Science: Ramps and Spheres

  Ramps and Spheres

                            By Jean

    In science we are testing force and motion.  We just finished testing pendulums so now we are testing spheres and ramps.  The materials you have are three different size spears. One dig spear, one little spear and, one big spear.  We also had a ramp and a runway. We tapped the ramp and the runway together at the bottom.  We also made sure that the runway was not over any bumps or cracks so it would not mess up our experiment.  We had a graph that had spaces for the three trials and the average.  We had two of those graphs, one for the medium ball at the two mark the four mark and at the size mark.  The second graph was for the big ball the medium ball and the small ball and they all started at the three mark.  

    The marks are on the ramp so we know where to let the ball go but when we do that we can not put pressure on the spear.  We have a measuring tape next to the runway so we can track how long the ball goes in two seconds.  But sometimes it can be really hard to do all this stuff because there might be some dents in the runway or your ball might stop allof a sudden (which happened to me) or you could just have a human airor.

    So now that you have an idea do you, think you would want to do this experiment?

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Literacy: Non-Fiction Reading

Non-fiction Reading

                    By Neha

    This month our class has been working on a non-fiction unit in reading. Non-fiction is about something that is true or really happened. Non-fiction topics vary from sharks to Martin Luther King Jr. We got partners and were asked to select a non-fiction topic that we were both interested in. It was like a book group and we met and talked about what we read  almost every other day.

    There are two different types of non-fiction you could read. The first type of non-fiction you could read is informational. This kind of book has text boxes, pictures, subtitles, glossaries, indexes and table of contents.

The second type is narrative. This time the book is written as a story but still has facts in it about the topic. So I ask you this, what kind of non-fiction do you read?www.flickr.

Social Studies: Explorer Trading Cards

Explorer and Ship  Trading Cards

                By:Izzy

In fifth grade at glenridge we do explorers,ships or past event projects.  During the process of these we work on trading cards  on one side you need to write facts and information that is true about your topic. Yet on the other side it is completely different because you need to draw an illustration of what you're doing and put the name of the drawing on the side or on top of the card.Then when everyone started getting finished our teacher or Mrs.Barnes made a timeline and asked us when our topic made a big change for the world then she hung them hung them on the timeline for the date period when our topic was famous and well know.

When I made my trading card I did a man named Hernando De Soto and he was famous around the time 1500,on mine I said when he was born,when he died,his family and what he did when he went exploring. When I did the illustration part I had a book with me and I copied (or tried but failed to) a picture and used as my inspiration.  When I wrote his name on it I wrote it sideways.  But when everyone in our class finished they all looked really nice all together because everyone work hard on them.

So will you make a trading card soon?

Juggling Jeff

JUGGLING JEFF

by Thomas 

   

    December 12 2014 friday, glenridge had a very awesome hilarious man named Jeff, Juggling Jeff in fact. He does lots of awesome acts but we only got to see him juggle, which wasn't boring at all, in fact it was funny. I don't think anybody would disagree with me.

    My favorite part was at end when he started to juggle toxic waste (aka baby diapers) It was so funny because he started to walk all over the place and everybody started screaming and moving. Would you like to have him come at your school? Im tellin' you he's funny

Math: Algebra

AlGeBrA

                    By:Jimmy

    At the end of 2014, 5th graders had (in my opinion) the best math unit.Algebra! We had many ways of learning/understanding algebra like hands on activities, algebra codes, you name it we did it.

    I personally thought that this was a easy/fun unit because this is not your average, daily problem. In fact, if you think about it, it not a problem at all! Like, say there are x apples. there are 6 more oranges than apples. How many apples and oranges are there in terms of x? You are really only making the number model instead of solving the problem.

            Do you think this would be an easy math                

unit?

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Literacy: 2015 Inventions

2015 Inventions

By: Kate

    As a class, we have been reading about new inventions in 2015 in Time magazine.  The inventions were divided into four sections: the future, for the good, play and technology. I think the “future” section had the best inventions.   

    One of them was a hoverboard which hovers one inch above the ground, only over copper or aluminum. Another one was a 3D printer, which prints edible candy, shoes and a small car. Also, there was wireless electricity so you wouldn’t run out of battery.

    What was your favorite invention?

   

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?