• 032750 wrote a new blog post: SLLR- Parent Interview 2 years ago

    Hey blog visitors, I’m having a ‘student-led learning review’ with my parents in class right now, and I will be interviewing them about a few questions about me as a learner. Q 1: What academic areas do you think I do well in? A 1: “Narrative writing, and visual arts.” Q 2: What did you [...]

  • Hey blog visiter! :) It’s been a while since my last post… My class recently watched the movie, The Wave . Yes, that movie from the 80′s about that class experiment in California. In class we discussed about how the people in the movie used power. Not the kind that’s in like electricity or force, but the kind [...]

  • This is a class assignment that my partner and I made. We hope you enjoy it!

  • Hey blog visitors! Here’s a review/reflection on this unit’s summative assessment. Lately in 6B, everyone has been working extremely hard on our summative assessment (well I know I did :P ). Our task was to give a presentation on a type of technology that we thought had the biggest impact on the society and the environment, either in a positive [...]

  • ThumbnailInterviewer: What do you like best about school? Troy: I can play Lego™ during Free Choice time. Interviewer: Where do you like to go on holiday? Troy: I like to go to Australia and visit my relatives. Interviewer: What are some things you have been learning about this year in Prep? Troy: I learned about art [...]

  • Freedom is like happiness, around me everywhere. Doing what I wish, without a single care. I’ll say what I want, so don’t hold me back! I’ve broken from my prison, done the forbidden. It feels like the start, of a whole new life. Forgetting the past, and stepping on new land. I’ve broken the hold, [...]

  • During this week, my class has started a new unit, Sharing the Planet–How the World Works. We have brainstormed about our opinions about technology and examples of it, then separated the examples into different categories. We have also continued working on our blogs with the help of our LTT convener (basically the LowerSchool’s Tech teacher–if I were [...]

  • Today in class, our teacher introduced us to TED (Technology Entertainment and Design), a non-profit conference foundation. Our new unit, How The World Works, is related to this as we have been brainstorming on different types of technology. We watched an award-winning (according to TED’s website) TEDTalk–Pattie Maes-Sixth Sense device. Although…

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  • Today at school the whole grade 6 (I think) watched a documentary called The Cove , filmed in Taiji, Japan . It is mainly about a group of activists who want to stop the serious issue of dolphin killing. This movie was truly horrifying and disgusted me about the fact that humans are the main predators to dolphins. I would’ve found [...]

  • During this week my class has been focusing on our summative assessment – writing a proposal and designing a floor plan for a new shopping centre. We have also been working on percentages and fractions for math. This week our teacher sent us a link for designing floor plans. We were allowed to play around [...]

  • Bunnicula – by Deborah and James Howe The book I had just finished reading is Bunnicula by Deborah and James Howe . It is about a rabbit that was thought to be a vampire by a cat in the book named Chester. Chester lived with his friend, Harold the dog, and their owner. They both had normal lives until their owner [...]