Have you ever done a feature article well I have and I am writing a reflection on my feature article if keep reading I will tell you all about it. I enjoyed writing my introduction the best and the hardest part of writing it was my section called big events. I enjoyed pictures the most on the formatting part and my least favorite part was putting the pictures in the right place so it would fit. Do you want to write a feature article?
My blog post is about my ted talk that was about the white house and the history of it
I learned that the white house has 132 rooms and another thing I learned is that George Washington was the only president not to live in the white house and John Adams was the first
The hardest part was researching because you have to go to every website and make sure that you got all the information on that website. The presentation process was very stressful because you had to memorize the whole thing and I was the first person to go and it was really pressuring but when I finished it felt really good.
Know you know the history of the white house. Have you ever done a presentation
Did you know that 450 million people in the world play basketball? And did you know that art was an Olympic event? I mentioned basketball because it is my favorite part of PE. In this blog, I talk about my 2 favorite specials Art and PE. Also what I did in those specials. I think art is the best special. Here is what I enjoyed in art and what I learned in art . I think art is the best because you are allowed to draw whatever you want and Mr. Bentley is really nice and never yells. I also like art because their projects are fun and if they are hard Mr. Bently will help. A project that was fun was the project where I made a super bowl poster and I had the chiefs and the 49ers . In art I learned how to draw and make a blank piece of l into colorful paper. My favorite project is the one where you draw a logo. I like drawing logos. I drew the Michigan college football team logo and the Ohio college football team logo and then I colored it and I liked it. Another special that I like is PE. Here is some stuff that I enjoyed in PE and what I learned in PE. PE is fun but there are some units they I don’t like and good units like football and basketball but bad ones are jump roping and yoga. If it is a good unit then I like PE but if it is a bad unit I don’t like it because the other things I do in PE are stuff that I don’t like and I don’t want to do them. learn in PE to keep stamina because every time in the beginning of PE we jog for 3 minutes so it teaches us to keep stamina. I enjoy the Basketball and football unit because they are 2 of my favorite sports and you do a contest at the end of each unit for the basketball and football unit and the games are really fun. In conclusion I talked about my 2 favorite specials and what I learned and what I enjoyed. Have you ever done PE or art?
The tower is getting taller and taller then it falls and we have to restart.. 1 minute you have to keep going, 30 seconds. 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, Buzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz it was over. I just described the Index Card Challenge that we did the first week of school. Read my blog post to see what I enjoyed doing so far the first week of school and the things I’m looking forward to doing in fifth grade.
Two things I enjoyed doing the first week are the index card challenge and the identity map. The index challenge had a couple rules. The rules are you have 100 index cards, you have no materials, just index cards. You work in a group of four and you try to make the tallest tower of index cards and you have 15 minutes to do that. I liked the index card challenge because you had to think how to fold it and how to not make the structure fall over. I also liked it because you couldn’t make it too heavy or else it would fall over. My group used a strategy where you fold it then put layers on top but it wasn’t working so we tried a new strategy where you do even more layers and make it thicker and it worked 5 minutes left the teacher shouts 2 minutes 10 seconds 5,4,3,2,1 Buzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz it was over they go to the first grope they say 10 inches they go to the next group 12 inches then they go to my group 13 inches we won! . Another thing I enjoyed the first week is the identity map. I liked the identity map because you could put anything you wanted on it. I put my favorite sports teams, for example, the Eagles, Knicks and the Rangers. Another reason I liked it is you are allowed to put any drawing you want on it. I drew those teams because they are my favorite teams in sports.
Two things I am looking forward to are the hot dog field day and challenge course trip. Field day is a day at the end of the year where you do fun games outside like capture the flag tug-of-war and more. Classes compete against each other to see who is the winner. It is called hot dog field day because for lunch we get hot dogs. I like sports so I am excited. The challenge course trip is a field trip that has challenge courses. The challenge courses are courses that you have to get over obstacles. I’m excited because I’m getting over obstacles and figuring them out.
In summary there are many fun things we did this year and are going to do this year.
Do you think fifth grade is fun
It feels good to be done. I am relieved that my project is over. I enjoyed the pictures because there were a lot of them. They also are fun to add because you are aloud to pick what ever one you want . The most challenging thing was recording because I always mess up. Some advice to future 4th graders is look at the parents.
My topic was how basketball changed over time. I picked this topic because I knew a lot about it. I picked a slideshow because I thought the infographic was too small and I didn’t pick the poster because I like typing. I liked working on my passion Project because I like researching something I like. I wouldn’t change anything because I liked the project.
I picked the We Video because I thought that it was easier to put the pictures in from we video than a Ted talk or a ignite. I also picked it because you an record it as many times as you want so you can’t mess up you could keep going till it is perfect. writing my narrative was easy for me because all I had to do was put my research into a narrative. The first thing I had to do with the script was put each sentence into a box. The script for me was easy but annoying because you had to time yourself for each box and put how long it was. The project was mid There was some good stuff and bad stuff some of the good stuff was typing,researching, and the narrative some bad stuff is putting the pictures, timing each box, and the recording.
When I researched for the declaration of independence I used the sites Ducksters, Fact site, and true Flix. It wasn’t, that hard to find the information that I was looking for. f I went back to the researching phase I would not do anything differently then I did. I would not change anything because I got so much research that I would not need to change anything. I am feeling good going into the next phase of the project because the next phase of the project is trimming myself.
First we had to pick which region and it was easy for me. I knew that I was picking Middle Colonies. Then we had to research the Middle Colonies. I got most of my information from Ducksters and books from the classroom. Then we had to pick if we were going to do a slideshow or an infographic. That part took me a while but I picked the infographic. Then I had to do the research for the infographic. Then I finished my project. It took me about 2 weeks.
My favorite part was typing and my least favorite part was researching. The hardest part for me was researching because it was hard to find the right information that I needed. The easiest part was typing because I am good at it. Overall, I liked this project and I would do it again.
Everyone has felt pressure in their life but the worst type of pressure is when you put it on yourself. What I find most challenging is sports and academics.
For example, when you play a sport like I do you get pressure on yourself. An example is once I was playing flag football and I was the QB (QuarterBack) of my team and all the players rely on you. In the first playoff game I was the starter and the first drive was so pressuring because I didn’t want to throw a pick because I didn’t want to let my team down. So I took some breaths and I got on the field. I feel a lot of pressure when throwing a touchdown because I have to go the whole field without throwing bad passes or picks. Another rule is you get sacked in 4 seconds so you have to throw the ball in 4 seconds or it is a loss of down. That’s not a lot of time! I threw a touchdown!
Another example is once I had a math test and I put so much pressure on myself and I was sweating. I thought I was going to mess up and get a question wrong. And it was really bad because I thought I had to get every single question right, but I should’ve thought that there is no pressure and just do it. However, I got pressured and I got some things wrong.
I realize that people should try to not feel pressure because it could affect how you play a sport or in academics. That’s why pressure is challenging.