Category Archives: 6th grade

Stock Project

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Stocks

In Language Arts we read a book called The Westing Game. In The Westing Game there was a character called Turtle who was really interested in the stock market. Since Turtle was so interested in stocks we did a project with stocks. In our stock project, we had 20,000 fake dollars with those we could choose up to 5 companies to invest all 20,000 dollars in. I chose to invest in Alibaba, Taiwan Semiconductors co, Visa, Berkshire Hathaway, and Pfizer. This was a fun project but in the end I lost 30 “dollars”.

TED talks

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TED Like Talk

In Language Arts we did our own “TED talks”. For these TED like talks we had to think about a topic that interests us and means something to us. My topic was about why I thought UCLA was a better school than USC. We had to do a lot of research on our topics. We also learned a lot about our topic. For example, I learned that one year of tuition at USC is equivalent to four years of tuition at UCLA. I thought why pay more money for a school for a worse school. Our TED like talks were five minutes long and we had to present it in front of our classes. All in all, I learned a lot about UCLA and giving presentations.

Language Arts Projects

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The Last Cuentista

The Last Cuentista was a book about what our world would be like without stories and what it means to have stories. During The Last Cuentista we learned about different stories and what they mean. We also learned that every story has meaning. In the end, the world seemed like an awful place to be without stories.

Ideal world

This year in Language Arts we wrote a story about what our ideal worlds would be. My world was a place called Harreeb which was a rainbow ball with different regions based of different colors. During this project we had to think about what we wanted the world to be like. We also needed to know what food and stores we wanted. In conclusion this was a really fun project.

Handmade book

This year we made a hand made book for our parents. For our book, we had to write a story for one person that is special to you. In my story, I wrote about how my dad player D1 baseball. For this story we had to interview people to find out more about what you are writing about, for example I interviewed my grandparents (dad’s parents) who told me all about his career. In this book, we had to cut out and glue in something that reflects the stories. Also, on one side of the book was our ideal world writing. This was a very fun project.

Heat Shield

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This year in science class we made a heat shield that could stop a blowtorch from cooking an egg. We were split up into groups of 2-4 people, my group was me, Andrew, and Quinn. To make our final design we needed to find out what materials would work best for our heat shield by running multiple tests. To get the materials we needed for testing we needed to find the materials we thought would work best and use our budget of 100 credits to buy what we needed. After running multiple tests with spackling compound, lasagne, duct tape, metal lathes, and sponges we learned duct tape, spackling compound, and sponges work the best. Next we had to fill out a packet on why we think we should use these items. We then had to put together a presentation talking about our design and why we used it. Lastly we had to do the experiment with our heat shield. In the end the duct tape caught on fire immediately and sadly our egg had 4 mm of cooking.

6th Grade Field Trip

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Picture from DA teacher

Last week Durham Academy 6th grade went to the Museum of Natural Science. After a 30 minute bus ride I was eager to go inside with my group. My group was made up of Harris advisory, Lovett advisory, Jake, and Stella. Our group started on the fourth floor where we saw the Race exhibit (race based off skin color, not running) we also saw the arthropod zoo. On the third floor we saw the dinosaur exhibit, we then walked across the sky walk to the other building. In the other building we saw a 3d printing lab, meteorites, and genetically modified fish. We then headed back outside for a quick lunch break. After we ate we went on to explore the second floor which had a model of a forest and all of the animals that live there for example: deers, owl, fish etc. lastly we explored the bones and models of animals on the first floor as well as the the statue of George Washington and others outside of the museum. In conclusion, it was a very fun day.

Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus

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I am currently reading the Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus.

A mirror book is a book where the main character/characters can relate to you, A window book is a book that you can’t really relate to (usually fantasy and sci-fi). This book is more of a window for me because I have both of my arms, I don’t live in a theme park, and I don’t eat with my feet.

This is my second time reading Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus. I chose to read this book again because the story is interesting and I like to see how Aven makes new friends with her disability. I also think it was interesting  that at the begging of the book someone started crying at the park because Aven had no arms. In the end, I was happy to find out that Aven had made new friends.

 

My Wisdom Tales Project

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Over several days my friend Chris and I made a Scratch about a story called The Tiger’s Whisker. The story originated from the Philippines and is about a wife that has to gain back her husband’s love with patience. At first we didn’t know what story to choose so, to choose we thought about what story had the most meaning and what story is the most appealing. One thing we did was split the work into parts so one person wasn’t doing the entire thing by themselves.

My Chinese Project

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Recently my friend Jack and I had to come up with a TV show idea for our Chinese class. For the project, we had to come up with characters and a plot for the show. We also had to write it in Chinese and present our show idea in Chinese. Another thing we had to do is draw our own characters. In the end, the show was about four friends that went inside a haunted mansion and they never came back out.