Hazel Ann's Learning Blog

In my reading log I notice that I'm reading just right books. 5th grade typically read 3/4 page per minute. I'm typically reading 24 pages in 20 minutes. A new author I am passionate about is Sarah Weeks because she has so much emotion in her book and suspends.  One reading habit this year was the genre pizza to really help me read different genre's because I have read so many realistic fiction and fantasy and I need to read different genre's.

In Reading, we have been learning new ways to think about our novels. The most helpful type of thinking for me has been: Envisioning.   Here is an example of envisioning: In the book Ida B by Katherine Hannigan, I feel how Mama and Daddy are feeling, they are feeling disappointed that they have a child that eats the same thing for breakfast and lunch. This makes me think Ida B doesn't like other lunches and I think it isn't healthy because all that is in Ida B is Peanut Butter and Cereal. This helps me because it tells me the things I have learnt like if I go into another grade I will see it and it will probably help in life with lots of things like notes.

  We have finished out our 1st investigation it was on Mixtures and Solutions. The new learning I have discovered is Solutions because I really didn't know what the meaning was for it then. So then when I saw that the salt just dissolved into the water then we put it in the sun my science group told me. The most interesting thing I have learnt is how separate dry mixtures, but the thing is, my science group and I made the instructions which was fun to do because it was like we were really real life sciences. The thing I have most enjoyed is looking at the crystal. We left the water and salt out in the sun and then the next science class we went to look at it again. It was crystal. They had X's in the square box of the crystal. I liked it because it looked really cool and it was interesting how now to make a crystal. It went in a cycle that's why now it is a crystal.  

My Current wpm is : 17 wpm My Goal is: add five more from 17 wpm. 23 wpm I will aim to achieve this by the end of September. I will be doing this by using typingtraining.com