November By: Drew

November was here and a second later it was gone. This month was just one more month of the year!

In this month in math I made a huge accomplishment. I finished my Pre-Algebra course and am now on Algebra 1. On algebra I now have 193 out of 288 topics, and 302 out of 302 in pre-algebra. I worked on Data Analysis and Probability and Arithmetic Readiness. I am working very hard and my goal is to finish algebra by the end of the year!

In readers workshop we just finished up our response log packets. We finished off with character to world, character to character, and character to self. I finished up my book Sent, and I am now reading The Son of Neptune.

In writers workshop we are working on making books. The first three pages are:

1. If I could go anywhere in the world…
2. If I could meet anybody (dead or alive) I would meet…
3. My favorite school memory is…

I am done with the first two.

In Social Studies we learned about Mesopotamia. It is also called the Fertile Crescent. Our test for that unit was to make a skit about the daily life of a child in Mesopotamia. They went to school to learn cuneiform, grew crops to pay taxes, and went to church in the Ziggurat. We recently started our new unit on Ancient India and are making maps of Mohenjo-Daro.

In Science we just wrapped up our Ecology unit. We also did skits in this unit, like social studies. My group did a skit on cooperation, which is when animals work together to do something, like hunting. Other skits were competition, mutualism, parasitism, commensalism, and prey/predator.


So far this year has been getting better and better!