Avery

Last year I was good at reading.(but not the work sheets) Last year I was not good at science and social studies because I wasn't very interested in what we were studying. Last year my behavior was o.k. As a fifth grader I would like to get better at writing and spelling. I can get better at these things if I study more. I wonder if we'll do animal science this year? 5th grade {avery.png} One of my strengths is that I read a lot, so I know a lot more words that I wouldn't have known otherwise. I'd like to improve on adding better details in my writing. Last year I was good at reading.(but not the work sheets) Last year I was not good at science... If I could change anything about the assignment I would have wrote about chocolate instead of watermelon. One of my strengths are being able to write important information from the text. I'd like to get better at writing about things I'm not interested in. If I could change anything about the assignment I'd have read the story more carefully. My strength in works habits is being able to memorize things somewhat easily. I would like to improve on being able to study more. MY POWER-POINT http://dasselin.wikispaces.com/ If I could change anything about work habits I would study more. MY JEOPARDY GAME

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My goal in math is to get better at mult. bigger numbers and subtracting decimals. My goal in literacy is to stay on topic in my writing and do a lot more revisions. My goal in skills for life is to get better at checking over my work (especially my tests).

I really need to get better at mult. I'm getting some problems on my homework wrong that should be really easy. I think I have gotten a little better at staying on topic, but I still need to work on it. I REALLY need to start checking over my tests. I have been getting really easy stuff wrong because I write something like a fraction wrong.

I did good on my biography project. I guess. I got two 4's on it, fact and opinion and compare and contrast.

I almost didn't get my westward expantion project done on time!!!! I thought it was kind of hard because I couldn't find a book on going to California during the gold rush, so I had to just use a giant map. I had to do most of the trip on the Oregon Trail.

We did a "Wild Self" writing. I thought it was kind of fun. My ending was I swam around a rock for 5 days.

I did o.k. on my fantasy cube project. I did it on Tamora Pierce's book "The Will of the Empress". It was a really good book about four mages coming back from traveling and having to fight to go back home after a trip together. It was the 9th book about them.

We also did a compare and contrast essay. I did mine about a squid and an octopus. It was kind of hard because they have a lot of similarities and not a lot of differences.

There was also a volcano project that we did, I did o.k. I guess. I got all threes. Grades closed on The Friday we started working on them, so we didn't have much time to do them. I almost finished on time, but I had to staple something,and write "volcanoes by Avery Arena". It took me like two minutes to finish after.

At the very beginning of the year we did a book project on code of conduct books, my group was just Whitney and me. We read "Homecoming".

I am most proud of being on Tamora Pierce's 25th book!!!! First I read the "Song of the Lioness"(4 books), then the "Immortals"( 4 books), the "protector of the Small" (4 books), "Circle of Magic" (4 books), "The Circle Opens" (4 books), "The Will of the Empress" (1 book), Trickster (2 books), and The "Tortall Legand"(2 books). I'm only on the first "Tortall Legand" book though and she still has a lot of books I haven't read yet.

My favorite school related activities are puzzles and stuff were you have to find the missing numbers. I also like when you have a number sentence and you insert parentheses to find as many different sums as possible.

My goals for the future are to read all the Tamora Pierce books. There are only about 10 left (But my estimates are usually way off so I don't really know)

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