6th grade in my eyes

1. I don't know how much I have really achieved but I know I have progressed since the first day I came here. In my opinion I progressed a lot in P.E. because in the starting of fifth grade (when I was new in ISKL) I was terrible in P.E. but now I know how things go and I can do things never imagined. Some of the units that I progressed in, in P.E. are swimming, pickleball and bouldering. I have achieved my social goal which was making more friends in my race and I had this goal because I didn't have a single Indian friend last year even though I enjoyed learning about all the other cultures and races in ISKL. I haven't really reached my "school" goal because I said I wanted atleast an A as a grade but I have an A- in P.E.

2. I have learned a lot of skills in basketball, my skills improved through P.E. and U13 basketball.
In math as usual I have learnt a lot of skills such as using the number line extremely well, I know how palindromes and fractals and lots more. In my opinion the 2 subjects I have learnt the most in meaning skills and all are probably Humanities and Science. I have learned about convection currents , the Earth's interior and more in science but while learning about these things I have learned how to take notes and I learnt how to organize my binder I have learned through many fun ways in science with Ms.Rosendale. In Humanities... um... (jk) I have learnt about grammar and in my opinion I have learnt loads about Ancient Mesopotamia!!!! It was fun with Mr.Thomas this year but not only him but it was fun learning with my classmates this year. I have also learned alot in all my other classes but these are the classes I learnt the most from.

3. There are couple of skills I want to learn. First of all I want to learn all the skills in basketball through U13 basketball. I want to perfect the use of comparing fractions, decimals and peercentages because I am not very good at that it takes me a while when it comes to math problems like this. I hope I will perfect it through the winter vacation even though I know that is kind of impossible because I won't be doing Math over my vaction. I also want to be firm with grammar I know I said I have learnt that skill but I haven't perfected it yet. These are the skills I want to learn during sixth grade in ISKL.

4.I have personal goals and "school" goals. I want to be organized in school and out of school. Sometimes I forget some things and it creates a mess and I know that to stop it I need to be more organized especially at home. I also want to keep the goal of keeping an A grade in all my subjects. I also want to sleep early on weekdays and I want to eat early because that would allow me to sleep early. One of my goals is to not procastinate my homework on any day and plan out what to do on each day if I have a project. These are my goals for the rest of sixth grade and rest of my student life if possible.

Last Lit circle

I liked the book. I liked the book because it was interesting. I learnt a lot of things about survival and Brian's life seemed very understanding. I knew how Brian felt so it made it interesting to read other wise I would feel very bored not understanding anything. It was good to learn survival skills in a fun way. No one would want to buy a five hundred page survival book. So hatchet was a pretty good one about survival.

My favorite part was when the pilot comes down at the end of the book. I liked the scenario I mean like how Brian was getting food ready from the survival pack and a rescuer comes down. That sounds very different somehow. I also giggled a little about the way Brian spoke to the man. I loved it because it was a happy ending and it was the end of the book.

I think that the message of the story was don't lose hope and stay positive. I think that because there were times where Brian lost hope and everything went bad but when Brian got his hopes up everything went good. Brian also didn't stop trying to get his parents to be together which is important in my opinion. I think stay positive because that is the main key to hope. If Brian didn't stay positive he probably wouldn't have survived.

I didn't really mind this assignment it is just the fact how long it took. This assignment was given a long time to do but yet the assignment was to long. So to improve the assignment I would make it shorter instead of three questions maybe two questions. To improve my working habits with this assignment I should have started since the first day an do a little each day as Mr.Thomas suggested. Instead I waited till Friday and did little onwards from Friday which is not a very good choice.

I would love to read The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle. As I have predicted that this book would be good it was good in my friends opinion. It was my first opinion in my choice list yet I didn't get in to it. I want to read it because it sounds like a perfect book a girl would want to read. I have heard about the ending and in my opinion I think that it would be fun to do the assignment on this book instead of Hatchet. I might borrow this book from the library.

Literature circle 2

I had a passage about Perpich the English teacher. I thought that Perpich was the key to everything Brian has now. We also talked about how he helped and how he didn't. Even though Perpich had helped Brian find food very quickly he didn't give very good advice for other things such as Brian making shelter. He only got the idea by thinking about Terry. I saw this by the end of the discussion because of Lennox and Jane. They totally didn't agree with my opinion. I think the new insight I learnt is that Brian was very negative before thinking about Perpich because Lennox was trying to bring up a point by looking in to Brian's past.

