Hour of Code

Hour of Code

                                   By Taayan

    Last week,Glenridge elementary had hour of code. It was one of the programs starting all over the world. Before we started, we watched two videos. The first 1 was Barack Obama telling everyone to start coding. The 2 was about a lot of famous people telling us to start coding. One of the people was NBA star,Chris Bosh. Then the coding started.

    First,Ms. Stover told us what games we could play. I started out with flappy bird. But it was taking to long to load. So I switched to light bot. The first few levels were simple. But at level 2-5,it was getting so hard that I almost quit. I finally past. After that came 2-6. I reached there when we had 10 minutes left. After those 10 minutes,I had gotten nothing done in level 2-6. But still it was very fun and I was very proud in myself.

                        

                                    Do you want to code?

   

  

   

Writing: Personal Essays

Personal Essays

by Chanel

  This unit we are doing personal essays.

We could do anything we want like how bad our siblings are and how fast food is bad.

What I did was graffiti and how its bad and

not a good habit.  This is a good way to think of it: you should have a box and bullets and your reason on the bottom and in the box you put your topic.

This could help you with everything you need like how to get farther when you're stuck you can get more reasons so you won't get stuck. Here is the trick, personal narrative is not how about how you went on the best trip ever.

But you're really supposed to do it about things that happens and experiencing not really things you do.

Have you ever did a personal essays if you do what was it about?

PE: Basketball

 Basketball in P.E.

by Biruk

 

    One day, Monday, 8:50 in the morning we were walking in the P.E door when saw 6 basketballs on the ground and the hoops were up too. Right when we saw Basketball shooting we all screamed yay.

    When Mrs Miller said first "we are going to do warm up". 1 minute after that she said we are doing basketball shooting. after that she said " in groups of three". Then we were shooting the games were on the bubble and knock out. I won every game.

Did you win every game or not?

PE: Basketball

Basketball Unit In P.E.

By: Soren         

                                      

In P.E. we are doing a unit on basketball. Today we did basketball games like knock out, on the bubble and pig. It was fun. I won all the games at least twice or more. We played all the games yesterday except they added pig today , but I don't think they should have because knockout and on the bubble are two really fun games and pig is kind of complicated.   

My favorite part in P.E. was when we played on the bubble and the group I was in moved the cone back since we didn't want to shoot from wear the cone was before. My least favorite part was when the ball from other hoops got in are way so we had to stop shooting because we didn't want anyone to trip ,but it didn't happen that much.  

Did you like the P.E. unit ?

Literacy: Kate Klise

Kate Klise                12/17/14

         By:Anette

    Yesterday, Kate Klise came to visit us!Kate Klise is the author of all the 43 Old Cemetery Road books, and her sister, Sarah Klise, illustrates the book series. I find it VERY interesting that they can work together...... me and my brother wouldn't last A DAY. She told us her first story was about a mouse, who loved Cheetos, and he went to all the towns and stole Cheetos, and at the end he had all the cheetos in the world.  Kate was really young, and she had given the book to her other sister as a gift, and she woke up and found it in the trash.  Her first rejection. But it helped her grow.

    One thing she taught us was the story circle. Imagine a clock. The beginning is at 12'o clock, the problem is at 3 o'clock, the journey is 3 o'clock to 7 o'clock, the OH NO( when the problem appears) is at nine, and the AHHA( where they figure out the problem), and the end is at 11. She told us the mountain didn't work because you're saving everything for the middle, but with a circle everything is balanced and nothing is boring. I like this idea, do you?

Literacy: Kate Klise

Kate Klise

               by Jonah

On Monday, December 16 Kate Klise came to visit us.  She is an author who has written lots of books.  In class we read dying to meet you.  It was very good and funny.  Kate Klise showed us many things.  She showed us a bunch of her books.  She even read one.  It was called Stand Straight Ella Kate.  It kind of sounds like it’s about her because the book is called Ella Kate and the author is named Kate Klise, but it’s not about her.

She told us about the circle plot for a story.  It is the main character first.  Then the problem.  Then the journey for a long time.  Then there is the aha moment.  Then the conclusion.  She also told us about her bad haircut story.  All her friends in class had gotten there hair done so for her birthday her dad took her to where he got a haircut and she got a boy haircut.  She was funny.  Did you like Kate Klise?

Math: Algebra

Algebra

By:Aaron

Have you ever overthought something that was easy?

Well I have.It all started on a friday when my teacher said algerbra! That one word stayed in my mind for the rest of the day.I really thought that word was only for the "big kids" so I freaked out.

    The next day I walked to class nervously as algebra was coming my way.I took a deep breath and sat down. The first thing my teacher said to me was please dont be scared of algebra,its really not that hard and you've been doing your whole life!Really  I thought it can't be.She said its just a blank in a equation.Then it got easier and easier and I know now never to over think something again.Algebra is just like anything in life if you try it and work hard you will get it and now love it!