Tech-Taters

We are almost done writing our “This I Believe” essay in class. With a maximum amount of words at 500, and the minimum amount of words at 400 we are writing quite a few paragraphs. As the teacher says, the amount of words doesn’t matter it’s the quality that counts. Most of our essays are about the values we believe in. Some values people are writing about include being truthful or being kind, it all depends on what you believe in. Most of us have a story to base on why we believe in something. I can’t wait till we finish our essays. Maybe when we finish our essays we can write more about them.

We are making an ancient China magazine because we’ve researched so much on ancient China. We put all our effort in to it. I bet our parents are going to like it! We also made are own Freddie Jones avatar for the magazine. We also made many ads, a maze and some cartoons for it. One other thing we used as a tool was drop box so everyone could see the photos to put in. We are planning to finish it by February 18th. We are making the magazine on a page document. It looks good but sometimes the computer doesn’t agree with us. Who ever reads the magazine we hope you enjoy it!

Today our class went out in the snow! We weren’t aloud to throw snow balls at each other, but we could throw snow at the walls. We also ate our snacks on the roof. There was so much snow that we could have finished a snow fort. We started building a snow fort but we had limited time so we didn’t get to finish. One of the other amusing things some of us did is eating snow. Also another awesome thing we did is jumping in the snow with all of our body.

Our class had a family share. One thing we did was showed our parents is our memoirs. It was very fancy for us, we used ribbons and expensive paper our parents must have been surprised. We also made Chinese chops and we got to use carving tools. We did have a lot of homework to learn some Chinese characters. We showed funny martial art videos that we made, I wonder what our parents thought of that! Then there is the long lab report we showed from science class.   The lab reports were about plants and were a heavy load of work.  In writing we have been working on memoirs, and most of us only finished and published them yesterday – only just in time! We made covers for them, and shared them with our families. Some of us wrote in narrative form, and others chose to write in poetic form. It was hard but they came out great. Since we are studying ancient China we made shapes with tangrams and we figured out the area depending on the length of the square. We all were given different lengths, so the area of our shapes were different. Our parents tried the tangrams and we showed them our tangram posters. We also showed the math poster video that Ms G. recorded when we presented our polygon project to the class – we each chose different polygons and had to use what we knew about triangles and quadrilaterals to figure out the number of degrees in the polygon. I think now I will skip to the most fun part- we had a 24 game tournament and the kids won 88 to 44! We kids doubled them exactly. It was great sharing our work with our families.