These weeks,we had to make a book trailer on a novel that we read over break. I made my book trailer on the book called: Princess in the spotlight.  We had to choose a way to make my book trailer. I picked a flipping book for my book trailer. The thing is called FlipSnack. I think that my book trailer came out pretty good.  I hope you enjoy my book trailer and If you want, you may comment a POSITIVE complement about my book trailer.

To be able to see my book trailer, click HERE.

 Today  my  friend Cassidy is helping me and my other  friend make a blog. My new blog is named Palomie’s Life. I called it like that because my nickname is Palomie. I recommend to you to visit Just Me, Cassidy. Also visit Mine. Please. 

This week, we are doing a  Blog Post  about the Edublog Challenge #6. It is called Volunteering. We had to choose and organization to volunteer in or get involved in. I chose the one that is involved in this Blog Post. 

If in high school, or any other school, asked me to volunteer on any community service, I would pick the Navidad Medical Foundation.  I would pick this foundation because It is very astonishing what this people do. They take  care about the access to all patients. They are  regardless of their ability to pay. This is very important to me because if we have a hospital or hospitals that don’t care about us paying, then we wouldn’t have as many diseases as usual and we wouldn’t have people lying their and about to die. I would certainly  donate my time and effort for this foundation.  In return for my volunteering, I would get  friendship and carefulness . I would get friendship because of all the people I helped and carefulness because of all the fragile and not so fragile people I helped live.  If you want to  donate or get involved, you could go to Navidad Medical Foundation Help. Please, get involved. Think of all those poor families and children who need medical attention. Please get involved.

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In this blog post, I will be writing about the Persian and Greek war. I will pretend to be a Persian Warrior in the battle of  Salamis. 

I was beginning to be war sick. All the blood, sweat and destruction I had seen. I was tired of  all the arrows and spears that had gone through me at one point. My war sick was calming down. As we traveled through the sea, I began thinking of all those innocent kids and people we had killed with no mercy . I began feeling war sick again. Then, the captain of our ship announced ,

“Prepare for battle.”

All on the boat got ready as  soon as they heard the announcement.  We went on deck an up ahead we could see  smaller ships than ours. They were arranged like a wooden wall. 

” Turn the ship” Commanded our captain

It was too late. The wooden wall came toward us like a stampede. We heard the sound of crashing and destruction.  the war had begun once more.  I battled and battled. I could see all my fellow mates being killed with arrows,spears,or being sunk with the ship. I could see how I hurt the Athenians and Spartan warriors by crushing my spear against their chest. Blood pored all over our ships and on my hands. 

” Retreat” called the captains of all ships.

We had lost a battle once more. After the war ended, all that was left on those once calm water war blood and wrecked ships.  

   This week for class, we learned about perimeter,area and circumference . I remembered perimeter and area from last year, but I didn’t remember circumference . We also had to find the area of a circle,and about PI. We had to find the area of an irregular and composite figure.  Its kind of easy because all you do is multiply. If you don’t know. PI equals 3.14. That is just an estimate. I didn’t really get any of  this,but with the help of  Ms.Judd, I will get it and It will be a piece of cake.  

In this blog post I had to write a letter to my  imaginary Spartan dad who is in the army

    Dear Dad and Mum, 

I’m writing this letter to you so you know how proud I am to have such an amazing and brave father and mother . I know how hard it is to live in the training since you were seven. I know how hard it is to train in sports all your life.  I also know how hard it is to live in a society that is ruled by only a few people or Obligarchy.  I am proud to have parents like you and live In Sparta. I am proud to live in Sparta because we have a better and more strong army than Athens. We also have more land than they do. We also have a good and outstanding government. 

I  believe that with my improvement of sports, you will also be proud of me like I am with you. And when I get married, I will have strong and healthy babies so that when they are 7, they could enter the army and be very good at it. Also think that you will be some what happy to see Spiros ( my young brother) enter the army next year.  I hope that we get to see you very soon. They have improved a law that states that every women in Sparta could have 2 husbands if they wanted to. Don’t worry, Mum only has one husband. Right Mum! Well, I love you both and I hope I see you very soon dad.

- Love, Gaiane

This was based on the: Challenge yourself to blog. 

Today our teacher gave us the assignment of choosing any 5 blogs we want and ask them at least 5 questions about their  town, school, country . I chose 5 people from different places. One blog I visited was Em’s Canvas. . She is from the USA. I asked commented on her blog post called  About Me .   My comment was this: Hi Em, my name is Paloma and I just wanted to ask if your where you lived was very ancient and small or not that old and big. I hope you enjoy blogging       The second blog I visited was  Zoe’s Blog. . She is from the USA also.  I commented on her blog post called  Compound Words. My comment was this:  Hi, my name Is Paloma from room and I’m in 6th grade. We reviewed compound words about 3 or 4 weeks ago. It is true. Their are more compound words than the ones on the paper. I wanted to ask you the following: What else have you learned in your class? I hope you have learned what we are reviewing.     The third blog I visited was Tommy’s wicked awesome blog.  I’m not sure where he is from. I commented on his blog post called Creating poetry.  My comment was this:  Hi, again,  We also studied poetry. I guess you have already seen mine. I wanted to ask you, What else have you learned besides poetry?         The forth blog I visited was  Kara K’s Blog. She is from South Korea.  I commented on a blog post called My new Blog. My comment was this :  Hi, Kara, I’m Paloma and I’m in 6th grade. I wanted to ask you 2 questions. This is my question: Is your city/ country large or small? Is it ancient or not so ancient?    The last blog  Nathan’s Awesome Blog. He is from the USA also. I commented on a blog post called  Hello World ! My comment was this: Hi, My  name is Paloma, and I’m from the 6th grade. I wanted to say congratulations for your new blog. I hope you enjoy blogging too. I wanted to ask : Is you city/ country big or small? Is it old or not do old? .   

In this post, I’m pretending that I am 65 years old and giving advice to my middle school self.

  In my 65 years of life, I have accomplished many things. I have gone to Princeton, got married and had a wonderful family and work. I have become a really professional teacher. In my 65 years of life,not anything was sunshine and such. I also had to go through a lot to get what I wanted to become what I wanted. I had to signed up for 3 colleges I really wanted to go to. I 1st signed up for Standford. Then about 3 weeks later, they denied me. Then I signed up for Harvard. Then 3 weeks later, they denied me. Then I signed up for Princeton. I had no hope of getting in, but then 3 weeks later I got a letter. The first sentence  said: Congratulations Paloma, you have been accepted in Princeton. I was so happy and excited that I couldn’t stop smiling. In Princeton,I studied fir becoming a teacher, and I also played soccer for the school. In Princeton,I also met my future husband. He was studying to become an engineer. I met him when I bumped with him on my way to class. After college, I became a teacher and a wife. As i said before not anything in my life was sunshine. I had bad grades when I first started middle school. Then,when I moved to high school, I also had terrible grades. I had many enemies. I never knew why they didn’t like me. 

 If I were to go back in the past, I would  change mostly my whole middle school life. I would study really hard to get an “A” or at least a “B”.  I would  also change my whole high school life because of my grades and I would also try to ask my enemies why they hated me. In my 65 years of life, the only thing that I did right was from my elementary school life and my college choices.  I hope that when you are in middle school, you don’t make the choice of not studying and trying to get an “A” or a “B”.   Don’t make the choice of getting bad grades because that is not good for your future.  :)

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