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VOKI

Recently in the computer lab our class experienced with a very exciting website called Voki. Voki is a website where you can create a character and make them talk. There were lots of different categories such as dogs, cats, classic, toons, animals, edgy, anime, oddballs, random, VIPs, politics, and holiday. In each category you choose a person or thing and you can make them crazy looking or you can make them look like yourself. You can also give them facial hair, different clothes, and accessories. There is a section where you can make your character very personal by giving them different bodies, heights, and widths. You can change the color of the eyes, mouth, skin, and hair of your Voki. You can also give your Voki a different back round so it fits or clashes with your character. After you are done creating your Voki you can make it talk. You can either record your own voice or type in what you want your Voki to say. To top it off you can decide what language or what accent that you want your Voki to translate your message in.

I know this sounds like so much fun and it is. To create a Voki of your own, you can visit www.voki.com and create!

Get a Voki now!

MORE ABOUT VOKI…

Now in SW everyone is making little characters that say what ever you want him or her to say. You can also make them look like you and you can record your voice and they will talk exactly the way you do. This interesting website is called voki.com. These cool characters cannot only be human beings but they can be animals and animated creatures in other words, WHAT EVER YOU WANT THEM TO BE! I definitely recommend going on to this website because it something that you will love and it is fun because you get to design your own person. HOW COOL IS THAT? THE COOLEST!

Homework Sheet #34

Spanish

In Science we are learning about buildings and how to make them. And this week in Spanish we are drawing a picture of a building that we were assigned to. We need to research facts about it, some of the questions are like, where was the building built? When was it built? And what is the name of your building? Here are some buildings that people researched… The Alhambra Courtyard is in Granada, which is in southern Spain, The Alhambra Gardens are also in Granada, Guell Parc is in Barcelona , The Aqueduct is in Sagova, and the Casa Batllo is also in Barcelona. If you would like to see what they look like, type one of these names in on www.google.com and check it out!

Now click on links below and see some fun Spanish vocabulary!

Spanish Vocabulary                                 More Spanish Vocabulary

The past couple weeks our class 5SW has been doing ping pong in gym It is so cool because you get to play your friends but sometimes people get really competitive. Also some of my peers either play by points or just have fun with it. Every day my friends get better and better, our teacher is the one who made this all possible for us to play ping-pong. Our gym teacher is a really good ping- pong player because he has been playing years of it and every time someone plays him in our class or any class he beats us. We use ping- pong paddles that are really good. Sometimes he makes times in the morning to come in and play our friends in different classes and in our class. Our next sport is jump rope, then baseball and softball, then golf. Today 4-4-08 is the last day of ping- pong and we get to play doubles. Doubles are were you have 4 people playing at once and 2 players on each team, except you play the same exact same thing as the regular game. I think that doubles are more fun than singles.

Homework Sheet #30

This week our focus was on building large bridges. Students applied what they had learned about different types of bridges (truss, suspension, post and beam, cable-stayed, arch) to their design and construction. Limited supplies of straws and straight pins were allowed for the main parts of the bridge. Tape was allowed for attaching the bridges to chairs or stools. Students then tested their structure with rolling a baseball across and to see how much weight it would hold. Check out these great final designs!

Today we would like you to check out some other blogs. As you explore these sites, think about what you like and what ideas you think we might be able to use while blogging in 5SW!

So…

1st – Check out some of these NHS Blogs:

2nd Grade: http://class2ol.edublogs.org/
6th Grade: http://6thgronline.edublogs.org/

Music Blog: http://nhsband.edublogs.org/
NHS Drama: http://www.nhsartsonstage.com/

Art Blog: http://nhsartblog.edublogs.org/

7th Grade: http://seventhgradenews.blogspot.com/
8th Grade: http://8thgrquest.edublogs.org/

Then…

Post comment(s) on those sites to react in a positive way about what you are seeing.

Finally…

Post comment(s) here to let us know what you saw and what you think we could use on 5SW’s site or any other ideas you may have of what you would like to happen with our blog!

Homework Sheet #29

The suspension bridge is one of the most popular bridges around. There is one connecting Brooklyn and Manhattan, and one connecting San Francisco and Marin County. And there are definitely more across the planet. Suspension bridges are made up of…well each bridge in a different place is made up of different things-Brooklyn bridge is made up of two stone piers, and steel wires. The stone piers were constructed with the help of something called a caisson. The cables of the Golden Gate Bridge are made up of thousands of pencil thin wires that are tied to two anchor blocks.

When we tested small bridges in school, we made a suspension bridge out of straws for the poles, books for the posts, fishing line or string for the wires, and tape to hold it all together. To make these bridges we worked in pairs or in a group of three. The highest amount of pennies our suspension bridges held was 298. The lowest amount was 131. All of the different numbers in between were: 283, 200, 179, 176 and 150.

The Arch Bridge has been around since the ancient Romans; well actual they came up with it. On Thursday, instead of building a massive, heavy, stone arch bridge, like the Aqueduct (which the Romans made) we used books and paper to recreate how tension, compression and torsion would affect a bridge. The Arch Bridge held 5 pennies for my group. The other groups got: 7, 7, 7, 11, 3 and 12.

During the lab, we tested two other kinds of bridges and they were a suspension bridge and the post and beam bridge. The post and beam bridge worked the worst and the suspension bridge worked the best. On Friday afternoon we are doing another experiment with truss bridges with some kind of candy, or raw fish, but we are not quit sure exactly what we are doing. We can’t wait!!!

5SW has just started a new social studies unit about Lewis and Clark. There is so much to learn about Lewis and Clark and one of the ways that we are learning about it is by doing a scavenger hunt. We have been asked questions about certain things that are important about Lewis and Clark’s journey and we have to look in books and find the information for the specific questions. We also have a read aloud about Lewis and Clark, called The Captain’s Dog which is written from the perspective of a dog and while we listen to it, if any information comes up, we record it.

In the book Going Along With Lewis & Clark, we learned about Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. Further into the book we discovered how they communicated and about the languages they learned. One of the facts in the book was about the ages of the members of the Corps and which men were related .For example, the youngest was George Shannon at the age of 19, and the oldest was John Shields age 35. Charles Floyd and Nathaniel were cousins while Ruben and Joseph were brothers. Lewis was 30 and Clark was 34. Along in the book there many side captions.

There is an online game on the 5SW website about when Lewis and Clark go west (see links). It is very exciting for kids that know or like history. In this game you have to read the clues and also you have to answer the questions. The reason why Lewis and Clark went on this expedition is because Thomas Jefferson told Meriwether Lewis to get information of the Northwest Passage and of the west. You had to read several journal entries and facts about the journey. Then you have to take all of what you have just read about and make a decision on a question that the site gives you.