Author: grace2011

Denis Letter-Grace

grace2011 0 - In The Footsteps of Marco Polo, 6th Grade Writers

Dear Denis Belliveau,
We have been studying Marco Polo and while we were studying we watched your movie. It was made well and I love all the pictures you took, they were are really beautiful. Do you still believe that Marco Polo took the route he said he took? Marco Polo left out a lot of details in his writing for example how the women bound their feet to keep them from growing. I think it is really amazing what you and Francis have done. How long have you been doing photography? I think photography is a cool thing to do and I might want to be a photographer when I’m older. Your journey sounded like so much fun except for some of the places where you were stuck for a while.

My favorite place that you passed through was Mongolia because I think it looked beautiful and the people who live there are not modern at all and aren’t very involved in technology.
Visiting all the different places with their different religions must have been very different. I don’t think I could take 712 days away from home. The most I have ever been away was probably 2 weeks! I have never been to Asia but your movie made me want to go. It looks very interesting and I hope you come to our school to share more about your adventure.

From

Grace

Student Led Conference- Grace

grace2011 0 - Student Led Conferences, 6th Grade Writers

Student led conference is a time when we get together with our teacher and parents to talk about how we have progressed in the year and what materials we need to do better. We first talk about what we did great on over the year and why it was so great. After that we talk about what we think we didn’t do very well on. Once we completed that part, we then set goals that we would like to accomplish for the rest of the year and the year to come. One of these goals we set with our parents.

We had to prepare for our SLC’s (student led conferences) by making a slideshow to play for our parents. Before we made the slideshow, to get a better idea of what we wanted to put in, we had to fill out a form and we could look back at it whenever we needed it. We then gathered the papers and work that we wanted to present and put it in a pile. I shared my presentation with my friends and got feedback from them. We fixed up the last things that needed to be changed and the slideshows were ready.

I thought my conference went well and I enjoyed being in charge of the conference.We have the student led conference so that our teachers and parents know what we are doing in school and how we like it. I knew what I needed to make my learning better and I got a chance to explain if I did not understand something in my classes.

Observation poem- Grace

grace2011 0 - Choice Topics, 6th Grade Writers

Signs of Winter


Whoosh, sounds the snowflakes blowing in the wind,
The grey skies droop with gloom while a chill comes in,
The patches of grass stick out of the snow,
As I wonder when it will grow,
I sit and watch the slippery coatings of ice,
And I wonder, if would be nice,
To be a snowflake with my own design,
And be blown by a wind because it’s the sign,
That winter, is here.

Picture Challenge – Grace

grace2011 6th Grade Writers
The Tunnel
“I’m not sure about this David,” I said.
“Oh come on Ellie, it will be fine I got your back,” he said reassuringly.
I wasn’t sure why David wanted me to go down a big dark scary hole but all he said was that he told me to go down and find the ring, I still had no idea. “Uh okay, here I go,” I said with a sigh.
I grabbed the rope attached to a near by tree and started to climb down to the bottom of the pit. It was dark and I all I could see was the dim moonlight on my sweaty hands. Once I reached the bottom of the pit I sat down on the dirt ground and started looking around. “DAVID!” I shouted at the top of my lungs, but there was no answer. Was this some kind of joke? Did he really abandon me? I grabbed the rope and started to climb up but before I got even a quarter up to the top I was pulled back down by a blob of goo. I was twisting and pulling, trying to get out but I couldn’t. I was trapped. My mind was spinning, I thought about David. “Did he know something about this?” I asked my self.“Did he plan this whole thing to happen?”
I asked myself these questions over and over again not sure if I answered them before or if I didn’t care. I was covered in head to toe with goo. I felt like I was being watched and looked up. There I saw my other friend Rachel and David looking down at me. I screamed up to them but they didn’t see or hear me. Then I heard David say…….
“Oh come on Rachel, it will be fine.” and then I blacked out.

Holiday Homework -Grace

grace2011 0 - Vacation, 6th Grade Writers ,
  1. The Airport


People rushing all around,
so many planes flying north and south bound,
Los Angeles, Portland, Pittsburgh and more,
“I’ll buy this!” yell shoppers buying gifts in the stores,
So many advertisements flashing here and there,
families coming together from everywhere,
I better walk more rapidly
If I want to keep pace with airport humanity

2.   Rainy days- Acrostic poem
Rain falls on the roof of my house, as I sit with nothing to do
All day rain falls, while I am so blue
I sit and wonder, why does the rain come here?
Not only does it never stop, but it always is so queer
You’ll never know when the rain will come
Dropping down from the thunder that sounds like one big drum
All people think that, the rain is really cool
Yet all the rain does is make splashes in the pool
So think to yourself what does the rain do for you, or better yet what can the rain do.

3.   Winter- Haiku
Fall changes again,
As the first snowflake falls down,
A chill coats the air.

4.   School- Haiku
Soon it’s time for school
Spanish, math, science and more
makes me study more

100 word challenge -Grace

grace2011 6th Grade Writers

Thanks to Hyrstmount School for giving us the 100 Word Challenge!

I opened the door and a shadow zoomed past me.
“I’ll get you if it’s the last thing I do!” I screamed aggravated.
I have no idea why suddenly all of humanity had disappeared and it isn’t my choice if I want people back. I always have something bad happen to me. All of the people in the world are little balls of shadow. The world was like a nightmare.
“Wake up,” I heard my mom calling.
“Oh mom!” I screamed. “You’re here! You’re here! You’re not a shadow?!”
“Uhhh yeah,” my mom said, “I’ve been here the whole time.”

Book talk-Grace

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Book Talk

Have you ever had everyone in your life hate you because of something that you didn’t even do? Josephine Russing has. In fact she has felt that way from the start. Her dad doesn’t look or talk to her at all and she doesn’t know why. The adventure starts when a mysterious boy named Fargas appears in Josephine’s back yard. When he disappears the next day she tries to find him. Instead of finding him she finds a worm hole that leads to a parallel world. Not only does she find Fargas in the parallel world but also the toughest girl Josephine will ever know named Ida.When Fargas and Ida tell her sad stories about this world, Josephine is convinced that she must do something to help. All the secrets she has ever wondered are answered in the most unexpected way. Is there a secret about her fathers past she doesn’t know? Anything is possible in The Lost Children By: Carolyn Cohagan.

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Blogging challenge #10 – Grace

grace2011 0 - Blogging Challenge, 6th Grade Writers
Blogging Challenge #10
Participating in the blogging challenge was one of my favorite things to do so far this year. I loved writing all the posts and then putting them on our blog. My favorite challenge that we did was challenge number four. I found that one interesting and useful because I like writing about things that I love and in that one I wrote about my hobby of playing the ukulele and trying to be better at it. Every time we got the assignment our teacher posted it on our blog but we also got to see the assignment on the blogging challenge website. Some of the topics we had were really easy and some were really hard. I think that a few more blogging challenges were needed because when we had our first challenge about putting a cc image in our post, we only used an image twice in a post. We also could have used a tutorial about how to make a link in a post. That would have been useful.I liked embedding pictures and cartoons because it was fun learning and it made my posts more interesting. I wish we could have included more pictures in our blog. We did a lot of looking at overseas blogs and I think doing that was a very important part of the blogging challenge. The “visit these” blogs were very useful because I got to see what other people from different blogs were doing in the blogging challenge. I liked posting comments on other blogs. I think we had just the right amount of activities for specific classes. I made a lot of global connections to a lot of different people from different overseas blogs. I found out that a person from another blog has the same music interests as me. I liked all the challenges that we completed and I really hope we do the blogging challenge again in seventh grade.