Ruby slippers

Casi se muere

en la clase de español nosotros leemos un libro. el libro se llama casi se muere. casi se muere esta sobre la chica va a Guatemala. nosotros leemos un capítulo cada día. Después nosotros actuamos cada día. después de nosotros terminamos el libro nosotros descosido en grupos. yo trabajé con charmaine y taelon. nosotros hacemos una película sobre casi se muere. primera charmaine,taelon y yo escribimos el guión. taelon escribió el guión en ingles después charmaine y yo escribimos el guión en español. entonces nosotros filmamos la película. taelon está ana en la película y max está pepe en la película . después nosotros miramos la película.Me gusta el proyecto por que yo pensé aprender mucho. 

Ancient Greece

This is not a refection either it a documentation of what we have been doing in humanities. Same as the science we had just wrapped up another humanities project were we studied the indus valley. So last week we brought up the idea of doing ancient greece, because it is some thing that everyone seemed to be interested in, so we thought we would do another share quit like the science one. Where everyone picks something different  about the ancient greeks. So I chose daily life, for daily life since we did not have that much time for this share, i just talked. I think went pretty well to. 

Volcanoes

This is not a reflection it is more a documentation of what I have been doing in science. Well after we finished up our last projects on the geological time period in the earths history. We thought we would cram one more thing in to the crazy week before break . So we decided on natural disasters, I chose volcanoes, for my share i made a slide show which i will hopefully post sone, and lava cake hahaha.I really did learn a lot about volcanoes unfortunately all my notes are in my note book, but when I post the keynote I will write some facts too. 

Tamales refection

En la clase de español, nosotros aprendemos sobre tamales. En lunes, nosotros aprendemos sobre ¿que es un Tamale? y ¿de donde son tamales? Yo trabjé con Maxx, Sheríf y Brianna. En martes, aprendemos sobre los ingredientes en los tamales. Rosana nos mostró los ingredientes y que hace. en mercales nosotros vemos una película/librasobre tamales. en viernes nosotros hacemos los tamales. la mama de ashly y la abuela de ashly nos ayudaron hacemos. nosotros hacemos un tamal de México y un tamal de Guatemala. primario  nosotros hicimos tamal de Guatemala con pollo,pimiento,salsa,aceituna,pasa de uvas , pasa de ciruela y hojas de plátanos. después nostros hicimos tamal de mexico con pollo, queso, aceituna,pasa de uvas,pimientos y hojas de maíz. los tamales es muy bueno. mi gusta el projecto.

Tamales

Tú hacas tamales tú necesitas mucho ingredientes. aquí esta algunies ingredientes para tamales. en la salsa tomaitllos,chliés,pimienta,tomates, y semilla de calazaba. tú pones pollo, queso y salsa. 

Indus valley reflection

This year in humanities we have been learning about ancient civilizations. to kick off the year year we decided to learn about the sumerians of Mesopotamia. We each worked individually on different topics about the sumerians. I learned about diet and agriculture.  When we were done with research we got  together and shared.  After doing that project we were unsure were to go next, so we settled on learning about the indus valley and ancient china. One group worked on ancient china and the other on the indus valley. I worked on the indus valley with maxx and bri. The idea was that we would learn all the information we could then share it with the other group and vice-verse.  Charmaine , Andrew, Taelon  and sherif worked on accent china. They split up and each worked on a specific topic in ancient china. My group decided that we were going to write a song about life in the indus valley.

Our first step was to gather information. At the beginning of the project we took a trip to the la jolla public library  to research.  Thats were we found some foundational facts about the indus valley people. We did not find as much information about the indus valley as maybe we wanted to, but there really is not that much about them. the majority of information out there is just about the housing and some every day life. We can not read the writing and we don’t know really about how they we governed them selfs. This made or research really difficult, because you had to make some of the connections for you self about the way they lived. We used many different websites and book to accumulate the information. The problem was most of our resources said different things. 

Then after researching we had to write the lyrics for the song. Bri and I worked together on some parts and maxx worked on some parts. The first thing we did was go to Lauren. she told us that we should write the song like one big poem, then find music that would match. We had to come up with a song chorus. We each came up with our own then shared in the end we used the on i came up with, which was” down in the indus valley in 1500 BC(bc) the harappa and mohenjo-daro lived in perfect harmony”It was amazing if i do say so my self, just kidding, anyway after we figured out what the chorus was like then we spilt up to work on the rest of the song. Bri and I worked on the rest of the verses and maxx worked on a rap we wanted to add. Then after we finished working on the lyrics we had to record our selfs in garage band. this was quit hard, because we had to record over and over again till are got it to sound just how we wanted it to. 

On the day of our presentation, we got together to talk about how our presentation was going to go. my idea was to give each person their own lyrics then we would let them pick what parts they wanted to learn about. So we did to that, but Bri and I also Took all my notes and combined them on two piece or paper. first in our presentation we played then song, then rob asked us if we would do it live, so we did. Then we Let them ask questions. I think that we answered the questions pretty well. The problem is that there is so little information on the indus valley that it was hard to answer some of the harder questions. The presentation could have been better, but I don’t think that it was just us going of topic it was everyone. 

