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Window Or Mirror Book

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Book

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    Right now I’m reading The Vanishing Stair by Maureen Johnson. Is this book a window or mirror? What is a window or mirror book? No, It’s not a literal window or a mirror. A window book is a book that doesn’t relate to you, but it shows you another story. Like looking out a window at home and seeing a deer run around, you aren’t the deer, but you can see how the deer lives. A mirror book is a book that reflects your life. Let’s say you were adopted and the book is about another kid who was adopted. That “mirrors” your life. 

 

    The Vanishing Stair is a story about the protagonist Stevie. In the first book Stevie is sent to Ellingham Academy, made by the one and only Albert Ellingham. He was the richest person in America and made a school on top of a hill in Vermont for only the finest students. Though, most of them were his friends’ children. Stevie gets invited to this school, while she’s there a series of murders go on. Stevie being Stevie puts herself into the investigation to try and solve the murders. Now, this book would be a window for me. I don’t go to a school made by the richest person in America. Not to mention it’s in Vermont. At my school there isn’t a series of murders going on. So, I think it’s safe to say this book is a window for me. It’s very good you should read it. (Amazon links here)

 

1st book: Truly Devious

 

2nd Book: The Vanishing Stair (Book I’m reading)  

 

Daily Habits

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Habit Tracker for February

At the beginning of the school year, we started daily habits. The class did. Daily habit together. What was it? You might ask. We did planks. Now, WHY IN THE WORLD would we be working out in Language Arts class? Well, my LA teacher decided that instead of having us do daily habits and not seeing the progress, she would make it physical. When you plank every day, let me tell you, you notice the difference. Planking was a nice experience and I got to see that when you do something every day you’ll only get better at it.

Here comes January, and no more planks! Now, we are coming up with our own daily habit. We had a January habit tracker that my wonderful LA teacher made for us. (I will link her blog). So I decided that my daily habit would be working out daily. Yes, I know, I know I do gymnastics and soccer and I have them 6 days a week. BUT, if I don’t have a game or competition on Saturday or Sunday, I’m super lazy. Like really lazy. Like I had to force myself to do it. It did feel nice to get moving more though. Honestly, January went 1,2,3,4,5,6,15, 20, 21,22,23,27,28,29,31. 

Now, it’s February. We had to come up with a new daily habit. So I decided (because I’m super unflexible) to stretch every day. So far it’s going pretty well. I haven’t missed a day, yet. For me stretching is just a good way to relax and well, stretch. I think you should come up with a daily habit. (If you haven’t already)  Are you up for the challenge?