This week we (by we I mean Mrs. Teitelbaum’s 4th grade class), were supposed to make a blog post about our best blog post. When Mrs Teitelbaum said that, my face lit up like the sun. I was so content when I heard that because I knew the exact blog post I would choose. The title of the post is “Conducting Electricity In The Science Lab!“ I choose this post because it has a lot of pictures, links, has my voice in it (that means that I put my identity in it), it doesn’t have any misspelled words or grammar mistakes, and gave credit to the images. How did I figure that all that is true? Well, I have this Blogging Rubric that tells me or you what makes an “expert post.” If you or me gets a 1, that means we would be a ”beginner,” 2 would be “capable,” 3 would be “accomplished”, and best of all… 4, which is “expert.” I believe everyone wants a 4. Well, I surly do. I won’t be putting in my best post, but if you click the link to my post that says “Conducting Electricity In The Science Lab” you can read my best post. I hope you give me a 4 on both blog posts! 
My Best Blog Post And Why
Why My Grandfather Would’ve Made a Terrific President
About my grandfather
My grandfather died when I was in first grade. Now, I’m in forth grade. It’s been 3 years since he died. When he died, I was at my cousins Hannah and Eli’s house. I did not know why my parents and their parents were gone until now. They all knew that that was going to be the day he died. My mom came home crying even though he wasn’t her father. I miss him a lot!
My grandfather would’ve made a terrific president. Why is that? Well, he was honest, fair, had high integrity, fantastic speaker, kind hearted, loving, brave, and best of all, he loved his family VERY VERY muck.There are many more reasons, but it would take an hour to read them all. My grandfather was also VERY empathetic.
My grandfather was the father of my father. He had one wife (of course), and three kids. My father is the youngest out of the three. Now lets get back to my grandfather. Did you know that my grandfather was a dentist in the army? In the link that’s called “My grandfather” it says that in the link. At his funeral, my grandmother received an American Flag of the honor of my grandfather. My grandmother still has it. She treasures with her life.
A few years before he died, it was Hannah’s Bat-Mitzva celebration. And what amazing, is that he read out of the torah for her. I’m ten and not old enough for a bat-Mitzva, and he died… so that means he can’t read out of the torah for me, but I always know he’s always with me in my heart.
Conducting Electricity In The Science Lab!
Today (4/24/12) we went to Mrs. Burkharts’ science lab. At the lab, my class (4th grade) was trying to conduct electricity with many different objects. Some objects worked, some did not. The objects we used were straws, nails, glass rods, paper clips, diode rods, rubber erasers, some copper strips, and some wooden sticks. The project was very interesting because I didn’t know what would happen before I tested the object, but once I test the object, I then knew what the answer was.
What we did with these objects is that we put the object between two alligator clips. Alligator clips are clips that conduct electricity, but not only that, they also complete a circuit. A circuit is a device that connects to the place you want the electricity to go, and then it comes back to where it started. That is a complete circuit.
This is a circuit that I found at a great website.
When we were done with that activity, we went to this glass ball that had electricity and gas mixed together to make some bolts of light in the ball. When I touched the glass ball with my finger, one of the bolts of light followed my hand. Did you know that humans conduct electricity? Not just because there is iron in our blood, because there is salt water in our bodies. Salt water also conducts electricity, but not as well as medal. I know that it might be hard to believe, but it’s true.
I hope you enjoyed!
I got these images at a great website.
Quad Blogging Experience!
What is Quad blogging? Quad blogging is when there are four classrooms around the world are blogging on each others blogs. The four teams are Team USA (us), Team Thailand, Team Switzerland, and Team Czech Republic. One of my technology teachers would say “Four teams, one mission.” We have done this for 4 weeks. The first there weeks were the other teams blogs that we were supposed to comment on. The fourth week the other teams were commenting on our (fourth grade) blogs. I am going to tell you what I liked and what I learned. Lets get started!
What I cherished about this idea is that we got to communicate with kids from around the world. You should’ve seen my expression when I heard that were going to do quad blogging. I bet my face looked like the most happiest face in the whole world. I admire everyone’s blog that I saw and commented on. The are marvelous writers! I had this one comment from a girl named Samantha. She is from team Thailand. I got her e-mail and we kept in touch with each other and we are now very good friends. I thought that was very cool!
Did I improve my writing skills? YES! Right before we started working on the quad blogging, we had to choose our best comment that we made this year. My comment was only two sentences long. I was pretty disappointed in myself. Compared to now, that comment was a piece of trash! I have improved my writing and commenting in many ways.Now, my sentences are about 1-2 PARAGRAPHS long. Isn’t that just extraordinary? I agree that it is. It’s not just me who improved my writing and commenting, my whole class improved their writing and commenting. If you ever see their comments (including mine, not to brag), you will be shocked by our writing for fourth graders! It is breath taking, trust me. Thank you technology teachers!
