This year for halloween we learned deeper about colors, body parts and different things.  We learned the stuff on the first sentence.  It wasn’t that fun or interesting because I had so little time to do it because sharyn posted 200 pages the day before class and it was so rushed.

In this assignment that we did we were working on body parts descriptive words and other stuff.  I thought that it was fun that we could take a picture of ourself and then write about it.  I learned about the stuff in the first sentence.

after

before

I think that it is really important to be able to organize things because later in our life we might have to do something where we have to organize.

We did a lot of things at Ashokan, one of my favorite things was blacksmithing.  In blacksmithing  we had a choice to make three things, a heart shaped trivet, A fire poker or a plant hangar.  I made a plant hangar.  It was so much fun hammering 2,800 degrees metal into awesome shapes.  I learned at Ashokan, better friendships and how to play basketball.  Last year, I really did not get that much outside time because I played a lot of D&D this time I spent more time outside.

Je m’appelle  Benjamin.   J’ai 11 ans.  Je suis américain.  Je suis blond.  J’ai les cheveux bouclés.  J’ai  les mains grandes et douces.  J’ai les dents bonnes.  J’ai les grandes oreilles.  J’ai  une bonne voix.  Je suis content.  Je ne suis pas malade.

In this activity we were broken up into pairs and we had to look at this homework assignment to understand what to do:

Our #1 Goal: Using evidence in the form of quotes, we will create detailed drawings of characters and settings to better help the whole class understand the book.

Must haves:

• A list of both internal and external characteristics:
  • Internal= personality qualities (brave, timid, deceitful, etc.)
  • External= physical qualities (tall, brown hair, crooked teeth, etc.)

• At least two quotes from the text that directly related to your drawings (remember to cite your source!)

• Color
• Detail
• Evidence of effort
• Evidence of being an excellent collaborator
• Have fun!

DO NOT GOOGLE! You are forbidden to Google any images of these characters or settings. Remember: Anyone who has ever drawn anything from this book used the text and their imagination. This is your job too. Maybe, since you’re such good readers, you’ll even do a better job than some random person on the internet!

I am really proud of this piece more than a lot of others of mine, because I think in this project me and my group had a lot of fun and laughed a lot, unlike any other projects but we got everything down by the time it was due.

The thing that I found challenging about this project, was that we were not allowed to get anything wrong on the poster because we were getting all of the info out of the book.

Reading:

I want to read 65 books by the end of the year.

Writing:

I want to be able to write more sensible and shorter pieces.

Esperanza rising  by Pam Munoz Ryan

Percy Jackson Roman series;

Lost Hero

Son of Neptune

Mark Of Athena

House Of Hades

The Blood Of Olympus

All written by Rick Riordon

Icons

Idols

Both by Margaret Stohl

The Incorrigible Children Of Ashton Place And The Mysterious Howling

The Incorrigible Children Of Ashton Place And The Hidden Gallery

Both by Maryrose Wood

Quake by Gail Langer Karwoski

The Hebrew Kid And The Apache Maiden by Robert J. Avrach

Spirit animals;

Rise And Fall by Eliot Schrefer

The Evertree by Marie Lu

My summer this year was really fun and unusual compared to all of my other summers over the past years.  On of the great things, is that I get to go to a farm, and interact with animals and play around in the countryside with my cousin from Israel who I have never seen/met before.  Then after that I went back to my camp called, Ramapo Day Camp.  Every day, nine hours of running around in the heat with the sun’s happy warm rays upon me.  Then after 4 weeks I left and hopped in my car.  My parents drove me up to my sleepaway camp called, Kingswood Camp For Boys.  After some hugs and kisses they left me to my friends and counselors.  I had an amazing time, running around, hiking and going crazy with all of my friends.  My three weeks ended with a week full of competition called, Bow & Arrow week and goodbyes.  I had a rest and homework week at home before we took off on an airplane to Italy.   On the eight hour flight I watched about 5½ movies before we landed in Pisa, Tuscany, Italy.   On the crows cry we would wake up at our villa to a calming day on the beach or to hike around a historic hilltown.  We left our villa after two weeks and went down two rome for three days and two nights of sightseeing and touring around the eternal city.  I then came home on the 9½ our flight time literally flying by as we watched movies. Then we had one day of rest before we woke up at 2 AM (because of jetlag) got on the train and arrived to school at 8:15.  I guess I could say that summer was fun, right.

This summer I went to Tuscany for two weeks and then I traveled down to Rome for three days and two nights.  In Rome we saw soooo many cool old things from long ago.  On the first day when we arrived in Rome from the train from Florence we went to see the Vatican.  It was so huge and amazing compared to the Duomo in Florence, which we saw two days before.  The next day at 8:30 AM we walked out of our hotel to see the Forum, Palatine hill and the Colosseum.  I thought it was truly amazing what the romans did and how they did it.  The big elevators to boost the animals and people into the Colosseum to fight.  How they had aviaries and forums and markets for many emperors.  Then we ate lunch at two and walked from around there, to the Pantheon then to Trevi Fountain which to our dismay was under renovation, and last, to the Spanish Steps, then back to the hotel.

I learned from my trip to Rome that even the people a long long time ago knew more things than we do right now.  Because if the barbarians hadn’t taken over and lost all the Romans knowledge we could probably be teleporting.