Archive for March, 2012

My first Podcast

In English class, we worked on a podcast about a Sakura Medal book. I chose the book Struts and Frets. We wrote a script for our podcast and had to include either Character, Theme, or Setting for our main focus, and I chose Character. When we finished our script, we got into partners and made an intro [...]

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Painting Portrait Reflection

During Art class, we drew a portrait of ourselves again, but this time we painted our self portrait which should describe what kind of person I am. Here is my finished self portrait: In this portrait, the things that describe me are the sweets and the ribbon because I like them. I like the taste of [...]

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Ancient Civilizations Economy

During Humanities class, we looked at the ancient Greece, China and Egypt civilizations. We also looked at one of the characteristics which are Writing, Government/Laws, Economy, Division of Labour, Religion, Art/Architecture, and Class System by yourself or with a partner. I looked at it with Keina. The Greece Civilizations did not have the same idea [...]

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Floating and Sinking

In Science class, we made an origami boat out of aluminum foil. I made a canoe out of aluminum foil. We investigated how may atoms would hold in the aluminum boat. We paired up into a group of two, and I was with Maya. My boat held 32 atoms. It was good because I made [...]

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Singing in the Rain

In Drama, we watched Singing in the Rain and looked at how Gene Kelly used props, rhythm, expression and moving through space in his dance. Gene Kelly’s dance was good and very entertaining to me. He used lots of space in the street like the pole, the stairs, and the edge of the sidewalks. He JUMPED on [...]

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Hinamatsuri (Doll Festival)

Today, March 3rd is Hinamatsuri which is Doll Festival!! It is a Girl’s Day  as it is a day to wish for young girl’s growth and happiness. Most families with girls display “hina-ningyo” (special dolls for hina matsuri). My hina-ningyo is a set of a Heian emperor and empress, but many of hina-ningyo usually includes [...]

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