First Week of 5th Grade

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Do you know that two-thirds of people like school? Well, the first week of school is the best week for even people who don’t like school! Today I am going to tell you about what I enjoyed during the first week of school and also what I am looking forward to. If you want to know about my first week of school then keep reading my blog post!

Two things I enjoyed during the first week of school were the Index Card Challenge and making locker signs. The Index Card Challenge was about working together to make a tall structure with only 100 index cards. We also estimated the height that the index cards would reach. I liked it because we had to work together and figure out how to make a tall structure that matched the height that we thought it would reach! We had to look at someone else’s index card tower to get ideas because we were struggling. I also enjoyed making locker signs. You can design them in any way you like, and then get to put it on your locker for you to see any time you open your locker! I liked seeing what other people had made and I was able to grow ideas of what I should put on my locker sign (I didn’t use anyone’s ideas).  It was nice to see my work getting hung up on my locker so I can always be able to see it when I need to grab something from my locker.

Two things I am looking forward to are the field trips and fantasy book clubs. I am looking forward to the field trips because there is one where we get to go on a rope course called Bedford Rope Course that sounds super fun! I am looking forward to it because I saw pictures of last year’s trip last year and it looked really fun. I am also looking forward to the fantasy book clubs because I like reading and I think it will be fun to read a book in a group! For example, the book I am currently reading is a fantasy book. 

As you can see, I really enjoyed locker signs and the Index Card Challenge and I also enjoyed sharing this with you! Have you ever done fun activities in the first week of school? Have you ever had something to be looking forward to?

Aisha American Revolution The Stamp Act

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My topic for the AmRev is The Stamp Act. I don’t know a lot about Social Studies, and I could have picked anything. However, I chose The Stamp Act because it was the subject that I knew the least about, and I wanted to learn more about it. I could have made a good guess for what The French and Indian War was about, and a lot of what the other topics were about. I learned more by choosing the Stamp Act, which is why I chose it. I am presenting through a movie because I am not good at memorizing things. A movie looked and sounded a lot better than choosing an Ignite or TedTalk ( In my point of view).

 

The thing that I needed the most support with was both the recording and the pictures. The reason I needed support on the recording was because it was hard to not pause while I was recording, and I still have a little bit of pauses in my movie. The reason I needed help on the pictures was because it was so confusing. I needed to use a Creative Commons License to download things and I had to put them in my WeVideo. Another reason I needed support on pictures is because I used a chromebook for my project. Whenever I went to the Computer Lab, I had to use a Mac. Then I had to press different buttons to get an image from Google.

 

My favorite part of this project was when I got to add pictures, because it was both fun and challenging.

 

This project has helped me learn how to collect research because now I know that I need to go to Creative Commons License to get an image from Google. I also know that it is more efficient to find a link to do research then just look up something on Google.

 

I am presenting through a Movie. I am not nervous to present because I will be presenting a Movie. I won’t be talking to a big bunch of people and they will just see my work.

 

Extreme Weather Reflection

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When I originally started working on my weather project, I didn’t want my topic to be on tornadoes. Like everyone else in my class, I wanted to research tsunamis. But eventually I decided that it didn’t really matter about what group I got. I had to rock-paper-scissors someone for my subtopic, which was prevention and safety. But I was nervous as I didn’t have a lot of information on it. 

Researching was way more challenging than I had expected. I only found one website that mentioned safety about tornadoes. I used only one book and one website, but both of them had a lot of information to share. It was fun to research for information, but also very challenging. I found more information on the website than the book. However, they both provided a lot, so I had to be very particular with what I chose to keep. But that wasn’t a struggle for me.   All I had to do was just look at my notes and then type it down. Sure, it took a long time, and it was harder than it seemed to find pictures that supported my work, but it still was still easy. 

I did however, struggle with memorizing all of the information I found, as well as finding the information on my subtopic. Tornadoes are well-known natural disasters, so you might think it was easy to find information, but since my subtopic is prevention and safety, it was super hard to do that.

