Category: Teacher

Jessica’s Egyptian Tomb Website

I liked making the Egyptian Tomb Website. I liked making the Egyptian Tomb Website because it was something that I had never done before. It was sort of annoying to code everything though. One thing that I learned was that every little part matters. If you forget to add a letter or forget to close the tab it will not work. Something that I struggled with was adding pictures to my website. After I learned how to add pictures to my website it was really easy. I had a lot of fun making my own website I want to do something like it again.

 

Shark Tank Simulation

On my spaceship the shark is represented by human crew.  The humans are the sharks because they eat the the minnows.

The minnows are represented by  animals. Chickens, eggs, cows, pigs, fish and beans. The human crew has to eat enough of those animals to survive but they can’t eat too much so that there are no more animals. Animals “minnows” are the middle of the food chain. They

Scratch Reflection

screen-shot-2016-11-11-at-6-55-33-pmMy scratch game was of the Big Bang exploding. I think that my game turned out ok. One thing that I struggled with was trying to get the fireworks to work for the Big Bang to work. For about three classes I spent the time coding and it never worked! I was really annoyed. In the end I was not happy about anything. When I did the coding it did some cool stuff but it was not what I wanted.

My atomic model

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In science we have been learning about atoms. In one class we made what an atom looks like us. The picture of my atom is above. I made my version of an atom out of clay. I made a gray ball and I filled it with red, yellow and orange dots in the middle.

My atom resembles Democritus version of an atom. He was the first person to think of an atom. He thought of atoms in 440 BCE. His atoms were little shapes in all one color and so is mine.

I used to think that atoms looked like a ball with something in the middle of it. I did not know what was in the middle of it. Now I know what an atom looks like. In an atom there is something called a proton. A proton is a positively charged part of an atom. In the middle of an atom there is something called a nucleus. That does not have a negative or positive charge.

 

Summer Book Review

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The title of the book I read is called Sophia’s War and it is by Avi. The setting is in Sophia’s house in New York and a few other places around there and it takes place from 1776 to 1780. Some important characters are Sophia, her parents, her brother, Mr. Paulding and John Andre. The main problem is that the revolution is happening right now and Sophia’s brother who was fighting for the revolution and got captured just died in prison because the British didn’t give him a lot of food or water and she wants revenge.

 

One event that changed the story is when Sophia finds out that her brother died. That is important because that is what makes Sophia do everything that she did. Another event that changed the story is that in the beginning her father got a bullet in his shoulder and they needed money. So she worked, it was really unusual for girls to work back then. One big decision Sophia makes is to work for another man to be sort of like a spy. The main problem did get resolved because Sophia’s brother died and she wanted revenge and that is what she got. Also because we won the revolution not England.

 

I enjoyed this book but I also didn’t. I liked it because I think that she is really brave and when she got scared she just pushed it behind her. Another reason I liked it is because I think  it is interesting that it is about a real person who actually did this. But the reason I didn’t like it is because in the beginning it was sort of slow. But it was not slow the whole book. A kind of reader who would enjoy this book is a person who likes history. They would like this book because it is nonfiction. I would rate this book 4 out of five stars.