This past year has been one of the best school years I’ve had, I learned so much in Maker, Humanities, and Science in PLP this year, and I also had so many new experiences! In this blog post I will be talking about how much I’ve grown as a learner throughout the subjects I learned about this year, and my habits and work ethic.

This year in Science we learned about the immune system (small but mighty) matter (mind over matter), and tectonic plates (journey to the centre of the earth). I think I did my best work on the first project we worked on, which was small but mighty, here’s a link to the blog post I wrote about it: https://www.blog44.ca/melissag/2023/03/10/small-but-mighty/

We also made video games using scratch about the next project we worked on (mind over matter) I think I did a good job representing the states of matter in my game, here’s the link if you want to play it:  https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/843875581/

In Humanities this year, we learned about the outsiders, the Middle Ages (power play), the renaissance (radical innovations), Vikings (blue-eyed brutes in horned helmets), the colonization of Canada (consequences of colonization) and our final project, which was about how commercials effect you to make you want to buy their products, for that project we got to go to Oregon for a week! I really liked learning about the advertising techniques used to make people want to buy a product. When we went to Oregon, we got to interview the owners of some companies and make our own ads for them! I had such a fun time learning about my business, Marine Discovery Tours. Here is the ad I made for them, which was picked to be the biggest poster that we showed at the PLP exhibition!

Everyone in the group I was in made an ad, too which we showed at the exhibition this year! Here’s a picture of our stand:

My advertisement was on the easel, you can’t see it in this photo but it was there.

This year, in maker we learned about the cool things your iPad can do, we used apple apps like Keynote, Pages, iMovie, Photos, Camera, etc.. I won’t go into too much detail on what we learned about in Maker because I already talked about a lot of this in my mPOL. One of the things I did best in this subject was my interesting images keynote, I also showed this in my mPOL but I’m very proud of it. Here it is:

A main thing I could’ve worked on this year was getting my work done in time, I liked learning about the subjects we worked on this year, but I often got distracted from my work. I can say I did try harder this semester to get my work done. I know I still got some assignments late and will continue setting a timer for every day at 4:00 to remind me to do my homework.

Even though I haven’t shown that I can almost always hand my work in on time. I am ready for grade 9, and will walk into my first class of grade 9 with a hopeful attitude. I hope that I can have more motivation to get my work done and listen in class and will try my best to achieve these goals.