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The Stock Project

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Throughout the last month our class has been doing a project about stocks! We each choose 5 companies to invest a total of 20,000 dollars. I really liked this project because it was a good real life experience of how the stock market works, and how anything can change in the blink of an eye. Two teachers named Mrs. Donnelly, and Mrs. Sprague helped us a lot throughout the project, which was very helpful.

This project connects to the book we were reading called The Westing Game. One of the characters named Turtle Wexler loves the stock market, and reads the paper every morning about the stock market. Later in the book she invests in multiple companies making a lot and losing a lot of money. In the last chapter when she is older, the book says that she made 4 million dollars, lost it all, then made 6 million dollars. That is how powerful and often the market can change.

During this project we used a spreadsheet, and formulas to record all of our data throughout the month. This was incredibly helpful to keep everything nice, tidy, and overall easier to manage! I loved this project so much and I’m excited to see next years 6th graders do it too!

MY BOOK

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My Book

This year in Language Arts class, we read the book The Last Cuentista by Donna Barba Higueria, and I loved it! I really like how this book was in the future, and the concept of the whole plot. The main character’s name is Lita, and she is on a spaceship. They are going to be traveling for over 300 years, so they put her in a sleep chamber. Things don’t go to plan when she wakes up, and the story takes a turn. I totally recommend this book to all ages!



Another project I loved doing this year was the ideal world project, which was my personal favorite project all year. This was a project where you designed your own world in any way you wanted it to be. This project let my mind go wild with the endless amount of possibilities for it. I ended up making a planet that turned out amazing, and I also loved my classmates’ designs too! I ended up making a clay sculpture of the planet which you’ll see below!

 

The most recent project we did was my tree book! The tree book is a book we make out of paper with akua ink, and cut the pieces up and made pictures in our book! We also added the writing part of it was our ideal world project writing, and we made a cuento! I made my cuento about a childhood story about my dad, which was very sentimental to me, and he loved it! Overall, this was a fun year of projects in Language Arts class!

 

Window Vs. Mirror Book

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I have recently been reading the book Space Case by Stuart Gibbs. So far I have been really liking the plot of the book and the characters. It’s about a boy and his family living on the moon, and he doesn’t like it. But then all of the sudden, someone dies. That’s when the story gets interesting.

In class over the last couple weeks we’ve been talking about window and mirror books. A window book is a book where you don’t relate to the book at all. A mirror book you can relate to with either the characters or the setting or just the story in general!

This book for me is a window book because he is living in space, he has a younger sister, and everything about his day is different than mine besides brushing my teeth. I personally don’t care if the book is a mirror or window, but it can sometimes be fun to read a book about someone or something that’s like you. Overall I’m really enjoying this book!

 

 

 

My Backpack

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Holland’s Backpack

This summer I read a book called Finding Someplace. This book was about a girl named Reesie during Hurricane Katrina and how she had to escape her house.Right before she left her house she bought a backpack of things with her such as important papers, food, water and other things. Overall, this was a really good book for 6th graders!

So then that got me thinking about this…… what would I bring in this situation? So I decided to make my own backpack and draw the things that I would put in my backpack. One thing I would bring in my backpack is food. The reason I would bring food is because there might not be that many places with fresh food left. Another thing I would bring is my phone and my phone charger. I would bring that because if we need to communicate with rescue if we get stuck, we can call them or send a message to come save me. I would like to bring some hand sanitizer to stay clean. Something else I would bring is money. I would bring money just in case I need to buy any essentials for me. Finally,the last thing I would bring is a tent and blanket. I would bring that for shelter in case we need it, and a blanket for if it’s super cold outside. So, these are my essentials for surviving a hurricane!





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