Book Buddies

  Every other Wednesday we have book buddies.  We have book buddies with the kindergartners.  For English book buddies we have random partners I think that is good so we can see the levels of how the kindergartners read.  The kid in the picture is Evan this is English book buddies which means they reads to us Evan is a good reader and is reading me a book.

  The reason they read to us in English book buddies since it is better for them so that they can learn  they have a poem sometimes, two or three books and an abc list.  I If they finish all the things that they have to read to us we read to them.  I like book buddies since the kindergartners get to learn and have fun.

If you don't have book buddies would you want it? Why? 





My Side of the Mountain

  So far in my book Sam ran away and is living in the wilderness.  He is learning many things.  He can widdle things like fishhooks.  He hunts deer and made a suit, a door and a blanket out of the fur.  Along the journey he meets a weasel and names him Baron Weasel and he stole a duck falcon at birth out of the tree.

In the book I think that he is not going to go home and he is going to be happy.  I am not definite about my prediction but I still wonder how things are going go for him?  I also want to know why he did so much work to find his grandfathers farm and then left to go live in a hollow tree?

What do you think is going to happen to Sam?Would you not go home?

Eco-column

  In class we have eco-columns as you probably know.  You might also know that my partner is Judah.  We are doing experiments about them and the experiment that we are doing is putting acid rain.  We put in 5 drops of acid rain in one eco-column and 5 drops of plain water in someone else's.  Our hypothesis was that everything in the experimental eco-column would die and everything in the control eco-column would live.  (Our hypothesis was partly right since not only did the things in the experimental eco-column die but the things in the control eco-column die.)  All together I think we did very well.

  What I learned is that the ecosystem is very important and that you shouldn't take things out of there natural environment.  I also learned that it is better if you have a pH level of 6,7 or 8.  Our eco-column is a 6.  If you don't know what a pH level is, it is the level of acidity in whatever it is you are testing.  I will show what the different levels                             
                                            
                                                                            

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  The world is an ecosystem.  An ecosystem is the world itself as in plants are a small part of the ecosystem.  The reason we made eco-columns is because then we can observe the ecosystem up close.  In all I saw many changes but the one that occurred most was that everything was dying.  I wonder why this happened because a pH level of 6 is good for fish and for snails?

Do you know why everything died?

Book Challenge

  In class we have a book challenge.  We have to read 30 books and 18 books we pick have to be a certain genre.  I think that it is really hard for most kids and for me I have troubles with some genres and with others I don't.  Historical fiction is a hard genre for since I don't really get caught in books by that genre.  But I really like books that are realistic fiction like Diary of a Wimpy Kid.

  My favorite book that I have read is the one I am reading right now.  It is called My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George.  It is a classic about a boy that run away and is living in the wilderness with the Baron Weasel and his Frightful.  As you probably know the Baron Weasel is a Weasel but, Frightful is a Duck Hawk that he stole at birth.  I think that it is a good book because I really like adventure which is basically this kids life.

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1st Night

As you know Hannukah had passed and I had a great Hannukah.   On the first night we opened all our presents.  If you wonder why it's because we didn't want to hurt anyone's feelings if they saw the presents we might have hurt their feelings so we opened all the presents.

I think that the 1st night is the best.  I think that the best night is the first not only because we get out of school for a little while but because I have a great time with my family.  A lot of people come in.  My Aunt and cousin came in.  My cousins came for a sort of party from all the down 52nd street a whole 7 blocks.  We rented a movie and had a great dinner.

Who came over from where?

What happened on the first night?

Shopping Spree

  On the day before Hannukah we went on a shopping spree we were getting presents for everyone.  We got fruits and vegetables and got food and ten times the drinks we used to have.  We even got our flu shots.  We left from 10:50ish and came home around 7:25ish.

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I think that it was all worth the long, long time that we took shopping because I had a really great Hannukah.  I hope that you had a really great Hannukah too.

 

How was your Hannukah?

What happened before your Hannukah?