This is an unfinished hairbrush that Emma D. and I designed. The bristles are made to make it less painful when you brush your hair. Also, when you press the pink button on the handle, detangler sprays out of the bristles!
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My Font!
This is my font! It isn’t perfect, but it’s pretty good!
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 First Week!
I am really enjoying middle school so far. My favorite class so far is P.E. because we play games like dodgeball related games, everybody’s it, etc. I also really like Math because I really like the way Ana teaches the class and all the fun perplexing problems she gives us. I had an amazing summer this year because I got to see my friends at sleep away camp and I also went to East Hampton for the rest of the summer.
20 Meter Graphs!
In Math class Ana told us to make graphs for a race that will be 20 meters. We could do it any time but it had to represent 20 meters. I thought that one of the graphs in story b were inaccurate because they started out at 5 meters and one of them stopped for 4 seconds. The one that is red that is put in a doesn’t make sense because it goes straight the whole time. Lastly in C, most of them are accurate except for the bottom left graph because it goes straight up in 5 seconds even though you are slowing down as you get to the finish line.
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