I have done a lot of work this year! But there is one thing that I'm really proud of and that is our second Tic-Tac-Toe! It was a collaborative project and my group members were Sheta, P.J and Ted. Our ancient civilization was ancient China. We did the geographical location powerpoint, the mobile and the diary. Our mobile had to be about the 12 contributions or achievments and we chose the Shang dynasty in ancient China. Our two diary entries were also based on a slave girl in the Shang dynsty. And our geographical powerpoint was on all of China! I'm really proud of my work on this project is my groups teamwork! We worked well together, we spilt our work equally, we all did our work properly and if we had disagreements we worked them out in class. We got all our work done before the deadline and for sometime we barely had any humanities homework! Then it is the quality of our work. We edited all our work like I wrote the diary entries and Sheta edited them. On the mobile we went through all the paragraphs before we printed them out. Ted and P.J edited all the slides before presenting it. I learned so much about writing while we were the diaries. I'm especailly happy with my improved writing ability! Before all my sentences were tiny and I didn't pay attention to my vocab, but now most of my sentences are compound and I write much better! Both my diaries the ancient Egyptian and ancient China diary entries have helped me alot with my writing!
My greatest challenge this year is making my writing my own. I know that sounds crazy but my teacher made me realize this. I still have trouble with making my writing my own! This means making my writing sound like I wrote it! Not a different person. Some people can write really formally and make it sound like their own work. But I don't really talk very formally! I seriously think formal is boring (no offense to people who write formally!) I always wondered why I kept getting only A's instead of A+'s. I always thought it was my writing but then in the student led conferences mr. Thomas told me that it wasn't my writing but it was the way I wrote. So I'm still trying to fix that!
I learned many things about myself as a learner. Best of all when we were doing our learning profiles. You can findour more about that if you read my learning profile post! But most of all I learned that I can do anythign I want as long as I concentrate and want to do my best. I always turn in my best work if I work hard and concentrate. I know that's what everyone says that if you focus and try hard you can do anything, and that is true. But sometimes if I don't focus and not try hard I can get a pretty good grade. But that is an A- or lower. I always want to go for A's and A+'s! That is my goal! So I learned that if I'm listening to a little bit of music and not multi-taking I can so awesome work!
For my behavior in class I would say satisfactory. Because I'm not perfect or a model student. I don't always do my homework or turn my work in before teh deadline. There have been a few times when I would completely forget about the deadline and I would finish my project last minute. Like our imaginative narrative. I completely forgot it was due on wednesday so I had to finish it in class cause mr. Thomas was angry with abunch of other kids cause they didn't do their work either!
I think I actively participate in class. I always listen when mr. Thomas is talking so I won't have to ask him to repeat the directions. I ask questions when I need to, and even if I can't participate in a certain conversation, because I have nothing to say I just listen quitely and if they say something funny I laugh along with everyone else.
I think I'm super organized because I never forget any of my supplies. I always bring my humanities binder (even if we never use it), I never forget my SSR book and if I do forget something then it is because I didn't know we were meant to bring it. But obviously I forget things sometimes but other than that I'm good. My locker is also neat. I can get all my stuff when I need them so I consider that neat!
I think my effort is satisfactory. I don't go above and beyond expectations all the time. I do that sometimes but not always. I know that I should but I don't. I do everything that is neccesary and that is the end. If I feel like it then I go abouve and beyond expectations. There are some people who go above and beyond expectations all the time and then there are people who don't even do satisfactory. But that just depends on how we want our work to turn out!
Now I'm going to tell you about two goals I want to set for 7th grade! My first goal is to go above and beyond expectations all the time. Now that I understand how it works in ampang better I can really work hard on that. My second goal is to participate in everything that I can. This year I just sat back and watched everything but now I'm going to participate in things like that middle school play. I didn't even audition but next year in 7th grade I 'll audition and try to get into it!
I would like the teachers know that I can do my work but if I seem really confused about something then that means that I don't get what to do or I don't get what I did wrong! Then there is my revising problems. I never really revise my work. I don't read over my essays to fix the vocab and grammatical errors or in math to fix the silly mistakes that I would make.
I don't remember what it was called but it was a challenge in which we had to make the ancient Egyptian social pyramid in 30 minutes using three paper plates, a few straws, paper clips, string, one strip of tape, note cards. ruler and anything else we had. I really liked it because it forced us to work fast and think creatively. We worked in groups I was with Ashka and Sheta. So it also depended on teamwork. We had to reason critically because we had to use ALL the supplies that mr. Thomas provided us! And it was a lot of fun, we also go to review our social pyramid because we had to explain what each social level was.
I think that we could have had more chances to be free with our writing. The only piece of free writing we did was the imaginative narrative and we rushed through that. I really think that we had a little bit more chance to be imaginative it woulf have been easier to write the diary entries because we would be able to imagine the life style and the setting better. It is also more fun to let your imagination run free so we would want to do the work. We would think of it as fun not as home work or a project we had to do to get a good grade!
