When we were studying outer space we wrote a piece of writing inspired by Weeds Find a Way by Cindy Jenson-Elliot. We copy changed her style of writing and made it fit our topic. I hope you like mine!

Constellations find a way to glide over the night sky. They fly like a hovering airplane, soar like a hawk, and rest in the starry sky.

Constellations find a way to blend in, looking like shimmering random dots in the bright night sky.

Constellations find a way to be different. Orion hunting in the sky, Ursa Major hibernating by the moon, and Leo living like a lion.

Constellations find a way to be known, living in the sky with other stars, being used as navigation with trails to great places, and getting seen for so many nights, the sky could be pasted into your head.

Constellations find a way to be pictures in the sky, told in old myths and stories that are carved into the walls of a cave.

When our class visited The New Children’s Museum we decided to write a review when we got back to class. So we took some time to make it the best we could. So here it is. I hope you enjoy it!

The New Children’s Museum Review

The New Children’s Museum is a great and really fun place to go to. Kids can create and play with lots of things. It’s located downtown San Diego and really cool. When you walk in on the left of you is a little tower poking up. If you go down to the bottom floor, you can go in the tower. From a distance, you can see that on one wall there are four letters that spell home. It’s kind of like a mini-kid skyscraper. Inside is a pipe that goes through a floor. You can drop balls through and they land on the floor that’s under! The home tower is made from cool wood you can see from the outside. If you go to the top of the tower, you can see the entrance floor. You almost have a view of the whole museum! On the upper level is something you definitely can’t miss; it’s called The Wonder Sound. It’s my favorite exhibit in the whole museum! The Wonder Sound is part tree house, part undiscovered world with lots of walking, climbing, and crawling spaces! There’s this one room kind of hidden by the other side of The Wonder Sound entrance where you crawl in this dark tight space. Eventually you come out and into this dark small room with spoons hanging on the top, which is really cool to go to. It’s called the spoon room. There’s another room that’s really cool that you should go to in The Wonder Sound called the rope room. If you look up in that room, there’s a bunch of ropes you can climb on. I thought that room was really fun. If you climb to the top, there’s a bunch of rooms you can go into. There’s lot’s of climbing and crawling spaces in those rooms. And of course there are other really cool exhibits. I really think you should come and see these really cool exhibits at the museum. When we went our class had two hours, but you might want to stay longer. So be sure to check this awesome place out and have loads of fun!

Since The New Children’s Museum is such a cool place, I found a painting of a bird and got inspired for this piece of writing:

A vulture swoops down and lands on an oak branch. A chipmunk scurries away from that tree. A leaf gently drifts down onto the soft muddy forest ground. The forest goes wild. The vulture seems to be looking for something. But what? Suddenly he dives off heading straight toward the ground. He sees something. A small snake bitten on the side seems to be going as fast as it can into a hole he made earlier. Safe. The vulture swings back up and lands on the same oak branch. Inside the hole, after a life-threatening moment, the snake sleeps peacefully waiting for the bite to heal. “The vulture has been attacking me all day,” he says to himself. The next day the vulture circles the hole until he’s too tired and lands on a branch near by. But the snake never seems to come out. “He must come out, at least one time. He would need food,” said the vulture. It seems as if the vulture is spying on the hurt snake. But why? He’s just an ordinary snake. The snake creeps out of the hole staying very vigilant in case the vulture comes darting down. Suddenly he speeds back into his hole. The hunters shot him with a dart. It makes him very angry and wild. His next target is me. I don’t know how I’ll get away, he said to himself nervously. Suddenly he had an idea. “A trap. I’ll just trap him then take the dart and he’ll be fine.”
So the next day, when he was fully healed, he set out. The vulture wasn’t there, but the snake was still his next target. The snake’s plan was going to work. “I’ll make a fake snake that looks like me out of leaves, sticks and some mud. Then when he attacks, I’ll drop a net on him made out of leaves and sticks. When he’s trapped I’ll pull out the dart and release him. Then he’ll be fine.” So he built the fake snake of himself. Then built a net and hung it on a hidden tree branch ready to drop. Then it happened. The vulture darted straight into the fake snake and ripped it apart. Then the net came flying from the tree and landed on him. Trapped. The snake slithered down and pulled out the dart. Then he took off the net. The vulture wasn’t deadly any more and said,” Do you want to be my friend?” And the snake said sure. And they were friends forever. They even hunted together.

In Book Clubs we studied an endangered animal and learned about why it’s endangered. We then created a green screen video explaining how to help the animal. And mine’s below. Enjoy!

Our class learned a lot about space and decided to make a comic about a planet (whichever one we chose) in this app called Comic Life. In Comic Life you can make your own comic about what ever you want. You can create your own panels or choose a format, make your own speech bubbles and thought bubbles, put your own pictures in, and much, much more. I chose Saturn because it’s my favorite planet in the solar system. I hope you like my comic and get inspired to make your own!

Every week my teachers put a vocabulary word or hard word on the morning message. Every day of the week we try to figure out what the word means from the sentence. On Friday after we had five hints from the sentences, they reveal the word. We think of a hand motion for it kind of like sign language. So when ever are teachers say the word, we all do the hand motion.(Well are supposed to) (Any word that looks like this are a vocabulary word.)

