Sukkah Day 10

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1. What did your group accomplish yesterday? We finished putting some of our walls together. And we communicated better.

2. What do you have left to complete in order for your wall to be finished? We have to put the last 2 by 4 on. And we need to cut the last two by 4 so it fits with the other ones.

3. What help do you need from me (Adon Kaufman) or your classmates? Be specific. I think that our group needs help from someone to show us how cut the 2 by for at the right angle.

Here is a picture of one of us screwing one piece of wood into another.

Sukkah Day 9

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1. Describe what skills (s) you have learned so far. Who taught you those skills? How did they teach you those skills? How have you mastered those skills? I learned that it’s better to use nails for holding stuff together that might wobble. And that screws are better for holding two pieces of wood together. Our teach told us about this. I practiced it and practice makes perfect.

2. Explain if you believe your group is ahead of behind other groups. Explain why you believe you are at that point. Our group is behind. I know this because we are terrible at working as a team.

3. How effectively did your group communicate and collaborate with each other? Provide one SPECIFIC example to support your point. Our group sucks at communicating because we suck at working as a team.

4. Today is a complete reset from last week. What is one goal YOU have for yourself? Explain why you picked that goal. A goal for myself is to try to not to annoy my teammates. I picked this goal because I think that that will help us communicate better.

5. What is one goal you have for YOUR team. Explain why you picked that goal.  To communicate better because if we communicate better, I think that we will be able to work faster.

Sukkah Day 9

Sukkah Day 8 Problem Solving

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1. What are the five steps to solving a problem (please list the steps)? Define the steps, Stay calm and remind yourself that you can work it out. Use calming strategies if you need them. Think of at least three ways to solve the problem. Discuss the solutions with your friend and agree on one. If the solution works, you are done. If not, try another idea.

2. Your group identified a problem you were experiencing. What was the problem? What were your solutions? We don’t get along. Take breaks, Do different things, Compromise.

3. Describe how it felt working with your group after you identified your problem and came up with solutions. I felt like we were communicating better.

Sukkah Day 7

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1. Provide a SPECIFIC example of when you or a member of your group struggled to communicate effectively, with empathy, or appropriately. Make sure to include: 
a. What led to that situation of miscommunication? I was annoying them and we were mad at each other.
b. How you felt when the miscommunication happened? I didn’t really feel anything because when I didn’t have anything to, I just walk around aimlessly and day dream.
c. How that miscommunication should have been handled instead? Whenever we finish doing something we give each other jobs.

2. Explain how poor communication let your team down. Make sure to include:
a. What was your team goal? To finish putting the Carriage bolts in.
b. What did you achieve in comparison to your team goal? We planned ahead by opening a new google doc and putting 3 jobs for each of us in them.
3. Describe one positive example of communication you witnessed/did yesterday during class. Make sure to include:
a. What was the situation? When we double teamed drilling pilot holes into the wood.
b. How did it feel different? We got it done faster, and it just felt better to not argue.
c. What the outcome of that communication was? It got all of us mad because pretty much the whole time it sucked.

This is a picture of us working on cutting the stripped Carrige bolts:

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1. You spent time reflection on past blog posts (looking at your strengths and weaknesses).
Describe the value, using a specific example from your blog post, of looking back and reflecting on our work. It shows us how we can improve for the future. An example of this is, after I looked at my blog post reflection, the next day I wasn’t as hyper.

2. We started to build our walls. What would you have done differently during the process and WHY? Explain what you did and how your fix would have made it better. When I had nothing to do, I think that I should have offered to help a different group instead of walking around aimlessly, and day dreaming. That would have made it better because helping out is nice, and it would have made it faster.

Here’s a picture of us drilling Pilate holes.

Sukkah Organization Day 5

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1. Describe the restorative circle process (when we wrote on our note cards and shared). Include: how you felt writing your note card, how you felt sharing your note card, how you felt if/when someone shared a note card with you. When they were sharing their note cards with me, I knew that they didn’t actually mean it. And I was right because at lunch they kept exactly what they said they wouldn’t do. Though that’s also what I did. When I was writing mine, I didn’t really feel anything.

2. Describe how much easier/harder it was to bring the wood in when we were all working together. Include: how did it feel to work together, how were you communicating, how quickly things got done when we worked together. When we were briniging the plywood, it was much easier to do it with a partner, than doing it alone, because it was balenced.

