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Describe your reading life this year as a fifth grader.  Talk about the books, genres and authors your discovered this year.

1) Did you discover a new genre/author that you didn't know about?
2) What were your favorite books that you read this year?
3) What did you like best about reading workshop?
4) Do you see yourself as more of reader this year that previous years? Why or why not?
5) What are your reading plans for the summer and 6th grade?

Feel free to add any other thoughts and reflections about your reading life this year.

Here's what you are going to post on your Digital Portfolio:
1) Take a picture of your "Tell Me A Story" graph. Make sure it's only the graph and ordered pairs below it.
2) Save the picture on your desktop.
3) Make a new post and title it "TELL ME A STORY COORDINATE GRID"
4) Insert the picture of your graph into your post.
5) Next, type your story below the graph.  Check for proper writing mechanics (capitalization, punctuations, spelling)

Here is an example:

My dog only weighed 3 pounds when he was born, so I named him Rough because I thought he would have a rough go at life. Rough's first couple of years matched his name as he only managed to gain a pound during those first 2 years.  Rough did much better over the next few years so that by the time he was 5 years old he had doubled his weight from the 2 year mark.  The net year we spent a lot of time outside playing and running, so he managed to lose a pound.  The next year I made sure he ate healthier and Rough managed to gain back that pound he lost the year before.  Eight pounds was the most Rough ever weighed because during the 7th year of his life, he steadily lost weight and only weighed pounds when he died at age 10.

We have spent the last few days discussing two very important scientific words -- FORCE and MOTION.  It is time for you to show what you know about these words so far.  Here are some learning targets we've discussed so far:

• Motion of an object can change by speeding up, slowing down or changing direction.
  
• Forces cause changes of motion.
  
• When you apply force on an object in same direction the speed of that object will increase. When you apply force in opposite direction, that object's speed will decrease.
  
• The more mass an object has, the less effect a given object has on its motion. (You can watch this video about mass vs. weight).
  

Here's what you are going to post on your Digital Portfolio:
1) Choose ONE of the learning targets from above.
2) In your own words, explain what the learning target means.  Put this into "5th grade English."
3) Use your science journal and examples from our experiments in class.
4) A really cool picture/diagram might help too.  You can search for images/diagrams by clicking here.  DO NOT USE GOOGLE IMAGES PLEASE!!

Embed your Portfolio Presentation onto your Weebly.  Here is the step-by-step procedure:

1) Make sure you have TWO TABS open. 
2) Login to Google Apps and Open your Winter Portfolio Presentation.
3) Go to File > Publish To The Web.
4) Click “Embed”
5) Under Slide Size, select “Small”. 
6) Click “Publish”
7) Copy the HTML Code. 
8) Paste the code into their Weebly page.
9) When finished, make sure you click “POST” in the top right corner of Weebly.
10) Refresh your Digital Portfolio page and make sure your Portfolio Presentation shows up on the page.

Here is the link to the "A Sincere Compliment" video.  You can link to this video, or embed it into your Digital Portfolio.

LINK
http://youtu.be/2InkWRc1zww


HTML CODE (for embedding)
<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/2InkWRc1zww" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>