Writing Reflection

1. What do I notice about myself as a writer as I read through my work?

I noticed that my opening sentences are pretty good, usually my last paragraph is good too, and I show lots of details.

2. How have I changed as a writer so far?

I think that I used to much of the word "I", and I should do more describing.


3. What are three things I do well as a writer?

My open sentence are good, I have lots of details, and I do a little bit of showing, which I have to do more of.

4. What are some things I want to get stronger at as a writer?

I think I should make my stories longer, show and not tell, I should use the word "I" less.

5. What is my favorite piece, and what are the things I love about it?

My favorite piece is Hermit Crab Hunt, I really like my open sentence, the paragraph describing how we catch the hermit crabs and the last paragraph.

Math

Factor Captor is a lot of fun, you have to know prime numbers and the factors. When it is your turn to pick a number you want to find a prime number, because a prime number only has two factors, one and itself. At first I didn't know much about the game, so I was just randomly picking numbers, and was losing very badly. Now I know better, and is not that bad at the game anymore.


Arrays are made by dots lined up together, in columns and rows. You can find some of the factors are in the array like the first row is one, and the first column one is always a factor, and itself.


I really liked learning about, prime numbers and factors, we played lots of games about factors and prime numbers, one game was Factor Captor, in Factor Captor you just have to know about factors and prime numbers, I think learning about factors and prime numbers are a lot of fun.

Learning-September 16th 2009

Math:

I think math is a lot of fun, because we play while we learn, and you get to solve different problems. This year we learn how to make factor trees, we learned what square numbers and exponents are, we were learning about prime numbers and composite numbers, prime numbers are numbers that only have two factors, and composite numbers are numbers that have more than two factors. We played a lot of games too. Some were Factor Captor and Baseball Multiplication. Math is lots of fun.