Jacky YU

I think Sister Helen hope the students can be friendly and nicely for each other because her students were frowning, frustrated with themselves, and edgy with one another, so Sister Helen want to stop this. So, Sister Helen told every student to think of the nicest thing they could say about each of their classmates and write it down on the paper. After the weekend she gave each students his or her list, and she was heard the student smiling. The students were happy with themselves and one another again because I think Sister Helen want to every student know the people should be love, and care about each other together. Sister Helen hope each of her students can be nice for each other, and then she made it, but she never know every students were save the list nice thing paper forever, so after Mark got the kill then every classmates were met together in the Chuck’s farmhouse for lunch. After lunch, Mark’s parent showed the paper and then told to Sister he always save this paper in his wallet. Every classmates heard that and then each her students told to her they still have the list nice thing of paper. Sister Helen felt cried because she felt moving. In my opinion I like Sister Helen did this exercise because she made every student’s heart not edgy, so everybody tried to open oneself heart then what happen is every body were getting friendly, and love each other. I don’t know what is big lesson of this essay, but I learn something in this essay which is don’t be edgy for anyone, and love together because edgy can make you feel frown for everything. For example my sister always get the number one for the test, but someone who hate my sister always get the number one, so they start say any bad thing for everybody try to let my sister feel bad, but are they happy? No, they never get the happy because they are edgy. Everybody can have edgy and kindness. Who have kindness or edgy a lot, I think is depend from who they want to choose.

I can see I am not a good person, and I am not a good brother because I am not loved and care about the people who always try to help me. I see I was always playing with the friends. If I cannot get what I want or I lose the something like a game, I will try to break the something what is important for that person. Everybody very hated me at that time, so I see I was very edgy for everything. For example my mother always care about my sister and me. When my mother cares my sister more than me, I would try to hit my sister or broke her toys. However I was not feel happy because I was edgy a lot. One day my grandfather knew I was edgy a lot he told me try to be nice and love everything you will get a lot of happy. At that time I was wake up because I get the happy with my friends and my sister. I learned communicate and compliment to anybody is important even though is not work for anyone, but they will be happy because everybody like to hear good thing about oneself. In my opinion I think everybody have edgy, but if we compliment somebody then he or she should be kindness and try to love you. I think it is same with what Sister Helen did with her students because after she did that every student were change to friendly for each other.

I like to share this good story because Sister Helen’s students were very edgy together, but she find the way which is told everybody wrote down the good thing on the paper for the classmate, so after classmate saw it they were became friendly and kindness for each other. I think the purpose of this story is to encourage complimenting the people who you love and you care about. For example when every student got the compliment, Sister Helen’s students got the smiling. After this thing, everybody became friendly to each other. We often tent to forget the important of show our love and affections because when the time past a lot, that also erase some affections and love. So the students got a lot of happy at that time, but everybody got the happy and also affections. I like to share this story to anybody because I learn sometimes the smallest of things, could mean the most to another. I heard this sentence from my father, but I didn’t get it what is that mean because when my father told me this sentence, I was very young. However after I read this story I think I get it. Big example is what Sister Helen did write down the good thing for classmate. In my opinion I like this story because this story make me remember the compliment, affection, love, and what my father said to me before. I kind of know why this story is very famous because this book remind me don’t forget the compliment, affection, and love. This story also tell me don’t let the time erase all the good thing.

Tatum

Tatum 7th
12/17/09
1.Because she sensed that her students were frowning, frustrated with themselves – and edgy with one another, she had to stop this crankiness before it got out of hand. So she decided to give them a work, which was writing the nicest thing they could say about each of their classmates. She hoped that her students could feel better from easily annoyed. After the students read nice thing about them, they smiled and looked happy. In my opinion, I think her idea was really great, but she did not know this at first. Even though her students did not talk about or mentioned about this work again, they still keep their paper to themselves forever and ever.

Tatum 7th
12/17/09
2. The students were surprised a lot because they had never known good thing about them this much. Moreover, everybody has at least one good thing, but they had not realized that before. After the students got their paper with their names and nice things of them back, they seemed happy suddenly. In addition to my personal though, people probably do not know about nice thing they have got. However, other people might like or love you a lot. Even if they do not talk to you directly, they still think that you are such a great person ever. There are many people all around the world, yet they are all totally different from each others. Because of the races, property, parents, and environment around them, it makes people are so different. Indeed, they are all having different thoughts.

