Category: Teacher

February 23, 2016

3rd Quarter Reflection on Book Partnership

My 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!

February 23, 2016

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.

January 26, 2016

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.

December 8, 2015

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.

November 4, 2015

Human Computer

This is how the computer works the users – peripherals – Bios – cpu – hard drive – ram-ram- hard drive – cpu – – bios -peripherals – users. My roles that I had was the ram and the user the user shout out the things we needed to do. The ram organized the pages.

November 4, 2015

D-lab font

What I liked about my font is that all my characters have hats on top of there head. How a made it was I made a draft then I put it on nicer paper and did it better then claire put it on the computer. The theme to my font is the top hats on evryones head. My name to my font is HAT!!!

November 4, 2015

Memory Map

I choose this piece because I worked really hard on it. It was challenging but it was still really fun. The challenge for me was printing out all the pictures and choosing the right one. I had to do a lot of small details like making the water because if I mess up then I will draw on my islands in the map. The learning habit I focused on for this piece is perseverance because I really just wanted to do the map. But then it looked really good with the pictures so I actually really wanted to do it. But the pictures were not working. The printer was stuck. So I persevered through it and it finally worked.

Photo on 11-4-15 at 8.46 AM — This is my memory map

September 25, 2015

First Few weeks of school

My favorite part of the year so far is Humanities. I like it because we are watching a video from the big bang to the present day. I am looking forward to our class trip to Ashokan. I am having trouble with my world language. I don;t speak it very well. one goal I have for the year is to be able to speak spanish pretty well. I enjoy recess. I am learning to play 2 hand football with my friends, and it is really fun. So far I really like 5th grade.

September 25, 2015

Findle by Andrew Clements

Over the summer I read a book called Frindle. The author is Andrew Clements and he is one of my favorite writers. The setting takes place in a class at a school. The school was called Lincoln Elementary School. The main character is Nick. The main problem is that Nick is a troublemaker going into 5th grade. The teacher can see everything behind her back, so Nick can’t pull any pranks on her. He decides to make up a new word for Pen. The word is Frindle. Now instead of saying Pen, people say Frindle. The teacher does not like it so if anyone says the word Frindle they will be staying in after school. Nick has a plan and makes over two hundred kids say the word Frindle in front of the teacher so it will be over flooding the classroom.

What changed the direction of the story was that Nick could not pull pranks so he made up a word. That word got so big that it ended up in the dictionary and he got famous. The character has to make a very big decision by keeping with the word and getting in a lot of trouble or backing away from the word and not getting in trouble. But he kept with it and he became famous and he did not get into a lot of trouble. The conflict is that the principal wants to put an end to the word but at the end of the book the teacher was actually on her side. On page 97 the quote says “I was with you the whole time.”

I enjoyed the book a lot. It was probably the top three books ever. I really liked this book because Andrew Clements is a great writer. One example of how I liked the book is that it had a lot of details, like it said, “One fall day when the leaves were brown, green and red there was a boy named Nick walking down his school street to go to school.” Another example is that the author gets you really into the book. Like he would have some parts when Nick thought he got in trouble but he was really not. My last example why I liked this book was that it was interesting and funny. He made me laugh a lot because of when they made 200 kids stay after school. I would rate this 5 stars. It was a great book.

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