Month: March 2018

Right now I am reading Fish In A Tree by Lynda Mullaly Hunt. The main character is Ally. She is a very smart girl who is very shy. The reason for why she is a trouble maker and she is a trouble maker because when she try’s so hard to not show her secret of dyslexia she gets in trouble because she doesn’t behave normally. dyslexia is a general term for disorders that involve difficulty in learning to read or interpret words, letters, and other symbols, but that do not affect general intelligence. In the book so far Ally has lots of trouble facing this challenge. One example of her facing this challenge is, when she goes to school every day there is a group of bulleys that taunt her and annoy her all day because she can’t read very well. Another problem that she faces with this challenge is, even when she is not in school she can’t understand what she is reading not just a book. A poster, directions for something, labels and more.

In the book they have not told us what exactly Ally does at home alone but from my perspective I would say she is probably at home thinking about all the mean kids who taunted her that day and what she might have gotten in trouble for that day or what school might be like the next day. She might also be thinking about how school would be like if she didn’t have dyslexia. I feel so bad for ally that she has to get introuble just so that nobody will know about her dyslexia secret. I also feel bad for Ally because when going to school feeling like your walking through the doors of horror every day would be super annoying.

In science our class has been working on making water filters. The goal for our water filters is each group is given a bottle of contaminated water and has to try to take the contaminants and the color out of the dirty water. All of the groups have had different ideas and different designs to there filters. Some groups change the design add to the design and eventually try to end with clean drinking water. Some of the materials that groups have used are cotton balls, coffee filters, sand, gravel and mesh. Most groups have discovered that sand and gravel works the best.

Over all the project is to learn more about pollution and how important clean water is for humans. In the project we documented,scetched and brainstormed. There were five different levels for how your filter cleaned the water.

5	4	3	2	1
Nothing happened to the water	Some contaminents came out of the water	Some contaminents came out of the water and some color came out of the water	All contaminents out and mostly all color	All color and contaminents out of the water/clean

Before we started the project of making water filters we read a book called Salila’s Turtle. The book is about a girl who is trying to save a little turtle from polluted water. The girl trys to clean the water and learn about what causes the water to be polluted and a solution. That is what we were trying to  do make a solution to make clean water.

When doing this project together with my group, we started brainstorming and came up with an idea. The idea was to have mesh and then a coffee filter and then at the bottom of the bottle have some sand and gravel. This idea gave us a four and then we made a different idea. Our new idea brought us to a three we did not like that but then we thought to double the filtration. We took our level three water and put it back into a new filter and we came out with a one point five. We were very proud of this so we kept trying double and triple filtration.  

 

On 2/28/18 My partner Om and I finished our immigration stop motion movie. The movie is about the immigrants arriving at Ellis Island and the process they need to go through to become citizens. We worked for about two months on this project making a script, background, characters and other props for the scenes. Other groups in our class worked on different parts of the immigration process and some other facts and differences of back then and now. When working on this project I learned a few different things then just the process of immigration. I learned that 2 percent of the people who got to Ellis Island got sent back to their country because they had disease. I also learned that for some people the process of getting t their final destination like New York City or Manhattan took only an hour because they had no disease or someone was waiting for them. Some people who got to Ellis Island the process took months. This project of working on American immigration was so much fun and exciting to make movies on what we learned. down below is a video of our immigration stop motion movie.