Category Archives: Writing

NBA Happenings Podcast

This is my second podcast I did it with my friend Max and the podcast is about the teams that are in playoff position and who the hottest players and teams are in the NBA. The research that I did for this podcast was pretty simple all I had to do was find the record of the top 8 teams in the Eastern and Western conference.

This is my podcast:

Panyee FC Essay

I wrote about kids that live in Thailand and want to form a soccer team.

A Legacy Begins In Koh Panyee

By Andrew

Youth soccer teams have soccer fields right? The boys in Panyee FC didn’t because they live on a floating village with not a lot of space. The boys watched soccer on T.V. but they had never played it. One day one of the boys decided they should start their own team. Their hard work lead them to becoming a real team.

The Pangha Cup helped the boys become a real team, because when they reached the competition they realized how well their skills had developed. The text states “our skills had developed nicely on the wooden pitch.” When the first game started, one of the players said “once we got going we realized we were better than we thought.” Another example is the boys practiced on small goals, because they built it, and it’s the only goal they could make. In the Pangha Cup, they realized the goals were bigger than theirs, and that made it easier for them, because their goals were smaller so their aim had to be better. One more example is that they took of their shoes during the semifinal game because it was raining cats and dogs and the boys were used to playing barefoot on a wet slippery surface.

The Pangha Cup helped the boys become a real team, because the villagers started a “fan club” without the boys knowing about it. For example in the beginning of the text one villager kept trying to bring the boys down by saying “Look around you. Look where you live.” He also said “you won’t become champions on that thing.” He later started supporting the kids because he realized how hard they worked. He also gave the boys uniforms that the whole village pitched in to get. Another example is they showed support for the boys and even went to the mainland to watch their games and cheer them on. In the video it showed the fans cheering them on when they were taking the boat to the mainland. At the end of the semifinal game one villager said “be proud of yourselves.”

The Pangha Cup helped the boys become a real team because they created a legacy of soccer in their village. For example in the text it says “soccer is the villages number one pastime” the village made a new, big and flat soccer pitch that the whole village can use and the original players taught the other villagers how to play soccer. Another example is in the text it says “they were the Southern Thailand’s Youth Champions in 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010. Also, at the end of the video it shows the the original players when they are older and that they still played soccer.

The boys in Panyee FC taught me that you can do anything you want to do if you work hard. The boys also taught me to not let the doubters bring you down and stay determined.

 

Here’s the link to watch the Panyee FC video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4r8Tg93oDs

Sharks and Whales Podcast

This is the my very first podcast as well as the very first Kurious Kids podcast. I did this podcast with Max, Eli and Cy. To make this podcast was harder then I thought it would be because you had to listen to it multiple times and we had to cut out the mistakes and after that we sometimes had to rerecord some things. We also had to rehearse many times so had the flow of how the podcast should be read. I personally think that the easiest part was getting the research because we each split up into four categories which are Feeding and teeth, Friend or foe, Is it big or not and giants of the giants and all we had to research on was our own category. 🐳🦈

 

Basketball Tournament In Boston

Basketball Tournament In Boston

By Andrew

 

My basketball team and I went to Boston because we won most of our games during the regular season. All of the teams were from New York, Massachusetts, and Connecticut. Some of the kids on my team didn’t think we would do good because the other teams were from three different states. We played our first game and blew them out, everyone on my team had a very good game everyone was very energized, everyone contributed into our win.

We won the second game too, we played a team that was a little better than us but we beat them by one with six seconds left we only won because we worked together and put in effort.

We played one more game and beat them by fifteen points we played a good game because we had a good night of rest the night before.

After all of the games we played I thought we were like the underdogs because we had won all of our other games but we didn’t think we were going to do good.

We made it to the championship game they had a very athletic player who could shoot from anywhere my team also had a very athletic player, but everyone was having a bad game and no one could guard the very athletic player. For example, we threw lazy passes, took bad shots, our point guards weren’t playing well either they weren’t protecting the ball. Everyone fell apart and no one could think about what they were doing. The other team won by twenty points, but they deserved to win because they just out worked us. In other words they worked harder than we did.

I felt upset that we lost but we did very well, but if we worked harder and if we weren’t so tired we could of won. I also felt very happy because even if we lost in the finals we still made it to the finals and won all of our other games.

4th Grade Reflection

We’re wrapping up the 4th grade year. We did a lot of things in 4th grade. We did different projects like toy theater, units like math and read aloud books.

We did a lot of projects like the curiosity project the curiosity project is when you choose any topic you want (I chose Hurricanes) and you have to write all about it, Toy Theater. Toy theater is when you get assigned a topic the topics are The Stamp Act, The Boston Massacre, The Boston Tea Party, The Midnight Ride and the Declaration Of Independence (I got the Boston Tea Party). Then you have to write the script, draw the puppets and color the backgrounds, Biography project. The biography project is when you choose a person from history (I chose George Washington) and write about them. When you’re done writing you make a stamp about that person, Ecosystem project. the ecosystems project is when you choose an ecosystem the choices are Tundra, Oceans, Temperate Rain Forests, Tropical Rain forest and Deserts. After we chose the ecosystem we had to research all about it then we made a video about it, extreme weather project. The extreme weather project was when you get assigned a topic and you have to research all about it and write a blog post, colonial america project. The colonial america project is when you pick a topic (I chose Blacksmiths) and research all about it. book of the month projects, essays, native american project, land and water projects. Those are most of the projects that I remembered that we did in 4th grade.

