Drew and I read Bud, not Buddy. Our partnership was really good because we both work really well together. Also I liked the book and Drew did too so that made it easier to talk about the book. I’m proud that I took a lot of time on my homework and really did a good job on it . One challenge for me was understanding everything in the book. What I mean is some parts in the book there was a lot going on and I had to read the chunk in the book a couple times to really understand it.

 

 

My experience giving my docent talk at The Brooklyn Museum was good. Good because I knew a lot about my topic and it was fun sharing it with other people. Also I felt that everyone was listening to me and really paying attention and not asking questions while I was talking. I felt disappointed because there wasn’t any non human mummies there so I couldn’t show what their tomb were like. One thing I learned about note-taking is to read in chunks and then write in your own words what you understood. When it comes to taking notes, I used to look at the book when I not take , but now I put the book down and really try to understand what the paragraph is saying. One thing that is still challenging for me about note taking is writing in complete sentences.

 

I would like to talk about Gun violence, a topic that everyone is talking about even presidential candidates. Gun violence is a person threatening someone with a gun, hitting someone with a gun, shooting someone living with a gun, and last but not least suicide.

This has always been important but has more in the conversation lately due to recent events. This is very important to me because I’ve heard stories  about kids killing kids. police officers  killing innocent people which led to people killing police officers. This is very bad for society and gives me a stomach ache every time I hear about this kind of things happening.

 

This is a assessment that we had for math that has multiplication  and division. The front was challenging because you had to pick the problem an solve it. The back was easier for me you had to do a division problem.  The 1st quarter of math was not that fun. I think we could had more doing stuff like make our own problem for someone else to do. But some parts were fun like making our own problem. So I want to do more stuff like that later in the year.

 

This is my shelter I made with Anna.  I chose this one to write about  because  my partner and I did a really good job of and I’m proud of it. A challenge for me was putting the leaves on the shelter. They wouldn’t stick. So what we did was put a brown strip of felt and put it across them to help them stick. One thing that I really worked hard on was making the door.  None of the wood would stick and it took so long but I finally did it. A learning habit I focused on was collaboration. I think I did a really good job with that because we made a really cool shelter. Also in the start we had different ideas for the shelter but we later agreed.

 

 

     The book I read over the summer was called The Crossover by Kwame Alexander. I think the author really liked basketball because the setting of the book was mostly on the basketball court. The main characters in the book are Josh Bell and JB they are twin brothers that are 14, they’re on the same basketball team and play great together on the court. The book also had a lot of descriptive writing about basketball. Like my favorite line in the book when she wrote “ to JB, who skips downtown zips around then double dips it in the bowl SWOOSH.” They’re many problems in this book but the main one is that Josh and JB’s dad has hypertension and he is really sick, but he doesn’t like doctors so he keeps not going to the doctor and keeps getting more and more sick.

In the beginning of the book it explains who the characters are and what they’re like. Then in the middle of the book it’s all about their basketball careers and what they want to do in college and when they get older. Also what happens in the middle is that JB gets a girlfriend and he is hypnotized in a way because all he thinks about is her and cares less and less about basketball. There is also a problem in the middle when Josh gets suspended from the basketball team and school. He gets so angry. His mom who is also the vice principal suspended him because he was bad in school. Josh missed the semi final game. Later his mom decides to lets him play in the finals. Before the game Josh and his dad were playing one on one and when Chuck, their dad, was going to dunk, he fell. They called an ambulance to pick him up. He was in a coma for a while but eventually he woke up. He was in the hospital recovering and everyone thought he was getting better. But on the day of the game he had a heart attack! JB was crying so much and was so sad, instead of going to the game he went to the hospital. Josh went to the game and scored at the buzzer and won the championship! Sadly, after the game, Chuck Bell died of a heart attack.  He was 39.  Chuck played in the NBA so it was all over the news. Before he died he gave his championship ring to josh.

I really enjoyed this book because I LOVE basketball and this book was about basketball. I also liked this book because the book was written in verse and I thought that was really cool. Lastly I liked this book because I thought this author was really good at making me feel like I was connected to the characters.  It made the book very interesting. I recommend this book to kids that love basketball and like books that are told in poems. I give this book 4.5 out of 5 stars.

I think I could have worked harder on this because I think I rushed. What I did was I used algorithm and only multiplied the numbers once. What I should have done is multiplied the numbers twice and then when I did that I got the right answer.

This book is a book review I am proud of.  I thought Sitting Bull was a really cool person so it was fun to make a book review on him and make the book review really good. I am most proud of using descriptive language.

This book I am also proud of because it was my first book review and I can see how much I changed from my first to last. Like in my first I wasn’t so descriptive but in my last I was.