The first project of the year/semester was our team banner. Making this brought us all closer and we got to know each other better. When our teachers first mentioned this project and said 'we are going to choose your groups" i got soo upset but now I know why they did that. I now know many more people because of this banner. When we first started this project our teachers told us to shout out different words that describe our team. There were different words: unique, achievers, crazy, loud, busy, funny, talkative etc. Then the teachers said our team is like a bee hive. We were in groups and in each group we all had ideas for our team name like Xolos, The Whales, los tamales and many more I can't remember but finally someone came up with The Atomic Hive. We all liked the name and each person came up with a design for our team banner. Roy and Jahzeel won and we combined there designs. After we learned how to use tools and cut our octagon's we had to paint each one of them yellow. After it all dried we transfered the design in pencil and then we painted it over with black. We put them all together. We might have struggled a little putting it together but in the end it all turned out to be one of the best and only banners in the 9th grade wing. We weren't just becoming a team or classmates but a family.
It was one of the best projects this semester getting to work as a team and getting to know other people. I was really impressed of how we worked together. It was barely the second or third week of school, I knew some people from last year but not from my group. It was very awkward at first. I was surprised that people that don't know each other can come together and make such beautiful artwork. Something that I was very proud of was that everyone helped out. If someone made a mistake no one got mad they just helped fix it, and we didn't know half the people there. Something I would change would be the shape (the octagons) when we tried to put it together there were spaces that needed to be filled so we had to put other octagons on top of the banner and I really didn't like that. Many people just say I learned teamwork but I already had that this time a learned how to win and loose. When we all had to draw the design i wanted mine to win I got some votes but I lost, at first i was kind of sad but then I was just thinking they are going to be more opportunities to win. Almost everyone liked Roy's and Jahzeel's so it was pretty fair. We were all proud of how the banner turned out. After the project we didn't just stop talking to each other we started to become a team better said a family.
It was one of the best projects this semester getting to work as a team and getting to know other people. I was really impressed of how we worked together. It was barely the second or third week of school, I knew some people from last year but not from my group. It was very awkward at first. I was surprised that people that don't know each other can come together and make such beautiful artwork. Something that I was very proud of was that everyone helped out. If someone made a mistake no one got mad they just helped fix it, and we didn't know half the people there. Something I would change would be the shape (the octagons) when we tried to put it together there were spaces that needed to be filled so we had to put other octagons on top of the banner and I really didn't like that. Many people just say I learned teamwork but I already had that this time a learned how to win and loose. When we all had to draw the design i wanted mine to win I got some votes but I lost, at first i was kind of sad but then I was just thinking they are going to be more opportunities to win. Almost everyone liked Roy's and Jahzeel's so it was pretty fair. We were all proud of how the banner turned out. After the project we didn't just stop talking to each other we started to become a team better said a family.