Time is running out! There's only a few BUSY months left of 5th grade at PS 18!
What is one thing you would like for us to do in class? Maybe study or research something specific? Maybe try a special art activity? What about something where we need to work in groups or partnerships? In 3 paragraphs explain what you would like to do in class, why would you like to do it (the importance to you), and what the impact would be on your classmates (how does everyone benefit from your idea). Be sure to include how it can relate to what we're learning, our everyday lives, or our future lives. Who knows, your idea might be something we do! Please remember to follow the rubric for blog posts (this also includes responding to a classmate's response as well). Also remember that a paragraph in this sense) is not one sentence!
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Zainab
3/12/2019 03:51:55 pm
I am so excited for graduation, yet so sad to be leaving P.S. 18 soon! I think we should do Genius Hour (done in Mrs. Stathes' class last year.) For those of you who don't know what that is, Genius Hour is when you can research anything you want to know more about. Fun fact: Google was created when someone was doing Genius Hour! But, there is a twist. We can't have the end of fifth grade be boring! I like the idea of working in groups of two. Both people would brainstorm something that interests them, and then switch ideas with your partner! Who knows, it might be something that really sparks some thoughts.
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Aj
3/12/2019 04:47:41 pm
Zanib I like your weird but true idea.
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Michelle
3/13/2019 01:54:25 pm
I did enjoy Genius Hour before, it would be cool to learn it again.
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Zainab
3/13/2019 02:02:37 pm
Don't forget the special twist!
Junyi
3/15/2019 04:54:07 pm
I agree with you Zainab. Last year I didn't finish genius hour so this year I want to finish it. I wonder what I should do if we actually do have genius hour.
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Liam
3/17/2019 06:02:45 pm
Last year I wasn't in Mrs.Stathes class so it would be a fun thing to try out.
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Aj
3/12/2019 04:45:55 pm
I want to go to graduation but I also want to stay with my class mates I like my friends very much. But one thing that i want to do for graduation is basically watch a movie. also want to do is we pass around the mic and say what our favorite thing we did was. Then if anyone comments to my idea then you could put an idea in.
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Zainab
3/13/2019 02:12:37 pm
I think these are great ideas, AJ! Next time, write three paragraphs instead of one. I also don't completely understand your art idea. Try to explain so we can understand your.
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Jaden
3/16/2019 10:39:28 am
I agree, those are good ideas. Next time write the amount of paragraphs Mrs. Ritter said but that was still good.
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Simran
3/16/2019 12:55:32 pm
AJ,I like how you wrote more than one idea, but next time three paragraph.
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Gabrielle
3/16/2019 01:30:13 pm
I like all of your ideas, AJ, Next time, maybe you could right three paragraph.
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Chelsea
3/17/2019 08:27:56 am
I think those ideas are clever AJ. However, you can be more specific when you say 'thing'.
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Isabella x
3/17/2019 06:57:57 pm
Of COURSE I would want to to do that project, Aj! It sounds incredibly interesting! Next time though, try to capitalize more!
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Preston 22 ☆
3/12/2019 06:24:33 pm
This idea isn’t very creative, but I think we can begin making our own figurines out of paper and art supplies. Like a lightbulb character out of a toilet paper roll and styrofoam balls. Or make a spaghetti monster out of pipe cleaners and markers. Or etc. etc. etc. The possibilities are endless. You can show your imagination by crafting stuff that is made by YOU. And just YOU. No one else. And when you make the figurines you can play with them too. You can start a YouTube channel and make little shorts about them. Maybe you can create a stand in front of your house and sell them. It’s your choice!
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Zainab
3/13/2019 02:09:42 pm
Don't say your ideas are stupid! They are totally creative. I also love "America's Got Talent," so I automatically love your last idea. All of your other ideas are great too! I was just wondering, what if the student council members you mentioned want to participate. To fix this problem, I think Mrs. Careddu and Mrs. Discala should be the judges (maybe with a few teachers.) Also, for the tie-breaker (2nd idea), what do you think should be the contest?
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Preston 22 ☆
3/14/2019 08:54:37 am
I dunno maybe a running race
Michelle
3/13/2019 01:53:05 pm
I really don't know. There are a lot of useful subjects that I want to learn. I guess.... furniture making and stuff? I've always wanted to learn it. I like making stuff and making them look professinal, and I want to help the society by making furniture for them. How to make furniture would be fun to learn.
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If I could wish for one thing we could do in class I would wish for us to do a “7 continent lesson” because I really love history and want to be an historian when I grow up. I always wanted to learn more about history and all the “wonders of the world”. The 4 major continents I want to learn about are Asia, Africa, Europe and South America because they all have interesting cultures and secrets we all want to learn about.
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Junyi
3/15/2019 04:50:52 pm
The thing I want to do in fifth grade is to have a party where you can hang out with your other fifth grade classmates. And the fifth grade teachers could also have their own hang out.
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Junyi
3/15/2019 04:51:40 pm
Also, Mrs.Ritter are you asking us this since you need some ideas?
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Kaleb
3/17/2019 04:15:40 pm
I agree with you Junyi because I like activities that have to do with races.
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Ann Wang
3/17/2019 05:15:50 pm
I like your idea about how we should have a party because that would be very fun to do that! Next time please add more details to your paragraphs and a paragraph is not just one, two, or three short sentences.
