So, at my school, we do Battle of the Books. I made my team!! I’m so excited! We battle in March, I don’t know exactly when though. Somewhere near the end of the month.
Battle of the Books is looking like sports, but with books. It’s available for 6th-8th grade. It’s a little like trivia. You have to read I think 22 books, two each week. Then you take a test, which was really hard, but I still made the team. I got fifth place out of twelve people, and most everyone ahead of me was older. Before we had read all the book, we used to sit at tables, and each table would get a question to answer together. Now, we do practice rounds, to prepare for the real competition.
So, I got my bunnies!! Sorry I didn’t make the post earlier, but I wanted to wait a while for them to come out of there shell, and then I kinda forgot to make a post, so… Anyways, now, I’ll tell, you about them! I named them Stormy and Cloudy. As you can see in the picture, Stormy is dark grey, and cloudy is white with grey ears, grey spots around his eyes, and little grey speckles on his butt. They are so sweet. Cloudy is a little more outgoing then Stormy, but that doesn’t mean he’s any less sweet. Stormy is more of a chill kinda guy. Sometimes, they get really hyper, I don’t know why, and they’ll just run around circles in their cage, and then they’ll walk up to me like nothing happened. It’s really funny and cute. Did you know you can litter train a bunny? Cool, right! They are still learning, but they are getting pretty good at it. They are really easy to take care of. I feed them in the morning, then give them new water and hay. I’ll tell you about their cage, since you have no idea what it looks like, it doesn’t matter that much, but I’ll tell you. It’s pretty big, so they have some room to roam about. It has a wooden frame, with chicken wire in-between the posts. No, we don’t put wood shavings on the bottom, we actually use a mattress pad and then a blanket. Right now, they’re on a red Delta blanket. I love having bunnies. It lots of fun to come home and snuggle them. They are ridiculously soft. They are now 11 weeks old. They aren’t going to get much bigger than they are now, which is like the size of a typical hardcover book. I love them sooooooooo much. Wait, can’t forget the LBF!!
Ok, so yesterday, which was 12/19/19, I planked for 43 minutes. 43 43 43 OMG. And 13 seconds. And 62 milliseconds. Not to brag, but me and Audrey were the last to go down at the end of the period. Okay, I’m totally bragging now. But I’m proud. Yeah. I had no idea I could do that.
During Language Arts, we read a book called Wisdom Tales From Around the World. Then, after reading a good bit of the book and making notes, we made comics. I did a story called Old Dog and Coyote, as you can see in the super obvious giant title in the picture. I used Comic Life for the base of the comic, if you know what I mean, and Sketchbook to make the drawings. I spent so long on them. I was frustrated so I drew a dragon that wasn’t half bad. I picked the story that only has one frame where I have to put a human, the farmer, cause I’m terrible at drawing people. My friend helped me so much with that. I don’t know what I’m supposed to really be writing, so here goes nothing. Some people used paper 53, but I think sketchbook is better. Yes this is secretly a sketchbook ad. You can’t escape the aaaaaadddddddssss! Seriously there are so many ads these days it’s creepy. Ok FOCUS. Please. Ok, the actual book. There were lots of stories in it, but we didn’t read the, all. We read 30 tales. Or maybe we read tails. Ooo. We made these notes in Google slides. I put lifted shapes on each one that related to the story. So cute! Reading wisdom tales shows a lot of life lessons in a funny and cute way.
Recently, we went on a field trip to a plantation, Stagville. Owned by the Bennehan-Cameron family, Stagville was one of the biggest plantations in the south. Our tour of this historic site was through the perspective of the people who were enslaved there, so I guess it was more interesting than normal. Not that going to see plantations is the most fun things ever though. I don’t know. We got to see this old chimney on one of the houses, and you could actually see fingerprints in the bricks! In one of them, there was a small set of toes, and we all know what that means…. It was really sad. We looked inside the houses, and we saw the beds they slept on, and some replicas of their personal belongings, like children’s toys and stuff. Then, we went into another house, where we saw this big saw, and we actually got to use it, so that was nice. It was a big two brothers person saw, and even though a bunch of us took trunk, we barely made a dent in the log we were cutting. After that, we went to see the owners house, and that was a long fancy and stuff. The weird thing is, there were so many ladybugs. SOOO MAAANNNYYY. They were everywhere. After we saw that house we ate lunch and the we went to the visitor center, where we learned about games kids would play. We played pass the slipper. Then we went back. Honestly, the most fun part was the bus ride.