Monday, November 28, 2011

Native American Diorama

   Our Native American dioramas were due a few days ago. We had to choose between several Indian tribes, including the Plains Indians, the North West Coast Indians, the Desert Southwest Indians, and the Eastern Woodland Indians. I chose the Plains Indians because they are the kind of Indians we Americans think of today. I know that’s the kind I think of. A lot of other people did the Plains Indians, but there were a lot of other people who did the other kind of Indians. All the projects I saw were very creative.  One, Daniel’s Southwest Pueblo, I liked even better than mine.  I thought that was interesting because usually if you make something, yours is your favorite. I liked working on my diorama, and it was fun to see all the other projects on display.
--Max


Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Pottery

Last Monday and Tuesday we used Crayola Model Magic to make pottery.  They were supposed to be like what Native Americans might make.  We could do pinch pots or coil pots.  I chose to do a coil pot.  I made a long coil.  Then I made it into a pot.  On Wednesday we got to paint them. Well, the class painted, I went to an appointment.  I painted my pot Monday.  I made yellow stripes, like a tiger, and a sun. They were all very different.  I learned that you could do lots of things with the clay.  I wish I made a lid for mine.
--Samantha

Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Talk Show Book Talk

          On Friday, we got to see a new option for book talks.  It was a talk show format, like Oprah.  Autumn was a hostess interviewing Merissa.  In the second one Natyia was the hostess interviewing Melanie. Mrs. H. video taped their book talk. (The link will appear below when she finishes the editing and adding titles.)
I’m writing my thoughts and opinions about the book review that Merissa and Autumn did on The Healing Spell, along with the one that Natyia and Melanie did on Scary Stories. I thought that they did a really good job for standing up in front of class and telling us about a book. A lot of people get really nervous talking in front of people. I found it more interesting than just reading a book report. All of them told about the plot and who the main characters were.
       After listening to both of their reports, it made me want read the books more. The Healing Spell was sad even though the girl’s mom comes out of the coma. In Scary Stories, it’s about many different scary stories and those are the type of stories I like to read. Thanks for doing the reports Merissa, Autumn, Natyia and Melanie. Great job!

--Matt B., guest blogger                            The Healing Spell Video



Monday, November 7, 2011

Autumn Poetry

We went for a walk outside the other day. We took notes on signs of autumn to use in a poem.  When we were finished we wrote poems.  We also drew pictures using oil pastels. This is my poem.

Autumn
Colored leaves loat
To the ground
As the windy days
grow on and on.
The trees are as
bare as a sheep
without a coat,
as the combines
do their work
combining all
fields and fields,
The leaves falling,
Winter now its growing.

--Krista

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Autumn leaves in oil pastel




Friday, November 4, 2011

Write Your Story Wiki


Yesterday our class did a very exciting online project called a progressive story. We got to add on to a paragraph which had already been written. It was very fun because some of the artists in the class got to even draw pictures with the story. Our writing paragraph was about three kids who go into space and one gets kidnapped by aliens and the other two try to find him and get back home! I was one of the artists, because one I love to draw, and two I thought it would be a really funny drawing to be apart of! Another thing was that if you weren’t drawing you could help Mrs. H. write the paragraph telling what the kids do. So everybody had a great time, and I think lots of classes should be able to have as much fun as we did during our progressive story!



--Jacob M




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Charlie, Ebonie, and Adela crash on Jupiter.
Write Your Story - Story 43  

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Progressive Story

A progressive story is when you start a story and other people finish it. Today, Mrs. Hojnacki’s fifth grade class did progressive stories. We brainstormed a list of topics. Our topics were hunting, sports, kidnapped, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Halloween, spooky stories, and gator wrestling.
I chose gator wrestling. We wrote for 5 minutes.  Then we moved on to the next desk. The next student to sit at the seat read what was on the paper and then they wrote for another five minutes. We switched stories several times. The last writer was the first writer.  They finished the story and added a title.


Writing a progressive story is fun.  You don’t know what is going to happen in the story until you get back to your desk. We are going to do this again.  We are actually writing three of them online with other classes. Mrs. Hojnacki signed up for a Write Your Story.  We are working with three or four other classes on three of the stories.  We will draw progressive pictures to add to our stories.  We are the second or third writer for each story so we don’t get to finish or name any of them.  We like our stories better than the ones we are doing online.


Please check back to see our stories in this blog on Friday and after November 12.


--Gaven