City Connection Reflection

In humanities class, we each had to make a PowerPoint of where we lived. I chose Seoul, Korea because I was born there and so did most of my ancestors. Also, Seoul is one of the top 10 cities in the world. GO SEOUL! I tried my best in this PowerPoint.

I think my PowerPoint was excellent. Maybe I'm exaggerating, but I think it looked awesome. I had lots of details in my information, I had good and rare picture of Seoul, I had a table of contents, etc... Among all those things, I think the information and table of contents were the best. I put as many information I can possibly put in the PowerPoint as I can, and chose a lot of cool facts that lots of people didn't know about Seoul. Most of all, I tried my best, and I think it's the best power point I ever did in my life.

On the other hand, I think I have to work on my presentation skills. I need to stop saying "like", and "and". I tried to change this habit for a long time but I get nervous and start saying the same words over and over again. Also, I think that the pictures and sentences flying in got messy. I could have less things flying in, or have none at all. I think I improved a lot in my presentation and PowerPoint making skills. I also tried to follow the things on the rubric to strike my best. I think I put all the things the rubric wanted us to put in. The rubric was a great help to me.

I learned a lot while listening to other people present. I think the most important thing I learned was that confidence was everything. The kids who were good at the presentation were all confident about their PowerPoint. The kids who did not so good as the confident kids were not so confident. The next important lesson I learned was to speak louder. I also learned that having little information is good too. Some people chose to explain the facts instead of reading the information straight from the PowerPoint. I thought it was a neat idea. I thought Dylan's idea was cool. I never thought about hiding pictures and giving prizes to the people who found them. This idea made the people concentrate on the powerpoint more.

I personally think I did good. The comments were better than last year's. I think really deserve a good grade. Even though I was sick for two days, I checked and practiced my presentation again and again. I also edited a lot of things that could be better along the way.

MY NEW YEAR'S RESOULTION

This year has gone too fast. Since its 2011 now, it's time for new resolutions. Every year, I set a new goal but I don't accomplish most of them. So this year, I going to try really hard to accomplish them. If I don't, shame on me. I have several resolutions this year.

First of all, I am going try to be less annoying to my brother. I have to get used to this because he would graduating and would be in America. So, it's very sad because I don't have anyone to annoy. Maybe I could annoy my dog. I'll think about it. Also, if I am less annoying, my brother might actually give me proper presents for christmas. Until now, I got nicely wrapped presents with nothing in it (I give my brother proper presents. Like Ipods,etc) As You can see, I am way nicer.

 Second, I am going to try learn more korean and mix with other Korean kids. Right now, it is very difficult because I don't understand their sentences well. It is quite shameful because I can't communicate well with people from my country. Who doesn't know their country's culture, or the language well? Who dosen't really like their country's national food, or clothing? I must be the only person in the world. You have no idea how it feels like. It's like if people ignore you in your own country. It's like getting surrounded by people speaking a language you don't understand at all.

These are my New Year's Resolution'


Something people might not know about me is that I am very very musical. I taught myself how to play instruments. I play songs on instruments by listening to music. My ear is my best friend. My mom says that it's in our family blood. But right now, I am the only one in my family who compose music without an instrument by my side. In other words, I could hear music in my head and just scribble it on some piece of paper. Sometimes I write it on my hand. I also hate reading music. It gives me headaches.
To tell you the truth, this isn't nice at all. When your listening to the teacher speak, my head and ear would gather sounds from around me and create a rhythm or beat. This only happens when the lesson gets boring. This doesn't happen in humanities. Don't worry. This was a secret. I had to let people know what I'm thinking when classes are boring.

Well this is it. I hope you enjoyed it.
It's your choice to believe my secret or not. I don't really care.  Thanks for reading.

Lit Circles with a partner.

I liked this "Lit Circles with a partner" thing because it helped me understand what I had to improve and I also got to help my partner. We got to work on our partner work skills and also improve our questions, passages, and connections buy reading my partner's questions and try to write something as good as my partner's work. This was the best part. We got learn how other people wrote things. I only one problem, I accidently erased my partner's connection, so he had to do it again. If i didn't work with a partner, I wouldn't have asked someone to do extra work.

Literature Discussions

In humanities this trimester, we had to read chapters of books and write a passage, question, connection and find a vocab word for each time we finish read. The discussions help us understand the book better and predict what will happen next.

The discussions help us understand the book better. For example, when I didn't get what happened to the characters in the story, the discussions help us because other people reading the same book explain what happened in the book during the discussions. Also, when we don't understand a part of a story, then I wouldn't enjoy the book much, and I think the Lit circles helped me a lot.

Literature circles help us predict what will happen next. When people are together, and share our thoughts about the book and share what we think was important, we could add all those facts together and come up with a prediction of what we think will happen next.

Because of these reasons, I think Literature Discussions are good and they help me with my learning, thinking and helps me improve my discussing skills.

Lines of Symmetry

Picture of me holding a case. It has a line of symmetry. It runs to the opening where i am pointing to to the opposite end of the case.

I WILL NEVER FORGET THIS

I was taking a nap when I heard a SQUISH! It sounded like my grandma's fart, but it was twice the loudness. Also, my grandma went out to get some food. Our house is built under a new mangrove tree now. Before we moved, we lived under a old old mangrove tree. It always gave me an eerie feeling.
We got our new home when giants came and planted mangrove trees.

Squish Squash. "I will now show you how to plant a mangrove tree" said the guide giant. He dug a hole and planted a tree. I ran to tell my mom that a very nice giant planted a nice house for us. My mom told me to pack up my things so we could move straight away. When I reached my room, I heard squishes and saw a boot deep down in the mud sinking fast. I screamed. I grabbed my stuff and ran out the exit. My mom was waiting for me there. We saw giants sinking, planting trees, getting muddy and killing crabs by sitting on them accidently. My family stuck together. After hours, we reached our new house by the last giant went squishing out. The house is cleaner, bigger, and even close to the pool and also close to high land. Thank you nice giants!! Thank you for your kindness and thanks for killing our enemies, the crabs.

ROSEE GOES TO THE RESCUE

     I was four at that time. I was in a preschool in korea called 'kids' College'. I was the smallest kid and also the weakest kid of the whole preschool. My best friend was taller than me but he was very weak too. Unfortunately, lunch time was the most scariest time in preschool  for me and my friend. I got out my lunch   box. My friend hates what his mom packs him so we always share my food. 

     Suddenly, my friend said he had to go to the bathroom. He said he should be back in a second but he didn't come back. There was a strong feeling pulling me. I had to go look for him. I ran around the building but there was no sign of him. I looked outside the window. There he was. He was surrounded by Edward, Ben, and Richard. They were the scariest, biggest and strongest kids in preschool. This meant something bad was going to happen. 

     I ran down the stairs and struggled with the door. After a while, I finally got out. When I put both feet on the grass, my legs were like jelly. No kid ever tried to stop the bullies. So, I was trying to go back but my legs won't obey me. They were too busy wobbling. I decided to step forward. It worked. I guessed that I wasn't allowed to go back so I slowly walked towards the gang. I heard my friend cry. I was scared. But I couldn't let my friend get bullied so I poked Richard and waved. I went closer to my best friend and told him to get a teacher while I try to distract them with my new necklace. Without any complaint, my best friend ran. If he kept running with that speed, it would have taken about five minutes for the teacher to come save my dear life. Unfortunately, he slowed down on the steps. So it was like ten minutes until the teacher came. 

     Also, the bullies didn't get distracted by my necklace so I got a punch in the head. I got a big bump with blue and purple surrounding it. 

     By the way, I kind of forgot my best friend's name but it started with a 'P'.