Stocks

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Hi this year in Language Arts this year we read this awesome book called The Westing Game and during the Westing Game we made stocks. We made stocks because in the book there is a character named Turtle and she invested in stocks so we did too. The purpose of this assignment is to teach us on how to invest in stocks. What made this assignment so much fun is that we get $20,000 fake dollars to invest in any stocks we wanted. My personal favorite stock that I invested in was Nike even through Nike was not the my best stock it was my favorite because it was so unpredictable and that was fun just to see what was going to happen next.

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Ted Talk

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Thank you for listening! I was standing in front of the Language Arts room doing a Ted like Talk about sailing and football.

Friday May 12, there I was at Durham Academy in the Language Arts room talking about sailing and football to my friends at a study hall. “ Sailing through  football” that’s my title. My friends were sitting on  bean bag chairs and I was at the front of the room talking about sailing and football. 

I had no idea what was going to happen on Monday, May 15. 

So it’s Monday I am in front of the Language Arts class starting my presentation. I was so nervous I started my talk by talking so fast then by the slide where my sister was on it I gained more focus and started to talk more calmly. Once I finished my talk I felt on top of the world.

Thank you for listening and have a good day! 

 

Language Arts In A Nut Shell

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So this year in Language Arts was amazing and today I will be telling you all about it.

First off I will be telling you about The Last Cuentista. This book is about a family that has to leave earth and go to a planet. When they get on the ship all the passengers has to get their minds wiped but there is this one girl who members everything.

 

The second thing that I will be telling you about is my ideal planet. Here is a brief summary about my planet.

Welcome to 90 Degrees!! First off, the name does not mean it is 90 degrees temperature wise, it means the planet is at an angle of 90 degrees.This planet includes purple skies, green grass, and fluffy animals. When you are first born you are gifted 20k dollars. The only way you can get money after that is to work for it. Let’s find out more about 90 degrees.

 

The final thing I will be telling you about is my book that I made. So I made a book and the title of the book is called 90 Degrees. This book includes images the I made and cut out. We also had to make a pop up book. In the inside of the book the outside of the book is the planet too but this book also has the story of my grandfather and his baseball journey.

 

Thanks so much for reading and have a good day.



Flag Football

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Flag Football

 

One time in PE we played flag football. That was super fun, and it reminded me that football is a team sport. Usually in PE we don’t play flag football, but when we did played it was the last week of school. So this was a special occasion.

Mr.E is super nice and let us pick our own teams. The teams had to be a ten on ten. One of my favorite times in that game is when one of my teammates was quarterback and he threw the ball to me but  my defender almost caught it but it went straight through his hands and I caught the ball for a touchdown! I hope this year we can play more flag football and not just the last week of school.

Even though my team did not end up winning the game we had a lot of fun. Something that flag football also taught me was that communication was key because we would not know where each other was on the field. Thank you sooo much Mr.E for letting us play flag football!!



90 Degrees

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                                   90 Degrees 

                                       By Davis

Welcome to 90 Degrees!! First off, the name does not mean it is 90 degrees temperature wise, it means the planet is at an angle of 90 degrees.This planet includes purple skies, green grass, and fluffy animals. When you are first born you are gifted 20k dollars. The only way you can get money after that is to work for it. Let’s find out more about 90 degrees.

Nature includes the Lorax Woods, purple skies, green grass, mountains, and oceans. The animals are fluffy but there are no alligators. You can’t hunt ANY animals.

The type of government in 90 Degrees is a democracy, and the presidential term is 5 years. The laws are no guns, no hunting animals, no racism, no segregation and everyone is nice. Those are the major laws.

Some facts about 90 degrees. The currency is bananas and watermelon and how you get bananas or watermelons is there is a store that only sells those two fruits. The only way of transportation is from a ski lift or a gondola because you can experience great views. Our mascot here on 90 Degrees is a duck because ducks are awesome.One year here is 12 months because there is so much to do here and you need time for some of it.There are sports such as lax, football, soccer, hockey and basketball. The temperature is also 70 degrees even though it snows.

That is 90 degrees.

Natural Science Museum

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On 1-27-23 the sixth grade of Durham Academy went to the Natural Science Museum in Raleigh, NC. We had a lot of fun! There are four main floors, the one that our grade focused on was the RACE part of the museum. There were posters telling us about race and how it effects the world. Other than that part of the museum there was a floor on animals, a floor on dinosaurs and my favorite live animals!! I liked the fish because when we were there they were feeding them. In the dinosaur exhibit there were huge replicas of different ones. Thank you Natural Science Museum for this awesome field trip!!!

For more information:

https://naturalsciences.org/

The Terrible Two

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Image from Sora

This past week or so I have read The Terrible Two. I picked this book because I like the cover, and I have never read a book by this author. Books can be windows or mirrors. A window is a book that you can sort of relate to but not really. A mirror is a book that you can totally relate to. This book is a window for me because I don’t pull pranks on teachers and I don’t plan to. The main character moves to a new school and I haven’t done that recently. The town he lives in is known for cows and mine is not. These are reasons why this book is a window for me.

Brutus

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Brutus!

I used to have a dog named Brutus. He sadly passed away two months ago. He passed away when he was 15 years old. My favorite memory was when I had a concussion. I was laying on the couch in my living room and he came up next to me and sat right on my head. When he did, I yelled “ Brutus!” And my dad was up stairs and ran down stairs to see if everything was okay with it and saw that Brutus was sitting on my head.


I had to get my head out of his fluffy chest so I slid down the couch and fell on the floor. When I got back up I got back on the couch and rested my head on his fluff back. When we both got settled we sat there for hours watching ESPN. That is my favorite memory of Brutus.

 

Rest In Peace my old bacon lover dog. Brutus.

The Smuggler

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                                                                                            Wisdom Tales

Hunter, Liam and I made a stop motion for a LA { language Arts} project. We had to decide on a wisdom tale and we decided on The Smuggler. This story takes place in the Middle East. The Summary for this story is: There is a smuggler and an inspector and the smuggler had a stack of hay on  a donkey and the inspector could not find anything. Then the smuggler told the inspector the prize was the donkey.

After we decided on a wisdom tale we had to come up with a way to present the project, we decided on stop motion. What we did is got characters that would fit the setting. Then we started to film. That is what we did for our project.