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Dystopian Fiction – The Giver💫

December 17, 2025 /

What did I do?

Writing academic paragraphs and discussing topics collaboratively related to the Giver allows me to learn more about dystopian fiction and general things about the book. Reading the book throughout the unit and learning in class made me build my vocabulary and understand more about what the book deeply meant. In the unit, we also discussed with our groupmates about the book and clearly stating where/when the dystopian characteristic happens.

What did I learn?

There was a vocabulary test to build on our vocabulary. As a daily routine, we wrote academic paragraphs in commonlit without using personal pronouns. We have to add on the transition words in the discussion we had in a group. Discussing about the dystopian fiction helped us learn and understand more about the book and diving in deeper with the book as it continues.

What worked?

Learning about 6-8 vocabularies in one test made me more confident in using them in the future when writing. This is a useful exercise to write more challenging vocabularies in essays. I’m also proud of having to finish a not-forceful “story” with the vocabularies I chose. This connects to the understanding of the book and how to use the vocabulary efficiently.

What did not work?

I got quite lost in the middle of the book, trying to understand the meaning and the purpose of the characters, how they feel, and their actions. Having to know the weird feeling Jonas has with the apple, the thought wasn’t really clear before we made the discussion. I catched up with the class and talked about my understandings.

Personal Relavance

The unit helps in the future when writing more things, for example an essay. Several exercises helped with writing. One is the vocabulary builder. The second exercise that helped is stopping and realizing what happened throughout reading the book. The final exercise is to write the academic paragraphs, to practice not using the personal pronouns, using more knowledge from my brain, and using more challenging vocabularies.

Roller Coaster L4 Lab and Model👩‍🔬🎢

December 12, 2025 /

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We started by completing an investigation to determine the relationship between potential energy (PE) and height. We also wrote a lab report, built the model, took the data, and wrote a conclusion with Claim, Evidence, and Reasoning. The model was to build a roller coaster out of the the 6 foam tubes, 1 roll of masking tape, 1 paper cup, and 1 stand. The lab report was to write the information of the project. For example the hypothesis, the materials, and the CER. After the project, we took data from the experiment, wrote a conclusion CER, and recorded a video of explaining what we did.

Unit 2 – Ötzi Unit Reflection👴🏻🔎

December 1, 2025 /

What did I work on? 

In Unit 2, Ötzi’s research, we learned the possibilities for him to die. One side will be having him murdered, the other, with him dying for natural causes, for example, disease in the body and health issues. We all have different perspectives and reasons to support our thinking. According to that, the class wrote a CER (claim, evidence, reasoning) paragraph to explain and prove our thoughts. To more likely prove the claim we have, there were jobs assigned to the class. The jobs are prosecution, defense, reporters, and expert witnesses. Reporters (my job) will be interviewing other expert witnesses and gaining information to write for a newspaper. 

What did I learn? 

I learned that the past is important when it gives us memories of failure to have success in things later. After learning about Ötzi, I think having more memories gives us more knowledge and more experience to solve cases and questions. Although I learned a lot in the unit, I still wonder how the experts get ideas from the past and know it’s true from just an object. Learning about Ötzi helped me gain more knowledge about him and connect the similarities between us and Ötzi. It turns out that people in the past 5300 years still have fights over things. 

What worked? 

What worked well was having the expert witnesses give out a lot of research answers. This helps me to write more information in the newspaper. It’s also interesting to learn more from them, not from articles, but from my classmates. I’m proud of having a full-of-information newspaper made by myself and adding interesting photos to the paper. I can identify which information the experts give me is useful and is appropriate to put in the newspaper. 

What did not work? 

Something that did not work as well was when I was writing the newspaper. I was able to identify the useful information the experts gave me, but I’m unsure if the information was enough. Having this problem, I was forced by myself to go interview again, asking the same questions but asking them to give more details and evidence. Gaining more details made me more confident in the newspaper. 

Personal Relevance 

In my opinion, this will be the most important unit in 6th grade because it gives you an idea of how the lawyers and the reporters work in court. This will encourage people who would want to be a part of the court when they grow up. At least they have the hang of it. This is a great chance for 6th graders to show themselves. 

Math Bake Sale😋🍪

November 26, 2025 /

What did we do?

In the math bake sale project on November 25th, the group must decide on what food they’re making and, us, my group, we’re making snowflake crisp. At the first task, we are deciding on what tasty food we all like as a group, and finally, we decided on matcha snowflake crisp. The next task, we searched for the ingredients and the steps to make it. After that, we calculated the unit price of each ingredients to make the calculation easier afterwards. Finally, we only need to calculate the cost for 1 batch and needed to add all the unit price of the ingredients together.

What did we learn?

In Part 3, we learned to convert US measurement to the metric measurement. In this task, we find the scale factor and multiply both sides by the same factor. We repeat the process in each ingredients to find the actual measurement we need (metric).

What worked?

We did not fail in either the first time or the second time when we’re making the food. We carefully watched and highlighted each steps in the website and added just the right amount of ingredients. This gives away lots of time if it did not work on both times.

What did not work?

Sometimes, in some tasks, we make careless mistakes and that also causes a lot of additional work. for example, forgetting the model for task 3, when we converted the US measurement to the metric measurement and this gives us a lot of homework.

Personal Relevance

In this project, the calculation and logic helps in adult life when having to bake and know how to calculate. It makes things more easier when knowing what to do and what to calculate. This also gives you more common-sense in life to make you more wise than others.

Balloon Car Reflection🎈🚗 – Science

November 7, 2025 /

What did I do?

In the Balloon Car Unit, me and my partner worked together and used wheels, boards, rubber bands and balloons to make the cart. Our expectation is to make the cart go as far as it can and the speed. We used it to learn about how Newton’s 2nd law affect on us. When having more mass on the cart, the distance and speed decreases at the same time.

What did I learn?

I learned about the Newton’s laws. The 1st law states, “An object in rest tends to stay at rest and a object in motion tends to stay in motion until a unbalanced force acts upon it.” The 2nd law states, “The greater the mass an object has, the more force it’ll need to accelerate it.” The 3rd law states, “Every action has a equal, opposite reaction.”

What worked?

Me and my partner worked well when we listen to each other’s ideas and learn how to improve on them. The balloon car also worked well when we had different straws unlike the other ones. We mixed the straws up but fortunately, the distance increases. I also think the air in the balloon in controlled very well by my partner because it’s not bursting and it has a lot of motion at the same time.

What did not work?

It was a struggle when my ideas were influenced by the other people when I thought the other straw would work better, so we tried it and threw the original straw away. When we tested it, the new straw turned out to have a really short distance. Our speed increases but the distance didn’t meet the goal. To solve this problem, we designed another straw last minute and installed a new one, but still is worse than the first and original one.

Personal Relevance

I see Newton’s 2st law everywhere! Having the car rushing in the street and suddenly turning makes my body go the opposite direction and takes a few moment to catch up with the speed of the car.

Creative Writing🧚🏻‍♀️ – Language Arts

November 4, 2025 /

What are we doing?

Writing a fictional story based on a theme that matters to me.

What are we learning? 

Theme (my purpose for writing this story, my message to readers)

Character Development (creating believable characters with positive & negative traits)

Plot (the sequence of events in my story; Western and Eastern approaches to storytelling)

Setting (the world that I create for my story)


What’s Working?

I enjoyed writing the plot, talking about the experience the main character has. This has tension and I not only enjoyed writing it but also reading it. I’m really proud of the tension created and it brings interest to the readers hooking them. My idea for the story came from the famous anime, Detective Conan. My favorite line of the story is “Two minutes at the basement.” It sounds really suspicious as if the supporting character know what the antagonist is talking about and this forms a connection between them.

Areas for Growth

The setting is challenging to make is specific so my least favorite part of the story is the setting. Although the setting appears to be suspicious and causes tension and interest, the setting as where it is would be not specific enough.

Personal Relevance

This gives me space to think what I need to improve on and thinking more into the books I read. Writing more gives me more imagination so that I can write more.

Art Reflection🎨

October 30, 2025 /

I’m proud of having to learn about the characteristics of different materials and knowing what they’re demand is. Having the knowledge in my mind, I can easily make things with it.

Knowing that clay always needs water to knead makes me successful making things with it. In general, I’m proud of my work on sushis’ that represents Japan culture. Although I know clay needs water and I give it, there is still some unsuccessful works. If it wasn’t the mistakes I made, I would have made a lot more than just three. I learned to knead the clay instead of spreading water along i, which made it crack and break.

Critical Thinking💭 – Science

October 13, 2025 /

What did I do?

I used my critical thinking skills to compete challenges with the Indi robot cars and build rollercoasters with Gravitrax.

What did I learn?

I learned about how I would be graded for Critical Thinking. Critical Thinking is my ability to solve problems and make the right decisions.

What worked?

I thought critically when I problem solved to having the wrong track in Gravitrax. Honestly, that was frustrating because not all tracks can work the way you want them to. What worked for me is just to change the tracks and see which one will work best with the last one.

What did not work?

I struggled when having not enough blocks that I need to make a successful roller coaster. I also struggled figuring out the challenging robot car keys and how to make it go in the challenging challenges.

Personal Relevance

Having this science class opened my mind of being not giving up even if it’s too hard. You find different things to solve a solution and not always using the same way!

Character Analysis👧🏼

September 25, 2025 /

*Before

*After

What did I do?

I wrote two different paragraphs describing the character trait I have in the novel: The Hunger Games. We wrote while we learned and found different strategies to improve on our writings. During the unit, we used Magic School and this really helped me in recognizing vocabularies.

What did I learn?

I learned to add different words to the same meaning (synonyms). And to add the starts to each sentence. Similarly, there are also transition words we must add. I also learned specific words and how to use them in sentences.

What worked?

I’m proud of how professional my writing looks like because of the things I’ve been taught and learned. I felt like having more words might not be more professional, but having more specific word is definitely more efficient and experienced.

What did not work?

The things that needs to be improved is the grammar and the starters. I used too many starters that it looks forced and squished in. Having tense – past, present, future – is really important. Unfortunately, these, I don’t have. I have the habit of mixing past and present.

Personal Relevance

After this unit, I feel it’ll help me in the future to have some new words to describe common words such as: brave, kind, nice…. Having this knowledge makes me feel more professional in writing paragraphs.

Unit 1 – Campaign for the Olympics Reflection🥇

September 24, 2025 /

What did I work on? 

During the Campaign for the Olympic unit, I worked on taking notes and putting them in a presentation for the reasons why the IOC (International Olympic Committee) should choose my country as the host city for the Olympics. We also focused on presenting a presentation and making note cards to help us remember during the presentation. Writing the script makes us combine all the information in the paper. Some information I’ll say some I leave it to the side. 

What did I learn? 

In the unit, we learned how and why global sporting events exist. They help different countries share their unique cultures and celebrate together through sports. People connect with each other comfortably. We learned through the BrainPop videos and learned some background information about the Olympics such as when it started, when it “ended” and when it “came back”. That one athlete worked hard to bring the Olympic back. 

What Worked? 

Something that worked is that I can take important notes of specific paragraphs instead of noting down the unimportance. I worked on making a presentation and adding only a few words to represent the important information. Furthermore, we worked on writing the quotes on note cards to help us remember during the presentation instead of panicking when you forgot what to say. 

What did not work? 

Something that did not work is not practicing enough time on the presentation and that causes me to have too many filler words. The presentation also got mixed up when the pages switched itself. 

Personal Relevance 

This project increases the knowledge about Olympics and how the athletes worked hard to bring the Olympic back. This helps in the future when playing sports and thinking about how the other people also work hard to compete with each other. By doing this project, I can have more background knowledge about the IOC and how it chooses the countries to host the Olympics.  

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