The first major project was Ignite. We all thought that it was so hard since we never did this before. But we managed to get over it by practicing our parts. Honestly that was probably the hardest project we did in the school year.
The first actual project is I’m a mathematician. It was kind of like getting to know your things and like things you do often. We got to make our own emoji since our teacher really liked them.
Then the self portrait. It was inspired by the book Wonder which we read later in the year. It was the words that describe you.
Animal We Videos was another big project. We got to pick an animal from the world for me it ended up as a Lion. Lions were strong. And male lions are leaders. And that’s why I chose it. We had to do some research and put it all together to put some script together. We had to find images to put it all together and that was basically it for that project.
Writing essays for example personal essays, persuasive essays, Realist Fiction, we did that for about 3 weeks and then had a test about it. If you get the hang of it and the steps of writing it then it’s really not that hard. my personal favorite is always the persuasive essays. I enjoy trying to persuade someone to do something. Realistic Fiction was also pretty fun to do. I like the part where you make up a story but it can happen in real life. Personal essays I don’t really enjoy. Though it can be fun when you are writing something funny that happens to you. In the middle of fourth grade I remember reading a book called Flora and Ulsysess. It has one of the spectacular themes I have read in a book.
The native american slideshow project is one of my favorite projects. We got to pick who are partners were. our group were researching the Algonquins who were a native tribe who lived near New York. After we were finished we had to present it.
Diary Entries were great. My favorite part of them is that you get little teabags that you drag along the paper to make it look old like it was mad in the late 1700s. We also got to make up our own character. You had to include how you got to the new world and what was your job? What life were you having a hard one or easy? These things are things that you had to figure out. I also included my friend’s 1700s name like John Henry which was one of my friends and the fork night which was a ship that we came up with. That was basically it for that project.
Poetry Anthologies were another big project. It was basically smashing all your poems together to make about 20 poems and then add in some new ones. My favorite type of poem was the shape poem. You got to make shapes like a computer in google drawing. This project basically took about 6 weeks to finish. It was one of the longest projects we did. It was painful to type with my hands at one point I knew my hand would fall off. After many revisions and typing I showed it to my teacher and finally I was about to be finished with what would be the hardest longest project I did so far. I was looking forward to the next step of fourth grade.
Making comics was pretty fun and easy. We had to do a paper kind and a book creator type. I enjoyed typing and making the characters on the computer. I thought that the paper kind was fun as well but I think the digital kind was my favorite. Basically we had to make panels for every setting and scene. My favorite part of writing the paper kind is coloring things in. I did it carefully making sure the color was in the shape and not outside. I also enjoyed making characters on both of the kinds of comics. I liked the digital kind better because it’s more accurate. For example if you were supposed to draw it would not be that accurate. But if you use the digital kind then you can just type in a circle and there you get yourself a perfect circle all accurate. I also liked making the background and where the character is. I enjoyed doing both types of background on both comics but I liked the paper kind better. You sometimes can’t find the background you are looking for when on digital but on paper you can draw exactly what you want that you planned to do.
The last project that we had not finished yet is toy theater 2.0. I liked this project so far making puppets and doing the backgrounds my least favorite is saying the script. I find it very hard to read so much. My mouth is dry when I finish and I’m forced to drink water. The details in the puppet were really good. We also finished all the backgrounds. We just started recording in the computer lab yesterday. We did it in one try and today we will head to the computer lab again to learn the next step of the project. I’m looking forward to doing more and 100 percent finishing.
I think I did well by making new friends and going through hard times like when we are in an argument and we can’t figure anything out.
I would like to work on next year to make more new friends but still care about the old ones I made throughout the years. And eventually have better solving skills. Like solving problems with friends or solving problems on a test I think those things are really important to think of next year.
If I could have done something different that I already did that would be participating more positively. That means raising my hand more often. Showing respect. I think I only did that for half of the time. That I can work on.
Specials were kind of like my break from math reading and all those things. I enjoy every special but personally I like PE the best. I like being active and not just sitting at a desk doing nothing. Art is fun, you always get to create things with a paint brush to a pencil. My favorite part about art is that you can do whatever you want on a piece of paper using any material there is. Making something unique from others. Chorus was decent. Not my favorite but not bad. I like standing on the risers looking forward to the seats. Looking at the director as well in the meantime. Music was basically like a chorus but sometimes we get to do things like musical dots and pass the flying pumpkin. Spanish is also one of my favorites. I liked the stars when we earned them. 500 stars and then we get to go outside.
A tree fell on the fourth grade wing and we were forced to stay in a new classroom for the rest of the year. We started making this project in math that included making a new community with area and perimeter.
I liked fourth grade generally and I can’t wait to move on to summer!
