Graduations!

Yesterday was the last day of school so everybody who was graduating  from Elementary School, Middle School, or High School.

My brother graduated from Elementary School but I didn't get to attend the ceremony because it was during our school time.

However, my sister graduated from Middle School and her time was after school. So, I got to attend her celebration!

Since it was a special event, I had to dress nicely; which means I had to wear a dress.


A plethora of people had brought balloons including me:

First, the graduates walk in with a music that shows that the event is about to start. Then, everybdy cheers and claps when they see their relative, kid or neighbor walking in.

After that, all the graduates sit down on chairs that have already been prepared for them.

Next, all the staff and teachers hand out awards to some remarkable students. I was proud to hear my sister's name in the loudspeaker for being an outstanding student.

My second grade teacher, Ms. Fitzner had had a student named Hannah and Hannah had told her that she was chosen to give a speech at the graduation in front of everybody. I told Ms. Fitzner that I would look for her and I saw her when she was giving an amazing speech.

Did you graduate from a school? Tell me about the ceremony.

Happy Birthday Mrs. Yolllis!

 This post is dedicated to: My beloved teacher, Mrs. Yollis.

Happy Birthday Mrs. Yollis!

You have been an outstanding teacher this year and I would love to be in 3rd grade again just to be with you again!

With you we learned so much! For example, with you I practiced working in TEAMWORK. It was especially a good practice when we did the Breakout EDU.

You always were there to help and always so nice!

It was also great having you as a teacher because you let us do calls and projects with classes and people from all around the world. For instance, you did a Hangouts Video Call with an orphanage in Mexico. You also did a monster project with an Australian class.

Thank You for being such an amazing teacher!

To my classmates: Please leave a comment to tell Mrs. Yollis how much yo are grateful she is your teacher and wish her a Happy Birthday!

Fire!

This afternoon, when I was reading in my room, I heard my sister call out, " Come see, Sporty Katie! There is a fire outside!" I was so excited and stressed.

Then our whole family went out to gaze at the amazing site.  It was kind of scary because we saw the fire getting really close to some houses. I was terrified by the thought that the fire could burn our house down!

Luckily, we had a lot of firefighters fighting to get the fire out! Sometimes the fire was really close and sometimes it got bigger.

We were almost going to go to our friends' house in Tarzana, but then we watched the news and saw that the fire had calmed down a little bit. We had already packed all our bags just in case we had to leave.

                                  

This was the view from my house. It was really really scary!

Did you see the fire?

Were you scared?

As Long as there Are Mountains

As you know, I love reading! Or if you didn't know, now you know ;)

Anyway, I am reading a fabulous book titled , " As Long As There Are Mountains" by Kinsey-Warnock. I love this book because it is from the point of view of a girl that so far seems to be exactly like me. For Instance,  she does not like wearing dresses and neither do I.

This book is about a 13 years old girl who has grown up farming and dreams of keeping care of it when she grows up. However, her brother Lucien completely disagrees...

What book are you reading?

Do you recommend it?

Try to convince me to read it!

A Bunch of Active Student Bloggers!

This year has been a year where we incorporated a lot of blogging into. Some outstanding writers got their own blog.

For example, I got my own blog. A bunch of other students in my class got their own blog too. In our blogs, we like to post interesting things we have discovered,  something fun we did over a vacation or weekend,  your first experience in doing something, a piece of writing you are proud of and many other subjects.


In our class of 2015-2016, we have  Mitochandria,  Smiley, Pascal, Gymnastics, Sophie Reads, XavierParker, and Soccer Girl that own their own blog.

They are all almost weekly posting and they are great role models for me. I do my best to post as much as possible.

Mitochandria:

Smiley:

Pascal:

Gymnastics:

Sophie Reads:

XavierParker:

Soccer Girl:

Do you own any of these blogs?