5E Capstone Blog Post 3#

Posted on June 13, 2023 by eling30

At this part of the project we have finished most of the work like the essay, the script and part of the movie. I think of it like a video game checkpoint. You have to learn and work for every checkpoint.

My main inquiry question is “Who Is The Most Influential Hockey Player In The NHL?” Well the answer is there are lots of them. Each player that has an impact on the NHL can impact in different ways. For example different positions like goalie can impact differently than how a forward might impact the NHL. Patrick Roy has had the most impact as a goalie, Gordie Howe has had the most impact as a captain, Nicklas Lidstrom has had the most impact as a defenseman, the Edmonton Oilers has had the most impact as a team, Jim Gregory has had the most impact on the NHL as a general manager. The essay was really hard. You have to do a lot of research and say all of it in your own words. If your essay is not good, then your script will be very confusing. But I enjoyed doing the essay because after you are done with the essay, the script will be a lot easier to do.

Here Is The Link To My Essay!

I chose Movie cause I kind of already got a feeling of how it was going to go. I also really liked the format of the movie. We got to choose a Wevideo, or Adobe. I chose Adobe cause I recently did a project using Adobe which I really enjoyed. The process of completing your script was long and hard. Not only do you have to time everything, you also have to get all of the slides from your essay. Not only that, but you also have to delete some of the things that don’t match your pictures. The slides timing was probably the hardest part. You have to calculate and make sure that your slides are longer than three minutes and shorter than six minutes. What I liked about it is that it was a lot easier to do your movie.

Here Is The Link To My Essay!

The “final part” is the movie, Tedtalk, or ignite. For me I have finished about 90 percent of my movie. I have finished my voice over and most of the pictures for each slide. The most challenging part was putting and finding pictures that matched your voiceover. Some pictures are blurry, and some pictures are cut off. The part I enjoyed most is the movie recording part. I found it really easy to look at the script and record.

Capstone has not been as hard as I expected. The hardest part for me was the script. The rest of the project really wasn’t that hard, I actually enjoyed doing the project so far!

Blog Post 2 Capstone

Posted on May 18, 2023 by eling30

After doing the interview, I felt like a rock had been lifted off my back. The interview was rather hard, not only do you have to ask the questions, but you also have to kind of get into a conversation with the person. I did my interview over the zoom, there were no technology issues or anything so it was rather easy setting the zoom up.

Before your interview and all that stuff, you have to find someone to interview. There were many ways of finding someone to interview. Some people have people that they know already that are experts on their subject. For me, I didn’t know who to interview so I had to search websites to find the right person. You could have done two people or one person. As for me, I did 2 people. They both work at the Hockey Hall Of Fame. (Miragh Bitove, Kevin Shea) Both were experts and helped me a lot. The interviews were easy and challenging. At some aspects like tech it was easy, but others like getting into a conversation I found was rather hard.

The interview experience was great and I really enjoyed it. The interview went as expected and everything went very well. I learned a lot of things like trying to find an expert on your project and working the time out. The experience was the best part of all, not only did you get to talk to an expert on your topic that is famous, but I also got to see some of the stuff in the hockey hall of fame.

Up to now, I have really enjoyed everything throughout the project. The interview research and all of the things. The capstone project can be challenging and hard so you have to overcome the challenges. I have learned a lot of things about my topic and people along the way.

Zoo Debate Reflection

Posted on February 15, 2023 by eling30

The zoo debate was interesting, we got to be on both sides of the debate. It was something I have never done before, and I really enjoyed it. There were some parts that were really long and challenging, but there was a partner to help you out.

At the start, we started assigning homework like reading the articles and filling in organizers, we were ready for our first debate. I was on the yes side. Which was allowing animals to be kept in zoos. My first partner was Emily, we tried to find the best evidence. Then we would look at the opposition and see what they did. We didn’t really start debating though, we started debating when we switched partners and sides. I chose Jacob to be my partner, we also got the opposite side. It was really amazing to see both sides of the argument and how each side had its own evidence to prove their claim. There were two organizers our teacher gave to us. Either the article supported both sides, or the article only supported one side. You have to make the judgment on which one you fill out.

Near the start, you might run into another problem. Which is you don’t have enough evidence. This may lead to changing a reason and claim. Or switch articles and websites to try to get more information. When you are done getting enough evidence/information the teacher shares an organizer with you. Then you write your best evidence and reason inside the boxes with your partner. Not only do you have to fill in the boxes, your partners claim and yours can not be alike. When you are done with that, you start to write the counter. A counter is basically when someone says their reasoning and evidence you have to find a way to prove that person wrong. This may take a long time because you have to find evidence in websites for a particular part. What I mean by that is, you have to read the opposing sides argument then think why might that not be true. At class, me and Jacob were sharing evidence and what website we found it in. This is really helpful because your partner might find something that you need and you might find something your partner needs. Jacob then came up with a great idea to make a slideshow and put animals that have zoochosis. It showed lots of things like biting their own hands, and pacing around. Before we knew it, it was time to present. The argument would basically go like: The opposition says their introduction, then we say our introduction. After it would be their turn to say one reason that animals should be kept in zoos, then we do the same thing but also add a counter. Then vice versa, after we are both done the opposition showed their slideshow at the end. While we did our slideshow when Jacob was talking about his paragraph.

