Organization: I am becoming more responsible for myself I do mu own laundry, help with meals, and and keep appointments, and keep track of important papers.
Stress Resilience: When I have problems, I turn others for support.
Healthy Relationships: I am able to resolve conflict in a productive way with family and friends. We are able to talk through conflict so that it doesn’t not contiune.
Rest and Play: I have at least one hobby or interest that renews me, and I take intentional time for it on a regular basis.
Handling Emotions: I am able to communicate my emotions in a positive way without being irritable, critical, or angry.
Spirituality: I have a clear sense of meaning and purpose in my life.
School and Work: I am personally happ with my grades.
Care for the Body: I determine what is right for me, in terms of weight and appearance, rather than letting my peers or the culture determine that for me.
I used to think that mental health meant that it only effect you mind/brain. I also though that there was only 1 type of mental health disorder, and that mental health was just depression and that you would get over it in a few days
But now I think that not only can mental health effect your mind, but it can also effect you body and you every day life. I also learned that there are multiple type of mental health disorders, and that there are mental health disorders that can last multiple years. On the outside it might might seem like they are just a normal person, that they don’t have any mental health disorders. But in the inside you actually don’t know what there going through, it might sound like it is very easy to cure, and its not that bad. But when your actually experiencing it you struggle.
In the beginning of the year I didn’t take much care of my science notebook, there would be lots of spaces between my notes, and wasn’t really using the whole page. As the year continued on, when I was trying to find my notes it was hard for me to find my notes. Which taught me to be more organized with my notes. My science notebook became more useful as the school year continues, as I took my care of the notes I added to the note book and added it to my table of contents. When I needed to find notes for a earlier lesson, I was able to go back to my table of contents and find the notes that I needed.
Evidence of Active Learner Habits
After reading through the comments that Mr.Tafel left for me, in semester 1 something I could keep on working on is adding more specificity to my CERs.
Evidence of Understanding of Key Concepts
As shown here I usually get 2’s for my 3 for 3’s, so this part of science is something I still need to work on for the rest of the semester.
Evidence of Growth in Science Skills
Developing and Using Models
Constructing Explanations and Designing Solutions
Engaging in Argument from Evidence (CER)
Asking Questions and Defining Solutions
Using Mathematics and Computational Thinking
Obtaining, Evaluating, and Communicating Information
In the beginning of the year I was still learning how to write a CER, so my evidence wasn’t really that strong. I lacked specific evidence from the sources. After that I started learning from other what strong specific evidence looked like. So for the future CER’s that I did i always remembered to state specific sources from the text.
Social Studies
Strengths:
Effective collabrator
Always prepared for class
Research Skills
Areas for Growth:
Active listener
Time management
Critical thinking
I added this because in this unit we had to interview someone that has migrated to a place. In this project I had to use my active listening skills to listening to the interviewee and asking them about their life.
In this unit we set a WOOP goal for ourselves. Mine was to get more and better sleep at night, and we all had to download a app that could help us active our goal.
I added this because for our unit 1 project we had to create a presentation about where we would like to go, it can be imaginary or in real life. For this project I worked with Olivia, we had to describe the the place that we choose, and we choose Malibu from barbie dream house. We had to be a effective communicator and use creative thinking. Also, for extension we had to plan a 5 day trip for our Chinese teacher (Ms.Song).
I added this artwork because we got to learn about the light and and the dark tones in a picture. And we also learned how to use procreate to draw our self portrait. We also had to make a mind map of what is important to us/our values and we had to make them into symbols.
When I first started playing pickleball, I was really bad at getting the ball. My serves were not served into the correct place and I missed easy shots. However, with practice and hard work, I slowly got better. With my partners help I started to enjoy the game more. Now, I’ve improved and happy to keep playing.
Throughout this unit I learned more about how our amygdala gets triggered which makes me understand more about how I feel sometimes whether its feeling stressful or happy. This is because the limbic system controls emotions and motivations form deep inside the brain, and a key player of the limbic system is the amygdala. In this unit we also learned to find our breath anchor. So when we the amygdala is triggered we can breath thought our breath anchor which can calm us down and activate our parasympathetic nervous system.
One strength I bring to math class is collaborate well with others, no matter who I get put with on a table, I can always discuss things and collaborate well with others. Another strength I bring is staying organised in my notebook so I can find notes easily. A third strength I bring is having a positive attitude that creates a good learning environment for everyone around.