Literature Discussion 3

I found a lot of things interesting but I found one thing most interesting of all.
So this is how it goes-
I said that my least favorite part was when Brian found turtle eggs and ate them raw. I didn't like it because I found it cruel to the mother turtle.
But Euginia took this part as her favorite part and I got really surprised about that. She said that she liked it because he got a better food source. I realized that I hadn't thought about that before and I wanted to learn more about her train of thought so I asked her that did she really liked that he ate them raw.
She replied - well it is better for Brian so that is why it is my favorite part. Which actually made me think in a different way I realized that favorite parts don't need to be for the liking of the scene and that it could be for the good of the character that you could like it. So Euginia's way of seeing things allowed me to see in a different way of the book which made this conversation more interesting than before.

Literature Circle 1 (Hatchet)

In humanities last Tuesday we had a literature circle discussion. Our book is called Hatchet and we had very interesting topics to talk about the book. Everyone in our group had one same passage written down on our response sheet. Which was the passage about when the pilot dies out of a heart attack. Therefore everyone felt different about it because it was very grasping. But I was amazed about how many different ways you could think about that one passage. For example Lennox, Jane and Devashish loved it so much because they found it hilarious it different ways. I wrote it because I thought it was the main reason why all the problems started from. Euginia wrote it because she thought it was well written with good description. I liked a question that was asked it was very grasping to me. The question was why do you think the heart attack was caused. We spent a lot of time discussing that question. But we couldn't come up with a very witty answer our answer was that he was unhealthy. Even though someone mentioned that he could have been poisoned. We had a lot of fun discussing chapters 1 and 2 from Hatchet. Uptil now I think Hatchet is a good book. So that was our period's discussion that I found something I should point out.

It all Started with the First Horror Movie.

There were a lot of things I needed to gather courage for but there was one main thing I had to gather courage for. I had to grow courage against the darkness alone. It all started after watching my first horror movie when I was six. Ever since then I thought ghosts would pop out everywhere in the dark if you are alone. I would not go to bed unless someone else was in the room. I would quit a hide and seek game at home. When my parents went out, and only me and my sister were at home, I would squeeze her arm tightly until my knuckles were white with my heart racing. When I would wake up at night, because of my quench of thirst, I would run to my parents bedroom and shake my dad awake, thinking him to be the strongest in the family to come with me for a drink. I have over come all of this being an eleven year old now. But only by giving it one try and then trying over and over again. Realizing it wasn't bad at all. And ghosts were just a superstition (well that was what I was taught). Like Mafatu, I have learnt to stand up against my fear.

Around the World!

Hi!
Out of the five social scientists I have learnt about I think I would want to be an anthropologist. There are two reasons why I want to be an anthropologist the first reason is because, I want to help people learn the good things from other customs and so do I so I can lead a good life. And the second reason is because I want to visit different places and go around the world. But the problem is I wouldn't be able to have a family because I would be away too long and too often. I also realized that the more you visit different places you learn a little of their language. So this is why I want to be an anthropologist.

Thank you,
Sara

Humanities Homework #1

Hello there!
I am Sara. I am from India and I have a family of four me my older sister and my parents. I go to ISKL in 6th grade and this blog is for my humanities class. My hobbies are badminton, basketball, swimming, reading and dancing. I love Indian food and dogs! When I grow up I want to become a vet. My favorite type of music is hip hop but mostly Indian. The last three books I have read probably are Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer, Famous Five go off to camp by Enid Blyton and Inkheart by Cornelia Funke. The last movie I watched in the theatre is Night at the museum two (English) and the last movie I watched in the theatre which is Indian is probably New York. My academic goal for this year is to get at least an A in all my classes. My social goal is to make more friends from my race. My most best memory of a vacation is probably when I went to Phuket in Thailand some time back with another family who had two sons. We went para sailing over there. We went to a theme park with so many cool adventures to experience. We stayed over there for two nights three days. The five adjectives to describe myself would probably be Tall, sarcastic, tiny bit shy and active.