SLC Numero Deux

Another SLC if you don’t know what that is go read my other SLC post. So for school we have to do another  SLC which I do not want to do, and apparently we are lucky that we don’t have to do trois, see what I did there. Anyways I have to do another SLC and this is what I am going to do for it.

 

First I will greet my teacher and my parents and thank them for coming to the SLC (not that they had much of a choice).  I will be talking about  what I am most proud of this year, what I am least proud of this year, and what has shown growth for me through the year. I would prefer you to leave questions to the end of the conference.

For what I am most proud of I have chosen my Blue Sky project because at first I had cool idea but it didn’t really solve much, but then once I got rolling with plastic bag compactor it started to get pretty good. The main thing that made me proud is the amount of parents that wanted it and how helpful it would have been in their own lives.

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I am least proud of my last month or so in general and all of the assignments. I just felt that I wan’t very focused my assignments didn’t have my full attention and they could have been improved a decent amount even though I am most proud of my my Blue Sky which kind of took place this last month I felt that it could have been improved as well if I was more organized which I should have been. That basically means all of my other assignments in this last month should have been better.

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Last but not least what shows growth for me this year.

I felt that my blog posts have shown growth this year, which is the same as my last SLC but I still feel that it shows my growth the best for this year. The reason why it shows growth is because I went 250 words per blog post to 400 to 500 words a blog post. That shows that I am taking more time and care into my blog posts and I am going into more depth.

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I would also like to talk about what I am going to do to be better for next year. Which is I am going to be more organized for school by making list to remind myself about assignments so I can tick them off as I go. I am hoping that this will make a difference and improve my overall work.

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Thank you for listening to me for this conference

You now may ask questions.

Then I am done.

Project Time Yaay… Heh, Heh, yah…

Time for a Blue Sky project, I call it the brewski project. For this project we had to come up with and idea that hasn’t been created yet and it solves a problem that people run into in there daily lives. My first idea was a really comfortable lawn chair because I find that most lawn chairs are really uncomfortable, it was going to have cushions, cup holders, speakers, all sorts of gadgets that would be awesome and most importantly it would be good for your back. I got shut down immediately. I had to figure out a way to come up with idea and have it ready for the exhibition. I asked my parents about a problem in their lives, and after a while my mom said that plastic bags take up a lot of space in houses and most of its air so maybe I should find a way to compress it. I didn’t think it was a great idea at first but it grew on me and I started to think it was a great idea. I asked my teachers and they basically approved me right away.

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I started working on my designs, at first  I thought that a box attached to a vacuum would be best, because it would suck all the air out of it but I would also have the top compressing down to squeeze all of the air out of it. After a while I thought that the vacuum would get clogged and it wouldn’t work. My mentor (we had to get somebody to help us out that was outside of our family and school) told me that I should put the bags in a bag that sucked the air out by a vacuum, I still thought that that would clog and wouldn’t work. In the end I decided that just a box that had the top compress would work the best.image image

It worked and it was simple and easy and it was ready for the exhibition.  I felt quite proud about what I did because most of the parents said that they would like to have it in their own house because they have that same problem. One of my friends told me I should have auctioned it off to the highest bidder.

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After I finished I thought of other ways I could have done it. For example maybe I could just got a PVC pipe and a metal rod and you just push the bags through the PVC pipe.

In the end it all worked out fine and my mom now has a her plastic bag problem fixed.

 

My Museum Exibit… and a Couple Other Peoples’

So for school in humanities we learned about Maritime exploration, and it was pretty cool and how exploration changed a lot of things in life foods, for example did you know that tomatoes were first found in North America so that means Italy mad tomatoe sauce after the exploration was over. Which I thought was cool and my dad didn’t believe me. We learned about what diseases were transfered, the slave trade and what ships they used back then, like what their strengths and weaknesses were. For example some ships were more for cargo and they might be slow, others might be fast and hold less cargo, or maybe they had lots of cannons on them for protection against pirates. It all depended on what you wanted and how much your sponsor was willing to spend. Christopher Columbus was sponsored by King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella who had lots of money from just taking over Grenada.

