Hi! We have been studying classifying in science the past week. In classifying we were learning about invertabrates. So, we had to make a presentation on what we learned about certain animals. Hana, Heriberto, and I got snails and octopuses. Here is our presentation. Enjoy!
Today we had a visit from Mac Barnett. It was the best, it was so fun! We did a lot to prepare for the Mac barnett visit though. We finger knitted and yarn bombed the school, we drew pictures, hung up posters, and did fun activities like 5th grade did comic strips based on his books. The school looks awesome!!!!!!!!! So back to his visit. He was really awesome and funny too. He introduced us to his books and said "That they are true stories" (they aren't true stories). He read two of his books to us, The Skunk (his newest book) and The Brixton Brothers. I really enjoyed it. The funniest thing he did was draw a picture of how books are made. First he drew a big map of the United States (it looked nothing like the US) and showed us where he lived. Next, he told us how long it took him to write his first book, a bunch of changes, 4 drafts. Then he sent it to the editor all the way in New York to edit it. He said that the editor said that his writing was PERFECT and ready to be published,but... you just have to make a few changes and it was sent right back. So, he made a few changes but left some undone cause he was proud of what he did and sent it back. But, the editor didn't agree so they kept sending it back and forth and back and forth and by that time he had about 12 drafts. Finally it was ready to be published, but he needed his illustrator to illistrate. It's a long story but, he couldn't do it because he had to finish illustrating another book and write a novel. After that he did it and it was ready to finally be published. So they did the thing that was the fastest way to print it and....... sent it off to China. Then, he drew a big circle (China) and made the Great Wall of China and the printer that looked a lot the same. Finally it was printed and sent off in a ......... (airplane) boat!!!!! Long story short it took about a year and involed a pirate ship, getting lost, the Burmuded Triangle, a sea monster, and backward book which were finally trned forward. Finally it did get published and turn out to be a great book. At the end before we left we took a big picture with him and gave him Terrible Two high fives. I loved his visit and now I want to read all his books. Ihad so much fun!
The whole fifth grade is going to the Art Muesuem for a feild trip and we wanted to know more about the art we were seeing. So we each picked an artist that showed his art there and did some reaserch on him/her and his/her work. Here is my animoto video on the artist Henri Matisse. Enjoy!
IS MY BIRTHDAY! I will be turning 11 years-old on Saturday!!!!!!!! I am probably going to have a B-Day party at Bulldogs Ceramics. Then I might go to the new movie, Mall Cop 2, w/ some of my friends!!!! It will be really fun. I'm SO Excited!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Some of my family might come down too and help celebrate my birthday!!!!!!! And again I am going to say .......
I AM SO EXCITED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Over the last couple weeks my classmates and I have been learning about things that lead up to The American Revolution.Then we did an inquery project on one of the things that lead up to the American Revolution. Mine is on The Boston Tea Party. Enjoy!
For the past few weeks we have been reading about tooth traditions. My favorite out of however many we read was Indonesia. They throw their tooth backwards over their soulder and try to throw it straight because if they do there tooth will grow in straight. But if they don't and throw it crooked their tooth will grow in crooked. Its very different from the way my family does it. We put our tooth under our pillow and wait for the Tooth Fairy to come take it and in return she gives us money. One time I got a $20 BILL!!!!
I had lots of fun over my Spring Break. most of the week I just hung around at my house and practicing volleyball for State. And on Friday, we headed to a hotel in Cedar Falls for the Big State Volleyball Tournament on Saturday. When we got to the hotel the first thing we had to do was GO SWIMMING! We invited my friend from my volleyball team and her sister over to swim with us. Our moms got us all Sherly Temples and we had them in the hot tub. The next day it was state and we had to get up at 5:00 am to go to the Wellness Center by the UNI Dome. Snd our cousin, Aunt, Uncle and our Grandpa meet us up there. We played 4 pool play games and lost 5 and won 3. We tied for 3rd in our bracket so we had to pay one match to 15 against them. WE WON! So we got into the gold bracket. But, on the first bracket play game we lost, so we were done. My dad thinks we got 9th in the state! I am proud because I played really well and finally got MY OVER HAND SERVE! I hope we get into state next year and do better!
On Animoto my group and I did a video on Maryland for Social Studies. It's a commertial about why you should come and live in Maryland! Here it is. Enjoy! We did an Animoto to show we know our vocab words. I do! Here is the animoto of my vocab words. Enjoy!(; On Saturaday me and my teamed played in our 2nd to last tournament.): We played 3 games and we won all of them! We got 1st place! Luckly we are doing well at the end of our season. On Sunday my brother had a tournament. When we were traveling there I saw my first crash. There was a car driving in front of us and all the sudden it started spinning. It went right in front of us, we were afraid it was going to hit us. But it didn't, it landed in the ditch. My brother won first place in his tournament too. It was a pretty exciting and weird weekend.
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