One area of strength for me this quarter in math, has been finding the area and perimeter of rectangles. I have always liked geometry, so I thought I would really like this unit. I did! I was proud because I asked questions when I needed to, and I understood it. I practiced, and it helped. Here is a piece of work that I am proud of and that shows proof of my strength.
My experience giving my docent talk at The Brooklyn Museum was very fun. I felt like it was fun because I got to learn a lot and I was happy with my talk. I liked how everyone in my group asked really good questions and gave nice compliments. One thing I learned about note-taking is to not plagiarize. When it comes to taking notes is that you should read in chunks. I used to write something down as soon as I read something important, but now I read in chunks then write. One thing that is still challenging for me about note taking is to not write in complete sentences.
This is a alligator snapping turtle, and they have a pink thing in it’s mouth that wiggles around to look like a worm. It was so disgusting!
I like my font because it is fuzzy. I like fuzzy things. This font was my fourth idea. It took a long time to just get a good idea for a font. My theme is that all of them have to be fuzzy. My font is called Fuzz-spikes. I am proud of my font.
My favorite rider, Trey Canard, got hurt and he is currently not riding. I was watching the day it happened, and I was so sad! He is my favorite rider and I really like him. I think he hurt his shoulder and his leg. Canard’s bike fell on top of the other rider who was in the crash! The other rider was Jake Weimer.
Weimer punctured his left lung, broke his Adam’s apple, got a tear in his vocal cord, got a concussion, got a large gash in his chin, and he had a broken humerus! I think Weimer got the worst of it.
When it happened I hoped both of them would be ok! I really liked what we were having for dinner, but after the crash I was so sad I didn’t really want it anymore. I was really sad because I was going to my first Supercross race soon, and I had even made a rooting sign for him too. So I had to find a new favorite player until Canard could come back.
I started to like Eli Tomac, and now I am rooting for him. Trey got hurt last season at the indoors, and soon it will be indoors again. My dad and I both think and hope Canard will be back this season again. I even have a Trey Canard shirt! Weimer got more hurt and he will definitely not be back yet.
My dad and I went online to see if Canard was going to come back, but we found nothing. I wrote a letter to him, and I just mailed it. He lives in Oklahoma, so it will probably take a while to get to him. He is the kind of guy who would probably write back. I am so excited to hear back from him! I can not wait to watch the next Supercross season! I went to the Supercross race last year wearing my Trey Canard shirt, even though I knew he would not be riding. But it turned out he was there to watch the race anyway! I really hope he will be back!
This is my personal narrative. I chose this because I feel like I worked really hard on it, because I took a long time on it. A challenge was to write 2 pages on just one sentence we were adding onto. The reason we had to do that is to add more detail to make our writing better. The Learning Habit I focused on for this piece is perseverance, because when I needed to add a whole other page, I felt like giving up but I pushed through it. I am really proud of this piece.
I am proud that I was able to find an answer on problem 1 because I thought it would be really hard. I was challenged by the second problem because it is hard to do long division for me. I enjoy doing long division but I find it a little hard. I was surprised that I got a answer for number 1 on my second try. I would like to read over and check my work more. Like on problem 1 I got an answer but I wrote the wrong number in the answer slot.
This is a project that we did in science. We had to make working models of The Big Bang. An accuracy of our project is that The Big Bang was random, and when we popped the balloon, it was random. But we could never get it exactly like The Big Bang. An in-accuracy is that our Big Bang made sound, but there is no sound in space, so The Big Bang made no sound whatsoever.
I wished I worked harder on this piece of work.
I think I could explain this more because I just kind of rushed through it to get it done. I think I would have labeld my work. Especially on problems 2 and 3. I would have labeled what the boxes are on #2. I would also explain how I got my answers. I did what the question asked me but I wish I explained how I did my work. Now that I am looking back at this now, I do not even know what I really did. I wish I worked harder on this piece of work. Now I would use an arry, instead of skip counting to show how I did problem #3 because it would be a lot clearer. On number two I would label what the circles were. I would say they are yo yo’s and the boxes are just groups. I think it would be much clearer.
I am proud of this.
I am proud of this because I worked hard on the sentence/description of the first way I solved it. I am very proud of explaining how I did my work. I am proud of this because I usually have a hard time explaining what is in my head and thinking. I am also proud about how I have grown on my skills of the U.S. algorithm. I am very proud of this piece of work.
This is part of the end of the year fourth grade art project. It is a gift to the school because we are going off to the middle school. I got to write the 2014-15 Fourth Grade.
These are some book reviews I would like to share.
Clover Twig and the Magical Cottage is my favorite because we got to do the project of making your own kind of book review. I also liked it because my writing turned out a lot better.
Liar and Spy is another review I would like to share because I did not only love the book, but the review I made was very descriptive.