isaiah's school blog

This week in Math  I learned about area, perimeter, and circumference. You can find area by multiplying base times height or length times width. For perimeter you add up the lengths of each side. Circumference is the perimter of a circle where you multiply the diameter by pi (3.14), or the radius by 2 pi. That is what I learned in math this week.

Dear Mom and Dad,

I wanted to write to tell you how proud I am to be a Spartan. I think growing up in an Oligarchy has made me a more productive soldier. With more than one leader to make decisions, important decisions are made more wisely. I am also thankful for growing up in a society where my miliary abilities are important and where I feel accepted for my talents. I love marching around the city. I know that I will only get better by continuing my training with master warriors involved in my training.

This week in math I’ve been taking benchmarks. I’ve taken a math benchmark, a language arts benchmark, and even a science benchmark. All of them were to predict how I would do on the 6th grade star test.

In this post, I’m pretending that I am 65 years old and giving advice to my middle school self. So far in my 65 years my last few years has been kind of boring, but the first half of my life so far has been exciting.I have played a lot of sports, and gone to college (University California Santa Barbra), and got a job as a lawyer. The last few years have had nothing exciting. 

But there’s a bit of advice I’d like to give you . There are some things you should do more,like exercise and keep active in multiple things, and save money. But also you’re doing good with other things like blogging(and school)

Here are my top ten favorite books:

For this Blog Post I will ask 20 questions.

1. Will I ever go to college?

2. Will I ever stop blogging?

3. Will I ever get in honors class?

4. Will I ever become famous?

5. Will I ever complete the Perplexus ?

6. Will I ever reach over 1,000,000 power in Dragons of Atlantis?

7. Will I ever get rich?

8. Will I ever become a lawyer?

9. Will I ever get to read the third book of Simon Bloom?

10. Will I ever win a game of Risk?

11. Will I ever complete the Rubrics 360?

12. Will I ever become a billionaire?

13. Will I ever go in space?

14. Will I ever discover what is in the center of the earth?

15. Will I ever get 1 million visitors on my blog?

16. Will I ever go to New Zealand or Australia

17. Will the world end by 3000?

18. Will we ever get attacked by aliens?

19. Will we go to live on another planet by 3000?

20. Will Apple go out of business, in 50 years?

21. Will I ever complete the Impossible Quiz?

Confucius was a great Chinese thinker. He was born in a small state in China called Lu, during the times of chaos after the Zhou Dynasty fell apart. It was during a time of great violence and chaos. He was important to China because he made a religion/belief which was later named after him.  He also helped develop a sense of order throughout China. He sought peace through a sense of duty, and that people should put others needs before their own. He also believed that people owed each other duty (e.g. Parents owed their children love and children owed their parents honor). He traveled throughout China asking the government to follow his idea and that if you had a talent for government you should take part in government.

I think a society could benefit from following Confucius, because Confucianism is based on developing a sense of duty.  One example of how  it would benefit a society would be one of Confucius’s quotes,”What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others”.  Another example would be that if you judge yourself by the others around you, and every one else in the society does to, than everyone will be doing their best so that they won’t be the person that makes everyone else look bad.

“There are those who act without knowing, I will have none of this. To hear a lot, choose the good, and follow it, to see a lot and learn to recognize it: this is next to knowledge.”  – Confucius

Florida Fog Incident

The  unusual form of the fog in Florida, was caused by the hotter temperatures. Because land heats/cools faster, the fog had to rise higher to complete the convection cycle, and because the water was so much cooler the clouds didn’t go as far out .