Michael+P. 

Hi,  I am Michael. I attend SMS. I love baseball, basketball, and karate. I like to eat candy and watch T.V. School is pretty fun, too. I like all the Philadelphia sports teams.

 In science this year, I learned about coral reefs and puffer fish. Birds of Prey was a topic we studied in the beginning of the year. We also learned about clouds, trees, plants, and Newton's Laws of Motion. My favorite was the coral reef because we worked in groups and made a video. Nature of Matter was one of my favorite science topics. We made flip-books and utilized the computer for our research.  This year in social studies, the theme was ancient cultures. Some cultures we learned about were the Greeks, China, the Mesopotamians, and Egypt. China was my favorite because we worked in groups and each researched one topic. My group researched martial arts. Since I have a background in martial arts, learning about Chinese Martial Arts was pretty cool. The best part, though, was being able to present our martial arts skills. Egypt was the next coolest because I always enjoyed learning about mummies and tombs. We even got to make mummies and have a funeral procession.  Math this year was great because of the Math Connections and learning about ancient mathematicians and their formulas. Math Connections were a way to see some ways math is applied in everyday life. Heron and his square root formulas were awesome. We also learned about Galileo Galilei and the speed an object travels for a certain distance. Mental Math was also a good way to review our math skills and not be pressured to get a page done every day.  My favorite part of English this year was the Parts of Speech project because your group was only assigned 1 part of speech rather than all 7. I also enjoyed not learning out of a book. Most of our learning was done on the Mac's. I liked that.  This year in reading, we read the books, //A Christmas Carol // , //Woodsong // , and //Tales of Ancient Greece // . I like //Tales of Ancient Greece //  best because it wasn't hard to understand and the stories were interesting. I also like that when we studied for the PSSAs, we worked fast and out of the Coach Book, but reviewed enough to be prepared for the tests. DARE is not really reading class, but we had it during reading class. In DARE, we learned about drug and alcohol resistance. I heard the beer goggles were awesome, but my class never got to try them. Vocablulary was not as fun because some of the words were extremely difficult and we had less than a week to study new words every week.
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