We had different read aloud books in 4th grade they were Book Scavenger, The Tiger Rising and Blood On The River.

My favorite subject is math because I like learning all of the different ways of doing math and because it is easy to learn (for me).

My favorite project is the curiosity project because you can choose any topic you want research about it and make a google slideshow about it.

My favorite read aloud was Book Scavenger because it had a lot of action and cliff hangers and because we had to try and solve the mystery ourselves.

Tundra Blog Post

Tundras are important to the world. You might think the tundra is not important but it really is. If the temperature in the tundra increases significantly it will make the water level rise and that can really affect us. So look out for the tundra!

Tundras are located in New Hampshire, Russia, Alaska, Canada, Greenland, Scandinavia, Antarctica, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Europe and Asia

Some of the most important consumers in the tundra are Wolves, Polar Bears, Snowy Owls, Arctic Foxes, Arctic Hares, Seals/Sea Lions, Walruses, Fish, Penguins and Oxen/Musk Oxen. Plus many more!

Some of the most important producers in the tundra are Grass, Lichen, Algae (pronounced al – g – ee), Moss, Pearlwort, Flowers and Bushes. Plus many more!

A decomposer in the tundra is Lichen.

Some predators in the tundra is Wolves, Arctic Foxes, Polar Bears, Birds, Fish and Whales. Plus many more!

Some of the prey in the tundra is Arctic Hares, Lemmings, Caribou, Krill and Fish. Plus many more!

Tundras are unique because tundras are Cold, Snowy and because tundras have no trees.

Some interesting facts about the tundra are the Alaska pipeline in the tundra is 800 miles long and tundras cover around 20% of Earth’s surface.

This is a food web I made about tundras.

Colonial America Book Blog Post

The process of making my Colonial America book was: first I researched all about colonial times. Next I researched all about a blacksmith. After I had enough information on blacksmith I started to organize the information into my subtopics which are the tools that a blacksmith made, what tools the blacksmith used and the steps a blacksmith used to make things. After I organized my information I chose the information I would use in my chapter three. Then I would organize my information on index cards. After that I would start typing my Chapter 1. Then my Chapter 2 Then my Chapter 3. Then I would write the essay for Chapter 4. Then I would Type my Chapter 4 After I typed everything I added pictures.

The most challenging part of making the book was getting enough information so my book wasn’t to short and at the same time not to make it to long. Another part that was challenging for me was getting images because I didn’t have enough images to put in my book so I had to find more.

My favorite part of this book was writing my Chapter 3 because I got to make up my own characters name and what their personalities were like. My second favorite part of the book was researching for the subtopic what the blacksmith made because some of the things blacksmith made me surprised.

What I learned about myself as a reader, writer and a researcher was that I am good at researching and writing it down and then typing because I thought it would take me longer than it did.

If I did this again I would find more pictures than I did on this project because I didn’t have enough so I had to go back and find more pictures.

This is my Colonial America Book:

Week 1 Of Plant Unit

On May 3rd we planted our controlled plant. We had to get the cells and put wicks in the cells then we planted. The controlled one was just like planting a regular plant we did not change anything. So there was just soil, seeds and ferdilizer  So you will just see a normal plant grow. On May 3rd we planted our manipulative plant, but before that we had to set up the cells just like we did before we planted the controlled. A manipulative is when you change one of the thing a regular plant uses to something else an example is to change the soil to coffee grinds. (just like I did.) Then you have to see what will happen. We also recorded what our plant looked like every day. Also we numbered the cells to know which one we were talking about when we recorded it. We have to water the plant every day to keep it healthy. We also put the plant under a light that we pretended was the sun.

My plants after one week

 

Week 2 Of Plant Unit

On monday when I got back to school I looked at my plant. Guess what I saw? I saw that the plants in cells 1,2,3 were drooping and the of the plants color turned to dark green. Then when we watered the plant we did a lot to try to keep it alive. Then the next day they came back to life. Then we realized that some plants were dead and we couldn’t do anything so we just took the dead plants out of the cells. Then the next day all the plants were healthy. All the plants had different heights. Cell 1 has a plant 7cm tall. Cell 2 has a plant that is 5cm tall. Cell 3 has a plant that is 5cm tall and another that is 3cm tall. The manipulated during week 1 and 2 only had the coffee grinds in the cells as the soil and nothing has happened. I don’t think the coffee grinds will even grow myself.

My plants after 2 weeks

 

Ms DeGrazia’s plant the no sunlight is growing but it isn’t really healthy. The leaves are yellow and the stem is white. At the beginning of the week the cells had the plants at the height of 3cm. Then later in the week the plants got taller and taller. The no sunlight has leaves but it doesn’t have flowers blooming like the controlled plant. Overall the plant is doing well.

Ms DeGrazia’s no sunlight plant after 2 weeks