Organization: My backpack, locker, and bedroom are all organized, and I can get my hands on anything I might need rather quickly.
Stress Resilience: I am addressing any physical symptoms that may be related to stress in my life, such as trouble sleeping, headaches, outbursts of anger, or feelings of depression.
Healthy Relationships: My friends and I share the same values.
Rest and Play: I am confident that the amount of time I spend connected to technology such as video games, TV, computer, Facebook, and cell phone is good for my overall well-being.
Handling Emotions: I have a solid and healthy sense of confidence in myself.
Spirituality: I forgive others and I forgive myself.
School and Work: I am always on time for school, work, and other commitments.
Care for Body: Most days I get at least eight hours of sleep at normal sleeping hours.
I used to think that mental health was something that would affect people’s feelings. Since I watched a lot of movies that had misconceptions about mental health, I thought that it was more of an illness or virus that can control or takeover people, often causing people to turn into murders or be “crazy”. I also used to think that there was only depression that counts as mental health and split personalities.
But now I think mental health is something very serious and more people should be aware of it. I learned that there are more types of mental health, even within depression (like Clinical depression, etc.). Now I know that from all the movies I have watched, it is all exaggerating the symptoms or sometimes even making them up. I also learned anyone can have mental health (like family, friends, etc.).
I’ve also changed to think that we should support people that have mental health disorders. However, people with mental health disorders sometimes just act like normal people so we should be more careful about what we say. I’ve also realized that mental health disorders are more complicated then just affecting people’s emotions. Since, for example, schizophrenia can cause people to hallucinate and have delusions, making them see or hear things that normal people can’t.
I have improved on being prepared at the start of class. I also improved on meeting the requirements since at the start of the school year I still needed some reminders but now I don’t need reminders. Lastly, I improved on asking more questions for clarification. I need improve on participating during class and raising my hand.
Understanding of Key Concepts:
I have mostly all 3s for my 3 for 3s, proving that I understand what is we are learning during class.
Growth toward Learning Standards:
Here are all the standards:
Standard 1: Developing and Using Models
Standard 2: Constructing Explanations and Designing Solutions
Standard 3: Engaging in Argument from Evidence (CER)
Standard 4: Asking Questions and Defining Problems
Standard 5: Using Mathematics and Computational Thinking
Standard 6: Obtaining, Evaluating, and Communicating InformationΒ Β Β
I chose to talk about Standard 3.
Before:
After:
These evidence show how I improved from including reasoning in the evidence to separating them. So, this also shows how I have improved and learn from my mistakes.
I always arrive on time, turn in my work on time, and resubmit my work to get higher grades when needed.
Perform:
As mentioned in my report cards, I have inconsistency with my assignments, and I need to improve on making pieces or playing pieces more complex. I also need to improve on identifying music symbols. However, I do a good job applying the finger chart, identifying note names, and performing rhythms on the staff.
Create:
I enjoy creating music but also follow the criteria at the same time. Although sometimes I try to make it simple, it sounds really good, and it shows my creativity.
Responding:
I can use the music vocabulary we learn in class when talking/writing about music and applying it to my own experiences.
Action/Plan:
In order to improve, I want to practice longer at home and try to play more complex pieces to improve.
Extended My Learning:
I joined Jazz Band this year. I also take outside-of-school classes and participate in performances if possible.
Unit 1: We reviewed material from last year and the year before, focusing on vocabulary and verb conjugations. We also created an “About Me” presentation and met some new students.
Unit 2: We learned about how to be healthy in different ways and how to avoid being unhealthy. We learned about the word “doler” and how to say the different parts of the body.
Unit 3: We are currently learning about the environment and the consequences, solutions, and causes of pollution or anything bad for the environment are.
Throughout this year, I think I improved on reading comprehension since we have a book called Alejandro.
We picked Castle in the Sky because we’ve played another song similar to it before this performance. I learned that I actually really enjoy playing these slow pieces because they sound more beautiful.
I learned that I might play pieces that are not school related more to practice my flute and to improve. I think I improved on my sight-reading because I practiced pretty well, and I knew the notes and most of the melody really quickly. Since I think I improved on my sight-reading, I think I am more confident about it.
A challenge was working with a new instrument since last year I worked with clarinets and flutes, but I’ve never worked with a saxophone. Also, another challenge was that the piece we chose was a solo piece, so there are some slight clashes in areas, but we tried to fix it.
