ILT

Last week we had an ILT. This ILT was about changing bodies, puberty, friendship and friendship issues. My favorite part of the ILT was the physical theater.

We had to walk around randomly, and then our Drama teacher, told us to get into groups of 4. My group was a group of five. Luke, Bash, Daniel and Daniel were in my group. We had to choose a topic on Google Classroom and then there would be a folder of songs inside. The topics were Self Image, Family Relationships, Overcoming Hardships and Friendships. We chose Overcoming Hardships and the song in that folder that we chose was Bob Marley - Get Up Stand Up, which only Bash and Luke wanted to do, but when we tried to pick another song we were asked if it linked to our lives or something going on in our lives and we all said no. so then we were told to do the Bob Marley song even though that didn't really have a meaning either. But the rest of us dealt with. Then we had to come up with the moves and practice and on Friday we had to perform. We got an hour or 2 on Wednesday and 1 Hour or so on Thursday and 5 minutes to revise just before the performance on Friday.

The rest of the ILT was just talks. We had a talk with Mr Preston, Matthew, Roger and Cyndi. Mr Preston's talk was about changing bodies and hormones, Matthew's was about Self Image, and I can't really remember what Roger's was about because some of the boys in our group just wouldn't be quiet and wouldn't let Roger speak that much. But what I did hear from him, it was about friendships. Cyndi was talking about how you solve friendship problems and gave us a small task to do.

I think this ILT could have been improved by more activities because there was only one activity, and that was the physical theater.

Email Etiquette

In IT we've been doing this task on how to write a proper email, how to write an email to your teacher, and what the difference is between an email to your teacher and your friend. We had to first listen to a video that would teach us about email etiquette, and then we had to write 5 points to remember when writing an email to a teacher. Then we all wrote an email to our teacher asking her a question about anything school related. This was to kind of test to see if we used those 5 points when we were writing to our teacher. I don't think I learnt much from this because I already do these things when I email a teacher.

My 2017 so far!

I can't believe 2016 is gone! I feel like everything that happened in 2016 was just yesterday... Hopefully my 2017 will be just as good, if not, better than my 2016 was! I've been liking grade 6 so far, same with 2017. This year I think I just need to do better in Afrikaans... I also want to focus on my sport as well. I also want to work much harder and get honors again this year. I also want to learn French this year so that when someone French starts talking to me, I don't have to say "Sorry I don't speak French.". I also want to focus on my speed, and athletics. I also want to be more confident during orals and I want to use much more expression. I also want to try to learn some new things this year. I think I'm going to like all of my teachers this year. Mr. Walker is really fun and makes us laugh a lot in class! Mrs. Copeland also makes me laugh and is very nice. Mrs Calitz is very nice as well. Mrs. Kent is a really cool teacher as well. All my teachers seem to be really fun this year, which I hope means this year will be fun too! The classes also seem like they're really interesting. I think 2017 will be a year to remember!