Friday, November 19, 2010

How well I work with partners in Literature circles

In class we were assigned partners in our literature circles on literature circles 3. It was great to have partners because the benefits of it could be: editing others work for improvement, giving each other feedback on their work. When I finished working my literature circle with my partner I got a good grade.

The challenges my partner and I went through was big problem for us and we had to go through it to finish our work. The big problem we went through were disagreeing because my partner and I had very big problems on our work and we had to fix it. There was some sentences my partner and I wanted to change and there were no sentences we needed to change.

In the novel there was some understandings of the story my partner and I noticed. In the story there was some understandings of what is going to happen next. There was about the fishing spear when Brian wanted to a fish and eat it and it is going to continue on the next chapter so my partner and I knew Brian might be able to catch a fish or not.

Thursday, November 11, 2010

Literature circle reflection.

1. How your groups discussion helped you better understand the novel. Write about of some of the key ideas from the novel that your group discussed and how these were important to the plot of the story.
What key ideas my group and I use is this:
- Describing the paragraph and tell exactly about it so we can get the idea and picture, so give him some credit.
-We use ideas from the novel so we can get a recap what happened or what he or she missed.
- Sharing ideas because if we share what we are thinking of then we might know or predict what will happen next.

2. Describe some of the connections that you made during your discussion.
The connection I had is our language speaking I mean like "I agree or I disagree.". I always keep on saying it in my old group but it really helped us a lot in our discussions so we can get feedback and credit.

3. What predictions do you have for the rest of the novel.
Well what I predict in the book "Hatchet" Brian will face dangerous animals like a bear or a wolf. Plus wolves and Bears. But also when Brian kills the bears or the wolf he will gain new courage and find new ways to survive.

Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Math: lines of symmetry


In this picture is a temple in Bali, and my mom took a very good picture on it.
1. cut the temple in half to get the line of symmetry

Monday, October 18, 2010

My favorite event I have went through in my field trip.

In the field trip my favorite event I went through was planting mangrove saplings. When it was morning we had a powerpoint presentation by the guides. In the presentation we saw what animals are going to be there, there will be birds, mudskippers, fiddler crabs and snakes. When we finished watching the presentation we went back to our hostels we were getting ready to go to the mud garden, we brang our water bottles, hats and clothed we don't use normally, sock and boots because the mud is like quick sand. When we are arriving to the garden it was a very long walk we finnaly found a bridge and walked to the other side and then we saw a heron it was white and black. Later we moved up we were getting very tired then when we found a tower we made it to the mud garden. When we took a drink of water and saw the garden it was huge we saw a lot of mud skippers and crabs. Then when we wore our boots we were listening to a guide already at the mud and showing us a demonstration on how to plant a mangrove sapling we first get a large stick and strike it down at the mud and circle it at the mud, and we must do it for 3 times, next we get a mangrove sappling and take of the black plastic at the roots and last we put the sapling in the hole we made, and grab a stick and put it right beside the stem and tie it up. When we were planting out mangrove saplings it was very disgusting I mean the mud it was so icky and gooish and I trip over and sat down on it AAAWWW but it was certainly fun. When I took a rest I was sinking down it took over my foot and my knew but I grabon a tree trunk and pulled my self off. When I finish planting the sapling I went back to the hostel to get hosed off by my science and math teacher Mr. Sheflin. When I was hosed of I changed my clothes and I felt like new again. So this was on great event I have expirenced in the field trip.

Sunday, September 12, 2010

The bravest thing I have ever done in my LIFE

Maybe when I was in 2nd or 3rd grade. My family and I went to the zoo and took a tour. In the middle of the tour we took a break for a while. When we moved on my brother saw a man who was carrying a white Albino snake  my brother was really excited to take a picture of him carrying the snake. I didn't volentered. I felt like a coward, a chicken but then when my brother finished taking the picture of him carrying the snake. It was the time I showed bravery, so then I volentered to take a picture of me carrying the white scary-looking, vicious, canivorious Albino snake. When I carried it it's scale felt so smooth and I felt that I was wrong, the Albino snake is not dangerous. I was ok when I let it go. Nothing happened, it didn't bite me, choke me, or kill me, it was very harmless. So that was the time I showed my bravery.

Thursday, September 2, 2010

History Alive chapter 1

Intro:
Archeologists studied many artifacts from different types of early human species, but when Archeologists find new artifacts they tell us something that happened in the past that there was a new type of early human species, before we can prove it we do 3 things before we can do it. First we detail it then we make our hypothesis and we let the social scientists study it.

Spear thrower

  • Horse in the bottom

  • A sharp tip

  • Made of Stone

  • Has stone hair carving

  • Have ridges
 What the social scientist studied about it and what we learned it that it the horse was for a decoration and the spear is used for him or her to have good luck.

Cave art tools
  • Have sharp rocks
  • animal pellets
  • Charcoal
  • A sharp bone
  • A carver
  • Old rocks
  • A flat platform
What we learned from social scientists is that these tools were used for painting and used used powder with animal fat or vegetable oil to create various colors to make the drawings interesting.

Clay sculptures
  • Two bison
  • It was made of clay
  • Has deep cracks
  • One has a tail but the other doesn't
We think that the cave belong to a certain clan but it also celebrated an important ritual.

This was what we work on studying the important artifacts we details, used our hypothesis and read what did social scientist.

Friday, August 13, 2010

I think I like being a Archeologist on my 4th job choice

I want to be an acrheologist becausethey dicover ancient artifacts because when I discover 1 and it was not discovered I would be famous. Second I can become very tough on digging very deep because the more I dig deeper the more I find things. Last because there are electronics we can use to navigae underground because it will be much more easier to find more ancient artifacts. 

 

Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Welcome!

Hello! My name is John Senthil Kumaraguruparan I am from Malaysia. Now I am in Middle school and my interest is to have a good education and make my mom and dad proud. Now I am working in Humanities and this is my first blog I ever worked on.

 My favorite hobbies are fishing, Math, and soccer. My favorite color is blue and I like to eat fish, burger, pizza, tofu, BBQ ribs, shrimp and lobster.

I have a  Positive Attitude and am Hard Working and Determined. I'm positive because i have a can do attitude, I am Hard Working because i try my best to meet my goal  and Dertermined because I never give up in what i want to do.

In school I have a Academic and Social goal .The Academic goal is to excel in my studies and my social goal is to help the poor and sickly.

Before I let you look around my blog, here is some advice that i would like you to know. Please don't bully other people and don't try and sneak around my blog and start putting some other silly ideas, got it ok and you can look around my blog anythime you want but remember what I have said.