Cube All Day!
This year, we read a book called The Last Cuentista. The Last Cuentista is a story about a young girl named Petra who wants to be a storyteller just like her grandmother, Lita. The book takes place in 2061, right before Halley’s Comet (Fire Snake) is going to hit Earth. Petra is one of a…
I’ve already done a post about cubing, but in language arts we are making TED Talks, and mine is about cubing. When I got this assignment, I was very excited because I love TED Talks. My first thought was to do a TED Talk about Scratch. I also had the Idea to do it about…
Over the last month in Language Arts we did a project where we invested $20,000 fake dollars into stocks of our choosing. You may ask why we are doing this, which is a very fair question. We are doing this because we have been reading a book called The Westing Game, in The Westing Game…
Lately, I have been enjoying chorus class a lot. I’ve always enjoyed singing and chorus has always been fun for me. But, we’ve been doing a lot more singing lately because my teacher was out of school for a while and soon we have our performance, so when she got back we had to work…
In my ideal world, the environment is a mix of mountains, forest, and snow. For half of the year it is pitch black, like midnight. For the other half of the year it is a beautiful sunset. Like Earth, there is a lot of wildlife but there are no bugs and the environment is fine…
Last week my grade went to The Museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh, NC. I was looking forward to the visit because I’d been there before and it was really fun. I was also looking forward to sitting next to one of my best friends on the bus. I was sitting in my advisory…
A window book is a book about something very different from your life while a mirror book is similar to your life. I prefer window books because I like fantasy. I am reading The Sea of Monsters. Right now my book is a window. At the beginning it was a mirror because it was about…
When Light Left Us Starless Blackout Eight Days on Planet Earth
Recently in English class we had to make any sort of project on a short story. The story I chose is called The Red and Blue Coat. I had the opportunity to work in a group but I decided to work alone because I wanted to code my project and I wanted to be able…
One of my favorite hobbies is solving Rubik’s Cubes. I think that it is a cool brain activity. For the normal 3×3 cube my best time is 21 seconds. What I find fascinating is how something seemingly simple is actually really complex. Today, I will go over the beginner’s method which is the method I…