In two days I won’t be in fourth grade any more and I won’t be able to write posts. It was so fun having a blog and being able to have my family read it! Maybe in another grade I will have a blog but for now goodbye to blogging. Bye.
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Warning: This post may give away some of the book to readers who haven’t read the book When You Reach Me.
When You Reach Me is a wonderful book that is full of mysteries and friendship. The book is kind of like a big puzzle and throughout it the pieces come together. When you finish the [...]
I just read a book called The Green Book. It is like the Pilgrims story but instead of going away on a boat they go away in a space ship. I will tell you how the two books are the same and how they are different.
The similarities of the Pilgrims and the Shines are that they both [...]
In school we are now studying Alice in Wonderland. About one month ago we started reading Alice in Wonderland and learned a lot about Lewis Carrol who’s real name was Charles Dodgson! We also read the annotated version and original poems that the book made fun of. At lunch we watched a series called 1900 [...]
First pilgrims to set foot on land:
The bay which is a good harbor and pleasant bay, cicled round, except in the entrance, which is about foure miles ouer from land to land.
Mort Relation
House 43 in the Dalton school, has a relationship with a school in New Orleans called Langston Hues Academy. They have been writing letters back an forth, and learning about each other.
I have learned that Jazz started in New Orleans. When I was writing to my buddy, she told me she liked to go to [...]
In class we have been studying Cinderella so we wrote cindy stories of our own, here’s mine!
Ann of the Ashes
Hi! I’m Ann, and Edward, the cutest, coolest, and sweetest guy in 91st St. High likes me! This is how it happened.
When I was a little baby living with my mom and dad [...]
Sarah Margru Kinson was born in Mendland, West Africa. Her life was wonderful until she was nine years old, when her father traded her for rice to a white man. The deal was when the African people had enough rice to pay the withe man back they would trade back, but before they had enough [...]
A few days after Elizabeth Alexander visited Dalton, my class started writing Amistad poems of our own. My inspiration was from when Elizabeth Alexander reminded us that there were other people on the boat not just Cinque. I was going to do a poem about Cinque but then I decided to make it about a [...]
In class we are studying Historical Fiction so we each got to pick a historical fiction book. I chose Esperanza rising by Pam Ryan. These are some reasons it is a great book. The opening sentence is wonderful, “our land is alive, Esperanza,” said Papa, taking her hand as they walked through the gentle [...]