Field trip to the County Board of Legislators

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Imagine this “ Your sitting in a courtroom as a legislator and suddenly the clerk says Legislator y/n, yay or nay? You say Yay… The bill passes on to the next step on becoming a bill!” Well this is exactly what happened to me. But I was the clerk! In this blog post you’re going to hear about two things I learned on my field trip to the Westchester County Board of Legislators and two things I enjoyed the most!

Two things I learned about the legislative branch of county government is that there are hundreds, even thousands of bills coming but about only five or something actually get approved. The reason is because the bills need the majority of the legislatures to say yay but usually that doesn’t happen. Another thing I learned is that there have been 8 chairs that have been female! I personally thought that there were going to be fewer! How many did you think there were? The names of the chairwoman were Erika L. Pierce, Margaret A. Cunzio, Nancy E. Barr, Catherine F. Parker, Jewel Williams. Johnson, Emiljana Ulaj, Terry Clements, and Shanae Williams.

I wasn’t a legislator, I was a clerk but, two things I enjoyed about being a clerk was taking attendance and sitting in the front of the room. I enjoyed taking attendance because it was fun going down the list of names saying “Legislator____ “and they’ll say “present!” or something like that. The reason I enjoyed just sitting there is because my desk was at the front of the room and it felt like I was really important when sitting there. I never get picked for this stuff so I was REALLY excited. I also saw the WHOLE courtroom and I could see all the legislators ( my classmates ) really clearly so taking attendance was a bit easier. 

Overall I loved writing this blog post! I hope you enjoyed this blog post just as much as I liked writing this post! I also hope you enjoyed learning two things I learned on my field trip to the Westchester County Board of Legislators and two things I enjoyed the most! If you went on this field trip would you like it? Would you want to be a clerk or a legislator? What would you enjoy the most? And would you want to go on this field trip?

First Week of School

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 It’s the end of the first week of school. You have done so many fun activities! When you get home your mom asks you “What did you do at school this week?” You tell her all the fun things you’ve done. In this blog post I’m going to tell you two fun activities I’ve done in the first week of school. I’m also going to tell you two things I’ve been looking forward to.

Two things that I enjoyed doing the first week of school are the Index Card Challenge and Identity Maps. For the Index Card Challenge we had to use 100 hundred index cards to build the tallest self standing tower or structure in 15 minutes. We also had to keep rebuilding it if it fell down. I really enjoyed this challenge because I think that it was really fun but frustrating when our tower fell and then we found out better ways to build the tower. Identity Maps is when you make sections on a piece of paper and then inside those sections you write something about you. For example what your favorite food is, or what your favorite sports team is, etc… I liked Identity Maps because I think it was a really good and fun way to show people who you are and what you like. I also liked Identity Maps because drawing and coloring in the spaces were really fun but tiring.  

Two things I am looking forward to the volleyball game and capstone this year. The volleyball game is when 5th graders go up against teachers in a match. I’m excited because I love volleyball and if I ever do it professionally I would want to be a libero. A libero is usually a shorter player but taller players can also play this position. They also usually switch on and off the court and they wear a different color jersey then the other players. They mostly receive but sometimes can do other stuff like setting. But most times they don’t because most liberos don’t practice these types of stuff. Capstone is basically a big presentation and you get to pick the topic you want to do. I’m excited for this because I have always wanted to do a presentation about some type of disease but never got the chance because my teacher always picked my topic but now I can since I can pick my own topic.

Overall I loved writing this blog post and I wish I could’ve written more! I hope you have enjoyed reading all about what two fun activities I’ve done in the first week of school and two things I’ve been looking forward to in my blog post. If you ever had the chance to do this, what would you write? What did you do or what are you looking forward to this school year? If you already finished school what did you look forward to?

 

 

Reading The Weather Reflection

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Research

I thought it was going well because I got lots of information about blizzards. I actually got so much information I had to use three pages! Except for all of the information I all got different answers! In conclusion I definitely want to do it again! It was so much fun researching and learning so many things I found out about blizzards!

Notes

Now the notes were a little tiring cause there was so much information and my hand started hurting! I didn’t love doing this because there was a lot of stuff to write but if I had to I would do it again.

Narrative

This one was hard because I couldn’t figure out what information to put in it. At the end I chose the three main types of blizzards and two extras. At the end everything was going smoothly but there was one thing that was not good, my table and I couldn’t focus because we kept going into each other’s slides and kept deleting slides.

Script

My script was way too long so I had to cut out the two extra facts. Except we still couldn’t focus! We would always laugh. Sometimes it would be funny but sometimes it was annoying. I would definitely do it again though.

Rehearsal

I thought rehearsal was really fun! We laughed more than ever!!!!! Except we couldn’t focus, we sometimes got in trouble and when we were memorizing in the hallway we wouldn’t get anywhere but we still ended up with pretty good results. I hope we could do it again because it was fun and I loved practicing with my group.

Presentation

At first I was super nervous when we were waiting for the parents. I was shaking! Then, one by one every group went. Everyone else did so well! After the last group it was my turn. The intro started and I saw all of the parents sitting there looking at us. Then it was my turn. I started talking and I was doing well! Except I almost forgot to say the whole part! After me Thea then Clara then Lucas but I knew my turn wasn’t over. I still had to do the conclusion. Then in a flash it was over. It was an incredible experience. I would definitely do it again.

Collaboration

At first I was unsure with this group, but after I got used to them. There was lots of giggling and fun but we got work done. Except work was laughing and fooling around. Though somehow we would most of the time get it right during rehearsals. It was 100% a great and fun experience. I hope I could do it again!