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5th Grade, Science, Writing

Rube Goldberg 3

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Designing the Rube Goldberg machine was pretty fun. The process of what me and Tate did was that every Tuesday and thursday I would go up to his house we would work it was so hard to get the eight steps. I think that it was only really hard because we did not want to over use any item. We could not really like of much items that would fall under the category of old toys we used to play with and we used every one as much as possible without using it to much. Again the hardest part was to get eight or more steps but the second hardest part was to brainstorm materials that we could use that are not crazy.

To help us (my teacher) Mrs.Cooper gave the class this sheet that had all these links of cool Rube Goldberg machines. The most helpful one was definitely the Sprice one. It’s about this 19 year old boy who went on America’s Got Talent (TV show) and did this cool Rube Goldberg machine. Here is the link if you are interested:

5th Grade, Science, Writing

Rube Goldberg 2

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Working with Rube Goldberg machines you will learn about how me and Tate are doing together. Are we working good or bad is one question you might be asking? I think that we are working good because we always find time to get together and work. From example every tuesday and thursday I go over to his house and we work. I also think we work good together because we are friends and when we do Rube Goldberg that means we get to hang out so we try to do that a lot.

There were a lot of challenging parts but I think that planning was really hard. At first me and Tate were just throwing ideas out there and brainstorming but once we wrote it down and looked at it, it did not make sense at all. So we re did it and it was really hard to get eight steps which was the requirement but once we got eight steps we could not think of anything else. I think that by working together we have two times the brain power and we go to the same camp and we both did Rube Goldberg their so we have experience.

 

5th Grade, Science, Writing

Rube Goldberg 1

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This year in 5th grade Mrs.Cooper’s class is doing a project called the rube goldberg machine. A rube goldberg machine is a machine that is made to do a simple thing using chain reactions. Like say you can hit a ball that hits dominos that hits a car that goes down a ramp and it gets so much momentum that it hits a soccer ball into a net thats a rube goldberg machine.

You could work with a partner or by yourself. I worked with my friend Tate. We decided to work at his house because his house has more space there. In our rube goldberg machine we used materials like balls, a tube, some hot wheels cars and tracks, marbols a hockey puck and a dorito. There are a lot of decisions we had to make before the plan was done. We had to decide if we should use items that you find around the house or it could be toys that we used to play with or even whatever we want and we buy what we need. (We did the old toys one because it’s cool to use something that not everyone would think of like a race car or some car tracks. That’s about my experience with decision making.

 

4th Grade, Writing

4th Grade Reflection

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In 4th grade I did many things. For example some projects that we did were colonial times, passion project, extreme weather project, toy theater and ecosystems project. My favorite one was the passion project because you get to pick any topic you want! The topic that I picked is Arctic Animals. I also loved the toy theater because it’s so fun to make the puppets and make the background.  We also did some great read aloud books. For example Book Scavenger and Blood on the River. Book Scavenger is a book about looking for Mr.Griswolds game. And Blood on the River is a book about what live was in colonial times. I really loved Blood on the River because it’s so interesting how the people were treated at that time and how people treated each other. Another read aloud that we did was The Tiger Rising. The Tiger Rising was about Rob the new kid at a new school that meets a girl name Siseten and they become friends.   

In 4th grade had subjects like math, science, reading/writing and social studies. My favorite subject is math. This is because math fun when you get to work with a partner and when you to work in your math folder. I also really like math because of the feeling that you get when you get a really hard question.

4th Grade, Social Studies, Writing

Colonial America Book Reflexion

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I really liked the colonial america book project. But it takes a long pross to do it. For example 1st you have to do so research for 1 week or 1 week and a half, then you have to organise your notes for chapter 1 (All about colonial times) and so you know what you are going to write, then you have to write your 1st draft for your chapter 1, after that you have to organise your notes for chapter 2 (All about Colonial School), then you write your 1st draft for chapter 2,  after that you organize your notes for your chapter 3, then you write a 1st daft for your chapter 3, I know you’re thinking how many times is this kid going to say the same thing well 1 more so just hang in there. Then you write your 1st draft for you chapter 4, now you type it, after you typed at least a good amount of your book then my teacher read it and made some comments, then you have to finish typing, then look for pictures and last you organize it all in your book. It’s a lot of work we had to do (as you can tell) and my teacher wanted it done she said in 5 or 6 weeks. Thats why to finish you can’t talk or you will never finish.

