TwoPresents

TwoPresents

Jeffrey

This past Unit of Inquiry was about organizations. The point of the unit was to help us make a difference by helping charities. The central idea was: being organized empowers us to take action more effectively. Before we started a project that is explained below we researched all the charities that 5A would be representing.

This past month I have been working on a product for the charity: Box of Hope and it will be put on the website of the company Twopresents the product is a thanks for coming card (pictured above as the featured image). It has info about Box of Hope and what they do.

 

Let’s talk about the gifts (skills) that I have that impacted the way my group performed this is of course in a positive way. One gift is being a good writer so I know grammar, spelling and sentence structure well. Another is that I am a good listener and listen to others ideas because they could be better than mine or can add on to mine. And the final gift is I am a good speaker and that involves being persuasive

 

Now let’s talk about what leadership impacted my group. The type of leader I think I am is a visionary. Because I had a vision and I told the others that vision and they tried to and follow it and well it kind of worked out because it came really close to the vision. My vision was not too much information and had lots of pictures. Though in my vision the card was originally an invite someone’s party.

 

Let’s talk about what we learned, we learned a lot about Box of Hope and TwoPresents because of all the research we did. We learned that Box of Hope collects its boxes in November. We learned TwoPresents has a whole section of cards made by kids. We also learnt that the mission statement of TwoPresents is to reduce waste and raise money for charities in the form of a payment 50% of the money goes to a gift for you or the person’s whose party it is and 50% of the money goes to charity, hence the name TwoPresents, because one present is your present and the other is the money that goes to charity.

PA Peace Flags

PA Peace Flags

Jeffrey

 

This few weeks I have been working on a Peace Flag for International Peace Day, Sept 21, a couple months back. The messages I wanted to express on my Flag were Joy, Happiness and Prosperity. I mainly used sewing for the things on my flag, whether it be a sewing machine or hand sewed. I also used tie-dye to dye the flag. I think I can apply sewing onto things like the PYP exhibition and the Upper school exhibition. On a scale from 1-10 I think I would of gotten a 8 out of 10 because I had a few hiccups along the road and didn’t do as much as I could.

In conclusion I think I did really well and I think I can apply the skills I learnt into my future.

The Refugee Simulation

Jeffrey

The Friday before Halloween (27/10/17) the entire grade had a refugee simulation. The simulation was to make us feel like refugees in a refugee camp. What I knew about the subject was that many refugees are denied to be admitted asylum in foreign countries, though many people get through. My feelings were that I felt empathy for the refugees living through the many hardships. The parts that I liked were the parts that we were given currency(Lego bricks.) The parts I disliked were when a teacher scammed us by stealing supplies and selling them for Lego bricks. If I was a teacher I would grade my group’s performance as E- because we didn’t get a whole lot of lego bricks at first but then through the time allotted we gained even more bricks. What I could improve on is getting things except for mental calculations done.

Stranded on Solaro (My Disaster Narrative)

Stranded on Solaro (My Disaster Narrative)

Jeffrey

Prologue

After 10 years of civil war the Solaran civil war ends.The Solaro sector is left in ruins and the Galactic Union sends building teams every month to Solaro VI, because it is the most ravaged planet in the sector. The Solarans are very grateful. Because not only was their planet ravaged by civil war it is also terrorized by natural disasters: Earthquakes, Sinkholes, Tsunamis, Hurricanes and worst of all Tornadoes. These Tornadoes are not normal Tornadoes but super Tornadoes that destroy everything in it’s path. What will happen next?

Chapter 1 : The Storm

 

On August 11 2509, when James Spacebound was born, his parents wished that he would become the most famous lifeform in the galaxy. He was born to a man from the USA on Earth and a mother from Holalipi XXXI in the Holalipi Mega-cluster.

30 years later, Captain James Spacebound was sent to Solaro VI to investigate the disappearance of workers helping rebuild the Solaro Sector. When he arrived all seemed well so he proceeded to ask the Solarans if they’d seen the teams. Then he checked the Solaro VI database on the main computer to see if there was anything unusual.

 

That was when there was an ear-piercing noise, the Solarans started screaming “Palofee, Palofee!” Jim knew that a Palofee was a super-tornado and ran outside the ship and into the nearest tornado shelter along with his trusted friend John Moonjumper and his communications officer Jack Saturn.

 

Jim heard a Solaran say: “Gubaua I’m being pulled into the maset!” He knew that the maset was the eye of the storm. So Jim tried to open the door but it wouldn’t budge, he thought “The Solarans must be really strong.” But a few seconds later the sound ended.

Chapter 2: Stranded

When the Solarans twisted the wheel to open the hatch and Jim thought “why did I try to open the door, not the hatch?” When they exited Jim, John and Jack saw the wreckage of Jim’s ship, the Subspace, all that was left was the comm room but that needed to be connected to the ship. So Jim tried his ear comm and he was barely able to get a message to Command on Earth that he needed help help would come but in 3 days.

