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Here’s a mystical creature I made using EazyDraw. It’s an Alien, with human hair. That means that it’s an alien, with human powers!

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Here is a story I wrote, hope you like it!

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We just did an activity related to tuning in. There were 3 groups, I was in the blue group, and I had some rights, and some groups didn’t. So we could: Go to the bathroom without permission, and boss the yellow group around. So I was in the blue group, we had to write down 20 words and make sentences out of them. Our task was pretty straight forward. And we could ask the yellows to give us pencils and stuff. It was awesome!

…Until we had to change groups…

I changed to yellow, and so the blues could now boss me around.

I learned that power is sometimes used for negative purposes, and sometimes for positive purposes. Power can be powerful!

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Today, I simply just practiced my Financial Literacy Skills on WeSeed, a fun mock trading game with real stats but fake money.

(Due to technical problems, a screenshot won’t be put on. The problem will be solved.)

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Dreams of Inocente

I am Inocente,

I wonder if I’ll ever find a home?

I hear the waves crashing,

I want to be free,

I am Inocente

I believe my dreams will come true,

I feel hope,

I worry that people don’t appreciate me for who I am,

I will continue believing myself,

I am Inocente

I understand that dreams can’t always come true,

I say that they can come true,

I dream of a world of achievers,

I try to follow my dreams,

I hope one day they will come true,

I am Inocente

Adrian, Hanley and Pak San

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Today, we watched a TV Show called Switched At Birth. It is about a girl called Bay, who found out that the nurse accidentally switched Bay and a girl called Daphne. Daphne was is deaf, because her mom was drunk so she couldn’t drive her daughter to the hospital. Now the 2 mothers met, and they are in an argument about who keeps who.

So we used a comprehension technique called “KNIFE” to visualize the story

K= Know. So what do I know? Well I never ever heard of a situation when 2 babies get switched, but that might only be for careless hospitals :S

N=Note. What do I need to remember? Well, the main points that I have to remember is that the 2 babies are switched, and their moms are mad and arguing. Bay is mad too, and the father is in a lot of pressure.

I=Interesting. The interesting parts of the movie is when Bay gets mad and got nose rings, started drinking coffee and started smoking. Probably because of moodiness, so Bay started doing bad things. She even went to jail!

F=Formulate. What are some questions? 1. Why is Bay so moody? And why would she suddenly start doing bad things?

E=Explain. I have to explain how this movie can help me practice skills for peace. So during this TV show, I practiced empathy, especially on Daphne. I covered my ears, and looked around. Wow. Very quiet. That’s probably how Daphne felt when she realized she was deaf. But now, I think she is probably used to it…

We haven’t finished the show, so I hope we can continue soon.

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So here is my Writing Prompt! The instructions are in the title!

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Today, we took the DOPE test! The purpose was “to find your behavior type and how it affects your performance, and find ways to be productive.” The questions reminded myself on my personality, and I answered the questions on the dope test with ease. My answers were mostly the peacock, as the meaning of the peacock is “The peacock loves talking, being the centre of attention, has passion/optimistic. Peacocks can be accused of too much, and aren’t good with detail and time control.” Wow! Most of this is not my personality! I don’t really know how the test figures your personality out, and I also don’t get why I am a Peacock. Two actual examples: Hmmm. I sometimes struggle with time management, and I sleep at 11. 2. I love being the centre of attention-while I am playing the piano in class.

A Peacock:

Sources:

www.achieve-goal-setting-success.com

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Please take a look at this video. You will need headphones/earphones for this video. And remember to close your eyes. Don’t worry, there is nothing to watch! Just hearing!

The video is about 3D Holographic sounds. When you close your eyes, it really feels like you’re in a barber shop, it is really crazy! It surprises me about how advanced our technology really is these days! It really feels like a barbershop, doesn’t it. I think that this video is really professional, and I also think the person who made it must be really professional at sound and your ear!

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Questions for G6 Blogs from Mr. Steiner

 Instructions:

Students are to write in their own words answers to the following questions related to our central idea for team games – “Success in games depends on skills, rules, strategies and sportsmanship.” Students need to post these answers on their blog. Students are encouraged to comment on each other’s answers in a positive/constructive manner.

What does sportsmanship mean to you/look like to you? Give some examples.

Sportsmanship looks like people having fun while being nice to each other when doing sports. For example, when you’re playing team handball, and the other team loses

Why is it important to follow the rules of a game?

It is important to follow the rules of games because if you’re not following the rules of the game, it won’t be fair to the other team, and you’re not showing sportsmanship.

Why are good team strategies important to success in team games? Give examples of strategies for team handball?  How would you create and/or deny space in team handball?

