My Journey to Singapore

Reading Reflection

Over the last two weeks I finished The Lost Hero by Rick Riordan, The Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling, my book club book The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis and started Flush by Carl Hiaasen and my new book club book, Midnight Magic by Avi. All of these books are fantasy except for Flush, being a realistic fiction book. The time period in which I started and finished these books was from February 3rd to February 17th. I read a total of 21 times over the last two weeks. I read for 547 minutes or 9 hours and 7 minutes and I read 512 pages. This is an average speed of 0.94 pages a minute or around 9/10 a page a minute. This is just right level. The book that I started and finished in the last two weeks is The Sorcerer's Stone and this fits into it's genre of fantasy because it has inhuman creatures and the characters have powers. The book is about Harry Potter, who just finds out that he is a wizard and at his wizard school notices a professor acting strange. Harry gathers enough information with his friends Ron and Hermoine and knows the professor is going to steal a stone that has an elixir that makes you immortal. Harry must stop the professor from doing so. I like this genre because they always have a lot going on and tons of interesting plot twists and turns. One compliment I can give myself is that in the past two weeks I have been reading just right books and my evidence is my average pages per minute reading speed. One thing I'd like to focus on for the next few weeks is reading books from genres other than fantasy by reading books in the genre challenge.

G5a Shopping Story

Kavya's Typing Progress

Kavya's 5th Grade Goals

Typing Training SMART Goal

My typing speed should not hinder the writing process.

S	Specific	I want to type at 45 wpm by October 1 with correct finger placement and without looking at my fingers so my typing speed does not hinder the writing process.
M	Measurable	Four nights a week I will practice TypingTraining for 10 minutes. I will take a 3 minute typing test at the end of each week to monitor my progress.
A	Attainable	I will blog about my progress and comment on how my attitudes and skills are changing as I work closer to my goal.
R	Realistic	My goal is realistic. By the end of Grade 5 I would like to be typing at 35 wpm with correct finger placement.
T	Timely	My goal will be achieved by October 1, 2013.

My First Four Weeks of 5th Grade

My first four weeks of fifth grade have gone really well. I really like how all the fifth graders get to do lots of things other grades don't. These include going to a water park twice a year, getting our very own MacBook Pros, being the oldest in Elementary, we get to go to Subway in the High School, and getting to do extra things like Gecko Press, Student Council, and Peer Supporter.

Another thing I have really enjoyed in 5th grade is that I have had some really fun times with friends. For example, I joke around with them a lot at lunch, and have fun with them in the water park.

One thing I want to work on is writing because I hear we get to write tons of cool genres like fantasy. I also want to improve on my writing skills in these genres. I think it will be interesting to come up with story lines. I don't write fiction that much, so this will be something different, too.