 

They Jim, John and Jack went to work on building a shelter so they could survive the 3 days on Solaro VI. The first thing they did was see if the ships beds were still intact and luckily they were. So they made a sleeping area in the shelter which was made in one of the underground bunkers.

Chapter 3: Help

 

3 days later: in the morning it was planning on where they were going to tell the spaceship to land, they ended up choosing Hanger 232, when the ship, the U.S.S. Jupiter landed the crew of the Subspace was very happy. The ship was a 2 kilometers long ship, a Solar class ship. It had a hot tub, a swimming pool, 40 bathrooms, a 100 meter long bridge and a crew of 20,000 lifeforms. It’s captain, Grant Jackson was very honored to meet Jim because Jim was very famous for saving the Maxian sun from exploding.

 

When Jim and his crew got back to Earth there were lots of people wanting to interview him, Jack and John. There was this one interviewer who asked :”How did you survive?” Jim answered :”Because we are good at are jobs.” When Jim saw his family he was ecstatic. His parents hugged him, they hugged for about 3 minutes.

Epilogue

1 month later Jim in command of the U.S.S. Neptune which is 3 kilometers long, has a bridge that is 150 meter long bridge, has a crew of 30,000 and is a Planet class ship. Jim, his First officer John Moonjumper and his comm officer Jack Saturn all remember what happened that day.

Glossary how to speak Solaran

Solaro= Solar anomaly

Palofee= Ultra Tornado

Gubaua= Help

Maset= The eye of the Ultra Tornado

Character Profiling

Character Profiling

Jeffrey

Last week we started brainstorming for the main character for a disaster narrative. I created a space explorer, he has a space-suit and wears a fedora on top of his helmet. I haven’t yet came up with a last name yet but his first name is James.

 

We also had to write the weaknesses, strengths, things the character might say and behaviour of our character. I also haven’t came up with weaknesses or behaviours. But my character’s strengths are he has an unusually high dexterity level and high very high resilience. What he might say are : Who do you work for; do you need help.

Make-Create-Collaborate

Make-Create-Collaborate

Jeffrey

Last week at CDNIS  we had a convention called make-create-collaborate, where there were different stations, Alec and I just walked around at first but we found the green-screen station. The green-screen station was to make it look like you were doing impossible things but you were really just lying on the ground. Alec and I just walked about doing nothing until we saw the mosaic station. The mosaic station was about making mosaics out of plastic bottle and tin can lids found washed up on the beach. We made a mosaic that said JOY. It was very funny because I found a Lego Elsa from Frozen in the pile, so I put it on one of the bottle lids and Alec found loads of crystals. So Alec just glued them on, in the end there was like 10 crystals. I really liked the make-create-collaborate.

Learning Buddies Spotlight

Learning Buddies Spotlight

Jeffrey

Yesterday, our learning buddies had their spotlight, but it wasn’t just 1E’S spotlight but 1B’S and 1D’S spotlight. It was about a girl called Amrita and her special tree. She stopped woodcutters from cutting down trees she does this by hugging her tree and the wood cutters run away. Then a royal person came and told the woodcutters to stop cutting down trees. The was a lot of singing and artworks. The concept was that they mixed what they learned in homeroom class with what they learned in visual arts and performing arts. They used shadow puppets for the Amrita story for the trees in the forest. It was very interesting to watch.

Coding Using Scratch

Coding Using Scratch

Jeffrey

Last week and the week before last week, we had coding classes in order to learn how to make tessellations using scratch. I made a octagon tessellation, even though they don’t actually work because they overlap and have rhombuses in it. But it was fun during the process, because I was always trying to find the right angle so it tessellated perfectly, but it took a long time and I even did the closest angle to being correct but it didn’t work. It didn’t successfully tessellate at all sadly it just overlapped. It actually did the complete opposite of what I expected it to do. The most challenging bit of it was finding the closest angle to being correct. Something new I learnt is how to tessellate using scratch and the pick random block. The pick random chooses a random edge on when it starts the next shape which has to be the same shape.

Leonardo Da Vinci

Leonardo Da Vinci

Jeffrey

This week we learnt about the artist, inventor and scientist Leonardo Da Vinci. He is most famous for 2 of his masterpieces: The Last Supper which he actually put himself in and Mona Lisa, the World’s most famous painting. Mona Lisa is actually a portrait of a woman named Lisa Gherardi. He was credited with designing the bicycle, the tank, a city of the future,the helicopter, parachute, airplane and the armoured car. He actually was the first person to find out the span of our limbs with the vitruvian man. He also studied the heart and that is why we know a lot about it.

 

Why I enjoyed it is that I really like Da Vinci because he gave us a lot of the knowledge that we know. We wouldn’t have airplanes because the Wright Brothers Design was based on sketches by Da Vinci. So I think Da Vinci was a genius!