iMovie Reflection

In Humanities class we made a project based on different pharaohs, we got to chose one so Andrea and I choose the pharaoh Ramses II. We had 3 days to make an interesting iMovie with pictures and information about the pharaoh that we choose. On the first day we searched for information and we tried to learn about the pharaoh. Then in the second day we started writing a script which then we were going to record our voices reading it and then put it in the iMovie presentation. In the last day we organized the script and we tried to make it sound good, but we couldn't record our voices so we needed another day to finish. Hopefully it was Thursday and we had Chinese New Year vacations so we had 5 more days to work on it at home.

Andrea came over to my house to look for pictures and record our voices, that took us 2 days which meant we had 3 more days. When we were finished with the iMovie we remembered that Mr. Fischer said that we had to try to be creative and make something cool. So we brainstormed and we had the idea to make a short funny movie. My dad helped us with the filming part, Andrea was the mummy and I was a tourist. We then finished and we made another iMovie. with the videos that we took and we added music and some fun stuff to it. Few hours later we were done and ready to present. Then on Monday we were the only group done so we had to wait and wait. On Tuesday we presented first. I personally think that we did a good job with creativity in the iMovie and in the 'Mummy Video'. I really liked what we did and how we did it because we both helped a lot, we communicated and we worked as a team.

City Connection Reflection

1) What did you do well on the project?

I think I did well on creativity because I tried my best to make my presentation look good by making the letters move and choosing nice pictures. I think I did well too on organization because I choose the right color font and I used bullet points and I explained my ideas pretty well. I had good pictures that helped me explain and make it easier for the public to understand.

2) What would you improve for future presentations/projects?

For a future presentation I would talk to the public and not just to look and read from the presentation, Which I did. I would practice more so that I know what I have to say and I can change some words. This would help me understand more my topic and speak with confidence. I would talk a bit slower so that people could undertand me better.

4) What did you learn from the city presentations of others?

Well when they talked they were looking at the public and not much at the board and what they said they explained it really well. They had specific information which helped understand better and some of them had a very good volume and speed when they talked. When people asked questions they could answer them because they knew the topic and they understood it really well.

5) How did you meet each of the requirements from the rubric?

I followed all of the steps on the rubric which were historical factors, environmental factors, statistical factors and pictures. I think my presentation was complete and I did follow the steps correctly.

Resolutions and goals + Exciting Christmas events

Hi!,
This is the first blog post in 2011. Today's Post is about "Resolutions + goals and Exciting Christmas events. Well I had the best vacations ever. I experienced new things like going to a cruise, enjoying a relaxing thai massage, watching monkeys do extraordinary things and more.. Let me start.


First I'm going to write about my resolutions and goals for this year. The fist one is to be patient, this counts as one of my goals because I think i need to improve on it. Regularly I want everything I want at the time I want and, thats not good for me at all. The second one is to be more organized because I always lost things but I think Im improving on it and last but not least to read more.


Now it is time to talk about my wonderful vacation! Well, I went on a cruise for a week. Arriving there was like going to another planet, I mean there you're surrounded by the vast and beautiful sea .. I loved it. Our first stop was Singapore. I loved that city, is so civilized (I love the civilization by the way). The buildings, Universal Studios,zoos .. In conclusion, I loved everything. The second stop was Phuket which I didn't like that much. As I said before, I love civilization and that city has almost nothing in common with it. I forgot about civilization when I saw those monkeys riding bicycle and hugging you, Oh my gosh! I enjoyed that a lot :) then we went to a spa and we took a thai massage which I loved! ha!. Our last stop was Langkawi. I nearly die when I saw the sea :). It was so light I mean it was PERFECT!. We stayed in the beach all day, then we went back to the cruise which was going to take us back to KL!. I really enjoyed this vacation! 


Thank you!


Maria

Lit Circle with Partners Reflection

In humanities we made our third Lit Circle of the second book. In this occasion I'm reading "Maroo of the Winter Caves" and my partner was Alvin. I think that we both did a good job.


