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?