Month: April 2017

My Bar Graph

My class has been working on graphs. My classmates had partners but I was solo. I was surveying my classmates on which college they wanted to go to when they grew up. It was very interesting, surprisingly Stanford won. I chose Penn. The choices were Stanford, Duke, Michigan, Penn and Cornell.

It was very hard but at the end I had a really big sheet and I was doing so much work. I used tons of colored pencils sharpies and more.

Today we went on a website and made a graph. I chose a bar graph. The first website did not work so we had to go on another website. The other website was annoying because it made you plan it all over again. But finally I did it and it was a whole ton of fun! Here is a picture of my graph.

 

 

 

Fidget Spinners

I love fidget spinners. After you read this you will probably love fidget spinners too. Fidget spinners are things that spin. I know that sounds boring but it is actually addicting. There are really good spinners that spin for about 2 minutes or there are some that only spin for 30 seconds. There are a lot of different kinds of spinners. There are small ones, there are big ones and a whole lot more. The fidget spinners that I prefer are the ones with caps and if you don’t know what I mean I will show you. 

That is the one I prefer there are small spinners with caps trust me if you see one you will know. The spinners with caps on it are very hard to break. If your friends have a fidget spinner you could battle with them. I will show you two ways to battle. One way is you could see which spinner goes longer. Another way is you could touch the other fidget spinner with your fidget spinner and see which one is still spinning. Now you know how cool fidget spinners are if you do not have one get one.

Preview of the Parent Trap

The movie The Parent Trap is a really good movie and now I will tell you all about the movie. At the start two parents break up so one kid goes with the mom and one kid goes with the dad.  The two kids meet at camp and at first they did not like each other and they were pulling funny pranks. Then they both got in trouble and they had to be in a bunk together. And then they were friends then one, the girl that was with the dad, showed a ripped picture of her dad and the girl that was with the mom showed a ripped picture of her mom. They saw that the two pictures fit together so then they realized that they were twins. And the girl that was with the dad wanted to see what her mom was like and the girl that was with the mom wanted to see what her dad was like so they switched when sleep away camp was done. If you want to see what happens next go see the movie.

Maglev Trains day -3

On day 3 it was a hard day like all of the days because we still could not get the foam train passed the manila track both ways but we are so so close. And I was really frustrated. we made sure it was all repelling but something was wrong and it was attracting so we could not get the foam train to move both ways. We cut of the magnets we moved the magnets we retaped the magnets and a whole lot more of hard work. There was lot’s of challenges like arguments and it is so hard to be in a group because of the arguments with your group because you do not always get to do your ideas that you want because your group has other ideas. We had some successes like we got the train to move one side at least it is better than the train not moving any ways. And we got the train to levitate a little but you have top get your train to levitate a lot for your train to move. We had to move the magnets because they were hanging of the edges and if your magnets are hanging of the edge of the manila folder or the foam train. We had to cut the magnets so it would fit on the foam train or manila folder. I’m not sure what to do today I have no idea what changes my group should do I think we got it all right but something is wrong with the train or the track. we have other classmates to help us so it could be easier and we could hopefully get are train passed the manila folder both ways and after that you put marbles on your train to see how many marbles you can get passed the manila folder it sounds very hard and hopefully later today we can get the train passed the folder and try to get marbles passed the manila folder on our train it will be fun. Here are some pictures from day 3.

 

Maglev Train day 2

On day 2 for the maglev trains it was a hard day and I will tell you why. We were so close from making the train go all the way passed the manila track it has to go both ways and my group only got it to go one way. The other groups got it so they could try to put as many marbles on the train as they could. The being an engineer is very hard and it is so frusterating. You could easily lose your temper like I did. We tried new ideas we had to take the magnets of we used almost I whole piece of tape we had to tape it again it We had to use large pieces of tape. We had lot’s of fails and lot’s of successes but mostly fails. If you be an engineer it is so hard but i am not saying you should not be an engineer it is just that it is so hard. From our fails we learned that we should not use ring magnets and bar magnets that we should use strip magnets before we tried the train my group always thought that we should not use strip magnets. The engineering was very hard and frusterating and hard but the good thing was that it was very fun and that is all I care about all I care about is having fun and being an engineer was very fun. There were so many magnets to chose from my group had no idea what to chose. At the start of being an engineer we used lot’s of ring magnets and bar magnets but then we are thinking you only need 2 or 3 strip magnets on the track and 3 strip magnets on the train. Here is a picture of my group.