E.T.'S THOUGHTS!!!

Take 5 Poems

Running

Sweaty, stinky

Jumping, leaping, sprinting

Gives you exercise

Running

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Spring

Cold, warm

Swimming, running, biking

Playing outside

Spring

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7A Camp Reflection 2014

Who am I?- God has made me just the way I am. I am fearfully and wonderfully made in his image. God has made everyone different, but they are just like him. Some are funny, silly, creative, and many more. God shows his creativity threw everyone. (Psalms 139:14). For my visual for who I am is three crosses because Jesus died on the cross to save our sins. Even though we still sin day after day he forgives us.

 

Who are we?- When God places hard times in our lives like cancer or death we don’t know what to do. We ask God why we have to go threw this. There is always a reason for it even it it means someone is suffering from a loved one or if someone is really sick. (Matthew 22:37-39) For my visual for who are we is a heart because God has a heart for everyone even if they aren’t Christians, and he also heals us from losing a family or friend.

 

Who is he?- God is my preparer, protector, and my comforter. He comforts me when I need comforting, he protects me when I’m in harm, and he prepares food and a warm house for my family, and jobs that pay money to buy clothes and food. (Matthew 6:31-34) For my visual for who is he is a shirt, grapes, and a house because God prepares clothes for us, he prepares food so we don’t starve, and he also prepares warm houses in the winter and cooled housed in the summer.

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Picture Book Reflection

Our 7th grade class just finished some picture books. Some were really good and had wonderful illustration and good phrases in their book, and then there is my book. My picture book had really good pictures for the first 5 or 6 pages and then the drawings started going down hill from there. I feel if I had a little bit longer to work on the pictures like 2 days for 8 drawings they could have been really good. Having to get 8 pictures done in one day I felt like I was rushed a little to much and wish I would have had more time. When we got to read our picture books to the second graders they were really good listeners but were a little hard on me. They gave me a “D” on my pictures and he/she told me why saying “Your pictures were a little messy.” And then gave me all “A’s” for the rest of the survey and my book. I would change the way I drew my dog to a simpler one because my dog was really really really hard to draw and every time I drew it the dog looked fatter, longer, skinner, or taller. I learned many things like how to write a really good picture book and to use all the right words that go good with the actual story.

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Chapel With Tim

Yesterday Tim Bosch came to one of our 6th, 7th and 8th grade chapels to talk to us about his amazing testimony and the story of his life. Mr. Lowe and the worship team started the chapel off with one of my favorite songs “Oceans”.  My favorite line in that song is “You call me out upon the waters, the great unknown where my feet may fail. And there I find you in the mystery; in oceans deep my faith will stand.” That song always reminds me that God is always there for me when I am in trouble, or need his help. Tim said to us “I know that God is real because he woke me up this morning.” Tim really opened up my eyes because God kept him awake for 18 years and counting. When Tim was born he broke 20 bones. The doctors told Tim’s parents that he was only supposed to live for a day or a few weeks. Tim is still living today. Tim has broken over 400 bones in his life and had a lot of surgery. I am so thankful to be able to walk and run the way God planned me too. My favorite bible verse is Jeremiah 29:11 it reminds me God has a plan for me! I also am thankful that God has let Tim live longer than what the doctors said. Tim and his family lived each day like it was their last. Miracles do happen!

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Immigration Stories

Today I heard a few stories from people who immigrated to the U.S. Catherine Namwezi. She is from Uganda and moved here to go to Hope Collage. Catherine was an orphan and didn’t have any money, and she need a scholarship to any collage she could get into.  She told us many things about her home town. Uganda has the same school subjects as us, but they stay in their class room all day. When they stay in their class rooms all day they have to take notes and study them all the time with they get home from school. Instead of doing fun project like we get to do they have to stay in one class room all day. When it come to quizzes or tests they have to know everything that was on their papers. If the teacher told them wrong information which are called stereotypes. They learn about the United States and they learn all the cities and states of our country. A few stereotypes Catherine thought was true was she thought everyone in the United States were over weight. When she got here she was expecting some really fat people but when she walked into the media center she was really surprised that we are all skinny. One other stereotype she thought was true was she thought everyone was rich and had a lot of money to buy anything we wanted to.

