Tuesday, January 24, 2017

Revision of 2nd Quarter of 8th Grade

The area I improved the most on was the blogs I think.  I used to not try blogging because it got so boring at times, but now I write about stuff I want to and I write even more so I accelerated with the blogs.  My favorite book of the 2nd quarter was Solar System: Facts and Exploration, I liked this book because I really enjoy reading and learning about space and the solar system.

Something I’m proud of since the new year was that I started to read way more than before, before I wouldn't read one page because I found no topics I was interested in.  I know it's not that great of a accomplishment,  but I'll start to read more on what I want to learn and what I'm interested in.

One thing that I had trouble completing were my IXLs,  I didn’t really do my IXLs because they bored me and some of them were very hard to finish, the thing I did to complete them all was go to my room and do nothing but IXL until I finished them all.  I started to learn about the holocaust and it's already interesting to me, there's so many facts and so much to learn about, I really like history.

Tuesday, January 17, 2017

Book Talk

Book Talk

Book: The Solar System: Facts and Exploration
Author: Gregory L. Vogt
Genre: non-fiction
Summary: The book The Solar System: Facts and Exploration by Gregory L. Vogt is about facts and the history on the studies of our solar system.  The setting of this book is the solar system.  The mood I had reading this book was interesting, it made me want to discover and learn more about the solar system. I think the theme is that the author wants to inform the reader of facts and the history on the solar system.

Review

I liked the book because I find space itself fascinating,  it makes me wonder about the things we humans have not discovered yet.  It gives me the urge to go and explore space.  I remember the Apollo Missions facts in the book the most because I want to learn more about the moon, I also want to travel to the moon one day.  I would recommend this book to those children that want to have a career in space or just to learn about space.  Well you don't have to get the book, but if you want to learn a ton of facts about the solar system, you should go and read this book.