What is a strategy you/your team used in “Capture the Flag” to be more successful?

Team strategies are important because if you don’t have strategies, there is a very big chance your team might lose.

You create space by standing in an open area and shouting “PASS TO ME!”          You deny space by blocking the person with the ball.

 And for capture the flag, the strategy we used is distractions. We distracted other people by doing some obnoxious actions (like singing Thomas the Tank Engine) and we got all the “flags”!

Describe why having strong skills helps your team be more successful? Give some examples of skills with a specific team sport in mind.

Having strong skills are important because if you don’t have strong skills, your team will be weak and have more chance of losing.

In handball it is important to be good at the following skills: You have to be good at denying and creating space, and you have to be good at fake shots to win the other team.

Why does a team that is very physically fit have an advantage over a team that is not fit?

The team that is physically fit has an advantage(s) because if the team is weak and tired, they won’t run that fast, so that makes the fit team have a better possibility of winning!

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So, as you know, the World Education Games are coming up. If you don’t know what the world education games are, than here are the details: The World Education Games is an online event that everyone can register for, and it’s FREE! So, after you register, there are 3 games you can choose from. World Science Day, World Maths Day and World Literacy Day. The games are really awesome, and if you get the top few on the scoreboard, the World Education Games people will come to your school and give a medal to you! Last year, I won a medal because I was 2nd in Hong Kong for World Spelling Day (Now World Literacy Day), and the medal was pretty nice!

Today, I practiced (The real games are in March) World Science day, and it was a lot of fun! I really think you should join in! Even adults can join! Meanwhile, check out some screenshots!

Look how many countries there are!

Yesssss! 17 answers correct! Beat that dude!

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By Pak San Trooper and Hanley Monster

Let’s talk about technology! So here is the definition of technology for future use: The application of scientific knowledge for practical purposes, esp. in industry: “computer technology”; “recycling technologies”.

A few days ago, we did another Round Robin Reading with the class. It was fun. The story was named The Flying Machine, and it was about a man who built a machine that enabled him to fly. It was an extraordinary sight back then (the year was 440bc), and the story took place in The Great Wall of China. Anyway, the emperor asked the flier to get down, and asked him some questions. The inventor got excecuted because the emperor did not want anybody to find out how to fly, fearing enemy “fliers” would drop rocks and destroy the great wall, which will harm China.

Remember how the title had nothing to do with what the first paragraph was talking about? Well, this paragraph is about the title! I don’t think it’s fair that the inventor got killed, just because he invented a dangerous weapon, doesn’t mean that he would tell anyone else? I mean, why? So nowadays, we talk about computers and technology more than we talk about airplanes. Guess what, I can make a connection between these 2 topics! As you see, computers can be harmful to you! What happens if you go on Facebook and learn new swear words? That can have a big impact on your life, but that shouldn’t mean that teachers should ban computers from us! You know how many new things are learned each day just by surfing the web? I learned lots of stuff about natural disasters just by going online and researching! Same with the flying machine! If the emperor didn’t execute the man, airplanes would have existed a lot longer! And trading around the world would have been a lot easier!

So overall, my concluding statement is: It is not fair that people get harmed because of something they didn’t do! And technology is NOT harmful, it is the way you USE it that might be harmful.

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As the day passes, you have probably heard someone talk about some Brazilian fire or something, right? Well, it is true. There was a fire in Brazil. The fire took place in Santa Maria, close to the border or Argentina and Uruguay. The fire took place in a nightclub, named “Kiss”. This is basically what happened:

It was 2:15am in Santa Maria, Brazil, The day was Janurary 27th. In the Kiss Nightclub, the band started playing their songs. But after around 5 songs, a band member looked up at the ceiling and saw the roof burning. One of the guards gave the singer a fire extinguisher, but it didn’t work, causing the fire to spread across the whole nightclub. Nightclubbers scrambled to the only exit, the main exit, but the security guards were blocking it. They said that the nightclubbers had to pay the bill before they could leave, thinking that a fight had started in the nightclub and people were trying to sneak out without paying. But when the security guards saw the blaze, they immediately let the nightclubbers out. But it was too late. The thick dark smoke was way too strong to cope with, so a lot of people died breathing in thick smoke. After the blaze was put out, officials reported that 232 people were dead, with more than 50 people found in the bathrooms. Officials believe that there were so many people in the bathroom because they thought it was an exit, and the toilet just locked them in a death trap. Brazil’s president, Dilma Rousseff flew back from Chile to comfort the relatives of the 233 people who died (One died later in the hospital). The cause of the fire is believed to be the Sputnik, a device made to shoot flares out in a band performance. The flares shot to the ceiling, and that was the cause to the fire. Brazil is announcing a 30-day mourning  period to remember the people who died in the really sad accident.

