Owl Bloggers 4

Owl Bloggers 4

By: Pengwen, Pilarcorn, and Honolulu!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

In writing we are finishing up our project on PSAs. Most people have finished their final project and are sharing them with the rest of the class. When they do that we give them feedback and tell them what they could change and what we loved. Other people are just finishing their first draft of the PSA’s. Some are still recording and/or finding images. These PSA’s are due this Friday, So those who are still working on pictures have to step it up a bit.

In math we are finishing up our unit on dividing decimals . we are reviewing the things we forgot over winter break, and then we will the they assesment.  It will have many questions asking us what is 1.8/0.6. We are all very prepared for it. Since the units of multiplying and dividing decimals are our hardest, Ms. Rached is going to allow us to do a retake of the test. And for our report card use the one where we got the highest score.

In reading, we have begun our new unit: nonfiction! We will be writing short books about any topic we want, so Ms Greller can assess us. We have many nonfiction books, and Ms Greller checks out books from the Brooklyn Public library for us.

Owl Bloggers 3

Owl Bloggers 3

By:Pilar the awesomest

In writing we are doing our psa’s(public service announcements.) Different groups have been assigned to different topics, such as smoking, cyberbullying, digital addiction, animal abuse, homelessness etc. We are using the app Splice to create psa’s on all of our topics. We have separated into 8 groups, and each  group has a head writer , A head actor and cinematographer, and a director.  We goON WEBSITES such as Newseala to get information  for our  topics. We all share a ipad,  AND WE USE THIS APP CALLED SPLICE, WHERE WE Find pictures of our topics , then we  record ourselves and add music.

In reading we have just finished our book club books. So now we are working on character posters. Character posters are where we take the main character and draw him or her. But this is no art class, so we also write the characters desires, pressures/struggles, social issues, and many more. Ms. Greller gave books out such as pictures of hollis woods, crash, yolonda’s genius, and others too. Soon after this we  will fill out a survey about our experiences with the book club. Then I believe Ms.Greller will have us use our book clubs again sometime in the year. Now to focus more on our read aloud, we have read a lot, and it has gotten a lot more interesting and given us more debating if either there are elves, or no elves. But Ms.Greller is making sure we are ripping out our hair out because she refuses to read us more. But now finally we have one more chapter to go!!!!!!!!! Thankfully she promised she would would finish afternoon of the elves before  the break.

In math we wrapped up our unit on multiplying  decimals, took the test, and we are now learning how to divide decimals. So far we have covered when you should convert to decimals, or ‘enough to go around’.  We have also learned that we can relate this to multiplying decimals. Since most people’s  grades dropped on the test for multiplying decimals, Ms.Rached is allowing us (after we take the dividing decimals test) to retake both of them. But, if we do get low scores, she will take into account that these two units, are the hardest units we have ever done when she makes our report cards.

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!