Month: January 2020

Okay, so this week we presented all of our hard work that we had done for the Renaissance! We showed what we have been doing for the past couple of weeks to all the other grades and teachers. I think that the other grades really liked the fair. I was very proud of the things that I had finished and I was also proud of all the other students for finishing the jobs, too.

The other thing my class had finished this week was our BIOMES!! FINALLY!!! I am really, really proud of the model I had made of the Temperate Deciduous Forest! I had worked on it one day over break (like the whole day) and I worked really hard. I especially like the smiling little goldfish in the middle of the little pond. I also am proud of my WIX website that I did, but I think that I should have read it over one more time before I presented it (ha ha). Now that we have finished our biomes, I am excited to see what we are going to learn about next in class.

Do dogs get cold in the winter?

How do you say “kayak” in sign language?

How do you say “snow day” in Italian?

 

 

 

The last 2 weeks of school have been a lot of fun. We were doing multi-age for 2 weeks which means that 5-8 grade kids got mixed up and was put into “virtual grades”. I was in virtual 8th grade, though on regular weeks, I am in 6th grade. This year the theme was the Renaissance, which was from the  1400s through the 1600s. In my virtual class I had Naomi, David, Maddie, Ellie, Brody, Lucy, Alex, and myself. I didn’t like that we had winter break in the middle of the multi-age unit because I missed the friends I didn’t get to see during break. I loved making the castle  in math class because we needed to think hard about the materials that we were going to use, and we had to measure lots of things to get it correct, my team had lots of fun. I also had fun making letters in French class. In French, we chose a person from a royal family and learned a lot about them. When we learned enough, we wrote a letter to whomever we wanted, and I chose to write to Lucy , who was Katherine Grey. I was Mary Grey and Lucy was my “sister”. Once we wrote the letter, we printed it out, stained it with tea, and then burned the edges of it to make it look really old. We also put a wax stamp on it and rolled it up with string.

Last week we took a field trip. We went to 3 Swords Fencing, which was a lot of fun. I thought it wasn’t going to be fun because it was first thing in the morning, but we played a game kind of like Fox-Tails and that woke me up. Learning about fencing was very interesting because I didn’t know so much history was behind it. Fencing is so much fun! I would do that field trip again. Thank you for bringing us there Shane and Coach!

-How many people in traverse City Fence?

-who created the word purple?

-Did Leonardo da Vinci like bananas?