Category: Grade

Something meaningful I did this break was…

Something meaningful I learned this break about myself was that I am very helpful and flexible about doing anything. I would help out by taking care of my little cousins when there parents were doing something else. My ca delis was how the grownups were working really hard and I felt bad so I wanted to help by volunteering to watch the kids while they go to the beach. I was flexible by if somebody was doing one thing that I really wanted to do but another thing needed my help I would go to the one that needed my help because I didn’t was them to get stuck. One goal that I have is that if somebody is having trouble with caring something I would help, same with work or anything. Also if somebody needed help with something during recess and nobody helped them I would be flexible and help. I learned how helpful and flexible I can be.

Intramural Basketball

This is me playing intramural basketball. I was playing the maroon team and that was me scoring a basket. I really enjoy playing because it is not that competitive and it is with all my friends.

Knight Monologue

I am about to be a knight. I went through all the hard things like not being able to eat for one whole day, and now I am ready to be struck with the sword from the king. My heart is beating fast and my legs are shaking. One fear that I have is getting killed in the war, which most knights are. I am worried that my horse is going to get killed or fall down. I am looking forward to being able to represent my king in war, which means that I will be able to kill enemies. I feel excited to get knighted by the king with his sword. I am also nervous because I don’t know what to say to the king.

Finally the day has come! I am ready to meet the king. I walk down a long hall. The king asks me some questions like “Do you promise that you will not betray me? Will you be brave and kind to the poor and weak?” I promise, “Of course, my lord, I shall always serve you.” Then he puts the sword on my shoulder and now I am a knight.

Math blog post

I felt really strong with finding the area of a triangle. My process of finding the area of a triangle is I make the triangle into a square and then I multiply the base x height and split the number in half and then that is your answer. I felt confident with this because right when Robin explained it, I got it right away and that felt good. I had a lot of practice with this, so IPhoto on 4-4-16 at 5.03 PM felt great about my work.

Shark Tank Simulation

We did an experiment in science where we went outside and played a simulation. It was a game where there were one shark and four minnows and the rest of the class were seaweed. To survive, the shark has to eat two minnows, and to reproduce, it has to eat  four minnows. The minnows have to eat one seaweed to survive and two seaweed to reproduce.

The first trial was really bad because we had no strategy. The shark died in the first round, same with one minnow. Then two of the three minnows ate way too much. They ate 9 seaweed each, which meant there were a lot more minnows then seaweed. Which meant that in a few rounds, the seaweed would be gone, which meant the minnows have nothing to eat which meant they go extinct.

The top image below shows the line graph of the bad run.

Then we figured out a strategy where the shark only ate 2 minnows and the minnows only ate 2 seaweed. We kept on doing that and we did really well. We ended with over 90 seaweed and 2 sharks and 8 minnows. We could do that forever and have over 1000 of each thing.

The bottom image below shows the line graph of the good run.

This teaches us that it is important to for each species to have enough to eat, and have a good balance between the numbers of them. That way, the cycle can just keep going without one of the species going extinct.

 

 

3rd Quarter Reflection on Book Partnership

Photo 2016-02-25 12.58.23 PMMy partner and I read Holes. Our partnership was really good because nobody read ahead so we got to talk about the same ideas in the book.  We were both really chatty which helps because we could share with each other our thoughts about the book that the other person might not have thought about. I’m proud that I have been on top of doing my homework and reading. I am also proud that I finished and understood two challenging books. One challenge for me was understanding some of the words and phrases in the book. One example is the word neutralizes. I didn’t know what it means, but now I know that it means “to make something neutral.” When I came across one of these words, I asked my partner if he knew what it meant, or my mom if I was home. If my partner does not know, then I ask Heather, my teacher, or any teacher that’s there.  That was the best book ever!

Cyber Security

When I was talking about cyber security with my parents, I thought that Apple did the right thing of not giving the FBI the key to get into any phone they want. If they could do that, then they could charge people to get access to their phone back. So the FBI would be rich. Then they could ask all the other phone companies to give them access to all the phones and charge people for access back. Also, this new idea is invading people’s privacy. So that means that they could not have private conversations. They could have a bad day and say something that only one person should know. I think the FBI is asking for too much. However, I think the FBI should be able to ask Apple if they can get into this person’s phone because of a specific reason, but I don’t think that the FBI should be able to do it themselves; they should have an Apple person do it for them.

Gun violence

I talked with my mom about gun violence and this is what I came up with. One idea is that I think that if there were no guns then the police would not have to have guns. Then it will be a gun free place. The only problem is that there are other weapons too, but they are not as dangerous as guns.

Another idea is that I think it should be very very hard almost impossible to get a gun. You should need to have special permission from the government to get a gun. You should have to take a test just like you have to take a test to get your driver’s license.

Another idea is that I think we should be able to track down stolen or missing guns. I watched President Obama give a speech recently about gun violence. He said, “If we can track down missing iPhones or iPads then why can’t we do that with a gun.”

Also I think we should be able to have better technology so that you can not shoot a gun at people. Guns can be only used for animals and targets. Police should have special guns that can shoot at people.

Math Post

 I am proud of the work I put into this quiz. I spent a lot of time on it. I got most of the problems right. I was challenged by the top one on the second paper. It was hard because it was asking me a problem that was not clear. Also the solution was a lot of writing. If I got one number wrong it would mess up the whole answer. If I had more time, I think a quicker way of doing the problem would be using prime factorization. I have improved on prime factorization. I am proud of my improvement in math. I got a two on clarity for my first quiz, and now I got a three. So that is great. Something that I still need to work on is my common factors and multiples. Instead of adding numbers together over and over again, now I can use factors. I think with a little more practice I can be awesome at math.Photo on 2015-12-07 at 18.03 #2 Photo on 2015-12-07 at 18.03