Thursday, September 30, 2010

Our class 1st Math Unit Reflection

We just finished our 1st math unit in 5th grade! I am very proud to say that I learned something new everyday! What square numbers are, how to make a factor tree, and all this amazing new stuff that I didn't know about! I hope that unit 2 will be just as exiting! (And that will be very hard to live up to.) You know 1 month ago I would have been dreading this. But now I can hardly wait!

Monday, September 27, 2010

DO NOT READ THIS IF YOU EVER PLAN TO READ THE BOOK WHERE THE MOUNTAIN MEETS THE MOON!

As I said before "Were the Mountain Meets the Moon" is a great book, with lots of adventure and suspension! It is about a girl named Min Li who goes on a quest to find "Never Ending Mountain" Where she must meet the "Old Man of the Moon" To ask him how he can change her fortune! So far she has met a talking goldfish who gives her directions to Never Ending Mountain, and a dragon who cant fly! The dragon soon becomes her companion in her quest! In my mind the Old Man of the Moon is a frail little old man, with a thin long gray beard and a lot of paper cuts, when he is walking he has a giant book on his back that is as big as himself! When he sits and reads he has a tendency to let nothing distract him! It is just such a great book!

Friday, September 24, 2010

Our Read-Aloud

In my class we have been reading a book called "Where the Mountain Meets the Moon" by Grace Lin, here is a picture of the cover.I wish that I could go on an adventure like Min Li. I recommend this book to  anyone! I think that Min Li is full of courage and anticipation! This is one of the best books I ever read!

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

My Summer

This past summer I went back t Iowa. I was staying with my grandparents for a month and a half. I got to see all my old friends! One week after I got their My Aunt Katrina and her family moved there! (Her, my Uncle Daryl, and her two kids!) One of her kids, (my cousin,) name is Jonah he turned two when I was there! (Best two-year-old's birthday party I have ever been to!) The other one is Ava and she turns four either today or tomorrow! (I can not remember which!) And believe it or not she is the oldest cousin on my mom's side beside me! (On my dad's side I am oldest by 5 years!) Also Katrina is going to have a baby soon!, It is going to be a little girl and they are going to name her Audriea! Thats probably no the correct spelling though! Until next time!
P.S. The picture on the right is of the famous butter cow that they make every year at the famous Iowa State Fair!