5th Grade Retreat

First Day

Today we were going for the 5th grade retreat for the 5th grade Exhibition. I was excited! When we got to the Children's Cultural Center Belgrade we were divided into 3 groups and we each had to go to all of the stations 6 of them. We had snack, lunch and recess. The first station we had was Mrs.Tracy's. There we talked about group cooperation and we also played a game called human knot. I enjoyed that station. Then we went to Mrs.J's station there we talked first about our values later about what children in the world face(that is what our exhibition is on). We came up with lots of ideas. I enjoyed this station as well. After that we went to the station where there was 3 Power Points with pictures from different PYP schools around the world and we had to tell what we saw. That was Fun! Then Finally we could get our snack. Then we continued and went to another station. That was Mrs.Suzanne's station. There we brain stormed and looked at the small Q cards Inquiry.  I liked this station! After that we had lunch (pizza) and then recess in the snow. Than we went to another station with Mr.Moran. We talked about topics for the exhibition and about questions on Q cards. Next we went to Mr.Paul who explained where we could find information on the Internet. Then I was quite tired and after that we went back to school.Today was great! 
Second Day

Today we did mostly the same as yesterday; stations and it was very fun.But the most I enjoyed playing cooperation games with Mrs.Ivana. We first played a game when we took a hoop and put out our right hand fingers and then we had to lift the hoop up and then we had to sit in each other lap and after that we were divided into teams and we were blindfolded and we had a captain and we had to go through all the obstacles blind folded and with the captains signals but not talking. I enjoyed that and also when Mr.Paul showed us how we could present information at the Exhibition. That was fun and also Mrs.Suzanne's station where we had to reflect on how we feel about the exhibition. That is the 3 things I enjoyed the most. I think I know wich topic I am doing. After these 2 days!

Overall the retreat was great!!!!:) 

Experiment and Demonstration

What is an Experiment? An experiment is a scientific test in which you first observe, then ask a question, after that state a hypothesis then test it, report and analyze, and finally report your results and draw conclusions. What is a demonstration? A demonstration is when you show something that is already known. A demonstration does not include a hypothesis.

Similarities: They both show or prove something and they both have an important place in  science.

Differences: An experiment has a hypothesis and a demonstration doesn't, an experiment has variables and an demonstration doesn't. An experiment is a creative process while a demonstration is a verification.Demonstrations are not inquiry base while on the other hand and experiment is.An Experiment requires multiple trials and a demonstration can be done only once.A Demonstration does not follow the scientific method and differently an experiment does.

CON-fidence

The book Mrs.J has been reading to us is called CON-fidence.I really liked this book and it was really interesting. It had good word choice and funny but most important of all it has an important message in it: to always beCONFIDENT. Lauren is the main character and she learned a very good lesson in the story. She cared a lot about what other people think about her which is not important at all. At first she did not make any friends but when she was friends with a mean girl called Celeste she never to realise all the bad things that she had done. Celeste said that Lauren stole the school money but she actually stole it herself so then Lauren had to pay out of her own money. Celeste was a very mean girl and she planned all these bad things to happen only so she would become queen of the popular girls. Lauren was not one of the popular girls but that doesn't matter if you are popular or not. I think that in the end Celeste was put down because she tricked everyone so nobody wanted to be with her and Christa(Who was Lauren's Friend before but betrayed her and became queen of the popular girls) and Rob and Tara became friends with Lauren and I am very happy for Lauren. I really enjoyed listening to this wonderful book.

What Did I Learn Today?

I learned how to compare fractions better at math. I learned how to play a song at music.In class we talked about navigation tools. At Literature Circles when we did out book project I learned how to be creative and unique. Also at my music school I learned Komarowsky Concerto, the Campagnoli etude and the Russian Song.At Solofege we learned what is a barcarole.
Overall, I Learned a lot today!!!   

Ice Skating

I am going to a new after school activity: Ice Skating. I never ice skated in my life before I went to this activity. At first the ice was really slippery and bumpy and I was very scared to fall. But then the teacher told us to just try walking and it was much easier. When the activity finished I still wanted to ice skate so then I made my mom take me to the ice skating rink on Saturday.There it was really fun and I learned to ice skate more. Next time at ice skating I knew how to ice skate better and so we went to the other group where the teacher shows us how to do some tricks like turning around, jumping and other hard tricks. Overall it was great!

My Own Experiment!!!

For school we had to come up with our own experiment. First I just thought of an experiment with a magnet so then I decided to experiment if magnet can attract all kinds of metal. So, I took different coins from different kinds of metal: Steel, copper, iron, nickel and gold. My question was will ALL the coins be attracted by the magnet? Then, my hypothesis was that not all the coins will attract to the magnet. After I did my experiment, which was putting the magnet next to each coin and seeing if it will attract, it turned out that my hypothesis was right: not all the coins were attracted to the magnet. The Steel,iron and nickel coins were attracted but the copper and gold were not. I concluded that maybe with a million times bigger magnet you could attract the copper and gold coin because all the objects in the world can be attracted by magnet and one scientist attracted a frog by a very big magnet and he got an award for useless experiments!!! After all I enjoyed making up my experiment and doing it!!!



A frog being attracted by a magnet!!!



Visual Learner

1. Sit close to board
          2.Make sure eye sight is good

 3.Make power points 

 4. Draw pictures

 5. Research+Read

6.Take notes
7.Reread notes
8.Flash Cards
              9.Watch videos, TV,movies
10. Read Subtitles  
11. Draw pictures in head

The Science Experiments

At school we did two experiments. The first one was coin lab. Fist we had to see how many drops of water can fit on a dry coin. I was in a group with Max and Nikola. We had tweezers and some drop squeezers. We put the drop squeezer in water and filled it. Then we dropped it on a coin. Our hypothesis was that 2, 3 or 5 drops of water but it ended up with being up to 160 in our group!!!Also we tried the same thing with a dry coin.

Another experiment that we did was a paper clip experiment. We tested if a paper clip could float on water. For everybody the paper clip sank, but then we tried to put a paper clip on a paper towel and then removed the paper clip with tweezers without interrupting the paper clip and it floated only once in our group out of 5 tries. The last part of the experiment was tried the same thing as the last one but also putting detergent.All our paper clips sank again!

Over all it was fun! I hope we do more experiments!!!