October 14, 2011

This week in Science we learned about energy. Electricity is transmitted in 2 forms. AC (alternating current) and DC (direct current). Direct current was the first way electricity was transmitted. DC can only travel in one direction, making many more wires necessary. However, AC, developed after DC, can travel in both directions, eliminating the need for a lot of that wiring. To understand how electricity is made, we must go much smaller. To the scale of atoms, to be exact. Atoms are made up of protons and neutrons bunched together to make the nucleus. Elections zip around the nucleus. Sometimes, one or more electrons may be pulled from it's nucleus, then jumping to another nucleus. These jumping electrons are what generates electricity.
   In reading this week we learned about parts of speech. The two parts of speech we learned about are prepositions and conjunctions. Prepositions are words that show direction. Some examples are on, over, with, by, in, above. Some examples in sentences are: The cat sat on the fence. Or: The rabbit slept inside his hutch. Conjunctions are a joining word. Some examples are and, because, so, if, although. Some examples in sentences are: I went to buy dog food at the store but they didn't have any more. We also had spelling an vocabulary tests this week. For our parts of speech test next week we got a study sheets. On the test there will be nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, conjunctions, and prepositions. Our classroom got a new "Time for Kids" it is about monarch butterflies. That is what we did in reading this week.
         In writing this week we did our personal narratives.When people were editing their narratives they used a editing checklist.On that editing checklist you are supposed to read the paper backwards.We also did some other things in writing too.We did a writing prompt.We did that for a few hours.Each of us either wrote a rough draft or if we had time to do a final draft.The story we were supposed to write something that was great and tell why it was great.

October 6, 2011

This week in class we learned about Kinetic and Potential energy. Potential energy is energy that is standing still or just not moving at all. Kinetic energy is energy that is moving energy. Other types of energy include sound energy, eletric energy, and lght energy. A car moving on a highway is Kinetic energy. When it stops at a gas staition, it shifts into Potential energy.
This week in writing we had to draft our own personal naritives. We had to add internal and external voice. It took us a few days to draft. We had lots of fun but had to work very hard.
This week in reading we wached 5 different School House Rocks. I could tell we loved them. We saw one about nouns, one about verbs, one about pronouns, one about ajectives, and one about adverbs. I can't wait to see the one about conjuntions.

By Alex, Elizabeth, and Jake