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My grade went on a field trip to the Morehead planetarium and science center on the UNC campus. It was super cool and a really fun experience. We got to the planetarium by buses. Whenever you ride in buses with friends it is always so fun for the kids but a nightmare for the teachers. It was about a 35 minute drive to the planetarium. When we got there everybody unloaded from the buses and looked around at the UNC campus in all its beauty… well all the UNC fans did (except for Jonah who was not there). we were dropped off so that the buses did not have to find a parking spot on a college campus with a bunch of eager kids. After we unloaded our lunches onto wagons everyone split up into their set groups and went different places. Some went to the sun dial in the middle of the parking lot to take a photo. Others went to the UNC gardens. My small group was with a math teacher named Mrs. Stanbury  and the boys in my advisory. it was a smaller group but I liked that. My group ended up going to the gardens first and walking around with Mr. Lovett’s advisory because he was not in a bus and had to drive and then find a parking spot. After walking around the garden a few times a bigger group of people went to have lunch at some benches under the sun. That was good because for some reason the day we did this was extremely cold and windy.

Here is a photo of the UNC gardens:

There were two main groups. Group 1 and group 2. I was in group one so we had lunch while         group 2 toured the exhibits. Lunch for us was from 11:30 to 11:55. After lunch we went into a building that all sorts of cool exhibits to look at and learn about. My favorite was an exhibit where you would sit in a small space like you were in a spaceship Then you would learn what it takes for astronauts to know where they are in space by learning the constellations. Next group 1 went to see the dome show which was super cool. It was like a giant television displayed across the roof. All of it felt so real and life like. The dome show was about Mrs and what it would take to travel there and back and have a successful mission. I learned a lot and it was great experience. After This we went to the “Phenomenal Physics” presentation. This was with an older science guy. He was actually a really nice guy though and he showed us a lot of different science experiments. Some of them included: Liquid nitrogen, magnets and Newton’s laws of motion. Again, this was a super cool experience and I learned a lot.

This is a photo of what liquid nitrogen looked like which was -360 Degrees Fahrenheit that I got from Wikipedia commons.

This would conclude our visit to Morehead Planetarium. Thank you for reading this blog.

Hey, this is our presentation on Adam Gidwitz’s visit to our school. First let’s start with talking about who this amazing author is. Adam GIdwitz is an accomplished author and writer of A Tale Dark and Grimm series, he also just released a new book called Max in the House of Spies which he gave us a quick overview of. He has received a Newbery Honor for his other book called The Inquisitor’s Tale.

At our school Adam Gidwitz also talked about how he never envisioned himself as an author although all his life he had a big imagination. With that he told us to be open minded and never think that just because you want to grow up to be one thing sometimes you may have talents that better suit something else. He told us stories about his early childhood and he talked about how his book Max in the House of Spies was based on a family friend.

And here are some photos:

I got this photo from Creative Commons.

Here is a photo of the new book Adam Gidwitz made.

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Right now I am reading a book called The Season of Styx Malone. I have not finished it but so far it has been a great read. I will give you a short summary about it right now. I will try not to spoil too much but here we go. These to brothers, Caleb and Bobby Gene are going to a party with their dad and sister. They end up trading their sister for some fireworks who some kid named Cory Cormier had. Their parents find out that they did this and are furious. They punish the brothers and Cory to one hour of chores a day. By the way it is summer. So then they have these fireworks that they have to get rid of, And that is where Styx comes along he takes care of the fireworks. Styx tells the brothers that they can sell the fireworks to get this motorcycle called the grasshopper. Anyways they end up trying to earn money. In different ways. And that is how far I have got.

Here is a photo of the book:

I took this photo myself

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Basketball

This blog is written by Jonah, Teddy and Callan. We will be talking about our basketball season. We are all on the same team with some of our other school friends and some other random people. Our coach is our friend Matthew’s dad. By the way Matthew is on our team too. So far our record is 0-11. Listen, our team’s average height is 4 foot 10, and we play against teams that are twice the height of some of our players. We have one more game coming up and hopefully we can win that, because it is our last game. Despite our frightening streak of games it has been a fun and great season with all of us improving a lot in skill, technique, and IQ of the game.

photo from Creative Commons

 Hi, I’m Jonah and my strength in basketball is defense, ball handling, and fast breaks.