I think that over all we did a pretty good job. I mean its hard working with any group, because you all work very differently. Bri and I have worked on many projects together in the past and that goes for maxx and me as well. The problem is when you put us all together we don’t work all that well, but we definitely made it work. Over all i really enjoyed working on this project and I definitely learned a tone and used my four weeks wisely. 

Tamales

en clase de español nosotros aprendemos muchos. nosotros aprendemos sobre tamales. yo aprendo sobre variedad de tamales. el variedad de tamales es tamales con pollo,vaca,cerdo y queso. Son diferente en partes diferentes de mexico. nosotros hacemos clases de tamales 

cretaceous Reflection

The last project we completed in science was on space and planets. We each chose a planet, then researched it. The idea was that in the end we would come together and each person would share about their planet. This way everyone would know about all the planets. Well after we finished that project we thought maybe we should direct  our learning to our earth. someone had the idea that we should each pick a period of the earths history. I chose the cretaceous period maxx was also interested in the same period.So we set guide lines for what we should learn and accomplish and then the idea was we would do something we had done for our planet project. We would all come together and share, but there was a little bit more for this project we were to present a real presentation. 

Our first step was to research. Maxx and i decided to work as a group and what he really wanted to do was diorama. Anyway so we started to research, and as we were researching we found that there is a tone of information out there. we used many websites and books. There was this great book that carwai had. That had lots of the dinosaurs that were in our period. With lots of information about them. As part  of our guide lines we had to learn about climate,plants and what ever else made your period special. One thing that i have been doing more and more is taking notes. when i found anything interesting about our period i would take notes. 

Then we started working on our diorama. first maxx took a box he cut out the top then added a another piece of cardboard.  After we collected dirt from out side. Then we split up, i made the land animals and planets. maxx made the sea animals . I took many tries before i managed to make them look like actual dinosaurs. I made a triceratops a t-rex and a kromsaurs  which is a water dinosaur. 

The presentation  part did not go as well as we had planed. well on the Thursday before the our presentation maxx and i got together and talked about what we where going to say and how we were going to percent , but come the day of the presentation it did not really go to plan. Maxx and I  each wanted  say something, but they overlapped a little, so I think our presentation did not go all that smoothly. In my parent teacher conference rob and carwai had mentioned that i should work on my presentations, because i tend to not really stay on the same topic and that goes for every day talking too . so for the presentation i really wanted it to be the best it could be. I had notes, i knew what i wanted to say i just think that i was hard because maxx and did not seem to be on the same page. I don’t mean that as an excuse, but it did make things a little harder with two people.  

I thought that maxx and I did an over all pretty good job. We did have some room for improvement . One thing that could have made our presentation better  is just the basic being more prepared. we new all the facts, but just being on the same page and going over the presentation before.  I definitely learned that presenting with people is hard . All we needed to do was not share so many small facts and really just focus on the more important facts. I am  definitely proud of the diorama. 

listening to all the presentations was great. this was the part of the project i was really looking forward to. Each presentation was different in its own way. Carwai did a sort of prezi which is like a power point and a drawing . Charmaine made several drawing of dinosaurs. Andrew had a keynote and so did Rob. Sherif made dinosaurs on a game named mincraft. Brianna made a very cool memory game. I really enjoyed listening and watching each presentation. It was fascinating to learn about each period, because then I started to make connection about all the periods. How the triassic period went in to the jurassic  and how the dinosaurs ,plants and weather evolved in to my period the cretaceous. How the dinosaurs died,  and in briannas period the paleogene they had mammals . Andrew talked about what it going to happen in the future and rob about what we have caused our earth. Carwai talked about the high carbon level in the carboniferous period and many more facts about all of the periods. I really think that if someone asked me about any of the periods i could answers most of the questions. 

today we got feedback from everyone in our class. I agreed with every thing they said. We needed to work on our presentation, but we had lots of information. Over all I loved the project and think we did a great job. 

Spanish reflection

en clase de español nosotros aprendemos sobre Día de los muertos. Día de los muertos es de el  treinta y uno  de octubre ,y  uno de noviembre ,  día de los muertos es una fiesta celebrar para el muerto. en clase de español nosotros trabajamos en grupos para aprendemos sobre día de los muertos. entonces nosotros hacemos a las mascaras. yo hice una masacra con rosada pluma y muchas morado. mi gusta el proyecto. 

Humanities Reflection

In humanities it took us quit awhile to come up with what to start our learning about. First we had to figure out what topic to start with ad this was hard because lots of us had lots of us had different ideas. Someone brought up the question what is a civilization?, and what was the first civilization. We had some heated debates about those to questions. We had lots of different ideas, we talked about whether or not one person could be there own civilizations?, if cave men and women were a civilizations?, and really what the true definition of a civilizations was. I think rob was the one who looked it up and told us that a civilizations according to the dictionary is a group of people who come together and domesticate their land, instead of being hunters and gatherers.They farmed and really used their land. Some we really talked and had some great conversations about all those topics. After all that we thought about doing some projects, but we did not know were to start. We thought maybe we could start with our civilizations and culture, but that when we started thinking about ideas we really did not know what to do, and that was because we had know foundations or knowing about civilizations. We thought that maybe we should start with the first civilizations and work our way up, this way we would have some understanding already. 

