I am going to start by saying thank you to my mom and my dad for everything you gave. I know that if you guys were not here I wouldn’t be here today so thank you. I would also like to say thank you for acknowledging me in tons of extra curricular activities such as hockey, football, etc. I want you guys to know that I feel a lot of gratitude for both of you guys. So thank you, xoxo…

This weeks question for a paragraph of the week is

How do you keep yourself in high spirits in the midst of difficult times? Is there a particular person you talk to for inspiration? A song that motivates you? A walk in nature? What about this particular person or activity helps lift your spirits?

Paragraph #4

When I am sad or angry my friends keep me held high. And when they have their head low I help them. When I play sports it gives me a drive and sometimes that helps. A song that gives me motivation is the Face-Off by Dwayne The Rock Johnson. Hockey helps me because when I play with my friends and they’re happy it makes me happy.

 

This week our paragraph of the week was what tv show impacted your life. I chose The Mighty Ducks Game Changers. This is what I wrote.

There are many tv shows that impacted my life but the one I chose is  The Mighty Ducks Game Changers. This movie changed my life drastically because it taught me so many life lessons for sports and for my life. It taught me that there is never a bad player because everyone can improve. I also love hockey and this tv show just made me like hockey even more and it pushed me to improve. This movie is on Disney+ and if you like hockey I encourage you to watch it.

In English, we started the amazing 5/4 this week the paragraph of the week was what is the best quality in a friend this is what I wrote.

When I look for value in my friends I always look for kindness. I look for kindness because kindness comes with so many different things that come when you’re kind. For example, kindness means you care for the people around you, you also respect the people around you even if you don’t necessarily like them. I admire kindness because kindness can lead you so far in life if you are just kind to everyone or try to be kind to everyone. When your friends are kind that doesn’t mean that they buy you everything or give you what you want. Kindness in a friend is when they are there for you when you are at the losest points in life or are just going through a tuff patch/bump in the road. Therefore if you are kind to everyone then most likely they will be kind back. So be kind to your friend and you will build a stronger friendship.

 

 

  In language arts, we got an assignment to write a memoir and this is mine.

    Pass pass pass and pass the thing you need to do in school and hockey. In the summer of 2018 in August I made the competitive hockey team. When I made the team I was happy but also nervous to see who my teammates were. I didn’t know what to expect. It was my first time trying out for a competitive hockey team and I made it. At first, I didn’t know why or how I made it. All I knew was that we practice at least three times a week and play at least two games a week. That was a lot more than usual for me because when I played house league I played two times a week. I also was a bit scared because even though I was only in grade 4 I still wanted to make sure my grades were high as usual. 

 

     The first semester of school was hard because I was trying to get into a rhythm. When I saw my first term report card my grades weren’t as good as usual. My parents told me it’s ok because I was changing rhythms, but that next we have to work hard and find as much time as we can to do the work smarter and harder so I said ok. Then we started the next term and I remembered all the tournaments and playoffs we’re coming up, so I knew it was going to be harder to bring my grades up. But I knew that if I put all my effort into studying and hockey then I’d hope that my grades would increase but they got worse. My parents started getting mad. I felt the urge to just tell them how hard and challenging it was trying to compete at a high level and trying to keep my grades up because grade 4 was the grade where you got at least two pages of homework from each subject. Plus going to a private school I had another language on top of that. 

 

     Now I ran into another problem during the playoffs. My great-grandpa died and that was hard for me because I was very close with him and he did a lot for my family. Now I had to go to the funeral and I missed one of my playoff games and found out my team lost the game I missed. So now I was mad, sad, and discouraged. Later that day we were in Montreal and we went back to my great grandpa‘s apartment for the shiva. We were eating there but I didn’t like the food because it tasted disgusting to me. But my great grandpa‘s apartment had this smell and whenever I smelt this smell, it reminded me of him so I started crying. Everyone was confused and thought I was just crying because I was sad no one knew it was because of the smell until my mom brought me to a room and asked me and I told her his apartment smells like him. We started laughing and crying and then she gave me a bag of chips. When we got home the next morning I had a game we were losing 2-0 in the series so we needed to win. Before the game, on the ride with my dad to the arena, we were talking about him. My dad knows that I don’t like expressing my feelings and when sad stuff happens I don’t like crying but when we were talking about him I started crying and at the same time you kind of feel good to let the crying get out of me. We ended up winning that game and I scored the winning goal. My point here is that even if you don’t wanna express your feelings sometimes it’s good to and it makes you feel better. We ended up losing 4 to 1 in the series.

 

     Now my hockey season was over and the third term was about to start. So I knew I should only focus on school and my friends. Now that my hockey season was over I had more time to hang out with my friends and to use my time more wisely now that the hockey season is over. Every Tuesday after I was done with the hockey season I went to Jaxon’s house. See I liked going to Jaxon‘s house because when I went there I got to have fun and I got to get my mind off of anything I didn’t want my mind to be on.

 

Conclusion: The lesson I learned was if you think you’re having a perfect life or if you want to have a perfect life you can keep trying and trying but there’s always gonna be that one thing that interrupts it.

 

 

 I chose this topic because it really messed up my life in 2018. I feel that writing about an event that you didn’t like helps you get out of your brain.

This experience changed me as a person because I knew that if something like this happened to me again I would know how to handle my emotions.

My advice for the readers reading this is that if you’re accomplishing something big and you think it’s going to change, think again and think if it’s really what you want.

 

 

In English Mr.Washerstein is teaching how important it is to use sensory language when your righting descriptive paragraph’s. Sensory language helps the reader picture as if they were there.

My dream vacation is going on a cruise with all my friends. We are going on the first Canaidien cruise, from Canada  all the way to L.A, Orlando, and Vegas. On the cruise we saw a dolphin and an airplane. It was weird that I saw an airplane because it was a stormy day. I could feel the rain drops coming down harder every few minutes. The clouds we’re getting greyer and greyer and greyer until boom it’s gone and the sky is bright blue and the sun is shining brighter than ever.

The next morning my friends and I went to the buffe. We sat down on the comfiest place in the entire place where the seats were leather and the seat was so soft when you left it felt like you just left heaven. At the buffet there was the best food there was poutine, burgers, hotdogs, fries, pizza etc. Plus it was served by the best chefs in the world, the food was so good it tasted like it came from a 5 star restaurant in Canada and smelled like the beavertail truck in  Canada even though there were no beavertails. It was only lunch so I couldn’t imagine what they were going to serve for dinner. It was a bummer because we were leaving the next morning. For dinner that night we had soup baguette and fillet mignon. It was so good . After that I was so full I felt like an overflowing tortilla bowl. And that’s my dream vacation.

If I could do this again I would spend more time to make a better drawing’s.

I learned when and how to use sensory language. Also how using sensory language helps the reader picture what you are doing.

 

         

 This winter break was different than any other year because of COVID, but I still tried to make the best of it.

 

(Here Is My visual)

 

(Happy New Year’s)