5th+Grade+Laurels

Laurel Projects

This is my "Let's Go Laureling" podcast that will give you a review on 5 of my laurels. media type="file" key="laurel review.m4a" width="300" height="300"

These glogs are my "Let's Go Traveling" social studies laurel. There is 1 glog for each civilization that we studied. About the author
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 * media type="custom" key="18937438" || Egypt ||
 * media type="custom" key="18937440" || Maya ||
 * media type="custom" key="18937450" || China ||
 * media type="custom" key="18937454" || Greece ||

Jordan was born in 2000 in Pennsylvania. He goes to the Shipley School in Bryn Mawr, PA. There he has made it up to 5th grade and about to go onto 6th grade. He enjoys music, and soccer. Jordan’s favorite school subject is Science, and art. Also he lives in a family of four with a mom, dad, and a brother. Jordan likes science fiction, fiction, and sometimes non-fiction (depending on the book). As a kid he wants to become a musician, lawyer, businessman, and possibly a sergeant.

My best work is my author study. An author study is where you read a book by a certain author and then write an essay on this person. In my 1st paragraph "the introduction" I tell why I chose my author and some interesting facts about him/her too. Then in my 2nd paragraph I give three summaries of the three books I read, put in come connections between the books and the author's life or experiences, and how the author's back round and culture perspective influence his/her writing. Next in my 3rd paragraph I compare and contrast central themes, settings, characters, plots, and the styles of books I read, and what common threads or ides running through the books I see. Last I write what I like about the authors style of writing, my favorite about the three books, and what some recommendations I have for future readers.

I managed time by first researching the author, writing down paragraphs and get them out of the way and then edit them. The most challenging of these laurels is the Zine because it was a lot of work. There was a lot of writing, and editing. In my laurels there was a lot of work to do but it was fun doing them.

The most challenging part of these projects is the play. My reasoning of why I say the play, is because there is so much work, writing, and lots of editing. It was really fun in the end though. I got to be creative and write about anything that came into mind.

For one of my Laurels the special greek project we made our own ancient greek city-state, with a name, key, flag, snapshot, myth, and I chose a traveling brochure. For the next laurel we did an author study. I had already described that above. Next we did a Let's go Traveling laurel where we wrote five important facts about five different civilizations and filled out a passport. Next we did a Zine where we make many peices of work such as a cover, table of contents, dear reader letter, personal narrative, expository piece, descriptive writing, persuasive piece, poem(s), and a copy of a play I made in playwriting class. Another laurel we have is the math laurel. We have to fill out 15-20 pages of problems, and write two paragraphs on why we should switch to the metric system (other option) how I use math in my everyday life, then for the last paragraph I have to write out the description of how I found out a certain problem. On top of that we have a friendship laurel where we interview a relative or a friend on an event in their lives where they used Courage, Responsibility, Integrity, Honesty, Fairness, and Compassion then write out their story they told you in a paragraph or more. You want to cover a good amount of those traits and also if you wanted to you could add some traits to your paragraph. For our language class we made a dialogue where each partner had to say twenty different lines. There were some topics to cover such as ABC basic greetings, questions seeking descriptive information, fundamental questions, possible answers to fundamental questions, ask what are you and possible answer to that, food, restaurant and table setting vocabulary, numbers and basic spanish greetings. And last for music we wrote about five ancient greek instruments and put them with their picture on a poster. Also in addition to that we have to memorize a song on the recorder (a recorder is close to a flute).