Thursday, January 13, 2011

My Learning Profile

In class we learned about our dominant sides of our eyes, hands, ears, feet. Mine were all right. We learned this to find out how we are comfortable. There are many different profiles which tell you how you learn best, my profile is profile "L". I am Gestalt dominent learner. which means I use my right brain. In class we found our dominant sides by doing some activities. As you can see I am all right sided.

I learn best when I am separated from other students for me not to disturb. When I am in a quiet environment it will help me concentration. Another activity that helps is drawing or writing with my non-dominant hand, which is my left hand. Something else that helps me learn better with profile "L" is lazy 8s. Lazy eights will help me on my focus. What are lazy 8s? Lazy 8s is when you move your hand in an eight shape or an "infinity" shape. Also according to my profile some things that will help me improve are, conscious walking, dancing, soccer, and martial arts like Tai Chi. 
I need to sit at the right side of the room on the sides to make my right ear hear better. I need a quiet environment in order for me to have the best learning as possible. Mathematics will be beneficial for me. I need to to take more logical information and memorizing them to make me have a balance of logic and gestalt. 


  The strategies that will help my learning is to sit on the left side of the room for  my right ear to hear better. Also in a quiet place will enhance my learning too. Also I may be less distracting to other people in my surroundings if I am further away from them. These stratagies will help me learn.  


Something that I would want my teachers to know about me is that if I do not look like in a good position when I am sitting and I am not up right, I am just tired. If I doodle I am still listening just not looking at you all the time. My focus is always on the teacher when he is speaking, it might not seem like it but I listen which is really the only thing I need when my teacher is explaining something. When something is meant to be seen I look up otherwise I listen. 


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Tuesday, January 11, 2011

My New Years Resolution

2011 is a New Year! with that comes some New Year Resolutions. One of my New Years Resolutions would be to finish due assignments early.  this would be good because it puts less stress to me for the next days. I usually do them quite early, for example if something is due in 5 days I should at least finish it in 4 days for there is no more worrying on the last day. and I should at least let my mind rest for one day after thinking hard on my assignment. This will help me refresh on my next task. Also for some days in school, If I have homework on a enen day I should do it on the same day for if I have any trouble with a question I could ask my teacher the next day and then I will know what to do, or at least I should look at my paper, If theres something I do not know and I am in class and I have spotted something I am not so sure or I do not know I can ask the same day and then I will know what to do on the same day, Putting less stress the next day. This will help me improve mostly in school for my Homework.

I also had another Resolution to share. My second Resolution would be to spend more time with family. Usually I am on the computer, rather doing my homework which is good or I am rather playing video games. So I do not spend much time with my family. This will help me to be happy with my family and maybe we can bond more. This will also keep my mind fresh after playing video games. It would also be better if I at least play video games with my family. I want to do this at my home and anywhere else where I visit my relatives. Instead of playing my IPod when I am at my relatives house I can at least not play and resist some time with them or at least see what they are doing. This is more important when I am with my adult Uncles etc. because they do not usually talk to me because I am a kid they spend more time with "Their Own Kind"  
( Adults) . This would be a great way to spend time with family.

During the Holidays I had lots of fun. I went to San Fransisco over Christmas break and I spent time with my Uncle, aunt grandmother and grandfather. When I woke up on Christmas morning, my brother had woken me up and then I woke up straight away and I ran to my parents room in the house. My brother already woke them up and then we woke everyone else. Once everyone was woken up we stayed by the Christmas tree and me and my brother started opening our presents. We ripped, we tore, all the presents and we got what we wanted and more (or at least for me) I especially wanted an I Pod touch. I got that and i got many more. One special thing that I enjoyed that I did not ask Santa Claus was an R2-D2. I got an R2-D2 which was voice control with a list of commands. I really enjoyed Christmas!

After Christmas I went to my Uncles house there we stayed in Richmond Virginia. We went to visit Washington D.C. There we saw many fascinating things. We saw the Lincoln memorial it was a huge palace type of place with Mr. Lincoln on a chair and I think everything was made out of marble. They also they had some interesting writings on the sides. That was one amazing site. But also we went to an air space museum, a natural history museum, and the american history museum. All the museum were also very amusing. The air space museum had the REAL back up pod that they would of used on there land on the moon. Also everything inside was real. They had the fastest plane in the world which goes as fast as 7557 kmph, this plane was also real. IN the natural history museum they did not have much fossils but they did have some fake animals, they were predicting how they looked like, most all extinct. My favorite extinct animal is the saber tooth, I like it because it has such cool teeth. The American history museum was also very cool they had the real wright brothers plane and the real cloth from it. The wright brothers were the first people to make a flying vehicle. My trip was very fun and interesting!