D.A.R.E essay

  The knowledge that I have learned with the D.A.R.E program is not to use tobacco, marijuana, prescription drugs or alcohol. All of these drugs WILL hurt you more than you know. Chewing tobacco for example can and probably will cause lip or mouth cancer. My goal is to be as healthy as I can throughout my life, and to do that I have to make the right choices throughout my lifetime!


   have learned so much in D.A.R.E! Mostly I have learned not to make wrong decisions. I have learned the 5 types of peer pressure and how to say no in many ways! I also learned that over 400,000 people die every year due to tobacco caused problems. My favorite thing was Mr. Dip Lip or when we had the drunk goggles that I did horrible at, and that everyone laughed at me. I also liked it when we did the D.A.R.E family feud game and we had extra recess, even when not all of us had our D.A.R.E. shirts that day! It also really tested our knowledge that we have learned in D.A.R.E!!!

  D.A.R.E has taught me to stay drug-free. When I saw the jar of tar, I almost threw up. It was so gross, to see what some people don't even care about and what is killing them. I don't know what these people are thinking, but its not something I want to know! The black lung was super nasty! To think some people still have their lungs look like that. I also learned that I should not use prescription drugs if they are not prescribed to me by a doctor. Prescription drugs can kill brain cells and hurt your internal organs a lot. If my doctor does prescribe me something then I need to take the dose of medicine prescribed to me, and no one else!

 The skills that I have learned in D.A.R.E. are, to say no to any type of drug and tobacco or alcohol in a lot of different ways to say no. Some for example are, the skipping CD or just walk away! D.A.R.E was defiantly one of my favorite activities this year. I really liked smoking Suzzie, she taught me how much tar goes into the lungs with just one cigarette.  It has taught me so much about resisting drugs as seen in the paragraphs above.
    

  I also now know not to take candy or any med's from people on the streets, because I don't know what they have put inside the package. If there is any holes in the package you still have no clue about what is in it. The package could contain from chewing tobacco to heroin. These drugs are addicting and very dangerous.  This is why I pledge to stay of any drugs or tobacco, because I want to live a long and happy life. No matter what gets in my way I have learned to say NO!

Challenges to face

The challenges that have faced me this 6th grade year are very little. I have faced the challenge of not passing the OAT but I think I did good. I was faced with a new class and people that I haven't been in a class with. Then I had to find friends in my new class. At the begging of the year I did not know if I would fit in, but I am sure that that is what everyone thinks on their first day of the year. I did not know if I would get good grades and, to tell you the truth I was really dreading giving up the summer for school.


I have no clue about what I will face when I get older. Well, I do know that I will have a lot of choses that I will have to make for myself. What collage to go to. What I want to be when I get older. Just things that I already know that I will have to face. I have NO clue what Jr. High will be like starting all over again. I will have to start from the begging, as if I don't know anything. I just hope I am not helpless next year.

Wonderful...Happy endings...?

I am just trying to figure out why a lot of stories are happy endings. We all have our dreams of happy endings. I am just so sick of stories having happy endings. It is not just in books earthier. I can not TELL you how many rewrites of the Cinderella movie I have seen. I mean come on people that many rewrites of the same story. They always end up the boy meets the girl of their dreams and they fall in love and everyone is happy. It almost always is a happily ever after ending.

I know that not every book or story is like that, because I have read some really good books that have some sad endings otherwise not happy ones. I do like some stories that end in happily ever endings. I am just saying that it gets really old.

Everyone knows that there are not always happy endings in life. You can always have that dream life that makes your nightmares go away. Ugr....I need to quit fighting with myself. I am just saying that I guess that I am in the middle, because I like both.

If I Wrote A Book...

If I wrote a book the main character would be about a sporty, outgoing girl with friends to back her up! I have no clue what her name would be, but it would be awesome. My main character would not be an outcast, but she would not be the bratty girl in school who thinks that she is "all that" and thinks that she is better than everyone else. Basically my main character would be like me....!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ohio Achevment Test (OAT)

Here in Ohio the sixth grade students of the Logan Elm school district have taken their OAT's and have turned them in. Now I am not a big fan of testing, but I think that I did a good job as a student. I don't like any kind of test, but if it is for yourself then you should do your best.

I have herd a lot of kids my age tell me that they don't care about their grades. It really makes me mad how students don't even try to pass. When Mr. McGuire gives us a work sheet for extended response I usally get a half way decent grade. On the other hand I may look at a person across the room that will just simply say to my face " Oh well, I don't care its not like it matters to me". That just makes me soooo mad I could just smack them across the face...., I just don't get how people can go to school everyday not knowing anything and going home and still not knowing anything.

Honestly I think that we just might get an exellent grading on the OAT, wish us luck!!!!!!!!

Hmmmm....Laney

  We are reading a book in the Reading Workshop called Larger than Life Lara! The main character is Laney. I think that Laney is not really confident in  herself. I think this because she thinks that shes not very pretty. I also think she doesn't really try to impress people she just thinks. She doesn't try to fit in a lot. I still think that she is somewhat confident!!!

The Best Book Ever

One of the best books I have ever read is Charolettes Web! It is about a pig and a spider and the most awesome friendship ever! Hey, there is an idia. What is your favorite book.....

What Keven said

In the book Freak The Mighty Keven aka freak tells Max "every word is part of a picture and every sentence is a picture. All you do is let your imagination connect them together." This book has a lot to do with what we have been talking about in the Reading Workshop.the thing I want to know is why. Why would someone have their parents work for them to go to school and fail poorly. Just because they did not read their book. Some kids fake read this will not get anyone anywhere. If a student fake reads then they will never know what they are missing. Students need to sit down and read a book every once in a while. If a student likes to watch TV then give them a book!

Six months to live

2/22/09 Six Months to Live

My book is about a girl named Dawn that has leukemia. Which at that time was one of the most common cancer found in kids. Dawn is thirteen, and has to move her things to the hospital to start her treatment of chemotherapy. When she arrives at the hospital she meets a girl named Sandy. Sandy also has leukemia. The girls become best friends during their time in the hospital. Then Dawn gets the common cold and her immune system can't take it because of the chemotherapy. She ends up going to the ICU for two weeks. Then she finally gets to go back down to her old room with Sandy.

After that Sandy went into remission. Dawn was begging to feel lonely without Sandy. Then nurse Frida tells Dawn about a cancer camp in Ohio.

Welcome

Hello, welcome to Notes from Rachael! I'm really excited to be starting my own blog. I am one out of four people in my class that are making their own blogs. Of course under the supervision of our Language Arts teacher Mr. McGuire. He had the idea of turning students wikipages into blogs. I am mostly going to write about the books I am reading. On the side of this blog you will see where I keep track of my minutes. Hope you like it!