UOI

A Tale TO Tell

Our first Unit of Inquiry was A Tale to Tell. I really liked the story SwordBird written by Nancy Yi Fan. She wrote a novel about a bird called Sword Bird which was about birds who have been tricked by the evil Turnatt. Nancy, the author, was only 12 year old when the book was published. She learned English when she was 7 years old. Nancy published her second novel called Sword Quest.Nancy showed us that writers give us messages through their books.

Nature Unleashed

The central idea of Nature Unleashed was "People organize themselves to respond to disasters. We studied different disasters and how they affected people. I chose to study sandstorms. We found out there was not so much information on sandstorms. The information was too advanced. Floods affect more people than sandstorms. In Cambodia the floods are really high and the villagers in Cambodia have a hard time living there. About 1 to 2 people die in a sandstorm and hundreds of people die in a flood.

whats the matter

In this unit we learned the about the different kinds of matter of matter there is we went to different classes to do experiments one of the experiments was that we had a plastic Bag we put vinegar and backing soda in it we closed the bag and it made gas. An ice cube is solid and when it melts it terns into liquid and than when the sun comes up it terns into gas.
 * solid
 * liquid
 * gas

Body Journeys

in this unit we learned some of the body system like the we learned how to take care of our bodies. I did the circulatory system I learned that eating to much fatty food will stop your blood stream and can get a heart attack I also learned the four parts of the heart the right Atrium, the right ventricle, the left Atrium, the left ventricle I all so learned other systems and how to take them.
 * circulatory system
 * skeletal system
 * digestive system
 * respiratory system
 * nervous system
 * muscular system

Peace and Conflict!

central idea:The actions and attitudes of individuals and communities create peace or conflict.

in this unit the grad 4s went into groups there was I was in the gender group and in our group we were in pares me and Maddy did the Taliban I learned that the Taliban does not give women any right. These are some of the rules:
 * gender
 * race
 * religion
 * environment
 * women are not allowed to show any body part but there eyes
 * women and men are not allowed to listen to music or watch TV
 * a stranger is not allowed to hear a women foot steps
 * women are not allowed to put nail polish

Our class had to homework and we had to find a peace maker me and Viriyan did the same.we did Samantha Smith.Samantha stopped a possible nuclear war by writing a letter to Yuri in the soviet union she went all over the world she went on Disney Channel to talk about peace and that every one has the right to have peace.