The Final Test

The students that survived the first round:

The finalists are shown below:

 The students worked really hard on this project and had fun.They learned that in order for an egg to survive, they had to put a lot of stuffing or padding inside.

Students and their egg boxes

The students had a challenge to use cardboard to build a box to protect an egg when thrown against the wall.

 

 

The next step, was to take a picture or two of their boxes and blog. They had to share the purpose, describe how they made it, and predict if their egg would survive.

 

 

Metric System Rap

Metric System Lyrics

Quarter 2 Review

Reading
Author's Purpose

-share feelings

Techniques
-Stanza is a paragraph in a poem.
-Verse is a single line in a poem.
-Line break is when one verse or line is finished and goes to the next line; skips a line between stanzas.
-Rhyme is two words that have the same suffixes in a poem; is two words that sound the same at the end of the verses.
-Rhyme Scheme is a patter of rhyme in a poem. Example: ABBA, ABCD, AABA
-Alliteration is the same sound at the beginning of words in a sentence. Example: Silly Sally saw sea shells by the seashore
-Assonance is the repetition of vowel sounds in the middle or the end.
-Consonance is the repetition of consonant sounds in the middle or the end.
-Simile is comparing two things using the words "like" or "as."
-Metaphor is comparing two things NOT using words "like" or "as."
-Hyperbole is extreme exaggeration!
-Idiom is a phrase that you DO NOT take LITERALLY! Example: Break a leg! Dead to the world. Asleep at the wheel. All in your head.
-Personification is giving a nonliving thing a human quality or trait. Example: The wind whistled. The pencil was dancing around. The cloud was crying.

Persuasive
Persuasive Techniques 
Last years students
-Bandwagon-Everyone is doing it! Join the thousands of people that are on here!

-Peer Pressure-a group of people that are the same age that are trying to convince you to think or act a certain way.

-Testimonial-a personal success story.

-Repetition-the same product shown over and over; the same picture, words or phrases that are repeated

-Transfer-a set of feelings that can be positive or negative based on words or pictures

-Loaded Words-strong emotions with word(s) that can be positive or negative

Wal-Mart- save money, live better; ALWAYS LOW Prices
Math
->check math tab on blog

Science
Scientific Method 

Water Cycle

Environmental Affects
-water quality
-climate
-population density
-smog

Writing
How to persuade someone