Previously in the year, we wrote stories about a perfect planet. An artist named Peg Gignoux came to teach us how to make books about the planets. We made prints of different plants and made collages inside the books. Here is Peg Gignoux’s website: https://gignouxart.com/  

In April, a group of Actors came to our school to perform the last production of their tour. They performed two plays for just the eigth grade and two more for the rest of the middle school.  The two I saw were called The Monkey’s Paw and The Necklace. The plays were very good and… Continue reading Chamber Theater

A few weeks ago, an astronaut named Colonel Terry Virts came to our school. He is from Columbia, Maryland. He went to space two times, the first aboard Endeavor on February 8, 2010. The second mission was on November 23, 2014. When Colonel Terry Virts visited, he showed us a lot of photos from space.… Continue reading Colonel Terry Virts

In LA, we are reading a book called The Westing Game. The Westing Game is a mystery novel with a lot of main characters. One of the characters is a 13 year-old girl named Turtle Wexler. Turtle is obsessed with the stock market, so we started a project where we are given 20,000 fake dollars and get… Continue reading The Stock Market Project

     This is the rest of Chapter 1 of Spark.     Gigi was standing in front of the front door. A girl was standing outside.        “Tessie, this is Beatrice. Her mom was a friend of your parents and Beatrice is transferring to your school! Isn’t this perfect?” Gigi adjusted her Rasta cap.      “Hello!” Beatrice waved to… Continue reading Another Excerpt of Spark

On Friday, January 27, we took a bus to the NC Museum of Natural Sciences. I had a fun time and all of the exhibits were very cool. I especially liked the forest displays with models of animals and plants. Afterwards, we walked around the Capitol Building to look at some statues of past leaders… Continue reading North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences

Cool for the Summer by Dahlia Adler is a great book! It is told and first person and has flashbacks throughout the It is the summer before senior year, and Lara and her mother are invited to stay at her mom’s boss’s summer home in the Outer Banks. There, Lara meets her mom’s boss’ daughter,… Continue reading Book Review: Cool For the Summer by Dahlia Adler

We are reading The Last Cuentista by Barbara Higuera. The earth is hit by Halley’s Comet and people have to move to a new planet to live. In LA class we were assigned the Perfect Planet project, where we had to create a planet by photoshopping an existing image or drawing and write a few… Continue reading A Perfect Planet

We are learning about heat in science, and we had to make comics about heat transfer. Here is my comic:

I’m still editing and polishing Spark, but here is an excerpt from Chapter 1.   Chapter 1        Tessa Mayfield was a ten year old girl in fifth grade. She had gray eyes. Her brown hair was on the borderline between curly and wavy. She lived with her little brothers, Riley and Oliver Mayfield, and her grandmother,… Continue reading Another Book Excerpt