Monthly Archives: April 2016
Exit Polling
On Tuesday, April 19 my grade did some exit polling in the neighborhood. There was 4 different groups…
1. Exit Poller
2. Data Collecter
3. Data Processer
4. School Survey
The Poller approached people in the neighborhood and asked questions like “Who did you vote for?”, “What is your gender?”, “How old are you?”, “Are you a Republican or Democrat?”, also “How happy were you with the choices for candidate?”. With that question you would offer multiple choices, 1 for very unhappy to 5 for very happy. A Data Collector would go with the Pollers and compress the Pollers answers on to one sheet which would then get sent to the Data Processer. The Data Processer (located at school) would then put the information into different categories, so that they can then find the winning candidate. Finally the School Survey representatives would ask the same questions as the Pollers to the LREI teachers. I enjoyed this role.
I learned that primaries were necessary before the actual election to choose one candidate from each party. Prior to this process I thought you had an opportunity to vote for a President out of many Democrats and Republicans on a ballot. After the polling I was shocked that only 21 Republicans voted in our neighborhood. I assumed that there was going to be a more even split with the Democrats. Another surprise to me was that Kaisch won Manhattan’s primary election. (Being that Trump is a force in NYC, I assumed he had that locked in.) NYC is heavily Democratic and there were 10x more votes for this party. The Data Processers collected the percentages for the Democratic side of the city on the mark. It was 33% for Bernie Sanders and 67% for Hillary Clinton! We found out the results on Wednesday and it looked very hard tabulate. Props for the Data Processers. We worked hard and our projection came out correct.
Have You Ever Thought about Trash…
There is no such thing as away.
Have you ever thought about what happens to your used water bottles or your empty Doritos bag that you threw away? Well, it doesn’t just disappear. When you throw away one soda bottle it doesn’t go away until 450 years has passed. That’s a long time for one bottle to decompose.
America is the leading country for how much trash we throw away. We throw away 624,700 metric tons per day! Also just in New York we throw away 12,000 tons every day all together. That’s 24,000,000 pounds. And as one person you throw away 4.3 pounds of trash. Now does that really make you think, because that really makes me think.
We should really start to think about how we should fix this problem or the land will be a giant trash pile eventually, and we will have to eat trash just like that cow.
My Tomb Painting
This is my tomb painting that I made in art. We made our tomb paintings for our Egyptian Tomb because Egyptians would sketch pictures onto the walls of the tomb. We first sketched our idea for our picture then outlined it in sharpie. Finally we water colored our painting to give it a washed out look instead of painting it with another type of paint. My tomb painting is of Hatshepsut sitting on a throne with people worshipping her. She is wearing a nemes headdress (the sign of a pharaoh) because she wanted to be portrayed as a man instead of a woman.
My Ushabti
Ushabtis are little statues that Ancient Egyptians put inside there tomb. Ushabtis helped the dead person do work in the after life. You’d get as many Ushabtis as you can afford. The first thing I did to make an Ushabti was to shape my Ushabti to look like a human. The second step was to put markings that supposedly Egyptians put on them. The third step was to paint my Ushabti to make it look more realistic. If you wanted to you could of glazed you Ushabti, but I didn’t. After all the steps you could put your Ushabti in a Egyptian tomb. My favorite part about this project was putting the marks on because it was the most enjoyable. 
Canopic Jars
In art we made Canopic jars and Ancient Egyptian pottery. On the left is my Canopic jar. There are normally four Canopic jars and my jars symbolizes the falcon head jar. Canopic jars would hold different organs like the liver, stomach, intestines, and lungs. The falcon head Canopic jar held the intestines. On the right is me glazing a piece of Ancient Egyptian pottery. We were making Canopic jars and pottery to go in the tomb. Pottery was put inside the tomb to hold food in the afterlife. My favorite part of this project is constructing my Canopic jar because I thought it was the most challenging part and it was very fun.
My Strength in Math
One area of strength for me this quarter has been decimals because I understanded the way to do the algorithm and memorized the important decimals very easily. Since my dad introduced me to decimals I’ve enjoyed solving decimals the moment I learned how to. When we started this unit I was very ecstatic because I’ve done this before. That section helped me learn more ways to solve the problems and more decimals I remember now. Here is a piece of evidence on my strength.
