Category: Family Conferences

Mandarin 1st Quarter

This is one of my mandarin sets that I have been studying this quarter. It is called 哪国人. That literally means which country person in English. As you may have guessed, this quizlet set is about countries. It is also about languages and nationalities. It contains the correct characters that will teach you how to say things like, where are you from or, do you speak Spanish or, My mom is from france.

 

 

 

I chose the country Scotland for me to use for various activities in class. This is how you write Scotland in Mandarin.

 

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Here is the card that I made for a Mandarin writing assessment.

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This is my quizlet set that I will be using throughout the year. It has all of the new words that I learn.

We have also been following this really helpful youtube series called Growing up with chinese. Here it is.

Tessellation

This is my tessellation. In case you don’t know what a tessellation is, it is a pattern that repeats it self forever without any gaps or spaces. It was hard to find the right shapes in order to make this tessellation. I had to be creative and try a lot of things. This is the successful result.

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Operation Manual

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This is a food pyramid. It is part of one of my first pages of my operation manual. It goes from the most powerful species to the least powerful species. Zoom in for more details. The overall idea I am trying to convey on this page is that if you take too much or too little, everybody will suffer and the food economy system will crash. This is one of the many ideas to my operation manual of earth. It will teach people (and aliens) how to survive and thrive on earth, without everything going wrong. They are basically life lessons and scientific theories about what to do on earth to survive.

The Death Of The Zoo

The Death Of The Zoo

I am in the truck with the Maasai blanket on my lap. I feel the wind blowing against my face. I am in Tanzania for my grandparents 50th anniversary. On my truck is Uncle steven, Jake, Mom, and Papa. I look at the golden serengeti and I inspect the stripes on the zebras. The giraffes are knocking their heads together. They are vegetarians, but their predators are not. There are wildebeests roaming around in huge packs. They look like mangy buffalo, but the buffalo in africa look like bulls. There are lions eating antelope, a small, deer-like animal. Our guide said that his people recognize them because of the Mc Donalds sign on their backside (an “m”) We are on a safari.

 

Looking at the giraffes habitat makes me remember the first time I saw a giraffe. It was in Jupiter, Florida, November 30, 2008. I was feeding bears water through beer bottles in a zoo, when I turned around. There, caged, was a giraffe. I was baffled. I had never actually seen such a creature in person. It was moaning. I was taken aback. It raised its neck ten feet tall. They are taller than Chris Bosh and Shaquille O’neal combined. Thats pretty tall. They are approximately 15 feet. Wow.  That is big.

 

Here in Tanzania, there is more stuff, more freedom.

The giraffes that were knocking their heads together stopped.

 

I gaze out of the window to see little apes on their mothers back. I see lions sleeping. I see cheetahs running as fast as a car. I can already picture what the next camp will look like. A pool outlooking the zebras. A minibar of coke. Ahh, it will be way better than this camp. Although I think this one has a way better natural experience. I say this because on a safari you take 15 to 30 minute plane rides to different parts of your african country. Safari in swahili means “vacation” or “journey”. I found that very interesting. It is very nice there, watching the sunset. It is way more beautiful over there than it is here in america, by far.

Population Graph

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I chose my graph to look like this because at first there were no wars. So, they had a steady start with some die-offs caused by natural disaster or diseases and animals. The rest stayed pretty neutral in a way that it didn’t keep going up and it didn’t keep going down. But, when civilizations were made, people gathered, which made a huge jump in population. I believe that it kept on going up until 8,000,000,000 population has generated. I finished my graph before Ana announced the 5,000,000 population thing so I didn’t have to change but I added it. That was my first proven piece of information. But the population stays low until 5,000 BCE when civilization for my graph started to raise the population until the population of the present day.