Category: Fifth

Blue is the best color

 

One of my favorite art pieces is my perspective water color. The reasoning to that is because before I didn’t know how to perspective draw and then I learned and thought it was cool. When we got to the water coloring part you had to pick a color and stick into that colors scheme. If you couldn’t tell my color was to stay in the blue scheme. Some parts of my water color has some purple but to be honest I thought that the color was close enough to blue. One thing that I would do if I had more time would be to sit down and try to make different shades of blue. Also, by doing that I think I could have different shades of blue and make it not all the same color. First we started drawing it out with pencil, then went to water color, next you had the option of using color pencil if you wanted in your piece. Here’s a picture of my final water color:

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Blue’s Memoir Writing

The First Time I……

 

The feeling of doing something the first time can be mind numbing. It would be that emotion or action because you have no idea what you’re about to get yourself into. Also, you could get your feelings hurt. For example, if you’re trying to make friends with someone you could get rejected because the person could just not try whatsoever to socialize and walk away. Also, you can feel nervous, excited, embarrassed, tender, awkward, and like you are about to throw up. Your body reacts to things that could hold you back, choosing to control what you do.

I remember meeting my best friend Ava J  for the first time in the fours class. Having a friend there was helpful when trying something new. She and I liked to go to the park and run around in her house. Another time we went to my house and we would go on my big terrace to put sprinklers on and run around in the hot, warm, and sunny days. One thing that I won’t forget is when we took dance classes together. I was the lead in the dance and she was the second. When it was the end of the semester of the dance class when we performed for our parents, I remember we went on this big stage in a different building and it was a real full-on professional show. We both had these cute adorable costumes!            

When Ava J and I hung out for the first time I felt like I had a real best friend that I would keep until we grew up. In the beginning, Ava J and I weren’t shy at all we just jumped to being friends like we knew each other already for a long time. I remember that we would always go to the park even if it was cold or hot out like we were in the desert.  We would always play tag and when I was it I would always tag her! Almost every time we hung out we were being active. I was also, nervous because I didn’t know what might happen to our friendship. It was a little overwhelming, exciting, proud, and apprehensive. Ava J and I are still really tight best friends like we were when we were younger but, even more, stronger. Our Friendship is like a coconut growing on a tree from the beginning to the end. Growing up to be a big strong tree like my friendship with Ava J. We don’t consider ourselves friends anymore, though, we consider each other as sisters.

When I tried basketball for the first time the emotions I was feeling were, nervous, thankful, lost, lonely, confident, misplaced, curious, involved, confused, free, welcoming, present, and much more. I especially felt misplaced for sure because back then I was a soccer player that breathed, thought, felt, and wore soccer. Basketball was a whole different sport for me to take on. I was also really confused why I was there with my feet not on my own “territory”. Instead of turf under my feet, I switched to a wooden gym floor that I stood on. “Curious.” I wanted to know what was going to happen next. I wanted to know what we were exactly doing.

 

Recently, I tried a new sport for the first time. We had our conferences before the fifth and sixth-grade intramural basketball started. My advisor, Larry talked to me about Intramurals and my reaction to basketball was like, “Uh Uh. Uh Uh, I am not going to like it and I know it.” I said . But, I decided to just try it and see if I would like it. One week into intramural basketball we made teams of sixth and fifth graders, I was put on the Blue Team. The Blue Team apparently was the team that has never lost in 5 years. I was really excited as I went to practices on Thursdays. I felt like I was apart of something that was going to turn out special for me. The only other thing that I felt like I was a part of and that turned out special for me was my Soccer Team. Practices ran the same every time. We did lay up lines and then at the end we played a basketball game with the other team that was practicing on Thursday which was the Black Team. At the end of intramural basketball when It was over we made it to the finals and won!

 

When I tried basketball for the first time the emotions I was feeling were, nervous, thankful, lost, lonely, confident, misplaced, curious, involved, confused, free, welcoming, present, and much more. I especially felt misplaced for sure because back then I was a soccer player that breathed, thought, felt, and wore soccer. Basketball was a whole different sport for me to take on. I was also really confused why I was there with my feet not on my own “territory”. Instead of turf under my feet, I switched to a wooden gym floor that I stood on. “Curious.” I wanted to know what was going to happen next. I wanted to know what we were exactly doing.

