Category Archives: Social Studies

Capstone Reflection #2

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Hello my class is doing capstone and we are on the faze of interviewing someone to learn some more info on your subject. My subject is World war 2 was cool listening to a expert on your subject and she provided me with some important information let me tell you more about my interview.

At first when I learned about how we have to do an interview I was thinking I was going to interview a historian or a high school teacher but when I found out the challenges of getting an interview  with a historian I looked at the high school teacher page with the help of Mrs Cooper. I found a teacher that teaches social studies called Mrs Harris. She had her phone number, email and her office location. I was so happy that I found m a person to interview and I straight away emailed her and she respawned an hour later Saying that she would be happy for me to interview. This was not that challenging because I found my interview in 3 days. Once I got the interview scheduled I started working on my questions. I added three of my sub questions and questions that related to my sub questions. I think this was kind of challenging because you had to find out some things about your sub questions before you answer it. Mrs Cooper checked my questions over and made some changes and we sent it to Mrs Harris.

We scheduled a meeting for Wednesday at 4:00pm on zoom. When it was time I got my things ready and when we got on zoom I asked permission to record the interview and she said yes the thing that did not go as expected is there were some technical issues and the zoom crashed so I had to call on my phone and record with my moms phone. The interview went longer than expected because she gave me very detailed and lengthy explanations.something new I learned from the interview was that the reason why Hitler invaded Czechoslovakia, Austria and Poland was because there were a lot of ethnic Germans living there.

I hope you learned the struggles and fun things about capstone from this blog post and have a good day.

Immigration intervew project reflection

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The immigration intervew was fun but it was hard and stressful when you get behind in the project. Let me show you what i mean. It was very exicting when i herd that we were going to intervew a immigrant and i thought i could intervew my dad so when i got home i made up the questions and went to my dad and intervewed him but when i checked my chromebook and saw i did it a month early so i didn’t have to worry but a month later we had to do a naritive then a script but i was not doing it at home so the week later it was due in 4 days and i went insane trying to quickly finish my script but my script was 1:35 so i was so annoyed so i asked so many questions and talk much slower so I got the answers to the questions i asked and talked much slower but it still was short it came up to 2:40 so i needed something to help me but when Mr Casal said that we have to wait for a second then record so that was a big relieve. So i started to put my pictures I had of my dad when he was in China and stared recording which both of then was easy and i complete everying and i finished just before the dedline. Over all it was a very fun experence, but you DO NOT WANT TO BE BEHIND!

The Challenge

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Have you ever been to a ropes course with all these challenges and adventures?  I just did and it was amazing, but it was also my first field trip at Heathcote elementary school. It was a ropes course on a school property. We had to work as a team and help each other get to the other side for stations. Let me tell you more about it.

 

First the instructor told us how to do the elements and how to be safe on the course. Then we made teams, there were three groups. I was in group three. Each group did elements together. My least favorite element was a bridge made out of ropes. I felt that it was very hard and most people couldn’t even make it up the tree to get to the bridge including me. Then we climbed up in the middle of the bridge so it wouldn’t be so hard. That worked for me but people were coming from both ends of the bridge. So for people to get out of the way they had to hold on to the support rope on the side and get off the bridge. When the traffic crosses that is when you can get back on the bridge also you couldn’t touch your teammates so no one can help you.Displaying Copy of IMG_20221103_103816834.jpg My second favorite element was the one when you had three platforms and the floor was lava so you needed to use a wooden plank to get to the other platform. My group had two people stand on the plank and another person would walk across it. But the plank wasn’t long enough to reach the other platform so you had to leap to get to the other side when you got to the tip of the plank. Then when there were a lot of people on the second platform you had to toss the plank over and let people go to the third one to make room for the second platform. It got tough at the end because you had to fit your whole group on the third platform to win but if three people go into the lava you have to restart. My group restarted 1 time. It was pretty entertaining.

