Monday, November 22, 2010

The brochure of Sen Island, includes some detail about our planting and what you should be ready for if you come and visit!
 
As you can see, my Island is called Sen Island and has a lot of physical features.

Thursday, November 18, 2010

Sen Island Flag


The Flag of Sen Island has 5 main colors.The green on the bottom stands for the nature and safety, the yellow stands for sunlight, silver is for the gold and silver mines found in the capital city Crystal Burg and if you turn the flag around, you can see the brown stands for the high brown mountains that we have. You may have noticed the orange wings which stand for the 35 different types of birds we have of which 2 are rare. The toc do kahn birds and the dep birds.Our flag has changed twice between 15 years.

"Create-an-Island"

        During November, in humanities classes, 6b had to create their own Island. It was a very interesting experience since we had to do a lot of research and a lot of thinking. The main things that took up most of our time were: researching, drawing, thinking and sharing. We had a lot of instructions and we had to follow them if we wanted to get good grades. The things we had to accomplish were writing the history, making a flag, choosing the language, thinking of why you choose which colors you did on your flag, government, economy, legend, compass rose, physical features, vegetation,agriculture, imports and exports, education and religion. The Island that I created is called Sen Island which mean Dream Island.My Island includes 3 mountains, 2 lakes, 3 rivers, 10 cities, 2 forests, 1 national park, 1 field for our sunflowers and 2 planting fields. My scale was 1cm=20km. My Island is located 40degrees north and 40 degrees west. It is very close to Spain and North America. Making an Island was hard sometimes like when we were making the actual shape and thinking why we did it how we did it. The hardest part was that the Island had to be logical so you had to make sure you knew what you were doing.After, the whole class shared their Islands and we had a time for asking questions. The purpose of making an Island is not only to have fun but to practice our research skills just as well as our presenting skill. The part I liked the most on this project was presenting and seeing everyone's Island and comparing how mine was different. After all, I suggest that if you ever do this, remember that you pick the right location for your Island to be because that is connected to everything else.