Hi I am Callan and my strength is rebounding and hustling. I am also pretty good at defense.

Hi I’m Teddy and I’m good at playing defense, shooting, and stealing.

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In LA we had a project where we read a bunch of Wisdom Tales from a book of short tales that, well had wisdom and taught lessons. Any way after we read all of the wisdom tales we had one of the parents of a student in our grade come and talk to us about drawing and art. He is a super cool guy and very good at art. He inspired me and the whole grade. Any ways then in LA we chose a wisdom tale to draw and write a comic about. My favorite wisdom tale was The Prodigal Son. The Prodigal Son is about two sons who get land on a farm from their  father. One son uses the land wisely, but the other wastes his money and goes partying. The wasteful son comes back home poor and ready to work for his father. But his father is forgiving and gives him a feast. The moral of the story is be forgiving. Any way I retold the story and made it in to a comic. Here it is….

I made this comic on comic life 3.

I made this comic on Comic Life 3.

That is my comic! Did you like it? Please tell me in the comments.

This was a really cool project and I think that Our LA teacher, Mrs. Williams should continue to do it in the future.

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Video Game Tier list

Teddy and Jonah left me out so I have to do this blog on my own. Anyway for this blog I will be ranking video games on a tier list. This is my personal opinion, so do not get mad at me but please give me feedback in the comments.

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As you can see in by the title of this blog, I will be talking about A history project. We started by talking about this package called the Civilization package that had three big groups; culture, power and trade. Each group had three subcategories. For power it was social hierarchy, institutional power and people power. For trade it was resources, economic systems and innovation and technology. And lastly for culture it was religion and beliefs, identities and artistic expression. Any ways we chose one of these topics and then read a text about Ancient Egypt. When reading the text whenever we saw something that was related to our topic we highlighted it. Once we finished reading the text we wrote down ten facts in our notebook that we had learned by highlighting stuff about our topics. By the way my topic was trade.

This is a photo of the civ package.

Once we wrote down ten facts we put a star next to the one of the facts that we thought was interesting. Our history teacher then came and approved it just to make sure that we could do a project on it. If he did approve it then you could start conducting research on the topic. My topic was early Ancient Egyptian writing. I started to conduct research on my topic and put it into slides which was the next step to the project. You had to put all the information into bullet points in a slide presentation that you would have to share with the class. I stared finishing the project and revising it to put my final touches on it. Presentation day came and I was ready to present my 1-2 minute presentation on Ancient Egyptian writing. I got up did the presentation and got a good grade. A win all around.

And that concludes this blog about my presentation in history. Thank you for reading.

THANKSGIVING:

This blog is written by Jonah, Callan and Teddy 

The History of Thanksgiving:

Thanksgiving Day is a national holiday in the USA. This year Thanksgiving was on Thursday November 23 Thanksgiving occurs on the third Thursday of every November. The first Thanksgiving took place in 1621 between the Plymouth colonists from England and the Wampanoag Natives. It wasn’t until 1863 when Abraham Lincoln made Thanksgiving a national holiday in the USA. Many people still celebrate Thanksgiving in the United States of America. Something cool about Thanksgiving is it always falls on the 4th Thursday of November.

Rating Thanksgiving Foods:

Callan: Here is me ranking all the Thanksgiving foods. Please tell me what you think in the comments.

I made this on Tier Maker

Jonah: Hope everyone likes my chart. There are a couple things that I have never tried so I put those in won’t even look at​​ 

Jonah W. made this on Tier Maker

Teddy: This is my ranking. There are some things in this that I don’t know what they are or I haven’t had so I put them in I’m good or won’t even look at it.