Area of Growth Identify one Active Learner habit you want to improve during second semester.
One habit I want to improve this semester is asking the teacher questions when I need help. This is an area of growth for me because when I don’t understand something, I don’t ask the teacher for help.
Plan for Growth Explain how you will work on improving this habit.
I will work on this habit by being more confident in asking questions when I don’t understand.
2. Math Notation and Communication
Reflection:
Over time, my math notebook shows that my work has become more organised over time.
3. Evidence of Understanding of Key Concepts
Choose two examples of your math learning that highlight your strengths and growth.
One math learning that highlights my strengths is the Design a Story Problem. I was very fun working together with Zoey, we helped each other understand the task and helped each other through solving the problem. We double checked and corrected each other work multiple times. We were able to correctly identified each interval, calculated slopes using two points and write equations in both slope-intercept and point-slope form.
Final Reflection:
After both examples, write one sentence describing your overall understanding of key math concepts.
Overall, my work shows that I can work well with others to solve math problems. The examples provided highlight my progress and improvement in understanding mathematical concepts and applying them to real-world scenarios.
Part 1: Unit 2 Topic A and B Test Reflection (Functions & Statistics)
A. Evidence of Your Best Thinking
Select two questions from your Unit 2 test that best show your thinking.
I chose Question _____ as evidence of my best thinking because
I chose Question _____ as evidence of my best thinking because
B. Skills Reflection
Complete each sentence honestly and thoughtfully.
Throughout Unit 2, I improved the most at
Filling the blank in the formula and solving
One skill from this unit that I still need to work on is
Correlation vs causation and the equations and formulas
The biggest challenge for me on this assessment was
For some questions I didn’t really understand what it asked me
One strategy that helped me on this test was
Studying more the night before the test.
Part 2: Goal Reflection & End-of-Semester Check-In
A. Looking Back at Your Last Goal
Last unit, you set this goal: To get better grades
How well did you work toward this goal? ☐ Very well X Somewhat ☐ I struggled with this
What helped you make progress toward this goal?
Studying before the test
What got in the way of this goal (if anything)?
After school actives, I have swimming training everyday so i would study after swimming which is late at night and i cant really stay up that late so i dont really study for a long time.
B. End-of-Semester Self Reflection
List three strengths you have shown last semester:
Solving formulas, the story, sticker project
List three areas you still want to improve:
Studying, creating formulas, getting 3s.
C. New Academic Goal Moving Forward
Complete all parts:
In the next unit I want to…
Focus more on the parts that Im not that confident about and checking my work to make sure I did everything and got it correct.
What might get in the way of this goal?
By study more of the things that I need to work on.
What will I do if I get stuck or need help?
By talking to adult or the math teacher and ask for help.
Our story was about this girl called Lamara, her parents didn’t her use their American Express black card and cut her allowance to $1000 for Lululemon and $500 for sephora. So she started doing social media to earn money, but she got caught spending the money instead of donating it to the African penguins. So, in the line graph that we made we showed her expenses and how much she made. I am most proud of creating the story. The hardest part of creating the piecewise function was doing all the calculations. We had to redo the calculations so many time because we sometimes had to change the graph and there were also different was to look and understand the graph so we were a bit confused. If I could change one thing, maybe we could make the question and the story clearer so it would be easier to understand and easier to create the graph. This project really helped me understand and practice calculating the slopes in different ways.
I want my artwork to show my personality, identity and interests. I used sea shells to express my love for the ocean. The colors pink and gold represent warmth and happiness. I want my audience to feel joy and a connection to my work.
During the creation of my artwork, I took used new materials to make symbols, I incorporated elements like sea shells and strawberries i to add depth and interest. This helped me express my personality and effectively communicated my intended message.
In the robotics we got paired up with a partner and we had 3 part to this unit, controller, wall racer, and stacking challenge. For the controller part of the unit, we had to add gear to our robot so it could have the fastest time to go around the classroom. For the wall racer part of the unit we had to create a code so the robot would go the wall and once it touches the wall it has to come back to the starting line. Lastly for the stacking challenge, we had to rebuild the whole robot to how it was in the beginning and then build a claw for the robot so it could pick up the blocks and stack them. For the wall racer I think I could work on the coding better, because our robot kept on spinning in circles instead of going straight.
