I thought the first week of school would be a bit odd. It ended up a little bit better because we got to do some activities but I still felt a little strange because I was in a different environment: new teachers ,classmates, and classroom. I still wonder what activities and projects are coming next. Today I will be talking about what I am looking forward to and what I have done this past week and, Some of the fun things we have already done. I hope you enjoy it.

This past week I have learned various assignments and activities. Today I will explain a few things I have learned. I have really enjoyed the fours fours challenge, where you have to make every number 1 – 50 while only using fours you can use any operation, brackets, exponents, and even factorials you can only use four digits. For example, to make 11  you can do (4!)÷(√4)+(4÷4) It took me around five minutes to make, but on purpose I tried to make a confusing one. So technically I wasted five minutes of my life making something complicated. Five whole minutes I don’t want to waste another 5 minutes talking, So let me explain the 20x 9 challenge. Another thing we have done in the past week is the 20 x 9 challenge. In this challenge you have to use only 1-9 and you have to make twenty. You can only use six digits or less. For example, for nine you can do 9+9 (9+9) + (9+9). The last thing I have enjoyed this week is the index card challenge where you get 100 index cards and see who can make the biggest tower in inches. There are a lot of strategies to make a big tower. Our tower was the 2 shortest. We tried to stack a bunch of folded index cards into triangles. The base was not strong enough so It collapsed and we continued building It ended up around 12 inches tall. I kept on screaming to my teammates” The base is not big enough, Make the base bigger!” I don’t want to talk anymore about me yelling so let’s move on to what I am looking forward to this year.

This year I am looking forward to many fun games and activities. One of those is the teachers vs students volleyball game. I hope that we can beat the teachers and in general this is going to be one of my highlights of the school year. I have watched other classes try to beat the teachers they all failed last year. I think it was 42-17 so I am a bit nervous. I sat there thinking next year I am going to beat the teachers right now I don’t think we will, so time’s changed. Another thing I am looking forward to is the Halloween party. I can’t wait to do all the fun activities and Halloween in general. This year Halloween is on Diwali so I am looking forward to that too, also I can’t wait to dress like a maniac too. Finally, I am looking forward to the board of legislators trip. I am excited for all the activities. I have never been to any government building so I wonder what we’re going to do. The trip is going to be our first field trip of the school year so I hope I enjoy It. 

Overall I hope you enjoyed it. I talked about what we’ve done in the first week of school and what I am looking forward to this school year. What was the first week of school like for you? What did you do? What did you enjoy?