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In Language Arts

I have learned about how to write a proper paragraph. A proper paragraph should have about five to eight complete sentences. A paragraph must be indented. Also a paragraph should be descriptive and should stay on one topic.

I also learned about writing plays a play can be easy to write if you know the right things. Some important things you should know to write plays are: you should stay on the main topic and don’t skip through time, in the beginning of a scene/play you should introduce the main character and the setting.

My Favorite Story or Novel from Language Arts

•One of my favorite stories/novel that I read this year was Akiak because it was about a dog that was on a dog sled team racing the Iditarod dog sled race in Alaska. Akiak got hurt and had to get taken out of the race but she wanted to stay so he ran away from his handlers to come to his musher. His musher was nine miles ahead but Akiak caught up to see his musher win! •Another story I enjoyed was The Parcel Post Kid because a kid wanted to go to her grandmother’s house who lived far away, her family didn’t have a enough money to send her but the kid’s father worked for Parcel Post. The kid’s father shipped her to her grandmother’s house.

Here is a picture of me pretending to read a book for this PPT.

A reading sample taken from Dogzilla by: Dav Pilkey

All at once, the volcano began to tremble. And suddenly, up from the very depths of the earth came the most terrifying creature ever known to mousekind: the dreadful Dogzilla! Immediately, soldiers were sent out to stop the mighty beast. The heroic troops were led by their brave commanding officer, the Big Cheese. “All right, you old fleabag,” squeaked the Big Cheese, “get those paws in the air --- you’re coming with us!”

Without warning, the monstrous mutt breathed her horrible breath onto the mice. “Doggy breath!” screamed the soldiers. “Run for your lives!” “Hey, come back here,” shouted the Big Cheese to his troops. “What are you, men or mice?” “We’re MICE,” they squeaked. “Hmmmm,” said the Big Cheese, “you’re right! … Wait for me!”

In Social Studies

I learned that Michigan had a war about Toledo with Ohio. We lost the war. Toledo belonged to Ohio and Michigan got the Upper Peninsula. It was an interesting war because it was two states in the same country fighting a war with each other.

We studied about the Civil war, Here is a link to my Civil War PowerPoint.

Another faux-to…

In Science

I learned that if one living organism in an ecosystem becomes extinct it could disrupt the whole food chain. Which would be a disaster because if most or just a small part of a food chain is destroyed many helpful creatures may become extinct, and you know all the problems that could cause

We studied Ecosystems. I learned that there are many different ecosystems and each different ecosystem is unique. A ecosystem consists of living and nonliving, terrestrial and aquatic organisms. We live in an very big ecosystem called the Great Lakes ecosystem. We need to take care of it, or else Michigan will be known through out the country as “the dying industrial state, which would be bad.

Me “reading” my science folder

In Mathematics

•I learned methods for multiplication, addition, and subtraction. For multiplication I’m learning lattice, and partial products. For addition I’ve learned partial sums, and traditional. For subtraction I’ve learned traditional, and counting up.

•We studied fractions, angles, number models with parentheses, and geometry. We also studied multiplication, division, addition, and subtraction. I have learned many strategies for those topics and with the help of the strategies I find the topics quite easy.

Me “studying” a math book.

This is a link to my wiki page. Let’s spend some time looking at my favorite work that I did on my own and with the class.

http://seley09.wikis.birmingham.k12.mi.us/Ben

Strengths

One of my strengths is math I am proud of this because I can get my work done faster, I’m sometimes ahead of the class, and I get good grades.

Another of my strengths is spelling I am proud of this because a don’t need to run a spell check many times, I can help people, I can get my spelling homework done faster, and I do good on spelling tests.

I am good at math because I practice almost every day and do my extra packets.

One thing I want to work on…

•I think I can better at using The Traits of Good Writing when I write.

My Goals…

•My academic goal this year was to learn my times table one through twelve.

•So far, I have learned most of the times table one through twelve.

•My personal/character goal this year was to become more organized and to complete and turn in my homework on time. •

•So far, I have become very organized but I still sometimes struggle to complete/turn in my homework on time.

April 22, 2010

Dear Mom,

Thank you for coming to my conference today. I have worked hard this year in all subjects . I hope you enjoyed the PowerPoint. I have many strengths and many challenges. I hope to overcome these challenges and make my strengths stronger. Once again thank you for coming.

Love, Ben