In conclusion the debate was really fun and interesting, I have never done a debate before so this is my first time. I liked working with a group and discussing evidence and reasoning. I hope you enjoyed listening to my first debate, and I hope you learned something new about debating.

My debate is down here!

Identity Bag Blog Post 2

Posted on October 6, 2022 by eling30

The identity bag was very interesting, I got to know many more things about my old and new classmates. They brought in many different things and explained why they brought it in. I got to know what their hobbies are and what they have. This was the process of the identity bags.

I brought in a hockey trophy, because I enjoy playing hockey, then I brought in a hockey jersey and a soccer camp jersey. Also I brought in a puck of the Pittsburgh penguins. I brought in these items because they connect to me and I have good memories with these things. For example I brought in a hockey jersey because I won a tournament with it.

The identity bag started in the first five days or a week you can say. You could bring in anything like a photo or a toy but nothing crazy. We took turns sharing and each person would share 5 to 6 things to bring in and when you are done the next person shares there’s. When someone is doing it, you have to start taking notes from what you can connect to them and what they brought in.

This is the project or intro of our year where we can learn more about each other. I can’t wait to learn more and more about my classmates this year.

First Week Of School

Posted on September 23, 2022 by eling30

Does your class have something called identity bags? Because we have it. The first week of school was all getting to know you stuff. After a few days of that we started doing math challenges which were pretty interesting. We also had book clubs, basically you had to read a certain amount of pages that you and your partner thought would be reasonable.

My favorite part of the first week of school is the identity bags because I got to learn things about people that I didn’t know already. You also have to bring in your own things and show it to your class so your classmates know what things you enjoy doing. My favorite special so far was Spanish because it’s the only special where we got back to normal class instead of introducing everybody since we already know everybody.

I’m looking forward to field day, field trips, and signing yearbooks and letting my friends sign mine. Why I’m excited about these activities is because they fit all of my personalities. Throughout the year these things will be happening in any month and I look forward to doing them!

I liked many things we did as a class together already ( examples on top ). Now knowing how it’s going to be like as the top grade we have many more exciting adventures awaiting us in the future!

Toy Theater 2.0 week 6

Posted on June 14, 2022 by eling30

Last week we started doing things like making a WeVideo and putting all the recording and backgrounds together. The thing that I hated most and the hardest part in my opinion now came editing the video. This was very hard because I never tried or even thought about doing it. As we did more of these things we had some more problems like glitchy backgrounds and not hearing what we were saying in the script. So now we are in a spot where we have to read and do something like saying our scripts a lot of times. So this is what happened so far in our project. I wish I can just get this done as fast as I can and finish this project.

Toy Theater 2.0 Week 7

Posted on June 14, 2022 by eling30

This week we finished editing the video. It was a lot of work but we managed to get it done. The hardest part of the project is now over and here is what I think about this project in general.

The first step was to look at different scripts. We looked at scripts that were assigned to nobody in this class. Then we got to find our group and our topic. After about a week we started typing the script. This was very easy for me because I don’t think typing is really hard. This took about 3 weeks. We revised it for about another 3 days. We then showed it to our teacher. Which we passed very easily. This was probably the easiest step of the project and we breezed through it. Then we had to figure out who would say what. This was easy because you got to decide who would say it. We had to time our thing. The video had to be close to 4 minutes and 30 seconds. We practiced a few times before we went to the computer lab. The next day we started doing backgrounds and puppets. We chose our puppets online and then we cut them out and colored them. We then did the backgrounds which took more time than the puppets. We then went to the computer lab and guess what the next day we found ourselves on the list of recordings. After we recorded we found many problems like the glare and many other light problems. This was the hardest step. We were facing more problems as we went. Our lab teacher decided to just rerecord which was amazing because we had a microphone which made us louder. After that we ran into a lot less problems like the glare and many other things. We worked and changed many things. And after 2 weeks we were finished! The hardest step is done and now we are basically done!

4th Grade Reflection

Posted on June 13, 2022 by eling30

The first major project was Ignite. We all thought that it was so hard since we never did this before. But we managed to get over it by practicing our parts. Honestly that was probably the hardest project we did in the school year.

The first actual project is I’m a mathematician. It was kind of like getting to know your things and like things you do often. We got to make our own emoji since our teacher really liked them.

Then the self portrait. It was inspired by the book Wonder which we read later in the year. It was the words that describe you.

