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For the sixth week of the student blogging challenge, I chose option two, and wrote about my school day. I wrote about my regular school day because it is much more organized than my remote learning is.

   About My School: I go to a 7th and 8th grade middle school building in Ohio. My middle school starts at 7: 55 and ends a 2:30

  Classes: At my school every student has a different schedule depending on what classes you are in. We switch classrooms for each subject. There are sometimes multiple teachers to one subject.

   Getting to school:  My mom always drives me to school in the morning since she works at the high school. I also like getting there early so I have time to grab everything form my locker before the buses arrive and I have time to talk with my friends.

  Choosing Classes: In 7th grade you can choose one elective to participate in. There is either choir, gym, gudied study, or band. Going into 7th grade I chose choir. In 8th grade you get to choose from choir, art, technology, band, or gudied study. I chose guided study for next years elective.

   Art/Technology: In 7th grade every student takes art for half of the year and technology for the 2nd term.

   The First Half Of My Day:  Once the bell rings, my first class is choir. Then I go onto science and then social studies. We have two minutes inbetween the bell to get to our classes. It almost takes me all two minutes to get from my choir class to my science class because I have to walk almost to the other side of the building. Luckily the social studies and science rooms are close to each other. After social studies I move onto lunch.

Lunch:  All the 7th graders have lunch together, and the 8th graders go to lunch a little after. We have time before and after lunch to grab our supplies from our lockers.

  The Second Half Of My Day:  During the first term I headed to art after lunch and during the second term I went to technology after lunch. After either art or technology  I went to language arts. The language arts and math classes are a little longer than the other classes so my language arts class switches a while after the bell rings. Once language arts is finished I head to math which is my last period of the day.

Clubs: This year every student chose a club they wanted to participate in. I chose home-ec. We met once a month for meetings. We didn’t get to have alot of meeting because of Covid-19 but we still got a make deserts for a few meetings.

 

As most of us know, Earth Day is quickly approaching. This April 22nd, will be the 50th anniversary celebrating Earth Day. Since Earth Day is so close, I decided to talk about the issue of plastic pollution. I chose plastic pollution because it has a major negative impact on the planet, especially for marine animals. Below I listed facts about the issue.

•  About 8 million tons of plastic waste leak into the oceans from coastal nations each year.
•  Millions of animals are killed by plastics every year.
• Almost 700 species are known to have been affected by plastic pollution.
• Most marine animal deaths are caused by entanglement in plastics, or of starvation, because the marine animal’s stomachs were full of plastics which reduces hunger.
•  Over 100 marine species have been found with microplastics in them. These include the fish that humans will eventualy eat.
•  Sometimes the plastic passing through an animal’s digestive system, can block digestive tracks or pierce organs.

Even though plastics are a part of everyday life, there are some things we can do to lower the amount of plastic pollution. You could use ceramic plates instead of plastics ones, and use metal utensils instead of plastic ones. Make sure you throw your trash away in a trash can, so it doesn’t get swept into a body of water. Use reusable grocery bags instead of the plastic ones, and lastly, use reusable container to carry food in.

I got my information from National Geographic.

Since this week was a free choice, I decided to create a poster. Since everyone globally is experiencing the hit of Covid-19, I thought it would be helpful to make a poster showing good hygeine. I chose to use Canva to create my poster.

For the week 3 Student Blogging Challenge, I chose to complete task 5. I chose my image from Pixabay. I wrote the beginning of a story, and I would love it if you finished the story in my comments.

Sophia stared nervously out the spacecraft window. She couldn’t take her eyes off the red planet that she was getting ever closer too. She still couldn’t believe that it had been almost two years since she had been chosen to be a part of the ” Mission to Mars” program, and over 8 months since her feet had touched Earth’s soil. Now she and and the rest of the crew would be the first humans to set foot on mars. She was still intently staring into the void of space and didn’t notice her colleague Jason, enter the main bay.                                           “Only 21 hours left until we become history.” Jason said, startling Sophia. She drew in a long breath and quietly agreed.  Then remembered she needed to be at the controls when there were 10 hours left until landing.                                                                                                                                                                             ” I’ll be down in the controls at..” Sophia turned on her communication device, and a holographic screen displaying the time popped up.  ” 17:00 Earth time.” She concluded. Jason nodded and headed back to the Controls. Sophia knew that she should probably be rehearsing the steps for safely landing the spacecraft, but she couldn’t help but stare at the thousand of stars in the sky. Even though she had spent over 8 months staring out the plain glass window the stars always seemed to amaze her. Sophia gasped remembering that her NASA trainer told her that with a telescope she could see that Andromeda galaxy wonderfully from Mars. She rushed over to the observatory room and peered out the telescopic window.                                                                “Woah! It’s beautiful!” Sophia exclaimed, gazing at the Andromeda galaxy. She turned the telescope trying to take in all of the beauty of the stars, when she noticed a small sleek black object moving ever closer.                     ” What?” Sophia said questioningly. She quickly ran back to the regular window and could see the object perfectly fine.                                                                                                                                                                                 ” But..” Sophia stammered. ” It was with the Andromeda galaxy. Thats 770,000 parsecs away! I shouldn’t be able to move that fast!”  She watched in terror as the object got closer and closer. She knew that with the speed that the ship was traveling it would be here and moment but she couldn’t force herself to move. She only started half in amazement an half in terror at the object speeding toward her ship.

Thanks for reading my picture prompt story.I hope you enjoyed reading it. I would love for you to finish the story in my comments!