THE FUN WEEK

This week we have been working on our iBook. We finished 3 chapters about homework, lockers and older kids. Also the students answered the surveys that we sent it out which made us feel relieved. We also interviewed six graders in their class (science, Mrs.johnson). Then, after that each one of us was assigned a task to write about, for example: I wrote about lockers, Debra wrote about older kids, Emilia wrote about homeworkers. And this is what we did all week! Which was pretty fun do it!

Next class, we will try to design the iBook of the transitioning 5 grade to 6 grade into more interesting iBook. Second thing we should start to do is our skits for the lockers and homeworkers. Third thing we have to do is to put the videos and the written paragraphs into the iBook and get started on chapter 5.

Until now I feel passionate about this project because it’s an interesting topic and also it helps other people like the fifth graders. I also chose this project because it reminds me of my transitioning  of fifth grade to sixth grade, and at the time it was pretty tough in the first few weeks  because I didn’t know what to do and how to a treat the older kids and so much more.

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The past few days me and my group have been working on meeting teachers, researching, reading articles and so much more. First we did another survey because we had some obstacles with the last one so we decides to do another one and send it again to the fifth grade students. Then we went to Mrs. Callaway (the counsellor of middle school) and we had an wonderful meeting with her and we went out of her door with so much facts and new things that we never heard. Then we planned on another meeting with Mr Everett and Mrs Callaway in the upcoming class from 12:35-1:00pm to get more ideas for our media project and learn more about transitioning.

Our plan for next class is to start our chapter 1 when we get our surveys and do more researches and lastly to go interview some of the six grades about their experience while transitioning to middle school.

Until now I feel confident about our project, even though we started facing some obstacles but at the end of the day we found solutions which made me feel relieved and feel more confident in this project!

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Last class,  Debra and I emailed the fifth grade teacher asking her, if we are allowed to send her the survey that we made to the transitioning fifth grade. She answered  the email and because of her kindness, she accepted the request. Now we sent it the surveys to Mrs Kriefall, and this is what we did last class. The process until now is going well and I feel less nervous but I feel like this project isn’t something really interesting. Even though i feel this project isn’t that  interesting, I will still give it a shot and try to make it more interesting for me specially.

The next step will be to start the ibook and the designs. Then start writing the first chapter after we get the surveys back! Lastly, we need to also edit the introduction and add pictures.

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