Yesterday we spent some time learning about some people in Africa. Something that I took away from this was the fact that not very many people can afford or have access to medicine for HIV or Aids. I knew that a lot of people cant afford stuff like this but it was still kind of surprising.

The last two weeks we have been in groups working on carnival games that have to do with probability. I had fun coming up with the game and building it with my group members. I honestly still don’t quite understand how to do probability very well, but I am going to be working on it at home to make sure that I understand it.

I learned that in our carnival game we had to take all the possibilities and multiply them by the chances of winning. We had to find the probability of winning in our game and find how much profit we would make.

I don’t really like this type of leaning. I feel that I would have a better chance of understanding the concept if we just did the lesson online. I liked the fun part of making the carnival game with my friends, but I just don’t quite understand probability because of the way that we were learning.

Some differences between Zeeland, Michigan and Mexico.
– The houses. Most of the houses in the poor parts of Mexico are quite small and not very well built. Also the architecture looks and is built quite differently. I saw hat this one family was living in a shack and their kitchen was outside. I made me wonder what it would be like if my family had to live like that.

– The roads/streets. When I looking on google just “walking” down the streets is much different. Most of the streets are made of gravel and the houses and stores are much different. They are built differently and they are smaller and there are a lot of bright colors.

–  Litter. I also noticed that there was a lot of litter on most of the roads. People throw all the junk and trash on the roads. I think that this is because in some of the poor places where they are living partly outside there might be some trash that lingers into the road.

Some similarities between Zeeland, Michigan and Mexico.

-Modern. I noticed that even in some of the poorer places there are still many things about it that are pretty modern like the swimming pools and cars etc.

-Restaurants. I noticed that the restaurants there are some of the same ones we have here. Mostly the chain restaurants.

– Spacial Inequality. In Mexico there are a lot of places that have richer areas and poorer areas Detroit also has spacial inequality like we talked about in class.

I am the Loggers side because they are not doing anything wrong if anything they are helping almost everyone. The loggers goal is to cut down trees for furniture. They go around clear cutting trees to get a certain kind that is good for making tables and other furniture. All they want is to get mahogany and rosewood trees to make money for themselves. Also by doing this it creates jobs for other land uses. It is good the settlers and the cattle ranchers because we give them land for their homes and farms. Yet they compline that we are cutting down all the trees when it is benefitting them. Although it is not benefitting some people like native Amazonian’s, rubber tappers, and environmental groups. The native Amazonian’s want to keep the land the way is so they can continue their way of life and the rubber tappers need the trees so they can use the sap from them to do their job and if they don’t have the trees then they cant get the sap. It doesn’t benefit environmental groups because it affects the land that they need to farm and use. The loggers help some in big ways and does not help many, so I also agree with the environmental groups and the rubber tappers because what the loggers are doing to the land is not good for what they use the land for and it is not fair.

Something I don’t agree with about the Settlers is that I don’t think that it is fair that they take all the good land for them selves and they have all the good land but the poor are left with nothing. I also don’t agree with the Environmentalists. I don’t agree with them because they feel that they can just come in here and convince us that we cant cut down trees to farm and make money to feed our families. There are enough trees in the world that you can still breath so suck it up and be grateful, plus no one cares that you  found a new kind of bug, get a life.

Doubt and conflict

Covenants

Call

Slavery/Salvation

Sinai Law

Sent to the promise land

Symbol of a lamp

Something is rotten

Immigration day was a great experience for me because learning about other peoples lives is very interesting to me. The first person that I talked to was Silvia and she was from Spain. She is studying at Hope Collage. She didn’t have much to say but her journey went very smooth. It didn’t take her very long to get her visa. She told us that in her country they are kind of quiet. They also eat at different times then us and she likes that better here. I also talked to Natalie and she was from the Dominican Republic. I loved her because she was really good at explaining what her culture was like. Natalie explained that she Is also studying at Hope. Her process of coming was not hard ether but of course it was hard for her to leave her family. She said that in the Dominican Republic they never wear sweatpants or a sweatshirt because they always try to dress nice. You could say that they don’t dress comfy. When she came here she got a pair of yoga pants and a sweat shirt and she was funny because she said that they were the best thing ever and that she didn’t understand why not everyone has one. She was really funny. I learned that some of the culture there is fading away because there are some of our American restaurants and shops and she is sad because of how her culture is changing. Natalie absolutely loves Michigan and hopes to come back after collage and do work. She enjoys walking down the streets of downtown Holland and loves lake Michigan and she says that the dunes are very beautiful. I think that my group got off topic every one and a while because she was just a awesome person to talk to and she was very interesting to listen to. When we were talking to her I wasn’t thinking “o this chic immigrated” it just felt like I was talking to a friend. I learned a lot for these to girls especially Natalie. It was a blessing able to talk with these girls about there life, even though they didn’t have very many struggles it was just great to hear about there perspective on culture and our country. What was funny is that they both thought that all Americans were fat before they left but now they realized that thats not true for everyone and thats just a stereotype. I am very thankful for this opportunity and this was for sure my favorite part about social studies this year.

