January 24, 2008
by Anna
I could tell today was going to be a good day when Mrs. Dux told me I was roving reporter. Roving reporter is a good way to practice your writing. It gives a chance for kids to write about what they do in a typical day in their own words too.
It was quiet when I walked into the classroom because everyone was
busy taking care of their business like emptying their book bags
and signing the lunch count. I, on the other hand, grabbed my
camera and graphic organizer to help me record what we did in the
day.
Greeting us with a nice warm smile, Mrs. Hudson told us sit down.
We grabbed our folders for L to J and turned our brains on. One of
the words we had in L to J was atom. An atom makes up elements and
contains nucleus and electrons. We finished up checking our
yesterdays assignment and got our next assignment. Yesterday our
assignment was on elements and the atomic symbol. The atomic symbol
is like an abbreviation for an element. For instance, Aluminum’s
symbol is Al. The second letter is always lower case. We got our
assignment and then broke up into groups and made chemical bonds
with clay. One of the chemical bonds was Potassium Fluoride. Using
our book to help us, we had to then present our model and tell its
formula. For Potassium, its formula or atomic symbol for both
Potassium and Fluorine put together was KF.
We got out our reading book for reading; we were going to finish
our story called “Seeing the World His Own Way.” The main character
was blind and used Braille to read. We also read with Braille
because we had a worksheet on it. Braille is a form of writing for
blind people. It uses dots for every letter. Mrs. Hudson had us
learn how to write our name in Braille. But that wasn’t the
challenging part. We switched papers and had to decipher, or figure
out whose name it was. Lucky we did L to J before that so we
already had our brains thinking.
Sparkle is a game to help you practice your spelling words. For
spelling that’s exactly what we did. You stand in a circle and
spell a word. Every student says a letter spelling out the spelling
word chosen by our teacher. If he/she says the wrong letter,
they’re out. You can also get out at the end of the word. At the
end of a word, the student says Sparkle indicating that is the end
of the word. The next person in the circle then is out. If the
student says Sparkle before the word is over, he or she is out.
Whoever is left is the winner. It’s a great way to practice your
spelling words and a fun one!
We were a little gloomy because our recess was going to be outside.
But we didn’t worry that much because lunch came first, and all of
us where hungry! We had the choice of either PBJ or turkey
tetrazzini. For side dishes we had brownies, mashed potatoes and
oranges.
After recess we turned our brains back on and headed for math. Mrs.
Mac taught us about logical reasoning because we were going to do
an assignment on it. In doing logical reasoning you do 4-by-4 word
square and planning and solving. In a 4-by-4 square you get hints
and fill in the 4-by-4 square. But every letter is a part of
another word, so it’s important that you chose the right word. In
planning and solving, you need to figure where something goes with
only a couple hints. For instance: Joe and Amy each have a bike.
One is red and one is green. Amy doesn’t like the color green.
Using logical reasoning you would figure that if Amy doesn’t like
the color green than she wouldn’t have a green bike.
Mrs. Dux took us to music next with Mr. Z. We found a partner, and
we got to dance, but we didn’t know how. So Mr. Z chose to teach us
the Waltz. He taught us the right foot work and where your hands
should be. The waltz began in the 1700s in Europe.
Mrs. Seibolt took us to PE and made us play a challenging game. The
game used concentration, team work, and communication. We were
supposed to put noodles on our hands. The noodles had to be in the
same place every time.
Social studies was really hard because it was a quiz on our next
chapter. Luckily it wasn’t going to be graded. We hadn’t learned
about our next chapter yet but today we got a good preview. We are
going to be heading to Mesoamerica. Meso means in between or in the
middle. So Mesoamerica is located in Central America. The Aztecs
and Maya lived there in past times.
My work here is done and it’s been fun. I got to write about my day
plus, work on my writing skills.
