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  Overall I did a very good job with my healthy meal project.  I’m proud of the fact that my meal included a little bit of each food element.  This is probably the project that has taught me most in all the projects I have done before.  I learned a lot about vitamins and minerals, cooking tips, planning, chopping… I could go on forever…  But two important lessons that I think will come in handy in the future is one, when stir frying you should always stir fry the garlic first followed by onion for better taste and second, when cooking vegetables you don’t overcook so that you don’t lose the nutrients of the vegetables.

 The process of this project was long and challenging but worth it.  It started off simple with the planning and shopping part but when it was the preparation and cooking part,  I had a bit of trouble particularly working with the chicken.  I didn’t feel at all comfortable doing anything with the chicken -  touching it, chopping it, washing it, etc.  But although that obstacle held me down I was still able to conquer it in the end.  Having an experienced chef like my Mom, she demonstrated to me how to do it step by step.  I was lucky enough to be serving two chickens, so while my Mom was doing one chicken, I was following with the other. 

  My favorite part of this project was definitely making the Lumpiang Shanghai.  All the chopping, wrapping and frying were A LOT of work and fun.  I think that by now I’m a real expert at making Lumpiang Shanghai.  Best of all making the Lumpiang Shanghai took longer than the other dishes.  

  Unlike my other projects I actually scheduled all my mini deadlines, which worked like a charm.  Next time I will consider creating mini deadlines for my future projects to get everything done on time without stressing myself out.

  Although I started really early, I think I still could’ve started earlier.  I cooked my meal very early but when it came to making the presentation I didn’t realize it would take me really long.  I worked almost every other day on my presentation but I guess in the end I still haven’t given it enough time.  With the lesson I learned about setting mini deadlines on a big project I think that next time I can do better at managing my time.  In summary, I am still happy I did a FABULOUS job and gained a WONDERFUL experience in doing this project!

The other day, the whole 5th grade had a transition preview into the 6th grade.  We met almost all of the teachers and learned about what they teach, and some of them even told us about some of the things that we’ll be doing next year.  We went to all the classes namely, science room, math, humanities, art, music/drama, PE, and language class. 

In science the teachers told us the things that we’d be studying next year, like plants and animals, the weather etc..

In math we were also told about what we are going to learn and the  projects that we would be doing. 

In humanities they made an introduction of middle school to us.  They mentioned about the big trip that we call “China Alive”, where we go to a place in China and learn new things.  That is one part of middle school next year that I’m really looking forward to.

The next place we went to was the art room. The art teacher, Ms. Thornberry (I think that’s how you spell her name)  gave us a piece of paper with one small curve and one big curve and a circle.  Then we had to make those shapes into a picture or a design. A lot of people did smiley faces, but I did something else that I forgot. 

After that, we went to the music/drama class. We listened to the strings teacher and the two band teachers and the drama teacher give their speeches.  After all of their speeches we played two games with the drama teacher.  The first one was when we had to make animals with three people.  The other game was for concentration. The teacher would tell you to do something, then she would tell you to freeze, and you would be in a funny position, but when the audience laughed you couldn’t.  I could tell the people acting were really close to burst out laughing.

Then we went to language class and met all of the language teachers. There’s one french teacher, one spanish teacher and five chinese teachers.  After they gave their introduction speeches to us we played GAMES like twister in french and telephone in chinese, etc with CANDY PRIZES. 

The last thing we went to was P.E. There we played 4 way capture the flag.  Because of my P.E. enthusiasm, I’m really looking forward to next year’s P.E.

Just before the preview I wasn’t so sure about 6th grade/middle school, but now I’m ready to give it my 110%!!!