Genius hour #2 – The plan

I have decided that for this genius hour I will be focusing on cooking. I want to create foods sections/ topics focusing on 1 section (out of the 4 ) for 3 weeks each. This is the plan I have figured out:

March 15 – April 5 : Raw food

– This includes acai bowls, sushi, and vegetables rolls

April 6- April 26: Vegan food

– This includes oyster mushroom burgers, lasagna, and vegan stuffed peppers

April 27 – May 10 : Cultural food

– This includes tamales, tacos, and conchas.

May 10 – May 31 : Dog Treats/ food

– This includes biscuits, cookies and chicken gourmet meal for my dog ( she will be really happy).

I will try to stick to my plan and work hard to make things work out. According to the plan this means that this week I will make an acai bowls. I love acai bowls there probably my favourite food. The fact that they are not only healthy but addicting is a problem for me. I would have one everyday in the summer as they are usually cold. This is the plan for this genius hour but it might change as I go. I am excited to start blogging about my journey and also making videos ( I want to make videos about me cooking, kinda like a cooking show, “Cooking with Ruby”, nice I like it.) Basically thats what I am doing for this genius hour hope you’r just excited just as I am. Until next week, see you there.

– Ruby

Genius Hour #1 – Reflection

Throughout this Genius hour I learned many important life skills. I am very pleased on how my genius hour presentation went. I am grateful for this opportunity to show what I have learned. I prepared long and hard for this presentation reciting and reviewing all my key points. I am sure my parents are tired of hearing me present to them and possibly my brother and my dog as I made them sit on the couch and listen to what I had to say (yes my dog, I was desperate). In the preparing for my genius hour presentation I made a slideshow presentation with my key points as I wanted to read of my script and not make the audience read it. I took photos of my progress but I think for next genius hour I take more to show of my work. I overall liked my presentation but I think I could have done a better job if I had started sooner. I only had six weeks to prepare and I am a very busy person so It was hard to squish in. I did infact not pass my drivers permit but I will try again soon and hopefully I pass ( I was so close to passing only by 1 question ). I think a few things I would do different for my next genius hour is plan my week out so I know when to post and complete my project. I also think next presentation I will try to make a video and a slideshow just because I enjoyed my class mates presentations with videos. Overall I think I did pretty well, and for my next genius hour I was thinking of learning to make dog treats or candle making.

Till next time!

– Ruby

Week 13

This week I focused on doing practice tests to prepare and the first test I did I got 71% (yikes) that one was overall all the things the handbook covers and I haven’t covered all the chapters yet but I am almost done. Then I decided to take another and I discovered you can do them by chapter so I did the test on what chapter 2 which is signs, symbols and traffic lights and I got 87% which was better but not entirely amazing. I did a couple of other quizzes and I did okay on them, I got 100% on basic traffic symbols (I did it again). Also this week I focused on Chapter 4 titled “Intersections and turns”. I learned that were roadways meet and intersect,
there is the possibility for a collision which is why right-of-way rules require one person to yield and allow the other vehicle/s to go. Signs, signals, and sometimes the position of your vehicle to other vehicles at an intersection may determine the rules. However, even if you have the right of-way, you are still responsible to do
everything you can to prevent a collision. To control the safety of a driver and to prevent a collision there are road signs to help you as you drive, for example the stop sign, they indicate a driver to come to a stop and look both ways to see for any upcoming traffic and proceed when safe so no collisions will happen. Some intersections may not have traffic signs or no traffic signal lights. At these intersections one must yield the right of way to a vehicle on your right, check the intersection for upcoming traffic and then adjust your speed to to the condition of the road. This week I learned that there is so much to driving then one expects and that one must you common judgement to operate your vehicle safely not only for yourself but for others.

– Ruby

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Week 12

This week I explored Chapter 2 called the ” Basic of Driving”. It deals with the basics before you even get in your vehicle, getting out of your parked position, gears, steering signalling and more. Here are some key points I learned; before entering your car walk around to watch out for any pedestrians, children or anything in your car’s path. While you’re at it check the pressure of your tires and under your car for any fluids. Basically anything that prevents you from operating your vehicle safely. After this lock your doors, adjust your seat, head restraint,and the inside and outside mirrors and then finally put on your seat belt. Then you should turn on your signal light to indicate your moving from the parking lane. I researched this week and consulted other people who have taken this test and asked them how many questions there are on the test and there are 50, I’m also only allowed to only fail 4 questions. This coming week I will do some practice test to review what I need to know. These are some very near basics of driving a car, below is a page of my notes I did this week and a few more things I did not mention in this written blog post.