Teddy L. made this in Tier Maker

Some things we are thankful for are…

Jonah:  First off I am thankful for my parents because they always support me with my dreams for baseball. Secondly, I am glad that I got to see my sister that I haven’t seen in 3 years. I am also grateful for my technology. (now I will make a list of other things I am grateful for)

1. My water system
2. My home
3. My cats
4. My friends
5. My clothes
6. My food
7. My gym

Callan: I am thankful for…

1. My family 
2. My friends
3. My dog
4. Shelter
5. Water
6. Food
7. My clothes
8. Technology
9. My soccer team 
10. Money

Teddy: I’m thankful for…

1. My family 
2. My friends
3. My dogs
4. Technology
5. Food
6. Water
7. Shelter
8. Clothes
9. Youtube/TikTok
10. Video Games. 

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and me.

This month on November 10th our school had something called the Makers Market and Food Truck Rodeo. It is a super fun event where you get to eat food truck food, buy holiday treats and crafts, and have fun with your friends. The makers market part of it is planned by a committee of kids at our school called student leadership which is a club that I was in last year. Anyway, so they plan this really awesome event where middle school students get to sell things like cupcakes, brownies bracelets and so much more. I was one of the sellers and I teamed up with one of my good friends Diego. I made a cake that I raffled, and Diego made rice crispy treats. In total me and Diego made $90 which for $1 dollar raffle tickets and $1 rice crispy treats is pretty good. Me and Diego split the money 50/50 to each get $45.

Here is a photo of the cake that I made taken by my teacher.

The second part of this event is the food trucks.

Slide of food trucks created by Mrs. Mack screenshotted by me.

 These were the food trucks: Mr. A’s Beignets, Kona Ice, Flavor Junction, Mac House, Mr. Wingz and Mrs. Thingz, Tropical Delights, Baroness Italian Grill, Blu Lotus Thai, Mexican etc, Maple View Farms, All American Food Truck and finally Bobasaur.

I first went to Bobasaur and ordered a brown sugar milk tea with mango popping boba and brown sugar tiger stripes which was DELICIOUS. And Then I went back to my stand with my cake and Diego’s rice crispy treats because people started to show up. All though people showed up they mostly went to the food trucks because that is what people do they great out and say oh no the line will be to long I will go early to beat it but then it ends up being longer at the start but whatever. So nobody showed up for a while except for a few teachers who some of which bought some things from us. 

Later in the day we started to get more customers and more money until I got Hungary again so I went to mexicain Ect for a quesadilla. It took like 25 minutes of long hard waiting but I got my quesadilla and I must say it was the best quesadilla that I have ever had so it was worth the wait. Any way the day started to wrap up so me and Diego started packing up and ended the day. We finished both our classes to end the day except we had one more thing to do announce the winner of the raffle. The winner was a kid in my grade named Teddy.

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Halloween

The writers of this blog are Teddy, Jonah and Callan

History of Halloween in the United States:

Halloween is a holiday celebrated each year on October 31st. You probably already know about the costumes and trick or treating but do you know the real history behind Halloween? Halloween originally started with the Ancient Celtic celebration of Samhain when people would make fires and wear costumes to ward away phantoms on November 1st. In the 8th century, Pope Gregory III made November 1st as a time to remember all the Saints Day.  Then eventually All Saints Day got added to Samhain traditions.The day before all Saints day was first known as Hallows Eve. Then eventually evolved into the Halloween we know today with all the costumes and trick or treating. 

CANDY!!!

By Callan: Here is where I will personally show you my candy tier list. This is my personal tier list so do not get all angry with me when I say that twizzlers are the worst candy (which they are).

Created by us using TierMaker

So here it is. What do you think? Please leave a comment. Wait what are the green things bottom center.

Candy!!! Pt 2

By Teddy: This is my little bit where I talk about my favorite candies and honestly I don’t think I have to explain much  

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Somebody in the comments tell me what vegetables are please.

CANDY!!! Pt. 3 

By Jonah: This is my candy tier chart hope you enjoy

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Traditions:

We all have traditions……. (except for Callan)……. (And Jonah)…..maybe Teddy has some to share

Teddy: Well I have a few, first of all, every year I go trick or treating with my best friend Matthew (AKA Mat the W) and we have a Halloween party and when we are done trick or treating on St. Marks street we sort all our candy and trade with each other.

Here are our costumes

I am the banana on the right and Teddy is the Banana on the left. Jonah is not in this photo.

This will conclude this blog. Thank you for reading,

Callan D, Jonah W. And Teddy L.

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