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!

My favorite activity in french was writing sentences about ourselves and posting it to the blog. We also chose a picture with it. I think my area of strength  was writing sentences and doing activities in the textbook. It was a little challenging writing sentences about myself because sometimes my sentences didn’t make sense so I would have to figure out how to change it. I think that I got better at writing sentences and using the right words in them. My goal for the next quarter is to be able to focus well on french homework and pay attention to little details so I don’t make silly mistakes. I have made a little progress on that so far, like when we were writing sentences about Halloween vocabulary.

On Friday it was discovery day. My topic was food and cooking. We made pies and watched cooking shows. I really liked how we all made different kinds and how all of them were really different. Sometimes it was challenging to think of where something would go and what we had to do to make the pie good. I thought that the apple pie tasted really good. I also thought the decoration on the key lime pie and the berry pie looked pretty, but all the pies were either yummy or had a good design.