NJ ASK Video!

Here is the link to our 2014 NJ ASK video!

https://vimeo.com/93312350

predator and prey

You know predators and prey?  For example, a shark and a seal- a shark is the predator and the seal is the prey. Do you ever wonder how predators have great abilities to help them hunt? Well, so do their prey.  They have adaptations to help them to hunt and hide from their predators.  They do have adaptations.  For example, camouflage that is when an animal looks like its surroundings. And mimicry- this is when another animal looks like another deadly thing and both of these things help prey survive in the wild.

By: Hunter

Predator And Prey!

On Bring your Child to work day we played a game called predator and prey.  In the game we combined classes to make a whole class.  There were three animals lizard, owls , and crickets.  Since the owls are at the top of the food chain they had to chase the lizards and tag them.  Then that lizard would be out.  It is the same with the lizards and crickets.  The lizard would tag the cricket.  To begin the game we scattered gold fish and the crickets had to collect them.

By: Juliana and Madison

Writing

In writing we are doing an opinion essay.  I'm writing about how I want to go to Italy for summer vacation.  I'll give you a sneak peek of what mine is.  My first reason is to learn about history.  Italy is a popular place to learn about history. Then another reason is to learn a new language.  They speak differently there.  I also want to see my family there.

By: Jonathan  

Something new in writing

We did a new thing in writing.  It is called Scholastic Story Starters.  We had to practice writing stories.  Yesterday, it said to me to write the directions to your house for an honest lemon who broke an expensive vase.   My favorite part was when you got to do an  adventure story or a Fantasy Story and other ones because you got to spin this wheel and you write a story about that topic.

 By: Arlene

Bring your child to work day

I am going to tell you what I did at my dad's work.  When I got to my dad's work I went in the kids room and saw lots of kids.   I  went inside and made a name tag because this was my first year coming here and no one knew me.  The kids and I sat on the carpet and we were seeing what we had in common.  One of the activities was bingo,  but we played a different way.  The person who got 5 things in common  would get a prize.  I won one of the prizes and my prize was a bubble wand.  Another activity was when there was a talent show and I played the recorder.   The songs I played were Hot Cross Buns  and Gently Sleep.   We also took an office tour and there was a cupcake bar and I got to decorate a chocolate and a vanilla cupcake. Those are some activities that I did and  I hope to go there again next year.

By Stephen

NJ ASK VIEDO

We are making an NJ ASK video so kids don't get nervous for the test. The latest class Mrs. Sullivan filmed was Mrs. Bambara's. We filmed the part were it goes, "gonna sharpen our pencils get ready to go." We were the ones singing in the background.  We got to be in a few parts too. The part I was in was the "woah woah ohh." We have been editing during snack.  Yesterday we edited and filmed Mrs. Lukich's class. Two weeks from now we are  doing the NJ ASK.

By:Alyssa and Samantha    

The Haunted Hotel

We just got done with our book reports and my book report had lights all around the poster.  It spells out the name of the book which is The Haunted Hotel. It has a picture of the ghost, it says the characters and the setting.  The last thing that it has is a short summary and details.  Isn't it cool?

By:Ally

learning area in math

In math we are learning about area and the trick that I do is length x width and that gives you your area. Now we are learning how to divide the shape that is funky looking and adding the area up to get the whole area, but it is hard because it is not on grid paper.  Since we learned that yesterday I wonder what we are going to learn today in math?  

by:Ally 

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A great NJ ASK song

Our NJ ASK video is going to be finished soon.  But first we have to do some  editing and filming .   In our video there is dancing, singing, and music.  I think that this will be the best NJ ASK video so far.  

By: Juliana Bach

Mystery Project

The book report topic was mystery. I did mine on the 39 Clues One False Note.  Mine is about Amy and Dan are in a contest to find 39 Clues (obviously it says it in the title), so they find Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart sheet music in Paris which leads them to Vienna where he had his house. And they find that Wolfgang had a sister.  Her name is Maria Anna Nannerl and she had a diary. Amy and Dan want to checkout her diary but it has been stolen by their cousin Jonah Wizard and he hid it in his apartment room. So Amy and Dan steal it from him. And that leads them to Salzburg and they find samurai swords made of tungsten. Now they are headed to Tokyo where the swords were forged.        

By: Hunter

Tungsten swords

                                                                                                   

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Science

In science we have been talking about camouflage and  mimicry.  Camouflage is when any animal blends in with its surroundings. It does this because its predators will not see them. For example, a frog might blend in with a leaf so a snake does not see it. Mimicry is when an animal makes itself look like an another animal. For example, there is a butterfly that looks like the monarch butterfly and it tastes bad so birds do not eat it.   

By: Samantha and Alyssa M. 

Personl Narratives

A few weeks ago are whole class made personal narratives, and mine was about the time I started karate.  They were fun to make and I had a great time making mine.  After we were finished we had to draw a picture to go with the typing.  I will tell you what some of my friends did.  For example, Alex did horse riding, Alyssa G. did cheerleading, and Vanessa did gymnastics. .          

By: Juliana     

Math

In math we are learning about the perimeter around things.  I think this is one of the most fun lessons. Also I think some is hard and some isn't hard. Learning about the perimeter is a fun lesson to learn about.

By: Jonathan

PARCC

Tap tap tap.  It was  the sound of typing. We were testing the PARCC.  I for one liked it because it was good typing practice. When we finished we read a book to wait for everyone else to finish and we were very quiet.
                              by: Hunter