This is my zoetrope. It is of a flower growing and then a bee comes over and lands on the flower.I learned that a zoetrope is not the same thing as a flip book. I also learned many pencil techniques like… the right way to fill something in with a colored pencil. I think this is an example of my best work. I worked really hard on it and it took me a very long time to make it.
Zariel Cruz Holiday Cheer.
I gave my piece the name Holiday Cheer because… I felt like it was close to the holidays and I said why not! So i gave it the name “Holiday cheer”. I began my piece totally different then it is now. At first my piece was all these weird notes just everywhere with no rhythm or smooth melodic sound. Then as the lessons started getting a little bit more complex my piece started sounding much better. Then I had to problem of adding different instruments, I wanted something that sounded nice and something that has a good harmony. Composing music was pretty difficult at first because it was my first time doing it. Then as I kept going I started to understand music a little more. I learned that it takes a really long time to compose a nice song. I thought that it could be done in as little as one week. I used to wonder why famous singers like Selena Gomez took a long time to come out with a new album. Now I know why. My song is related to getting ready for the new year and getting ready for christmas. At first my song is a bit fast and overwhelming, just like when you know the holidays are just around the corner. Then towards the middle my song is a bit more clam and relaxed, just like when you feel like you are ready for the holidays. Then towards the end it gets a bit more upbeat, just like in real life because you are so excited for whats coming next. Then finally at the end of my piece its nice and slow and clam, just like sitting by the warm fire drinking hot coco with mini marshmallows. My piece is dedicated to my entire family I love spending the holidays with them and I love them.
The project I chose was my Shelter. I chose this piece because I worked really hard on it. I also chose this piece because I am really proud of it. A challenge for me was keeping it stable on the bottom. I had to work hard on using my materials wisely because they were limited. The learning habit I focused on was perseverance. I learned that if you glue different materials together and then you glue another few materials together you can make some
thing really strong and helpful.
In d.lab we did a fun activity, where Clair tried to turn us into computers! We all had different jobs we each wore a post-it that said what job we were. I was the hard drive with Zoe. I learned that being a computer is really hard. I learned that I should stop obsessing if the computer is taking to long. It’s because is has a lot going on. Some roles I would liked to have been were the user and the RAM.
This was my Big Bang project I was working with Jade. One accuracy that we had was that everything spread out unevenly. One inaccuracy that we had was that the Big Bang was silent and our model was not silent.
My first weeks in middle school were fantastic! I did new things that I have never done before. My first day was really suprising and fun. It was surprising because we didn’t learn anything, (and I thought middle school was going to be hard). I remember that I was so excited to see the locks and I hoped that I would get a top locker. I didn’t end up getting a top locker. Then I saw that there was a top locker that was free that no one was using. It had a post it on it that said “bum locker” it meant that the door was jammed. I figured out a way to open It easily and that became my new locker. Then sooner or later more like one day later I fuigred out that I could not reach the hooks so I went back to my bottom locker. I had also heard from some of my friends throughout the day that we had a meeting the first day of school. I was so surprised a meeting on the first day of school was awe I just could not believe it. Then I found out that my meeting was at 3:35 I was really angry i thought the meetings were during school not after. Well I had a great first day and first weeks I hope to have more amazing days, weeks, months and a great first year in middle school.
The book I read this summer is called A Crooked Kind of Perfect by Linda Urban. The book has many different settings. Two of the main settings are her house and her school. The main character’s name is Zoe Elias. Some other characters are Miss Person her piano teacher, her mother, her father, Wheeler Diggs her friend from school and her dad’s baking partner, and Emma Dent her “former” best friend. In the book Zoe has big dreams to become the next Vladimir Horowitz (a famous pianist). The main problem is that Zoe has been begging her parents for a baby grand piano. Instead she gets a wood-grained, vinyl-seated, wheeze-bag organ. She also wants to play at Carnegie Hall. But it’s kind of hard to play at Carnegie Hall when you don’t have a baby grand piano to practice on.
But soon a big twist changed the direction of the story. Miss Person thinks it will be good for Zoe to enter the annual Perform-O-Rama organ competition. Zoe has to make a big decision between going to the Preform-O-Rama and understanding that it’s okay to make mistakes or just staying home and giving up on the big dreams she has of becoming an amazing pianist. One quote that really inspired her when she was playing was “just keep playing”. I know this sounds just like words but to Zoe these words were very inspirational because she just has to focus on the piano and not focus on what’s going on around her and then surely she will do great! She also have to keep in mind that everybody makes mistakes and that it’s okay to make mistakes but you have to learn from those mistakes. Zoe resolves her problem by thinking “just keep playing” and she does just that. She ends up doing an amazing performance.
I really enjoyed this book. I really enjoyed it because it helped me learn that everyone makes mistakes and that it’s okay to make mistakes. An example of this is when Zoe performs at the Perform-O-Rama and she makes a few mistakes but she keeps going. I also thought that a lot of the characters were really funny and quirky especially Zoe and her family. An example of this is when Zoe’s dad decorated the hotel room to look just like their house. I also just love reading about people who have big dreams and try to make their dreams a reality. An example of this is when Zoe keeps trying hard to become amazing and she puts a lot of effort into playing the piano. I think a pianist would read this book because it gives a lot of facts about the piano. I also think a reader who likes humor would like this book because it is a very funny, quirky book. I give this book a five star rating. 
One day earlier in the year when we were about to study immigrants they asked us a question “What is an Immigrant ?”
We had to write about what we thought an immigrant was. I only filled up one page and a little on the other page. Then last week Jen asked us that same question so we had to write what we thought an immigrant was now. I wrote a lot but I didn’t finish yet since I learned so much about immigrants
This is a story of a man and this man has a story. I am here today to tell his story. This story starts with a head and the head grows some hair. One hair is a very special hair, it is shaped differently and it curls in a different way.The curl makes an O shape. This hair strand is special.
It makes the man grow four arms. It also makes him see art all around him everywhere he sees art. Each hand makes a different piece of art. The top left arm makes connected lines that represent connections with him and art. The left bottom arms make flowers. The flowers represent growing. He is growing with his art, just like a flower grows. The top right arm makes a heart with spikes, this represents how he makes art with love and sometimes tough love. The right bottom arm draws abstract lines this represents that his art is abstract art.
All of these show one thing his love of art. This story is over, and by the way the name of the man with a story is named Artie, the man in the story is named Artie.
Once there was a story of a man and his name was Artie. His name is Artie because he loves to do art and to look at art and to buy art and to obsess over art and to eat food art.
Artie loves to do different things and his name changes with every activity he does. So when he likes to do art his name is Artie. When he likes to eat his name is Eatie. For example when he likes to do science his name is s\Scienie. Another example when his named changes is when he is reading his name turns into Readie.
Artie does not have that many friends but Artie’s best friend is Eatie. Artie and Eatie go on honeymoons. They were born on the same day, at the same time, in the same family, in the same hospital, in the same bed, with the same doctor. So if you did not understand this they are all the same people.(But don’t tell them I told you)
That’s Artie/Eatie.
This is my Sharing submarine Sandwiches poster. What I did was I drew on a whiteboard. In the first part I drew a photo of Ten circles since it is 12 people 10 sandwiches. The circles stand for the sandwiches. So then I had to split each sandwich into 12 little pieces. Then I basically did the exact same thing on the bottom. I’m Happy with the way I showed my thinking because this was a pretty difficult project and I took the problem and showed it in a different way and I understood what I was doing. My understanding of visuals changed a lot between now and then because now I never use this methed of math. Because some times I get a little confused. 
