My Basketball Reflection!

Write one sentence explaining what you did well and what you could improve on.

In this unit, I think I did really well on dribbling the ball and having control so the ball won't "bounce away." Though somethings I can work on is the shooting into the net and following the 'b.e.e.f." guidelines.

How well did you do this concept in a game situation?

When I had the ball, I did dribble the ball with control because I made sure that I bounced my ball hard enough so it would still stay up to my height.

Writing Poetry....

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May 2015 Band Concert Reflection

Concert Reflection for May 12, 2015

1. Did you feel well prepared for this performance, why or why not? (ie: Did you do what was expected of you leading up to the concert?)

I felt that I was prepared for this performance because I knew all the notes from all three songs. I can also follow the beat and play it slow, medium, and fast. 

2. What was the strongest part of our performance, and why?

I thought the strongest part of the performance was when we ended every song. I think this because towards the end, some of us would gradually bring the volume down and it helps because it slowly turns from a loud piece to just silence. This helps the audience by knowing when the piece ends and when it's just rests and pauses.

3.  What was the weakest part of our performance, and why? What can we (and you) do to improve for next time?

I thought the weakest part was towards the end of Lost Tomb because many flutes and maybe other instruments don't really know the notes/ can't play that fast. And so the only way to this problem is making sure every single person is doing their part/ making sure we're together and practice more as a class.

4. On a scale from 1 to 5, (5 being the best) how would you rate the overall band students’ behavior as audience members for this concert?  Why? (no names please)

I thought the scale would be a 3-4 because during the concert, many people would be chatting and talking in between/ during the concert and that was really rude to the people that were trying hard to concentrate.

5. What was your favorite piece and why?

I thought my favourite piece is Court Festival because it really 'changed' the audience and even our emotions. For example, when I first went on stage, my heart was beating as fast as the drums. But after playing this piece, it really changed my mood and made me enjoy what I was playing. In other words, I love this piece because it brings your mood from not so good, to being joyful and happy!

Science Fishing Rod With Electromagnets!

Science - Fishing rod with Electromagnets! 

In science class, we recently started a new unit called electricity. After learning a little more about how a lightbulb works and why it works, we moved on to learning more about electromagnets. As our homework, we learned about what it electromagnet and electromagnets are technically created when you wrap a wire around a nail. After learning that we need to build a fishing rod, we started planning out ideas and how our fishing rod would be like. Here’s all of our drafts down below. 

The first draft - Down belong is a picture of my first plan that both me and my partner, Elina, drafted. This picture technically explains that the long wire is attached to the battery holder (with batteries) and  also wrapped around the nail down below. Then again with the other side of the wire, it is also attached to the battery holder on the other side. The only thing that was good about this fishing rod was that it has a complete circuit, which was really important to have because that’s how the nail can pick up the paper clips. But there was also negative things which was it was too weak (it can only pick up 2 small paper clips at once) and also, there no switch. 

The second draft - For our second draft, we decided to add a switch and also make sure it has a complete circuit. After listing a bunch of ideas of what we can use as a switch, we finally figured that we would use thumb tacks and a paper clip. The paper clip can be the one that controls if the circuit is going to be complete (when the nail can pick up paper clips) or if the circuit is going to be incomplete (when the nail can’t pick up paper clips.) So here’s our draft: 

Some of the good things is that it has a complete circuit like before, and also, it finally has a switch. We also realized that the switch makes the fishing rod slightly stronger. From only lifting up 2 paper clips to lifting up a big purple clipper. Though some things we could have changed was maybe making another switch because our switch wasn’t as fast as some of the others. 

During our fishing derby competition, we decided to stick with our second design. In total, we got 305 points! 

Art Name Design

Art Name Design!

This is my draft.. Over here, we drafted all of our designs that we might want to do for our final. For example, over here, I had balloons, snowballs/ ice cream, popsicles, and Legos. After the conference with Mr. K, we finally decided on what the theme was going to be. 

After I chose my theme, (the snowball/ ice cream) I drafted the circle of 4's. This is just to help you know what color you're going to be using for your final draft. We used water color on the top right, color pencils on the top left, oil pastel on the bottom left, and acrylic paint on the bottom right. As you can see, I used different theme for everyone of the circles to know which one would be better for my final. 

