Hello and welcome back positive people to another PLP post!

If you know me, you’ll know that I’m a living breathing example of someone who thinks positive most of the time! (not all the time though, sometimes its ok to be negative). And if you’ve read my Who in the world likes Brussel sprouts?! Post, you’ll know that I love health and nutrition! Therefore I was super happy when I heard the title of our project was “Healthy ever after!”. 

Just a brief little project over view; “healthy ever after” was a PLP challenged based learning project, with the option to choose one of three different health categories. The category’s were, Metal health, Physical health, and Health literacy. I chose Metal health, with the focus of positive thinking. My essential question was: How can you build positivity, through step by step positive thinking? To answer this question, I started small, by defining positive thinking. “Positive thinking is an optimistic and upbeat way of thinking, that helps you see the good in life and handle any challenge thrown your way.”

As I started to write my script for my short informative video about my essential question, I thought of two of the most important tips that help me stay positive. The first one was the power of the word YET. My second tip and one I use often is the use of affirmations. Both of them I explain more in depth in my video, but they were essentially my best tips. 

The tips I took away from this project included challenged based learning, a new PLP project approach. Challenge based learning is a four step process, that we used to effectively utilize our learning. We used a workbook with different categories for each of these steps, so that we could keep track of our process.

Healthy Every After Workbook!

The steps were: Step 1 🌀Engage – Connect with the big idea, think about the impact on you personally, consider new viewpoints, and focus on the challenge’s call to action. Step 2 🔍 Investigate – Ask questions, find ways to research these questions, and analyze your findings to help define your solution. Step 3 ⚡ Act – Don’t stop at defining your solution—put it into action! Then evaluate its effectiveness and determine what refinements could have the most impact. Step 4 🪞Reflect, Document, Share – Document your experience using audio, video, images, and photography throughout the Challenge. Reflect on the ongoing content collection. The deepest learning occurs by considering the process, thinking about your learning, and analyzing content-concept relationships.

Here’s my video!:

Thank you so much for reading another one of my PLP posts!!

Stay positive!

-Ailie 💜

“Ever since I was little I have never been a very picky eater. Theres videos of me eating so many different foods, like avocados, broccolini, sardines and other cool foods, that were considered exotic or healthy. As I grew up I’d try foods from new cultures and decide what I liked. I of course dislike some foods, like for example Brussel sprouts, who in the world likes brussel sprouts?! But I’ve never just liked basic food.”

Hiiii and welcome welcome to my maker podcast post!

For this maker project, we were assigned to make a podcast, out of a story, or a journey we’ve gone through. I decided to talk about my current interest in food, how I became so interested in it, and what I found by researching it. I love food so much, and it really fascinates me, so I loved to share my findings about it. 

I think the thing that I was the best at was being passionate about my content, and having my story really be, me! When I can really put my personality into a project, I’m definitely more invested in it. I have developed a few new skills and expanded on my old ones. I’m really glad to have a whole new genre of learning in maker 10, with our audio focussed projects. I decided on my fascinations with food topic pretty much right away, because I knew it was something I was really interested in, and I knew that my knowledge could benefit others.

Here’s my script, which helped me bring my podcast to life:

Fascinations with food-podcast script

The worst part was really having to make my findings more concise, and to people to include everything that I wanted to. I also needed to make sure that my more factual content was still very engaging, and that I didn’t ramble on about all of the facts and numbers. I also feel as though I could have fiddled around with the audio a little bit more, and made it clearer and added more sound effects in to make it even more engaging.

I have expanded on my editing skills, interacted with GarageBand, wrote out a solid interactive script, created engaging cover art and make a new Spotify creator account. I feel as though I could explore GarageBand a bit deeper, I could’ve made my script bit more concise and I hope in the future I’ll be adding to my Spotify creator account.

And so, here is my two part podcast: fascinations with food!

Driving question: How do I craft the story of my learning?

To tell the story of my learning, I started with where my story began, and how I got onto my fascinations with food. Which was something that interested me or a challenge I faced. I shared the important moments that helped me grow. I explained how I handled challenges and what I learned. I talked about how I changed or improved. Finally, I think about how I can use this learning to move forward and set new goals.

Thank you for listening to my podcast, and reading another one of my blog posts!

