulin2015. There are many pictures of the dogs getting boiled, skinned, and tortured. When I looked at them and saw all of the posts, it made me feel like I had to do something about it. That is why we made an account to raise awareness and had the bake sale. I feel good that I helped animals and possibly saved their lives.
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This was my first Discovery Day! I had so much fun. I was in the space group. We went to the Hayden Planetarium and to the water park afterwards. I learned about Dark Energy and Dark Matter and our observable universe. For each level, we had a scavenger hunt! It was so fun. In the end, it was a tie! (The LREI way). Space is so much fun and I would love to learn more about what we can explore in space.