Ping-pong

Last, last, last week, I was on the last or the 5th table. Then the following weeks I went straight up to the 3rd table. I won everybody on the 3rd table, so this week I will go to the 2nd table. The 1st table consists of some coaches and very good players children and adults. My aim is to try my best to either stay on the 2nd table or win everybody on the 2nd table and be moved up to the 1st table!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

There it was shining in the distance. My future. Bzzzz. I felt a vibration. I looked  down in my dream and it was a bee. But in real life, it was my cellphone alarm waking me up at 5:30. I felt too lazy so I slept until my dad woke me up at 6:30. OMG! It is 6:30. I am going to be late to school! You may think it's weird that it takes me 1 hour and 40 minutes to brush my teeth, take a shower, eat breakfast, and get ready for school. But that is not all I do. Like now, I am blogging. This is one of the things I do. I also practice singing. Usually because I wake up at 5:30, I sometimes do my homework (extra), work on projects, or since an organization called NSF is holding contests on some subjects like Math, Science, Vocabulary, and Spelling. I am going to go there so I will study in the morning for that sometimes. For the past two weeks, I have been really close to getting a late slip at school since I was late. Luckily, I came right on time or the line will be ready waiting for the teacher and I would just sneak in line. This week we had a substitute on Monday and Thursday. She is really nice. But on Thursday, since alot of people were loud, we got a bad report. When we got back from the bowling trip, our teacher discussed the matter with us. This never had happened to me before...

My Journal!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Today I do not have much to talk about other than............ we are going on the bowling trip for letter reward! It is for 4th,5th, and 6th graders only. I do not know what group I will be bowling with, but I hope I have at least one of my friends with me. We will probably be there for about 2-3 hours. When we get back, I think we will be studying a little bit but they will be also taking pictures of Ballroom Helpers, Recyclers, and something else. I am in both of the first two categories. :-)

  I am crazed in human biology but I do not know what category I want to go into. There are different systems that different type of doctors specialize in. I have no idea which one I want to be in. I'd rather take care of all the systems. I probably am going to be a pediatrician. Or I might go to some serious emergency rooms where I have to see what part of the body is injured or is malfunctioning or even sometimes broken. Ok let me spill the beans. I have told you this before, but I terribly want to achieve my goal of going to U.C. Berkley.

My Journal

Today we have a Science Test. I studied well for it and after I publish this post I am going to review it. Then at school, our teacher will not take our study guides back until before we take the test. So for two recesses, I can study. We also have a chapter test on probability today. I won't be doing that good on the Independent and Dependent Probability questions. I could already see that. Only if I am given it as arithmetic, I get them right. Yesterday, I was so proud of myself  for scoring two points for my team in volleyball. Our P.E. teacher let us play volleyball inside of the M.U.R. (multi-use room). She set up poles and then hung up the nets. I then realized that I could play better only when we were inside a building. I did not know why. Anyway, one last thing we are going to the Computer Lab to do our "Taking a Stand" project. I'm doing mine on Carbon Food Print. Then we have to do this research project on an endangered species. It is more than an essay. We have to do 3-5 full pages. At least only Science things are due.

My Journal

Today we have a Social Studies test. My teacher, to prepare for a social studies test, gives us usually a piece of paper in which we take tiny notes of each section. The sections are know as GRAPES:
G: geography
R: religion/beliefs
A: achievements
P: politics
E: expressions
S: society
This time we have a Social Studies test on Mesopotamia and the Fertile Crescent. The other three chapters we did before this one will be listed in order as follows: Cavemen (practically the first peoples) , India, China.
Then we had this other worksheet that asked us a few questions about the geography of Mesopotamia. Then we had to label and color the map of Mesopotamia and its surrounding neighbors like Asia Minor and Africa. 

My Journal

Since we have a Letter Reward Trip on Friday, all 6th grade teachers decided to give us alot of tests. Today we have a quiz on Clauses, Helping Verbs, Linking Verbs (not very tough to do). Then on Wednesday we have a test on Mesopotamia. The next day, we will have a Science Test and then Friday rolls around by that time and we go on our field trip. Our trip is to go bowling. If you are wondering what Letter Reward is, I will tell you. Every Friday, we get a slip of blue paper that signifies we do not have to go to Study Hall. If you get a white sheet of paer which is 2 write-ups then you go to Study Hall and you have to miss the fun activities planned for Letter Reward. So far, I haven't done that yet and I am proud of it.  Things you could get write-ups for:

• being late to school with no evidence of doing something important (late slip)
• not turning homework in on the due date. 
• turning in incomplete work
• not behaving good at school after warnings are given blah blah blah

Ok, bye!

Chum

• Def: noun 1. a close or intimate companion: boyhood chums.

• Origin: perhaps by shortening & alteration from chamber fellow roommate

First Known Use: 1684

• Sentence E.G.: What would they have done if they had no school chums like Barry and Stephen?