Spring Break

For spring break I am not going really anywhere. I will probably practice basketball. Last year during spring break I was practicing basketball and got plastic in my eye. I had to get it removed from my eye. At first I didn't know that it was plastic,but it got all red and puffy and it hurt really bad. Later that day I went and got to see morgan, because she was visiting. It was a raelly fun Spring Break other than when I got plastic in my eye.

Jon Leuer

Jon plays for the Wisconsin Badgers, and plays basketball. He is a senior in college. Jon is 6 foot 10 inches and is amazing in the post position! Someday I would like to play college basketball and be at least 5 foot 11 inches so that I can play post. My dad thinks that someday he will go pro because he is so good.

There are a lot of people that think that he is amazing, which he is.
Someday it would be really cool to meet him. I would have to look really high up just to say hi to him. I thought that my dad was tall but he is 4 inches taller than my dad.

I wish he wasn't a senior because then he would have another year at wisconsin and next year it will be different because our two post players are seniors. I also hope that the badgers will get farther in the NCAA tournie because if they made it to the champioship this year they would have had to play UCONN which I would have loved to see that game. Jon is the best!

Good Choices

If you were a dove hunter and was ordered to catch one-hundred doves would you follow the king’s instructions? It depends, especially if one of the doves that you catch talks to you and says that you should release him, and if you do you get he will get the beautiful lady that the king said he will be marrying. If that happened to me than I would probably release the dove, but the dove hunter instead kept him and he never saw a dove again, because he didn’t release the white dove. If you believe that what you are doing is right then follow your conscious and keep on doing it.

Sometimes if you are in the same kind of situation, like the dove hunter, do what you think is right. Hugh, the dove hunter probably was in the middle, when the dove told him that he would get the king’s wife if he let him go. Hugh wanted to please the king and also get the girl. When he was told that by the bird he probably didn’t know what to do, but instead didn’t listen to the bird. If Hugh would have thought about it and listened to the bird then his life would have probably been better, especially since the king lied to him and he wasn’t really getting married. I don’t believe that Hugh thought about it, he probably thought that it was just a bird and thought, why would anyone listen to a bird. That’s what I would probably do if a bird that I caught was talking to me but you never know when weird things like that will happen to you.

What would have happened if Hugh listened to the bird? The white dove specifically told Hugh that if he let the dove go that he could get the beautiful girl that the king was marrying, if he let him free. I don’t think that Hugh believed the dove because he ended up keeping him and giving him to the king. If I was the dove hunter, I would have no clue who to believe because when he found out that the king wasn’t even getting married, he was disappointed when he caught all of those bird for nothing. He was also probably cursed by the white dove, because he didn’t let it go, but instead gave it to the king to eat. If the dove hunter would have known that the king lied to him just so that he could eat some birds, then he probably would have let the white dove free and gotten what he wanted.

In conclusion, if people do what they think is right then it is most likely right. Follow your conscious and keep on doing it, even if other people think that it is wrong. You also shouldn’t put yourself in danger just to help someone else.

Mr. Seebach

Mr. Seebach was probably the best sub I has ever had . He was really fun and entertaining. He is a famous magician and was doing really cool magic tricks. One trick was making 3 strings the same size. Then Madi showed him one of her magic tricks was making a quarter come out of her mouth, but there is also a secret to a magic trick. People that are Magicians never show there secret, but I don't understand why because then everyone can know how to do "magic tricks". I wish Mr. seebach would come back to sub for one of my classes.

Personal metaphor

Authors note: i wrote this poem about myself
I am a runner sprinting to the finish line.
I am a basketball player stealing the ball.
I am a water-skier gliding across the water.
I am a sister caring for her brother.

Rules By: Cynthia Lord

How would you feel if your sibling had a disability? There are a lot of people with brothers or sisters that have disabilities. I wonder how they deal with having a family member or friend with a disability? There are too many bullies that hurt the feelings of the child with a disability. In the book Rules by Cynthia Lord the main character Catherine has a brother with autism that she has to babysit all summer. She has made rules for him so it is easier for David to listen and easier for Catherine to take care of him. She is hoping that he learns something from these rules so that he won't be as hard to take care of. People should learn more about how kids feel when they have a sibling with a disability.

Catherine has gone through a lot considering that she has a brother with special needs. David is a very smart little boy; he just needs help from his family and friends sometimes though. Many kids that have brothers or sisters with a disability get bullied and that is not right. People that have a disability are usually born with the disability so it is something they can’t help. The bullies sometimes call the kids “retards” which is a really mean word to say. The word retard is a word that you don’t want to be called. Many people get their feelings hurt when they hear it. It is especially offensive to the special needs students that know the word. Retard really means “slow”. The kids that may be mentally retarded are just slow at learning things like math or reading. It isn’t supposed to mean anything mean, but the way bullies use it, makes it sound like a terrible word.

I have a friend that has a brother with a disability. My friend’s brother that is disabled has had numerous surgeries and it is hard to have your close family member go through many surgeries. If you have a disabled brother, would you get mad when other people pick on them? Will you stick up for him? I wonder how it feels to have a family member that is disabled. My mom was a special ed teacher, so I understand that you should treat them like they are like normal kids, because they are normal people but people act like they aren’t. Having a child with a disability is really hard for many parents, especially when they are inexperienced. It is really nice when kids treat the disabled kids like they are their friends.

In conclusion people should be very nice to kid with disabilities. Catherine in the book Rules was a very good sister being able to take care of her little brother. It would be very difficult to have a family member with a disability so she is a very brave girl.

Childhood Memories

A childhood memory that I had was when my best friends, Morgan visited me and she surprised me on my birthday. I remember the door bell rang and she was just standing there and I guess that everyone knew that she was coming but me. It was defiantly a good surprise for my birthday. I have known Morgan since I was in kindergarten. When she moved to Maryland she came back to Wisconsin to visit. When she showed up at the door I was so surprised and that night she slept over at my house and we had so much fun playing Bratz dolls and Morgan took all of my stuffed animals and she put them all over my room in the middle of the night. We also had lots of fun with our other friend Mackenzie who we also had a sleep over with her. She has known Morgan since they were two years old and they have been friends ever since. Morgan, Mackenzie and I have had lots of good childhood memories.

Another time that Morgan visited is one time in the summer in 6th grade. Morgan, Mackenzie, Lauren and,I went to the state fair. It was a really fun time with all of my friends. We went on all of my favortie rides, like the three thousand. We were screming like little girls, it was a really fun time hanging out with my friends.