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What If? Innovation Project

In the past 3 weeks we have learned how to be designers. My skill has improved in the last 3 weeks with working with my friends more and learning that the audience is not always going to respond how you want them too. My whole grade has worked really hard on this project it was a long process but i think that every one had a lot of fun. My friends all have done a great job with coming up with ideas, making mockups and, presenting on Wednesday. Our two design coaches Mrs. Morin and Mr. Fluharty have done a really good job with teaching us about designing things. We got to go to Disher Design and Hayworth and they taught us about designing parks and where to put them. We came up with two story playground to having a rollar coaster. Our final presentation was really fun, there was one team from each studio. The three teams that got to present they were really good. They all had a small skit to show the audience  about how the new park would be a good place to sit and relax and still be able to go and have fun in the park with your family and friends. One of the skits show them going threw park witha happy personality and when they leave they would want to come back. Another was their mom had to go shopping for a dress for this wedding and her 3 kids had to go but they didn’t want to because there was no park there. And then one of the kids hurts their knee and the other two kids start fighting and their mom doesn’t get to buy a dress for the wedding. When they go back the next day they still dont want to come but when they ge there they see their grandpa and the park is there and they get to play there for the rest of the day.

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Science Project

For our science project we are learning about Sedimentary rocks made out of crayons. We spent a week on making sediment (which is crayons shaved into little pieces). After we destroyed all the crayons we got into groups put a lot of the crushed and shaved pieces of crayon on tin foil and out it in between 2 marker boards and stepped on it for 5 min and then found a space at my school that was really heavy  and put the piece of tin foil with the crushed and shaved crayons under the thing that was really heavy for 1,000 and 1,000 of minutes. After a few weeks we finally get to put the shaved crayon rock into a heated oven to melt it and make it into a smaller rock.this is what it looks like after we took it out of the tin foil.

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Design Studio (What If?)

Sometime last week we worked in Qualitative Quantitative and Secondary groups. We worked on making surveys and going on the streets to get peoples answers for the the park (Heritage  Square) on the corner of Elm and Main St. We got a lot of surveys back for responses for what they would enjoy or what they wouldn’t enjoy. They had to circle from 1-5 five being the best and 1 being the worst.  Some people enjoy having interactive water to play in or they just like to look at it and not get wet. Other people what benches to sit on to watch their kids play on a play ground or in the water. Having the park special needs accessible was very important to almost every one.

The Next day we got to tally up all the surveys. There we a lot of groups of two working on each question. I got question number 8 which was “How many times do you go down town a week” and I got a lot of  1-3’s and 10+. After we tallied up all the question each group had to find out the median if all the numbers put together. Then we made a bar graph so every one could  put the median on it. I had fun during going on the streets to give people surveys and then tallying the questions up on to the bar graph.        

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Design Studio (What If Project)

The governor of my community has asked my grade to design a park on the corner of Main St. and Elm St. Which is a small area with a drinking fountain and a few benches plus an 11 space parking lot. There is 3 different design studios in my grade, one with each teacher. We have been working on the “What If” project for about 2 weeks now. We have to design the park for all ages and it has to have some sort of water feature for our community to interact with. We have gone to Hayworth and Disher Design. They helped us come up with designs for the corner of Main and Elm St which is Heritage Square. We have to have the park accessible to special needs. Our design group is competing with the other 2 groups in our grade so I am not aloud to share any ideas that my design group came up with.

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My Egyptian Museum

In my Egyptian Museum we made a temple, a pharaohs head, a tomb that the mummy would lay in, a poster explaining social structure and  another poster about writing and hieroglyphics.My favorite part about making the museum was getting to make all the interactive stuff explaining all the different sections like social structure, government, writing, religion,  stable food supply, arts and more. I read a book called “The Egypt Game” by Zalpha Keatly Snyder. It was about this girl named April who moved to the upper part of California and lived with her grandma as her mom was in the lower part of California making a movie. And there is the professer and works at this A to Z shop that is this run down store selling used items. There are 2 girls that April makes when he is living with her grandma and their names are Elizabeth and Melanie they be come best friends and make a big egypt game in the professors back yard.

 

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