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Going to work

As a part of health and career, we have to participate in ‘bring your kids to work day.’ On Wednesday November 1, I went to Industrial Alliance (IA), which is where my mom works. Because there are lots of parents there who also have kids in 9th grade, there were about 9 other student there….

Safety first!

Science video Before we can start anything is science, we need to learn about lab safety. It is important to know all the rules and regulations in a science lad, and you know what they say, safety first! As you know, PLP is all about project based learning, so obviously we had a project to…

A trip to Calgary

Summer is over, and all good things must come to an end. School has started, and it already feels like I need another vacation. But, it has only been a week, and lucky for me, PLP 9 is going on a trip. That’s right, we are going on a field study on the second week…

TPOL Time

If you guys want to know what and slc is, then click here! Today I have another SLC. This time, it is called a TPOL, with stand for Transitional Presentation of Learning. This presentation is to tell our teachers that we are ready to transition into grade 9. In my TPOL, I am going to…

Blue Sky 2017

On June 15, PLP hosted the blue sky exhibition. Blue sky is the year end project for PLP. The goal for this exhibition is to invent a product that will help solve a problem, and has not been invented yet. Out of the following choices, pets, seniors, babies, toddlers, and tweens, we got to choose…

Why do we explore?

From one project to the next. Right after we finish our change and tension project, we do another one. This project is about explorers, such as Christopher Columbus. The first thing we did to start off this project was, obviously, learn about the explorers and what they did. We learned about Beringia, farmers, and the…

Change and Tension

If you haven’t read my previous blog post, then go ahead and click here! Since we came back from spring break, we have been doing a new unit in social studies. This unit is about how people create change and tension. We learned a lot about the Middle Ages and renaissance, and how advancements have…

Nelson Mandela

Nelson Mandela was an amazing person. He was determined, cheerful, and always looked in the bright side. Today in class, we made a collage of pictures about a person we think influenced us the most. I chose Nelson Mandela because he was the first coloured South African president. This means a lot to me because…

The Destination is Imagination 2

If you haven’t read my first blog post about Destination Imagination, you can read it here. Here are my team members! Jessie, Maggie, Melika. On Saturday April 8, my team and I went to the Destination Imagination (DI) Provincial Tournament. It was so much fun, and we had to do many things to prepare for…

Poetry Page

For the past couple weeks, we have been working on a poetry book. We have been learning about poetry, and all the different kinds of poetry. We have written 9 poems on total, and put them all in a book. Each and every poem is about our own worldview. At first, I really didn’t like…