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There were a lot of different stocks to choose from in this project. Every company you could think of. Apple, dell, staples, cruise lines, you name it, they have it. It was sort of difficult picking only three stocks, because there were so many to choose from. I didn’t have much of a reason for picking my stocks. I picked Sirius XM Radio, Amazon.com, and F5 Networks. I picked Sirius XM Radio because Ms. Harte said a student last year did really well when they had a lot of shares. I made $718.08 on Sirius Radio. I also picked Sirius Radio because I was curious to see how I would do if I invested in a smaller stock. I’m glad I choose this stock. I also invested in Amazon.com, a website you can buy things off of. I picked this website because it is a well-known website to buy books for kindles and other stuff, kind of like eBay, but Amazon was making much more money. I also profited in this stock because it was around Christmas time when we got to pick, and I had a feeling that a lot of people would be using this website to buy Christmas gifts. I have $894.88 on Amazon.com, so Amazon made the most money for me. The last stock I profited in was F5 Networks. I didn’t really have a main reason why I invested in this stock, but at the time, it was doing really well. In the end it didn’t do as well as I hoped it would have, F5 Networks made $424.20 for me. Overall, I’m pretty satisfied with the stocks I picked.
The good part of stocks is that your investment cans double your money if you choose wisely. The bad part is you could lose your entire investment if your stock doesn’t do well. I wasn’t sure how my stocks would do, but thankfully, they ended up doing pretty well, because I ended up not losing one dime BUT if I could make changes to my portfolio, I would probably wouldn’t have done F5 Networks because I don’t really know anything about the company so how was I supposed to know if it usually did well? I would have done something I knew was successful like Apple or something. Also, Sirius XM Radio did do pretty well, but I wish I would have bought more shares from it because then I would have made more money. I wouldn’t change anything about Amazon.com, because I made the most money and that was a smart profit. Thankfully, most of these were pretty smart investments.
When we started learning about the stock market and how it worked, I didn’t know very much about any of it. We learned a lot of new things. One of the things we learned was vocabulary for the stock market like bear, bull, loss, profit, broker, and much more which has helped me understand the stock market a little bit better when I see it in the newspaper or on the news or something. Also, when we were keeping track of our stocks, we learned how to make spreadsheets on the computer to track our losses and gains and how our stocks were doing each week. We used all different kinds of formulas and such and it was a cool experience and it was really easy and simple to do and now easy to keep track of your stocks. Another thing that interested me in the stock market was just the stocks in general. I never really knew anything about the stock market and never really cared. Most of the stocks reflect on how the business is doing and how much money they are making. I never really knew what it meant or how it worked or anything, so this project has been very helpful in teaching me new things that I never really paid attention to. I’m kind of glad I know the importance of the stock market now.

This school year, we've been learning about the stock market. Each student had to pick three stocks and watch them grow. I invested in Amazon.com, Sirius XM radio, and F5 Networks. We followed these stocks and recorded their growth for 21 weeks. These are some reasons why I picked these stocks, changes I would make in this project, and some advice and things I've learned during this process of working with stocks.

Overall, I really enjoyed learning about the stock market. I'm glad I invested in stocks that did well. I feel like a learned a lot. From making spreadsheets, to learning about new companies that I've never even heard before, has been a great experience.

The reason my Antarctic flag is white,blue, and brown is because I believe that those are the only colors that are really in Antarctica. I also did brown because instead of water underneath the ice, like the North Pole, Antarctica has dirt and ground underneath. I also put snowflakes and the Earth on my flag because as you probably know, Antarctica has very much snow and ice so I thought it would be appropriate to put some snowflakes. I put the Earth because no one really owns Antarctica, we all share it.

Our class learned how to make graphs on a spreadsheet. The information on the blog is about diving in Antarctica.

Snowstorm
Before:
Usually before a snowstorm the sky gets really dark. Snow storms usually occur in the months of December-February. Sometimes, we are lucky enough to have a snowstorm on a school day, which is called a snow day and we don't have to go to school! The air is very cold and can be windy. Everyone does the snow day “rituals”. Putting a spoon under your pillow, flushing ice cubes down the toilet etc.

During:
Everything is more exciting when snow is falling. When we have snow, there are so many things to do. You can go skiing, snowboarding, sledding, ice skating, snow shoeing, and many other activities. You have to wear snow pants and a ski jacket if you want to play in the snow along with a hat and mittens for your head and hands to stay warm outside. What I don't like about snow is that it's super cold. It also gets very dangerous and icy.

After:
The smell of fresh snow on the ground and a blanket of white on the ground is breathtaking. Sometimes, when it gets warmer while it snows, it starts to rain, which make the snow disappear or slush. Snowplows clear the roads after a snowstorm leaving them snow free for safe driving. There are also snow shovels and snow blowers to clear the roads and driveways so cars can drive.

You are the rainbow to my spectrum

You are the lense to my telescope

You are the shadow to my sun dial

The pupil to my eye and the cones to my color

For Flex Class, we got to pic a root word and draw something related to it. I got Ped, which means foot. I drew a pedestrian, because it had the root word Ped in it

When I was hiding in the art room, I was located next to the Stonyfield yogurt cup. When we were doing this project, we used a program called Adobe Photo Shop. It made it easy to cut and paste pictures onto other pictures. It was a really fun program to learn to work with, It got confusing sometimes but in the end all of the pictures looked really good. It's quite difficult to find me in this picture.