Archive of ‘Book reccomendation’ category

01
Jun
2023

The Stock Market

categories: 6th Grade, Book reccomendation, Stocks

The last project that we finished in 6th grade Language Arts of the year was The Westing Game book and stocks. The Westing Game is a brilliant book by Ellen Raskin. In the book, one of the main characters invested in the stock market. We took this idea and our math specialist helped us create a spreadsheet for stocks. We invested as close to $20,000 fake dollars in the stock market to six different companies, and bought as many shares as necessary to make it to the set price. We started checking the stocks on April 14th and ended on May 30th, checking every week. When I first checked my stocks after a week, I was up $275.80, and the last time I checked them a couple of weeks later I was down $2003.20. You can invest in stocks in the real world, and you can actually end up gaining more than you bought. This project was fun to put ourselves in the shoes of a beloved character, and I loved checking it every week to see the results.

25
Jan
2023

Tornado Brain

categories: 6th Grade, Book reccomendation, Books

Image from Sora

This week, I read a book called Tornado Brain. It’s a really good book about a girl named Frankie that doesn’t like being touched or big changes in life. In this book, her friend goes missing and Frankie tries to look for clues, and ways that she can find her friend. 

This book feels like a window for me, because she lives at a beach house, and is braver than I think that I am. 

This is a great mystery by Cat Patrick. It sucked me in within the first page of the prologue. I chose this book, because it was recommended from a book website that I went to. I usually don’t like mystery, (or read it) so I decided to try this book to read a new genre, and I was surprised. This book starts as realistic fiction, gradually making its way into mystery. This is good for people that like mystery, and people that like realistic fiction, because it eases in in a transition. I would recommend this book, because it was hard to put down.