What I learned this year?

By Amanda Ferrara

• I learned how to deal with decimals.

• There is the tenths place, the hundredths place, the thousandths place, and the ten thousandths place.

• In writing I learned how to write similes.

• A simile can have as blank as in it or like in it.

• An example of one is he was as hard as a rock.

• In writing we learned about metaphors too.

• A metaphor does not have like or as blank as in it. It has is in it.

• In reading class, we are learning about point of view and author’s purpose.

• The authors purpose can be to entertain, persuade, inform.

• Point of view is how the author felt about parts of what he/she wrote.

• If you read something that says someone loved dogs, then the author probably wrote about that because they like dogs.

• In Social Studies, we have been learning about the Lenape.

• The Lenape is a Native American tribe.

• There are 2 other tribes called the Munsee and Unami.

• Those tribes would either live in longhouses or wigwams.

• In science we have been learning about circuits.

• There is a short circuit, a series circuit, a parallel circuit, an open circuit, and a closed circuit.

• An open circuit has gaps and breaks.

• A series circuit has two light bulbs in a single path. Either both light bulbs light up or none at all.

• In reading class, we just started reading The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe.

• There are four kids named Lucy, Edmund, Susan, and Peter.

• Lucy is the youngest. However, Edmund is the second youngest.

• Even the first chapter is interesting.

• In math, we learned about fractions.

• You can add or subtract fractions.

• When you add 2 fractions that have the same denominator you leave it the same and add only the top 2 numbers.

• In science, we have learned about magnets.

• A magnet that can turn on and off by current electricity is called an electromagnet.

• There are big magnets and small magnets.

• There are even magnets that you can’t pull off of their platform.

• My opinion is that magnets are very cool.

• In math class, we learned about percent.

• If the fraction was 7 over 10 then the percent would be 70%.

• If the fraction was 70 over 100 the numerator would stay the same so the percent would be 70%.

• If it is a different fraction then it is a different percent.

• In Social Studies, we learned about the French and Indian War.

• Taxes went up when this war started because they needed money to pay for the weapons used during the war.

• The British won The French and Indian War.

• In writing we recently finished our research reports.

• I did Marie Curie. She is very interesting.

• Marie studied Radioactivity and she helped with making medicine.

• She made x-rays too.

• Marie won 2 Nobel Prizes. [cool]

• In writing, we learned about and how to do poems.

• The second and fourth line of a poem should rhyme.

• Your poem can be however long you want but I prefer to have my poems 6 to 8 stanzas.

• In writing we learned about Haiku’s.

• Haiku’s never rhyme.• Haiku’s are 3 lines.• For the syllable

pattern it is 5, 7, 5.• For me Haiku’s are

fun to do. • I did 5 in 1 day.

• The book we have been reading in class is called Mrs.Frisby and the Rats of NIMH.

• It is about a lady widow mouse who’s son has pneumonia. They have to move again so some rats move her house so it does not get run over.

• They move it and Timothy is safe again.

• The Asian Tiger Mosquito is fun to learn about.

• The mosquito fish will eat mosquitoes [larva]. It is the predator of the mosquito.

• Mosquitoes are cool.