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P.E End Of Year Reflection

"Don't waste your time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind. The race is long and, in the end, it's only with yourself." ~Mary Schmich




What does wellness mean to you?
What wellness means to me is being fit and healthy. Doing your daily exercise and eating well. Living the right way.


What do you do on a daily basis to be well and healthy?
What I do on a daily basis to be well and healthy is that I make sure I have the right food to eat, so every night for dinner I have salad, during lunch my mom makes me healthy sandwiches, and I prefer to stay off snacks most times. As well as I like to include my self in sports and get daily exercise. Either if I go to the track, do some home yoga, or practice dance at home.

Rate your enjoyment of P.E? (1-poor 5-awesome)
What are your favorite things about P.E?
I would rate my enjoyment of P.E between 4 and 5, because P.E is so much fun and I love all the activities I do with my friends in P.E. But, sometimes some things have been a tiny bit challenging for me. My favorite things about P.E is getting active, learning new things, and having fun with it.

Rate your enjoyment of  Health? 1-5 (1=poor 5=awesome)

What are your favorite things about Health?

I rate my enjoyment of health a 4 because it was really funny and most of the activities were fun and enjoyable with friends. My favorite thing in health is getting to learn new things and having cool new brain breaks.

What would you change about the Health or PE program?

One thing we could change is putting in movement/ dance as one of our units because it is a really fun and a great way to move around. As well as, have a longer puberty unit.

How physically active have you been this year on a weekly basis? Share as many of the sports, select teams, intramural sports or activities that you participated in this year in 6th grade. Include activities you do both in and out of school.

I was on the B team for soccer at school this year and had practices on Mondays and Thursdays weekly. I was a part of the dance show so I was at practice on Fridays.

Finish this sentence. I am a good teammate because…

I am a good teammate because I give to my teams good sportsmanship, I respect each other equally, and I make sure each of us get a good game.

How have you shown leadership this year in PE? What qualities make you a good leader?

(If you have not taken the opportunity to lead this year what you could do to improve on this next year?)

I say I have shown leadership this year, when I was a leader once I made sure I treated everyone nicely and evenly. I made sure everyone got a fair game and was on task. My qualities that make me a good leader is that I treat everyone respectfully.

What is your strongest area of physical fitness? (strength, flexibility, cardio respiratory endurance) Which area do you need to work on?

My strongest area is cardio and a bit of strength. I could work on my flexibility.

Why do you think being physically active is important?

It keeps us fit and healthy. Helps us have a longer life and it makes us have a healthy mind, etc.

Describe your strengths and weaknesses eating ‘MyPlate’ 3 meals a day.
The strengths are is that you continue on a good and healthy food that keeps you active and isn't really bad food. But some weaknesses is that maybe sometimes it doesn't give as much vitamins or strength, whatever it is, enough a day, so you need to change it up.

What is your food goal? (Review your MyPlate blog post) Did you achieve your “food goal” or do you need to continue to work on it?

My S.M.A.R.T goal was to continue with my healthy snacks and a daily fruit. I have achieved my goal, it is just I need to improve sometimes on having my daily fruit.

How stressed have you been this semester?

I have been kind of stressed this semester with a lot of projects going on, there are more things to do since it is near the end of the year, there is a lot more work needed. But except for those things I have been fine.

What two strategies work best for you to reduce stress?

One of my strategies that works best for me is listening to music, it is joyful, fun, it can also be calming music. My second way is sometimes I just close my eyes for a second and think of good memories, or something fun to calm me down.

Thank you!

Basketball Reflection

 
In our basketball unit I think I did well at dribbling forward down a line kind of fast sometimes and something I could work on is looking up because when I tend to dribble I sometimes look down at the ball. As well as, work on shooting technique and sometimes driving forward more. I do think I could have done this concept better in a game situation because most times when the people gave the ball to me, it took me a while to think so I shot from where I caught the ball and sometimes I was unluky.

May 2015 Band Concert Reflection

Concert Reflection for May 12, 2015

1. Did you feel well prepared for this performance, why or why not? (ie: Did you do what was expected of you leading up to the concert?)

I felt kind of prepared for the concert. I felt like I was ready to play the pieces, I had everything I needed. But, I feel like maybe I didn't practice enough for our concert.

2. What was the strongest part of our performance, and why?

I say the strongest part of our concert was when we played our pieces, because we were all together, we followed the dynamics. We also strong at our pieces because we sound strong and it sounded good and the low brass weren't early or late for our back ground thumps.

3.  What was the weakest part of our performance, and why? What can we (and you) do to improve for next time?

I think that for next concert we could work on between each pieces we shouldn't talk because it kind of probably looks bad from the audience. As well as, we looked a the audience a lot and were a bit off task so sometimes we could have been a bit more focused than how we were in the concert

4. On a scale from 1 to 5, (5 being the best) how would you rate the overall band students’ behavior as audience members for this concert?  Why? (no names please)

Probably a 3 because some of us were actually paying attention to the other people playing, but I do think that some of the time some of us talked quite a bit, even during a performance. So next time we should listen more and talk less.

