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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.
Here is a link to my website: https://84d4c4924459555e60852d19e8d72d7fd3b7ab6e.googledrive.com/host/0B6E2zK1uNzQxMC1qTjh3VjBESzQ/index.html
I really liked the experience of coding my website because I could make it about anything and it was really fun experimenting with all of the different codes. I thought it came to me easily and I didn’t have a lot of trouble with it. I like the theme of my website a lot. I would love to do more website coding and design in the future!
In Science Class, we played a game called Food Fight! In this game you have to keep your population alive and growing. I had a population of elephants. In Food Fight, you need a strategy to make your population grow. The elephant only ate plants and didn’t have any predators so I put a plant, tree, or fruit depending on what my opponent eats. (So then I can put down something that they don’t eat.) After I plant something, I put the elephant in so my population begins. After my opponent puts their animal in, I put their predator in the food web so that their population decreases. The elephant doesn’t have any predators so my opponent can only put an animal that eats the same thing that the elephant eats so the elephant gets less of it. That is my strategy!
Here are four things that I absolutely HATE about New York City:
This is my font! It isn’t perfect, but it’s pretty good!
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!
We all voted and the final planners are option 5 and option 10. I don’t like option 5 because when Clair prints the planners in black and white, we won’t be able to see what we wrote down for homework because the paper will be grey. Also the pictures could be distracting. I like option 10 because it’s black and white so when Clair prints it, there won’t be a problem. The columns to write down your homework in are very organized so Clair could easily split the planner across two pages so that we have more room to write assignments.
For the covers, we haven’t voted yet but I would want something that doesn’t have a lot of pictures. Maybe 1-3 pictures. I don’t really care about the cover as much as I do about the inside of the planner.
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.
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: