BPP: Making School Fun

I changed the title of my blog when school started so it would be about school. I hate school. I would rather do anything but school work but I do like Connections Academy better than my old school. Here I can learn art and Chinese and robotics. My teachers are pretty and smart and they help me a lot. They aren't mean when I don't get it.

 It was hard to blog during school because it was a lot of work but I still did some fun school posts. My mom even wrote a post and it was really popular. My school posts got lots of views. More than almost all the others. My favorites are the PE video and the Virtual field trips. I really liked talking to the NASA engineer. I don't have a picture of my teacher from this year though. :(

I still have three or four more school posts planned before summer really gets going.

I love Connections Academy!

Super Star!

My Favorite Things About School: First In Math

Mrs Shelton

My Favorite Things About School: Live Lessons 

My Favorite Things About School: PE 

Making School Fun: Making A Cave

My favorite Things About School: Clubs

Making School Fun: France 

I can read! 

Making School Fun: Book It 

Mrs. Dombeck

Making School Fun: Virtual Field Trips 

Making School Fun: Sign My Yearbook 

Making School Fun: Robotics Club 

 and here is Mom's, (next year I think she should have her own page for school).

Making School Fun: Little Victories (guest post)

Making School Fun: Sign My Yearbook

I finally got my yearbook page up. It has been open since before April but our camera is broken so it was hard to get a good portrait picture. Our neighbor was nice enough to take some for us but I think Mom took this one.

I think it turned out really great. There was a competition to for students to design the cover and the person who won did a really great job. Next year I want to win. On my page, there is a place to show off my family and another to talk about what activities I like to do. I told all about this blog. There is another whole page for my interests and a place for my friends to write. I had a lot of friends write in my book last year.

 I am glad that we got it done. The first year I was here we missed the deadline and I didn't have a picture. I still liked signing everyone's books but I really like having my picture in the yearbook.

 Here is mine! You can sign it here if you want to.

Happy Valentine's Day

XOXOXOXO For reading my blog!

My school, Connections Academy, tweeted a link for origami hearts this week and we tried it. It was easy and loads of fun to make.

Connections Academy @Connections4U

Need ideas for #Valentine's Day crafts? Get the little ones kids involved with this simple #DIY project. bit.ly/zDYjP0

Here is how ours came out. We used two sheets of colored paper since we don't have origami paper.

My Favorite Things About School: PE

Mom says everybody gets PE. I don't remember at my other school but it couldn't be as awesome as what I do now. Connections has a yoga class. I think it's so much fun. The best part is the end of each lesson when we rest. I get to do other fun things too like ride our workout bike, go for nature walks and scavenger hunts, dancing and aerobics, swimming when it is warm and my dad teaches me sports rules. Right now Dad is teaching me football. He makes me want to be a football player and it makes me want to do school better. I think the best part of my school is how my whole family does school with me. 

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year to my all my viewers!

I have had so much fun blogging in 2011 and I can not wait to blog more in the 2012. Coming up, I have posts on how cool my school is in Making School Fun. I am also going to post on all the great countries my readers live in Joy To The World. I am learning so much about the world. I also have a ton of new art to add to My Art Gallery.

My Favorite Things About School: Live Lessons

Live Lessons

I really miss recess. Playing with all the kids was so much fun. It's the only reason I ever wanted to go to school. I learn online now. Mom and I have tons of fun but it's not the same as a playground. 

I really hated going to school. I was always in trouble even if I didn't mean to be. I don't really like school now because it is hard to read things but it is so much better now. My teachers always tell me I am doing good.

I really like the live lessons where my class meets with my teacher. Mrs. Vazquez is the nicest teacher I have had yet. Her lessons are always so much fun. I get extra lessons too because I need help.  Some of my classmates have been in the same class together with me for all three years. Everyone in my class is really serious about learning things. I have seen some kids in other classes mess around but our class is not like that and everyone is really smart. Teacher never has to tell us to behave. I don't talk on my headset much because it makes too much noise but lots of other kids do. Sometimes the teacher lets us draw or use the pointer on the board for the whole class. It is so much more fun than a regular class even though we are not in the same room. I get to answer every single question and no one picks on me when I raise my hand or get the answer wrong. Everyone is excited when someone answers a really hard question. We even play games. Once my name was in a test we took during a lesson. Live lessons are one of the best parts of Connections Academy.

Wait until you hear about robotics club.