Make sure to check out my other classmates, podcasts, and blogs as well

Coming up next is an exciting adventure that’s going to be full of study, and far a field! Our next project is coming up quick, and we’re gonna be flying to new destinations and discoveries.

Have a good day!

– Ailie 💜

“You taste like maple syrup! Oh, well would you like to taste it again?”

Hello people, and welcome to a very funny and freaky humanities blog post!

This humanities project was called “Swipe right for tragedy” and yes that is a tinder reference. Never did I think I’d hear a tinder reference in a project about a Shakespearean play! Have you guessed what Shakespeare play we focused on yet? If you said hamlet you are…. Wrong! This project was all about the tragedy that is, “Romeo and Juliet”!

We started off the project with compiling a craft doc, with notes and little at home assignments, to start getting to know the play better. It helped me really stay organized, and I could refer back to it easily.

R&J craft doc

 I liked reading the untranslated version of R&J, because the fancier more old timely language is so funny! Then after all of the individual little activities, and after we had a good understanding of the story, we started getting our roles for the play! I volunteered to be the costume designer, and I was assigned that role. I also said that I could play Juliet for half of the play, which was a challenge I was willing to take on. So I organized the  costumes, even making one of the, and I memorized my lines for Juliet for acts 4 and 5. 

The actual day of the play came so quickly, and I feel as though we would have benefited from a week or so of more time. But even with not much time to prepare, we still did pretty good! Everyone was invested in there roles, and performed well, even though there were a few missed cues, forgotten lines, and people reading off they’re iPad scripts. All of those could have definitely been fixed by a little bit more time. We worked great as a class and we were an amazing cast and crew!

Driving question: How do we use parody to bring the themes of Romeo & Juliet to a modern audience?

We brought Romeo & Juliet to a modern audience by updating the setting and language to make it relatable. The America vs Canada conflict is very real world, and relatable. We used humor and exaggeration to highlight key themes, and incorporated modern technology and culture to make the story more relevant. Our humor was very successful, such as our stereotype references. This approach made the classic tale engaging and more exciting for our viewers. And we hope everyone had as much fun watching it as we did performing it!

Competency: 😁 Communicating: I can communicate in appropriate and effective forms.

We all communicated pretty well! The main organizational people had a group chat. The group chat consisted of the DRI’s (directly responsible individuals) who were the lead writers of the scripts, me the costume designer, 2 technical people, and Caelum! Who was our amazing director of the entire production. Caelum team carried as the director, and made sure we were all very organized and on task. Everyone could have improved their communication on stage, and behind stage for the cues for the actual performance, but other than that it was very well executed.

So here you go! Here’s our production!

Romeo and Juliet | Our Parody!

Thank you so very much for reading! I hope I don’t get to tripped up in our next incredibly interactive, some would say world renowned plp project.

Have a nice day and a good spring break!

-Ailie 💜

Simon says… shadow a counselor for a day!

Hi! And welcome back to another careers post! 

“Hi I’m Ailie! For my PLP project, Mentor for a day, I went to Lynmore Elementary and experienced a day in the life of school councillor Lisa Jaakkola. To answer the question: How can learning from others’ career journeys help us shape our own?”

That was the intro to another PLP podcast, my audio reflection. So obviously for this assignment eyeshadow counsellor Lisa Jaakkola for a day. First off, just start off the day I went to Lynmore, and sat with Lisa in her office. She explained her job to me, and then I asked her a few few questions which were. When did you decide you wanted to be a councellor, and why? What do you like the most about your job, is there anything you don’t like, or could be improved? How does being a councellor translate to other aspects of your life? Did anyone inspire you along the way, did anyone’s actions particularly stand out to you? What education did you go through? What did you need, and where did you go?

She answered all of my interview questions, and then we interacted with the kids, which was by far my favourite part! We played pass with a big rubber ball, monster bingo, and Simon says! I also got to peek my head into the kindergarten, grade one, and grade 2 classes. Which are the ages that I’d most likely want to teach. I loved talking to and communicating with the kids, so that I could see how they wanted to be talked to and communicated with. It was such an amazing experience and I definitely want be able to be a supportive and open and empathetic teacher when I grow up.

Another assignment that helped me along this project was our career smart brevity note. We wrote a short note explaining the core things about the career path that we were interested in. I chose teacher and titled my smart brevity note “Teaching how to teach”.

Smart brevity note link: Smart brevity note

The driving question was: How can learning from others’ career journeys help us shape our own?

