Happiness♥

Today I went to see my sponsor. Every student was working on their work. Today Ms. Carney was going over a worksheet. The worksheet said name three synonyms for "said".Secondly create a setting detail that uses figurative language about a hot day and going to sleep at night. Some students raised their hands and replied blurred out, bummed, yelled, screamed. For creating a detailed setting some said the sun felt as if it were melting me, the sun was so hot it exploded, etc.. I thought many of their answers were very creative. The third question was What's confusing the reader in this story? The passage was "Ahhh, it's too much to worry about." cried Christopher. I wonder if I want to go to the sleepover or to the baseball game. Choice A was the writer switches tenses from past to present. Choice B was the writer switches from 3rd person to 1st person point of view. Many chose choice B, which was correct. I was impressed by how much these fifth grade students know. After that worksheet Ms. Carney handed out a skit. To my amaze it was on "The Last Song" which is a movie that has just come out featuring Miley Cyrus(Hannah Montana). She showed the trailer to the students and explained the skit to them. Ms. Carney was about to do the things she does on the smartboard to choose parts for her students but I had to leave because of softball. I'll get the feedback next Monday.

I want to start off by saying that Disney World was great and I loved it. Epcot was by far my favorite park out of all of the parks in Disney World. The reason why it is that I love Epcot was because it's rides and presentations made me think and wonder. When Sindy and I entered Epcot we rode a ride towards the entrance and it was awesome. The ride was a two seater and it was similare to a train. First it went upward and as we were going up the walls were twinkling stars and full of darkness. I could hardly see Sindy beside me. As it's moving a voice comes from a screen that lights up in front of us. The voice explains that as years pass by things change and develop. The first scene after the stars is a cave man trying to kill a Mammoth and little by little we reach other scenes like man coming up with the alphabet, poetry and literature, science and history. It was very educational and when we finished with the ride we went on another one. It was not exactly a ride but it kind of was. Well it was like a presentation, it was about hurricanes and how to prepare your home for bad weather. The computerized presentation would ask us what type of nails, doors, windows, tiles and the shape and distance of the roof. It asked many things but when we finished answering every question our votes were put to test. The house we built was put to test as we the audience were in the storm as well. Somethings worked and some did not. The things that did not work was explained to us why that was. My connection to this was that rides and presentations like these are useful for field trips for schools. I did not expect that Epcot would be so educational. Epcolt is for sure a perfect park to take students to learn something while still being entertained. I definitely learned a lot and things that were interesting.

I've been thinking about what's after High School and I'm excited, nervous, worried and ready. I seem to feel all mixed up. I know what I want to do and where I want to be but as I get closer to my destination I tend to doubt what I think I want. Success is something that I know I have definitatly reached. In two months I'm going to graduate and it's off to the real world. It's wierd how time has pasted by so fast and I've realized that many of the things I've worried about in my life, like makeing friends, clothes, dances, are dumb stuff that you can find anywhere. The people who still care about stuff like that, I wish you all luck and I hope one day you will open your eyes to things that are really important. I guess some people never grow up. Well real world here I come.

I never thought I was loved so much. At times I feel alone but I've always had someone hold my hand through everything. It's weird that my life has never really been bad to the point where it ruins my life. There are moments when I wish I could just disappear, but now I see I was exaggerating because everything I've gone through was never really horrible. My life is good and I should not whine at all. My mom loves me and so do many other people. Love is something I know I will always and forever have no matter what. I love everyone and everything in my life. I'm grateful for this marvelous life. Something I should do is keep my cool and keep going. No whining or crying over stupid nonsense that can be fixed. As long as I'm loved and supported I feel as though I have nothing to worry about.

Friday, Mr. Maggi showed us a video on YouTube that really opened my eyes to my research paper. The video I think was called "A Vision of K-12 Students Today" which was trying to inspire teachers to use technology in engaging ways to help students develop higher level thinking skills. I thought it was awesome. Mr. Maggi was also talking about how in the old days to look for a book people had to pull out a catalogue that was about 5 feet long. I never really noticed the changes or how much learning had actually changed until I started researching and wondering about it. Today I read an article on how students at a young age are not told about intelligence and the meaning of it. They just learn and feel as though their pace and amount of knowledge is through age and can not develop or grow. Therefore, they do not improve in grades because they are convinced that they can not get smarter or develop new skills. My psychology class has definitely helped me better understand the mind since right now were learning about intelligence. I mostly like this class because I can relate it to my life and other things that I want to know more about.