4th grade remembrance.

I will remember mostly about my fourth grade year is probably out field trip to Old York Village. Also I will remember the way Mrs. Gerard read to us in read aloud. I will also remember finishing the reading challenge and getting no more homework. I will not forget to the morning announcements in front of the whole school. But most of all I’ll never forget being a fourth grader.

 I am very proud of at least trying out for student leadership council. I am proud of putting that winter story in for the Fosters Daily Democrat. I am proud of how far I have gotten in Qwerty town, the keyboarding school. I am proud of being a reading buddy to a first grader. I am also proud of being one of the older kids in the school.

            I am looking forward to middle school because they have band and I plan on doing the saxophone. I’m excited for dessert in the cafeteria when they have ice cream. I’m so excited for doing the bagel run when I run 1 mile through a full gigantic bagel. I’m also looking forward to the 5^th and 6^th grade field day. I am so excited for less homework more TV. I’m not so excited for school started at 7:00 though.

Reflecting on my Biography project

I studied Augustus Saint-Gaudens. I feel that I did really well on this project. I find the most difficult part of this project was finding actual useful facts and even just finding facts instead of opinions. I’m most proud of me learning about a different person other myself and all the progress I’ve made. I will always remember Augustus Saint-Gaudens because I’ve never really thought about being a sculptor for the wax museum I thought I was going to be an athlete like a football or a baseball player.

Augustus Saint-Gaudens biography

Augustus Saint-Gaudens By: Jack Smith Have you ever seen a sculpture by someone and thought, “Where did the sculptor get that idea?” Well, I got you covered on Augustus Saint-Gaudens. He was born in Dublin, Ireland on March 1, 1848. Gaudens had a wife that was deaf. She was an artist named Augusta. Gaudens was friends with the author Robert Louis Stevenson who wrote very famous children’s books like Treasure Island. He died on August 3, 1907. I hope you are at least a little interested. There is a lot left to learn. Gaudens had such a short lifetime because he died when he was only 59. It was so incredible. Here is part two. He was first a cameo cutter when he was a little kid. Then, Gaudens studied in France’s #1 art school. He was an apprentice to Francois Jouffrey who was a famous sculptor. He immigrated to America at only 6 months old. He was raised in New York for a large part of his life. That gives you information about his life. Now it’s time to learn about his career. He had a long list of accomplishments. Now you might be thinking, “Why was he so famous? What did he do?” Well, here you go… Augustus St. Gaudens was a sculptor from the late 1800s to the early 1900s. Other designers admire his style and have tried to copy it. His career as a sculptor was incredible. And here’s even more. I haven’t really told you about his sculptures so here you go. Gaudens made a cool statue of a man standing in front of a plaque for the Charles Stuart Parnell monument at the North end of Dublin's in 1911. He made a sculpture of Lincoln that stands in Lincoln Park in Chicago. Gaudens used a random model for the making of his famous sculpture of Lincoln. At central park in New York City there is a sculpture of General Sherman on horseback next to an angel women it is in Sherman Memorial. As you can see, his work is loved and memorialized worldwide. Here are some more reasons why Saint Gaudens was so famous and why we still care about his work today. He designed a coin, the $20 double eagle which is considered one of the most beautiful coins in the world. He also designed a $10 Indian head coin. He began his artistic career as a cameo cutter when he was only 9 years old. Some of Saint Gaudens coins are worth up to $4,000 dollars today. Well, isn’t Augustus Saint Gaudens cool? In my opinion, he is an incredible man.

My Reduce Paper Use Glog

CONSERVE PAPER!

                       We lose too much paper by people using it when they don’t need to and by people littering. If just 5 average families (4-5) people each switched to an e-filing, an email tax filing system, we would save up to 1.4 trillion pounds of paper. Every year the junk mail industries, creators of useless magazines and mail letters, destroy approximately 100 million pounds of paper. Recycling 1 ton of paper could save 20 trees. 3,000 tons of used paper towel ends up in U.S landfills every day. Put this in your mind because you still have reasons to get involved and other cool but disappointing stuff to go through.

                Wow, you’re amused? Well if you aren’t then read this paragraph.  It just might change the way you use/recycle your paper. Over 40% of wood pulp goes to the production of paper. The cost of using paper in an office can run from 13 to 31 times as buying the paper in the first place. If all the Sunday papers in North America were recycled, more than 500,000 trees a week would be saved. The average office worker uses 10,000 sheets of copy paper each year. Still not getting this? Well maybe with luck the next paragraph will change your recycling ways.

                Okay, here are some ideas for you if you are still with me. When you’re writing/drawing something, try to fill in the whole page or use both sides. When you throw away a piece of paper you might think “Bam! It’s gone!” But it actually goes in a landfill. When you recycle paper please throw it away in the right bin, the recycling bin. Don’t just recycle drawing/writing paper, recycle other paper products like milk cartons too. Oh, so you think I’m not helping? Well let me give you some better explanations of how I am helping to conserve paper.

                So here are some ways I help and if they don’t help, then that’s great, but you should at least try them out. You can learn to do origami with used paper and napkins. Make silly puppets out of paper bags you can get at the market. Use a paper shredder, the shreds are good for hamster cages. You have successfully made it through my recycling story. If you liked it then maybe change some of your recycling ways. Thank you!

Here is a little extra paragraph that might help you a teensy bit more. When someone throws something like a gum wrapper or a shred of newspaper on the ground it takes so long to decompose and it spreads germs and kills animals. I believe that grown-ups might have thought about this too as kids, but now don’t even think about it when they throw paper on the ground.  But we need to think about littering and wasting paper, what it is doing to animals and how it is effecting the Earth.

CIRCUIT

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