TSUNAMI IN JAPAN-DAY 3

We grew weaker and weaker by the minute. She kept on saying "help"! But the more she shouted, the more she was losing her voice. When she finally stopped, she began to cry some more. Luckily, I remembered she always carries a cell-phone with her. I called my husband from her cell-phone. I stammered " where are you!!?? What happened? Are you okay!?". But all he said was to calm down and he was on his way. We spent the night there. Trembling with fear.

TSUNAMI IN JAPAN-DAY 2

She fell down to her knees. She cried and cried and cried. Her puppy died. And one of her friends died. I cried with her. Suddenly, my house broke apart some more. We got stuck! We couldn't move!!! In horror, she struggled and tried to wiggle free but she failed. She was breathing too hard. I told her to slow down. She did. 1 or 2 hours later, she started to ask me crazy questions. These are some she asked:

Are we gonna live?

What is happening to my mamma right now?

Will I be an orphan?

Will we be rescued? 

We spent the night.Buried.

TSUNAMI IN JAPAN-DAY 1

On the 11th of March, my granddaughter's birthday. We were all having a wonderful time! She got a new video game, a play station of her own (because her older sister was not sharing properly), and a puppy of her own. Ever since she has heard about how helpful dogs are and how they can be your best friend, she kept pleading for one. At the middle of  her birthday/sleepover party, the ground started to shake. At first, she thought I was kidding. But then, she felt it herself. 30 seconds later, we all started to shake. All of us were screaming at the top of our voices. Our whole house shook and started to fall down,down,down.  2 minutes later, the earthquake stopped. As my grand-daughter looked around the house,she saw something. Something sad.

Student Led Conference :(

The S.L.C. went AWFUL!!! Oh! I'm just kidding! It was just O.K.!!! I mean it went well but I still expected something else. Something different. I don't know what it was that I would be "expecting" it to be. Although, it was very quiet. Ok. Back to topic. The S.L.C. went well and I showed my parents my portfolio and talk and discuss with them about the exhibition. I thought I was in charge of the WHOLE conference. Well, almost all of it. What I need to improve on is to get enough sleep EVERY day! It would take week! Or a month! I don't know how I will GET enough sleep! Okay, so now you would be thinking it was awful to talk to the teacher in front of your parents about how bad it is to not get enough sleep and chatting with your teacher at 10:00 pm and so on and so forth. But no! It wasn't as bad as you THINK it was! I actually got to clear out all the junk out of my brain that was stuck since Tr. 2!!! I mean I felt better. Well, it wasn't that bad after all. I had a fun time!

Report Card of Tr.#2

I think I could've done little better in listening skills and in P.E. but the rest were what I expected it to be. I think I was best at math, not to be too braggy. And I know I was good at art and unit of Inquiry in Trimester 1 and its the same result. ME. But overall, I improved a lot and I think, not to brag much about it, I will be ready for middle school at the end of Tr. #3. I mean everyone will. I just got to try as hard as I can. And succeed.

Exhibition Groups

For the exhibition, Mr. Moran and Mrs. J made the groups of the exhibition. I am with Marijn and Richard. We all picked to do a presentation about orphans for the exhibition. I think we will do really good and a HUGE succes!

What I learned This Week

What I learned this week was a loooooooooot of things. First I will start with math.

Math: In math, I learned how to add,subtract, and multiply fractions. We were basically learning about fractions and how to find a percentage or discount of a number. For example: $100.00. 50% discount. You need to find how many dollars would it be. It's $50.00.

Languages: I learned French in languages. I learned the basic things of French. For example, Bonjour! which means "hello!". Or, Ca va bien! which means "I feel good!"

eye  I have not only learned subjects, I have learned to also finish my homework in time and also time management .

I learned a loooot of things this week and it could fill up almost a page!

Our New Principle-Mr. Lettinga!

Reflection:

When I found out that our principle, Mr. Moynihan, was going to be replaced by Mr. Lettinga, I wasn't that surprised! I already knew that Eve, who is in 5B, was going. I was also very sad to hear that Mr. Moynihan is going. :( But I'm also looking forward to meet him. But I would be in middle school by the time he is the lower school. So that makes it double sad. :(( But I was really glad to meet him. He seemed very nice and fun and also in the assembly, he shared with all of us who, what, where, when, and why he came here. And don't forget how!

Exibition Retreat

On the 24th of February, Thursday, 2011, the 5th grade went to the exibition retreat. We were going to learn about the exibition and what we are going to do in the exibition. Since it was for 2 days, we will continue it on Friday. In the Field trip, I learned a lot of things about the exhibition. I learned that we will need to use a lot of teamwork because we are going to work in groups and need a lot of cooperation. I also learned that to make the exhibition successful, we would need facts and figures (signs), posters, etc. What I'm still wondering is if we can use laptops during our exhibition.