In art art we just finished making value charts. Rohan gave us a question about our value chart to answer. Mine was what helped me center my chart in the center of the paper.
I tried to to be exact with the measurements, so I measured the distance of where Rohan’s value chart was from the edge of the paper. It was around 1 1/2 inches. After measuring on my paper, I left marks where 1 1/2 inches was from each side of the paper. Then I used a ruler and started to make the boxes!
This is my math profile. We had an assignment at the beginning of the year to wrote about our experiences in math. I wrote that I wasn’t so strong in math, but now I feel like I have gained more confidence and have improved already!
Each year my math experience is different. In fourth grade math wasn’t a very good year for me, I would get confused very easily and wouldn’t understand a lot. That year I was put in a small math group with a few other kids from the grade and once a week we would work together with the math teacher. In fifth grade I was not as confused, but since I did gymnastics four days a week and four hours a day so I would rush on my homework a little bit. We got a thirty minute homework break so I didn’t have time to focus a lot on my math homework. In those two years math was one of my least favorite subjects. In sixth grade I loved math! I stopped doing gymnastics and did dance which made it a lot easier. I had time to focus on math homework, and in class I could notice I got better and wasn’t struggling as much. Sometimes I would ask for a little help on homework but not as much as I used to.
What I like about learning math is that you can relate it to a lot of things, like the other day in science class we had a domino challenge. And I ended up using a little math because we had to divide the dominos with five people. So I did 15 divided by 3. If I didn’t know math it wouldn’t be as easy to solve a simple problem like that.
I dislike how sometimes there’s this one problem that I can’t figure out and I keep on reading it over and over to understand but I still don’t understand it. Sometimes this happens when we start learning a new area in math because I don’t know so much about it yet. (This doesn’t happen very often) But there aren’t many things I dislike about math.
I wouldn’t say that I’m one of the best students in the class, but I don’t think that I’m the worst. I am a good math student when it comes to being organized, listening, and turning in assignments on time. Sometimes I can be good when it comes to the actual work, but sometimes when I don’t understand a problem I can get stuck. I may be good at a certain unit that we do or there may be some that I’m not that good at. For example For example, I think I feel more confident in multiplication than fractions. fractions.
Almost everyday I have an after school activity so when I come home from the activity I do my homework. I first take a shower, eat dinner, then do homework so I can focus without my parent saying “five minutes until dinner, ” because that is when I will start to rush. If I have trouble with the homework I can either look over it with my parent, go to school the next day and ask a teacher, or ask my friends about it. If I do my homework before my activity and I am stuck, I can come back to it after it ends and see if I can understand it better.
Sometimes in math if I am processing a problem in my head I can be a little bit slow. A goal for me is to understand and process problems in my head a bit faster. I hope that I will get stronger and more confident in math this year!
I hope that this year I will improve and feel more confident in math!
In math we are learning about similarity in shapes. In the first picture I wrote which shapes were similar and why. In the second picture I wrote answers to the questions on the sheet. It was mostly about making shapes similar to the shapes on the sheet, and making non similar shapes and explaining. 