Some benefits of working with a classmate was that our partner can make us feedback and he\she can help us with with our questions, passages and connections. He\she can also tell us what make sense and what not. and off course with spelling mistakes. 


Some challenges were that sometimes your partner doesn't make his\her work in time or that he\she sometimes take some of your ideas. Sometimes your partner thinks that your question is level one or maybe it doesn't make sense and you don't think the same as her\him.

New understandings that I've got of the book is that Maroo is gaining courage and knowledge about how life is about. How i said in my connection, in chapter 8 I felt so sad because Maroo' s father died. I really liked working with a partner and I hope we can work like that again.

Literature Circle Reflection

During the literature circles discussion, we share our thoughts and opinions about literature circles of others. That help us understand our mistakes and correct them for the next literature circle. When we were reading some literature circles then the owner of  the lit circle finds some mistakes and some parts that does not make sense. During a person is reading her/his passage we all first read the page and then we listen to her/his passage so that if we want to say something we have how to prove it, with the book.

Here is one connection that i had with the story...

• I really enjoyed reading chapter 4 because its talks about Rivo and he reminds me about Murdock. Murdock was my dog, he was Shakira´s son (Shakira was a she-dog that we had in our farm) When Shakira´s son was born I wanted to take him home because he was so cute, after a long period of time of asking my dad he finally said ¨yes¨, Then we took him home. I wanted to name him but I didn´t know how to call him. Then my dad showed up and said ¨you should call him Murdock¨ ,I disagreed but I asked why ¨because Murdock is the name of the mad man in the A- Team, which was an old movie that I saw when I was a kid¨ he answered. Murdock was so cute, at the beginning he was sky and afraid but after two or more weeks he peed on the carpet and he bit everything. I think this is like when Rivo developed confidence and he starts being more friendly and not shy and scared.

One question i have is How will Maroo and her family survive without her father?

I hope that while im reading the next chapters I can answer the question by my self.

Thank you

Maria!

Symmetry in KL

I decided to take a picture of my Ipod because it has one line of symmetry down the middle. The line of symmetry passes through the middle of the button of the Ipod.

Mangrove trees! (What a funny story)

It was Friday morning, about 6:55 AM, we were sleeping like babies (because last night we slept at 2 AM) and then Sarah opened the door and said ¨ Guys, wake up, we are living in 5 minutes¨ we were like why?!, we wanted to sleep more! but we knew that we had to go, so we changed our clothes, well not me because i forgot my pajamas, so i had to sleep wearing my clothes and had to wear the same clothes for the Mangroves. Then we brushed our hair and we went to take breakfast. It was noddles, (we didn't like it) After breakfast we had some free time, we packed and talked a bit. After 30 minutes we went to take our boots and we filled our bottles with water and we started to walk.


 During the way we were annoying Pasha and Alvin, we sang our favorites songs and we had a lot of fun (especially when we were annoying them). After 4 kilometers we threw our hats and our water bottles on the floor and we put our boots on and we ran to the mangrove trees. At the beginning it seemed easy but when we started walking on the mud we changed our minds, it was really hard!. The first time that i fell i laughed with Megan, then she got stock in the mud  and we laughed together, but when i felt again, it wasn't funny anymore , but Megan still laughed at me!. I was so muddy, i started touching Andrea´s back because i wanted her to get muddy too. Even if we were all muddy and tired Megan and me started to sing. Everybody was like STOP! and then we laughed.


 We were a bit crazy, but it was normal. Then Mrs. Reiser said that we had to get out of the mud, everybody got out. CY, Micah, Andrea and me where the last ones, we couldn't ´t get out, but finally we managed. Andrea lost her socks, and my socks were not socks, they were just a brown thing. The last ones in the line where Andrea, Pasha, Ashika and me. i was walking without shoes and my feet hurted. Finally we arrived to the hostel, and we had to wait a long time until we took a shower, we had to take a shower in the bathroom, but it was gross, it had ants and worms and it was all dirty, but we had to take a shower anyway. It felt so nice after the shower, we were all clean and we were wearing new clothes. After the shower we ate lunch and we took the bus back to ISKL.