Song Number 2 – Opinion and Informative Writing

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Posted by Mr. Haney | Posted in Uncategorized | Posted on February 26, 2016

Haney’s Court!

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Posted by rockyhillaaron | Posted in Uncategorized | Posted on February 26, 2016

Traditional vs Year-Round Calendar from Jordan Haney on Vimeo.

I am the main speaker for the traditional team, in the black coat and tan pants. I did so much better when we did this with the first graders.

Steel Drums!

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Posted by rockyhillaaron | Posted in Uncategorized | Posted on February 26, 2016

UT Steel Drum Band from Jordan Haney on Vimeo.

5th Grade Week 25

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Posted by rockyhillaaron | Posted in Uncategorized | Posted on February 26, 2016

This week was, as always, full of work assignments you wouldn’t find in a normal school. One example of this is we finished our second songs on how to write opinion and informative writings. Compared to how my team did for our last song, we did pretty bad this time, mainly because I was on a smaller team, and as a result of this, I had to make the lyrics. After that experience, I realized I had no musical talent when it comes to actual singing. Another thing my class did this week (Or should I say, finished this week?) was we finished our Haney Court papers, which are writing assignments we did to present our opinion on a certain topic in “court”,  which was about 20 4th graders watching us and listening. Also, the reason it’s called Haney’s Court is because it is named after our teacher, not a random guy. One more thing we did this week was we- wait a second. Seriously? The only other things we had this week was having dine with the rams at Wendy’s, dads and donuts, which should be named donuts for kids, and the UT steel drums band coming to preform? Ok, the last one was pretty cool, but the first two are not very interesting topics at all. Oh, well. I will just write about steel drums. Like I said, the steel drums were pretty cool, and I liked the music a lot. My teacher also made a video with clips from the band. In summary, me and my class did all this stuff I just spent a good 15-20 minutes writing about.

5th Grade Week 23 & 24

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Posted by rockyhillaaron | Posted in Uncategorized | Posted on February 19, 2016

Note: there was snow on Friday, when I do my posts, so in this post, I will do both week 23 and 24.

 

These two weeks, 23 and 24, were very crazy. The reason why was because on Tuesday and Friday on week 23, there wasn’t any school. As a result of this, 23 and 24 were merged, and that made things complicated. For example, we didn’t get another morning work sheet, but we did get another recces-ELA transition sheet. Another example is we were supposed to bring our folders home on Tuesday, instead of Friday, and I forgot because that was very irregular and I had to spend recess in study hall, which didn’t bother me, because then I had time to FINISH THE PILES OF WORK WE GOT THIS WEEK! Anyways, onto what we did this week, or should I say these weeks?

One thing we did these weeks was we started our second song, about opinion and informative writings. Also, I’m rushing this post so I can hopefully finish the extremely hard-to-make lyrics by the time the sun explodes. Another thing we did this week was we finished our opinion writing projects, and presented our PPTs for it. One more thing we did this week was we did our track tryouts, which I was not interested in at all. Yep. This was our week. All the fun things were work. Which I don’t mind. I like work.

 

My Song (Finally)

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Posted by rockyhillaaron | Posted in Uncategorized | Posted on February 5, 2016

Rescue Dogs Paper

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Posted by rockyhillaaron | Posted in Uncategorized | Posted on February 5, 2016

Rescue Dogs Compare Contrast

By: Aaron Matheny

 

Have you ever seen a dog herding sheep? How about saving countless lives of avalanche victims?

In the two articles “It’s a Dog’s Life” by Rebecca Upjohn Snyder and “Hide-and-Seek School” by Vivienne Lenk, they are writing about two different types of working dogs, herding dogs and avalanche rescue dogs. In this essay, I will comparing and contrasting these two types of dogs.

 

Herding dogs and Avalanche Rescue dogs have many differences, and I know because the two articles “It’s a Dog’s Life” by Rebecca Upjohn Snyder and “Hide-and-Seek School” by Vivienne Lenk, they have a lot of information showing that herding dogs and Avalanche Rescue Dogs are very different. One difference is the two dogs work in very different places. For example, herding dogs work on farms, but avalanche rescue dogs work on snowy mountaintops. Another difference is they have different calendars. According to the texts,”It’s a Dog’s Life” by Rebecca Upjohn Snyder and “Hide-and-Seek School” by Vivienne Lenk, herding dogs work year round, but avalanche rescue dogs only work in Winter. Yet another difference is avalanche rescue dogs are their owner’s personal pets, unlike herding dogs, who aren’t. One more difference is the breeds of dogs used for these two types of working dogs. Border Collies are used as herding dogs because of there instinct to gather stock, or farm animals, and bring them back to their masters, while avalanche rescue dogs are usually shepherds or retrievers because they have strong instincts to retrieve, or bring back. These are the many ways herding dogs and avalanche rescue dogs are different.