When you have done the thing the first time, I usually feel proud of myself because I just did something that I haven’t done before. Also, I might have been scared  and I could feel relieved because I just went for it! The way I feel now when something new happens is I just process an idea through my mind that makes me not nervous and I take the initiative. When I was younger I always got a big amount of nerve in me and work myself up. Then at the end, I wouldn’t be able to do the thing I was going to try for the first time. Something I’ve learned about myself when I try new things is that I will always feel nervous but, always will go ahead and try at least. Also, for me, it always helps to have a friend by my side. But, usually I do it all by myself and I feel more proud than doing it with a friend!

Art – Single point perspective blog post

Perspective drawing for me has kind of been hard because I like to get every line “perfect”. I’ll be honest I’m a perfectionist and I keep trying until I get it the way I like it. The hardest part for me would be just going on and not to take thousands of hours trying to get one line right. That’s hard for me because I like to do my best and not give up.
         Another art project we are doing is drawing the street! One class, we went out and sat on the sidewalk and we drew what we saw and the perspective… I think my drawing is going good so far. Down below is a picture of me working on it:
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On the Sidewalk Drawing

You can’t really see the drawing but, all I have on the paper are the buildings on the side and a lamp post. It’s not a lot because I kept redoing the lamp post… That’s a little bit of what was happening with my street drawing art piece.

         When we started our perspective drawing unit we did this shape thing where we drew a five sided shape and connected it with lines coming from this point on the middle of the paper and then earased them when they connected. Then it turned out into a nice 3d shape! When we were finishing our last classes working on the shape work we moved onto our street drawings. By doing the shape piece before we did our street drawings helped me because we were getting the idea how to perspective draw.
      I would say the hardest thing transitioing from the shape work to the street work would be getting the buildings and the surrounding objects lined up so it would all look 3d and not mixed up from having a five sided shape and connecting the lines. The reason is because with the street drawing you have tons of things to draw that have to be lined up with everthing to make it the same art technique.
         I am really enojoying this art unit we are doing because I am learning a lot from it. Playing around with the shapes and buildings can be fun when your making it 3d/perspective drawing.
Blue Street 1
Perspective Drawing in Progress

Are Humans Following the rules?

The article that I read is about a bear named Tuffy. Tuffy was a bear that was trapped in this metal bar cage that was fairly small. Tuffy was kept in this horrible cage for a long time and then one day was rescued from Bile Farm. In a way the were kind of abusing Tuffy because they put the poor bear in a small metal cage for a long time and not giving it the right treatment the animals needs. I think this Tuffy article relates to “We’re All In This Together” rule because we all are in this together to help the world especially animals. Etc… I don’t think this is an example of following the rules because these people took a bear in and just put it in this crapy metal cage that hurts the bear and physically too. The metal bars are rough on the bears paws and the paws can start cracking from walking on bars and not grass like there supposed to be. But on the other hand, Bile Farm did the right thing and recused Tuffy and put it in an environment the bear should have been in from the start!

 

 

Blog Post on Exit Polling

Tuesday morning during “Big Time” we went to this voting place to do exit polling. I learned the definition of exit polling. An election exit poll is a poll of voters taken immediately after they have exited the polling stations. Unlike an opinion poll, which asks for whom the voter plans to vote, or some similar formulation, an exit poll asks for whom the voter actually voted. So that is the definition I learned and yeah. A preliminary election to appoint delegates to a party conference or to select the candidates for a principal, especially presidential, election. Some things that surprised me when we were doing the exit polling activity was, I thought people would pick different presidential primaries but we got a ton if the same presidential primaries. We only had a couple of people that voted for Donald Trump. My experience on Exit Polling was really fun but, it wasn’t fun when you went up to a person and they smiled at you a put all their attention to you and then they just walk past you all sassy and everything (lol).

