Student Led Conference 05/30/2010
Welcome to my Student Led Conference! Exhibition The first piece I have chosen is an email I have sent to HKNWB (Hong Kong Non Woven Bags). I chose this piece because I think it shows that Ellen and I have been committed to our exhibition! Even though the exhibition has finished we are still doing a lot of work. We have already ordered our bags and we will be getting our bags delivered in about a week to 9 days! I am really excited! Ancient China (story) The second piece I have chosen is my story blog Diary Entry #7. I have chosen this because I am really proud of that piece of writing. I think that I did really well in it because I made it look clear, and I think it is quite interesting. I think that I tried really hard in this story and it is the best I have ever made and ever will make! I hope that as I get older I will keep up doing creative writing. I enjoy writing fiction stories about others than non fiction stories. I guess that I like using my imagination. When I was little I used to imagine that my dolls would talk to me and stuff because my sister was a lot older than me and didn't enjoy playing games! I guess that I just have quite a big imagination and I guess it's better to use it than let it go to waste. Here is a link to it http://erinhkab.weebly.com/7/post/2010/03/diary-entry-7.html Space The third piece I have chosen is the script Clio and I have done for the space unit. I chose this piece of work because think Clio and I were being creative, committed, we had good spelling, grammar, editing, and punctuation. I am not really good at recording because most of the time I just start laughing while recording. So Clio got most of the lines but I could still got to say a bit. In the end Clio and my radio show was about 5 minutes long but Leilanie helped us with the sound effects. Leilanie was on her own so she didn't have enough people to record. In the end we just joined together, and then we joined our radio shows as part 1 and 2. Leilanie's radio show was a lot like ours so it wasn't very hard to edit. In the end with Leilanie's and Clio, and my radio shows, we had a radio show about 10 minutes long. Mandarin Another piece I chose was my zhou ji book. In our Zhou ji book we have to write a paragraph every week. I chose my best paragraph which I think is the one I wrote about the job I want to be when I am older. I only had a little help from my Mandarin Tutor on words I didn't know. I think that when i am older I want to be an accountant, because it would be sort of cool being able to have so much responsibility on you and you can take all the phone calls. I like being known as someone to trust because it makes me feel proud to be (in my case) a nice friend. I also chose Mandarin because I have just moved up to the top group half way through the school year! I think I have improved in my Mandarin through out the year and I am really am happy for myself! Math I chose this piece for math because I found it quite fun and I think that my favorite type of math is graphs! I honestly do not like fractions anymore because we spent about half a year on them and they are just really annoying now! I find graph really cool and fun! Right now for our Math I am really happy because we are finishing off the year with graphs! I also really understand how to do them and I actually find them quite easy! Typing I chose to do my typing because because I have done really good in typing this year and I was the first one in my class to finish the whole typing level! Most kids only got up to level 24 and I got up to Level 32! I am really proud of my typing because now it is much easier to type, mostly whenever we are working with others and it involves typing I usually do it because everyone else is not as fast and I know most of the keys apart from all the sym Thanks for listening to my Student Led Conference! I hope you learned quite a bit about me as a learner, and a kid.  This is the email we sent to HKNWB (Hong Kong Non-Woven Bags) Double click to see it in a bigger size  This is the first part of my Math piece (Double Click)  Part 2 of Math piece (double click) This is the Script Clio and I made for our Radio Show Clio: Hello I am Dr. Bee Erin: I am Dr. Ribs Clio: Today we will be talking about the Fiscal crisis, Erin: Wait a second what is that sound? (Alien Impact) Clio: Can you hear them, they look like aliens Clio: There are very mysterious voices coming through You can hear them I wonder what they want! (Airplane Landing) (Erin screaming in the background) (Alien Communication) It's an alien, we can see a flag that has a picture of Neptune on it! We should head down to Houston Air Force to see what is happening down there. (Footsteps) Here we are at the Houston Air Force and here is Dr. Gee with the latest information on the Alien situation Erin: Hello I am Dr. Gee and it appears that the aliens just landed from Neptune, a very common planet as astronauts say for aliens (zapper shot) Clio: Dr. Gee, Dr. Gee, what happened? (heart beat, slowly faints away) Clio: I just felt Dr. Gee's heart and it appears it has stopped beating. Here comes the ambulance Erin: You must leave now. Clio: We have just gotten a phone call that is telling us that there are aliens intruding Main Street. We are now leaving Houston air force to go and see the scene at Main Street of the Neptunian Aliens. (Footsteps) (bomb sounds) Erin: (scream in background) Clio: Do you hear those sounds? Those are meteorites that the aliens are firing! Take Cover! We must leave and get to safety. Look there are some people fighting back with these unexplainable guns. Please wait a moment while I send my brave assistant out to into the meteorites to ask them who they are and what they are doing. (whistling) A few moments of Clio whistling later Erin: They are the anti alien force! They will help us bring the aliens back to Neptune, dead or alive! Clio: Thank you very much Dr. Rib. Our plan is to get the aliens and bring them back to their little planet Neptune, hopefully these people have enough materials to help us with that. We must discuss together how to capture these barbarians! Erin: We must leave here and get back to the office. Clio: I