Today, at school we went to the 6th floor cafeteria and did an activity called the marshmallow challenge, we were given 20 sticks of spaghetti, 1 meter of string and 1 meter of tape. my group decided to go with a pyramid with a cube on the bottom and the marshmallow on top, we had 18 minutes to finish this challenge. Even though our pyramid was complete and we were working efficiently, we ran out of time to build a cube. Our pyramid was 25 cm tall, but we still came in second.

This activity was to help us work better in groups, the group is similar to the exhibition groups because te groups were made of multiple people from 6B, 6E and 6D. It helps us harness our confidence and collaboration skills, risk-taking and respect, responsibility and enthusiasm, organization and leadership skills……

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Recently in class, Ms. Holms (librarian) came to our class to talk about the oncoming exhibition. We learned about concepts and all of a sudden we were learning the difference between concepts and topics. What the differences were: concepts were abstract (cannot see, touch, taste……) and broad while topics were concrete (solid) and specific. Concepts are universal and timeless. We were discussing how some things were concepts and topics, we were told that art was a concept, we started debating wether art was or was not a concept (you can see paintings, touch sculptures……) all of a sudden I was confused, so the IDEA of art is a concept but some how some parts are not part of the “rules” (?)
Anyway we separated in to groups and on an A3 paper separated a list of items into concepts and topics. Our group did pretty well but confused a few concepts and topics.

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History is like a million people telling stories to each other, not to anyone in particular but everyone. However some people tell the story in different angles, views and perspectives……

“History is a myth that men agree to believe” -Napolean

In this quote, it explains how some things in history might be made up while other parts of history may be more fiction than fact. Sometimes history is so bad or horrible that people decide to change history and give a more “happy” version. Sometimes they decide to make people heros, or seem evil.  I think what people should do is live on in there lives and don’t treat people the wau they do because of history and people should tell the truth even if it is better not to.

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Aldabra giant tortoises normally graze on ‘tortoise turf’, a blend of herbs and grasses that grows close to the ground in response to being cropped. Often, though, the tortoises will wander onto the beaches to eat washed-up seedpods. This female, who is probably at least 100 years old, regularly forages along the beach in front of a research station on Aldabra in the Seychelles.

“Tortoises are known to have made sea crossings between islands,” says Tom, “‘and so I was pleased to be able to use the ocean as a backdrop. I lay in her path on the sand, using an extreme wide-angle lens. The moment I took the shot, I had to roll out of her way to avoid her clambering right over me.”

Nikon D3 + 14-24mm lens; 1/200 sec at f22; ISO 200; Nikon SB800 flash.

Read the story

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Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it is too dark to read.

-Groucho Marx.

In class, our teacher asked us all if books can be a good friend. We all had different views and a opinions. Mine was: Yes, a good book can definitely be a good friend. Time and again you will return to this book, savoring your favorite parts. A good book can provide company and entertainment for years to come. Books are great to have and read. It’s been proven that just reading a simple book is like food for the brain. It boost intellectual, vocabulary, and speaking skills, it helps you with creativity……

Good books are friends, they never fight with you or argue, but still they give wisdom and knowledge. A book can give you smiles of joy, while it can give you tears of sadness. When you reach the end of a book, its like losing a friend. When we read good book we sometimes do not think that we are actually reading a book because the book is so good and realistic that the book goes to our heart .

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The Young Americans

These three days, we had a workshop, it was called The Young Americans. We were to create a show to our parents in 3 days. The Young Americans were young, energetic, enthusiastic……

In the show there were many different parts. At first, we would do a dance, after the dance we sang 2 songs: Don’t Stop Believin’ (Glee Cast) and Let it Be (Beatles). Then do a dance/drama called happiness, where we would express our happiness by taking photos, watching sports, climbing a tree, etc. Later a few soloist would have to do the most famous Disney songs such as “supercalifragilisticexpialidocious” “Under The Sea” etc. At last we would do a lion king song “The Circle of Life”

Other then doing the performance, we had many other activities such as: games, dances, writing poems, drawing and many classes to improve our skills with the arts.

My favorite activity was the Trust Game that is a game which we sit on the floor, face a partner and when the music starts, one person makes a movement, the other person follows. There is another version where there are three people standing in a triangle. The first person makes a movement and the others follow, then the people on the triangle turn and follow the other person, this goes on until the music stops.

I think this workshop was a great learning experience, we learned not to fear performing and how to properly perform. I felt that this workshop was very meaningful and special because not only do we perform with the “young americans” we also form bonds and relationships. I think that we performed well and made our parents, teachers, “young americans”, and others proud, happy……

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Todays photo of the day will be:

Butterfly at Sunset

Photograph by Toni Guetta

Macro shot of a butterfly with the sunset in the background

More at

http://photography.nationalgeographic.com/photography/photo-of-the-day/butterfly-branch-macro/

And:

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/photo-contest/2012/entries/gallery/nature-week-2/#/5

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Welcome back to the photo of the day. Todays photo is of :

Falcons in Socotra. A female Kestrel brings food to her offspring.

Photograph by Michael Melford, National Geographic. See more pictures from the June 2012 feature story ”Where the Weird Things Are.” From http://photography.nationalgeographic.com/photography/photo-of-the-day/kestrels-socotra-melford/

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Currently in school, we are finishing our first unit Who We Are. Our summative assessment was to be a counselor and solve a conflict situation. I think I did this ok on this unit but I need to put more effort into my process journal and improve it.

For todays picture of the day it will be:

Photograph by Paul Vecsei

This is a picture from http://photography.nationalgeographic.com/photography/photo-of-the-day/ciscoes-canada/

This picture was taken in Canada and the fish in the photo are Ciscoes. This was taken in the ciscoes natural habitat on August 19 2012 for more information go to the link above.

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