Category: Reading

Read Aloud – Reflection on Wish

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Charlie has been making the same secret wish every day since fourth grade. She even has a list of all the ways there are to make the wish, such as cutting off the pointed end of a slice of pie and wishing on it as she takes the last bite. But when she is sent to Blue Ridge Mountains of Colby at the to live with family she barely knows ( her aunt and uncle ), it seems unlikely that her wish will come true. Until she meets Wishbone, a stray dog who she now loves, and Howard, a boy who surprises Charlie with how he acts. Suddenly Charlie is in a serious problem of discovering that what she thought she wanted may not be what she needs at all.
I think her wish is to have 
a family, a true family.

Read Aloud Reflection – Wonder – 2

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This Read Aloud Reflection is the 2nd in a series of posts about the book Wonder.

This is my precept: Friends are Family and Family are Friends

In this Chapter August is going to his next class, English. and when he at English class the kids that gave him a tour were in English Class too. in English class Mr. Brown his teacher wrote down the word “P-R-E-C-E-P-T” on the board. Which means Rules about really important things like safety and Kindness. Mr. Brown has a thing that every month in his class you right the Mr. brown precepts in your notebook and wrote the first precept he said “Choose Kindness over Right.” At lunch he was alone at the table but somebody named Summer came to his table then then one of the people who was sitting at the table she came from told her to come back but she told them to come to August’s table. Then that’s when Summer realized they both had Summer names and then thats when August realized he had a new friend.

Read Aloud Reflection – Wonder – 1

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This Read Aloud Reflection is the 1st in a series of posts about the book Wonder.

 

In this chapter it was August’s first day of school and in his first homeroom there was Jack Will, Julian and Charlotte.His teacher was asking people’s names and when it was August’s turn Julian asked him if Darth Sidious is his favorite character because Darth Sidious has a deformed face and August also has a deformed face.

Maglev Trains Blog Post #1

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A maglev train is a train that levitates and it repels because of the magnets on the train and the tracks. When the same poles face each other they repel. When different poles face each other they attract. In order for a maglev train to work, the same poles have to face each other (north to north or south to south). My group’s idea was to make the track have five ring magnets down the center and two long strip magnets on the sides. On the train we have 8 disc magnets around the edge.

We failed because some magnets were facing north and south on the track but on the bottom of the train the magnets were facing south. So we failed because some attracted and some repelled. We agreed to each take turns testing our idea so now we will try the next idea.

Next time we will be careful to make them all face north with a bar magnet because the bar magnets are labeled. We will know if it is north or south. Now we will try the next idea. The next idea will be three long strip magnets on the track and three smaller strip magnets on the train. I hope it works.

 

This is our first design for our maglev train.