Category Archives: 5th Grade

Feature Article Blog Post

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Have you ever looked at a newspaper and an article caught your attention? Well, I wrote a feature article! A feature article is kind of like a newspaper. Read on to learn about what I enjoyed and thought was challenging writing and formatting my feature article.

I enjoyed writing my feature article about my camp but I found some parts to be challenging. I enjoyed writing about this topic because I am writing about something I enjoy and know about. Diving a little deeper into my feature article, my favorite part was writing about the activities. It reminded me of being there. At the beginning, finding a topic was challenging for me. It was hard because there weren’t any topics that I new enough about. But then I found A topic I knew a lot about, Trails End Camp!

I enjoyed choosing different layouts on each page for my article. I liked putting in pictures and seeing the final draft. For example, I have a really good picture of a map of my camp. The challenges I found were finding pictures because there were restrictions on what pictures were allowed. My solution was to create my own pictures by taking a photo of my sweatshirt and making one on google drawing.

In this blog post you learned about me both writing and formatting my feature article. Would you want to go through the process of making a feature article?

Satellite Inquiry Project Blog Post

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Have you ever seen a TED Talk? Well I have presented one about artificial satellites. Read this blog post to learn more about a few things in my TED Talk and the steps I used to make my TED Talk.

Two of the things I learned about satellites are their significance and about the first satellite that was ever launched. The significance of satellites is that they help humans with things like communication, weather forecasting, and gps. Scientists also use satellites for things like observing Earth/space and other planets. The second thing I learned was about the first satellite that was ever launched which was the Sputnik 1. The Sputnik 1 was launched on October 4, 1957 and it was launched by the Soviet Union.

During the research process, I learned that it is very difficult to create a TED Talk because there are so many steps that lead up to it.  Searching and taking notes about my topic was difficult because I had to put it in my own words.  It was hard to find information on my topic because there wasn’t a lot of information on my specific question. I found the narrative and the script much easier. The narrative is the notes in a different format. The script is breaking parts of the narrative into sections (slides).

So now you know about my TED Talk about artificial satellites. In my blog, I covered a few facts in my TED Talk and the steps leading up to the presentation. Would you do a TED Talk in the future?

Westchester County Board of Legislators

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Did you know there are seventeen legislators for Westchester county? I didn’t know that until my class took a field trip to the Westchester County Board of Legislators. In this blog post you will hear all about what I learned on this field trip. You will also learn about all the things I enjoyed during the field trip.

Two things I learned from the trip are the steps of how a bill becomes a law in a county and about how legislators discuss and sometimes they disagree. The first step in a bill becoming a law is, it has to go through a committee of legislators, but not all have to attend. Also people from the public can attend the meeting. They go around discusing their opinions to the chairperson (he or she is in charge of the meeting). Then they all vote YAY (yes) or NAY (yes). If the majority vote NAY, then the bill stops there, but if the majority vote YAY, then the bill goes to a full chamber of legislators, clerks, public speakers, and the chairperson. There they go around discusing their opinions to the chairperson again. Then they all vote YAY or NAY again. If the majority vote YAY then the bill becomes a law. If the majority vote NAY it goes back to the committee to improve it. I also learned when legislators don’t agree they try to convince other legislators. Sometimes legislators get convinced when other legislators state their opinions. Sometimes legislators completely disagree with other legislators and they stand by their opinion.

Two things I enjoyed was being a legislator and meeting Legislator Benjamin Boykin. I liked being a legislator because we get to vote on laws. Everybody got to state their opinion/vote on a bill into the real legislator microphones and got to sit in a real legislator chair (inside of the real chamber that the legislators vote in). I liked meeting Benjamin Boykin because he is the real legislator for my district. We got to take a picture with him and he gave each and everyone of us a certificate of merit signed by him and the chairman.

In this blog post, you read about what I learned during this field trip and what I enjoyed during it. I hoped you learned an interesting fact from this post. Would you want to be a legislator for Westchester county?

First Week of Fifth Grade

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You have one hundred index cards in your hand and you and your team are building a tower. Oh-no it is tipping over! Crash! Your tower falls over. You restart. Your tower is getting bigger and bigger. Five, four, three, two, one! Your team wins! This is a description of the Index Card Challenge we have done so far. Read my blog post to learn more about what I have enjoyed so far in fifth grade. You will also learn about what I am looking forward to doing this year.

Two things I enjoyed this past week was Index Card Challenge and the 20×9 challenge. In the Index Card challenge we had one hundred index cards and we had to build a tower in fifteen minutes and at the end whoever had the highest tower won. I liked it because it was challenging to come up with a strategy to build it and my team won. For example all the towers kept falling over and sometimes it was good for us and sometimes it was bad for us. In the 20×9 Challenge you had to come up with an expression to equal twenty and you could only use the number six times. I liked it because you can also use different operations and fractions. For example 88 divided by 8 + 8 + 8/8 = 20.

Two things I am looking forward to are the Halloween Party and Hotdog Field Day. The Halloween Party is just with fifth grade and it is after school there is snacks, drinks, and music. I am excited for this because only fifth graders get to do this so it will be my first time. I also get to hang out with my friends. For example, two years ago my brother went to the party and he loved it. The Hotdog Field Day is a competition between all the classes. You do a bunch of sports/competitions. You also get hotdogs for lunch. I am excited for it because I like competitive sports and it will be fun to win. I also like hotdogs. For example I am on the Scarsdale travel baseball team.

In conclusion, I enjoyed what I did so far in fifth grade, and I am excited for the activities yet to come. In this blog post you learned about some of the things I liked and some things I am looking forward to this year in fifth grade. Are you or were you excited for the fun activities in fifth grade?