My Favorite Things About School: First In Math

 After Summer we named the blog "Making School Fun," but I never talk about school. I want to say some things I think are fun about school

First In Math

This is the math club at my school. It is a national program. Lots of schools do it. My old school didn't, not in my grade. Connections lets all students do it. This is my third year and it is so much fun. We play math games that teach us about math facts. We collect stickers for our scores. My favorite are the practice gyms. The more or less number line game and the shapes patterns games are awesome too. 

We can track our ranks too. I am 80 out of more than 300 students on my school's teams and number 12 in my grade. I really like being good at something. I really want to get more stickers and help my team get a better rank.

Super Star!

Today in the mail I got a letter from my teacher. I got  a Super Star award for reading. I am still not good at it. I have special classes at school to help me. My school has the Book It program. I didn't read as many books as I wanted to but I tried really hard. I think that is why she gave me the award. I got stickers too. An award, free pizza and stickers. This is the best day ever!!

 Thank You so much Mrs. V! :)

Mount Vesuvius Day

Today is a day to remember the eruptions of Mount Vesuvius in Italy. Close to 7000 people were killed when it erupted in 79AD and again in 1631.It is sad that people died, but volcanoes are so neat. My school has neat on line resources about volcanoes but my favorite thing is my baking soda volcano. We use equal parts baking soda and vinegar. To get the red color we add a few drops of food color.

I love Connections Academy!

Since we got our pool back I have been so busy having fun I keep forgetting to write about it. I will soon though. We got our submarine to work and we made a pop rocket and I am building another rocket car. And guess what! My school books came today. I got a real text book for math like big kids get not like the ones you tear out and write in like little kids have. They also sent me a whole art kit in a case and a spiral sketchbook and markers. Plus I got new goggles for science and there are three story books for English not just two. One is about Ben Franklin. I can't wait to start third grade. Well, I can wait because I am still on summer vacation but it is going to be so awesome!!!

The Plaza!

We went for a walk at the plaza the other night. I love to do that. They have three fountains and mister trees. Plus we get to go to Game Stop and look at the new games. We never get to buy anything but it's fun to play the games in front. I think the big fountain is pretty at night and there are white lights like Christmas lights on all the trees. It's hard to get a good picture of it though. I took 15 and none came out good. 

Dad  got mom in one picture. I learned how to color splash on photobucket.

I love to take pictures of my dad

Self portraits

Mom says we are hams

Later we saw the moon. It was so pretty and bright. Our camera doesn't take good moon pictures, but we tried.

The Park Pack!

I haven't posted in a few days but we have been really busy. I finished the education.com challenge. I went to the library. We have been to the park and for walks at the plaza. I will post pictures and videos when they are ready. This last weekend we made the coolest summer invention, thought up by my mom. The park pack. It has all of the toys and balls we use at the park plus water bottles and a picnic blanket because we can put food in there too. It makes it easy to carry everything like if I am done with my scooter and I want to play football.

Summer Is Swimming!

The best part of summer is swimming. I have lots of fun. This summer I can swim under water with my eyes open and I can jump and touch the bottom of the deep end. It's best when my whole family swims. Sometimes mom or dad can't swim but they still want to spend time with me outside. Like when my dad does his homework while mom and I swim or sometimes mom does her online job.

Mom takes great pictures of me jumping

Science Is Fun!

I have started a science is fun page stop by and see my videos. The first few are old but I will add to them when I can.

Bunnies Up Close!

The bunnies are beginning to trust us. They let me lay really close to them and take pictures yesterday. The other kids and the dogs still make them run though. And the babies are still really scared of everything. It is really hard to be still and quiet!

 

School's Out!

Today was my last live lesson of the school year. It was fun because we got to see what everyone is doing this summer. The book suggestions were neat too. Everyone picked such great books. I would like to read them all but I won't be able to.  I asked mom to read the magic treehouse stories to me she said she would. Sometimes I feel like I am the only one who thinks reading and writing is hard but lots of kids in my class feel the same way. I will read all my reading list books this summer no matter how hard it is. 

School isn't really over until friday but I am all finished with my lessons. This year was more fun than last year and next year I get to learn Spanish and join robotics club. I can't wait for that. Robotics and engineering is my most favorite things in the world. 

My favorite thing we did this year was going to the La Brea Tar Pits. That was just awesome! We could touch fossils and watch the scientists cleaning and studying them in their lab. There was tar bubbling up all the park. For a souvenir I got a mammoth skeleton that I have to excavate and put together. I am going to finish it this summer. Here are some pictures from our field trip.

My dad is so awesome!

I can imagine that being stuck in tar would be scary

Some of the pits had big bubbles of gas

This picture I took and the flowers were printed in the school magazine.

Now that is a huge teddy bear!

Here are the rest of the pictures mom and I took there
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