Laurens

Laurels is a project where every fifth grader has to complete a challenge in every class. It is very hard, but it teaches you to be more responsible. The most complicated part is that everything is due on different days. This tests our memory, and responsibility. We need to complete every challenge in order to graduate from elementary school to middle school. "EEP!"

I think that my best project was my city-state. In my opinion, my myth tied it all together. I worked really hard on it, and I was really proud to see it finally done. My 'Snap-Shot' was good to one because I came up with things that not a lot of my classmates came up with. For example, I told how Hephaestus and Aphrodite have their own special multi purpose rooms, where they teach classes on certain things. Another one of my mini projects ( a whole bunch of mini projects turned into one project; the City-State ) was a speech to tell how things were going. I think this was my worst mini project, especially since it was ridiculously short. I could've made it better by making it longer, and more interesting.

There were lots of mind habits needed to complete the Laurels. Like responsibility, time management, and time to think. I don't think I did very well on time management. I turned in my music Laurel two days late (don't worry, I got punished...still am...) I messed up on my French Laurel because I didn't practice (but I got back on track thanks to my trusty partner Jordan) But other than that I think I did pretty well. What made it really hard to manage my time was the fact that I had to choose which project I would do every night. To make things worse, we had even more classroom homework than usual, so I had to do my Laurels, and my extra homework. I think I need to work on my time management.

City-State- Every fifth grader had to create a city state. We had to make a myth, a speech, a snap-shot, a brochure, and a flag. Some of these choices were optional.

Author Study- For our author study, we had to choose between some of the authors of books we read this year, and choose to write about one of them.

Let's Go Traveling- Let's Go Traveling is basically a mix-book, a glogster, or a paper book, about the all social studies units we've learned about this year.

Math- For our Math Laurel we had to write two paragraphs in the beginning of our packet (we got a packet)