I think that my favorite part of this project is doing the research because in that short part of time all my teacher said was get your book and go research and when you did research you had a lot of independent but for the other ones my teacher kept telling us: you have to do this because _________ or she would say: how you do _____ is ____________ that’s why I liked doing the research the best but I also really liked doing my chapter 3.

I think the most challenging part for me is organising the notes putting them on flashcards and gluing them in to the organiser. This was the most challenging part for me because you had to make a big distigon of what you want to put into your book.

I liked doing my chapter 3 because on my chapter 3 you had cud add a lot more creativity to it. For example on the chapter 3 you get to make up the plut the problem etc. You’ll see that once you read my book and that’s all I need to tell you I hope you read my book and like it very much and I hope you know how much work I put into this project.

I learned about myself as a writer that I never stop until I know it’s perfect. I released this just now because this project is very big and when ever I had the chance to reread it I did.

I learn about myself as a reader is that I’m really interested in colonial america school. If it was not for this project I would never think of even looking at a colonial america book.

If there was 1 thing different I would have done is to get a little more information about school in colonial times. I would do this because I think I could have some more information.

Thank you for reading this summary about my colonial america book I hope you like my book!

3rd Grade, Science, Writing

Plant Observation #3

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Pollination

 

In the past 2 weeks my class pollinated are plants. If you pollinated a plant that means that you carried pollen from your finger onto hopefully onto the stigma which is the sticky part of a plant and when pollen and pollen mikes you get a seed!Knowing that my class found out that when we pollinated the flowers fell off and the stem got thick. Why do you think that happened? Well that happened because the stem is storing the seeds in the stem and the flowers are falling off because the plant already reproduced so it has no more uses.(This is my controlled plant the manipulated plant is totally dead.) Also if you want to pollinate your our plant all you have to do is touch each one of your plants to pollinate them. And there are ether pollinater’s ether than use, bats pollinate, ladybugs pollinate, hummingbirds pollinate, bees pollinate and even butterflies pollinate isn’t it cool how all these animals help the world and we don’t even know?

Manipulated

My groups plant manipulated is doing so bad that we just today threw it out in the trash. I thought why was it doing so bad? Could it be with the notes about it? I looked at the notes and I saw that on 5/19/17 it was ¼ of a inch tall, the soil was dry, 4 leaves and orange sproot but on the 22 all the plants were gone! It’s like someone stole all the plants in that quad (that were we put the plants in it’s called a quad because it has for sides and quad means 4) but someone could not have stolen my groups plants but then how did it get missing? I think the sugar water did it because that did not happen to the controlled plant and my group just gave it water, so it has to be because of the sugar water but why would the sugar water do this to a plant,a plant reproduces on sugar though why would the sugar water kill the plant? It does that because plants don’t reproduce on normal sugar it reproduces on its own sugar called glucose.

 

Controlled

 

My controlled plant is doing great! But the weird thing is that on 5/23/17-5/25/17 there were some brown leaves but why. Well we know that in the fall the leaves change color so we got our solution but it’s not fall so why would the happen? Could it be too much sunlight, because when we get to much sunlight we get tane and that’s close to brown. But plants can’t get too much sunlight so why would some of the leaves be brown? I found out that in leaves there’s something called chlorophyll with gives the plants leaves the color green. And when it gets cold the chlorophyll runs out and so brown yellow and orange are the real colors of a plant.   

 

Prediction

 

My 1st prediction about my plant is that more leaves would fall off because I already pollinated our groups controlled plant and because I used to have 24 leaves but now I have 5 leaves left. My 2nd prediction is that the stem will get thicker because the plant is going to make more seeds if not already done. My 3rd prediction is that my plant is going to grow even more if we replant the plant because it’s a brand new fresh seed and because the plant was doing good and it is healthy. My 4th and last prediction is that my I think plant will start having wet soil because it has been happening for the past 3 days.   

This is my manipulated plant.
This is my manipulated plant.

 

3rd Grade, Writing

My Expert Book Reflection

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My teacher Mrs. Mangan told my class to write an expert book . I thought I would do mine on hockey, but I did mine on the Brazil soccer team because I did the starting of unit one on hockey so I wanted to switch it up. And it’s easer said than done. There were lot’s of hard part’s of writing an expert book. For example chapters were hard and the hardest chapter were:

  • All The World Cups Won [For Brazil.]
  • Into
  • Top 5 Players Chapter

So if you won’t to learn about the Brazil soccer team read my book!