January By: Charlene

Math: in math we are still on unit 5. And by the way it is anything but a review unit! Honestly, once you get the concept, it is super easy again. Unfortunately, I don’t have the concept stuck in my head quite yet. I’m guessing the test is going to be Wednesday the 8th. Then we are going to start working on volume. Grrrr!

Science: in science we are working on energy. We have learned mostly about potential and kinetic energy. Potential energy is when you’re not moving and you are saving up energy. Kinetic energy is when you are moving and using up the potential energy.

Writing: in writing we are still writing MY BOOK. We are not even writing for that anymore. We are drawing pictures for it. I only have 2 pictures left. Also in writing, we are writing something that has never happened to us before. I’m writing a fantasy. My character isn’t myself it’s actually a dog [as of right now anyway]. I have actually tried to get this kind of book done in the past, but I never did. Now that it’s an assignment, I’m pretty sure it’s going to get done.

Reading: In reading my group is Maggie, Elly, Megan and myself. We are reading the book school of fear. At first I didn’t think I’d like the book but, now I’m really starting to like the book. Even though I only read six pages. My favorite part about the book is on every chapter there’s a word that’s some kind of phobia and it even tells what the phobia means!

Social studies: we are done with the china unit. At the end of it we picked out an adjective to describe ourselves. Then we painted in Chinese. My adjective was musical. We now started the mapping unit. I don’t like mapping very much. I used to like it but, when you do it for whole year it’s not as appealing.

Allieds: we finished up tech ed. We are now doing art. We finished our cave paintings and, now we are doing hieroglyphs.