* just 2 pages for you this week, promise I wont add more wouldn’t want bore you with stuff I already said above.

Week 11

I forgot my book of notes at school over the weekend and could not post my little update progress on Friday, but I will today. Over this week I focused on reading “The Driver Guide to operation, safety and licensing cars and light trucks” I reviewed Chapter 2 this week which was traffic control. I learned the stop colors and what they mean and driving signs ex. stop, yield, etc. One of the things I learned is that when the light is red sometimes your allowed to go for example if you wanted to turn right but its red unless a sign prohibits the driver may turn on red if it stops at stop line and must yield safely to other traffic and then may go. Again, its the same thing for turning left but its a little different because it is only permitted at a red light when your on a one way street and go onto another one way street. Another thing I learned was lane reversal signals if a lane reversal symbol is a red X this means the lane is busy or/and being used by upcoming traffic if the symbol is a green downward arrow this means that the driver is allowed to go down that aisle. These are some very simple and short things I learned this week (of course I learned more but I am summarizing) which are very crucial to learning on how to operate and think smartly while driving. Below is a page of my notes :).

excuse the bad quality I have a Samsung phone :/

Week 10- Progress

This Sunday I went to the Millwoods registry to see if they had any books for me to use to study for my drivers permit/ learners, because it was Sunday it was closed so we decided to go to Mac Insurance and Registry. It was open luckily, and we went inside and there was no lineup so they attended us fast. Unfortunately, they said they don’t give books out anymore as they are available online. I researched online and I found the books I was looking for, so I have started a notebook of notes to help me pass this exam. I realize I’m working on a short time period but I think I can manage to do this, regardless it is something I will have to do in the future. I will be posting an update this Friday on the stuff I learn it will be like Update 10.5. Hope to see you soon and show you what I’m learning.

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Week 9- The Change

I was very worried and concerned on what I was going to do for Genius Hour because If you haven’t noticed I don’t have a project and we have to present in 5 weeks. So at Christmas when all my family was over I asked them for some ideas and let me tell you they had pretty good ideas, but the one I choose was influenced by my Dad. The idea was to learn the drivers guide and pass my learner permit this is all possible because I am now 14. So for the next few weeks I will be preparing/studying the Alberta Drivers guide to help me succeed in passing the test.

Week 5

I had some blog posts to catch up, I realize that I have neglected it. Today we decided to focus on the parts we are not so good at in order for us to move on to the 3,4,5 etc page. We mostly practiced that and we were going to record a video but we took so many takes, that we did not get any good ones and we ran out of time. I was thinking maybe I could record it at home but it wont sound the same without the piano piece. I will decided but I might post it, so stay tuned.

– Ruby

Week 6,7,8 – Big Changes

Two weeks ago I took my cello home because the class of genius hour was all wasted on tuning my cello. My tuning was way off because the days are getting colder so the pegs moved dramatically, and I could not tune it. I took it to my cello teacher, whom by the way is wonderful at these sort of things. He fixed it up, but since it was really cold today my dad said I could not bring it because the wood is going break, he said it wasn’t worth ruining a cello, even if it is my spare cello. We had a chat with Gabriel and it was decided this isn’t going to work, since cold days keep coming. So I guess I have to find a new project. I have no clue what I’m going to do. I want to do something with my dog, but I wanted to do that come March since setting up her hoops and ramps works better outside. I could also do cooking but like everyone is doing that, but my uncle is a chef and he could help me. Great, now I need to start over and need a new idea. Great! If anyone has any suggestion please comment, I am in desperate need.

– Ruby

Week 3

Our violin player quit. It is now just me and Gabriel. Its fine though, peoples mind change. I brought my cello today, and I got to say it sounded pretty good. We had a a few visitors came to see and they said we sounded really good, even though today was our first practice. I practiced my cello “homework” as a warm up and I was surprised that it sounded okay considering my cello had not been tuned in a while and its 3/4. I play a full sized cello and have not played a 3/4 since grade 6?. We have decided to play Pachelbels’s Canon in D.

-Ruby