Category Archives: Fall 2014
Imagine the Future
I was excited for dessert. I also wondered if we could handle it. I am proud that we could. I was nervous about Ashoken. I felt better when I realized how fun it was. I am nervous for the Egyptian Tomb. I would feel a little less nervous if I was not reading books where there are freaky Egyptian curses. The magic kind. I have not yet done a play. I am excited because I love acting, singing, and dancing.
My number puzzle
My number is lower than 20. My number is a factor of 30.
My number can make only a one tile wide rectangle. My number is odd.
What is my number?
History Index Cards
In the picture below, the students are asked to put index cards into chronological order. To describe this, I would say that it was not super difficult, but it was not easy. There was much debating. That was about where what went. This was overall rather fun, and helps us understand a little more. When my group was doing it, we did not have many problems. Mostly talking it all out. We had a few minor mess ups, but we did pretty well. Though sometimes, we had to show our teammates why their idea made no sense. For example, we thought coal came after the Permian Extinction. We also thought that bony fish came after land animals. Silly us! But when we did correct each other, we did i nicely, of course. From doing this, I learned the order of events a little better. There was almost no supervision. We had to do it ourselves. I must say, we did pretty well. Everyone did.
My vision of an Atom
Below is what I imagine an atom to look like. I don’t know why I think of an atom this way, but when I think about them, I imagine them like this. I imagine them with rings. I imagine them with a hoop to rest in. I imagine that there are many atoms surrounding every atom. This was hard at first. But it got easier. The hardest part was getting stuff in it’s place. The rings had to be copied and pasted to get enough. The green hoops were never where they were supposed to be. The real blue atoms were constantly out of their hoops. And worst of all, during the copying and pasting, my laptop kept glitching! But I fixed it. Any questions?
New Planner Idea
Today, in D-Lab, we came up with ideas for new homework planners. I would like to present my group’s best suggestion. The idea is to shape the new planner like an I-Phone. Instead of having “Samsung” or “AT&T” at the top, it would say ‘Homework’. Instead of having colorful apps, the subjects would occupy the app squares. Then you could fill in your homework in the correct “App”. This really is a coincidence though, because I am writing about homework, for homework! Anyway, thank you for listening. I hope you will consider my offer.
