This week we finished reading chapter four in Bridge to Terabithia. We also had a quiz on that chapter. It was Friday, and Miss Edmunds was back. The fifth grade had music right after recess. Jess had passed Miss Edmunds in the hall earlier in the day, and she had stopped him and made a fuss over him. At music class, she's warm and welcoming and invites Leslie in. They sing "Free to be You and Me," and when the song's over Jess smiles at Leslie. He decides to change and be her friend. On the way back to school in the bus, she talks about where she used to live and how she misses her old school. he tells him that she moved because her parents "are reassessing their value structure." They were hooked on money and they bought the farm so they can think what's important. But Leslie had other problems like she didn't have a television. Mrs. Myers read aloud Leslie's composition about her favorite hobby. Mrs. Myer said that Leslie's hobby was unusual for a girl. It was scuba diving. Being Mrs. Myers's pet was "pure poison". After that, she assigned a homework assignment that on Channel 7 at 8pm there is going to be a special about a famous underwater explorer, Jacques Cousteau. but Leslie asks what she should do since she doesn't have a TV. Jess knows that was a big mistake and people are going to make fun of her. Sure enough, at recess he sees a bunch of girls teasing her. She runs off. He waits by the girls' bathroom and tries to console her, but doesn't do a very good job. On the bus ride home that afternoon, Leslie isn't paying attention and sits in a part of the bus that's reserved for seventh graders. Jess tries to get her out in time before the bullies come, but it's too late, and has to face the mean Janice Avery. He distracts Janice by calling her fat and they escape to the front of the bus. This helps them bond, but Janice is going to have it in for Jess. Leslie asks him to hang out when they get off the bus. They put May Belle off by giving her some of Leslie's new paper dolls. This distracts her and she leaves the two of them in peace.
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On Monday, we watched a ted talk called The Journey Across the High Wire: Philippe Petit. He was a world famous tight-rope walker. He stretched a steel cable without permission between the towers of the World Trade Center in New York City. He's a street juggler, writes, draws, performs close-up magic, practices lock-picking and 18th-century timber framing, plays chess, studies French wine, gives lectures and workshops on creativity and motivation, and was recently sighted bullfighting in Peru. He performed in front of a magician and he turned him down. So, he went with juggling. A man sold him juggling pins. He performed in front of a famous juggler and the juggler said that the pins he was juggling were impossible to juggle. So, again for the second time he turned to tight-rope walking. When he first started tight-rope walking, he found two trees, and he got rope and put around the trees until three was n’t anymore rope left. He created the widest tight rope in the world! He got some enorumous shoes and he started getting on the tight rope. In a few days he crossed the ropes once and he cut off a rope. E kept on cutting a rope each time he crossed, until there was one rope left. He never gave up. On Monday we watched a Ted Talk. Ted talks are so informational and fun to watch. This Ted Talk was by Tim Urban and it was about procrastination. I really don't procrastinate much, but sometimes the monkey might take over the wheel. Tim Urban talked about the difference between a procrastinator's brain and a non-procrastinator's brain. The difference is that the Procrastinator's brain has a monkey which tells the driver or the head of the brain to let go of all the important stuff and have fun. I thought this was a good way to explain procrastination and it was really funny. There was also something called a panic monster. The panic monster symbolizes due dates. The Panic monster scares the monkey away whenever it takes hold of the wheel, but the biggest problem is when there are no dead lines. Then the panic monster isn't able to scare off the monkey and you'll wait till the last minute and stay up all night completing your assignment. Tim Urban said were are an advanced civilization! He also said that there were two types of procrastination. He said that he doesn't think that non-procrastinator's exist. Were all procrastinators. We might not be as messed up as some people and we might be really good with dead lines, but the monkey's sneakiest trick is when the dead lines are not there. So watch out for that monkey! Katherine Paterson was born on October 31, 1932 in Huai'an, China. Her parents were George Raymond and Mary Womelsdorf. When she was five, she was forced to leave China during the Japanese invasion. Her family moved thirteen times between 1937-1950 because of her father's work. She went to King College. she won the Newbery Medal twice. She won the about eight awards. She was married to John Paterson. She had one son named David. She is now currently eighty-three years old. Katherine Paterson is the author of more than 30 books, including 16 novels for children and young people. Some of the genres that Katherine writes about is children's and young adult novels. Some story themes are friendship and childhood. Some books that she has written are: A Midnight Clear, A Sense of Wonder, The Angel and the Donkey, Angels & Other Strangers, Bread and Roses Too, Bridge to Terabithia, Brother Sun Sister Moon, Consider the Lilies, The Day of the Pelican, and The Flint Heart. I like the author Katherine Paterson because she wrote so many books. It was more than 30 books. I also like her because she writes her books based on events in her life. |
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