Archive forNovember, 2011

Science Reflection

(1) What have I enjoyed in Science during the last unit? Give examples In science I really enjoyed the experiments because I would rather do something and learn instead of  just looking at workbooks and answering questions. For example I enjoyed the bunsen burner experiment and I can learn more from experiments than reading books [...]

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Needs and Values

The 2 things I value My computer and money because if I don’t have my computer I will be bored and if i don’t have any money I can’t get anything.   The 5 things that I need   1. Family – For love and support. 2. Shelter – To protect me from rain and [...]

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Field studies Day 4

Day 4 Today we are going to do mountain hiking. We got ready for the hike then we got on the bus and went towards the mountains. Today we all were in the same group. When we got to the mountain there were two dogs Sky and Teddy. Before we were going to climb the [...]

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Field studies Day 3

Day 3 I was looking forward toward to this day too. Today was rock climbing and BBQ then river clean up. I really wanted to do rock climbing because I never done rock climbing. This time too we split up groups, bus 1 and bus 2. I was in bus 1 and we went to [...]

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Drama Reflection

In drama class we picked 3 drama games to perform in front of the class. “Die Story Die”, “Space jump” and “Statues”. These three games all have to do with improvisation and accepting the offers. If someone says “Let’s go somewhere” and you say “No”, it will be hard to make a scene. “Space jump” [...]

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Field studies Day 2

Day 2   I was looking forward to this day mountain biking and canoeing. We first ate break fast and get into our groups our groups were split by buses. We went to a place where there were so many bicycles. All different sizes. The staff got bicycles from the short people first and I [...]

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Field studies

Day 1 On day one we left YIS at 7:00 to go to Hakuba in Nagano. On the way we saw the tallest mountain in Japan, mt. Fuji. After we got to the camping site we ate lunch there. Then we had a bit of free time then we started to build the tent for [...]

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Self portrait

  In art  we have been working on self portrait.I never did a self portrait before so my first self portrait wasn’t really good. This is my first self portrait.   I could have worked on my shading because some parts there were a lot but some parts there were none. Then we took a [...]

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Cross country

In P.E we have been doing cross country. In cross country we practice a couple of times and in the race day whoever wins gets a gold medal. Now we finished our cross country unit so I made a chart that has all our times, laps, feelings and route. I also made a graph. On October [...]

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Blog Plan Reflection

In technology class we have been working on planning our blog. We did a worksheet about how to grow a blog and for homework we drew three designs about our blog in the future. I made mine colorful and I added widgets to my designs.           I chose this background because [...]

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