Memorizing was definitely my biggest struggle! I could never seem to get it right and I thought that I would never fully memorize my slides. I felt sad because the people in my group had three and four slides, meanwhile I struggled with only having two slides. I didn’t speak loud enough when I first rehearsed in front of my class, but it was easily fixed! Rehearsing at home was a lot easier because it was way quieter there. But in the end, I persevered and did a great job! 

Persuasive Writing Process

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My Reflection on the process:

When I made my slideshow about how people should stop smoking, it was really easy for me even though it took more than two months. My slideshow had to be about something I was passionate about, so I chose my topic to be to stop smoking. I decided to write down all the facts I knew about smoking to help me with this project. Making a slideshow about smoking was very easy for me because since smoking is so popular, it makes it easy to gather information. Doing this project was not hard for me. It was actually very fun and exciting for me. When I reviewed my slideshow, I was proud of my work. Some of the pictures were hard to find, but if I couldn’t find any pictures, I just added words to match my speaking. For some of the pictures I couldn’t add, it was also hard to find pictures to match my speaking. I had a template to write the information about smoking stuff that I knew. Then I combined it in my slideshow and the results were amazing. Even though doing this wasn’t hard, making this was still hard work for me. I enjoyed doing this very much!

My Essay on Smoking:

Why We should Stop Smoking

Did you know that smoking one cigarette can take 11 minutes off of your life?  I know you might think ‘Smoking isn’t that bad’ but it is way worse than you think.

I know I am just a kid, but I firmly believe smoking hurts both people that smoke and people that don’t. For example, people who smoke (consumers) don’t know that the harmful air they make by smoking goes into nonsmokers’ bodies which causes them to get really sick. I remember walking around New York City and seeing a lot of people smoking near non-smokers. The nonsmokers started coughing and waving their hands in their face. The nonsmokers were quickly walking away. Also, I saw a lot of people who were coughing and sneezing because of other people smoking. This proves that seeing people smoke is common and many people have seen other people smoke. Another example is that consumers didn’t get an education, so they don’t know how harmful it is for nonsmokers and themselves. Not getting an education is also bad for nonsmokers because they can walk past a consumer many times without knowing what will happen to them.

Second of all, cigarettes are deadly. One example of why is because if you smoke for at least five months the air in your lungs could get contaminated and you could get sick and it could lead to lung cancer. Another example is that it weakens the ozone layer and the ozone layer protects us from global warming. People could die because global warming is bad for us. Also, cigarettes have a toxic mix of over 7,000 chemicals, including more than 70 that can cause cancer. Lastly, because smoking is addictive, once you start smoking you can’t stop smoking. It’s like candy for children. If children eat too much candy they will get sick and they will get a lot of cavities. For smoking, it’s bad if you do it because you’ll get sick but even worse than candy, you’ll die with too much. It’s better for children though because they are aware that it’s bad for you and children don’t feel good after eating too much so they stop so smoking is way worse. My last example for all of this is that people who are consumers forget about how dangerous it is to smoke because smoking is addictive for people so they continue.

Click below to see my video about Smoking:

https://youtu.be/W5ohDVJcXlM

Infographic on Burundi

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I chose to study Burundi because it’s a poor country with not a lot of resources. Burundi had a lot of information I could use. It may have been a random choice, but I wanted to do something that no one else would even think of doing because I wanted my infographic to be extraordinary. Burundi is way more poor than you might think. I know I don’t have exactly a good reason why I chose Burundi for this, but it still was really fun. It may look like it was really easy to make this, but it was way harder than you think! I started this off with a bunch of words, but then I realized an infographic is where you have to explain about your country in mostly words! When I realized that, doing this seemed a lot easier. I had to do a lot of research to do this project even though it may not seem like that. I had to delete most of the words from my infographic because it has to, of course, be made up of mostly words. Doing this was challenging, but I soon got the hang of it.  I had to work on this project for a really long time but it was totally worth it! What I liked about doing this was that it was fun, but still challenging. Doing this was an amazing experience and I put my heart into making this!