Finally, I decided I wanted the oil pastel as my name and acrylic paint as my background. But an artist can never be sure if they might change their idea afterwards. So of course, we first drafted pit our theme on a big piece of paper. Then, made a rough draft to see how it might look like on the final piece. As you can see below, you can tell that I experimented with both oil pastel and acrylic. I would sometimes try oil pastel in my name or in my background, or sometimes, I would try acrylic paint in my name or in my background. And so with that being said, here is my final draft: 

Last but not least, I have finally decided that yes, I would stick with oil pastel as my name and acrylic paint as my background. So I just technically, I just kind of copied my out line of the rough draft and applied acrylic pain on my background and oil pastel on my name like planned. I really liked the background kind of looked like ice cream or snowballs were dripping. It really gives you the texture of the picture slowly 'melting' down. 

REFLECTION: 

1. What was the best part about this assignment? 

The best part was that I got to experience with different types of materials. For example, acrylic paint, oil pastel, water color, and color pencil. I also got to learn how to control different types of materials. For example, if I was using water color, I had to make sure the brush wasn't too wet that it made the color go every where. I also learnt that when using oil pastel, you always have to keep an eye on the tip of the oil pastel because if you're watching the edge of the pastel, you edges would all be ruined by oil pastel when it was suppose to be acrylic. 

2. What was the most challenging part of this assignment? 

I thought the most challenging part was making the sure 'droplets' didn't go 'out of bounce.' For example, sometimes, the paint might have kind of mixed together with different colors. I also had to make sure the rain drops were in place and didn't over lap with the other places. That was really hard because I had to make sure the tip was painting the outline of the rain drops. If the tip wasn't at the right place, I would just have a blob of paint on every single rain drop. 

In conclusion, I really enjoyed making this piece because I really liked how it blended with my name and also blending it with the different colors that I used. 

Quizlet of Everything!

In this unit, we are learning about electricity and how things lighted up. So in this case, we made a game about it. This game is worked by having one wire on one side while the other wire is where the questions are. As you can see, I have scrambled up the answers, so you have to connect the red wire to the question you're on (the left) and find the answer on the right and connect it in order to have a complete circuit. The picture on the left is the front, and the picture on the right is the back. Today, I'll be explaining how this works.



First off with just a brief summary of how you can make a complete circuit, you would need a voltage source (in this case, we're using a battery.) a conductor, (we're using aluminum foil as you can see in the picture on the right) a resistor, (we're using just plain old tape for this to make sure the path is making a full circuit.) and also, a path. When you have a complete path, that is when you have a complete circuit! How does that work though? Well, here's diagram that I drew:

This diagram is showing us how a normal circuit works. All you need is a lightbulb, battery(s), and some wires. In this case, we're connecting the wires with the battery and the lightbulb that's letting the electrons flow freely in the wires and also forcing electrons to go through the lightbulb in order 'travel' to the other wire. As the electrons flow through the lightbulb, it lights up! The game that I made was something similar, except, the aluminum foil is connected to the answers and questions. 

THE GAME: 

As I had explain on the top, the game basically works by having the red wire that's on the left and having the black wire on the right. Questions are on the left and answers are on the right. For each question, there's suppose to be a correct answer listed. When you find that answer, you put the black wire on the answer hole and the red wire on the question hole. If your light lights up, that means you got the answer right. Furthermore, that also means that you created a complete circuit. How? Well as you can see behind the game board, there's aluminum foil and tape behind. Aluminum foil is used like a wire to let electrons move freely and travel from one wire to either another wire or a lightbulb. In this case, I placed the aluminum foil to where the answer was and where the question is. So when you get the right answer, electrons can cross threw that path in order to light up. The reason why we used aluminum foil is because as studies were done, they thought that all kinds of metals, irons, or steels work the best. Though somethings that can't be used to let electrons move freely are plastic, wood, etc. These are called insulators. With insulators, your circuit is going to be incomplete. So, we used aluminum foil instead. You may be wondering, Why would it still work if you put aluminum foil on top of every single question? Won't it connect to each other? The answer to this questions is no because we used tape. Tape is our resistor here, meaning it's the one that protects the aluminum foil from affecting other aluminum foil lines. Tape is really important here because without tape, people can get the answers wrong but the light can still light up because it's all connected. With all these objects, it works because electrons started from the voltage source (battery) and goes threw the wires, into the alluminum foil with tape protecting it, and back out with wires and into the voltage source again. When that all happens, you finally have your circuit complete and a complete path!!!!!    

Long Jump Reflection

This is my long jump video and I really liked how I ran really fast before jumping off the black line. Though another thing that I should work on is maybe not jumping off the black line that early so I can get a better distance next time. Another thing that I should be working on is pumping my arms up and down so I can get a better distance by running faster.