Lindy The Turtle Part 2

The frog quickly jumped in to save her. The frog had to swim farther down, and down. He finally grabbed hold of Lindy. After several seconds they emerged from the water. The frog pulled Lindy to the shore. It didn’t look like Lindy was breathing. The frog was starting to worry. He paced around. The frog started yelling for help. When no one answered, the frog was getting very worried. Then the frog remembered something he had learned in health class, CPR! The frog started to do the ‘heart part’ of CPR. By now he was getting even more worried.

He heard something rattling in the bushes. One of the teachers, Mrs. Colors (she was a chameleon), walked out. The frog ran over to her and asked her for help. When they had gotten back over to Lindy, she had rolled over on her belly. The frog was astonished at this sight. Mrs. Colors just laughed. The frog looked up at her and said, “Why are you laughing?”

Mrs. Colors said, “I am laughing because she doesn’t need CPR. She is just asleep, and if you put your ear close to her nose, you can hear her snoring.”

Right then the bell rang signaling that lunch was over. “Come on, lets get you two back to class,” said Mrs. Colors. They walked back to the school, with Mrs. Colors carrying Lindy. “I’m going to take Lindy to the nurse just to make sure she’s okay,” said Mrs. Colors. When Mrs. Colors got Lindy to the nurses office, the nurse told her to set Lindy down on a bed.

To Be Continued.....

Making it to State

Everyone has problems or challenges to overcome
What obstacles are you proud to have faced and conquered?

One challenge for me is training my horse. He is still fairly young and doesn’t always listen. This past year in 4-H, my goal was to make it to state fair. I knew very well that this was going to be difficult. In order to qualify for state you have to get at least one blue ribbon in every class and get a certain amount of points. This was going to be my second year working with Dakota (my horse), and my first year we didn’t do to well.

I started a normal schedule of riding late in January. Every Sunday and Wednesday I took lessons. My biggest challenge with him was picking up his correct lead, and not breaking. Some other things were going slower, keeping his head down, and just listening. I also had to work on my equitation. As the weeks progressed we got better and better.

However, when track season came around, this caused a dilemma. With track practice every day after school, I could no longer ride every day after school. Now, even though I couldn’t ride on school days, I still rode on the weekends.

Once track and school had ended, I rode almost every day. I did pretty well at the shows. When Fair came around I was so proud of Dakota. We won Grand Champion in both English and Western Pleasure. When I heard I had qualified for state, I was so happy.

I did good at state, and want to go back this year. I know, though that I have to work even harder this year.

Clay Animation Rflection Essay

In social studies this year for first quarter we had to do a stop frame animation. Our animation was on an explorer. My explorer was Vasco Nunez de Balboa. In this project there were some ups and downs. There were some things I had fun doing like making the clay people, and some things that were hard like doing all of the computer things, and just spacing out our time wisely. At the beginning of this project I thought it was going to be easy, but I was wrong.

To me the part of this project that was the most fun was making the clay people, and working with Linden. I really enjoyed being creative with making the little people. It was fun mixing the colors, and putting them together. I liked seeing what the people looked like once they were all done. I think the clay animation project was much more fun than if we would have had to just write a report. I also liked being able to work on this project with a friend. It made the project extra fun.

I think the hardest part of this project was shooting the scenes, and putting it all together on the computer. When we were shooting the scenes the clay people would fall over or something. This was frustrating because we would have to put them back up and they would just fall over again. This made shooting the scenes longer than we had hoped. Also, all of the things we had to do on the computer were kind of hard. For example doing the audio was hard because we had to find the right distance away from the microphone, and talk clearly when we were doing the narration and dialog. It also took us a little bit of time to figure out how to use iMovie.

While doing this project I learned that I had to space my time out better. In the beginning I thought it would be easy to shoot a scene and put it on the computer in one day. I soon found out that that is not how it worked. It ended up taking one day for my partner and me to shoot a scene, and another to put it on the computer. It was then hard to turn the scene in on time because we hadn’t spaced our time well. I think if we would have known how to space our time in the beginning, we would have been better at spacing it throughout the project. I think this project helped me learn how to space my projects better, and I will use this knowledge now throughout the year.

In conclusion this project was fun and hard. I learned that I had to space my time out more wisely when doing a project like this. There were also difficult parts and fun parts to it. I really enjoyed making the clay people and working with Linden (who happens to be one of my best friends). The hard parts for me were shooting the scenes and putting everything together on the computer. Even though there were some difficult parts to this project, I would still do another one if I were offered too.