Author: Amilia (Page 1 of 2)

What did we do? 

We composed a nonfiction essay describing and analyzing differences between the original novel and the film adaptation of “The Giver.” My topic is basically about the physical feature that identifies the capacity to see beyond, and the Chief Elder. I talked about how the pale eyes in the novel changes into the triangle symbols in the film, and also about how the Chief Elder is a side character in the novel, and changes into the antagonist in the film.

What have we been learning? 

We have been learning about how to write an “Academic Essay Organization”, furthermore, the introduction paragraph with interesting hook, background info, and thesis statement. Additionally, strong body paragraphs with clear transitions. Lastly, conclusion paragraph with thesis statement, analysis, and closing thoughts

What’s Working:

I am able to write a better academic essay by adding elements like interesting hook, thesis statements, etc. After I finished writing my essay, I found Raina ( a school chatbot in magic school ) and told her to improve my essay, and by doing that, I told her to give my five suggestions to my essay, check that I haven’t used first or second person throughout the whole essay, improve my introduction and conclusion, etc. After that, we also had the opportunity of working with a partner to improve our writing. We read through each other’s essay and gave both positive and negative feedbacks, and to give them advice to improve. Finally, after all of this, my essay improved a lot, and if I didn’t use raina, I may have not notice the small error of a second person and some other small errors!

Areas for Growth:

Everything went pretty well, but my grammar is always not really well done, and when I write things, I usually plan and write a bit slow, so I get annoyed when others are already really ahead of me, for example when they are already starting at the second paragraph, I’m still in the middle of the first, struggling what to write next and my grammar mistakes. So to catch up, I often first end my thought and start at the next paragraph, and finish the paragraph at home.

Personal Relevance:

When using AI to help strengthen my essay, they could give me clear and strong feedbacks for my essay. And by using AI I could improve a lot in my essay and writting skills.

Swimming:

In the swimming unit, we first learned how to snorkel, learned how to dive, we also learned the beach entry. When we first learned how to snorkel, I really struggled with how to breath with my mouth and with my nose been blocked, but after some practice, I already could snorkel better and snorkel in the water longer. When we learned how to dive, we had to jump into the water after the count of one, the first time I was still a bit scared, I was afraid of stepping into the water, but after the first time, I had more confidence, and I enjoyed the feeling of stepping into the water. When we learned the beach entry, we found our partner first, then we had to help each other wear the flipper and the snorkel, after we step into the water together, in this unit, everything went well, i’m not struggling with anything. Throughout the unit, I improved on my Freestyle, Backstroke, and Breaststroke, now I could swim faster. And I also improved snorkelling, dive and beach entry since I don’t know how to do these before.

Badminton:

In the badminton unit, even though I didn’t learn anything because my dad basically taught me about it, I still improved on how to serve and smash. Now that I know how to serve a short shot and long shot, and when to use them. I also learned how to do a short/small smash, long and quick shot. At the begging of the unit, I still struggle a little about the serve without having the ball in the air and shoot it, but now I can do all type of serve.

The Balloon Car was built using 1 piece of cardboard, 4 wheels, 2 straws, 1 balloon and tape. We used it to learn about Newton’s first, second and third law. Every law worked with the balloon car and all were represented.

Newton’s first law is law of Inertia, if an object stays at rest it still stays at rest, if an object is in motion it stays in motion, unless acted by another force. We see this law in action with the Balloon Car when we put the Balloon car on the ground nothing happens, unless we pump air in it.

Newton’s second law is F=Ma, force equals mass times acceleration. We see this law in action with the Balloon Car when we pumped air (mass) in it the Balloon car and when it goes forward.

Newton’s third law is action and reaction, for every action there is an equal reaction. We see this law in action with the Balloon Car when we pumped air in the balloon, and the balloon car goes forward when the air is released out of the balloon.

The Balloon Car worked well because the car can go forward and the balloon didn’t pop. We didn’t had to change a balloon or anything. Everything worked well with our balloon car at the end.

It was a struggle at first with the balloon, we couldn’t blow up the balloon, and the car wouldn’t go forward because there is no air to get released. Also at first the card board was too big, that causes our balloon car a bit heavy, and it won’t go forwards. To solve these problems, we had to cut of some pieces of the cardboard to let it lose weigh. And at last we used the pumper to blow the balloon and it worked!

The Balloon Car was like an real car in the world when I pumped in the air and released it, it actually went forward. Newton’s third law in real life is when, I roll the bowling ball toward the water bottle, the water bottle will fall if the ball hits it. It is important to know these Laws because it helps us in the world to learn.

The songs are all easy for me and really nice and beautiful. I would have to work on my bow hold. I think my collaboration skills with Maddie are very very very very gooooooooooood!

This is my pinch pot, I’m proud of this because I think this is my best looking project, I also went through many processes, like first making the pot out, smoothing the surface, glazing it, and coloring it, after all of that this comes out!

I learned that when you are making a pinch pot or any thing using clay, you are not suppose to smooth the cracks by using water, not putting glaze on the bottom or else…