June 24, 2016 Today is my last day in elementary school EVER. My mind simply CANNOT wrap around the fact that I am no longer a 5th grader, I won’t be going back to Heathcote on Monday, or after summer vacation, I won’t see my teachers again (though hopefully I’ll have time to visit), and that I […]
Month: June 2016
Capstone Part 7: Capstone Share (My Last Post on Capstone)
June 23, 2016 The Capstone share has finally come and passed! This year we presented in a different way. First off, we presented digitally instead of using trifold boards Secondly, 5th graders could either present live or present a different way Third, live presenters were assigned a place to present Fourth, students had to sign […]
Capstone Part 6: Working on My Final Product
June 15, 2016 My class is officially done with working on our Capstone presentations! 🙂 It was due yesterday, and this blog post is a reflection about my process. I am presenting my research with an Ignite presentation. There were many formats to choose from when we were deciding how to present, such as a TED Talk, an […]
Capstone Part 5: Answering My Main Inquiry Question
June 7, 2016 Yesterday, we completed our research and answered all our sub-questions. Now we have to answer our main inquiry question, which I will do in this blog post, and which is also the whole point of all this research and interview and site visit and making sub-question. I’m glad/nervous/sad. Glad that all this […]
Capstone Part 4: Site Visit
June 1, 2016 I feel like my head is gonna POP with all the information in it! I just got back from my site visit and interview. I learned so much! So the other interviewee I was talking about before, (and if you don’t know who I’m talking about, I suggest you read Capstone Part 3: Interview) I […]
“Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince”
Today my class started our fantasy unit! I started reading “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.” We could write about our book on a blog post, so I decided to do that. So anyway, the main characters so far are; Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, Hermione Granger, Albus Dumbledore, Narcissa and Bellatrix Lestrange, and Severus Snape. Narcissa is […]