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Our habit tracker

Our class before we planked

From October to December, our Language Arts classes have been trying to make habits. The habit we did was planking every day. We started at 30 seconds and then we added 15 seconds every week. We ended at 2 minutes and 15 seconds this week. Then every time we did it, we colored in that day on our habit tracker, which is one of the photos above. Yesterday, we did a final plank challenge. Everybody had to plank for at least 2 minutes and 15 seconds then everything after that was extra. I only planked for 4 minutes and 10 seconds, but the winner planked for 18 minutes! Do you think you could hold a plank for that long? I certainly could not. We were supposed to go as long as we possibly could without going into the side plank or putting our knees down. After we all finished the plank, we did a reflection. We all chose a habit to start. I chose doing all the splits. We also talked about the benefits of habits, and I really think there are many. Overall, I think it was a great experience. I think that everybody should try making a habit of something.

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I am a reader. I started liking reading over the past summer. Earlier, I couldn’t find the right book so I wasn’t very interested in reading. But, in my opinion, reading is relaxing now. It makes me happy to read a book that I really like. Reading is also something nice to do when I’m bored. It’s a nice way to calm down and, for some reason, reading makes me less tired and have more energy. I love reading so much now and I have really gotten into it.

I love reading realistic fiction and fantasy books. I like realistic fiction because I can somewhat relate to it and it is very comfortable to read realistic fiction for me because they are usually pretty easy to read. The other genre I like is the opposite of realistic fiction: fantasy. I love fantasy books because I can imagine so much. I love reading about these fake worlds that just seem so real. I just have so much room to imagine so many things for fantasy books. As much as I love realistic fiction, I can’t really imagine that much because there are limits. Realistic fiction sounds like the world we live in, so I can’t really imagine that much.

A realistic fiction series I am reading right now is The Summer I Turned Pretty series. I am currently reading the second book which is called It’s Not Summer Without You. I started reading this series because I watched the show and all my friends had read it, so I decided to start reading it about a month ago. I love this series because it seems so real. I can really understand everything because I live in the same state as the characters in this book. I don’t really relate to what’s going on in the book though. The series is about a girl named Isabel (or Belly) Conklin. She is 16 years old. She goes to her family friend’s house on a beach called Cousins Beach every summer for the whole summer. She has a brother named Steven who hangs out with the family friend’s kids, Conrad and Jeremiah. I don’t want to give too many spoilers but I can say that I love the series.

I love the author of The Summer I Turned Pretty, Jenny Han. I also love her book To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before which is also a realistic fiction book. Another author I like is Carl Hiaasen. I read his book Flush and I loved it! It was about a boy in Florida saving the ocean from a cruise ship. Do you have a favorite author?

I love reading. Some books don’t catch my interest as much as others, but I still love reading. I am always looking for new books or series to read. If you have any favorite books or authors, I’d love to know.