Days 99-102
February 66—March 1, 2013
Paragraph: Summarize what you did this week
This week I went on a trip with my
friends to New York City. This was an amazing opportunity that I could not pass
up. So, since I went on this one day trip to New York was not able to get much,
“real school” done…but I did learn a lot while I was in New York and I will
tell you about that later. Last week counted for school also, because I went
and visited Gamma and Bo at the farm for farm school which I haven’t done in a
long time. Bo, worked with me about stuff like grammar, and alliteration and
fun language stuff like that, while Gamma and I talked about the artist Matisse
and set up for our art project.
Paragraph: Voice
For Voice and piano last week, I learned
a new song on the piano and a bunch of new chords. The new chords I learned
were, B, E, G, and Fm. The song I learned was, “Beautiful” by Christina Aguilera. In Voice, I practiced everything
for my audition, I practiced little hand movements and face expressions to go
with the songs. I also practiced choosing breathing points in the song so I didn’t
run out of breath but it didn’t sound so breathy.
Paragraph: AWANA group
Before I went to New York last
week, I went with Cecilia and Jasmine to a group she does called, AWANA. First
we played a game, a bean bag relay race. Cecilia, Jasmine, and I were on a team
with an older girl named Katherine. We were the yellow team. The idea of the
game was to put the bean bag on our head and walk, not run around the circle
trying to pass the other teams without the bean bag falling off your head and
taking it to the next person. We won 3 out of the four times we played it. Then
Cecilia went to go practice her verses and Katie and I helped the little kids
with their verses. It was pretty fun, but when it was over…I was glad.
New York:
Bright and early Wednesday morning,
Katie Kusturin, Cecilia Kusturin, Meg Kusturin, Bridget Kusturin, Jasmine
Margel, and I, Sophie Calderwood hopped in Meg’s minivan on the way to Boston.
Now, when I say bright and early on a Wednesday morning, I mean 2:30 in the
morning, yes, 2:30. We arrived In Boston around 5:30 to catch a bus that left
at 6:00 from Boston to New York City! I was so excited to be going to New York
City again! Cecilia, Katie, Jasmine, and I are really good friends and had plan
to have, “The most wonderful awesome one direction loving, Harlem shaking,
video starring, ice skating, Night of the museum, fashionable, cool, stupendous
trip ever.”….yes, that’s what we called it.
When we got to New York around
11:00 on Wednesday we arrived in the fashion district and went to the fashion
museum while Meg went to go get fabric for costumes for the skating show. We
had so much fun looking at all the crazy shoes and outfits and when we met up
with Meg around lunchtime, it was time for me to try something new… Greek food.
We were planning on grabbing a quick bite at Gyro II before catching the subway
to the Museum of Natural History. I tried it, and actually quite liked my gyro
sandwich! After lunch we went to the Museum of Natural History, and were super excited
because we watched, “Night of the Museum” the night before. We were pretty
upset to see it wasn’t the same museum, but we still had a LOT of fun! My
favorite room was the “Ocean Life” room with the big whale hanging from the
ceiling.
We spent about 3 ½ hours at the
museum and then took an absolutely gorgeous walk through Central park all the
way to FAO Schwartz. That’s when we started our video star. Jasmine videoed
Cecilia and I on the big piano at FAO Schwartz dancing to One Direction…Oh
yeah! That was a lot of fun. After FAO Schwartz we walked to Rockefeller Center
and saw the NBC studios. After that, we went to Time Square…. And went
shopping! We went to a lot of souvenir shops by Broadway and in Times Square
and it was amazing! We went to Forever 21, and the Disney store and it was super
cool! We also videoed us on the red stairs and when we were dancing, a woman
behind us started dancing too….It was hilarious! We walked to Bryant park and
went skating after Times Square…. And boy did we show off! We had like 8 feet
of ice to do freestyle on in the middle, and we made the best of it. We practiced
our solos and our thriller number and at one point everyone else skating stopped
and watched us when our music came on and we couldn’t help ourselves from
dancing! It was SOO much fun and a great experience! Thank you mom, Dad, and Meg
for making this possible!
Love,
Sophie
Paragraph: Farm school
At farm school, we played the new “Earthopoly”
game that Bo got us for Christmas and it was really fun. Gamma won at the end,
but I came in second place. The game taught us about recycling, and how much it
costs to keep a nice place with carbon credits and clean air going! I also did
Daily Spark with Bo which was a lot of fun because he never has done Daily
Spark before so he thought it was cool. He helped me with Shakespeare and
History about taking it to the next level and making sure I completely
understood what the book was trying to say, and at the end I did, so that was
good.
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