Kate

There are many different elements in Homeless Bird.

The first element is character:          Koly, she is a 13 year old girl who lives in India. She gets married to a guy that was way younger than her and he was super sick. Once her husband dies she becomes a widow.          Hari, is a young boy who gets married to Koly. He was very ill and needed to go to the Ganges River to get blessed. When he was there in Varanasi he died and was turned into ashes to get put in the Ganges.         Sass, she is Hari’s mother, and she took Hari to the Ganges River along with Sassur and Koly.       Sassur, he is Hari’s father who joined the group on going to the Ganges. 

Kate G.  

My friend sent me an e-mail a few weeks ago and invited me to make bagged lunches for soldiers traveling through the Atlanta airport during the holidays. Of course I said “yes”! I thought it was a great idea because we’ve been learning about giving the gift of time to other people!

I went over to her house today knowing and thinking that I was giving the gift of time to not just one person, I was giving the gift of time to two hundred people! I walked into her house and I saw a couple of other girls decorating brown bags that said: “Thank you for Serving for Us”. I walked over to the table and my friend greeted me and said “Kate, right now we are decorating the bags that the lunches will go in!” So I decorated bags and then we went to the dining room to make the sandwiches. We put a sandwich, a bag of chips, a napkin, an orange and a cookie in each bag!  

 That is what we did for a while. Then, we had lunch and played Just Dance 3 on her Wii. Finally, I left and I told myself that I did a really good thing!

These 200 bagged lunches will be delivered to the Atlanta airport tomorrow morning for the soldiers.

The End!           

Kate G.  

     For my Gift of  Time project I washed my neighbor’s car. She is an elderly lady and she said that she had not washed the inside of her car in years! So I decided that I wanted to wash her car for my Gift of  Time. The car was full of dog hair from her Golden Retriever Leo, leaves, lolly pops, and lots of trash.  This is what I did to clean the car: I scrubbed all of the windows inside and out with Windex, I vacuumed the inside of the car, my mom washed a blanket that had dog hair all over it, I scrubbed the tires multiple times, I washed the outside of the car with soap and water. I did almost everything you can think of to make the car clean! I am planning on doing more but that’s the first thing I’ve done to give the Gift of Time!

Yesterday my family and I drove from Anna Maria Island, Flordia all the way to Atlanta, Georgia. The first thing my sister and I did was watch the Justin Bieber Movie! I love that movie. It makes me cry because I want to meet him so badly.  Then, I talked to my family, played on my itouch, and did some math that I missed in class. Next, my sister said, “I want a smoothie!” So my mom said, “okay we can get one at McDonald’s.” After a couple exits we finally found a McDonald’s. My dad went through the drive through while we walked around and stretched. We got back into the car and my dad said, ”the smoothie machine is broken!” Then my mom said, “then what did you order them… milkshakes?” And my dad said,”of course.” So we enjoyed our milkshakes and kept driving. After that, I watched another movie, I studied more, then I played on my itouch. I tried to fall asleep in the dark but I couldn’t so I played on my itouch the rest of the way home. I’m so glad I’m out of that car!

This morning  in Florida it was beautiful and calm. I was standing on our porch looking out towards the water. My mom saw a splash but she didn’t know what it was so I looked closely and I said “dolphin!” My mom, my sister Daisy, and I ran to the beach as fast as we could to see the dolphin. Our kayaks were right beside us. My mom yelled, “let’s get in the boat!” I persuaded my dad to come with me on the kayak and he did. We hopped into the boat and we were off, paddling as hard as we could. I thought I was going to pass out, but I didn’t. We paddled until the dolphin were in between my mom’s boat and ours, about 10 feet away. We watched them splash, surface, go under the boat, and play for about fifteen minutes. That was our dolphin quest.

Yesterday I got on a flight to the beach for Thanksgiving. This morning, I woke up, ate a blueberry muffin and went outside. I saw my mom talking to ”our” blue heron named Blueberry. My mom offered Blueberry some coffee but he/she didn’t want any. Right now the ospreys are fishing!  Also, it’s my little sister’s stuffed animal’s (Princess) Birthday.     Ha ha ha ha ha

I’ll try to post more later about our trip!

Happy Thanksgiving!

For Halloween I was supposed to dress up as Lady Gaga but it was too cold outside to wear that so I dressed up as a dude. That day my family set up for our annual Halloween Party! At our party we ate pizza and talked to neighborhood friends. But when it started to get dark outside my friend and I left to go get some candy. We went to my adopted grandmother’s house first. She was so excited and so was her dog, Leo! She gave us a handful of candy and said “Bye kids, have fun!” And on we went… we Trick-Or-Treated on more than two streets and got over one hundred pieces of candy! Now my candy is almost gone with help from my dad and my swim coach, Nate! Nate keeps asking the team for more Milk Duds, and I don’t have any more!

That was my Halloween!

- Kate

Last week we had a halloween party in Mrs. Carter’s class! We played a game called Trick-or-Treat where someone picked a card that either said Trick or Treat and if you picked a card that said Treat then you got to go to pick a prize. If you picked a Trick card then you have to do the chalenge enthusiasticly, and if you do it enthusiasticly then you get a prize.

This week in Mrs. Carter’s class we didn’t have school on Monday because it was halloween! I got 104 peices of candy and I trick-or-Treated on two streets with Cole! We do not have any tests this week either. Today we are going to visit with Carmen Deedy, and we are going to do more tryouts for the Nutcracker.

Next week in Mrs. Carter’s class our Wordly Wise project is due Monday. We have an Wordly Wise test on Tuesday. On Wednesday we are going to the High Museum on a feild trip. That is three weeks of my life as a fith grader!

-Kate G.

          A couple of weeks ago we had Grand Day at Trinity School. For Grand Day my mom came as my special friend instead of one of my grandparents coming. First, I showed my mom around our classroom and we looked at the poem that I made on the bulletin board outside of our classroom. My poem was called ”Full Moon” and I made a watercolor to go with it. Then, as a whole class, we played Three Truths and a Lie about our grands or special friends. This is how you play: you take a piece of paper or a flash card and write three truths and a lie in any order on your piece of paper. Then, someone stands up and reads aloud their three truths and a lie. Next, someone tries to guess the lie and if they are right then you say “correct” or “yes” and if they are wrong then you can call on a different person. After we played Three Truths and a Lie it was time for my mom and the grandparents to go home. 

That is what we did at Grand Day!

Kate G.

This week we’ve had a fun time in Mrs. Carter’s class. Tuesday we met our buddies! With our buddies we painted and decorated pumpkins. Wednesday we had a very long social studies test on Mesopotamia. Thursday in Media we got to eat/try Mesopotamian foods, they were so yummy! Friday we have a math test on decimals. On our math test we get to divide and multiply decimals.

Next week on Monday we don’t have any tests. On Tuesday we have a Wordly Wise test, Wordly Wise is a book, we study a unit and we have to learn the definitions to each word in the unit. On Wednesday we have River Kids. River Kids is in Discovery Woods in the creek, and we get to explore and play in the creek. On Thursday we have a science test and a field trip to the World Congress Center. On Friday  we have a Halloween Party getting ready for Halloween! That is almost our last two weeks of October.

Thanks for reading!

Kate G.