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Capstone Blog Post #3

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Capstone was very hard. Especially while I was doing my final video, I was stressing a lot.

After I did my slides, I started to practice my script and it was very tough. I practiced about 4 slides a day and I filmed on Sunday. The filming took a few hours to get it right. I kept thinking, “I should’ve done a Spark Video,” or I thought “Maybe a screencast?” But honestly, I’m proud I did a TED-Talk because I find it the most challenging and I took it. It may have taken me forever to do Capstone, but it’s ok because I can look back and see all the hard work I put into Capstone and it shows me I can work harder.

Answering my main inquiry question was complicated. There are many steps to becoming a successful baker so, of course, I have to break it all down. Some of the steps are, having the right tools, having the best ingredients, making sure your treats look good, all that because that’s what makes people want to buy your cakes and then you become successful. 

I believe overall, Capstone is a great learning experience. My advice to future fifth graders starting Capstone would be even if it’s hard, keep going, because, in the end, you’ll see how good your Capstone will turn out!

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Capstone Blog Post #2

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So far Capstone is great! I’ve got my interview done, and all my research, everything is going pretty well altogether.

My teacher helped me find someone to interview, I had two choices. I just picked one randomly. I had picked Lulu Bakery. The chef/partner Victor was the person I interviewed. For the interview, my parents and I sent out my questions for them to prepare ahead of time and we set up the date and time. 

On Friday afternoon we finally did the interview and we called, we introduced ourselves, and I asked him the questions. The answers were definitely different than I thought they would be and it was cool to hear how they made their cakes. I thought it was very interesting and I was excited to hear all the answers. Everything is so exciting about Capstone especially the interview because you get to talk to an expert!

During the interview, I had a recorder, and a backup recorder, a pen, blank paper for writing on, my paper with the interview questions, and my computer so I could remember what I would say in the beginning and the end.

After the interview was done, I transcribed the interview onto a Google Document and I pasted it on my Capstone Note-Taking Slides. The interview was definitely a success and I got lots of information and enough information. 

One surprising thing I learned was that to make the cakes, bakeries need giant tools, especially an oven, mixer, and pots. Victor said the mixer was half the size of a car! That’s pretty big!  Imagine how many they have, they must have a big kitchen! Something else that was interesting is that the mixers each cost about $20,000! If they had a lot of mixers it must be very expensive!

Capstone Blog Post #1

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We are starting a unit in social studies… Capstone! My topic is Baking, and my main questions is, “What are the top ten things a baker needs to be successful?” I chose that as my main inquiry question because lots of beginners in baking don’t know what to get for baking or even how to bake, so I decided this will help people out and it’s also important to know how to be successful when you bake. 

One thing that was challenging was choosing the main question.  I was trying to think of one, but I couldn’t think of any questions and that was probably the hardest part till my teacher helped me and I got, “What are the top ten things a baker needs to be successful?”  I am not good at thinking of things in general but with a little help I’m ok. Capstone is challenging to me because it requires thinking of many questions, and I am not very good at that! As a learner I learned you have to keep trying and take your time, don’t rush otherwise your work will come out sloppy and your research may not be true because you were rushing.