Tag Archives: Reflection

Immigration Reflection

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We were supposed to make a video of us explaining the immigrant’s story. But not in a question answered type.

Creating the video was sort of complicated. I loved putting it together. It was super fun but not so much creating the script. Images were simple to find and weren’t too hard. The most challenging part was creating the voiceover. I think that the voiceover was quite annoying because it kept on echoing and glitching.

I learned a lot of things about the person that I interviewed. I asked her some questions and got a lot of info. I think I learned that when I conduct an interview next, I should probably have better quality questions so I got better answers. But I think for the first time, it was ok. Creating the video was a little easy but I learned next time to probably add more family pictures. 

In conclusion, this interview project was really fun and maybe one day I will do this again!

Rube Goldberg Blog Post #1

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At school, we started a project called Rube Goldberg. A Rube Goldberg machine is an overly done machine used to complete a simple task. For our project, we have to create 8 steps which include a transfer of energy like when a ball hits a domino and makes it fall down. For my simple task, I wanted to put a toilet roll into a box.

For my Rube Goldberg project, I had to look at some videos of a Rube Goldberg project to get some inspiration. I got some ideas and then I looked on Amazon. I searched for supplies that I might need for my project. Looking on google and more on Amazon, I found all my things. YouTube, Amazon, and Google were really helpful to find materials and get inspiration.

I had to make a draft on paper after I thought about what I wanted to do. I started drawing and it took around 5 minutes to draft.I had to use at least 3 simple machines. The ones I decided to use are an inclined plane, a screw, and a lever. I needed to label all the steps where the transfer of energy took place as well as the simple machines. But after I looked at it a little closer, I didn’t really know how it would work. I tried building it using things that I found around my house such as toilet paper and cardboard. After a few days, I knew that my drawing of the machine wasn’t going to work. So I completely scrapped that idea and started a new one. After watching some videos on YouTube of Rube Goldberg to see the final project, I finally got a good sketch. It took around a few hours trying to build the first couple of steps. It took a while because my project kept breaking and I had to keep on building it because as I was putting it in the storage room, it dropped. But anyway, I did pretty well on my project so far!

The Rube Goldberg project is a really fun project and I enjoyed building it so far! My favorite part was probably sketching! I’m super excited to see how my project finishes! I hope you enjoyed my blog post!

Reading Timeline Reflection

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When Mrs. Cooper said that we would be making our reading timeline, I was like I don’t even know what books I will put. When she showed her own, my mouth was wide open. It looked so cool! How would I ever make something like that??? But I’m not going to worry about that. What books would I put on it?

I thought about when I was small and what books I read. I didn’t know what books I read. I mean I read a ton of books but I didn’t know which ones to put. I was struggling and then I remembered the first book I read. It was a famous picture book. I put all the pictures on a doc and printed them out.

I couldn’t just put it on paper and write my summary because I could only do a hybrid or make the whole thing. This made me a little more nervous. I’m not a good drawer, so I didn’t know how I would do it. Hmmmmm. Maybe I could cut out the title and write it myself. But the only problem was that the title was in weird places on the cover. Plus my handwriting was not the best.

Anyways, I had a lot of fun putting this together. I think it turned out pretty good! I hope you like it!! I will see you in my next blog post! Thank you for reading my blog post!!! See you!

 

Personal Narrative Reflection

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In the writing unit, personal narrative, I wrote a story called Lost at Sea in a Crazy storm. I had a lot of ideas of what to write for my final draft. Parasailing, Jet Skiing, and Getting Lost At Sea. I chose getting lost because I felt like this was going to be the most dramatic story out of the three of them. Since it was a recent event, I remembered most of what happened and I knew I could add details of what happened.

I used a ton of dialogue in my story that I had to delete quite a bit of it. I should have used more inner thinking and description because it was so crazy and had a lot of things going on. Most of it was pretty good but I know I can do better. It was a little difficult trying to end the piece because it was just us trying different ways to get back home. It was so frustrating because I couldn’t think of a good way to end it! I kept on trying and trying and ending up thinking of one. I mean it wasn’t the best but it worked. 

I think I used the dialogue pretty well. I did a lot of it and did some action at the end of most of it. Even though it was a lot of it, I took a bit out and it definitely sounded better than how it was before. I was happy with my narrative.

Editing was quite hard because I had to fix a lot of things. Punctuation and commas. That was hard because I had a lot of dialogue so I had to go to each one and put a comma after what they said. Even though it was hard, it was fun to edit and revise. After I did that it definitely sounded and looked better.

I had a lot of fun making my story. Thanks Mrs. Cooper and Mrs. F!