Tatum 7th
12/17/09
3. According to “All the good things” story, many people love this story so much just like me, yet I really love this terrific story ever. First, after I have read this story, I could feel the author’s feeling. Furthermore, I assume if I were Sister Helen Mrosla, who is the story’s author, I would cry in the end, too. Because this little piece of paper would affect the students a lot more than I thought, it is really good thing year after year. And you still recognize about these nice little work but huge affect. Also if you look at the paper over and over again after ten or twenty years, you still have good memory about it no matter what. I would like to pass this story to my friends, my family, and my relatives because it is the one of the best stories I have ever read. Beside that I am impressed, and I will keep this story for my point of view to live my life, too.

Tatum

Tatum 7th
Experience from painting
Painting on the wood, I enjoyed it a lot whether it is on the wall or wood. We had two colors, which were blue and plain white. We decided to use these colors because it is the school’s color. In addition to make it creative, we tried to paint with shade of blue color. By making the blue color become lighter, we added and mixed white color together with blue color. But we had to get the newspaper from Mr. Hageman first. Because we did not want to mess up the floor, we laid them covered the floor. After we started to paint on the wood, we definitely enjoy doing this fun activity. However, this work was sort of a little bit messy. Eventually, we were done painting all the TMP logo wood, and it shinny color on the wood was gorgeous. Although our hands and clothes got painted by accidently, we had a blast.

JackY YU

Panting the wood

We finished the cut part. Now we move to patting part. Today, we were panting the TMP logo, and we decided use blue and white color for pant the wood. We put the newspaper first because we don’t want when we panting the color touch ground. We had problem before we started panting the wood because we didn’t want color we want to go first. So, Mr.Nakagawa gave us idea, and then we tried the panting blue first then next time we put little white in the blue then pant the wood. That looks cool because it is not all blue, so when we saw the wood, we kind of get some surprise. We panting all the logo today, and it is fun in the class. I think everybody very enjoy this project. We were not believe we made it, and we will finished this project before we go back to home.

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PAINTING THE WOODS
SEONJIN NA (10.DEC.09)
Today, we started painting the woods. We were planning to use the Navy Blue and White. We were going to paint it at outside but it was freezing. So we put the newspapers on the floor in Nakagawa’s classroom and we started painting. The problem was how we paint the color looks like fading away. So we put blue on the top. Then, we put a little bit of white color below of blue part. We kept painting like that way. After we go through the whole letter, it looked not naturally connected with each color. So we used the newspaper to make the color similar and natural. It was not easy to see exactly right color but we did it good job. After school was dismissed, Max, Tatum, Mary, and I did finish painting. Also Lydia helped us. While I was painting, the paint was in my pants and shoes. Even if the paint didn’t come out, I was so happy to see the end of the painting.

max

I was really excited to paint the TMP logos and the stars. I had been waiting to do the painting job for a long time. We painted TMP first instead of star because we do not know how it will turn. We painted T to the P. The color first, it was blue and when it goes down it turns little bit brighter since we mixed white color together. We struggled because of the line that on the logos since we did not paint it right. The class went so fast and we did not finish the painting. After school me and some classmates stayed at the classroom and did more work. We did not finish the painting but by tomorrow I think we can finish it. We only have a week left to finish the work. It is a short time but I think we can finish by the time. I hope I can use drill to screw the logos to. Anyway, far as I know we are doing awesome job.

Marie Yang

Marie Yang
12/10/09
Experience of Painting

Today, we have to paint "tmp" logos. Last time, we bought blue and white paint for painting and we thought about start out blue paint for top to white for bottom like fading out. When we actually painted, it was different from what we thought. We didn't know how much we had to pour white paint for fading out. It was not working very well to pour little bit more and more white and painting. We decided to paint blue and white mixture first and paint over blue. Actually, it was work, but we had to see very close. When we painted the logos, we only need two persons. I didn't have anything to work on so, I started to paint stars for white paint and let them dried. After we were done at paint one side of logos, we had to paint second logos back for blue. We also painted 2' by 4' too then, let them dried.

