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Text Mapping with Padlet

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Today in school my class used padlet to map out the book What do you do with an Idea. We went over map skills so that we could map out the text sort of like how a person uses a map to find places but through text. My group used the times in the book that were first, second, next, later, finally and the moral of the story. At first my group had first, second and next. But we found that there was to much information to fit into 3 categories. So later and the moral came into play. Continue reading →

Feature Article

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Recently I started writing an article about something that interested me. I chose McDonald’s because I was very interested in their burger packed history, nutrition, their influence from Ray Kroc and the corporation’s rivals. I wrote a seven page article on google drive and fancied the final draft up on google drawing. I used mentor texts from TFKs and other feature articles that were written about Birds, Snakes and Volcanoes to help influence my formatting choices.  With help from my teachers and friends it is finished.

Rocket Launch #2

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Today we launched our rocket for the second time. We realized that our first launch went higher which is very uncommon. Our first launch launched about 3 meters higher and for most groups water and air made their rocket go higher because it added more thrust. That did not work for our group, possibly because we wanted to go with our original design but did not have all the materials so we substituted a sprite bottle with a Poland spring one. We also used a different kind of construction paper to form the nosecone. But overall we kept most of the same design and that was a choice I regret making. My group thought that because our rocket launched the second highest on the first launch we would do good on the second one. We did not think that other groups would take the first launch as a learning experience and create better rockets. 

    A few of Isaac Newton’s laws applied to our launches one of them was the second law and that is more force is needed to move an object with greater mass. That applies because if our rocket was too big and heavy it would not launch as high as a light and small rocket with the same amount of force applied. The next law that applies is the third law it states that with every action there is an equal ad opposite reaction. This applies to our rocketry because when we launched our rocket if 90 psi was not pumped in then there would not be enough force to push out the water in the bottom. Thus would be an action and the rocket not going as high would be a reaction.

10 Facts About You

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1. You are reading this right now

2. You are realizing that that was a stupid fact.

4. You didn’t notice I skipped three.

5. You are checking now

6. You are smiling.

7. You are still reading this even though it is stupid.

9. You didn’t notice I skipped eight.

10. You are checking again and smiling about how you fell for it again.

11. You are enjoying this.

12.You didn’t realize there’s only supposed to be ten facts.

My Rocket Launch

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This is my class’s first rocket launch! We used soda bottles for a rocket body and cardboard for the wings. My groups rocket went the second highest. It took two days full of hard work to build. Our rocket was made up of a one liter sprite bottle that we cut in half and a smart water bottle bottle because it had the same qualities of a soda bottle, we also used a manilla folder cut into a circle for the nosecone.

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Passion Project

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If I had to choose one thing to learn more about it would probably be baseball. I want to learn more about it because I like and play baseball a lot, another reason is that I have been playing baseball since I was very young. One last reason is that I watch a lot of MLB (major league baseball) games. Some people say that baseball is very boring and I don’t disagree with them but while it is boring sometimes I find it fun. I think that anybody could be good at baseball and like it, if they spent time working on their mental game because most of baseball is knowing where to throw the ball or where you have to be. I have grown from when I was four and could not throw the ball to now being very accurate and throwing hard.

Welcome!

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My name is Charlie and welcome to my blog. This will be like my virtual voice where I can say what ever I want. I will mostly be posting things about my assigned school work, but also I will write about what I want to write about and what I think. I have older and a younger sisters, I am the middle child and I am in fifth grade.