I think this accident is really… I don’t know how to explain it, but it was really sad, with 233 deaths. That is a lot of deaths for just one fire.  I really think the band should test out all the equipment before they actually start letting people in, because if there really is a fire, it would only kill (at the most) 5 people. But then the band didn’t take the time to examine the equipment, which caused 233 deaths. I don’t think the band should be charged or put to jail, because it wasn’t really their fault that so many people died. They just didn’t check the equipment. So what? Why do they have to be fined or put in jail? It just doesn’t make sense…

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So, we have just started tuning in into our newest unit, How We Organize Ourselves. The central idea is: Physical and virtual public spaces provide people with opportunities to make connections and establish a sense of community. We haven’t really done anything yet for the unit, but I have made a piece of digital artwork for my interpretation on the central idea. (Click on the image to enlarge it.)

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We just finished reading the story “3 Questions”

I have 3 activities to choose from, and I’m choosing #2:

• Choose one of the following characters: the king, the hermit, or the wounded man. Write a diary entry explaining the day’s events from the perspective of that character. Explain the lessons learned and/or taught by the character and include detail from the story.

Wounded Man: 1885/3/20

Today was a really weird. I actually apologized to my enemy, the king! So, first, I was plotting to kill my enemy, but I bumped into one of his bodyguards, and he wounded me really badly. I knew that the king was at the hermit’s house today, so I went there. When I reached the hermit’s house, everything turned black. I guess I fainted. When I woke up, the king was putting bandages on my wound. Wow! The king saved my life! Therefore, I forgave my enemy, and I became his slave. I can’t believe my enemy would actually save my life!

And that’s it!

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We’re about to read a story called “The Three Questions” by Leo Tolstoy, but before we start reading, we have to do 3 activities. The first one is to write 3 questions about a game.

I am choosing Minecraft as my game.

1. Who invented Minecraft?

2. What was the meaning of Minecraft?

3.Why is everything in minecraft cubes?

The second activity is to guess the meaning of 4 vocab words

1.diverse: I think it means parallel, because of the words “diverse universe”

2.hermit: A person living in solitude as a religious discipline.

3.spade: I think spade is sort of a shovel, but sharper.

4.assaulted: I think it means insulted in a really strong way.

UPDATE: JANUARY 21,2013:

Meanings:

1.Diverse: Showing a great deal of variety; very different.

2.A person living in solitude as a religious discipline.

3.A tool with a sharp-edged, typically rectangular, metal blade and a long handle, used for digging or cutting earth, sand, turf, etc.

4.To make a physical attack on

Activity 3: Where Russia is:

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So, I have currently been reading news about CES 2013. CES, or Comsumer’s Electronics Show, is an exhibition held in various countries every year. There are lots of new and awesome gadgets getting shown at CES 2013, like the HAPIFork, a fork that vibrates when you eat too fast, the Pebble, a watch that connects to your iOS or Android device and can show you your emails and the daily news every morning. Really interesting, eh? But the gadget I am going to talk about in a few seconds is the weirdest ever. It’s called the iPotty.

So what might that be, you ask? Well, it’s basically a normal plastic potty for babies to do their business in, except with an iPad stand at the top of the potty. Its makers say that it’s for the babies to “get entertained” during potty time, and so the babies will get potty trained sooner, because it’s real fun!

I think this is just the weirdest gadget ever invented, because I don’t think babies would really like playing with electronics during potty time. Plus, I don’t think parents would like it too, because the iPad is way too “electronicky” to be played with at potty time, and the child will probably just turn into tech addicts, which is not good. I wouldn’t buy this gadget for my child either, so I’m not sure if this product will be successfull.

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So for this week’s Bucket o’ Learnin’, I practiced my typing skills on Keyhero, an awesome typing test website. From the last time I tried the test, which was a month ago, I got fifty WPM. Now, my score has increased to sixty-five WPM. Isn’t that amazing? I love Keyhero, because it’s really fun to just type out quotes written by other people. Once, I even got a quote written by Taylor Swift! Actually, typing games bore me. They seem really boring. But in Keyhero, you’re focused on the typing, not the playing. That’s why I think Keyhero is more efficient and more fun.

Bye for now!

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So, today’s math investigation’s question is really long! Check it out:

Exploring Wild and Wonderful Number Patterns Created by Yourself !!

You’ve probably come across number patterns before; ones like :-

1) 2  4  6  8  10  12 . . .

2) 512  256  128  64  32 . . .

