Oct.7+Daphne+reporter

Daphne Aubrey Daily Reporter 10/7/10 Today we made super balls in class, which was a lot of fun. The ingredients were sodium silicate and rubbing alcohol. the rubbing alcohol had a repulsive smell, and the sodium silicate to me smelled like nothing. By making super balls we learned how to mix the ingredients up and form a super ball. We measured the ingredients with a teaspoon and a tablespoon. I think that the hardest part was breaking the super ball into 2 pieces so the you and your partner could both have one. Something I found interesting is that the super ball actually bounces. I didn’t think that it would with that little of ingredients. Another thing we did today was stories of my life the first draft. We wrote about one event that happened in our lifetime. I learned from my parents and remembered what had happened during that period of my life. It almost made me feel like I was back at that place again. Writing that first draft made me visualize what was happening then. I almost wanted to go back to that place again. Today we also did the attendance graph and the calculations for what was your favorite color. We drew up a graph in our daily log and we used our calculators to find the decimal, fraction, and percentage of who liked what color the best. To find the percentage we had to multiply the decimal by 100. The color choices were blue, green, purple, and turquoise. Most people chose blue then green and then purple. I like using calculators to determine a math equation. Today Bella, Joe and Christopher shared the Daily Doings board with the class. Bella read a quote by Anne Frank. “ I shall preserve in spite of everything and find my own way through it all and swallow my tears”. I think that, that is a great quote. I believe that this quote was well written and it comes from Anne Frank’s heart. I learned how hard it must have been for her to suffer from the Nazis. Specialist: Today we had Library. First of all we used our shelf markers to check out books, and then we went to the tables. We learned how to use clickers to answer questions. The questions were on the screen on the overhead and we had to point the clickers at a red button that was on the projector.