School is in full swing!

Well! I've gotten through that first few days of school and the first full week. I think I'm going to have a great year though it will certainly be more challenging. Here's a list of things we've done so far, just to give you an idea of what we'll be doing this year.

• Language Arts: We did an acrostic poem about ourselves with our full names. It's pretty easy except it's sometimes a little difficult to think of the first word to start a phrase that goes with the letter... Then we did a few journals and stuff like that, and a couple days ago we started talking about Narrative writing. Over the weekend I have to write a rough draft for my paper.
• Math: Basically, we work really fast, taking lots of notes. We did a chapter review after 1 or 2 days, and we didn't get to practice the skills, so it was a little hard, but I did fine. We've taken 2 quizzes so far.
• Science: During class we take lots of notes and discuss what we're learning. Then we get worksheets or study guides, and our first test is in about a week, I think...
• Social Studies: The first day we were assigned a project. We had to make a poster board collage with pictures that had to do with us. I really liked the way mine turned out! But we also are making 5 minute presentations about ourselves. I have not done that yet, but it's easy so I'm not nervous. We've also done a little reading in a history magazine.

Those are my core classes. This quarter I'm also taking reading (I'll take it next quarter too, then take Spanish the next semester), art (2nd quarter-music, 3rd quarter-computers, 4th quarter-shop), and P.E. (next quarter I take health and go back to P.E. second semester).

A couple days ago, we had the Act 1 (drama club) meeting. We're doing 'You're a Good Man Charlie Brown'. I know I'll be in the cast, but I don't know about getting a role. I'm hoping to get Lucy, but since there's only 2 girl roles (except Snoopy can be a girl) so it's hard to tell. Choir is starting again next week, 4 days a week. I'm also restarting voice lessons next week, after a 2 week break. Dance starts next week or the one after, I'm not quite sure right now. I'm taking jazz, and possibly ballet. Besides that, I've been reading about 3 books a week and going to the movies with my friends on Fridays. Last week we saw 'No Reservations' and tonight we saw 'The Nanny Diaries'. They were both really great.