Colleen

=School... Hate it... Love it... What to say?= Well the first day of school everyone was so happy to see eachother. I didn't know about half of the kids! I was so nervous! By the half of the year everyone knew everyone! School got easier and people were more content with themselves! Now at the end of the year people have changed relationships and school is way easier! The bad thing is that there is only about 10 days of school left and everyone has the Summer jitters! So that means that everyone is all jumpy and wound up! Which means ``Alert, Alert!``, ``Close your ears!`` ``Teachers are going to scream!`` `` The loudness as they say!`` Heres a hint, if you don't want to hear the, ``Caoass, so pay attention and listen to the teachers!!(school isn't out yet!)`` Well in other words conserve your energy until the summer!! (For the teachers sake and your precsious ears!

=**Adventure Aquarium...**= At the Adventure Aquarium my group and Crevelings group went to see Sponge-Bob 3D! My favorite activity there was the Penquin exhibit! They were jumping into the water and were swimming right next to the windows! The only bad thing at the Aquarium was the Shark exhibit because it was closed and was being remodled! The Aquarium was my favorite thing on the Field in Philly and New Jersey!! = =

=Social Studies:= Mrs. Yurconic In Social Studies we learned about Egypt, the Mesos, Greece, and China! My favorite ancient Civilization was Egypt because of all the artwork and Pyramids they worked on and all of the wars that they endevered!~ We worked on China!~ We worked on the Mayaians! We worked on the Mimi project!~ We worked on Egypt! [|Here is the Great Egypt Report!][|Here is the Great Egypt Report!]Here is the Great Egypt Report!~ We are now working on the Greek civilization!

=**Do you want your Mummy?...**= My Favorite Civilization was Egypt because of the Government and their supposed Beauty! They had a King and the Kings had wives! They wore Black Kohl on their faces and White Clothes! They shaved their eyebrows when the family cat died and believed in many Gods! I also liked the Mummified project that we ahd to work on! My partner Kayleigh D. and I made a Mummy, Coffin, Fake organs, the Book of the Dead, and many other fun objects! Kayleigh worked very hard on the Mummy while I was sick, so she did tons of the work! I changed because of this project! Now I am more Patient and More Understanding of mistakes made by me and others! So this was also a learning experience as well as a fun activity!

=**We had to learn about what makes a Civilization...**= What makes a civilization? Thats what I ask you? A civilization is a group of people or a city that works together to keep the city up and running! There ar emany jobs that people have to work on! This includes: Agriculture, Education, Health/sickness, Social Classes, Government, and other jobs! = =

=Science:= Mrs. Fuinihetten Science is my least favorite subject because of all of the weird scientific words and all of the experiments involed in each lesson. ~ We worked on Oceanography and designed our own webpages on this and our assigned subjects! [|Click here to see my Oceanography webpage!] ~We also worked on our Coral reef project and had to make 3-D fish and I made a damselfish! [|Blue Damselfish]! ~ We also worked on our biomes!

=Birdies!!:= ~ We also worked on ``Birds of Prey!`` My favorite bird was the Chickadee because of its amazing sound and beautiful colors! That is also the bird that I did my project on! Heres is what it sounds like! You will need head-phones though!: **Go to:** [|**www.google.com**] and then **type** **bird sounds/ chickadess!** Its the 1st one down that says **The Macaulay Library**! Then **click on Chickadee Calls**! **Thats under the Blacked Capped Chickadee!!**

=Since Science in the Begining of the year...= In Science I have changed because now I look at nature in a different way. I have many new ideas of how to help the environment and over all a different Out-Look on life.

=**English/Reading:**= Mrs. Fuinihetten English in my opinion was really easy! The only thing that I hated was the vocab tests and most of all I didn't really enjoy the 100 word vocab tests! We also had to work on poems and English definitionsof Nouns, Verbs Pronouns, similies, and other definitions! Also in Reading we had to read alot on Social Studies and other subjects. We also had a few book reports and many projects to do with or to tie into each and every subject! Our class wrote in our PRL's about our vacations or about that day. We also wrote down our work that was in our PSSA books or that were in English books.

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 * We also had Reading Projects... (heres one for example)...**

=**Reading Strategies...**= ~ Infering ~ Context Clues ~ Evaluating ~ Predicting ~ Analyzing Cause/ Effect ~ Synthesizing ~ Questioning ~ Visualizing ~ Confering ~ And Maybe More!