My Expert Book: Going to the Zoo

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I wrote this book because it was really fun to write and it was also fun for me in real life! Thinking of what to write was really hard and it was almost impossible for me to think of anything. My favorite part of making the book was adding the cover and adding the pictures on the slideshow because looking for them was fun. I enjoyed it so much. When I was looking for a picture, I noticed one that looked really cool! When I pressed the slideshow, it looked so much cooler and I loved it. I learned lots of facts while making the book which was really fun for me! I had to hurry on finishing the paper book about it because my teacher said that. All I had to do was staple the paper and add the cover until I would be finished. I finally finished my paper book when I had to do another project but that isn’t what I’m talking about! I felt really great when I finished my book because no one would tell me “ Hurry up!” anymore! I was also really happy when I finished because it was exhausting and stressful. I loved my cover of the paper book because it looked so cool and totally awesome! I was happy to make it and making the slideshow was also fun. I did the slideshow part in tech and then wrote the book in my class which I think was easier.

This is my expert book.


Thank you for reading!

Personal Narrative Reflection

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I enjoyed writing personal narrative stories because it was improving my typing skills! It was challenging for me because sometimes I had no idea of what to write about. I chose my story because the story I wrote about was a fun thing that happened to me and I couldn’t think of anything else to write about.

Writing the heart of the story was really easy. Because all I had to do was find the main part of my story and the main part of the story was basically on the cover!

I thought the revision process was amazing because I felt like it was so easy to just rewrite from my draft!

Typing is fun and really exciting for me because I like improving my typing skills and I like challenges.

The Statue Of Liberty

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“Dad is so slow!” I heard my older brother say.I estimated that dad was five feet

Behind us as we were running and were afraid that we would be late. And we were also so sweaty that we were boiling our skin off and I was definitely going to be happy when we were going to be in the boat where the sun would be off are tracks.

When we finally got to the boat I was jumping with joy! It wasn’t even a little bit hot! There were also two floors on the boat! It was kinda hard to go to the  second floor because the boat was moving so we had to hold on to the rails.At the top there was a snack bar! I was so hungry too!             

We could hear the splashing of the sea as the boat went through the water below us.The type of boat could probably be a yacht because it looked so modern! We finally saw The Statue of Liberty! It was so cool but we didn’t really get to go inside it. But it was still fun!

It was really big from up close and lots of people were pounding out of the boat but some people like us stayed on the boat and we didn’t go on Ellis Island[ by the way Ellis island is the island where the Statue Of Liberty is.]  I wondered a lot of questions on the way back home.     On the the way back home we saw jetski people and we waved our hands the signal of hi and the jetski people waved back and it was really fun until we had to get off the boat. I complained to my parents

”I don’t want to leave!” but they said

 “We have to give other people a chance!” and I  asked my mom and dad “Can we at least go to jetski here one day!?” and they exclaimed 

“yes.” and I happily went off the boat but as we got off the boat we saw a huge surprise!   We saw cone’s and lots of people were surrounding and then we saw someone going in the cone’s and then they said in a microphone ‘

“Why are you so far away from the cone’s!? Come closer!” And then they picked some volunteers and guess what!? My BROTHER was a volunteer! I was so happy for him! And some hooligan people were the host who backflipped surprisingly over my brother! And at at the end we got ice cream BUT I saw another ice cream truck that sold that looked so much more delicious and tempting and looked way better then the other ice cream that I just ate :[  and I just did a sad emoji because my mom said that I couldn’t get another ice cream but my dad said I could and when my mom said I couldn’t my dad automatically listen to my mom. But my dad explained

 “Maybe we can come here again to get ice cream.” and of course after school started we actually could go because there are tickets there and the ride is like two hours.That day was probably the BEST DAY EVER!!! And it was a day I will never forget. Now I’m going to relax my hands. Wait, no, never mind.The end!!