Here is a picture of us carrying the wood:

Egg Drop Challenge

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Describe your prototype design. Our design looks like a potato. Our design is a Dixie cup that has cushion, and an egg on the inside, and has cushion on the outside. The cushion is tissues.  And it has a balloon on the top hanging on a string that’s connected to the “potato.”

How does your prototype protect the egg? Our prototype protects the egg because it has cushion on the inside, and on the outside.

Describe your design process, in detail. At the beginning we came up with a bunch of ideas, and then we chose which one to build. Then we ended up building our design, though we built it pretty fast. So then out teacher told us to challenge ourselves. So we tried to make it smaller. It still worked so then we made it smaller 2 more times and it kept working, so now we are starting a new idea.

What worked well in your design? We made a bunch of prototypes, and it worked before we did the official drop. I think we might have squished the prototype too many times by accident, and before I opened the prototype, I tossed it and the parts over and away from where most of them land, and right before it hit the ground it it hit a side of the wall.

What was challenging throughout this process? What would you do differently? Next time, what I would do differently is to try harder to think before I do, for when I tossed it away from where my classmates prototypes land, because that might have been the 1 of the reasons that our prototype broke. What I think was challenging was when we were having to decide which idea to choose. What was also challenging was when I had to stop building for the day. What I think was also challenging was when we had to stop building our 2nd idea for good, because it was also the day of the challenge.

Here’s a picture of our potato:

7th One Pager Summer Reading Assessment

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  1. Explain three choices you made on your one pager which show your comprehension of the book or what you learned from the book. One choice I made on my project was to put a lot of picture, with quotes, that were kind like mini comic strips, just only one box. I made this choice because it shows I understood what happened in the book because the quotes were things that they said in the book, which shows that I understood what they said. And the mini comic boxes showed that I understood what was happening in the book. Another choice I made on my project was to put extra quotes, and comic strips. I made this choice because it shows I learned how to do sketch notes, and how to do quotes. Another reason that I made this choice because it shows I understood what happened in the book. A third choice I made on my project was to say my opinion of the beginning of the book. I said how I think that it’s a little hard to understand at the beginning of the book. I think that I didn’t really understand it was because there were a lot of characters that the author was introducing. I made this choice because it shows I learned that even if at the beginning of a book you really don’t understand what’s happening big time, you just have to push yourself to keep reading, because later in the book chances are you’ll start to like it, and understand it.
  2. Explain how you used color on your one pager. I used color on my one pager to make stuff stand out because I think that that helps whoever reads it understand whats important to read or not to read. I also used color to show whoever reads it to know what’s positive, and/or whats negative. I also used color, and different shades of pencil for border lines and to separate different topics or/and different quotes, mini comic boxes, themes… etc.
  3. Explain two pieces of textual evidence and why you choose that text for your one pager. One piece of textual evidence was the quote that Sarah said at the beginning of the story. Which Was: “Tell no one, you’ve found her.” Another one is in the middle when Aunt Zelda screamed at Boy 412, and Jenna for getting on the Vengeance. The quote is: “YOU DID WHAT!!!”
  4. Which learning goal did you do your best work on? Which one do you find challenging? Summarizing the story without writing a formal summary. I think the most challenging one was noting key idea’s.

This is a picture of my one pager:

Sukkah Purchasing Day

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1. Describe a situation when you collaborated well with your group yesterday (make sure to set the scene: what were you doing, what happened, how did you feel). I think a time when me and my group collaborated well together was when we gave each other roles on what to do, what to get, and where to go, and then split up to do it. I felt like we were gonna be able to get all the materials, that we needed, and still be at the right price.

2. Provide a specific example of a time when you did not collaborate well with your group yesterday (make sure to set the scene: what were you doing, what happened, how did you feel). When we were putting the wood on to the bus we were kind getting tired, and mad, at each and screaming our heads off. I felt like a I was a bomb that was about to blow up.

3. For your specific example of your struggles, how would you change your behavior/actions next time so as to do better. Be specific on what you would do. I think that I would try harder to not scream at everyone, by telling myself to stay calm.

4. Explain how well you planned (what you need to buy and how much) and executed that plan (actually did what you said you were going to do). We new what to buy but we didn’t buy all the stuff needed. An example of this is we planned to get ALL of the plywood we needed, but we didn’t because we forgot until we were already buying the stuff, and we already spent to much money.

Here’s a picture of us taking the wood into the maker space through a window:

Here’s another picture of us loading the wood onto the bus.: