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.

Poetry ILT

Last week, at our school, all the grade 6s took part in a ILT. The ILT started on Wednesday and ended on Friday. ILT stands for Integrated Learning Task. For this particular ILT we were all put into groups of 3. But i was in a group of 4, because we have 20 in our class so one group had to be a group of 4. So this ILT was an English one, and we did poetry. In one of the tasks we each had to select a style of writing our poem and and a theme, then write it. The options were  Haiko, Colour poem, Cinquain, Limerick, Acrostic poem and a Concrete poem. Out of all of these, I chose the color poem. If you don't know what a color poem is, you should google it and find out, but I'll give you a picture. Our groups theme was a Wave This was my poem:

Turquoise

Turquoise is swift, just like a wave.

Turquoise feels like a relief of stress.

Turquoise smells like the ocean.

Turquoise is a calm, swift movement.

Turquoise tastes like bubblegum ice-cream.

We had 5 tasks to do as a group and 1 task to do individually. We had a poetry slam on Friday, where our whole group had to think of one theme and each have lines to present to the grade as a group. ours  was about the dark.

The Dark

Noah

The night is dark and silent

Nothing to be heard

Nothing to do

Nowhere to go

Nothing to see

Sean

It's dark, it's scary, and it's not a dream.....

UNLESS someone is with me, in the dark...

If that was the case I'd feel safer.... But WATCHED....

Sometime I wonder if people watch over me in the dark, BUT ILL NEVER KNOW

Because I'm in the dark

Reef

It is so quiet

Actually to quite

My brothers at college

My parents are away

I can hear scratching on the wall

Brendan

I see green eyes

Some thing ran down the hall

This is creeping me out

And I heard something fall

Also, The eyes are back at my door

If you're wondering what was in the dark, it was a cat.

Our English teacher let our group do it in assembly which was on that same day just later on. A few other groups also did this. Another exciting thing that's coming up tomorrow until Friday is camp! The whole grade is going on camp. we just figured out who's in who's cabins. I'm with Max, Calum, Luke S, Bash, Ollie, Zac M and myself. I'm just so excited!