Every year we have this thing called SLCs or student led conferences, it is a conference between yourself, your teacher, and parents. We present our learning throughout the year using our learning portfolios (AKA our blogs) Usually we answer a few questions like what we learned, what we are proud of, our future goals and a time where we showed growth mindset.

Recently we started a project called the Frankenstuffies, you can learn more about it here. So far we have just done a portion of the work, but I am very proud of it so far. We started with creating a villain for our superhero video, we can create them out of anything from lego to jars and pop cans. Once we where finished our design we measured the length, width and height of everything and added our calculations together to find our surface area and volume. Out of all the things we have done this year this is a very minor assignment, in fact it’s only the half of the whole project. But I felt very proud of the learning I got from this assignment and how much I accomplished in a short amount of time, the project really helped me learn the concept of surface area and volume. Usually when we start a new unit it takes me a few days even a week before I understand everything, but this project helped me understand a lot and made me really proud of what I had accomplished.

Just a few weeks before we started the Frankenstuffies project we went to sunny Orlando to study imaginary Worlds and what draws us to them. Before that we did a small essay in class about Alice’s adventure in wonderland and around the subject of imaginary worlds, here’s the blog on it. I learned quite a lot from the mistakes from first to good copy as you can tell from the pictures on the post. I had many grammar errors, this is something that I feel I can improve in future. Also I feel as though I need to get my point across without adding extra unneeded sentences, this can improve my sentence and body paragraph structure and can help with my style. I think next time I can improve my time management skills because I didn’t have enough time to finish a conclusion and to edit it. I feel that I can really learn from my errors for next time!

Finally this year I feel as though I have shown growth mindset in DI (A tournament where classes, teams, and clubs come to present a challenge they have been working on, you can learn more about it here) We went through many stages of critique, and every time we got the critique we would have to turn it into a way to improve our script or challenge. After a while I showed growth mindset because each time you had to take the advise and revise, the critique got very repetitive and you couldn’t let it get to you. The day of the challenge went very well, we presented like we practiced and everything went well, the appraisers gave us some useful critique that we can now learn from and you can see it in this blog post.

Finally I have made 3 goals that I will be committed to for the rest of the year, the first one being to improve my writing skills. I will be asking my piers or teachers for critique after writing either essays or blog post, this will hopefully improve my writing overtime! My second goal is to read more, reading is definitely something that I always struggle with so I have made a goal to read one book every month. Hopefully this will improve my vocabulary and maybe even my writing skills. And finally my last goal is to update my learning portfolio (blog) more often. This will make the content and accuracy of information more clear, it will also help me reflect on my learning!
I hope you learned a little bit more about the learning I have done so far, what I can improve on, my growth mindset and goals for the future!