5. What was your favorite piece and why?

My favorite piece was The Lost Tomb because I just loved how sometimes it was soft with flutes, then like an adventure with the low brasses heartbeat. As well as, there was a lot going on and we played it really well and it sounded like a story. Also, the piece was just amazing as is.

Science Circuit Board

These two pictures here are the front and back of my circuit board that I made in class. How it works is the electricity or the real term is electrons that runs through the wire at the back connecting to the paper fasteners which is also a metal source which is a conductor. So when we have the wires that are connected to batteries, the battery, being a voltage source, could fire up electricity and electrons. When the stripped end of the wire hits the paper fastener of the question and answer, the wire connecting them at the back will run the electrons to the paper faster next to the question's corresponding answer, then the other wire connecting the light bulb, then the bulb turns on. The bulb will light up when you have the wires on correct paper fasteners it will make a complete circuit and light up the light bulb. It makes a current complete circuit

Band: Concert Reflection March 2015

March 11, 2015 Concert Reflection

What is expected of me as a performer:  

1. What do I need to do leading up to the performance in terms of my own practicing?  

Well I should always put in at least a few more minutes of practice time before a concert so I can really get everything right for a good performance.

2. What is my responsibility on stage during a performance?

Well many things, not talk or goof around, pay very close attention, have proper posture, and play as nicely as I can play. And if somebody starts to goof around tell them to stop.

3. What will I do differently in preparing for the next concert?

Next concert something different that I will do for preparing is probably practice a bit more if there are still things in the song I haven’t exceeded.

What is expected of me as an audience member:

1. What do I need to be doing while someone is performing?

Listening to the performer and not talking to friends because it is rude. As well as, maybe even if your friend is talking I can tell them to stop.

2. What do I need to do after someone has performed?

Clap for them and congratulate them, as well as still don’t talk.

3. What should I do if people around me are not being good audience members?

Whisper to them them to be quiet and listen or to stop whatever they were doing. But if they don’t stop get and adult to talk to them.

4. What will I do differently as an audience member for next concert?

Next concert something that I will do differently as an audience member is make my friends talk less and probably even a bit of myself.

I am most proud of…

Being able to perform really well without messing up a lot. As well as,  having a fantastic, successful first concert!

My Food Plate

Science Aquatic Protists

The protist that you see in the video here is a Tubiflex worm. A multicellular worm that is mainly found in ponds. Tubiflex worms move through the water by franticly moving in "S" curves. Which not only helps for transportation, but also eating. Some interesting facts about this multicellular is that it also carries around tape worm.






The protist that you see in the video here is a     Daphnia Pulex, a multicellular organism. It is found in water bases. The Daphnia Pulex can't do with stong currents for their small legs and antennas used to help them swim. So small pools mainly do for them. Daphnia have a diet of bacteria, fine detritus, and small algae particles.The daphnia pulex was the first crustacean to have its genome sequenced.

Scabies

Stress Buster Tool Kit

Chemistry In Everyday Life

Math Reflection

Today in math we had to solve the equation 3/4 divided by 1/8. How I figured out this problem is I did the reciprocal system, an easy way to remind me how to properly do it is CCF ( Copy, Change, Flip). How it works is you keep the first number they same, (copy) then you change the order of math. So, we will change the division to multiplication. Lastly, you flip the number, so instead of 1/8 we will flip it to 8/1. So multiply 3/4 by 8/1 and there is your answer. Which is 6!

Among The Free Book Review

Over the Winter Break I reread one of my favorite books, it's called Among The Free By Margaret Peterson Haddix. It is apart of the Among The Hidden series. I would rate this book and series a five star.

I can't really summaries just this book because it is the last book in the series, and it will be very confusing. So... In the city they live in, they cannot have more then two children because they government believes that the city will over populate and no one can keep up with farming food for them. So, they can only have two kids. But this family has "adopted" (you will figure out what that means in the book) this boy named Luke, but he is a third child. And keep him hidden. He figures there is something wrong with their neighbors. He takes a trip there and finds a pleasant surprise. And that is how this entire series happened of conflict, sadness, happiness, etc.

Some of the main author's craft I really like in this book was how at least in every other page there was a cliff hanger which made me always want to keep on reading. As well as, the emotion she puts in the book really makes you feel it in person, which is what I love in a book.

I would really recommend this book for people who enjoy more of like a not so happy book, feeling the emotion in books, and especially cliff hangers. Enjoy!

Fitness IMovie

This movie shows you how you can improve your  KM run! We all know if you need to improve your KM run, Watch this!

