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Stargirl

We are reading Stargirl in class. It’s a pretty good book so far. The way that it is written is very very beautiful. You might think it’s narrated by Stargirl herself but it is actually narrated by a guy named Leo. I think that makes the story a little more interesting then if it was narrated by Stargirl.

However, it is very unlikely. How often do you find a girl who dances with a football at a game? I think this is fiction. It can’t be realistic. I get why the students would think Stargirl was fake. Besides, Leo seems way too scared of Stargirl. I mean, he went running away petrified. That is just wrong. Plane wrong. Also the “Hot Seat” program is very unlikely. How would they get all those things? Why would the teachers say yes? But otherwise the book was good!

Only One You – A Book Review

One you, one world, who’s who?

That’s my six word memoir for this book. Only One You has captured the meaning of when to conform and when to be a non-conformist. This book reminds me of the book Star because of the imaginative view on things. The fish hook page probably helped a lot of kindergartens understand the meaning of the book. Adri, the main character asked his dad what he was talking about one day. The dad gave a beautiful answer. He talked about lots of things, not just one, which was really nice.

Linda made the book really come to life with the illustrations. The stones on the letters, the 3D fish, all of it. But my favorite was the fish hook. Since she was using fish as people, she thought of a problem the might have. A fish hook was a great idea because it’s a real problem fish have! The fish hook might resemble a feeling, or a everyday problem. This book means a lot to me, because I am the one who does not like to follow the current in some things.

This book really makes me appreciate the world and the way it is. It kind of adds on to our fourth grade big topic, sustainability. Sustainability is when you make the world a better place for the next generation. I feel like Linda really tried to put it in the book and still go along with the other things she was talking about, and she did a great job with it. I hope you will read this book someday.

 

Research Projects

                            Our class has been working on researching.  I learned something very important: NOTES! Yes, notes. Why? Okay, so we each had a partner and every partnership had an animal. My animal was the alligator. We got a bunch of books about alligators, and we read them! But we didn’t just read, we took notes, lots of notes. We came up with five subtopics, alligator communication, types of alligators, alligators are good parents, alligator meals and alligator hunting. We studied important vocabulary, not copying and much more. It was hard work researching, but I managed to get all the information down. Then I put it into a Google Slide presentation, in comic book form! Here it is… 

   

 

Our animal book was just practice, because something bigger was coming. My country studies book. We had to choose a country to study. I chose Egypt. We took notes and more notes from some library databases and just facts that I already knew. We took note after note after note. Then I put my information in captions, my side information into speech bubbles (for my character to say), and visual information into pictures. I spent about two weeks to complete it. I worked hard for those weeks and I put a lot of effort into it. I hope you enjoy!