agree we will be back here tomorrow and hopefully the anti-alien team will have already captured a few aliens. NEXT DAY Clio: we are heading out to Main Street again to see how the anti-alien team have progressed Erin: Wow Clio: They have captured them all! They are hanging in a net and they have stolen the Neptunian’ ray guns, and space ship. The Anti-alien force has saved America! Now we can get them to N.A.S.A., and bring them back to Neptune. (car noise) Clio: Here we are at NASA Erin: Dadadadaaa Astronaut: We would like to invite you into Space with us so you can find out all the sizes and looks of the planets. Clio: That would be great! We would love to see the planets up close and see the aliens leave to Neptune. Clio: We are getting into our space suits. Finally we have all finished getting space suits we are getting into the Space Ship (Airplane taking-off) Astronaut #2: We are in Space. Erin: Look at this chart! It shows you all of the planets of the solar system sizes! Clio: Wow look at Earth, we just left home! Erin: Wow Clio: Now we are passing Mars. This planet is the closest planet to Earth, and on the chart it says that it is 6,800 kilometers in diameter. Clio: Did you know Mars is smaller than Earth and is full of red and rock, and it is like a giant grand canyon! Erin: Now we’re passing Jupiter Clio: Did you know that Jupiter is the biggest planet in the Solar System? Well it is! In diameter it is 143,000 kilometers! That is about 130,200 kilometers in diameter bigger than Earth! Erin: ,and I thought Earth was big. Clio: Now we are scraping the ground of Saturn. Saturn is known for it’s beautiful rings. Besides Uranus, and Neptune, it is the only planet with rings. However, it is the biggest planet with the beautiful rings. Erin: Saturn is 125,000 kilometers in diameter. Not as big as Jupiter, but still HUGE! Clio: Finally we have reached Neptune after Astronaut: A week! Clio: Wow I thought it was only an hour! Astronaut #2: You never really know how long you have been gone, unless you have a special time tracking machine that we have. Erin: What’s happening? Astronaut: Nothing we are just landing. Clio: We better get the Neptunian’ out and let them be home at last! (Alien Communication) (Aliens leaving) Clio: Do you hear that? That is the sound of the aliens walking home. Erin: Thank you for listening to part 1 of Aliens are real (Some sort of theme song) Erin&Clio: Thank you for listening (clapping) (commercial) Next is Part 2 with Leilanie's script.  That was my Zhou ji I chose! I am talking about my dream job! (double click for bigger picture) 1 Comment Order the bags rough draft 05/23/2010
Dear HKNWB, We would finally like to order our bags. After looking at the sample we have decided to change a few things about it such as size. We would like our bag to be about 3 inches bigger in length and width. What size would you suppose that would be, and how much would it cost? Also we would like to have the bags as one side the Hong Kong Academy design and the other the Turtle design. Can we make these changes? If so, may you please send us the Quotation of how much it would cost to make these changes. Thank you for your time, Regards, Ellen and Erin Biathlon Training 05/23/2010
On Friday I had biathlon training, and we had to go to South Bay. Biathlons are when you swim and then run. We had to swim around the shark net which is 200m and then we got out of the water got our shoes on and ran a 2 kilometer run. We kept on doing the swim because it was quite hard for some people who don't do swim training (like my brother), and the run was quite easy. We did the whole way around the shark net about 5 times and the run once. We did the biathlon training because next Sunday I will be racing in a biathlon. I have only done two so far and in the first one I won my race and in the second one I got second place. I hope I do well in the next one as well. I hope you wish me luck as well, erinhkab Exhibition Reflection both days 05/16/2010
I think that 1 thing my group did well in was presenting our action because we were able to explain the process of making and designing the bags. I think that was the reason people ordered because they thought that we knew our stuff and we were really passionate about the turtles and they thought that we really wanted to help. I think that we should have been more strict, because some kids ordered bags and didn't pay yet but they said they would later, and now that I think about it, they probably won't and we do not want to give away free bags to people who won't bother paying. I think that as an individual I think that I did well with the little kids and older kids. I think that it is important to be able to present to different ages. For the little kids I read them a book with easy words so they could understand our problem. For the older kids we had a lot of posters with harder words, and keynotes. I think that I did better presenting to the little kids than the older, because with the younger all you had to do was read them a book and they would be satisfied. When the eighth graders came they asked us to walk them through our presentation, but we didn't exactly have a 'script'. We got through it though by getting them to read our brochure, and keynote, and answering all of there action questions and other questions. I think that one thing my group could have done better in was advertising for the bags! Andy said that we should have had a big sign saying you can buy bags for 40 dollars. I agree with him because some people didn't know we were selling bags until we told them. Even with our poster process of designing bags they didn't realize we were selling them. If I ever did the exhibition again I would be much more firm with how they pay. If it was an adult I would be okay with it because usually you can trust adults, but if it was a student next time I would clearly tell them that they have will not get their bag until we receive all the money. I think it is much more important to let people know that you can't just sign up for things and never pay for what you bought. I think it would be much better if I just said, you don't get your bag until you pay. Next time I did a big project and is selling