In our Language Arts class, we read a book called “The Last Cuentista”. After this, we wrote a story about our ideal world. We included details such as the ecosystem and the various civillizations and history of the planet. After this, we worked with a local artist named Peg Gignoux to make our handmade books. We even made acua prints of plants on paper and cut them out to paste on our books. We then printed out and pasted our stories onto the books.
A few weeks ago an illustrator named Brittain Peck visited our school and showed us some of his drawings and tips for drawing. A while after that our Language Arts teacher assigned us a project to make a comic book. We had been reading a book called Wisdom Tales from Around the World. We were keeping notes in a Google Slide and every day we would read a few of the stories and put the name of the story, where it came from, and the moral and summary.
After a few weeks, we had a test where we wrote two essays about the wisdom tales along with a summary of one. Wisdom tales are like fables. They have morals and often explain something, such as a feature of the land. The wisdom tale I chose was The Red and Blue Coat. It comes from the Congo in Central Africa and is about two friends and a prankster.
This is the story: Once upon a time there were two friends. They lived across from each other in little houses. One day they were both in their gardens when a man in a beautiful coat went by. This was no ordinary coat, it was red on one side and blue on the other. When they both saw it, they both saw different colors. Later one brings up the coat and mentions it being red, the other disagrees. They start fighting and the same man appears. This time he lectures them about perspective.
When visual artist Brittain Peck visited our school, he shared some tips about drawing. One of them was using shapes to convey emotion. For example, you can make a square, now color it blue, and now make it a sphere. Now that conveys sadness (I hope). You can also make entire objects or people out of shapes. Triangles can convey strong emotions while circular and dull shapes are weaker emotions.
If you’re ever using the Sketchbook app, you can press the button with those shapes on it and it will allow you to make lines, squares, and circles. Also, if you’re using the fill tool and it covers the entire screen, just use it on the bottom layer. If it’s on the upper layer everything below it will be covered by the fill. You can also dull colors by using light grays or certain tools.
There are a lot more stories in the book that we just either didn’t read or nobody made a comic on. If you ever have nothing to read I would recommend checking them out.
So remember, if you’re ever stuck, try changing your perspective.
For Language Arts class, every day, starting at 30 seconds and ending at two minutes and 15 seconds, we had to plank and then mark it off as a habit on a tracking sheet. This was called a daily habit. Daily habits are things you do every day and slowly do more of every week. Over time, by doing a little bit every day, you will end up doing a lot more. This is called compound effect. Compound effect is when you do a little bit of something a lot to get it done faster.
At first, I had trouble remembering to plank, but over time, I memorized planking every day. Over time, even though the amount of time planking every day increased, the difficulty remained the same. Eventually, at the end, planking for a few minutes was easy. My new habit is going to be doing jumping jacks daily. Every week this will increase by 10 and begin at 30. This is because doing jumping jacks can reduce the chances of getting heart disease later in life.
You need lunch
This blueberry pie menu
it’s absolutely amazing
The food, it’s terrific
I can chew it and it is magic
Don’t take it and stop chewing gum not right
It’s beautiful oh my lovely and tender and juicy what a flavor
Image from Sora
Reading is easiest for me when I am isolated and I have a quiet corner to read. This can be a place like a quiet corner in my bedroom or the basement. I usually read historical fiction books or non-fiction books. I read these books because I find the topics interesting or I’m trying to finish a series. Recently I have been reading books from the Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales series. Reading isn’t really a major interest of mine but I do it for school assignments or to pass time when I don’t have anything else to do. I don’t have a favorite book nor do I have a favorite author. A book I have recently read and can recommend is What Was the Alamo by Meg Belviso from the What Was series.
How do you like to read?
A book I have read recently and enjoyed is, Abandon Ship! By Michael J. Tougier. A mirror book is a book that reflects something you have experienced, a window book is a book that lets you understand an experience.
The book is about the sinking of the Laconia. This book was more of a window for me because I have never been in a shipwreck. I decided to read this book because I am into history and thought it would be a fun read. Often
I choose window books because it’s hard to really find a historical mirror book.
My Pets
I have a dog and six cats. My dog is named Jack. He is a chihuahua-beagle mix. Basically he’s a chihuahua in a beagles body.
Here is a picture of him.
Source: the best boy
He likes to chase things, if it moves, he chases it. If it moves faster, he chases it even faster. He likes to chew on things. He likes ez cheese for some reason and or may not like water. He is 2 years old.
Source: The Daily Boop
My oldest cat is Ozzie. He is 12, his Birthday was yesterday. Here is a photo of the man.
Source: The American association for cats that look like cows
He likes friends and his best friend is my cat Sean. Ozzie likes to sleep, sleep, eat, and sleep. His rival is my cat Tatienne. His favorite place to be is the closet because he has hiding places and some cozy beds.
(This photo has been edited to make the feline visible)
This is Tatienne, she is around 7 years old. She likes to hide, sleep, eat, and play with toy mice. Her friends are Mary and Sean. Her favorite place to be is the basement garage (it connects to the basement through some doors so it’s accessible to cats)
Source: Seen
This is Sean, he likes to play with Ozzie, Mary, and Tatienne. He is Mary’s twin. He also likes to sleep and is very friendly.
Source: The floof
This is Mary, She likes to play and hide.
Source: BOO, did I scare you?
This is Boo, we found him on Halloween, he is very fluffy and likes to play with Sunny.
Source: Feline Floofs
This is Sunny, she is very shy and is best friends with Boo.
We went to Camp Kirkwood for a school field trip. The bus ride took two hours and the bus had a TV, however, the TV wasn’t working. I fell asleep for the entire bus ride. When we arrived Hurricane Idalia was going on and we were near it. We had to grab a bag even if it wasn’t ours and run to the pavilion.
We waited for a while under The pavilion and then we were assigned our cabins. I was in Cabin 6. After we got our stuff in our cabin we had to go to lunch in the dining hall. The food was a mix of ham/turkey and cheese sandwiches. Afterwards we had ecology. During ecology we played a game where we learned about trees and fungi. Lichen is a fungus that eats trees. We learned that root beer is made from Sassafras trees. Then we got to go to the pool. We had to take a swimming test where we did freestyle across the pool. If we didn’t do the swimming test then we got a green band and had to wear a life jacket. If we did the swimming test then we got a blue band and got to swim normally. There were these rubber noodle things that floated and everyone was trying to get on.
Once pool time was over, we had team building. Team building was in the rain and we had to pass a hula hoop around a circle with only our bodies. Then we got assigned to groups and we had to lower a hula hoop with our fingers. Then we had spaghetti for dinner and we watched The Lorax and had snow cones. After that we went to sleep.
We had cereal and croissants for breakfast then we played board games. We played Sorry and used glow sticks. Once we were done with the board games we played soccer. Then we had more ecology. After that we had hotdogs for lunch and went to the pool. After the pool we went on the V swing. The V swing is a bunch of pulleys that lift you up in the air, then you pull on a rope and you swing around really fast and high in the air. I went on it and i went all the way to the top, when I pulled the green rope I flew everywhere.
We had BBQ chicken for dinner then went on a night hike and toasted marshmallows. The next day we did gaga and met Bubbles the pig. Then we went on canoes and played games. Then we went on a zip line. We had pizza for lunch and then left.
On the bus ride back the movie didn’t work and only the sound worked. I fell asleep until we got back. I generally didn’t like the trip since I don’t like sleep away camps but other people had fun.