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Today my class and I started brainstorming possible actions for our new unit, Sharing the Planet. We did this by the ladder of 
participation, which has different degrees of participation. We first brainstormed by ourselves, then each table wrote their ideas on a sticky note and put them up together as a class.
Through this activity I have gotten a deeper understanding of action and where they go. For example, one idea of making a poster can go to many different levels, depending on how you got the idea. It can go to assigned, but informed (level 4), if the teacher assigned it, or it can also go child-initiated, shared decisions with adults (8) if the child has decided to make it by himself.
I don’t think that there was a lot of variety in the sticky notes, just the same things but just on different levels. Overall, I thought that this task was very useful, as we got to get ideas for actions, and also develop a deeper understanding on action overall.
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On Manga High, there is a game called Flower Power. In this game, the aim is to earn as much money as possible, which you get by cutting flowers. To get flowers, at the beginning of the game they give you one to start off with, and then you get to choose – to sell it or wait for the bees to come and help germinate them, which gives you three seeds. To grow the flowers, you have to bloom the many buds. To bloom the buds, you have to order the fractions/decimals/other on them from smallest to biggest. If you get it wrong, the one bud dies, and the amount to sell will go down a bit. Also, the more flowers you get right, the more they will introduce you to. There is also a time limit, but additional time is added every time you germinate a seed. I was good at the decimals part, but kind of got lost at the fractions part because I was hurrying.
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I think that this pill should not be legalized because it kind of takes away a lot of the experience in life. Even though being happy is good, there should still be balance in life, like sometimes you can be happy and sometimes you can be sad. If you’re always just happy I feel that it’s not really right, and you don’t get to experience all the types of emotions in life.
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I think that the long term effects of control would be that the child would become rebellious, since they would get tired of their parents constantly trying to control them. When they are rebellious, they might start talking back, no matter the consequences because they are tired of being controlled all the time. I think that this is the most likely outcome.
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In this BOL, I decided to practice my typing skills again, but this time using a different resource other than Mavis Beacon, which I used for the last BOL about typing skills. This time I am going to play a game called typing race in order to develop my typing skills. There is single player and online games, and in both the objective is to cross the finish line first which you can get to by typing. Single player is where you play against computers, and you get to choose which typing level you are on so to adjust the computer’s speed. Each level has different computer characters, such as Luke Skywalker or The Simpsons. In the online games, you get to play against other players around the world who are also searching for matches. This game is very useful as it tells you your WPM (words per minute), position and also how many errors you have gotten while still “racing”, and in the end it tells you how much time you took to get to the finish line. In the homepage, they also tell you your top WMP, and your rating, but you need to login to save the results.
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I think that you should choose a castle over a underwater mansion because the underwater castle would be too hard to access. If it was 
underwater, then it would be very hard and expensive to find a way to get people in without making them wet, and also the building process would cost a lot of money, as it is underwater. Then, there would be a lot more problems such as finding ways to get electricity, or finding a ways to build it on if the ocean floor’s very deep. The castle wouldn’t have any of these problems, and it is much more convenient to access, and people would be able to see it, other than having it underwater.
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Today for my Bucket O’learning I decided to practice some of my fraction, decimal, percent math skills since there was a test and I got some of the answers wrong. I used Khan academy review the relationship between decimals, fractions, and percents. So what I did was search on Khan about each of the topics together separately and watched the videos on how to do it, then practiced a few by finding examples from other videos. I didn’t have enough time so I didn’t work on the relationships between percents and decimals.
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