Partner Talk 2

This is my second partner talk guide. In this video I talk to you about what I do well on in my own partner talks. I think in the first one I said "yeah" a lot, and for this one I try to add on to my partners by piggybacking off them. I think one thing I could've improved on was to find more quotes in the book to support what I'm saying.

Placebo Effect

Have you ever heard of the term "Placebo Effect"? Well, if you don't know what that term means don't worry I'm going to tell you the definition in this blog post. Imagine participating in a clinical trial, a clinical trial is when people participate in an event to test out a new medicine or drug. When you were participating in the clinical trial the actual medicine and the placebo were being handed out to the people but you and the doctors don't know which one you get. A placebo is basically a substance or a look-a-like of the medicine but the placebo doesn't have any medication in it. If you do receive the placebo and you feel better, that is a case of the placebo effect. When the placebo group and the medicine group feel better in a way you know that both groups were healed in a physiological and not in a medical way.

My Badminton Video!

This is my video of me playing badminton, we had to show our PE teacher the movement of when we went to hit the birdie. Here's the video!

Reading and Writing Goal Quarter 2

As you remember I had a blog post about my reading goal earlier this school year. Well, if you don't remember this was my goal: "I will read for at least 30 minutes a night." So in this paragraph/blog post I will be telling you how I have been doing in this goal. I think that I'm doing an okay job at this goal, I think I have been making progress in this goal, but I don't think I'm completely done with it. But I think that I should still work on this goal because I still haven't given evidence that I have actually been reading. So that means I need to work on writing down my evidence.

Even though we had reading goals and other goals in 5th grade, I don't think we had a writing goal, but for this year we do. After getting feedback on my personal narrative, I decided that I should make a goal for myself to help me become a better writer. My goal as a writer is to work on planning my writing, that means I will work on the structure of my story, and not to repeat details too much. These are my two goals for this year in RLA.

Wellness Tips Project

Here is my google presentation for PE promoting the two of the tips from my 5,4,3,2,1,+8 blog post earlier. I have spent a lot of time on this project and I hope that you enjoyed looking and reading my presentation. I hope this also influenced you to follow these tips and to stay healthy.

How To Be An Expert At Partner Talks!

Wanna be an expert at partner talk? Well, watch the video I made bellow that has four very simple and important steps to be an expert. This video includes of some of the clips from my very own partner talk with my partners Sara and Heleen. The voices in my "sleepover" were An Yu and Annette my two best friends. The four steps I mentioned in this video is to speak clearly and confidently, share a variety of topics, piggybacking, and last but not least using eye contact as another way to speak to your partner.    I hope you become an expert at partner talks after watching this video! Enjoy!

Joycelin's Joyful Pompeii Project

It was just another week walking and excavating through the dust and ash in the wonderful city called Pompeii. I've been jotting down notes and examining artifacts for around a week to prepare to make my website have as much information as possible and to make sure you learn about Pompeii after reading it. Mr. Strance's class had to pick one out of three choices to write a website about, and those choices were Pompeii, Easter Island, and the Moai. I decided to write my website about Pompeii because in 2nd grade I learned a little about it, but not a lot so I decided to use that knowledge and expand on it and to learn a lot more. In this website I had to make sure I did all the research before I started to anything that involved having a lot of information. The biggest takeaway from this project was time management, and as most of you know most kids usually procrastinate and wait till the last minute to finish homework.  Well thats what I kinda did... I decided to finish/finalise my website one day before it was due. Which made me really rush, but luckily I got it all done and I'm kinda proud of what I accomplished. But I know that the next time I get a project which are due a few weeks/days that I should try to finish it before the deadline. If you would just click on this link, you will be entered into a joyful website about a Pompeii party!