Week #8

Learning Log for Week of October 19th - October 23rd 

My favorite thing this week was finishing my baby cat in sewing....

Homeroom:

This week for homeroom I played on the  BrainPop website.  I played a game called "Shark Fish." It asks you a question like, "When was the great wall of China built?" And then you have to eat words that are the answer to that question.  We also watched a video on fractions.

Math:

This week in Math I I finished my Lesson # 20. It was 3 digit division.  My favorite thing about division is how it's of kind of like decoding the correct answer. The most challenging thing was learning keeping track of the numbers in columns as I was multiplying through all the numbers.

English/Language Arts:

This week through the wardrobe I designed a flag and a coat of arms for my world, "Emma Topia." Here are their meanings:

Flag: I have two different colors in my flag. The silver stands for the glass in my world as well as honor. The turquoise represents the diamonds in my word and symbolizes peace and strength because I want people to feel peace in my world as well as strength and diamonds are one of the strongest minerals. The letters E and T stand for "EmmaTopia." The circle with the diamond in the middle represents unity.

Coat of Arms: The diamond shape of my coat of arms is to represent the diamonds in my world. The blue, diamond block on the left side is representing strength and the silver, glass block on the right side represents peace. I put a motto, that looks like a ribbon, on the bottom to show that this is the world "Emma Topia's" coat of arms. The curving line in the middle of my shield represents honor and the sparks coming from the curving line represent happiness.  The interlocking circles at the top left and right of my shield represent unity in my world.

Flag:

Coat of Arms:

Science:

This week our science experiment was "cleaning pennies." We poured vinegar into a cup and mixed it with some salt until it dissolved and then dropped several dirty pennies into the cup. We watched how the salt was dissolving and how the pennies were getting clean. The dirt or residue that was on the pennies is called copper oxide. We talked about the statue of liberty and how it was a a bronze color originally and how it turned green over time.

Tech:

This week in digital photography I finished my ISO and my white balance project.  ISO is the level of light sensitivity of you camera.  If you set your ISO to a low number your camera is less sensitive to the natural light, if your ISO is high your camera is more sensitive to the surrounding light. White balance is working to get the image to look the most natural, its working with the "color temperature."

Choir:

This week in choir I found out which solo I got. I have solo one on "Silver Bells." I am also in a group with other 5th graders singing a song called, "One Bright Star." I was really happy I got a solo on "Silver Bells" because it is one of my favorite Christmas Songs.

Dance:

This week in dance we did a new stretch called pencha, pounced "pahn-shay." This is an incline stretch, it's where one leg is pushed backwards while the other leg is standing position, lean forward.