I previously choose to work on my discussion and listening skills. My goal was to raise my hand at least once per class and to try not to get as embarrassed as I normally do. So far, I have been raising my hand more often. Maybe not every class, but for a lot of them. I still have to work on not getting so nervous, and I think this is what is stopping me. I do not think I will completely eradicate my anxiousness, but I can get better. I will continue to work on participating more in class.
My 2017-2018 Learning Value
I choose discussion and listening to be my 2017-2018 learning value. I will participate more in class and at the end of the week, I will document my progress. My goal is to raise my hand at least once per class. The reason I choose this learning habit is that I do not talk enough in class. Since I do not talk in class enough not only does my grade go down I also do not get enough out of the class. If I talk more, than I could understand the new material, and share my ideas with my class so that they can benefit from them as well. I have not shared my ideas enough in the past because I get nervous that I will look foolish in front of my peers. That has not changed but I am willing to give it a shot to challenge myself. Besides raising my hand at least once per class, I will learn how to calm down so I do not get so embarrassed and nervous. I could talk about ways to calm myself with my mom.
Eye Drawing
During this project, we have completed a lot of different steps including adding value to the iris, shading in the skin, and drawing out the eyelashes. It was a very open assignment in that we could utilize our style, and also how we use value to bring the drawing together. I really liked how open it was to interpretation, and I don’t think I really disliked anything about the project. I am very proud of my drawing because I do not normally draw in a realistic style. I think I have some type of cartoon-like style, so I was surprised how good it came out. If I could change anything I probably would have wanted to change the position of my eye in the image to make it more interesting.
Do You Want to Become a Camel?
“The others, fifty or so big camels and dozens of babies, follow in a close knot.” Pg.118
So you want to become a camel, eh. Well guess what, that is the topic of today. I don’t think you can directly become a camel unless you acquire some magic. But today I will tell you how to act like one. First you need to gather a herd, so go outside and find the few friends that you actually have. Second you need to throw out everything but the basic camel necessities (food and water). Third you need to find someone to take care of you like my owner Shabanu. Fourth you need to find you and your herd camel costumes to look the part. Make sure to walk the same way as camels so nobody mistakes you as silly humans. Finally create a language of camel noises for you and your herd to communicate. There you go! A five step plan for success on being a camel. Good bye for now!
The First Blog Writing Camel!!!
“Loping behind is Mithoo, bigger by a head than he was when we left, his legs still too long and flying out in funny little kicks.” Pg. 77
Hi! I’m Mithoo, and I am a young camel. I live in the Cholistan Desert with my herd, Owner Shabanu, Owner Phulan, Owner Mama, Owner Dadi, their Auntie and two cousins. I love my herd so much but all they do is shun me away (T~T). I keep trying though! Soon enough I will become apart of their family… Hmm, what to talk about… Oh! Please don’t tell the Owners that I have a blog!!! They will surely shut it down, also they might use me for money. You don’t see many camels that can write, do you. (If you do please comment below I would love to meet other camels of my caliber) They might show my skills off for money, or worse, sell me. How unfortunate that might be if that happens but I’m willing to take a chance. So to get to the point my blog is about…
Camel life!
Camel food!
Camel culture!
AND
Camels!
I got this image from https://image.shutterstock.com/z/stock-photo-baby-camel-at-camel-festival-in-abu-dhabi-45933118.jpg
Well if you are interested in camels keep reading my blog! If not, your loss. So, good bye for now.
This is a drawing of me that one of my Owners’ friends drew.
Morning News-American Pharaoh’s Babies
May 6th
After American Pharaoh won the Triple Crown he certainly attracted a lot of attention for breeding. About 22,500 babies were born from American Pharaoh in North America in 2016. A lot of the babies share similar traits to their father, American Pharaoh: Mild temperaments, curious mind, and a strong body. These foals will certainly make for strong horses. Speaking of the foals no more then 20 of them will be competed in the Kentucky Derby. This relates to us because some of us like watching the horse races, or just like animals and horses in general.
I got this article from: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/05/sports/horse-racing/kentucky-derby-american-pharoah-foals.html?_r=0
Circulatory System
In science we are studying the Circulatory system. The Circulatory system pumps blood throughout your body to spread nutrients and oxygen to keep you alive. A fun fact that we found when we researched blood types is that Rh factor is named after the Rhesus monkey, because the Rh factor was first observed in the Rhesus monkey. The Rh factor is another antigen on the surface of your blood cell, not everyone has it. If you have the antigen you are Rh+, if you do not have the Rh factor you are Rh-. An interesting question that we have is; is the circulatory system the same for other mammals.
Group 1
I didn’t really like this assignment because I didn’t like to preform in front of many people. I also prefer to play a song of my choice, I didn’t get a lot of a choice. Next time I would like to choose my group and I think if we are all apart of groups that we want to be in we will have a better result. Also that day my saxophone was broken so it didn’t sound that great.
The First Reused Rocket in Space
March 30
SpaceX has made history by launching the first ever reusable rocket. The rocket is called Falcon 9. Previously Falcon 9 has dropped off a bouncy house onto the drone ship called “Of Course I Still Love You” that was of the coast off the Florida coast. But this time Falcon 9 carried a communications satellite for a company called SES. The SpaceX rocket brought it’s payload (carrying the Dragon capsule). Then Falcon 9 turned itself around and went towards home in about 4.5 minutes after the launch. This is important because that rocket is only one of the first steps to populate Mars. But the next goal for SpaceX is to populate Mars.
The sources I used:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/03/spacex-first-reused-rocket-space-science/
Connecticut
The highlight of my spring break is cleaning/decorating a tree house with Sophia and Lucia. The tree house was at Sophia’s country house in Connecticut. It was meaningful to me because I got to act like an interior designer. I found out how much I liked to design places. I found a way to express my creativeness into something besides drawing and writing. What we actually did was first cleaning up all the leaves and poop (we actually found animal poop inside of the tree house, we think it was a raccoon). Then we went to a hardware shop to see if we can find any decorations for the hang up. We came back with two solar powered lanterns, twelve mason jars, twelve fake candles (we put them inside of the mason jars), a smaller broom, a hanging platform (originally for bird seed), a small fake plant (we put that inside of the hanging platform), and a plastic basket to pack our stuff in. After we got back we remembered that we wanted some chairs so we can sit down. We already had a stool but we planned on that being a table. So we explored the creepy storage barn. Inside of the barn we found a woven basket (to use as a third chair and to put the mason jars in when we leave), and two wire chairs with wooden seats. Sophia’s mom also found some table cloths, and fairy lights for us. So after a couple hours of sweeping and moving furniture around (with a splinter in my finger) we finished our final results. Sophia, Lucia, and I were very proud of our finished project. The next morning we decided to take some pictures but it was raining so we had to take them quick. So that was my trip to Connecticut.
This is us the rainy morning after we finished the tree house. Lucia and Sophia are inside of the tree house.