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I had a pleasant time on the bus, I sat with my friend Jackson. My whole class was on a bus with half of Mrs. Edwards’ class. The bus ride was lively for me because the whole bus out of nowhere started singing baby shark and everyone started laughing but that’s not all. We sang a  frozen song from the movie, Wheels on the Bus. Finnis and Ferb theme song. It was the best but, in the middle of all of the singing I somehow fell asleep. That was another great time. It was lunchtime. All my friends and I were starving as we sat on a log to eat I heard a loud buzzing sound when I looked at the direction where the noise was coming from and I saw a huge bee and I ran away but then the bee was trying to get my sandwich but thank god I had the lid on to cover my sandwich but then the bee went all around bugging the whole grade but the bee was really after Anri’s candy because he had so much candy. Finally the bee went away. My favorite element was this one where there were ropes hooked on to trees and you had to start at one tree and walk on the rope. If you make it to the other tree you could either help your teammates get to the next tree or you can go to the next tree. I was the first one to go and I made it to the other tree and tried to help my teammates get to where I was. Then I kept on going to the next tree but Ishaan went ahead of me so he could be a tree. That is when you stand on a platform and when people come to you they can lean on you for support. I made it all around the ropes and checkpoints for the 1st time. It was really fun for me because you had to use teamwork to get all around.

 

I had an amazing time at the ropes course but the best thing about it is that we had to work together to succeed. I would highly recommend it. I hope I go there again soon.

 

first week of school blog post #1

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trip next Did you know in 5th grade we are having capstone. People say 5th grade is hard and that is what I’m worried about. We are also going on a field month.

I’ve enjoyed the school  specials, I enjoyed P.E. the most, even though we had to sit on the floor for half of the time explaining the rules. We missed  P.E. on the first day of school. Which I was sad about and that I was really looking forward to. 

I am looking forward to getting to know my teacher better this year. She seems nice. I am also looking forward to doing the small projects for example. I love doing the index card challenge. It was fun when we needed to make the tallest tower by stacking the index cards. It was fun because we worked together.

This is the best school year so far and one of my favorite teachers, this year it’s going to end up great!

Identity Bag

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In the second week of school, I had a identity bag that is when you have to bring things that represent your identity.

I brought in a signed baseball by Keith Hernandez and said baseball is special to me because it helps me get stronger and more athletic and I also love watching baseball. My favorite team is the Mets. The reason why i like the Mets is because my mom loves them and I also wanted to also like the Mets

I also brought in a Chinese dragon statue that is around 2 inches and it is made out of marble. On the back of the statue it says my name on the back in English and Chinese. I love this because I am half Chinese and my great grandma gave it to me when I was 5 years old. I only see her every 2 years so I love to see her.

My favorite one was my picture of my dog. She is 15 years old and in the picture she is holding a Chinese umbrella and wearing a Chinese dress. She is important to me because she has been there with me all of my life but i still don’t know how to do much with her just bite and the good thing about her is she doesn’t bite and most dogs do.

My last picture is me and my family, which is my sister, my dad and my mom. They are all important to me because first my parents took care of me since I was born and my sister has always protected me when I was little.

 

These are the things that I brought in for my identity bag this has been a very fun and exciting experince for me see you next time!

Toy theater 2.0 week 7

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This was hard way harder than ignite but it was hard to not mess up you had to do a lot of resreach but it was easy because all you had to do is read and write the resrearch recording was the hardest thing by far because you don’t know if the puppets are to high or to low or if they are back words. it was hard and then we had to rerecord our puppets and script but sometimes it was fun but sometimes it was really stressful one example is when in our first video was made drew kept on talking and yelling at us when we did some thing wrong and that stressed me and Mathew out. But instead of that it was the fun est thing we did in fourth grade because i liked my group writing the scripted and i liked making the puppets im pretty sher you will like it too !!!!!!!!!

 

toy theater 2.0 week 5

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Me and my group recorded the puppets but we did terrible. We are going to rerecord I’m sure but we need to revise it even though we are not going to use it. Drew kept on yelling at us because we were holding the puppets wrong but its so hard when you are looking at the script and looking at the puppets but Drew does not know how hard it is because he has no puppets to play.