=BOOK CRazY...= ~ To tie into S.S. and Reading Melissa,Meaghan, Connor, Kayleigh, and I read a book called,``The Greek Gods! `` It was a very interesting book because you got to learn about what the other people in Ancient Greece worshiped in their religion! ~The Cheat~ =* * * * * stars 10= This book was 176 pages of goodness. It was and had many different details about the 6 eighth graders in the book. It was the best book out of the ones that I have read so far this year. I want to read the other book called ``The Girls,`` by the same author : who says that these books are like twins and that she gives them both 5 stars. This book was read by me for the Literary project and 8 out of a possible 10 kids gave it a rating of an 8 & 3/4 which is about 9 stars out of a possible 10. For every star you Multiply the stars by 2!
 * Here are some of my favorite books that I have read this year and my ratings for them:**

~Who Was Mark Twain? This was one of my favorite books because my favorite genre is History and Biographys! =* * * * * stars 10= ~Bridge to Terebithia This was also one of my favorite books because of the creative details brought into the story! =*** * * stars 6**= ~They Came From Centerfield =* *** * * * stars 10**= ~The Greek Gods =* *** * * * stars 10**= ~The Journal of Scott Pendleton Collins =*** * * * stars 8**= ~Charlie and the Chocolate Factory =*** * * * stars 8**= ~a Christmas Carol =*** * * * stars 8**= ~Heroes Don't Run This was my favorite Lit. Circle book! Its my favorite genre, Historical Fiction! =* * * * * stars 10=

=This Year I think that I...= have become a better writer because we have writen a lot of stories for Persuasive writing, Life stories, and other writings. We have also worked with many english terms and words that intercept with each story! These are just a few of my stories:, and !

=For my Oral Skills...= I wasn't that bad in the begining of the year except when I would talk to the board! No wI not as afraid to talk infront of my classmates when I am speaking about activities or my projects!

=Math:= Mrs. Yurconic In Math we: had to work in our PSSA journal to write down the answers to the questions in our math PSSA book! This helped us to learn more about what would be on the PSSA's.

We also had an end of the year math project to do that was about the subject that we picked! We had to describe how it came together with that topic and how Math is all around us, all of the time!

=In Math we learned about different concepts including: ...= We wrote chants including: Counting numbers are easy to do, they start with a zero and keep counting too!! Also: Prime numbers can only be, divided by its self and one easily!! Also: Composite numbers are an easy time, there all the other numbers that are never prime!! = =

=My favorite subject of all is Social Studies because...= It is the subject that is most involved with the kids and is so great and hands-on!

=Technology...=

Technology was a big thing that we learned about in Mrs. Y's and Mrs. F's rooms! They taught us how to use alot of internet sources and how to Hyperlink and how to involved with Education and Fun! We worked a lot with the computers and signed up for many learning sites! This includes: [|http://www.studyisland.com/] and http://www.think.com/en_us/! These count as Learning sites because Studyisland you take tests for Math and Reading! For Think you post stickies to people about different school activities.

=There is a book that I am reading right now and it is called, `` Granny Tortelli Makes Soup!`` It is very good and it is made to be read as journal entries. If you like books with friendships and many family and friend heart-felt moments you should read this book! I'm not kidding!=

__Out Door Program!__

In the Out Door Program we worked with all of the subjects! = =
 * For Social Studies we worked on Plants lives and where they came from with Mrs. Klinger.
 * For Math we worked on polygons with Mrs. Yurconic and we learned what Teselating was with shoes! We also worked outside with leaves and we worked in the note books to see the world around us and the Math in it.
 * For Science we worked with Mr. Sweyer and Mr. Beil on making Slime with Chemicals, Particals, and different kinds of Acid.
 * For English/Reading we worked with Mrs. Deoliveria with writing esssay and poems on plants! We also read little books with her about plants too!
 * For Social Studies we also learned about Compasses with Mrs. Deoliveria and how to find the different degrees of the compass.
 * For Physical work we ran outside and did fun games with Mr. Byer and learned the games that the Ancient greeks played! We also talked about how they were similar or different from the Olympic games that we play today.

=School... Love it... final answer...= My final answer is that I love school and most of all this year! I'm starting to like reading books more and am having fun doing it! Thanks for this year! You guys are all so cool! I loved this year!