Month: April 2017 (Page 2 of 4)

Stress is one of the things I hate most. The reason I hate stress is because it makes me angry and sometimes it makes me hungry. Whenever I am angry, hungry and grumpy because of stress it puts me in a bad mood for the rest of the day.

Some ways I deal with stress are doing my homework earlier, making sure I have enough time and staying organized. The one thing I have trouble with the most is doing my homework earlier and on time. The reason I think I don’t do my homework earlier is probably because I think I have way more time but in reality I don’t. Another thing I do a lot is I procrastinate. I keep telling myself I will do my work in 5 minutes but when it reaches that 5 minutes I procrastinate and give myself another 5 minutes or so.

I will try and solve this problem I have by reminding myself over and over again that I have to do my homework. This problem can affect my learning big time. This problem is all in your head and it’s your choice whether you want to control it or not.

I feel like I dealt with stress pretty well during my life. There were sometimes where I dealt with stress through conflict I had with others. I use different strategies to try and deal with stress like walking away, talk about the problem and just apologize. I mostly use these strategies but sometimes these strategies don’t really work and the problem can get out of hand. Whenever the problem is about to go wild I usually get someone to help and resolve this conflict I have with the other person.

People get stressed just like me and this is just a few strategies that I use to calm myself down, I hope you use some of these strategies too!

“Greatness lies not in being strong but in the right use of strength. He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by attraction of his own.”

I think that August deserves the Henry Ward Beecher Medal because he has perseverance, and most importantly, he is kind.

August has perseverance because even when he was being bullied, he kept on going to school. Well, first of all, even though he was scared to go to school just because of his appearance he still kept going because he wanted to learn more and make friends. Remember August was being bullied by the big kids at camp, his sleeves on his sweatshirt were ripped off and he lost his hearing aid? Just imagine, what it would be like to experience that. I know other kids have experienced worse, but, in his ‘condition’.  Just imagine an older, stronger person calling you an alien in front of all of your friends, in my opinion, I’d be pretty embarrassed!  Then they attempt to beat you up, but even though this was one of the most intense scenes that August has experienced. Auggie was very, very brave. He showed all of his characteristics. He showed perseverance because, he didn’t run away like a baby (because he was he was scared out of his pants) and he was kind. How? He didn’t insult them. He didn’t step down to their level (maybe because he was too scared to talk. And he couldn’t hear because he didn’t have his hearing aids.)

August is kind because even if there were some mean children in his class and school, he made them realize that what they did and do was wrong and this made them a better person. For example, when Jack was talking to Julian about August, he said some pretty mean stuff. But no matter what, August still forgave him and they are now close friends.

This has been why I think August Pullman is deserving of the Henry Ward Beecher Medal, though he is a persevering and kind young man, he is many more.

In Community Circle we are doing stuff. We made a big community web. Every day we do a random question. We played games like sit in a chair, I feel, Interview, Great Wind Blows, The Name Game. We make a circle/oval with our chairs. We pass around a random item, mostly SpongeBob SquarePants. We learn about being a S.T.A.R learner. That’s all we did.

I Think Wonder could be about a person because there is a person on the cover. I also think it is also about wondering using your eye, because there is an eye and the title is on the eye. Maybe the person is sad because the eye is blue, because something bad might have happened that made her/him upset. Maybe one ear is bad at hearing that’s why it’s smaller.

When I get stressed out by my sisters, cousins and people in the school, I take a deep breath, walk away, don’t listen, calm down, be quiet and try to stop a fight. This is some of the strategies I use when I get stressed. Some other things like when I get mad at my sister’s I will be quiet, close my ears and walk away. When I get mad at my cousins I walk away, stop playing with them and tell them to stop. When I get mad at a person at the school I walk away, say stop bothering me and tell a super visor. These are the things I do when I get stressed. thanks for reading.