Destination Procrastination | A blog for kids who can’t read good and wanna learn to do other stuff good too

A blog for kids who can’t read good and wanna learn to do other stuff good too

My poetry

For this term we spent time learning about poetry. One thing about poetry, I hate to admit, but I have a really hard time with it. It’s hard for me for many reasons, the most predominant one is that I’m severely Dyslexic and I can’t actually comprehend rhymes and rhyme schemes while reading. But, regardless…

Star Wars project

So for the Star Wars project we had to come up with a question about Star Wars. My question was how do the Imperial Military compare to the Canadian Army. I compared three different types of units: Special Forces, Artillery, and Infantry. Special Forces Clone Commandos The equivalent to special forces operators were elite Clone…

Growth, Grit and Failure

We have been learning about having a growth mindset, grit and why we need to fail in our Maker class this term. The difference between someone who has a Growth Mindset vs a Fixed Mindset is seen when they fail at something. A person with a Growth Mindset will look at that failure as an…

The best ads ever

In class we have been working on advertising. The main project was that we had to design a print ad for a business in Oregon. Our first step was to start closer to home working to advertise a local business. We called three different business before we got to the Raven, a local pub. When…

My Class Trip to Oregon

We started with a stop at Cabela’s, my favourite outdoors store! I wore my Canadian plaid shirt and toque in honour of the occasion. I was expecting some panic when certain classmates realized that the taxidermy animals weren’t just fake stuffed animals, but I was pleasantly surprised by how calm they were. Some of them…