7th Grade Blog Post

Hello,

today I will be talking about my 6th grade experience. I believe that this year has been the best school year I've ever had. From Ms Parties to plays, and from assignments to projects. This year has helped me gain more confidence and feel better about being a new student in an international school.

What piece of work and learning are you most proud? I feel that this year I've improved so much. I've learnt many things I didn't know back in Mexico. From all the work I've done, I believe my two T.T.T. projects. In these projects, I've learnt about different empires, the Ancient Egyptian and the Ancient Rome Empires. I am really proud of these two projects because I think I've done a great job in the collaborating part. Even though we didn't research a LOT in these projects we used what we got and we made the projects really good. I love doing tic tac toes, because you have many different assignments to choose from. I hope we have T.T.T. projects next year too!

What were your greatest challenges? My greatest challenges through all this year, were a few. Firstly, that I wasn't that good with my English. This affected my performance in the beginning of the year because sometimes I couldn't really understand the teacher. Secondly, I was new so I didn't know my classmates which made it easier to get used to being here.

3. Reflecting on your growth this year, what did you learn about yourself as a learner? I learned that I get distracted easily and this can affect me a lot. I also learned that if you really want to be better you can ask teachers to help you out, and you can really improve. I feel proud of myself because I could finish this school year without any trouble and I learnt so many things that will be helpful in the future.

4. To evaluate your work habits, provide explanations about the following topic:

• Behavior: I think I behave well in class. But sometimes, I get distracted with my classmates which makes me talk and not do my work. In the end, it affects my grades and behavior.
  

• Performance: Satisfactory
  

• Explanation: I believe that in the future, I can improve and concentrate more in what I am supposed to do instead of getting distracted with my classmates.

5. Based upon your reflections, write two personal learning goals for Grade 7 next year.

Goal 1 - In Grade 7, I plan to study more for my quizzes or exams, etc, so that I can have better understanding in the topics and to get better grades.

Goal 2 - In Grade 7, I plan to concentrate more in my classes because then I can understand the teacher better and I can learn better for the important projects or tests that we could have in the future.

6. Is there any more information about yourself that you would like the teachers to know? I take time to feel comfortable in classes and that is because I don't know the teacher very well. But don't worry to much, because once I get to know them, I will start behaving how I normally do.

7. What was your favorite activity lesson in Humanities this year? What did you enjoy about it? My favorite lesson in Humanities was Mesopotamia because we had to do an awesome project about Babylonia We had to choose a song and change the lyrics that had to talk about a ruler from there. I really enjoyed it.

8. What activity do you wish we could have spent more time on? I think we should have took more time with the Tic Tac Toes because our dead line was too short. I think the best thing to do was to give us about 3 weeks to work on it because we had to work on three different assignments!

9. Finally, cast your minds back to the first few months of middle school (when you arrived in Grade 6 ) what "Words of Wisdom" or "Advice" could you pass on to the Class of 2018? Have fun, but remember to focus on school too!

BOOKS BOOKS BOOKS!!!

HI,

Today I am going to be talking about my favorite book. My favorite book is called 'Clubes Rivales' and the author is Javier Malpica. Even though it is in spanish, I love to read it. It is about a group of girls and a group of boys competing to see which group is better. But the exciting thing about this book, is all the challenges they have, for example, once they had to get into a hunted house and stay there all night. I really like this book because I teaches the readers about team collaboration and friendship.

This book made me think about friendship and collaboration, because in the end, they all became really good friends. Everyone worked together to prove which group was better, but in the end that didn't matter anymore because everyone proved loyalty and honesty to each other.

This book challenged me as a reader because this book is more advanced like the the other 6th grade books I've read. It has many vocabulary that I didn't know, and the author wrote many metaphors that were hard to understand. I believe that in the end, I learned so many things Even though I learned in spanish, it will help me with my english too, because I can just change all I learned into English and it will be the same.

If you want to read this book, of course you can, and you will love it! But I will recommend you not to read this book if you don't like reading about friendship and amazing adventures. And don't read it if you don't know spanish otherwise you won't understand it. :D

I hope you enjoyed my reflection, and I hope I gave you enough reasons for you to read this book!