Mick Harte Was Here Project

There are moments in life that stand out. Mainly they are memories, others, maybe evens sometimes getting to know yourself through some situations. Probably some of those situations are like from the story Mick Harte Was Here. What happened in this story is there is this young, sweet girl who cares for her family very much, but one day a tragedy happened in her family. Her brother was in a biking accident, and passed away unexpectedly. Phoebe and her family had quite a depressing time. But we learn that Phoebe’s friends and neighbor’s make an impact on Phoebe and her family. Once they came with food and to take care of their family, it was a huge impact on Phoebe because she got to find her self again, who she really was before the tragedy. That was one of the moments in Phoebe’s life that really stands out.

“Maybe things happen for a reason to change somebody else's life” ~ Phoebe’s teacher. I sometimes believe in that quote because a lot of bad things can happen, but sometimes good things can come out of it. Like Phoebe she found her true self, but she is always sad about the incident. But you can tell she has changed.

Tchoukball Reflection

One thing I did good on was having some power so I could shoot well at my aim. Also I did well on sort of having that first pointing to your aim arm going on.
One thing that I could improve on from the video is having more of the my arm just about right behind my head. I could also work on having the throwing arm going into a downward arm.
Some improvement that I noticed is that I had my point out for longer, getting my arm nicely at 90 degrees behind my head. Also one I threw my ball, having a nice downward arm.
I think I did really well in applying myself the sending skills when playing Tchoukball, because I followed the right skill movements, and proper throwing and receiving.

Reflection

Science is great class. You get to learn a lot of new things and experience a lot of new things. Right now we just finished our matter and volume unit, it was a lot of fun that I wish that we could have that unit again soon. Some things to reflect on are...

What I learnt was how to figure out the volume of an irregular object using water displacement. Using a water displacement is very fun and easy. I hope that soon I can figure out the volume of me. I also learnt how to figure out the density of things. density was sort of hard at first, but now it is easy. Density is the amount of stuff there is per cubic volume, and how you get it is you divide mass by volume, so the density unit is g/cm3. I also learnt a lot more things, to many things that I can't say all of them. But these two were the most commonly used and fun for me.

What I still am a bit confused about is probably sometimes describing what density actually is. I know how to get density but sometimes I get confused on how to say what it is. I only sort of remembered how to define density about two weeks ago.

What the most memorable thing to me was water displacement. Why it was most memorable to me because it was really fun and interesting how it works to find the volume of an irregular object. I really hope we can do more water displacement in the class in the future.

The matter unit was a lot of fun, but now I can not wait for our new chemistry unit!

Fraction Comparison Reflection

I now know how to compare fractions using cross products. It is a very simple way of comparing fractions. All you do is cross denominator and nominator on each side and multiply them together. Whichever crossed fraction has the greatest number by denominator of where you switched it is greater

I know what LCD is. It is like the the LCM, just a least common denominator.

When it is better to use another method over another maybe if the fraction also has a whole number with it. Or if is just a really complex number

Isabella's and I's Submarine!

How we got our submarine to work, was that to make our submarine sink we filled it up with ballast and a few stones. On the sides as you can see are red bowls, one facing up and one facing down. The reason why they are like that is for the water pressure going down and up, so when the submarine goes down there will be water pressure in the cup that will sort of make it go up. Same as when the submarine will go up it will have a little bit of water pressure that will go down. So it will help when we make the submarine neutral buoyancy. As well as at the very top we cut in and placed a tube so when we want our submarine to float, we will just blow air into it through the tube and it will rise.

But sadly there were a few wholes through the duck tape so it couldn't exactly rise, so amazing Mrs. Hill told us to take of the cap, make it sink then blow into it. And surprisingly it came up so fast that we can properly present that our submarine can positive buoyancy, negative buoyancy, and neutral buoyancy in front of our science class. That is and how our submarine floats. 

Sportsmanship- On The Sporting Field And In Everyday Life

An example of sportsman ship is if you hurt someone or they are hurt, just stop and help them. How I have demonstrated this, this year in pe was in our floor hockey unit. What happened was I accidentally waked a lot of people on the legs with my hockey stick. But once I did, I stopped and yelled for the game to stop because someone was hurt, and once everyone stopped I helped up the person, asked if they were ok. Also I said that I was so sorry to them a lot.

3 ways you can demonstrate sportsmanship on the field is once the game is over, even if you won or lost, always go up to the team and congratulate them and compliment them. Even though they might have lost, at least they still worked together really well and put in their best. Another way is cheer for your coach, he has put in a lot of work and effort to organize and teach you for every game. Cheer him up also at the end of a game, no matter what. Lastly have a fair game, don't brag about winning to your opponent, or even shout and get mad at them. Because at the end you are still all winners for doing you best and having fun with a fair game

2 ways of that you can demonstrate sportsmanship in real life is no matter where, if you see someone who just got injured or fell, even though you might not have done it, help them up and ask them if they are ok. That could make their day even better. Also follow rules, in everyday life you need to follow rules, if you do it shows you have a great spirit of sportsmanship.

Lastly, 1 new way I can demonstrate sportsmanship is to always after a pe class or a sport, thank the teacher because you don't realize how much work and effort they put in for your class.