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Jaden
3/16/2019 10:32:21 am
I want us to play a game called 7 up (i may have forgot the rules but it is fun). Also for something educational, we could have a math test to see if we memorised ALL the math lesson (beside the state test.) 7 up is a game where I think everyone puts there head down and thumbs up and 7 people touch 7 other peoples thumb and if your thumb was touched, put it down and stand when 7 people's thumb went down. When 7 people stand, guess who touched you if wrong sit down, if right switch places and start again with the new people. The test should be 2 or 3 questions from each lesson.
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Jaden
3/16/2019 10:35:51 am
Also, just saying, did the special characters start because if so, I am sorry.
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Nolan
3/17/2019 05:43:38 pm
I like how you use everyday games to learn
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Simran
3/16/2019 12:48:54 pm
Graduation is coming soon! Before then, in class I really would want to do more science experiments. This is because when we did the chromatography experiment with the coffee filters it really interested me. I also want to do more science experiments because science is one of my most favorite school subject. Science is my favorite subject because I like to learn about plants, animals, people, Basically everything on the earth. This is why I want to do more science experiments.
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Gabrielle
3/16/2019 01:28:08 pm
Before 5th grade ends, one thing would like to do in class is the interest fair. For anyone that was in Mrs. Stathes' class, the interest fair is like genius hour (To find out more about genius hour, read Zainab's post). The interest fair is a "fair" were each student researches a topic of their choice and presents this project to other classes. Mrs.Ritter's class from last year did this project.
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Chelsea
3/17/2019 08:24:23 am
I`m so excited for middle school, but unprepared for leaving P.S.18. I`ve spent half of my life at this school. I`ll miss all of the staff and students that will not be attending M.S.67. There are also so many possibilities towards the end of the school year! I remember last year, in Mrs. Rodrigues's class when we had cards that have questions. We use those for getting to know our classmates.
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Isabella O
3/17/2019 12:06:25 pm
I agree with you Chelsea, the more you know people the better relationship you will have. We also might forget each other by the time we get to middle school.:(
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Isabella O
3/17/2019 12:04:31 pm
I feel like we should do like a fun activity where we search trough stuff and become like a detective. It would be almost like an escape room. This will be a very fun activity because we will all have to work together as a group. Or even as a partnership.
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Cooper
3/17/2019 12:31:15 pm
leaving ps18 will be very hard to do. I'm thinking we can create a buddy book. where we remember fun times in 5th grade with that partner. Maybe in the book we can have the persons name and then we have a space to right a favorite time with them.
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Shuki
3/17/2019 04:33:43 pm
Cooper I like your idea.It can be fun to make and be one of a kind and like another year book.I hope we can be do this eventually within the year.
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Cooper
3/17/2019 12:36:38 pm
Oops forgot to make another paragraph space in between "This would be special to me because i'm remembering memories i had at a place i spent half my life at." and "I think in the future this would be nice to remember if you were having a rough time in middle school, High school, College, ETC. Maybe if you move away from them and you dont go to their school anymore, you will be able to remember them.
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Shuki
3/17/2019 04:29:12 pm
If I had one thing to do for the remaining part of the year, it would be to get to do anything fun and creative, like genius hour . I remember this from last year if you were in Mrs.Stathes' class you probably remember this.lt was a fun thing to do. It works your mind to creativity and something great.
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Kaleb
3/17/2019 04:30:32 pm
I would like the class to work together to create our own yearbook. Everybody is going to create a page. They will draw pictures that they like. They will also write about what they like and want to do after they graduate. Basically they will write about themselves.
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Ann Wang
3/17/2019 05:11:16 pm
I am very ecstatic for graduation because we get to move on to another phase of our life. But I am also feeling unhappiness because we will be leaving behind the teachers that I knew for 6 years! Something that I would like to do in class before we leave 5-206 is a STEM project that you can make your own Borax crystals. This would be fun to make and also be very memorable for the whole class because maybe other teachers were not as creative as the teacher we have now and that will make students to remember Mrs. Ritter more than another teacher in the school. This project would also be worked together in groups because it would show how hard this STEM project is because we are making crystals and it would be labeled in our class’ mind that this was one of the very last group projects that we ever did in PS.18 and our class is the best at working at teams. If we do these students can remember the steps to make a Borax crystal and they might make it at home. Our class would also stand out from the other class because I don’t think that any other class has ever done something so cool and fun before so people would be thinking “wow their class got to do such a cool STEM projects”, so this would make our class stand out.
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Ann Wang
3/17/2019 05:12:52 pm
Sorry about not putting it in paragraphs I did not notice it.
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Nolan
3/17/2019 05:42:22 pm
One thing I would Love to do during class is to just research what our names actually mean in different cultures and we can see where words came from like for example we can search up the meaning of “Nolan” or something like that.
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Liam
3/17/2019 06:13:11 pm
One thing that I will like to do is to do kahoot, last year kahoot was a lot of fun and I hope to do it again, it is beneficial because it is fun learning and I think people will enjoy it, the thing with kahoot is that its questions are random I think, but so it technically yes it does have to do with what we are learning in class and there are some questions that you may have not have none and can help you in the future. This is what I want to do.
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Preston 22
3/18/2019 04:22:11 am
I don’t know what “kahoot” is, so maybe you can explain how you play it. Also aren’t you supposed to write paragraphs? Also this is a great idea, and you talked about how much you liked it.
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Isabella x
3/17/2019 07:16:13 pm
One thing i’d love to do in class during the end of the year would be a stem project.
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