Student Book Review

Among the HiddenbyMargaret Peterson Haddix

Reviewed by Potter78

Among the Hidden is a book that takes place in the 31st century. The problem in the book is that the government has passed a law that makes having three or more children in one family illegal. Sadly, Luke is a third child that must stay in the attic 80 percent of the day.  

One day he sees someone in a window where he knows two kids have gone to school. Does he dare find out more about the third child?  

I enjoyed this book because the author always has something interesting happening all the way to the end of the book. I recommend this book for kids who like futuristic action books.

Classroom News from this week's Class Scribes

Yesterday, was Monday. In science class some people in our class shared their Rock Projects. There were three things we could have done for our Rock Project. First, we could have taken 8-10 photos describing how the photo explains whether it changed by weathering, erosion or deposition. Another choice was creating a rock collection where we get 12 rocks and find all of their names, number the rocks and give a 2-3 sentence description. The third choice was to write a story about a rock who goes through the process of the entire rock cycle. The 4th choice was to explain the rock cycle.  Everyone did it a different way, and it was nice to see all the different projects.  Here are some examples...

Rock Cycle Prezi

by Bling Dog and Potter78

Mystery Skype

     

Last week we had our first Mystery Skype.  A Mystery Skype is where we skype with another class somewhere in the country and try to guess where they live before they guess where we live. This week we guessed where they were first.  They live in Maine and it was a nice activity to sharpen your geography skills.  We asked yes or no questions like "Are you south of West Virginia?" then they answered yes or no.  We had jobs like using maps to come up with the next question or keeping track of what we already know.  We had a puzzle map of the USA and we took the states off the map that we knew they couldn't be.  We got down to the last few states and we asked, "does your state border another country?"  They replied, "Yes" so the only state it could be was Maine.  That was our first class Mystery Skype. 

written by Sparkle12 and Potter78

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