J O Y

This summer was one of the best summers of my life. At the beginning of June my parents and I went to LA for a week to see some of their friends and to do a little shopping. When we got back, like two weeks later, my cousins and my uncle from France came to visit us. They stayed here for two weeks, we went to the beach, swam with the dolphins, and visited. After the two weeks, we went to France with them to visit my grandma and my grandpa that have a beautiful house down in Marseille, south of France. My cousins and I were getting ready to go to a sports camp in Vichy. We were all so excited, the camp had class in the mornings and sports in the afternoon and I had a feeling it was going to be great and ,of course, I was not wrong. We met such amazing people over at the camp, the activities were incredibly fun, and everything was just perfect. We stayed there two weeks and I honestly still think it was not enough. After the camp, we stayed one more week in France so I could spend some time with my grandparents and visit with them for a bit. Later on that week, I was back home as fast as I knew it. This summer was just super! There is no words to describe it and it was not enough.

One thing I would like to do for myself, even though we just came back from summer and a whole two months of pure relaxing, is rest. It's only been three days of school counting today and I am awfully tired, my eyes are almost closing in every class and we wake up way too early. Plus, it's only been three days of school and we have had loads of homework and its just the beginning. Not only that, but those boxes we have and these new rules from school are really scarying me out, now I MUST finish my homework completely and obey every single rule. Not only that but, in the day I have different sorts of sport activities and I finish around eight so I'm already very tired before I even start my homework. In addition, the weekends are not enough, two days to sleep late is nothing, we should go on weeks sleeping late.These are the reasons I need to rest, I am so tired, I just wish I could go a whole day sleeping.

A part of me that makes me very special is my heart. My heart is the simplest pumping thing you will ever meet. It is huge and fits many different people that are important to me in there. Also, it is very sweet and outgoing, it talks to everyone, smiles at people it doesn't even know,
its always nice no matter what, and its always there for you in any situation. My heart is open to everybody that deserves the chance to be opened to or if that person deserves it, you hurt it once you won't ever get to talk to it again, you are good it will treat you the same way. It is patient, some people have a hard time to really get to know this thing but after some time they realize there's only good in it. It will never hurt you, the last thing it would do is that, it only wants to spread out that good vibe. My heart makes me a very special person and it always has, if it weren't for that I'd be nothing.

Spring Map Testing

A week ago all highschool had MAP testing for the third time this year. All my scores improved, which means I've learned many things this year and that makes me very happy.
My feelings of this last testing we had are much better than the October MAP testings. In October my scores weren't that good, they were pretty average and I wasn't very proud about myself. I think it was because of the week, there were many things going on like halloween and my mind was just set into something else. Besides that, I wasn't getting that much sleep since we had loads of homework, I guess it was just the wrong week. Also, the process seemed different, in October it was going kind of slow. Unlike this spring, it was just much harder and boring to have to sit infront of a computer answering 52 questions. Spring was very easy for me and it went very fast. Not only that but, it was in a perfect week, we weren't having any tests nor any homework. Plus, its the last one this year, what a relief! In conclusion, last weeks MAP testings were the best this year.

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Presentations

Today in class, I saw three great presentations that gave me better ideas. I am positive that when we put these presentations together into one, it will turn out to be excellent and amusing. This was very helpful, it gave me plenty more ideas for my own powerpoint. If I could change it I would talke a little bit about the teachers. The sixth graders need to be prepared for all the different teachers expectations and requirements. Besides that, I would add in the different materials they need to be ready for class. In addition, I would put a little bit more of animations, words, and movement. I thought it was a little boring to just have one background and one picture for each slide. In conclusion, these presentations were very helpful.

Presentation

There are many students that use Powerpoint the wrong way. Last year, in sixth grade, we had a student who did a book talk presentation that took about 10 minutes. She kept on going on with her plot that took, for me, more than an hour. She only had pictures that moved all over and they were hard to understand since they were moving around everywhere, it distracted me. Besides that, she wasn't talking clearly so it was hard to understand how she related her pictures together. I got really bored and I think the teacher did too because she was about to shut her presentation off. Not only that but, most of the class was falling asleep since the presentation was taking too long and was way too boring. As you can see, Powerpoint sometimes supports your ideas and others it's just used wrongly.

Earth Day Peer Evalutations

Yesterday, when we did peer evaluations of videos from eighth and twelveth graders, I learned that I should've made it more fluid and taken better pictures. Some of the pictures I took of Earth could've been more professional. I could've taken some with a beautiful sunset or when the sky is getting dark but its in the process and turns kind of reddish, pinkish, orangish. Besides that, some of my pictures didn't really go with what my poem was saying. I put a picture of the waves which had nothing to do with a part of what the poem said. Not only that but, the pictures that didn't enhance the poem made the video slow down a bit since it wasn't permitting it be fluid. If I could change my video, I would absolutely put and take professional pictures, maybe add parts of the poem as lyrics, choose a more original song, and try to represent Earth in a way everyone can understand and try helping it. All in all, what I learned will eventually help me for next time and do a better job.

When I graded the two videos I was assigned, one from eight and the other from twelveth, I was very impressed. The eighth grade video was a very interesting to watch although I wasn't sure the pictures had much to do with the poem. Also, I thought the lyrics helped a lot with what was going on in the pictures which represented what Earth was actually made of. The twelveth grade video was really professional. The pictures were amazing, they had beautiful sunsets and green forests. Besides that, in a very simple way it explained how we can lose all the pretty things of Earth if we don't start taking care of it. To be honest, they were both great and I really enjoyed grading them.

Biography

My name is Piesonsitos, I got this name because of my feet. Since I was a little kid my best friend would always tell me, "Wow, you have great use of your feet", so she decided to call me Piesonsitos, and with time my parents started calling me that too and everybody else. To be honest I wasn't impressed, I use my feet for everything, I walk, run, jog, kick, stretch, sometimes I even use them to pick up stuff when I don't have my shoes on and don't feel like bending down to pick it up with my hand. Besides that, I must take advantage of my precious feet, I must enjoy them like if I were to lose them tomorrow.

I was born in a town called Athlete's Foot, about five hours away from New York City where my friends and I love to go shopping. Athlete's Foot isn't as big as it sounds, it is divided into small neighborhoods, usually with a sports center infront of it since everyone loves doing sports. I live in the smallest neighborhood and as weird as it sounds we all walk around barefoot, at all times no matter what, I'm telling you I have great use of my feet. The school I go to is called Leglock and I've been going to that school my whole life and successfully I've received a great education. All my friends there think I'm different, and I am, I adore going up to people and squeezing their cheecks, is that unusual? Yeah, I thought so, but hey there's nothing wrong about being different.

As you can see, I didn't talk much about myself because I don't think it's that important, I mean I'm 14, I'm medium size, I like to eat, sleep, dream, and spend time with my friends. I am grateful for having a family that loves me and cares about me, for having a home, and getting a good education in a great school. I am very open-minded and I am open to any new friendships.

8th Grade Animation

The eighth graders did an amazing job on their animation video. I thought it was very interesting to see what each student wanted to put on their part of the video which showed part of their personality. Also, I enjoyed the creativity of everybody, lots of color and motion. Everybody had their different way of making their part of the video and in the end somehow it all came together to create somehting fantastic. Besides that, it was amusing to find who was who in the video. It's easy to locate the different personalities of each person and their artistic ways. In addition, I liked that there was musci to it. The music made the whole thing totally better and the characters were totally moving to the rhythm which made it even funner. In conclusion, the eighth graders did an incredible job, they so deserve a 10!