 

The two articles “It’s a Dog’s Life” by Rebecca Upjohn Snyder and “Hide-and-Seek School” by Vivienne Lenk give me a lot of examples of differences, but they give also give me a large amount of similarities between Border Collies and Avalanche Rescue Dogs. One similarity is they both have instincts that are why they got the job in the first place. “It’s a Dog’s Life” by Rebecca Upjohn Snyder states “They were chosen for their instinct…”, and “Hide and Seek School” by Vivienne Lenk also informs us “They have strong instincts to retrieve…”. Another way these herding and avalanche rescue dogs are alike is they both have to go through training. “It’s a Dog’s Life” by Rebecca Upjohn Snyder states “Years of practice has helped too.”, and “Hide and Seek School by Vivienne Lenk explains “The dogs are trained to find people buried in avalanches,”. One more reason is both dogs work in a team. “It’s a Dog’s Life” by Rebecca Upjohn Snyder states “David and his dogs work as a team.”, and “Hide and Seek School” by Vivienne Lenk states “The dogs are their personal pets and rescue partners.”. These are just some of the numerous examples of the two dogs’ similarities.

 

 

In conclusion, herding and avalanche rescue dogs are very similar, but also different in many ways. I have heard of many other working dogs, such as police and marine dogs, but these two types are the best I have seen. If I were caught in an avalanche, with numerous feet of snow above me and freezing to death, I would hope for an avalanche rescue dog team to save me, and if I were a shepherd, with many sheep to get back in the pen, I would definitely want a herding dog to assist me in my hard work.

 

Pluto Paper

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Posted by rockyhillaaron | Posted in Uncategorized | Posted on February 5, 2016

Should Pluto Be Classified?

By: Aaron Matheny

Have you ever heard of the expression, “My very excellent mother just served us nine pizzas”? Probably not, because in two recent articles I just read, “What is a Planet?” by NASA and “When Is a Planet Not a Planet?” by Daniel Santos, both state that Pluto is not a planet. Many people are arguing about this topic, and the two sides are for Pluto being a planet or Pluto not being a planet. In this essay, I will give my opinion on whether Pluto should or shouldn’t be a planet. I strongly believe that Pluto should not be a planet because Pluto’s reclassification will add numerous other planets to our solar system and Pluto doesn’t meet the 3rd criteria of a planet.

One reason I think Pluto shouldn’t be a planet is if Pluto is reclassified as a planet, many other objects found on the Kuiper Belt, which is a large belt in space with a lot of objects like Pluto, will also have to be classified as planets. Specifically, this means that there will be a total of 52 planets with many more to come. If this happens, it will be next to impossible to memorize the names of all the planets, much less give them names. The article “What is a Planet” states that “Some scientists believe that if Pluto remains classified as a planet, then the dozens of Kuiper Belt Objects (KBOs) orbiting our sun will also be classified as planets.” As a result of this domino effect if Pluto is classified, I still stand with my belief that Pluto shouldn’t be a planet.

Another reason I am opposed to Pluto being a planet is that Pluto doesn’t meet the 3rd criteria in the IAUs, who are the group of people who name and classify planets, definition of a planet, which is “A planet must clear other objects from its orbital path”, which means the planet must have enough gravity to push other objects out of their paths, and Pluto doesn’t do that. It is true that less than half of the IAU actually got a chance to vote on the definition, but the majority of the people who did vote on the definition was for the decision to make an official definition, so it wouldn’t have mattered. “What is a Planet?” states “According to the IAU, Pluto doesn’t meet this third requirement but is now in a new class of objects called “dwarf planets. Since Pluto doesn’t meet the 3rd criteria of the IAU’s definition of a planet, I still feel like Pluto shouldn’t be a planet.

In conclusion, I very strongly believe that Pluto should not be considered a planet because if Pluto is classified, many other KBOs will also have to be classified as planets, and Pluto doesn’t meet the third requirement for the IAU’s definition of a planet. There are also good reasons for Pluto being a planet, like “Not enough members voted”, and “For historical reasons”, but I still believe that Pluto should not be a planet.

5th Grade Week 21

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Posted by rockyhillaaron | Posted in Uncategorized | Posted on February 5, 2016

My class and I have accomplished a lot this week. One thing we did, or 3 things we did was we did 3 writing prompts to practice for the big opinion writing test on Wendsday next week. It was hard to do all of those 4 paragraph prompts, but after doing them, I felt very good about the coming test. The first prompt we did was an opinion writing on whether Pluto should be a planet or not. The second prompt we did was comparing and contrasting two types of working dogs. The last prompt we did was comparing and contrasting two people’s point of views on pollution.

Another thing my class did was we hada basket ball tournament. I’m not going in to detail about this, because all I know about it was that it happened. One more thing that My class and I did was yet another pizza party due to someone in our class getting #1 in Ticket To Read. These are some of the things my class did this week.

 

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