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For my capstone I studied the science of golf and yesterday on 6/19/18 we got to present our capstone project to out parents. Over this entire project I have gotten the experience to be able to have an interview, to find facts on my topic and even get to share my work with other people.

I thought this project was a great project for kids to learn to be able to speak out loud to an audience and get to show them the magnificent work that they put in to this project. I was very thankful that we did this because I got to learn more about my topic and the other things that I am now capable of doing. Over the 2 month period I had some successes and some failures. For example one of my successes was being able to get an interview with a golf pro a failure was maybe not knowing when a blog post needs to be done or when I was behind on knowing my script. When I noticed that I was behind in knowing my script I practiced every day until 11:00 but then I went to sleep and a boy named Arav could tell you all about how important it is to get some rest. In the end I learned about the physic concepts in golf, how weather and science effects golf and how technology is being used to study and test clubs and the balls to make golf an easier or just always changing and evolving..

My main inquiry question was “how does science effect golf and how does it benefit the golfer.” Over the amount of time that I had to find the answer to this question I came out with a exceptional answer. Science effects golf by how technology is used to make the golf course and different club designs. Science also effects golf in a way of how the scientists are using science to learn more about how different weathers effect the course and how they study different science concepts such as lift, drag and much more. Science also is used to study the swig so the pro’s can benefit of of learning about their mistake.

Over the month our class spent on reading and writing graphic novels I learned that I had become a different kind of writer and reader. I learned about myself as a writer realizing I had gotten into more details in my story telling and letting the reader to understand what is going on in this story.

I learned about myself as a reader realizing I had been able to focus more on the book and not wander off and I was able to understand and use my imagination as I go through reading the panels. In the end I became a better reader and writer from this graphic novel experience.

On 5/24/18 I had my second interview for my capstone project. I interview the Fairveiw Counry Club course manager whose name is Jim. I asked him about different ways the course is taken care of to make the levels of difficulty change. I learned multiple new facts from him and can’t wait to have my presentation in about 3 weeks. Here is one short clip of my interview with Jim.

In class for the last month we have been reading and making graphic novels. We all chose a different story of our choice and made the text and the illustrations. It was a fun project to go through and I learned that graphic novels are awesome. Here is my first book i’m making a series and if you can’t see the text go to this link http://blogs.scarsdaleschools.org/cboyer/graphic-novels/ hope you enjoy.

Today on 5/24/18 I interviewed Fairview Country Club course manager named Jim. He is the one whomoves the grass measures the amount of water thats going to go into the grass he also chose’s where the hole location will be. Jim also takes into acknowledgment of how the grass grows how much should he cut the grass should he make the ball roll further of shorter and so much more. I learned from him about water conservation how the rain affect different grasses, water hazards and sand traps. Jim taught me a lot about how to go out onto the course and not just try to hit a ball far and straight but to plan for what lies ahead and not to worry about getting par or getting a bad score. Now when I go out on the course I have better rounds because I can plan ahead.

On Tuesday 4/15/18 our class and the other fifth grade classes. We went to a local peruvian resturaunt in westchester where we spoke spanish and learned different vocabulary to comunacate with waiters. We tried a few dishes from the menu such as pollo satado, lomo saltado, pescado and lomo de carne. The drink that we all got to try was called chicha morada. It is a non achaholic drink that is made from corn, cinnamon and more we had a fun time at the resturaunt and it was an amazing experience.