So with started researching, and found that the first know civilizations was the sumerians of Mesopotamia. After that we broke up in to some groups and each picked a different topic about the sumerians. Some people chose art, architecture,religion and  i chose agriculture. So first when we were picking topics I thought that trade would be interesting to learn about, but when i started learning about it i found there really was not that much information on trade, but when I was researching I found quit a lot of things on agriculture,and that  sounded interesting so i thought i would give that a try and see what else I could find. 

So for my project on agriculture I researched a lot I tried to find recipes and dishes, but that was more difficult, because the items they ate were limited. I ended up learning a lot about tools and tricks for farming, irrigation and some foods. I researched a ton and found some really fascinating things. It was a completely different way of life, but at the same time it was very much like ours. After researching I decided to make a dish using the ingredients that they had. It was extremely difficult, because that had really no mineral wealth. So i could not use any salt. In the end I made a pretty good barley,lentil,date, chickpea and onion dish. 

I really enjoyed doing a project like this. I enjoyed working with myself, because you really have to push your self and get stuff done. I liked that everyone picked a different topic and shared. thins way you get to learn about everything without studying it. I think  our class has to work on is time management and using time wisely, but other then that I really enjoyed this  project. 

español reflexión

en clase de español nosotros aprendemos el mandatos. el mandatos es cummands en español. nosotros jugamos un juego. en un juego nosotros escribimos cuatro los mandatos. después nosotros elijamos un compañero. nosotros caminamos el campo. primera una persona pone una venda. entonces una persona da el mandatos a la persona en una venda. el juego es muy bueno. me gusta el juego. 

Spanish reflection

En el clase de Español nosotros aprendemos el verbos de reflexivos y adverbos. después nosotros  aprendemos el verbos de reflexivos y adverbos. Nosotros trabajamos en el proyecto. Yo trabjé con charmaine nosotros hacemos un libros. un libro se llamo Un día de la vida de un pingüino que se llama joe. Primaria nosotras escribimos un libros. Nosotros escribimos en clase de español y en mi casa y casa de charmaine. Después nosotras escribimos el libro nosotros tenemos rosana editó. después charmaine y yo tenemos dibujamos el ilustraciones. Hoy nosotras leemos nuestro libro. Yo pienso que nosotras hicimos un trajo bueno. 

Adventure 2

Today we had another little adventure this time we went to the ucsd library and one  of the labs there. This morning we all came in to class wanting to go some where, but we weren’t sure where, because the fifth and sixth graders are away at camp. Rob had mentioned that we could go to the ucsd library to research for or projects. We are studying the sumerians of Mesopotamia and the planets so we thought we could go and research. So today we thought we would go, but know one had really done any planing.  The night before I done a little planing I contacted lisa and I looked up bus schedules, but other then that we had not really done anything. We hadn’t really thought about how much it would cost or what time. 

 So first we had to get the money for the bus two twenty-five each way.Sherif and Taelon went to the office to get the exact change we needed.Then I looked up the the bus times again.We where going to meet lisa at the library. We walked to the bus station and waited like five minutes for the bus. Once the bus came we all boarded, then we took it up to ucsd, but once we where on we had know idea what bus stop to gets off . So at one point sherif told us to get off so we did. Then we kind of stood there till some one said that they had been told to get off at the next bus stop. So I suggested that we follow the bus to the next bus stop so we did then we looked at the bus map for awhile looking for the library. Finally this really nice women told us that we just had to walk down a little.

Finally we got down to the library. It’s so cool it looks like some sort of weird space ship. I was talking to charmaine and carwai on how we thought is was built. We went in and asked the man at the front desk where we could find books on space. He told us to look in the science and engineering sections. once we got the it was really  cool they had huge books on venus which is what i am studying. we spent about half an hour  reading and taking notes it felt so weird actually writing we never do that. I found some really interesting facts about venus, but some of the books we way to complicated for us to under stand. I was reading this book and almost ever other word i had no idea what they were saying. Then we went up to the fifth flour where they have books about the sumerians. We found those books and then we sat down and took notes about the sumerian and what we read. I found so fascinating things, because online you can find lots of information about space, but you can’t find that many things about the sumerians of Mesopotamia. They are such a specific topic that there is not as much information online.

Then we walked to the anthology lab with lisa. On our way we ate lunch on the grass.After lunch we walked the rest of the way to lab. when we got to the lab i was surprised to see how small it was. the lab kind of looked like our studio small with lots of cabinets. Two women who work with lisa told us about what they do and what they look for. It was fascinating, we got to see two monkey brains. We also got to see really thin slices of a human brain.On our way back to school we were going to take the bus, but then we decided to walk back to school instead. All in all it was a really fun day.

Some of the things we could do better next time. When we plan another little adventure is make sure we have a good plan that does not mean we have to stick a really tight schedule, but we should at least know where to go,what bus to get on and know some bus times. Another thing is we should know why we are going there and what we plan to learn, but saying all that i did have a really good time on our little adventure.