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Stock Market Report
Article posted May 24, 2011 at 02:41 PM GMT •
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Over the past six months our seventh grade had been practicing our math skills in while studying the stock market. We have had a weekly process of checking our stocks and updating our spread sheets to see our gains and losses from the time when we first invested “$10,000” into three or four stocks of our choice. Here is some information about my stock project and the stocks I chose.
The companies that I selected to invest in were Ford Motors, Cisco Systems, Hennes & Mauritz and Sandridge Energy; I chose these companies for many reasons but mainly because they were either recommended or familiar to me. I invested in Cisco Systems because it was recommended, I had never heard of it and was intrigued, and it also had a good price to by at and its graph looked like it was heading up. I invested in Ford Motors fro many similar reasons, it was recommended, it had a good price and out of companies that were recommended I was familiar with it. I invested in Sandridge Energy because it was highly recommended, it was also a company I had never heard of, it had a very low cost to buy at and the graph was heading up at a constant rate. Lastly I invested in Hennes & Mauritz because it is a Swedish company and the Swedish economy is doing well currently, it was recommended, I was familiar with the company and I myself am a consumer of it. As you can see I had many good reasons to invest in the companies I chose.
Although I made money overall there are still many things I would have changed in my investing. Firstly I would have invested more money into Sandridge Energy because I made a large profit off that stock and it was constantly going up. Next I would have not invested in Cisco Systems because I lost quite a bit in it and it almost constantly went down. I would have not invested in Ford Motors because I also lost a lot of money off of it and its prices were always changing going up and down. Even though there are many changes I would have made I am still very pleased with my overall profit.
If I was giving somebody advice before they invested I would tell them to really look into your stocks. One thing to do is to look at the graph for the past year. When you look at the graph you can see the patterns of the stock and where it is predicted to head, which is good for knowing the final profit of your stock. Also looking at the 52-week range is a smart idea because it shows the range and you can see if it is constantly changing or just staying within a small range. Lastly reading the business summary is helpful so that you get to know the company and what type of business it is to see if that industry is currently doing well. Looking into your stocks is very important to do before investing and is a smart decision.
Overall in this project I have learned a lot. Not only about the stock market but also how to use a spread sheet and many more things. I think it is very important to know about the stock market. When you are older or even a couple of years from now and you decide to invest in a stock you will know how to make your decisions and what stocks to invest in.
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Article posted May 24, 2011 at 02:41 PM GMT •
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My Logo
Article posted April 6, 2011 at 04:06 PM GMT •
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Article posted April 6, 2011 at 04:06 PM GMT •
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My Antarctica Flag
Article posted March 18, 2011 at 04:21 PM GMT •
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This is a flag I created for Antarctica because it does not have a flag. I wrote the word Antarctica in blue because it stands for the blue skies and the cold weather. I also drew Antarctica with a penguin family in th middle, the penguin family shows the wildlife of Antarctica. I drew the continent in rainbow colors because I think it shows all the colors of other counties flags because no country owns Antarctica. Overall I think my flag resembles Antarctica.
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Article posted March 18, 2011 at 04:21 PM GMT •
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Valentine
Article posted February 11, 2011 at 04:30 PM GMT •
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Article posted February 11, 2011 at 04:30 PM GMT •
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Root Word Picture
Article posted January 11, 2011 at 04:22 PM GMT •
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I was randomly given the root word "loc" to illustrate. "Loc' means place. Some examples of the root word "loc" are location, locate and dislocated.

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Article posted January 11, 2011 at 04:22 PM GMT •
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Hiding In The Art Room
Article posted January 11, 2011 at 03:55 PM GMT •
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I chose to hide sitting on the clock hand because I thought that if I took my picture while sitting it would look very realistic. I think it would have been better if the clothes I had on had more color because the clock doesn't have a lot of color either. I enjoyed taking pictures with the camera and using the computer for art class. It was fun to do work on the computer because we rarely do that in art class.

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Article posted January 11, 2011 at 03:55 PM GMT •
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Diagram of The Eye
Article posted December 17, 2010 at 05:24 PM GMT •
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Some intereesting things I learned about the eye are that humans blink so often each day our eyes are closed for almost 30 minutes. The part of your eye where the color is, is called the Iris which is named after the goddess of the rainbow. You have more light recepters than the amount of people in the united States all in a small space. As you can see the eye is a very interesting thing to learn about.
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Article posted December 17, 2010 at 05:24 PM GMT •
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The Beach
Article posted December 3, 2010 at 06:28 PM GMT •
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The brisk wind hits my face as my hair is wildly blowing. The smooth sand between my toes as I walk into the dark water. When I dive into a wave it pulls me down to the bottom. I pop my head up from the cold water; I feel a chill up my spine. My feet sink into the smooth sand again as I skip along the beach and see young kids playing in small tide pools. I lay comfortably on my towel and soak in the atmosphere.
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Article posted December 3, 2010 at 06:28 PM GMT •
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