something I will make sure I do that. Thank you for reading my reflection, erinhkab This is a video of some 6th Graders and our mentor visiting our stand. We tried to give as much information as possible  4th Graders at the turtle stand  Turtle stand  Me working at my table while no one was visiting So far today my group has done a lot! We have 24 bags ordered already. Shane said that we have to be careful because some people might want one but won't pay the money for one. We told him not to worry because over the weekend Ellen will send all the kids who ordered an email and ask them if they are allowed and if they will pay and when. So far we have 960 dollars. That is 500 dollars off of what we have to pay back the school. After that we only have to raise another $700. Even if we don't get all the money to pay back the school and adopt a green sea turtle, we will at least have stopped people buying plastic bags! Exhibition 05/10/2010
Today in exhibition I came in late because of the bus but I was still in for part of the brief. After the brief all the people that signed up for speeches went to the carpet and decided what we should say. Ellen and I are doing the speech of Task definition. We wanted to do the welcome as well but everyone wanted to do it so we just said that we wouldn't. After we did that Ellen and I got to work. I finished my book for the little kids and colored everything in. While I was doing that Ellen went up to the photocopying room and cut all the pieces of information for our poster. When we both finished Ellen and I checked over the book and by then it was time for recess. Ellen and I stayed in for recess and we started on our final poster, the process poster. We have not glued anything yet but we will either during lunch, or our last exhibition time. I am really nervous about the exhibition, but saying that I think everyone is. Even though I am nervous I am excited to show the whole school and parents what Ellen and I have accomplished! I wish everyone luck with the Exhibition 05/09/2010
Today in exhibition I spent most of my time making a story book for little kids. In the morning we had a gallery walk and people would fill out a sheet that says what did they do well in, and what do they need to improve in. People really liked Ellen and my stand but some thought that the writing was too small, we couldn't fix that, but some people said that we needed more pictures on our posters, so then Ellen started fixing our posters and I looked at the rest of the comments. Most of the others said the same things but the last one said that we should have something for the little kids. That is why I worked on the book. I got really far into it and I finished the writing part and I finished coloring the pictures and all I have to do is now make the text more readable, then I am done! I thought that I worked really hard and I managed my time really wisely and now all I have left is just doing the bibliography poster that will only take a few minutes. I think that my group will do quite at the exhibition and I hope you will think so as well. That is what I did during exhibition, erinhkab Rubric 05/04/2010
 I wasn't able to mark my rubric because Ellen saved it somewhere I had no access to, so I will tell you what I am doing anyway. So for communicating I think that I would mark myself as 5 because I sometimes I am not communicating to the best of my ability so I think that 5 is right where I am at. For research I would give myself a 5 because sometimes I forget to tell all my information, but I still tell a lot. For Organization I would definetly give myself a 7 because I have a folder and I can get to all of my work really quickly. For Time Management I would give myself a 5 because I have been using my time really well but sometimes I don't get all of my work finished in class. I can't do anything for presenting because we haven't done the presentation yet but I hope I will do fine. That is where I think I am on the rubric! Exhibition 05/03/2010
So far in my exhibition group we have researched, worked on wiki, started making an experiment, made keynotes for exhibition and Mrs. Virginia, sent a bunch of emails back and forth with companies, conservations, and the school, we also started ordering bags and we are going to order a sample on May 4th and will get it on May 6th! I think we are quite good so far! We still have to make our poster order all the bags and finish our experiment. We don't have a lot to finish. I don't really have any concerns about are group but convincing the school to help us. I hope that they will help us because otherwise we won't have any action, but then if they do help us we will have two types of action! In the exhibition the part I am really proud of is the design I made for the bag because I made it really simple and then I put it on the computer and I was really proud of my work. I think that next week at the exhibition I really want people to learn how bad plastic is for the turtles and I want them to stop using plastic bags. Thanks for reading about my exhibition, erinhkab Exhibition 05/02/2010
Today at exhibition my group was sending emails forward and back to Mrs. Virginia trying to schedule a meeting with her to discuss our action. Finally we scheduled a meeting on Thursday at 10:00 A.M. After we scheduled the meeting Ellen and I wrote a keynote for the presentation. We had another one but that was more for the exhibition night. During the keynote Ellen and I had a disagreement because I was telling her what to write but then I wanted to type the words, so Ellen let me and then she said that we shouldn't both be working on it so I volunteered to but she wanted to do it instead but I raised the point that I was giving her all the ideas and she was just typing so that would be why I should get to do it. So then she just went walking around the room until we edited it. Then we started to become responsible and worked together again but at that time there wasn't a lot of time left because of the Grade 2 exhibition. I think next time we should work together better. At least we both learnt a lesson, and now we won't do it again. |  Erin R.ox!
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