Mentor Meeting 1#

On Thursday was my group's fisrt mentor meeting. Our mentors are: Mr.Kelly, Mrs.Monika and Ms.Milena. We talked about what are orphanages? Can we go to visit one? Making a survey about Q's for the visit. We discuessed that, talked about our lines of inquiry. We had a lot of ideas and so we decided to visit 2 orphanages. On this Thursday and the next one. I have to research and open a survey. Overall I think this was areally fun meeting and we did a lot!!!

Student Lead Conferences

Yesterday,on the 22 of March were the Student Lead Conferences. My turn was at 10:00 A.M. First I showed my parents the math table and explained what we learned in Math. Also we talked about the exhibition. Then after 15 minutes we went to the Reading/Writing table where I explained to my parents what I learned and showed them all my things and I read to them. Then I showed them my portfolio and what I was proud about and what I needed improvement on. Then we talked to Mrs.J about my trimester and Mrs.J said my trimester was wonderful and I deserve an ice cream!
Overall I am happy with the Trimester 2!

Today's Assembly

Today's assembly was by kindergarten and they were learning about the 5 senses and in the MPR there was some smell... and we had to guess what it was and I didn't know what it was but I sure knew I didn't like it. So then they also sang songs, told riddles and showed slide shows. Also Mr. Moynihan told about the card to Mrs.Tracy who left our school. I think this Assembly was great(except for the smell)!!

The 4th Grade Hero Speeches

Today we went to listen to the 4th Grade Hero Speeches which means that exactly 1 year passed from OUR speeches! There were 8 presentations! I liked them all. I think the heroes were pretty much different from last year but still I think they were great! There were 8 speeches that we listened to and most of the people knew their information, researched a lot. You could tell who was prepared. We had to choose 2 best speeches and I did after listening to all. Overall, I think the speeches were all great!!!

What Did I Learn During the 2 Rotations Today???

Today we had 2 rotations on the exhibition. The one my group went to first was the one with Mr.Paul where we made a Google Site on our exhibition topic. My group's was called Orphans and the website is https://sites.google.com/site/challengesandchangesoforphans/. But we didn't put anything on the site yet. I learned how to make a Google Site at this Rotation.Then we worked on answering some question and on Backwards Planning with Mr.Moran. I think I learned a lot about planning and answering questions in depth not just one sentence.

3 Ehixbition Rotations

Today we had 3 exhibition rotations. Our group was BLUE. My groups first station was with Mrs. Suzanne where we went to a site where we can look at others schools Exhibitions. For me that was fun but my computer kept messing around and stopping internet connection and all the other stuff that computers do. The next station that we went to was Mr.Moran's station and there we worked on our central ideas and I thought it was really interesting that different people can think of our central ideas differently or not understand it at all and that is what we revised. Our last station was Mrs.J who had a lesson on listening and we did a fun activity on it. We had some text and we had to highlight what was important to US and then one person tells it and others just try to listen and not say anything. I thought that was really fun!!!

Over all I enjoyed all the rotations!!!

Trimester 2 Reflection

This trimester was successful for me! I am really thankful to all the teachers but especially to Mrs.J for being a wonderful teacher and for teaching me so much interesting things. I really enjoyed this trimester because it was full of new exciting things. I think I spent a great time through this trimester. I think that I also got good grades but also I wish I had higher grades at music and for the next trimester that will be my goal. Also I think I made a lot of achievements this trimester : I got better at math,reading and writing. Something that I especially enjoyed this trimester was book reviews, the exhibition retreat, and experiments.

Overall I think that this was a GREAT trimester!!!

What I Learned This Week

This week was great! I learned a lot of different things!

First I learned about multiplying fractions, whole numbers and fractions, mixed numbers and fractions, mixed numbers and mixed numbers and whole numbers and mixed numbers. Also in reading I finished reading some books and I learned which book I am doing for my book project and aslso in writing I learned about homophones and homonyms and also how to change letters of a word and make a lot of new words. In PYP we learned a lot about our exhibition and who we are in a group with. I think my group is good!Also I learned 6 pages of the Concertino that I play on the violin. Also I learned about my Inquiry question and it was "WHO were the Pirates" so I learned about pirates and who they were and also I presented that!

Overall I think this week was great and I learned a lot!!!

My Inquiry Q

My inquiry question was "Who were the Pirates?". I did this presentation on prezi. It was quite challenging at first but then when I learned how to use prezi it was very easy. I think prezi is a great website to make your presentations on.

I found my information in books and websites for my inquiry question. I had a lot of different questions based on my main question. I tried my best!!!

Today I presented. I went 3rd. I had a pretty long presentation and I think I did well and everybody was interested in it. 

Overall I liked my presentation and I will try to always put so much effort in my work.

 

Our New Princpal

Our new principal for next year is Mr.L.He came to visit at an assembly and each grade asked him one Question. 5A asked WHY???did he decide to be the new ISB principal.He said that he liked our school the most and everything about our school fitted him right!!!!
I really like him and he is very funny and he even read us a story about kindness at the assembly.The story was about that everyone carries and invisible bucket and fills and empties it with happines. I really like that story!!! 
But I am going to middle school next year so he won't be my Principal.
Overall this principal's visit was great!!!