Long Walk to Water

I really liked the book Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park . It is about a boy named Salva and a girl named Nya who struggle with survival. Both characters need hope and courage to survive They are in different time periods but, they both struggle with survival. 

The part in the book where the little boy clanged on to Salva when they had to cross the river and then was shot made the biggest impact on me because the little boy was trying to survive and when he clanged onto Salva, he pushed Salva underwater and saved him unintentionally. This leads to the message of the book which is, in times of crisis you must put yourself before others. I think this is the message because many times, people left others behind. For example, when the war first started, Salva was left behind because he was the only kid in the group so the adults left him behind because he would slow them down.

I think that Salva and Nya symbolize a real crisis that happened before, a big war between North and South Sudan. Also the horrible water crisis. Nya had to walk every day to get dirty water for the family.

My overall thoughts for this book are that I have to remember that I have to remember to help myself before others in times of crisis and to not give up when things get hard. 

I recommend this book to everyone because it is full of survival, family, courage and risks.

False Fire

Imagine that you are driving to school and you hear a loud beeping noise. Also your friends and the staff are gathered outside the school. At that time you realize that there is a fire drill. The problem is, the expressions on the staff’s faces show that they don’t know if it is fake. It was September 13 at Heathcote school and the students had no clue if this was a drill. What a welcoming start for school.

Now in perspective of another student Morgan Greco, 5th grader in Mrs. Cooper’s class said, “ We were all scared and confused. The teachers were calling this a drill, but we knew that it was not supposed to be.” Here is another perspective of a student Mia Forray, another 5th grader in Mrs. Cooper’s class said, “ At first I thought that it was a drill until I saw fire trucks and I’m like, aww man, it’s the real thing.” My last perspective that I got is from Charlotte Papir, a fifth grader in Mrs. Cooper’s class said, “ I walked up to school with my mom and my brother and I hear the fire alarm, but when I see the police cars it made me believe more.” Most people had the same scared and confused reaction to this.

It turned out that the fire alarm was not working properly and it was a “False Fire”. It was also a Heathcote scare.

Rise Against Hunger

No more hunger. Act 9:00 in Scarsdale, NY on November 3rd, 5th – 6th graders from the Westchester Reform Temple packed five thousand meals for families in poor areas food. The head person told the volunteers a story on how he went to the Philippines and met a lady who went to bed every night wondering which of her children she was going to feed. The main idea of his story was to show how lucky everyone is without hunger. This food might even go to that family. He said that his mission is to end world hunger by 2030.

No more hunger. In Scarsdale, NY on November 3rd, 5th – 6th graders from the Westchester Reform Temple packed five thousand meals for families in poor areas food. The head person told the volunteers a story on how he went to the Philippines and met a lady who went to bed every night wondering which of her children she was going to feed. The main idea of his story was to show how lucky everyone is without hunger. He said that his mission is to end world hunger by 2030

If you want to end world hunger why don’t you too, volunteer or go to a soup kitchen. There are so many ways to help and why not act now. Don’t you too, want to help the world?

 

The Big Blue

The Big Blue

It is right here

right in front of me

The waves are crashing like big monsters

Then you go deep down

Down into his heart and find good

The coral as colorful as a rainbow

Fish are swarming around me in a hurry

Peppy dolphins are jumping all day

Till the afternoon

Then night

The Big Blue

Technology is …

What makes something technology? I think technology is something that solves a problem. Like a basket helps you carry something.

 

 

 

My object is technology because it helps you. It is also man made. If something is man made and solves a problem it is technology. It is like a better version of just looking with your eyes.

My object helps you see thing closer. Imagine seeing a cool ant, you feel ”Oh” I want to see it closely, that’s when you need a magnifying glass.

My object makes life easier because it is small so you can carry it instead of a huge microscope. If it is small it can have more then one lens so you can see different size objects.

My object improved on a microscope. Microscopes are to big and don’t make any sense to use if you have a small magnifying glass.

 

 

 

Expert Book – Manhattan

My expert book is called Manhattan. I choose this topic because I lived in Manhattan for five years and I want to share about it.

It was hard work to write this because we had to see what we know most about. Then we picked our chapters and wrote our book. Then we went to the computer lab and we went on Google Slides. We typed our books and added photos, captions, maps, labels and fun facts.

I liked adding text features, especially the photos. It was hard choosing your topic because you know so much about different things and you had to choose the thing you knew the most about.

Enjoy my book!