Allie Wagner

This week I got back on track with my action plan! I was disappointed with myself for falling off-track last week so for this week I tried to fold two different designs. I have gotten into the habit of folding hearts before I start to get into the right headspace, after memorizing those steps I am able to just zone out while folding that project. This was one of my hopes for this project and am very glad that I am becoming able to start just automatically completing the folds. The first new design that I folded this week was a dragon. I had talked to one of my friends about doing this project and he requested that I make a dragon for him. I ended up finding a video on YouTube to follow. While watching the video I was pausing and replaying parts very frequently. I felt a little bit defeated once I realized how often I was having to go back and fix a fold that I had made, but I was able to remind myself that this was the first time that I was attempting this fold and be more okay with s...

This week for my genius hour I continued to practice the heart that I learned last week. I have memorized how to make this project and am pretty proud of myself. I was going to learn some new techniques and fold different things, but unfortunately I forgot all of my origami paper at home. I have since set a reminder on my phone so that I do not do this because making my own paper was not my favorite experience.  I am too much of a perfectionist to not only fold the paper but also to cut the initial shape. Origami paper should be a perfect square, if it’s not the folds will not do what they are intended to do. I had trouble getting the square to be a perfect one and that itself stressed me out. Everything that I folded was not symmetrical because of both starting with an uneven edge and not folding some parts as evenly as I should have.  All in all, I would say that this week was a week of learning experiences. I never want to forget my paper again because of the added str...

For this second genius hour project I have decided to learn how to fold origami projects. I ordered a box of origami paper this measures six inches by six inches. I had thought about getting some that were cut into smaller squares, but ultimately decided that I wanted something bigger to start my practicing with. The set that I bought contains 1,000 sheets of paper and there are 25 different colors included. For this first week I brought some pink colored paper to school and started actually trying to fold shapes. I started with folding a simple heart design, which I got the hang of pretty quickly during the period. I ended up making two origami hearts during the lass period before moving on to something that was a little more challenging. The one pictured was the better of the two that I folded, even though it is a little bit lopsided. The second thing I ended up folding was a butterfly. The first attempt that I made definitely could not be called a butterfly, as I had run into tr...