Since Christmas I have been learning some new skills in school. I’m going to tell you some of them. In art we are learning to burnish colors. We have to do that after we drew a one point perspective drawing and we had to burnish it with colored pencils. The drawing had to be a part of the school and then we colored it with wacky colors. WHEW!! two done one more to go. In band we are learning how to Syncopate and we have to play a song called “Synco Rock.”  Syncopating is when you have to play off the beat. OK now I’m done you don’t have to listen anymore.

This paragraph was painstakingly written by Zoe Dekievit

In the last few weeks we have been learning about some interesting things. One of those things is Integration/Segregation. We read a book called Warriors Don’t Cry. The book is about a girl named Melba who volunteers to become one of the kids who will integrate into Little Rock High School. They are later called The Little Rock Nine. One of the other interesting subjects was another book that we read in culture class about a girl named Malala. She lives in Pakistan where there is a group called the Taliban that is lead by a person that wants the people to be overly strict about their religion, and Malala has to survive through this time of suffering. The last one is the difference between grace and mercy. We used an example. Ours was if you get pulled over and the officer is merciful they will probably just let you off with a warning. Grace is when the officer lets you off the hook and gives you a million dollars. So that’s what I learned.