Category: From Mr. MacKnight

One day in spring, my parents, grandma and I prepared food and had a picnic together. When we got to the field, grandma laid out the blanket and put the food on it. After a while, grandma felt hot. While drinking herbal tea, she admired the dense grass, willow trees, and lush bamboo forests on the commanding hillside. My father and I were catching fish in the creek. Xiao Ming caught a big fish, and his father smiled and said to me, “You are awesome.” My mother was picking flowers from the flowers on the street. Mom wrapped the flowers in paper and sent grandma away. Grandma took the flowers and smelled them and said, “Thank you! These flowers are so fragrant.” Mom said, “You’re welcome.” In the evening, grandma packed up her things. Our family went home happily.One day we came to the door of the aquarium and saw a sea of ??people there, surging like flowing water. We walked into the museum and saw all kinds of fish swimming around in different fish ponds. Among these fish trade, the one that impressed me most was the platypus: it There is a big flat and long mouth, swimming back and forth in the water, hoping to be a water duck; there is also a kind of large yellow croaker, they have a long and thin tail, and the big bird body in the square is floating It’s so fun to be in the water, like a big quilt.

My Avo has been sending me videos of her home in Manitoba, She lives in North Carolina and Portugal as well. Her houses are right on the ocean everywhere. Her favourite town is Carolina because of the easy weather. I plan to visit her in a few months. We have already bought the there tickets but not returning yet. She’s been teaching me Portuguese over text and we have been doing many calls over the past few months.

Hi, my name is Maria Blanco I´m from Mexico San Luis Potosi, my favorite color is blue and I’m too interest in marine animals and dinosaurs also I want to study marine biology and photography, I love videogames, The Legend of Zelda is my favorite. I like running and swimming, my favorite vacation is going to the beach and Disney. I have two older brothers and a little sister. I like watching movies and listen to music and I like to learn new thinks.

I like reading but I don’t usually do it, I would like to read more often because I know reading have a lot of benefits and there are many books that interest me like Stephen King books, Harry Potter, Percy Jackson, the tales of the brothers Grimm, Alice in Wonderland, etc. I would like to start reading in English, I like to read poems, I read a lot of Japanese Mangas and now I´m reading a book that calls “Rupture” that is in Spanish.

I’m not very good at grammar in English but I think that I just need to read more. I like to write about my day in a diary and write about the thinks that interest me like information of some music artist, animals, dinosaurs, etc. I would like to have the ability to understand, organize and express my feelings well enough to be able to write a good poem.

We will use this blog for Independent Reading journal entries, for Personal Writing, and for occasional responses to the literature we study together and to our class discussions and activities.

Comments on this blog must be specific, kind, and helpful. All the writing on this blog should aim to use standard spelling, punctuation, and grammar. This is not Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, or TikTok!

You will learn a tremendous amount by reading each other’s work. Sometimes you will think, “Ah, that’s really good, I could do that, too.” At other times you will think, “Ah yes, I make that same mistake, but I usually don’t notice it in my own writing.” Or you may think, “Wow, my writing is better than I thought.” Together, we can learn faster and make more progress.