3) 220  210  200  190  180  170 . . .

4) 11  14  17  20  23  26 . . .

Work out the rules that produced each of the patterns.

MY ANSWER:

1)The numbers are going up by twos

2)The numbers are halving while going down.

3)The numbers are counting back by tens.

4)The numbers are counting by 3s

What could be the reason for the series of dots appearing after each one?

MY ANSWER: It is because the patterns aren’t over. The numbers are formed based on the rules shown above.

INSTRUCTIONS:

Well, let’s form some patterns of our own. But this time we will use two maths operations [for the maths person 'operations' mean adding, multiplying, dividing, subtracting etc.] to produce each new number in the pattern. You can probably multiply, add, subtract and divide. Because dividing sometimes can leave bits left over, let’s ignore that one for the time being.

Adding put together with subtracting results in something that we could have got just by adding or subtracting. Let me show you:-

Suppose you decided that you would add 5 and subtract 2 each time . . . . then you might as well just be adding 3 each time.

OR suppose you decided to add 6 and subtract 11 each time . . . . then you might as well just be taking away 5 each time.

I therefore suggest that we make a rule about the two operations that we will use for this exploration.

RULE 1 You will use multiplication with either adding or subtraction. BUT you can have the multiplication last if you like.

So let’s get started, you will need to do 5 things for this work:

a) You need to choose a STARTING NUMBER (In my example suppose it’s 7)
b) You need to decide which OPERATION to do first [addition, subtraction or multiplication] (In my example suppose it’s multiplication )
c) You need to decide what NUMBER to use with the operation you chose in b (In my example suppose it’s 3 )
d) You need to decide on your next OPERATION (I chose to use multiplication before so it’s got to be addition or subtraction, suppose it’s subtraction)
e) You need to decide what NUMBER to use with the operation you chose in d. (In my example suppose it’s 3)

Let’s run through this a bit.

Starting number 7 [ x 3−3 ] gives 18

Now we use 18….. [ x 3−3 ] gives 51

Now we use 51….. [ x 3−3 ] gives 150

I think it would be better to write it down without the brackets bit, although we do have to do both operations before we write the result down and it would be helpful to write it all out in columns going down:-

I now write down ALL THE THINGS THAT I NOTICE ABOUT THIS PATTERN.

Things like:-

The answers go odd, even, odd, even . . . . .

The units figures go 7  8  1  0 ,  7  8  1  0 , . . . etc.

You might be able to see lots more, I’ve just written down a few quick ones.

When I’ve had a good long, hard look and talked with others, perhaps, I do the next stage; which is:-

Take a look at a, b, c, d, e, that I used and make a SMALL CHANGE

SUPPOSE I decide to change e, to subtracting 4 instead of 3 BUT everything else stays the same so:-

Starting Number 7 [ x 3−4 ] gives ……

Like before I write down all the things that I notice :-

LIKE :-

The answers all end in a 7

The tens figures go 4  3  0  1,  4  3  0  1 . . .

AND maybe many more things.

Then I COMPARE what I noticed this time with last time, similar things and rather different things.

SO I might write something like:-

In the first pattern the units went in a pattern of 4 repeating different figures, in the second pattern it’s the tens that do that. Both patterns end with a 7 every 4th one. I also notice that in the units of the first you could say that the 8−1gives 7!

WELL after that L O N G introduction it’s time for you to have a go!

1) Choose you five things to start off with a, b, c, d, e.
2) Produce at least 8 answers underneath each other in good columns [it helps to see tens patterns etc.].
3) Write about the things you notice.
4) Make one small change in the 5 starting things a, b, c, d, e.
5) Do 2) and 3) again.
6) Compare what’s happened this time with the first time.

My Answer:

(Check the above if you are confused with the “Do” part)

1)Choose your five things to start off with a, b, c, d, e.

A=My starting number is going to be… 9!

B=My operation is -

C=My number for this operation is 5

D= My other operation is x

E= My number for the other operation is 6

So basically, my equations will be (-5×6)

2)Produce at least 8 answers underneath each other in good columns [it helps to see tens patterns etc.].

3) What I notice:

1.The unit digit is always a 4 (except the 1st one).

2. It is always an even number (except the 1st one).

4)

A=9

B=Operation is x

C=My number for the operation is 5

D=My other operation is -

E=My number for my other operation is 6

5)

What I noticed:

1. The unit digit is always 9

2. The tens digits always repeat “3,8″

3. The hundreds digit is repeating “1964″

4. All the numbers are odd numbers.

6)

1. The unit digit is the same on both diagrams.

2. The numbers on the first one are all even (except the first), and the numbers in the second one are all odd!

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