I hope that you learned something about quad blogging. Would you like to do quad blogging? Why?
We Surf The Globe!
Today, Mrs. Tolisano (one of our technology teachers) came to our classroom.We talked about hyper linking. Hyper linking is when you write a post on any subject, and you underline were ever the link would be. Here is the post that we wrote.
On our blogs, we embedded a Clustr Map. A Clustr Map is a map on a blog that shows you the location of the visitors of your blog. The map helps us visualize where our readers are from. We have been surfing the virtual globe to countries all around the world, such as Thailand, Switzerland, and Czech Republic, because we know that they have read our posts.
That is all we got. I hope you enjoyed!
My Personal Assistant!
If I were to choose a personal assistant, I would choose Leonardo Da Vince. I would choose him because he could draw a perfect picture of me. What would I do with the pictures? I would put them in my room for decoration. What would I do when someone says that the picture is beautiful? I would say, “Thank You, and Leonardo Da Vince made this picture.” I would of course give credit to the artist. Why not? Who would you choose…… Leonardo Da Vince, Steve Jobs, Albert Einstein, or Benjamin Franklin? Why? What would you want them to do?
ABC Advice For Life
Always try hard for everything
Be good to people
Call my friends and family to make sure they’re doing OK
Do my best
Even when it’s dark, always be my brightest
Friends and family are two things that I would take care of
Good things will happen to me if I do good deeds (which I would do)
Happy is what I will always be
I will do my best with everything
Jokes is what I will do to make people happy
Kindness is what I will do
Laughing laughing with friends and family is what I will do to help me be happy
My friend and family is what I will love till the day I die
Nothing will take away my knowledge
Open my imagination
Prove that there should be world peace
Quit being mean to people
Remember to do good deeds
Successfully stand up to bullies
Talk to people who are being mean to you so that you can work it out
Undo everything I did bad
Violins make me happy, so do you
Walk on the right path
X-celent behavior will bring you good things in life
You will do great when you try
Zzzzz… sleeping is very useful!
I hope you use this advice for life list!
My Book Report!
On Tuesday, my class (4th grade) and I did our book reports that were due. Everyone’s were superb! I could tell that everyone including me worked VERY hard. If I were to grade every single book report, I would give all of them an A+! I admire every book report that was ever made in my class room.
My book was called “Robinson Crusoe!” The book was marvelous! My most favorite part was when Robinson found a magical place filled with fruit! For my creative idea, I made a diarama of my most favorite part. I would expect you would know it by now. I think that my class really enjoyed my book report! Everybody said to me at the end that they really want to read Robinson Crusoe. That made me feel happy because that made me think that my class enjoyed my book report.
Mrs. Teitelbaum took this picture of me reading my summery of my book report.
My Purim Celebration!
A few days ago, it was Purim! Purim is a holiday of joy, but there is a bit of some sadness. There is joy, because the Jews were save and the got to live their lives! But there is some sadness because there was a very mean man named Haman. He wanted to kill every single one of the Jews, but there was a Jewish queen who was named Esther, and she said that she was Jewish to the king, and that Haman want to kill all of the Jews. So the king named King Achashverosh said that instead of the Jews being killed, Haman was to be killed on the same day that the Jews were supposed to be killed. Thanks to Queen Esther, the Jews were saved. So that night, every one in the village celebrated, and they called that day Purim! So on Purim, we give goody baskets, we read out of the Miguela , and of course, celebrate!
How I celebrated Purim was to go to my school where they would have a big carnival. Everyone got to play, eat, and have a lot of amazingly fun times! The dinner there was delicious, the games were terrific, and I almost forgot to mention that there was a puppet show about the whole story of Purim! It was incredibly terrific.
Go to http://www.flickr.com/photos/lianza2008/3011527264/
Go to www.flickr.com/photos/schmidtysays/6327583648/ I hope you enjoy!
My Mask
I am a mask that is blue like ice and as green as a sour apple.
I am not a sad mask that is sorry for its self.
Look into my eyes, and they will tell you that I am a very bright and happy mask.
I see the world as a nice and peaceful place, though I know that it is not.
I do like it when there is peace in the world.
I do know that there will be peace in the world some day.
I live as a princess, but I am very modest.
I feel the nice wind blowing in my face.
I think as a butterfly, as happy and as joyful as can be.