I think some factors are teamwork, collaboration, and flexibility.
My WOOP goal was to eat less junk food, and I used this app called Habit Tracker that reminds me not to do it. When I eat junk food, it triggers the dopamine in my brain. So instead of eating junk food, I decided to ignore it by doing homework or scrolling on my phone. Also, soon after I set my goal, I learned that most of my temptation to do things comes from the influence of friends or family. So, I decided to just overcome the temptation by drinking more water (since I barely drink any water). Indeed, this did help me overcome my urge at school and at home. In conclusion, I learned that it is easy to overcome temptations as long as I am really determined to do something and my temptation or challenge for this goal is mostly from influence from people around me.
My choice was to eat healthy, and I used the app Habit Tracker by starting with eating fewer cookies and chips. The outcome I hope to achieve is to lose weight and to develop a habit of eating more healthily. Since I eat about 1 bag of chips and 1 cookie every day.
So far, I eat a lot of junk food at home when I arrive home from school, and so I am trying to change this habit.
Part 2:
It includes a stress meter, a monthly report, an overview, a group task (completing tasks with a friend), completing tasks alone, and a mood tracker. I mostly use the completing tasks alone feature because the app also sends notifications/reminders. Technology can help us by being a tracker and a way of reminding us to complete the goals we’ve set for ourselves.
So now, I don’t eat any cookies and chips. A challenge is the temptation to eat cookies, but, thankfully, recently the school doesn’t sell chocolate cookies. So, I haven’t eaten any. Additionally, for chips, the store next door near my house doesn’t have the specific flavor of chips I eat anymore, so that isn’t a problem either.
Part 3
Short term: A strategy is whenever I have the urge to eat those foods, I will find something else to do (like start doing homework). This can help me ignore the urge and instead do something that I enjoy. So, this strategy helps my temptation by ignoring it and instead trying to “cover” it by becoming busy with other things.
Long term: I might change my goal to avoid some other junk food. Additionally, for example, chronic stress can affect the bodyβs use of calories and nutrients in various ways. It raises the bodyβs metabolic needs and increases the use and excretion of many nutrients. If one does not eat a nutritious diet, a deficiency may occur.” Therefore, eating healthy is important in order to avoid stress eating.
My story was about how a girl called Nancy Noodle was working at a restaurant, but because she was off-tasking during her work time, her payment got lowered, and she was very angry. A week after her payment got lowered, she quit her job, and in a short time period, she spent all her money on food and $2 on a lottery ticket. Lucky for her, she won and earned 500!!!!!!
I am really proud about how and Bobo came up with this awesome story π because I think we made it really fun and entertaining by adding exclamation marks in an attempt to show emotions (even though this isn’t ELA).
I think the hardest part was analyzing the graph and answering each question one by one since it took a lot of time (even though there were 2 of us). I think the hardest question was the last one about “which form of the equation (slope-intercept form and/or point-slope form) is most effective in modelling the problem?” since I didn’t really understand it at first, but after my friend explained it I understood.
I would have added more to the answer for the question of “which form of the equation (slope-intercept form and/or point-slope form) is most effective in modelling the problem?” since, like I said, I didn’t really understand it) but also because I wasn’t really sure which one to choose. It was also done a little bit last second because I wasn’t there on the first day.
It helps us better understand by letting us come up with a real-world example to help us learn. So now we know an example or more (because we saw some examples) about how piecewise functions is related to real-world situations
Audience Insight: What key message do you want your audience to understand about you as they view your artwork? How did you communicate this message? I want them to understand what I like and what I value. I made headphones to show that I like listening to music, and I put a dragon to show that I like dragons and I am the Chinese dragon zodiac. I also tried to create the number 77 in the background to show that it is my favorite number and it is what my number is for volleyball. I also created a starfish to show what I am like (unique), and it is my favorite animal.
Risk and Experimentation: During the creation of your artwork, how did you take risks and experiment in order to effectively express your intended message? I experimented with how to create the dragon, since I have never drawn a dragon ever, and I thought it was going to be easy, but it wasn’t. I tried to draw it out and layer paper on top of it, but that didn’t work, so I tried to print a photo out and layer paper on top of that instead, which did work, and it turned out pretty good. π
