Email Etiquette

In IT lessons we are learning about e-mail etiquette. We are learning about what to do and what not to do or say when e-mailing a teacher. You can't use slang and you must be respectful. I learnt that when I email my friends it looks very different to when I'm e-mailing a teacher! 

I found this topic very interesting and I enjoyed learning and blogging about it. 

A wonderful book!

In English this year we are reading a book called Wonder. It is about a boy named August who has a deformed face and goes to school for the first time.

What really stood out for me was the fact that the story was told from different character's perspectives. So you can understand why some people did certain things. I kind of wish we could do that in real life so that we could understand each other better. 

I feel like the story has taught me to be more understanding of others because you never know what they're going through or what is going on inside their head. Or what they've had to deal with. It also taught me to never judge people because of what they look like or because they're different.  

I think I can relate to Summer because she tries to do the right thing even though people still judge her. 

I really enjoyed reading this book and I feel like I learnt a lot. 

Stop Motion Project - The Inker!

We are doing a stop motion project. Megan and I are partners and we are creating an octopus. He is the hero. He is white with blue spots, a mustache, goggles and a hat. Another character we made was Bob the fish who gets attacked by the Eelusionist. The Eelusionist is an eel with arms and a monocle. We created these characters because we wanted something weird, strange and just plain creepy! One thing I would change about the project is the story line. And maybe we shouldn't have added so many legs and tails on our characters because they are so hard to animate! I am really enjoying the animation process. I am really looking forward to our final product.

Instant messaging

On Wednesday we went to the Grade 4 Guinea Fowl class to teach them about mindful messaging. I got paired up with a cute little Grade 4. I taught her about facial expression and tone of voice. Facial expression is the look on your face when you say something. It indicates if you're happy, sad, angry, scared, etc. Tone is how your voice sounds when you say something. Its basically facial expression, but in your voice. When you're instant messaging you can't tell what someones facial expression or tone is because you can't see or hear them. So messages might be taken the wrong way. So be careful.   

What I want out of 2017!

These are my hopes for 2017.

I would like to be a better artist. I have started Line Drawing so I could learn more and improve my drawings. I want to be the A-team goalkeeper for hockey. I could do this by training more often. I would like to learn how to long board. Without falling flat on my face. That would be nice...

I'm going to try get over my fear of horses and take up horse riding. Or unicorn riding. I'm hoping to go to places I've never been before, such as Switzerland and Austria. I'm hoping to learn French.

I hope all these things will happen this year. 

Smilie Poem

I enjoyed writing this poem because it let me be creative. I didn't like the fact that it had to be five lines because I find it difficult to say what I want to say in just five lines.

Science Expo Day

Last Wednesday (I think), we had a science expo. I did static electricity. I was working on my own. Well, I was supposed to go with someone (I'm not going to name and shame) but he had an idea which was too complicated, and since I'm a lazy person, I decided to go on my own. The reason why I chose my experiment is because it was very simple and fun. Sadly, were still a little mad at each other, but it's ok. But I was regretting abandoning that person on the expo day because another person, whom we shall name Bob, spilled water all over my experiment! And here's a fun fact for you: static electricity doesn't work when it's wet. But I managed to clean it up before the judge came. Luckily, by some incredibly lucky chance, the experiments worked perfectly in front of the judge, but not in front of the kids. And that was very bad event number one. So after hanging a sign, which said 'Out of order, I'm a flop,' and I leant over and got some of my apparatus in my eye. Which, of course, turned out to be pepper. Ugh! Then after explaining why my experiment was a flop about a zillion times, bad event number three happened. Well, it wasn't really bad, just unfortunate. Someone accidentally knocked my salt container and it broke. Luckily Mr Raven helped me clean it up and my parents weren't mad. Then we could go home after that. Yay!

So if I learnt anything from the Science Expo it's to get sick and to not come to school. And also to choose an experiment which actually works. Apart from the very bad events, I had fun and I could laugh it off later.