Is it Summer, or is it still Christmas?

Gosh, I am in a really Christmas-y mood. And lately, if you've read my previous blog post "Putting down the first Blocks", you know that I love playing Minecraft. And, since I'm in a Christmas-y mood, I've decided to build something in Minecraft, Christmas themed. And, Christmas is one of my favorite holidays, and I mean, come on, Christmas and Minecraft together, that's like heaven in your hands. So today I'll be making a tutorial for you all to learn how to make a.....Santa Bakery! 

The things you will be needing:

   -wooden sign

   - white wool blocks

   -furnaces

   -red wool blocks

   -chests

   -wooden gate

   -cake

   - glass panes

 

   The first thing you should do is find some flat area, and put down 11 white wool blocks.

  

   

    Then on one of the sides of the line of wool blocks, place a white piece of wool block that doesn't fill in the corners.

    And bring all the blocks into a line with 11 blocks in each line, and make sure the corners aren't filled.

    Then place two red wool blocks like this, and then later break the wool block on the right.

    Then make the red blocks go as far as the white wool block line, and go all the way around to create a spiral shape.

    Keep on building the red wool blocks up like this until you get to the top. 

    Once you get to the top fill it in like this.

    Then place three red wool blocks on top to make it look like an weird L-shape.

    Then break the red wool block on the corner and place a white wool block like so.

    Then create a two width block entrance. 

    And put two wooden gates on the entrance.

    Break all the red wool in the middle of the three sides to create windows.

    Put a gate on the left side of the Santa hat so nothing can get in without you opening it.

    Put glass panes on all of the holes, except the one on the left.

    Then on the right side of the Santa hat put a furnace in the middle with chests on either side, and then label it "Work Station".

    Then in the middle of the hat do the same thing except name it "Decorating Station" with a sign.

    On the left side of the Santa hat, just put a sign labeled "To-Go Station", and then put a cake in front of the gate.

    At the entrance you could put a "Welcome to Santa's Bakery" sign if you'd like.

    I hoped you enjoyed this tutorial, and try it out for yourself! (Sorry it's such a 

long tutorial)

We have saved our School

   We've been coming up with a lot of ideas. And humanity has been saved (or at least I think so). The fifth grade has been coming up with ideas to change our school into a better place. Fifth grade classes have been trying to reduce the amount of paper they use, the amount of plastic cups used, and the amount of bullying around the school. After pondering about some ideas that could change the bad ways of our school, we all finally came up with.....[DRUM ROLL], ways to reduce the amount of energy used in the school.


   We started seperating into seperate groups and assigning each group different assignments. Me and my partner chose to do the teacher interview, and we kind of worked with a pair of partners that came up with the questions for the interview. I think it's really important that we interview the teachers to see their whole point of view of the whole reducing the amount of energy. I think the teachers especially use a lot of energy (no offense). Everytime I walk past the teachers lounge I always see the light on in there, and it really bugs me. One of the pairs of partners even made a poster that said to turn off the light, but I guess no one pays attention. So I'm definitely angry about that. The teachers even said in the interview that our world will become a horrible place if we keep using energy like this, so they should really try to remember to turn off the lights when no one's in there. There's even a huge poster in there to remind them. So that's definitely something we need to work on.

   I don't know if this counts, but in second grade I did a project fairly same to the project I'm doing now. The second grade was trying to give orphans some new books and toys. So, with the help of fourth graders, us second graders decided to sell lemonade. Since it was summer, and a lot of people were playing outside, we guessed they would come to the stand at some point to cool themselves off with a cool drink, but boy were we wrong. People apparently had brought water bottles with them so they weren't really that thirsty. We decided to move the stand to a running trail. I'd walk on the trail with my cousins before, and it was really tiring when I didn't have any water with me, and I noticed only a few people brought water with them. When we sent the stand there we got way more costumers than before. It wasn't a lot, but it gave us enough money to get the orphans a few books and toys.

   I think my project went okay. There was a lot of...how should I say this, technical difficulties. But, I managed myself fine. I was really happy how the video turned out. I've always wanted to make a professional video. And now was my chance. After lots of researching on what apps I should use, I finally decided on Imovie. And I made the right choice. I could trim parts, and add parts that were funny or interesting, it was really hard at first trying to make the voice go right, and making the video not too long, but after awhile I got the hang of it, and then after a few days I was finally finished with a masterpiece.

   

   

 

Exhausted but Excited

   I am so tired right now. Today we just went to middle school to take a tour of it. I am in elementary school, so next year I'm going to middle school. So, to show what middle school was like, we went to the middle school. We took a bus there, and it was so stuffy in there! I felt sick to my stomach. On top of all that I was dripping in sweat.

   When we finally got to the middle school campus at last, I took a leap of relief off the bus, and scurried for fresh air. I went into the entrance of the middle school, and panic flowed throughout me. Middle School students were on either side of the entrance waiting for us to come in. All the teachers were real nice, but I especially liked seeing all the rooms. Though I hated walking up and down the long spiral staircase.

   I think it's really important that I get to know what middle school will be like since I'm going next year. I think I'm moving though. It's still important though. Last year I went to take a tour of the middle school I was supposed to go to, but then we moved. And over where I live they still count 5th grade as part of elementary school. But, basically all middle schools have the same rules, so its nice to know a bit more on how middle is the same or how it's different from the middle school I was supposed to go to.