Post 23, February 28, 2011.

• Please read through your project for this quarter. Leave me some feedback in your journal this week. We will work on them in and outside of class. They are due by March 18th. If you get them to me ahead of time, I will correct them and give you feedback to improve your grade!!

I think this project will be very interesting, but interesting in the way that I am anxious to see what turns out. I think it will also be fun but what I don't understand is how we are going to use quadrilaterals, circles, and geometric transformations to write the clues and do the project. I guess we will know in class... I wonder if we are really going to do the real treasure in the city we pick... ;) Though it would be fun and pretty cool.

Post 22, February 21, 2011.

• What do you love? How do you love it? Count the ways for me......

I love my friends and family with lost of love.
I love my dogs because they bring me joy.
I love playing the saxophone because it makes me feel relaxed and happy.
I love playing sports (some) because I excercise and have fun.
I love going to the beach with my family because I spend time with them.
I love the sea because I like the sound the waves make.
I love pulling my hair when I'm stressed because it relaxes me.
I love takiing a shower because I feel clean.
I love going to the bathroom because it makes me feel relieved.
I love sleeping because I dream.

Post 21, February 14, 2011.

• Did you watch the Superbowl?? It was great. Pittsburgh was down at the beginning, but came back to make it a very exciting game. In the end, they could not continue the drive to score, but great game! Have you ever watched a great game? Tell me about it. If not, then I guess you are not a sports fan.....so why not :)

I, personally, don't understand anything about American Football so I was not very interested in watching the Superbowl. I guess I'm not a very big fan of sports. The only one I actually like to watch is soccer, specially during the FIFA World Cup where all the teams from countries all over the world compete to see which country has the best team. My team is Argentina and I think it's the best! Every game I watch them play is awesome, exciting, and entertaining. The only game I was extremely disappointed was their very last game of the World Cup (which I missed since I was sleeping), which they lost against Germany 4-0... I was more disappointed that they had lost than the fact I had missed it, but oh well... NEXT TIME!!!

Post 20, February 7, 2011.

• Principled.....I like what Mr. L said in the assembly. "Doing the right thing when no one is looking". What does that mean to you? We all love to get credit and recognition from act that we do, but are we so eager to do them when no one is watching? How do you apply it to the math class? When you walk down the hallway, do you pick up trash you see? Do you turn off the faucet in the bathroom even if you didn't turn it on? I think these simple acts are what make us different and give us a chance to feel good about ourselves. Try it out and see how it feels to be principled!

To me, being principled is doing something that is appropriate, proper, correct, honest, and fair without having to think about the rewards that you could get afterwards, but because you feel that it is the right thing to do according to your values and morals. We can apply being principled in math class when we do the squares game and a person chooses the square from the box and they do it without looking, that is an example of being principled; if the person looks, that is not being principled. When I am walking around the school and see a wrapper on the floor, I (generally) pick it up the floor (if it looks too gross to pick up, I tell someone to pick it up with a broom, which is easier so that I don't have to touch it...). What I really hate about some people is that they don't care about letting the water from the faucet run and they just don't turn it off, so I do turn it off when I see that it is on and no one is washing their hands or using that water for something.