Zac’s Adventure

One day Brian and his family were exhilarated to get a new kitten. They found a perfect one and named him Zac. Zac was adept at playing with Brian. There were innumerable cat toys Zac liked. Every night he nestled in his lovely bed. And every night he was in a quandary in which bed to sleep in. One day when Zac was exploring outside, he came across a serious predicament. He couldn’t find his way back home. He started walking in one direction with great hope to find his way back home, but came across a vast field of grass. He stayed very vigilant in case Brian came along. Meanwhile, Brian had no idea where Zac was. Brian was scrutinizing the area around his house for Zac. Zac was striving to find Brian but he couldn’t. After two days Zac was still lost. Then Zac found a town but he was contemplating if that was Brian’s town. Suddenly he heard a hasty voice behind him. “Zac, Zac, you’re okay!” For a second Zac couldn’t believe his eyes. It was Him. Brian had found him. The days of being apart have all diminished. When they got home they had tasty cat and human food. And they had a very happy evening and then…they heard a knock on the door. It was a package for Zac. A new soft and comfortable bed for Zac.

Have you ever wanted to make a story on a device? Well you found the right place. Storybird is the website we’re going to use today. So I hope you like it.
In class we made our own stories in storybird. It’s a really fun app and I like to use it. Storybird is a website where you can make your own stories in your imagination. Your can find pictures in two ways. One, you can search something and use the pictures that come up, or find a picture and use what other pictures the artist created. You can type in storybird.com to get to it. Mine is called the owl and his friend. I think I did a really good job on my story.

To get started you choose a picture to put on your cover and give it a title. Then you keep making pages by clicking the plus button. You can put a picture and words in each page. If you want to stop when you’re not finished click the save and exit then click my book isn’t finished yet. Don’t hit publish. Only hit it when you’re done. Now that’s what Storybird is all about. Hope you can make a Storybird story one day!

In school we were learning about the ocean. We got inspired by Paul Fleischman to write some two voice poems. A two voice poem is a poem but there are two speakers in the poem. They were about marine mammals. We read two poems by him. They were fireflies and honeybees. The poems we wrote did have some scientific facts. We typed our own two voice poems in Pages. After typing we were going to record the poems in GarageBand. GarageBand is an app where you can record, make your own songs, play instruments, and more. We each got a partner to work with. It was not the easiest thing to do because when we messed up we had to start over. When we were done it turned out great! The recording is down here.

On Wednesday, April 20th 2016, my class took a interesting field trip to the San Elijo lagoon. When we were to get there half of the class would go east and the other half would go west. When we first got there I was surprised to spot a very white great egret gliding in the distance. When we were walking, I noticed some small flowers that looked leaves. They were a mix of yellow and green. But the ones that haven’t bloomed yet still looked like normal flowers. There was also a spot with dry mud that was all cracky. I thought it was kind of like a beautiful nature art piece. When we were walking I saw something implausible. A bee hive was in a cliff. There was like a hole in the cliff. But I couldn’t see inside where they store the honey from the path. That was pretty interesting to me. I liked a butterfly that was white but at the ends of its wings had black and orange dots. When I looked in the brackish water I couldn’t see anything. Brackish water is a mix of fresh water from the river, and salty water from the ocean. Some people did see some fish jump out of the water, though. It was cool to see crabs in the mud. They were called fiddler crabs. Also it was interesting to see a lizard do push ups. I wonder why?

On our field trip we took field notes. Field notes are like little notes so you can remember what you saw. There’s a picture of my field notes below. The field trip was really fun. I got to see a lot of interesting things on the lagoon field trip.
Maybe you can go to the the lagoon or somewhere where there’s nature and see the great things that nature does.

Hello football fans. Today I want to tell you a little bit about my flag football team. Before we start you should know that my dad is the coach. I bet you’re starting to wonder what team I’m on. That I can answer. The Penn Quakers (Pennsylvania Quakers) is the team that you’ve been wondering about. Since my dad is the coach, he’s the one who makes the plays and the play cards. So he’s the main coach. For different positions he gives us colors like center is green and quarterback is blue and there are more colors. For the play cards he makes them double sided so it’s easier to find in the huddle. On the cards are the positions. We follow the arrow so we know where to run on the field. Unlike pro football, there are only three downs, not four, and no punts. When there are eight players at the game everyone sits once. When there are seven, two players don’t sit. When there are six players no one sits because six players are on the field at a time on each team. Our jerseys are red on the t-shirt and navy blue on the shorts. We are 4-0. That means four wins and zero losses. But next week we play a team that is 5-0. We have to play hard to beat them. The association is FNL (Friday Night Lights). Every game is on Friday, but some are on Thursday. I play quarterback and slot receiver. Last game we beat a team 34-0. Hope it’s a good game!

In my class we are studying fish. So I want to tell you what we learned.
Since fish don’t breath air, they’re not mammals or marine mammals. Inside the the fish is something called a swim bladder. A swim bladder helps the fish go to the surface of the water and to be the bottom of the reef. So when the swim bladder is full of air and not water the fish will rise to the surface. When the fish’s swim bladder is half air and half water the fish will hover. When the swim bladder is full of water the fish will go down near the bottom of the ocean.
There’s also something called a lateral line. A lateral line is a line on the side of the fish that senses movement that’s coming if the fish can’t see it. If a shark is coming and the fish can’t see it the lateral line will sense the shark and swim away.
Another thing we did with fish is we made a art project of our own fish. First we put glue on the outside to make a border. Then we colored it in with pastel. For the water around it we colored two or three layers of pastel.