Learning from others’ career journeys offers inspiration, insights, and lessons. Lisa helped me envision possibilities, build confidence, and make informed decisions, that will ultimately bring me toward a fulfilling career path.

I’m looking forward to the future, but for now I will continue looking at corses that will point me in the right direction, like for example I’m hoping to do physiology! I will also utilize experiences like mentoring more often. For example my aunt is a speech language pathologist, and I’ve shadowed her before as well! I’m so excited now, to pursue education, and make a difference through something that I really am passionate about.

Without further a due here’s a link to my audio reflection! You should check out my classmates, audio reflections too because they were all compiled into a series on Spotify.

Thank you so much for reading another one of my butterfly banter, blog posts! I hope you have a great day, and a wonderful spring break! I’ll catch you on the trip (hint hint) side with our next magical interactive and far afield project.

-Ailie 💜

Hello and welcome back to another mPOL! It’s pretty much routine by now so let’s get into it!

Ms. Kadi! this is my mum Jen and my dad Paul.

Thank you so much for tuning into another mPOL!

Have a great day!

-Ailie 💜

Hello! This is my second ever careers blog post, and its a very informative one.

This project in careers, we learned about taxes, and other things to do with money, finances, and how we’re going to deal with our money when we’re older. It was a very real life project, and helped us learn very important information for our futures. 

The first thing we did, was start a stocks/investing game, called Investopedia. Our entire class was ranked on a leaderboard, depending on what we invested in and how our stocks were doing. It was a very informative game, and it taught me what percentage to buy, when to sell and other useful tips to do with investing. Unfortunately, most of my stocks lost value near the end, so I ended up being near the middle of the pack in the rankings. All in all, it was a very interesting experience and will help me with investing when I’m older.

The next portion of our project was a “buying a used car” simulation. We have to pretend that we were a university student buying a used car. But we also had other things we had to pay off like our rent, gas, pet insurance, etc. Unfortunately, we really needed that pet insurance because our cat whiskers swallowed some Lego, poor whiskers. We had to do a lot of calculations to determine if we were in debt or not. That part wasn’t my strong suit so I’m pretty sure I was in debt. The simulation was a very cool experience though, and I’ll make sure not to keep Lego around my future cat.

The final part of our project, and definitely my favourite part, was our student lead lessons. We got into groups of two, or individually presented on a topic to do with our project. My partner was Melissa, and we presented on buying a house: the basics. Our presentation was all about the basic needs of buying a house, and being a new house owner. We talked about house maintenance, credit score, and down payment, and a bunch of other topics to do with general housing. We really enjoyed presenting in this way, and educating our classmates. I also really enjoyed hearing the lessons from my classmates, and being taught by people who are more relatable, and actually my age. We also gave peer critique to another group, and that was quite useful to also reflect on our own work.

Our presentation:

Buying a house the basics

Driving question: How can I plan a financial future that will provide opportunities for success?

Using the information that I learned throughout this project, I can elaborate and continue expanding on it throughout my time at school, so that when I go off to university, I can be 100% ready for a stable financial future. I will set clear goals, tracking my spending, and creating a budget. I will have an extensive savings account, focus on paying off high-interest debt, and invest early to grow my wealth. Eventually I will look into a stable retirement plan. By regularly reviewing and adjusting my plan, I’ll stay on track to achieve my financial goals.

To very specifically answer the title of this blog post with the information I have learned during this project: 

To stay out of debt, spend less than you earn and make a simple budget to track your money. This is called dept to income balance, which is basically the fact that you have to make more than you spend. Save for emergencies so you don’t have to borrow. Focus on paying off high-interest debt first and only borrow what you can afford to pay back. Stay consistent with these habits to keep your finances on track.

Competency: 

😵‍💫 Processing: I can process ideas and further understandings: lifelong learning creates career and life opportunities.

Throughout this project, I processed different information, that would benefit me in the future. I did extensive research on the parts of this project that interest me, and processed this information so that I could eventually use it when I’m older. I will also be able to look back at this project, and process the information that I’ve learned, because it benefits me in the long run. This entire project was also a process, in which we had to be open to the idea of our finances in our future.

Thanks so much for learning with me! Now you know the basics of how to not be in debt!

Tune in next time when I basically become someone’s shadow for the day!

-Ailie 💜