Aaron Yu

time goes fast, it was already december. I remember the first day that we discussed about to make a project, everyong just sit on the floor, we have no idea about this. later on, we had a idea that we could make a TMP logo, than we started to make tha plan about the step. first step, we measure the data about the logo, we splited the TMP loge to six parts, than we went to the home deport to bought the wood, and cut it. it thinks really easy to cut, however I didn't do anything, but i heard they said that was really hard to concrol. now, we need to put the six parts together, and painting it. The most important thing is I am going to cut the wood, however,i was really scare the chainsaw.

Aaron Yu

Before we did the project, I don't think we can do very well because we never did it before, and we also have no enough time, however we really enjoy it, but we always have different ideas. So, we spented lots times on discussing. The TMP logo has six parts. So, we have to divide the work, after that, we need measure the data, and we also need calculation, we got lots of problems on this part. next step, we need to buy the wood, and cut the six part form the different two woods. Now, we still working on how to put the six parts together, and how to make it perfect. I am sure we can do our best, and we can finish it before christmas.

Jacky YU

12/02

Begin from first day; I was thinking this project would be lost. However we made it. I was feeling give up this project because I was thinking it is not cool and I was feeling lazy, so I was just give up. When we cut the wood together in the weekend, I changed my thinking because we made it, and I feel I have power to do this project. Even through we still have some problem now. For example we have not decide what color we want, so we have to think and figure out. I feel our class is getting well for make a TMP logo because I can feel everybody have power to do it. Even through we will have hard time to make it, but I think we can fix and then figure out because we are the best. In my opinion from begin to now we finally make a TMP logo. Now we have to make a start. The start is little hard, but we can make TMP logo, so that mean is we also can make start in this time. I hope we can finish this project because I want to enjoy what is TMP logo look for.

Tatum

Tatum 7th
12/02/09
The process of the progressive project
From the day before we left for ski trip, we had planned to do this wonderful project. First of all, we were just sitting in the classroom and discussed about what we should do for the school. Later on, we came out with a terrific idea, which was making a gigantic TMP logo. After we got an idea, we started the first step. We measured and calculated the TMP logo from the one in front of the auditorium. Moreover, we separated T, M, P, and other three pieces. When we decided that the best material should be wood, we went to Home Deport, for checking many types of wood out. Also, we ordered three pieces of wood. Two weeks ago, we used an electric saw cut the wood neatly. Although it was not that easy to cut the wood by using this technology saw, we actually did this work in about three hours. The consequence of this part came out amazing. Even we had a little bit of problems; we solved them all as teamwork. However, we thought that we were not going to accomplish this project shortly. Literally, we have done this project so far, and we are proud of this hard-working together.


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PROGRESS OF OUR PROJECT
SEONJIN NA (02.DEC.09)
Already, it is December. We started this project at the November and the half of this project is done. We designed how to make the letter and calculated to fit the size that we want. Then, we cut woods. Cutting wood was hard to us because we haven’t done this before. However, it was pretty fun experience. Learning something that I never experience is good for us. It makes us to have bigger mind about the world. Even if I always messed up and had mistakes, I like to learn these things. Also, having many experiences in America is special for us. So we will never forget of doing new things. We just discussed about the color of woods and how to connect these woods as one. We are going to divide into the painting group and cutting group. I think it would be awesome after we finish everything.

MAx

Our class had been working really well on the TMP logo project. After we put TMP logo together I was happy that we made this far. I remember that we were deciding about the project like almost a month ago. It was not easy to make it this far though. If our classmates did not help each other out, we might struggle for the project. We only have to do painting, nailing and making star for our logo. I am really excited to see the complete shape of our project. We were worked really hard. So, I hope after we finish the project, many people will think well about our TMP logo project.

Marie Yang

Marie Yang
12/2/09
Project Progress

Until today, we finished cutting woods and think about how we will going to do our width. When I think back, we did a lot of things. Start with the idea which is about what we will going to do through cut the woods. I can still remember brainstorming about the idea and cutting woods. I think because this is my first time to doing group project and first time to cut the woods. Even if, this is my first time, Mr. Nakagawa praised me. I think I have talent in this area. Also we measure the "tmp" logo, draw it, and cut the woods. Now we have to measure and make star(cross). Also we have to paint all the logos and attach together. We separate to two team and I join in the painting team. We will going to paint all the logos and we will nail the 2 by 4 woods. I can not wait to finish this project.