My Spring Break

On my spring break,(which was 9 days long, counting the weekends)I went to Legoland Malaysia, in Nusajaya, Johor. We stayed in the Legoland Hotel, which was really close to Legoland. Each guest room is themed, and my room was Kingdom themed. We went to the water park first. I got hurt on one of the water slides, but it was pretty minor. Then I went to the theme park. My favourite ride(attraction) was The Dragon, which is basically a roller coaster with no loops. Overall, it was a pretty fun trip, and I'm glad to be home again.

Victory!

Today in class we did Mystery Skype. Mystery Skype is when a class Skype chats with another class and both classes try to find the school and location of their opponent. It's sort of like a competition to see who finds the place first. And guess what? We won!! It was like the best thing ever! My teacher, Mr. Morefield, said that maybe they lost because they didn't narrow the search down into one tiny place(And their second question was: Are you in Moscow? I mean like, seriously?! That's not even narrowing it down! That's just wasting their questions!). That class was in the Abu Dhabi American Community School in Abu Dhabi, The United Arab Emirates. These were all the rules:




1. You can only ask yes/no questions
2. You have 40 minutes to finish the task
3. Everybody has to have a job

The Worst Field Trip Ever!!!

On Wednesday, March 19, my class and I went to Klang River. It is a river that flows through Kuala Lumpur and Selangor, Malaysia, and eventually goes into the Straits of Malacca. We were in groups of three, each with one parent volunteer. I was with my mum, and my friends Grace D. and Jessica. We and to record things about the river and rate it from 1-9. Here were my group's ratings:





Category 1: Land Use  : 9
Category 2: Rubbish    : 7
Category 3: Pipes and Drains  : 7
Category 4: Extra Structure  : 7
Category 5: Smell  : 9
Category 6: Water Conditions  : 9
Category 7: Vegetation  : 9
Category 8: Vertebrate Animal Life  : 9
Category 9: Water Movement  : 7



I hope you liked my report. Maybe you might visit Klang River someday!

How Does Pollution Happen?

Water pollution happens in lots of ways. It can happen through acid rain, soil leaking into the rivers, fertilizers and pesticides dripping into lakes, chemicals released into water by factories, and human and animal waste getting thrown into rivers and lakes. Factories is one thing. Factories use lots of water to cool down their machinery. When that water is released into the river, it's really hot. That makes the level of nutrients in the water increase. That means more vitamins, less oxygen. So animals in the water start to die. We must do everything we can to stop this because, we can't make water.

Water Pollution

Even though some people have lots of water, more than 1 billion people worldwide don't have access to clean, fresh water. People like that have to walk miles to get water. Unfortunately, the water which these people do get, which is from rivers and lakes, are full of germs and other unhealthy organisms. These people know that, but they have no choice. These kinds of people are likely to be very poor and can't afford fancy pipe systems inserted into their homes. It's hard to believe this, but every 20 seconds a person dies because of drinking the polluted water. People everywhere are now trying to help those in danger of drinking and using the polluted water. You might not realize it, but water pollution is becoming a bigger and bigger problem in the world everyday. People are trying to end this, because as they say, the problem was made by us, so the solution is going to be made by us too.

Reading Response Of Frindle: By Andrew Clements

A boy named Nicholas Allen(Nick), which is full of great ideas, invented a new word called frindle, to replace the word pen. He invented frindle while he was in fifth grade, when his teacher Mrs. Granger said that what words mean is decided by us, humans. He got the whole of fifth grade to say frindle instead of pen. Things started going haywire when Mrs. Granger started keeping kids in her classroom after school as a punishment for saying frindle instead of pen. By now, the country knows the word, and it is spreading. Nick goes on TV shows and becomes sort of a celebrity. The word is spreading all over the world, and there's nothing Nick can do to stop it.

I really liked this book, and I totally recommend it!

My Tips to Become A Better Writer

1. Put a snapshot(A sentence or two that describe a something/someone.) in your story to make your story better.
2. Use "show-don't tell"(describing instead of just telling) in your story to make it much better(and much longer.).
3. Use a variety of sentence starters to make your story more interesting.
4. It's always good to write about something you know(nonfiction), but remember to write some fiction too!
5. Good writers always revise and edit their stories and go through several drafts, so remember to do that too to have a great story(and don't worry if you have to go back and revise and edit several times; that's part of the writing process.)
6. Make sure to check for punctuation, and capitalisation errors while editing(remember to check factual errors when writing nonfiction.).
7. Keep your story(fiction or nonfiction) organized by having a pre-write(plan; flow map, bubble map, etc.)
8. Follow the writing process(pre-write, first draft, edit, revise,
final draft.).
9. Choose a seed story(a small moment), not a huge, watermelon story, to write about.
10. Make a good title that "winks at you" and interested the reader.