Letter to Dennis -Massimo

Hi Denis,
My name is Massimo and I’m in 6th grade. I really like that you did Marco polo’s journey. I was really surprised by how determined you were when you had a choice of going over Iran with the helicopter but you choose to go right through it.

Something that I thought showed how determined you were was that you guys made fake passports just to cross the border. Something I learned from your journey was what was the Silk Road and also the things Marco Polo saw like the nuts and other things you brought back.

I was wondering if you would like to Skype with my class in Poughkeepsie Day School? If you could I would be very excited because you did the journey of Marco Polo and almost got shot.

 

Sincerely

Massimo

Observation – Massimo

The breeze of a fan hitting my face left a trace of noise, with the sound of a client trying to hire someone, there was still no silence. With the joy of people laughing, I only wanted one thing, for them to button up. The constant noise of clicking ringing in my ears made me think that it was impossible with the constant sounds of a keyboard to make an un-noisy aroma. Looking out side to the horrible wind there was a sudden silence. Until right after the very moment my sister went off talking. With the thought of silence the rest of the day I went home.

I am – Massimo

I am Massimo
I believe in hope
I also have a crazy biting dog named Hope
I am 11 years old
I have 3 siblings 2 older immature brothers and an annoying younger sister
I like to hang out with my friends and play games with them
I think the most important thing in life is staying together as a family
I want to be a engineer when I grow up and make gigantic amazing towers
I love math and humanities
I like working on pictures on Photoshop and editing them
I need water and air to live
I love the Yankees and the Giants and they are my favorite team
I am Massimo

The Hole – Picture Challenge by Massimo

“Where does that hole go to?” I thought out loud. I looked down and it kept going and going. I went to get my mom and dad and asked them to come with me and see the hole. When we got there there was nothing left but mud. “That’s impossible!” I said.
My parents left really annoyed and said, “Jack you have to tell the truth or else you wont make a living.”
“But it was there before!” I yelled to my parents. After they left, the hole was back. If the hole wasn’t there before but now it was, it had to be fake so I stepped into the hole. I fell down down down and down.

I woke up to what seemed to be a maze. There were colors everywhere and it was very confusing. I kept thinking I was walking in a circle. There were the weirdest things everything I saw and I didn’t even know how to explain. When I got to what seemed like the center, I found an elevator. The only thing that didn’t seem right about it was that it felt like it was going forward and not up and down.

When the elevator stopped, the maze wasn’t a maze anymore but more like a paradise. Everybody there was mumbling weird things that I couldn’t quiet make out, but there was one word I heard which was, “leave now.” I got really frightened, then out of nowhere I heard loud foot steps. Every body started running and screaming. I didn’t know what else to do but run so I got back on the elevator. I was running through the maze looking for the exit, but I heard the footsteps of the beast on my trail. Everywhere I went, there was a dead end. Then I saw light. “ Could it be?” I said. I thought I found the exit but it was a dead end. The beast had trapped me and I was caught……

Blogging Challenge #10- Massimo

This year I wrote 11 posts counting this one on our blog. If feel very good about it because I did them fast than I thought so I was proud of my self. 5 of the posts I wrote was school based on school my favorite one was called myself-Massimo I liked it a lot because it was one I really worked hard on and it was the first writing piece I did in 6th grade. Our blog has 9 widgets and I think it is a good amount because they all helped me after a while. We changed the them of our blog once because we had the same one for a while. On our blog we have 441 overseas students.

Book Talk by Massimo

PERCY JACKSON AND THE LIGHTNING THIEF
By Rick Riordan  Maybe always having adventure is fun,but not when your a demigod. A demigod is a son or daughter of a god which is not good. It’s even worse if your the son or daughter of Zeus, Poseidon or Hades. Who are the most powerful of all the Greek gods. Percy Jackson and the lightning Thief is about a boy named Percy Jackson. He finds out he is a demigod and demigods are magnets to monsters. Which means every Greek mythology monster, even a god named Zeus, wants revenge on him because he accuses Percy for stealing the master bolt, Zeus’s most powerful weapon.Grover,(Percy’s best friend) tells him that he has to go to Camp Half Blood. Which is a fortress were Greek demigods get trained to go on quests. It’s the only place demi- gods are safe from evil monsters of any kinds. What makes thing worse is that someone betrayed Camp Half Blood. So Percy says good bye to his old normal life and hello to adventure packed life.

100 Word Challenge by Massimo

I opened the door to my room, and went on my bed to sleep. “Where am I?” I thought.
“Dream land,” a mysterious dark voice said.
“What?” I said.
“Just follow the yellow brick road.” The dark voice said. I looked around and there was the yellow road. Okay then I thought confusedly. I walked the path encountering many different things. Each one of them was harder to defeat, but I knew something was there that was important. I saw a huge beautiful castle at the end. I was at the castle until I woke up. “NOT FAIR!” I yelled.

Challenge #6 – By Massimo

Challenge #6 Activity #5
More than 1 billion people in this world don’t have enough food and water to stay alive. I think we can help this problem by doing bake sales with the public and giving the money we make to food pantries and shelters for people. We can also collect cans so we can donate the money that we make to a shelter. Another way is making our own healthy food and donating it to food pantries.  Another way is volunteering at food pantries so you can help serve food faster to people so than more people can eat there. We could make a well that filters water to  the people that don’t have it.

Challenge #7

Challenge #7 Activity #4I think I am creative at designing music on garage band (which is a computer music making tool). I just started learning it not long ago but I still like doing it and I’m getting better at it all the time.. I’ve made a bunch of songs and I’m really impressed with myself. One of the songs I made was for home work, and it was based on electronic instruments. For the beginning, I got a little help form my teacher Aaron, and he was a big help. When I finished it, I was so excited to show it to the class and it turned out great.

Blogging challenge #9 – By Massimo

Blogging challenge #9  Skate boardingSkate boarding is one of my biggest passions. I first got my skate board when I was  6 years old. I tried to ride but it was so much harder than I thought. Eventually when I was about 8, I got better at it so I went to a skate park near by. I kept practicing and practicing until I went down ramps. I have a friend who skates, so we worked together. When my friend and I got really good we dared each other to go down the 7 foot drop in ramp. We both did it on the first try but it scared us.

I also really like long boarding. My favorite brand is Bustin Boards I really like their different types of designs. It’s much harder than the regular type of skate boarding. One of the reasons is that you can turn way easier so if you lean to far you will fall off. Another reason is that you are supposed to go really fast down hills which is really fun. One time I loosened the trucks of the skate board too much so I totally fell off and cut up my knees. I had to walk all the way back home before I could feel bad. I started liking long boards when dad got his second one. It wasn’t long at all but they only made 100 of them. On my B-day my dad gave me that board and I freaked out.

Name: my board                             Taken by: Massimo

My dad started the long board addiction in me. As I said before, he got it for me on my birthday so it meant a lot to me. My dad and I always want to go skate boarding when we can. When I skate board I like to go over my limits and just have fun. It’s also really important to me because I have a lot of father and son time. Skate boarding in general is really important to me because I wouldn’t have as many funny and not so funny stories I have today.