We recently went on a trip to Loon Lake in Maple Ridge for 4 days. We got to learn a lot of amazing things by doing something outside of the classroom. I made my second book this year about Loon Lake and reflected on my experience there. You can visit my book here. Learning Advance […]
DI (Doing technical stuff :p)
Hi! This blog post is about a project we’ve been working on for a couple of months called DI. DI stands for a program called Destination Imagination. In Destination Imagination we get put into a group of 6 or 7 students and given a challenge we’re we have to find a solution and present it. […]
I’ve really learned a lot this year
Hi! Today I’m going to talk/write about my mPOL. If you didn’t know this stands for Mid-Year presentation of learning. In my mPOL i’m going to talk about all my favourite projects this year and what I learned from them. I am also going to answer the driving question “How have I demonstrated growth as […]
Just wrote an E-book :D
Hi! This was our last project of maker grade 8 and we wrote an E-book with a bunch of poems we wrote. You can visit my e-book here In this e-book we wrote 9 different poems about us and our worldview. The 9 poems we wrote were A simile poem: A simile is a phrase […]
Laser project! :D
Hi! For scimatics we just finished our laser laws project. This was a very interesting project where we learned about the law of reflection and the Pythagorean theorem. The driving question of this project was “How can we test the Pythagorean theorem and law of reflection?” and we broke this project down into 5 milestones. […]
Sewing Q&A (:
Hi! For this post I decided to do a Q&A about very common question asked about sewing. Hope you enjoy! Is it difficult to start sewing? No, not really. If you really want to become good at sewing, then it’s a pretty easy to learn. It’s a bit more difficult to learn things like making […]
Designing my own fabric
For this post we had to create an original photo using multiple apps. The photo also had to be about a topic you really enjoyed, for me this was sewing. Here’s my original photo … I decided to take a photo of some fabric I had and use the procreate pocket app to draw over […]
7 things you didn’t know about sewing
7 interesting facts about sewing 1.There are over 4000 types of sewing machines in the world: Brother is one of the most popular sewing brands. You can visit their website here. 2. The sewing machine was invented in 1790 by a man called Thomas Saint, but in 1874 it was patented by William Newton. 3. […]
“Sewing” Why I love It
Intro Hello! Today I’m going to write about sewing. I’ve been sewing for about six months now and I’ve made a couple of pieces of clothing. I got into sewing after my friend introduced me to it. I now go to a class once a week at a place called Made by Me sewing, I […]
The Outsiders
Hi! We just completed our second project in humanities. We read a book called The Outsiders by S.E Hinton and did an exhibition on it about the novel. We presented a tableau of one of the important scenes in the book to our parents, siblings and friends. A tableau is a still image of a […]