MY AWESOME XXC'S

1. I believe I have demonstrated outstanding in communication skills because I always talk to people to ask questions whether I need help or to see if they need help.

2. I've shown outstanding Personal Responsibility skills when I keep my locker clean because then this way I can find all my supplies I need for class so then I'm not late, or then I can quickly go grab it if I need it. 

3.  One example of when I demonstrated outstanding creative thinking is when I helped make my groups model for over consumption because I had to plan out what we were going to make. 

4. One example of when I demonstrated excellent social responsibility was when my partner and I each had a part to do in the model building and we had to show social responsibility by seeing where the other partner was and what else we could do if we were done. 

5. One example of when I demonstrated excellent critical thinking was when I had to figure out how to get from one number, to an even bigger to figure out how to build my model and graphs for over consumption. 

Goal: For the rest of this year, I would like to develop my critical thinking skills by asking deeper and thicker questions and by thinking harder and longer when I`m asked a question. 

Spring Break

We just got back from spring break today. I had so much fun! I hung out with friends, gamed, slept and almost broke my hip. Haahah. I almost broke it by doing a 180 on my snowboard. Oh well.. I will learn eventually. Hah. Andrea came over and we played Call of Duty: Black Ops II!! It was awesome! We kicked butt. We had Easter yesterday and I got a lot of chocolate and an iTunes card <3 I was soo happy. My grandparents and aunt came up and we had an Easter ice cream cake instead of Easter dinner. Next year, I hope to have an Easter egg hunt :D

Gardening!

On Friday March 15, we planted seeds for our garden! Over the holiday, we have to watch them. After Spring break, we are bringing them back to school to see how much progress they made over the break.We will be planting more seeds in the next few months for our green house!! So excited!! :D

Over Consumption Project Update!

We are officially done our over consumption project!!

In this project, I demonstrated communication skills by talking to my group and making sure we know what to do, and when we presented to another group. Something creative I did in this project is making the back ground and grass which had a river and flowers. A problem I ended up solving was how to do my graph for my countries. I only chose 1 country instead of all of them. Something I did that shows social responsibility was making sure I was fully prepared to work on this project and that I had all my materials that I needed. I showed social responsibility by making sure everyone had a job to do, and if they didn't, I found another part they could work on.  I enjoyed this project because I got to learn about how many trees people over consume in a certain amount of time and I got to use clay to build the models so we used little paper.

English/Socials :D

So, my partner and I are almost done part 4 of our movie! All we need to do is add to our script which I am currently doing! In order to make this the best movie we can, we needed to go over all the chunks several times. This English activity ties into our Socials because it's to do with our culture/ civilization we were giving!
This is important to our cross curricular competencies because we can mark our selves on how well we worked separately and as a group and then the teachers can either agree or disagree..

Some Things That We Have Done So Far!

Since the beginning of the year these are some of the projects we have done..

1.  Shore line clean up
2. Terry Fox run. We donated 50% of our earnings to the cancer research
3. We visited CKPG
4. Eye dissection ( grade 8)
5. Chemical Demonstration ( Grade 9)
6. Darkroom
7. Pinhole cameras
8. Memoirs
9.  Maps of where we come from
10. Movie
11. Over consumption
12. Light investigation ( grade 8)

Movie :D

Hey. In English and Socials, we are making a movie based on our novel study book. Mine was Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson. For this, we had to do a lot of research. My partner and I are almost ready to film. Just have to add to the script. This movie is important because it talks about slavery and the american revolution and how they tie into each other. I will keep you all posted!! Here are a couple examples. 

Over Consumption Project

Hey guys. So for the past couple of weeks, we have been working on our over consumption projects. In order to actually do the project, we had to research a topic that we wanted to find out how much of it we over consume in a certain amount of time. Then we had to write all the numbers in out tables, make graphs and now we built our models to show what we researched!! This coming week, we have to bring it home to show our parents and they get to mark it, and how well we present why we chose it and how else could we graph it. For my groups project, we chose over consumption on trees (paper). Our model was a clay tree that was half way cut down to show that it was about to be used for things that we don't need or already have enough of.. I will put a picture up of our model ASAP!! But for now, here's a sample of our work..

NLC Getting Together During Lunch!!!

Hey guys! This is some of my class getting creative at lunch!! Check it out!!!!

Introductory Post

What are the cross curricular competencies are any why they are important?

• Cross curricular competencies are our rubrics that we mark what we think we are for each category. They are : 

• Communication

• Critical Thinking

• Creativity

• Personal Responsibility

• Social Responsibility

Cross curricular competencies are important because we can mark how we think we are doing and then our teachers can see what we put and either agree or disagree and this way we both can come up with our overall mark. 

Your goals for your learning throughout high school (and how it will be shown through your blog)
My goal is to get principals list and I will show it on my blog by posting my really good marks.

Anything else you want to say about the purpose of your blog
The purpose of my blog is to show my progress throughout school