Capstone #6: Working on my Final Product

This was my final product. This was the last step to finishing my capstone! As I said in my last post, I started to work on it when I was more focused on my main inquiry answer. I had the choice to do an Ignite, IMovie or TEDTalk. I chose a TED because I wanted to include these robots named Dash and Dot. I wanted to use these robots to demonstrate how people code the robots to, for example, move forward, or turn right 90%, or something like that. These robots are coded like scratch, but in my opinion, it’s easier. I made a track out of paper and tape, and coded Dash to go around the “neighborhood” and explore. He will also meet some “friends.” I am going to talk a little about space and underwater robots, then I am going to demonstrate with dash and dot. I practiced a few times in front of my class, and they gave me feedback, I fixed what they said I should do, especially what Mrs Edwards said. When I finished updating everything, Michael H helped me practice my brand new TED, and when I went up, I was ready. When I finished, my classmates just said I had to be a little more enthusiastic. But they thought it was good, and all I have to do now is present in front of our parents. Well, wish me luck!

This is my slideshow:

Meeting Grace Lin!!!

Today,  5/17/16, we met an author named Grace Lin, and before we actually met her, we watched a TED talk about her. When Grace came in I already knew a little about her. But when she started talking about herself, there was SO much more! About her family, her inspiration to write books and lots more. Later, she talked about the king animal, the TIGER. Here in america, the king animal is a LION.  She told us about why the tiger is the king animal, and then showed us how to draw a lucky tiger. Then she told us about lucky numbers, and UNLUCKY NUMBERS. So the numbers 6,8, and 9 are the lucky numbers and the number FOUR is unlucky. Here are what the numbers mean: Six means Peace and Ease, Eight means Money and Fortune, and Nine(my favorite number)means long life(YAY). But the dreadful number FOUR means death. So Grace told us to not put four stripes on my tiger. But i’m still glad my favorite number is a lucky one. Anyway, I really enjoyed her visit and now I really want to read her books!

 

Get ready for the Games

The next Olympics will start  this year in Rio de Janeiro. The cost of the games is expected to cost $11 billion! Thats a lot  of money! The Olympics will last from August 5th to the 21, with almost 11,000 of the worlds best athletes competing, from 206 countries. An expected audience will be 4.3 billion to watch on the TV. The Olympics Games date back to ancient Greece. Pierre de Coubertin founded the first modern Olympics. He hoped that the games would promote peace among nations. The next Olympics will be in 2020. I hope you watch both games!

 

 

 

Poetry Anthology!!!

 

This is my DONUT poem.

 

 

Poetry Anthology, Donut

 

But if you can’t see it well, here’s the actual poem.

 

 

Donut 

 

Donut, oh donut,

You look so good,

With all those different colors

And all the rainbow sprinkles,

They taste like candy,

And all those different flavors,

Chocolate, Vanilla, chocolate filled too

All the flavors that are loved by you,

But don’t eat too much

Or you’ll end up finding

Around your stomach

A donut of fat!


This is my second poem, but it’s definetly not my favorite, though. I was inspired to write this poem of my addiction to donuts, first of all, and the donut poem I wrote in third grade. It only took me 2 minutes!!!


This is the MATH poem.

 

Poetry Anthology, Math

 

If you can’t see it well, here’s the actual.

 

Math 

 

The thing about math,

Is not that it’s bad,

And I kind of like it.

Maybe it’s because

I am too good,

But I don’t think so.

Fractions

Decimals

Addition

Division

Multiplication

Subtraction

Parenthesis

Exponents.

Maybe that it’s because

Math has much to learn.

But probably not.

I have NO idea of

Why I like Math.


I actualy don’t like math that much. But I thought it would be cool if I wrote it in a point of view by a person who likes math. This poem took  about 5 minuets to write.


This is my BROTHERS poem!

 

Poetry Anthology, Brothers

 

If you can’t see it well, here it is.

 

 

Brothers 

 

Brothers,

Sometimes annoying,

And playful,

Helpful

Crazy

Joyful too,

But mostly Crazy

And annoying,

Though.

I want him to calm down.

And to leave me alone.