Animal We Videos was another big project. We got to pick an animal from the world for me it ended up as a Lion. Lions were strong. And male lions are leaders. And that’s why I chose it. We had to do some research and put it all together to put some script together. We had to find images to put it all together and that was basically it for that project.

Writing essays for example personal essays, persuasive essays, Realist Fiction, we did that for about 3 weeks and then had a test about it. If you get the hang of it and the steps of writing it then it’s really not that hard. my personal favorite is always the persuasive essays. I enjoy trying to persuade someone to do something. Realistic Fiction was also pretty fun to do. I like the part where you make up a story but it can happen in real life. Personal essays I don’t really enjoy. Though it can be fun when you are writing something funny that happens to you. In the middle of fourth grade I remember reading a book called Flora and Ulsysess. It has one of the spectacular themes I have read in a book.

The native american slideshow project is one of my favorite projects. We got to pick who are partners were. our group were researching the Algonquins who were a native tribe who lived near New York. After we were finished we had to present it.

Diary Entries were great. My favorite part of them is that you get little teabags that you drag along the paper to make it look old like it was mad in the late 1700s. We also got to make up our own character. You had to include how you got to the new world and what was your job? What life were you having a hard one or easy? These things are things that you had to figure out. I also included my friend’s 1700s name like John Henry which was one of my friends and the fork night which was a ship that we came up with. That was basically it for that project.

Poetry Anthologies were another big project. It was basically smashing all your poems together to make about 20 poems and then add in some new ones. My favorite type of poem was the shape poem. You got to make shapes like a computer in google drawing. This project basically took about 6 weeks to finish. It was one of the longest projects we did. It was painful to type with my hands at one point I knew my hand would fall off. After many revisions and typing I showed it to my teacher and finally I was about to be finished with what would be the hardest longest project I did so far. I was looking forward to the next step of fourth grade.

Making comics was pretty fun and easy. We had to do a paper kind and a book creator type. I enjoyed typing and making the characters on the computer. I thought that the paper kind was fun as well but I think the digital kind was my favorite. Basically we had to make panels for every setting and scene. My favorite part of writing the paper kind is coloring things in. I did it carefully making sure the color was in the shape and not outside. I also enjoyed making characters on both of the kinds of comics. I liked the digital kind better because it’s more accurate. For example if you were supposed to draw it would not be that accurate. But if you use the digital kind then you can just type in a circle and there you get yourself a perfect circle all accurate. I also liked making the background and where the character is. I enjoyed doing both types of background on both comics but I liked the paper kind better. You sometimes can’t find the background you are looking for when on digital but on paper you can draw exactly what you want that you planned to do.

The last project that we had not finished yet is toy theater 2.0. I liked this project so far making puppets and doing the backgrounds my least favorite is saying the script. I find it very hard to read so much. My mouth is dry when I finish and I’m forced to drink water. The details in the puppet were really good. We also finished all the backgrounds. We just started recording in the computer lab yesterday. We did it in one try and today we will head to the computer lab again to learn the next step of the project. I’m looking forward to doing more and 100 percent finishing.

I think I did well by making new friends and going through hard times like when we are in an argument and we can’t figure anything out.

I would like to work on next year to make more new friends but still care about the old ones I made throughout the years. And eventually have better solving skills. Like solving problems with friends or solving problems on a test I think those things are really important to think of next year.

If I could have done something different that I already did that would be participating more positively. That means raising my hand more often. Showing respect. I think I only did that for half of the time. That I can work on.

Specials were kind of like my break from math reading and all those things. I enjoy every special but personally I like PE the best. I like being active and not just sitting at a desk doing nothing. Art is fun, you always get to create things with a paint brush to a pencil. My favorite part about art is that you can do whatever you want on a piece of paper using any material there is. Making something unique from others. Chorus was decent. Not my favorite but not bad. I like standing on the risers looking forward to the seats. Looking at the director as well in the meantime. Music was basically like a chorus but sometimes we get to do things like musical dots and pass the flying pumpkin. Spanish is also one of my favorites. I liked the stars when we earned them. 500 stars and then we get to go outside.

A tree fell on the fourth grade wing and we were forced to stay in a new classroom for the rest of the year. We started making this project in math that included making a new community with area and perimeter.

I liked fourth grade generally and I can’t wait to move on to summer!

Toy Theater 2.0 Week 2

Posted on June 2, 2022 by eling30

Research is one of the most important things of the project. It’s challenging because some of the databases do not have information on my topic that is the Declaration of Independence. things on other websites that have information might not have information that I was looking for.

The interesting part of this project is you never know when information is just going to pop up.

I usually use websites in our school databases that are usually helpful. But I also use books but just not as much.

I have a few concerns about how I will find even more information. Which might be a major problem.

Toy Theater 2.0 week 5