Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Pop Up Books


POP UP BOOKS!
BY BEN AND SOL

The pop up book is an engineering design challenge for trimester two. There are three challenges you can do in the school year, this is number two. You have to do one out of three. 
We can make a book with as little as one page.  You can do any amount you want. There does not have to be any words, color, or a certain theme.
One very simple way to make a pop up book is to first, fold a piece of paper in half. Then you cut a square out of the middle of it. Next, you open up it and you have a square pop out. Finally, you cut something out on a different piece of paper and glue it to the square and you have a pop up book.  There are several different ways to make a pop up book.




Thursday, March 14, 2013

Recorders


Recorders
By: Sebastian & Vikash
Recorders, Recorders
Recorders are like a tiny clarinet that you play.  In 4th grade we start something called recorder karate.  They have a concept of music and karate.  The first belt is white belt, than yellow belt, orange, green, purple, blue, red, brown, black.  Once you get to black you can start doing pink belts, but that doesn’t mean that you have to do pink belts after you finish black belt.  You can start whenever you want. 

Belts for Karate
For each belt you have to master 1 song.  If you mess up it isn’t mastery.  So the practice at home part is the repetition.  Then you go to your music teacher to finish the belt.  Now that is mastery!

School Partitioning
       You get school days to try and master a belt.  If you do not make the belt, you can come after school any day as long as your music teacher is available and try to learn it.  You are supposed to practice at home to get better at the songs. Then try the song at music or your classes testing day.
      
Concert
       Once you do it for about a month you only get one more day to test before you’re stuck with the belts you got.  Then you get ready for the concert.  In the concert we will be doing a mix between singing and doing recorders.  It will be very interesting to do and fun.  There will be some very jumpy songs and some very good canons.   
  

Monday, March 4, 2013

specialists


specialists

Hi! This is Vahini and Genevieve blogging. We are doing this blog about specialists.
         First we are going to talk about MUSIC!!! Right now we are learning and playing the recorders. There are lots of belts to play and lots of belts to go. You could get so far, that you could get a second book!
         Next we are going to talk about ART!!! In fourth grade art, we are making portraits of our classmates. Lately we have been learning about the history of art.
         In gym we have been learning a new unit, basketball. To practice dribbling and making hoops, we have been playing basketball games. Such as lightning and more.
         In media we have been working on our floats, for I love to read month. Plus we have been picking…(DRUMROLL) … “BOOKS”.
This is Genevieve and Vahini saying … “GOODBYE”!!!




Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Hand Fans


Hand Fans


Hi! Internet readers, this is Genevieve and Ritisha blogging here. We are going to be blogging about hand fans.
         In engineering, we are building our own hand fans. If you want to make one you need to have:

-A good airflow
-An on/off switch
-Needs to be under a certain amount of money
-Needs to fit comfortably in your hand

         The tools you might want to use are:

-Battery & motor
-Wires
-Tape/electric tape
-Paper clip/fastener
-Craft sticks
-Hard/ strong paper

         Here are the steps you will need to make the hand fan:

         1.you need to plan, how you’re going to build it.
         2.you need to figure out what your doing
         3.you need to find out how much you’re spending and what your budget is.
         4.you start building
         5.you test it
6.you make it better

Finally You Are Finished!

The buz room




The Buz room


Hi! Internet readers this is Nandana and Vahini blogging. Today we are going to type about 3 stations in the BUZ room. The topic of the BUZ room is engineering.
         The first station of the BUZ room is float your boat. In float your boat you have to make a clay boat, and put it in the water to see how many pennies you can hold before your boat sinks. How many could you hold?
         The second station of the BUZ room is circuit play. What you do there is choose a circuit set and add devices to your structure to make something. Such as a fan and a electric light bulb.
         The last station we will “BUZZ” about is the marble maze! You have to create a structure to let the marble run through the maze, without failing. To make it “BUZZTASTIC”. You might want to add obstacles to your course.
         You might want to do these projects at home. This is Nandana and Vahini buzzing off!!!  

Friday, January 4, 2013

Amazing Marbles


This exploration class is called Amazing Marbles! On the first day we went to all different stations. One was a magnetic marble run. We made marble runs out of blocks and had the regular marble run. There was a challenging one that looked really fun but it turned out to be really hard to put together. We also  had to make a marble run out of tubes and tape. On the second day we made marble runs with pizza boxes and clay.We got to take them home along with a marbles. On the third day we learned how to play the game Marbles. We also got to take home a bag of marbles!
By: Mikala S.

Friday, December 21, 2012

All About Chess

All About Chess!
                                             By: Jibril. A and Atilla. S


Chess is about stratagy and knowledge. Chess is also about knowing what figure to move. All the front pieces are called Pawns and the 2 middle back pieces are called King and Queen. And then the ones next to them are called Bishops. The ones next to those are called Knights. Then next to that is called rooks. On there first move the Pawns can move 2 spaces forward! The King can move only one space.
The Queen can move anywhere it wants and as much as it wants. The Bishop can move diagonal. Knights can move in a L shape. Rooks can move forward, backward, and sideways as many spaces as it wants. Every piece can move backwards except for the Pawns. That's why chess is AWSOME! And you should try it.