 

There is No Such Place as Away

Imagine doing an activity that you love. “OK, you got it?” Then Imagine doing that activity surrounded by trash. Not fun and pretty gross, right? Yea, well some of our trash that we make gets thrown into the ocean and it ruins the environment. I bet you definitely don’t want to play in the trash!   HOW MUCH DO WE WASTE DAILY?-The average person a day generates/makes 4.3 pounds of waste per day. Where does it all go? 55% of 220 million tons of waste generated each year in the United States ends up in one of the over 3,500 landfills. When you throw things away it doesn’t actually go away. Everything is made out of atoms so when you throw something away the atoms don’t go away nor the trash. The animals you sometimes see in zoos are dying that are wild in the world because the trash looks like food and the animals eat it and it could be sharp and might cut them from the inside.

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Picture of a turtle and jellyfish outlined by trash

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Trash inside of a poor innocent turtle.

If we find a way to stop the trash from ruining the environment and that is safe we could avoid sad problems that happened around the world. Also, the rate of pollution could drop. The problem with  that is that it’s really hard to get done because there is a ton of pollution all over the world. The universe has too many flaws for only one person to try to succeed so we need everyone aka as many people we could to help.

Third Quarter Math Reflection

I think that I have made a lot of progress as a mathematician threw out the quarters. One area of strength for me this quarter has been going over my work. That is a great area for me because in the other quarters I didn’t look over my work that well, and now a strength for me is checking my work! Another strength for me is taking initiative through a problem that gets assigned. However, an area where I am still having some challenge is being focused, because I am in a class with all my friends and I just want to tell them my answer to a question or just talk to them about the newest trend on the internet. But I don’t usually talk about the newest trend I usually just want to tell them my answer. I like to socialise but sometimes I socialise at the wrong time. I have kind of (eh kind of, tbh that means, “To Be Honest”) beginning to be more comfortable/confident sharing ideas that I have. My goal for the fourth quarter is to get more confident with everything that you can imagine that connects to math class. Also, another goal for me is to find the right time to socialise(I love to socialise as you can see. But srsly (seriously) I will find when and when not to socialise)!

Docent Talk Reflection

It was fun because I was excited to talk about jewelry and share my facts I know with my classmates. I felt nervous because whenever I have to talk in front of people I get a little freaked out because all the attention is on me . One thing I learned about note-taking is you have to put down your book before taking the note because you might copy what is already in the book . When it comes to taking notes, I used to write a whole sentence instead of a note , but now I learned how to properly take a note avoiding writing a whole sentence. One thing that is still challenging for me about note taking is I find a word that I don’t know the definition of then I forget to look up the word and that doesn’t help me. I’m getting a lot better at not writing a whole sentence but at sometimes I accidentally do.

 

Book Partnership Reflection

My partner and I read Kira Kira by Cynthia Kadohata. Our partnership was fun and steady because we would always have a conversation to talk about and agree with topics we came up with. It was also a steady partnership because we both read the book in a good amount of time. We would email each other if any of us were out and let the other person know what was going on . I’m proud that I had topics to talk about and have a long conversation about it because sometimes it’s a little weak in that area . One challenge for me was to stay on one topic because I had so many ideas to tell Zoe, but at least I didn’t have any ideas because that would be a very boring conversation. 

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Math assessment of the unit

1446648042308.11446648067534.2 This is the assessment that we did. And the unit was mostly long division and multiplication. I thought the unit was easy (but sometimes it could be hard) because I am use to the multiplication algorithm. And when they taught us the division strategy I would practice it every night when I can. I was surprised that I didn’t have a hard time on the long division because I wasn’t feeling that confident with it. But then  I used the Divide, Multiply ,Subtract , and Bring Down strategy. And I think that really helped me a lot for the assessment. I am also proud of my long division and the explanation was jus explained up top. At first I was challenged by the long division. But, then I wanted to get better at it and so it wasn’t a threat to me  so I decided to practice. Once I got the hang of long division I started enjoy it because I knew the steps but sometimes I would forget them and I would struggle a little. But then I would relax and try again and do my best.