Edward:

1. Write about things that would interest young kids from there perspective.

2.Use words with sound.

3. You can tell a lot about the character by the name of the book.

Fox:

1. Do be original: try not to copy the ideas of recent well-known books.

2. Do ensure that the content of the story interests both children and adults.

3. Do show and do not tell.

Montes:

1. Read as many books of the genre you wish to write as possible.

2. Tell a good story one that the reader cant put down.

3. Write a story that inspires the reader.

4. Read as many good books on the craft of writing as possible.

The past few weeks I have been working on chapter three. Chapter three is when you have to add, subtract, divide, and multiply decimals. The hardest concept I had to work with would be 3-3, dividing decimals because there is a lot to work on it. I struggled to remember to stop dividing once you get to the thousandths place. I would let the problem go on and on when I could of just stopped and rounded to the hundredth place and be done. I got stopped doing this because I asked Mrs.Z for help a couple of times and she told me what to do.

Example- Page 110 #5

– 9.76 % 3.05

When you divide these two make sure that you move the decimal point that is outside the house to the spot behind all the numbers and remember to do the same to the other side. Also since one of the numbers is a negative you have to remember that when you divide a negative by a positive it is always a negative.

My total at the store was 10.25 cents fro some apples. Apples that day were 1.25 per pound. So that day I went home with 8.2 apples.

10.25 % 1.25 = 8.2

On the line

Toss the serve

Flying through the air, it goes over the net

Bumped back over, you call it

Bounces off your arms

Goes to the setter

Ball goes flying straight up

towards the hitter

SLAM!

The ball gets spiked down fast enough for the win.

We as a school will be dedicating the new addition with rocks. Everyone wrote something that is close to your hart on it and we will be placing them on the foundation that the new school entry will be and I am very excited. I wrote Faith on my rock because that is something that has has meant a lot to me this past year. With our adoption we needed a lot of faith in GOD because we didn’t know if this was something that GOD was calling us to do or not. But God told us what to do and if we didn’t have faith then we probably wouldn’t has listened to him.

I am very…………..

– Outgoing

– Loud

– Friendly

– Weird in a good way

– Hunter

– Volleyball player

–  Very organized

–  People person

– Babysitter

– Love nature

-Spiritual

health and fitness

I found out that Christians around around the world are being persecuted. Horrible people are killing Christians not letting them have a job because they are christians and I think that that is really sick. I feel that their is something that we can all do to help them and that is to pray. People are being injured and its just because some people don’t have the faith that others do. Christians around the world should have the right to live by the faith that the chose to and should not have to suffer for it. No one should have to suffer for their beliefs. I think that some people need to think about how they would feel if they were being persecuted for their faith.

Me and my group made

These past weeks I have enjoyed learning about the end of Jesus’s life in Bible. Also enjoyed learning about the end when Jesus comes and what we now is going to happen and what to expect and how wonderful it is going to be. Some skill that I have learned is that is science we have been learning about earth quakes and how they form, and where they form, and that they are all because of the plates that are I the earth and when the rub together they create an Earth Quakes I thought that it was interesting.

In Spanish are learning about conjugating verbs. For example hablar in the tu form would be hablan and hablar in the yo form would be hablo. This is interesting because there are different forms for the Spanish words.

Working with others and sharing ideas and collaborating with each other make things easier for me learn content and skill the best. I like working with other people or in groups is because I like sharing with other people and hearing what other people have to say and coming up with an answer all together.

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My favorite book is The Wizard of  Oz it is a old book about a girl named Dorothy who lives on a farm in Kansas and one day there was a really bag storm and Dorothy hit her head and fell into a deep sleep. well she was asleep she had a really crazy dream. She had dreamed that she was in the land of munchkins.Dorothy wanted to return to Kansas very bad the munchkins told her that she must follow the yellow brick road to see the great Wizard of OZ he could send Dorothy back to Kansas. On the way to Emerald city where the Wizard lives she met three friends first she met the scare crow then she met the tin man then she met the cowardly lion. Dorothy asked if they would like to go to Emerald City with her because her friends had wishes too they said yes. So they all set off to go to see the Wizard of OZ.When they got to the Wizard of OZ he said that he would only grant there wishes if they would kill the wicked witch of the West. Dorothy and her friends said yes. So they went to the Wicked Witch of the West’s Castle.

Hot Diggity Dog is a project that we did in school for math. We had to design a restaurant in groups and draw a floor plan of the  restaurant , we had to write down all the  measurements of the  restaurant , and come up with a logo for our restaurant , and then put it in a poster.One thing I think our group could have done better was share the jobs equally.One thing that I think our group did good on was we all worked together good.