But he keeps on

Bothering.

And Bothering

And Bothering me.

So I push him away,

Tell him to stop.

And if he doesn’t,

He’s in for a surprise!


This poem was a poem that was based on my brothers who are SOOOO annoying! So I decided to write a poem on them. This one was easy to write because I already knew what I was going to write about them.


Here is my JUST ANOTHER POEM poem!

Sorry, but I didn’t make a google drawings for this one… 🙁

But here it is!

Just another poem

 

Just another poem

That was written by me

Plain and old and boring

Just as my poems would be

Weird topics

Odd words.

But all this is

Is just another poem.

An unusual tone

And not as precise,

As an author

Would write.

Poems by authors,

Not only rhymes,

But has good words,.

Good lines,

And topics that are just fine.

But poems that I write,

Are plain and old and boring,

Because it’s

Just another poem.


This was my poem in my pocket poem. I added it late at the last second. That’s why I didn’t have a google drawing on it. I added it because Mrs.Edwards said it was good, and that I should add it to my blog, and I did!

 

 

 

Soccer Poem Word Art

Soccer, Poem Anthology

 

Here is my real poem:

Soccer Game  

 

You start a new Soccer game

But this game isn’t lazy.

And the point of the game

Is to get the ball,

Into the goal.

But if you use you hands,

You’re in for a surprise

‘Cause you just gave the

Other team a prize.

And the sound of the breeze.

The sound of fan’s cheer.

The sound of the ref’s whistle,

I hear the ball rolling at me.

And suddenly

The ball is at your feet

And I dribble fast up close

Close your eye’s and shoot.

With 5 seconds left,

And its 1-1,

The sound of the ball

Hitting the net

Then you see

Teammates rushing at you

And screaming “YEAH”

And “WE WON”

Everywhere,

Because you scored the winning goal.


On this poem, this was my third poem I wrote in 2016, and it only took about 10 minuets. I thought this poem would be the one that I would use for the Poetry Festival, but then I wrote another poem that I like better.

Debate Response #2

Our 2nd debate was way better! We had a lot more examples, we knew what we were going to say and we put in some videos. But we did some things that were not so good. We sometimes forgot that we had a new example, and we left and jumped back in. We were a lot more prepared and I think helped us a lot! At the start of Extreme Sports, our group was all on the “worth the risk” side. But as we got all the examples and reasons, I slowly changed to “not worth the risk” side.  Here is the link to our second attempt video. —–> Click Here!

Writing my Soccer NF article.

When I wrote my Soccer NF article, I wrote the rules, applications and positions right away. But then I had to write more. It took me a while to think about others, but then I finally figured out to do 3 drills, and 3 basic tricks. Then I wrote my article on Word. It took only a little time to write it, since I already knew what I was going to write. After I went over it again, all paragraphs were in different fonts and colors, and different sizes. So I had to fix that. Then I had to searched up for pictures,and I revised my work over and over again and then, then FINALLY!! DONE!! Or at least I THOUGHT I was done. But Mrs. Edwards corrected us and I did everything she said. THEN I was finished. Yay!         Here is the link to my finished article  🙂 —–>   https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B4p4Bsw_6MhgRHhkOHlrUXRzZGc 

VIDEO CONVERSATION WITH NASA MEMBER

When I heard about this, I was like OH MY GOSH!!!! Like this was a chance to talk to a NASA member!!! Her name was Rachel Power. I wanted to ask her,”What was you furthest rocket, where was it planning to go, and where it landed?” Even though I couldn’t talk it was still fun and cool. And most people don’t have the chance to talk to a NASA member. So that was a big moment for me!

Important news 2015

I think what will have a long lasting time in the world is on  July 14, a spacecraft performs the first ever trip to Pluto, and it sends pictures of the icy surface back to earth. I think this because we are exploring another planet, and the furthest planet from the sun. We will hopefully  learn a lot about Pluto!

Rocketry Presentation

I think our rocketry presentation was really good, and that we really payed it off. And that it took a lot of practice to remember what we were going to say, and remember our slides. But overall, we did really good, and we spoke really loud and clear. But that was the end of rocketry!!! And it was a very good unit