The school year is almost over. I am ready for middle school but I am not ready to leave Elementary School. It is so weird, I feel like I was just watching my sister graduate from Elementary School. Also, it feels I was in school for two weeks, when it has been ten months. This year I think I achieved both goals because I can now read much harder books than before. I achieved this goal by going to extra reading. Extra reading is a place where you go and learn to read better and spell better too. I have also been reading every day. In the middle school, I would like my new goal to be making new friends, getting along with teachers and, getting better at studying. I think I could achieve my goals by, giving being nice to every one, handing in home work, and going in a quiet spot. I may like to try out for the soccer team. But I mostly try out for team the football team, because, I am already on a soccer team out side of school. I hope I can achieve my goal for next year.

On Wednesday, March 25, 2009 Mikey from the Franklin Institute traveling program, visited our school. He showed us a lot of cool experiments with energy. It was amazing. I learned so much from him. For all of these experiments, he chose someone from the audience to help him. One of the things he did was, he took a balloon and rubbed it against my friend’s head, then lifted the balloon slowly, and her hair was sticking up against the balloon. Then he took another person from the audience. He took a long string with a lot of pieces of wood attached to it. He flipped one of the wood pieces on his side of the string and all the other pieces of wood flipped to the other person’s side of the string and then back to him. Then they both flipped their sides of the string at the same time, when they hit in the middle it came back to each of them. After that he took two other balloons. One of them was a light yellow color and the other was a dark red. He took a lazar light, shinned it through both of the balloons and the red one popped because it was a darker color and the darker colors absorb light. For his last experiment, he took a golf ball on a string that hit a block of wood, which hit another golf ball that hit dominos, and then hit another golf ball, that hit a button that made a stick go on fire. He then took another stick, put the top of it on fire, and then he put it on the balloon and the balloon exploded and everyone screamed. It was hilarious. I hope I can see his experiments again.