Monthly Archives: April 2016

Poetry

I think that poetry is a fun and different way of writing, you don’t have to worry about punctuation and you can make your words in any form. I wrote a haiku about spring. A haiku is a type of poem that the first line has five syllables, then seven syllables in the second line, and then five syllables in the third line. Most of the time haiku’s are about nature and they have a kigo in it. A kigo is a word that indicates a season, like blooming trees represent spring. My poem was about spring, and in my haiku I tried to describe more about the scenery of spring than what you can do in spring. I think a strength I have when writing poetry is using describing words. A goal I have is to write poetry about something I may not write about that is hard to describe, instead of writing a poem about flowers or clouds. A challenge in poetry for me is to try to write a poem that makes a little bit of sense, not just random words that don’t really relate to each other even though they describe what the poem is about. This is my poem!

 

Beautiful sunlight

Bright colors of paradise

Blooming trees in sight  

 

Structure Fits Function Science Project

Do you ever wonder how the heart does all those things fir your body? Do you ever wonder if the shape of you heart changes what it does? If your heart was shaped differently would it still do the same things or would it have different functions?

The heart is a muscle. The function of the heart is to pump blood and circulate it through the body. The structure helps the function because the heart is round so the veins that spread can go at any angle and any part of the body. Another reason is that it’s good that the heart is more at the top of your body than the bottom because it’s probably easier for blood to travel down than up. The heart is small so it is hard for it to be punctured and there are valves on the heart that make it easier to make blood flow through your body.

The heart is helpful to the brain because the brain needs a lot of blood and the heart is very close to the brain.

Creative Writing Piece

This is another one of my creative writing pieces. This piece is about a first, I wrote about the first time at dance class this year. I like this piece because we got to describe how you felt because when it is a fiction piece you don’t really know how something actually felt. But since the piece is non-fiction I can actually describe how I felt. I am proud of it because I used a lot of descriptive language in it.

 

It was September 17. It was my first day of dance class at the Ailey school. After school, my mom and I went to dance. I kept on thinking about what would happen that day at dance . I had no friends there and I haven’t gone to an actual dance class in three years. When I did gymnastics we had thirty minutes of a ballet/modern class almost every friday. (Still no one knows that I didn’t really do ballet…)

When we got into the building I went into the changing room and did my hair. It was my first time putting on the royal blue leotard that everyone had to wear. I was used to having stretchy spandex leotards at gymnastics, but at dance it was more of a soft, not so stretchy leotard. I also wasn’t used to wearing tights with the leotard, but after a few classes I got used to it.

After I got changed, I sat down in the round chairs that are lined up against the wall of the stairway. I wasn’t sure who were my classmates, but when I saw more girls come from the dressing room with the same colored leotards, I noticed who they were. Most of the girls have been together for five years. The only new kids that came in this year was a girl named Miette and myself. I kind of knew her because we were both at the audition to get in and she was also friends with Emma D.

I decided not to do my homework while I was waiting for class to start because I was so nervous I couldn’t focus. Soon it was 4:30 and it was time to go into class. I walked towards the girls waiting in front of the studio. Then our teacher walked in with bright green eyeshadow and a long french braid, holding a big cup of coffee. “Come on in!” Our teacher Ms.Galache said. Everyone walked into the room and started taking out the barres. I decided to go to one of the back barres, I wasn’t confident going on one of the barres in the front because I thought that I wasn’t very good

Soon Ms.Galache told us a combination to do and the music started to play. Everyone was so good, so I felt like I was really bad. We did a few more combinations on the barre and then we moved to the center. I could tell the center was harder. (Center is with no barre) We did more jumping and turns. Ms. Galache also gave us stretches to do at home. We practiced them in class that day. Ms. Galache only teaches ballet, but we also have Character dance and Horton, which is almost like modern dance. Each level get’s assigned three or four different types of dance, next year I think that I get to go on pointe! (Getting pointe shoes)

This day was a little different because it was a half dance class. After dance class all the girls in our level went into a room for an introduction about the year with their parents . The director said things about what would happen if you’re late. They also said when our performance was, and that in december things would get more serious. My body felt so tight because of the strengthening exercises we did. We listened to the director speak and because of dance class I was really relieved that class was over. So I was just sitting on the floor, not really listening and being glad that the day was over.

Finally when the introduction was over and I got to go home. I ate dinner, but I was so tired my eyes were closing a bit. Of course I had to take a shower. Taking a shower made me feel a little more awake, which was good because I had to do my homework. After homework I brushed my teeth, and got into bed. It was only around 8:45, but I fell asleep right away.

Fabric Collage

This is my fabric collage for medieval guilds. I am in the music guild so I had to represent that I am in the music guild and who I am. I decided to do a side view of my character playing an instrument. I actually learned how to do side views from Kaya!

Olivia P Fabric

Geometric Pattern

This is my geometric pattern! It was a little harder than other projects because we had to cut out each shape of the paper out and then glue it onto another piece of paper. But the ending looked really cool, so it was worth all the hard work! Olivia P Geometric Pattern (1)