Vivid Memories

Yesterday we met Taylor Mali, the poet. He asked us to list ten of our earliest memories and then the next day to show them to him. These memories below are the some of the most hilarious, scary, happy stories I have.

I remember when I was 4 I ate the awesomest burrito in my life. By the time my sister got back from getting her own food, I was already done. She said "Did you eat that entire burrito?" 'Cuz it was like this big.

I remember when I was 3, I was on one of those moving sidewalks and my shoelace got caught at the end and it ripped my shoe off.

I remember when I was riding a bike in Holland with my family and I went into a tunnel. My sister started slowly pushing me against the side of the the and I crashed into it and a small protrusion in the metal cut a long gash on my arm.

I remember when I was 2 my sister put her hand on the elevator door and it opened. Her hand slipped into the opening along with the door.

I remember when I was 5 and I was pushing my sister around in a shopping cart. I pushed it really hard and the shopping cart hit a wall under a fire extinguisher. The extinguisher fell on my sister's head and she had to get stitches.

I remember when I was 6 and I was eating oatmeal, but for some reason, it was really spicey and I couldn't eat it so I told my dad. He yelled at me and took a bite of it and yelled that it wasn't spicey at all. My mom came in and I told her and she took a bite and told my dad "This is really spicey! What did you put in this?" He said he only put in cinnamon and picked up a small canister. My mom looked at it and said: "This is Cayenne Pepper."

Moar Stuff

I am proud of many of my pieces of work, but I like part of the tic-tac-toe project I did with some of my close friends, Nick and Alex the most. The part of the project was about the architectural feats of the ancient Greeks. It was a three page, double spaced essay, which I am very proud of.

I think the literature circles were probably the most challenging thing through the year. It consists of a taking a passage from a book and writing what you think that means. Also, there are questions that involve looking for answers that have multiple answers that are based on opinion.

I Throughout the year I learned that the homework load isn't as much as I first thought, I just have a REALLY bad organizational problem. It was that I couldn't do it, it was that I couldn't find it.

a) Behavior

Could be improved
Satisfactory
Perfect - the model student

Explanation: I'm not the model student, but I behave well enough in class to be satisfactory.

b) Participation

None
Satisfactory
Actively participate in class

Explanation: I do participate in a lot of school... thing-activities so, yeah.

c) Organization

Needs serious help
Satisfactory
I'm super organized

d) Effort

Needs serious help
Satisfactory

In seventh grade, I plan to get all my work on time.

My second goal is to be more organized, because frankly, I am probably the most disorganized person in sixth grade right now.

I like most of the group projects in sixth grade because it is WAY more fun to do projects with other people because I like company.

To all of the new sixth graders, I recommend to keep as organized as possible, or you are dead meat. Also, like in fifth grade, please try to get all of your homework on time. Because, unlike in fifth grade, you actually get letter grades and homework makes the difference between and A+ and an A-.

Resolutions that I doubt you care about

This blog post is about my New Years resolution which I doubt you care about. It's really just for "educational purposes", isn't it? Any way, most of the resolutions I came up with weren't really good. I'm just going to tell you about the best two ones.

The first one is to try and be organized. I know it sounds lame, but I have a serious organization problem. First of all, my locker. It's full of papers and trash that could be used for recycling. This way I could clean up my locker and help recycling.

My second resolution is to learn a new skill. Whenever I play baseball or basketball or any sport I never really learn anything new. I want to see if there is a way to improve the way I play. The reason is, after a while if you keep doing it, you're going to get bored of whatever you're doing. Thats why I want to learn lots of new skills.

These two things are what I think can make this year better. Well I guess you don't want to listen to all of my other resolutions, so see y'all later.