End of the year

It’s unbelievable that the end of the school year is already here. I have accomplished so many things, while I’ve also not done so many things I wanted to do. At the beginning of the school year, I wasnt as good of a poet. I wasn’t as good of a blogger. I wasn’t as good of a reader. I wish I could have finished at least one more series of books this year, but I didn’t. I accomplished not getting any falcon fouls this year and I accomplished getting tons of falcon dollars. I think it’s been a pretty good year.

Two poems by ME

The the first poem I wrote is with onomatopoeias:

Rainy Day:

Plip plop Plip plop

The rain is falling down

Plip plop plip plop

I see thunder in the sky

Crash! Smash!

It’s powerful but calming

The second poem has personification in it:

 Pizza:

Pizza comes in veggie, in cheese, 

and pepperoni too

All these flavors made just for you 

As I bite into the crust, 

the ingredients climb into my mouth

And slide down my throat 

And they settle in my stomach, 

leaving me a satisfactory taste

Three positives of the week

       For this blog, I will be sharing with you three good and positive events that happened to me this week. The first thing that happened to me was on Sunday, which is technically part of this week, around 4:00 PM. I was at my play practice for The Sound Of Music. Mrs.Chlumsky, the musical director, assigned me a line! I was super excited since I had never had my own line before. It was a small line but it was still something I got to say. She told me to say, “Has anyone seen Maria?”. It’s short, but I still can’t wait to say it.
      The second thing that happened was on Tuesday morning. I had finished my math MAP test, and I got a score nine more points than the winter one. This was exciting because it meant I only had to get a better score on one more test to be able to go to the incentive. I couldn’t wait until the next day to see if I would get the incentive.
       The third positive thing that happened was we successfully finished the play for the first time. It was the second time there was an audience in front of us but the first time we actually finished it and it wasn’t a complete and total mess. So, that’s a positive.
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Map testing #2

The last time I did map testing, I was really nervous. I was nervous I wouldn’t do well and I wouldn’t get the incentive. This time, I’m more anxious than nervous. I know map testing starts tomorrow but I really don’t want it to. I now have experience at how long and tedious it is, so I am just waiting anxiously until tomorrow. The incentive is pretty much the same now as it was last time. If I do better on two of the tests, I will have an incentive room of either a movie, tech, or game room. This time, there is an extra incentive too. The extra incentive is if I get better on these Spring tests than I did on the Fall tests, not the winter tests, then I will get a surprise incentive. I just hope I get at least one of the incentives, and if you are doing MAP testing too, than I wish you luck.

Reaching 50 assigned blogs!

       I am way past 50 blogs, but not assigned blogs. All the slice of Life blogs were not assigned, so that is 31 blogs I technically didn’t have to do. So, I have only really done 45 assigned blogs. That’s why I am reaching 50, because I haven’t quite gone there yet. Once I have finished those 50 blogs, I will be glad that I have lasted this long and I am almost done with blogs this year. I also wonder what these five blogs I still have to do to get to fifty will be. Whatever they are, I’ll talk to you again then!

Song analysis- Yellow Submarine by the Beatles

This is a song called Yellow Submarine by The Beatles. This song has many things that are like a poem. For one, it has repitition. Repitition is when one thing is repeated over and over. Poems have lots of repitition and so does this song. This song repeats “we all live in a yellow submarine. Yellow submarine, yellow submarine” between verses. 

This song also has some rhyming, just like poetry. The words “green” and “sea” don’t exactly rhyme, but when they sing them, they sound like they rhyme. It’s the same with “aboard” and “door”.

Greek Day

       I walked into social studies, my accordion, pencil case, and helmet in hand. Yes, there was a helmet in my hand. It was a Greek, paper helmet I had made a week before for Greek day in social studies. I sat down in my chair and put down all my things. I could see some of the other crafts other people had made. There were lots of flower and leaf crowns of different colors and some origami animals and even a Greek God Zeus figurine. After everyone had filed in, Mr.DellaCroce, the social studies teacher stood in the front of the class with a wooden thunder bolt in his hand. He held it up and told us what we would be doing. Everyone took their craft and lined up with their assigned group, which was supposed to be our city-states of Ancient Greece. I was in the city-state of Troy with three other people, Miranda, Solana, and Andrea. We walked outside to start our Agora, which was the market place of Ancient Greece.

Poem analysis-OVERDUES by Shel Silverstein

This poem is called OVERDUES and it is by Shel Silverstein. In case you can’t read it on the picture below, it says, “What do I do? What do I do? This library book is 42 years overdue. I admit It is mine but I can’t pay the fine should I turn it in or hide it again. What do I do? What do I do? Burn the library to the ground until it’s just a mound of ashes and debris. Yes, yes I see! My courage I’ll muster, torch it like my old Block Buster!”

This poem might be a limerick because it tells a short, funny story. It tells the story of a person wondering what to do about his overdue library book. It also could be a sonnet because it rymes and it has about 14 lines. But, this poem is most likely a free verse. Free verse poems are poems that don’t exactly follow any specific pattern. This probably isn’t a limerick. Limericks do tell short, funny stories, but they also have five verses. It also isn’t exactly a sonnet because sonnets have 14 lines, not 16 like this one. So, OVERDUES by Shel Silverstein is probably a free verse poem.