I love it when teachers ask us to give advice. Okay make sure you listen to the teachers when they are giving you instructions! Trust me you don't want to have to do a project and you don't know what to do! That is the worst position to be in (I talk from experience)! Make sure you so your home work because it will be useful when you have to do quizzes or tests. Because most probably they are similar to the questions in your homework. And the teachers won't be happy if you never do your home work. You don't want to get on the bad side of teachers! If you do these then you shouldn't have any trouble when you are in 6th grade!
My greatest challenge this year is making my writing my own. I know that sounds crazy but my teacher made me realize this. I still have trouble with making my writing my own! This means making my writing sound like I wrote it! Not a different person. Some people can write really formally and make it sound like their own work. But I don't really talk very formally! I seriously think formal is boring (no offense to people who write formally!) I always wondered why I kept getting only A's instead of A+'s. I always thought it was my writing but then in the student led conferences mr. Thomas told me that it wasn't my writing but it was the way I wrote. So I'm still trying to fix that!
I learned many things about myself as a learner. Best of all when we were doing our learning profiles. You can findour more about that if you read my learning profile post! But most of all I learned that I can do anythign I want as long as I concentrate and want to do my best. I always turn in my best work if I work hard and concentrate. I know that's what everyone says that if you focus and try hard you can do anything, and that is true. But sometimes if I don't focus and not try hard I can get a pretty good grade. But that is an A- or lower. I always want to go for A's and A+'s! That is my goal! So I learned that if I'm listening to a little bit of music and not multi-taking I can so awesome work!
For my behavior in class I would say satisfactory. Because I'm not perfect or a model student. I don't always do my homework or turn my work in before teh deadline. There have been a few times when I would completely forget about the deadline and I would finish my project last minute. Like our imaginative narrative. I completely forgot it was due on wednesday so I had to finish it in class cause mr. Thomas was angry with abunch of other kids cause they didn't do their work either!
I think I actively participate in class. I always listen when mr. Thomas is talking so I won't have to ask him to repeat the directions. I ask questions when I need to, and even if I can't participate in a certain conversation, because I have nothing to say I just listen quitely and if they say something funny I laugh along with everyone else.
I think I'm super organized because I never forget any of my supplies. I always bring my humanities binder (even if we never use it), I never forget my SSR book and if I do forget something then it is because I didn't know we were meant to bring it. But obviously I forget things sometimes but other than that I'm good. My locker is also neat. I can get all my stuff when I need them so I consider that neat!
I think my effort is satisfactory. I don't go above and beyond expectations all the time. I do that sometimes but not always. I know that I should but I don't. I do everything that is neccesary and that is the end. If I feel like it then I go abouve and beyond expectations. There are some people who go above and beyond expectations all the time and then there are people who don't even do satisfactory. But that just depends on how we want our work to turn out!
Now I'm going to tell you about two goals I want to set for 7th grade! My first goal is to go above and beyond expectations all the time. Now that I understand how it works in ampang better I can really work hard on that. My second goal is to participate in everything that I can. This year I just sat back and watched everything but now I'm going to participate in things like that middle school play. I didn't even audition but next year in 7th grade I 'll audition and try to get into it!
I would like the teachers know that I can do my work but if I seem really confused about something then that means that I don't get what to do or I don't get what I did wrong! Then there is my revising problems. I never really revise my work. I don't read over my essays to fix the vocab and grammatical errors or in math to fix the silly mistakes that I would make.
I don't remember what it was called but it was a challenge in which we had to make the ancient Egyptian social pyramid in 30 minutes using three paper plates, a few straws, paper clips, string, one strip of tape, note cards. ruler and anything else we had. I really liked it because it forced us to work fast and think creatively. We worked in groups I was with Ashka and Sheta. So it also depended on teamwork. We had to reason critically because we had to use ALL the supplies that mr. Thomas provided us! And it was a lot of fun, we also go to review our social pyramid because we had to explain what each social level was.
I think that we could have had more chances to be free with our writing. The only piece of free writing we did was the imaginative narrative and we rushed through that. I really think that we had a little bit more chance to be imaginative it woulf have been easier to write the diary entries because we would be able to imagine the life style and the setting better. It is also more fun to let your imagination run free so we would want to do the work. We would think of it as fun not as home work or a project we had to do to get a good grade!
I love it when teachers ask us to give advice. Okay make sure you listen to the teachers when they are giving you instructions! Trust me you don't want to have to do a project and you don't know what to do! That is the worst position to be in (I talk from experience)! Make sure you so your home work because it will be useful when you have to do quizzes or tests. Because most probably they are similar to the questions in your homework. And the teachers won't be happy if you never do your home work. You don't want to get on the bad side of teachers! If you do these then you shouldn't have any trouble when you are in 6th grade!
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