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At the end of the unit we were told that we had to make a museum exhibit in our groups which were split by means to explore, desire to explore, and results of exploration. We all got as much info to showcase but we had to make it look good, also make it intersting but we had to make it an exhibit. We had this guy come in who worked at a museum and he told us what to do and what not to do on how to make a good exhibit. I took a couple notes so that I wouldn’t forget about any of it (and so that my teacher would be happy😉😀). We had to get supplies and make an interaction. Our interaction was like a choose your own adventure sort of. So first you would grab some dice and roll it and you would get a certain amount of money and a ship. With the money that you got you would pick the supplies that you think that are important. After you finished you would find out how it would turn your expedition turned out. We had to bring in all of the supplies that you were able to buy with your fake money. I brought a lime (for survey prevention). We had to print all of the text and pictures and piece them together like a puzzle onto these big bulletin boards. Ours turned out quite good and it had all of the information that it needed and I thought that if you walked through it you probably would learn something when you came out of it.

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The Science of Light

In science class we learned about light. Pretty straight forward so far. We basically learned about how it works and moves who proved some theory’s about light such as Ibn al Hatham, who proved that light travels in a straight line. We watched a couple videos on how light works and those were pretty interesting. We also learned about how you can manipulate light and refract or reflect it.image

(Pink Floyd “Dark Side of the Moon” Album cover.)

So of course we also had a project that we had to do, that represented what we know about light and we also have to show the story of how raven brought the light (It’s native story of the sun and moon and stars are there). It was a very open ended project and I did not know what I was doing until like a week or two after our teacher explained it to us. I personally wasn’t very  excited about the project and I was still quite confused about it, just mainly I didn’t understand it very well. At first the project was going to be due on the 17th of June, then our other teacher told our science teacher that she wanted it be shown at this exibition with my other two projects (You will here how about those more in my other posts) so for it to be shown at the exhibition it had to be moved back to the 15th of June which we weren’t very happy about because we want as much time as possible to finish it. I thought that my project could have been improved just because I felt that this past month or so my focus has not been as good as it could have been and I haven’t been doing my best work.

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So that is my science project on light.

(Sorry I did not have any pictures of the project itself)

 

 

More Religion Assignments

One of the religion assignments that I had to do was the religion Explain Everything or E.E. Which took a decent amount of time, but it was with two more people. I was in charge of all the information for the TWO E.E.’s. Oh yah there were two E.E.’s one for a religion that we had already learned about and another for one that we have to learn about along the way. That was basically my job to get all of the info for that religion and give it to the other person in my group. Our religions were Buhdisim and Jainism.

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It took a couple of revisions as well and honestly it took the whole class a while to to finish them. I kept getting info basically almost the whole way through it. My group members also had to do this other project so sometimes I would be doing my job without a group, which did not effect me but I felt lonely😢… Just Kidding. We ended up finishing the E.E.’s and I thought they were pretty good.

 

Now onto the more complicated religion assignment Which is the  IBook. We haven’t quite finished it yet but it’s almost done. We all had jobs and my job or group job was to make music. We mostly used garage band. My teacher was away for the first bit and while she was gone the musician group could barely come up with anything. When she got back oh, that wasn’t very good. We started moving really fast after that and things moved quite a bit faster, but later she said that she thought that we weren’t going to finish it in time. We did, I said that most of us do are best work probably in last minute situations. Most parents don’t agree such as mine who hate it when I leave things to the end. We ended up finishing our part by the due date. The iBook is still being out together but it will probably be put together in the next day or two. We kind of have to or else it will be hanging over us all summer long and that would not be very fun, especially for me just because I often get quite a bit of stress from homework, but what can you do when you live in a shoe.

 

 

 

Anyways those were two religion assignments that I have done recently, so you can stop reading now, why are you still reading? Seriously why are you still reading?