Category: Seventh

French Comment

I feel that this year in French I have learned to follow the different sentence structures we have been learning about, and have learned new vocabulary from Quizlet! I think I have become a harder worker, a more committed student, and a better speaker. I feel that my accent has progressed and my work habits have improved drastically since my prior years as a French student. While I do feel I have progressed in many areas, I still think that there is room to improve. First off, I can be less thin-skinned and learn to accept failure when it comes my way. I also think I can build on my ability to write in French. I have learned how to follow many different sentence structures, but my ability to write without a certain structure has not quite reached its full potential. I loved working on the city projects as well as our sport projects. I think I have learned more about how to make a presentation and Sharyn has helped me progress. I can also learn more about failure and all that Sharyn can do for that is be strict with me about not being thin-skinned. All that I really want to learn for next trimester is how to fail. While I do want to know more about how to freely write in French, as well as how to improve on my accent, learning how to fail is my main priority. I have loved the past two trimesters in french, and hope they get even better!

Unit Rates

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This month in math we have been working with unit rates. Unit rates are basically the amount of something in ones. If you had 10 lollipops for 15 dollars, and 6 lollipops for 11 dollars, and you wanted to know which was the better deal, you would use unit rates. All you have to do is set up a proportion and simplify the lollipops to one to find out how much one lolly costs. We are also using an app called Recap, which we can videotape ourselves on, explaining different math concepts.(A link for one Recap video is at the top).

Art Value Chart

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For the very first art project in art we made a value chart. We learned about different techniques to shading and adding contrast. First we learned hatching witch is displayed in the very first 6 columns. Hatching is basically shading going in one direction. We used a selection of pencils that varied in value hence, the value chart. The second technique was cross hatching. I am pretty sure this is the most famous technique because I had heard of it and used it before we learned about it in art. It is almost the same as hatching but the lines cross creating many tiny tiny squares so when you shade you are not using to much pencil and all the extra pencil will shade into the white spaces. The third technique is stipple it was created using sharpie and varied the separation of tiny dots. The last technique was random marks. We could choose any mark and we consistently put it down it different amounts to create the change from dark to light. Rohan said that we are going to use this chart in most projects this year and I know we already have started a project using it which is us drawing our own eye. We have already created a miny value chart on the eye drawing and are starting it now!

Liam’s check up 2 (math)

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This is the second math check up we have had this year. The first check up tested are skills of inv. 1. Inv.1 is basically the first unit in our math workbooks. The second unit is Inv. 2 and this check up was based off of that. The first page is basically testing our skills in similar figures which actually was talked a lot about in Inv. 1. We got to draw a rectangle similar to the one we were given but it would not be congruent. This was very simply because all we really had to do was draw a figure with a scale factor relating to the original and it was similar. The shape was not congruent because the corresponding sides were not congruent to each other. We did the same thing with a triangle and then we got to draw a figure not similar to the given rectangle and triangle. On the back we were given a series of shapes. We had to identify which shapes were similar by seeing if they had a scale factor. Then we explained what their scale factor was and wrote it out.