Category: Teacher

Guild Refelection

Last nights guild experience was amazing. I was in the Arms and Armors guild. I loved it because I loved showing off my trebuchet. A lot of people were amazed when it actually shot. I once hit the wall and it was awesome.  Also our guild once had 30 people. I got a little nervous for the first show but all the others I was feeling great and confident. Something that was surprising was how many people were at our knighting ceremony!! I thought it was a great experience to see others peoples guilds. I saw the stonemasons, artisans and butchers bakers candle stick makers. Overall I really enjoyed it!!

Group song work

https://player.vimeo.com/video/212233800

Composing this song was fun because I really enjoyed working with the people in my group. During this performance, we were a little bit off tempo from each other; I thought if we had a few more practices it would sound a lot better. It was cool that each person brought something to the band. I would like to do more of this. We based our song off “Hot Cross Buns.”

Something meaningful I did this break was…

Something meaningful I learned this break about myself was that I am very helpful and flexible about doing anything. I would help out by taking care of my little cousins when there parents were doing something else. My ca delis was how the grownups were working really hard and I felt bad so I wanted to help by volunteering to watch the kids while they go to the beach. I was flexible by if somebody was doing one thing that I really wanted to do but another thing needed my help I would go to the one that needed my help because I didn’t was them to get stuck. One goal that I have is that if somebody is having trouble with caring something I would help, same with work or anything. Also if somebody needed help with something during recess and nobody helped them I would be flexible and help. I learned how helpful and flexible I can be.

Chess playing against each other

 

 

 

 

When I played chess, something that I did well was when I was in a sticky situation, which happened a few times, I could get out of it. For example, when I was playing Landon, he was about to win, but I got his rook and then I got him into check. However, I realize now that I was kind of just moving pieces just to move pieces, and I sometimes just got lucky. Something that I could work on is having more specific strategies. It is important to have strategies because if your opponent does something, then you have to know exactly what you want to do, and not just for that turn, but you have to think ahead about the next few moves. Overall, though, I think I did really well, and I look forward to getting better.

 

How is chess similar to war?

Chess is similar to war because you need strategy to win chess and you need strategy to win a war. Pawns are the foot soldiers because they are pretty slow and can’t move very far. They’re also the front lines, so many of them die. The king is similar because he does not move, he just gives commands, which is the same in chess. The knights can jump over people and get to a place faster, so they are the cavalry. The rook was like the person who stood above everybody on the castle, and they could see if there was any trouble. The bishop is the head of some churches, and in medieval times, the church and war are the two most powerful things. The queen can move anywhere and is always moving around; this connects to the Middle Ages because queens would often move around traveling to other castles.

Arms and Armors battle training

Something that I learned is that medieval wars were very slow. There were a lot of waiting around for someone to make the first move. Another thing that I learned is that this is like chess. Something that I would like to change is that I would not attack so much and I would sit back and shoot with my archers for longer. I think that is a better strategy because you will get more people dead and you will lose less people. Something that I thought I did well in was that I sent my Cavalry last when the other team was trying to flee which helped and I killed a lot more people.

Knight Monologue

I am about to be a knight. I went through all the hard things like not being able to eat for one whole day, and now I am ready to be struck with the sword from the king. My heart is beating fast and my legs are shaking. One fear that I have is getting killed in the war, which most knights are. I am worried that my horse is going to get killed or fall down. I am looking forward to being able to represent my king in war, which means that I will be able to kill enemies. I feel excited to get knighted by the king with his sword. I am also nervous because I don’t know what to say to the king.

Finally the day has come! I am ready to meet the king. I walk down a long hall. The king asks me some questions like “Do you promise that you will not betray me? Will you be brave and kind to the poor and weak?” I promise, “Of course, my lord, I shall always serve you.” Then he puts the sword on my shoulder and now I am a knight.

All populations have a limit

“All populations have a limit” means that a population can’t continue to grow to infinity. This is because of space, food, housing, money, and everything else that it takes to keep a population healthy and strong.

On the bottom of the graph above, there are numbers which indicate time. It started at 500 BCE to 2025 CE.  On the other side it has numbers of how many people there are in the world. If it continues to increase at the same rate, then there would be too many people and not enough room, which means that there would not be enough food, jobs, housing or money.

If this was a shark population, then the sharks would starve to death. In the experiment we did, if sharks didn’t eat enough minnows, then they would become extinct. Well guess what, that is the same thing that could happen to humans: we will not survive much longer if the population is still going to keep on growing. We have to have a plan.

One idea that might work is that we only allow one kid per family, or we just keep it how it is now and hope for the best. Whatever we do, we will have to figure it out soon. Or else future generations will all die.

My music piece

This piece is going to be performed by 30 people. I have only used a few instruments so far. I have used the Bassoon, Trumpet, French Horn, Trombone, Cello, Bass, Clarinet and the Violin, but I can’t wait to use the percussion. It was still really hard to compose because it is a lot more instruments then we used on the first piece. As you can see there is still a lot of blank instruments that I have not filled out yet in my piece. That is because I am still working on it. It was really fun but it was also really hard to figure out how all the instruments work together. I worked really hard on it and I hope you enjoy my work in progress.

Shark Tank Simulation

We did an experiment in science where we went outside and played a simulation. It was a game where there were one shark and four minnows and the rest of the class were seaweed. To survive, the shark has to eat two minnows, and to reproduce, it has to eat  four minnows. The minnows have to eat one seaweed to survive and two seaweed to reproduce.

The first trial was really bad because we had no strategy. The shark died in the first round, same with one minnow. Then two of the three minnows ate way too much. They ate 9 seaweed each, which meant there were a lot more minnows then seaweed. Which meant that in a few rounds, the seaweed would be gone, which meant the minnows have nothing to eat which meant they go extinct.

The top image below shows the line graph of the bad run.

Then we figured out a strategy where the shark only ate 2 minnows and the minnows only ate 2 seaweed. We kept on doing that and we did really well. We ended with over 90 seaweed and 2 sharks and 8 minnows. We could do that forever and have over 1000 of each thing.

The bottom image below shows the line graph of the good run.

This teaches us that it is important to for each species to have enough to eat, and have a good balance between the numbers of them. That way, the cycle can just keep going without one of the species going extinct.