Month: June 2017

The great moments in Canadian history!

Recently in PLP our class did a unit on the most important parts of Canadian history. We learned about everything from colonization and imperialism in early Canada to the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway. Our unit started off with learning about the initial exploration and settlement of both the French and British in Canada. Canada started off with very…

TPOLS!

This year instead of the usual student lead conferences (SLCs), we are doing a more open ended conference meeting called Tpols which are based around a driving question “Why do you feel you are ready to advance to the next grade?” In the past with SLCs, we were given a script that tells us how and what to include in…

Blue Sky

Last week our class finished one of our biggest projects of the year called the blue sky project, these projects we do twice a year and are very open ended projects being based off a inquiry question. This year the project was based off of solving a problem that either babies, children, Tweens, elders, and pets faced. At first I…

Fairytale job?

A couple of weeks ago we started a new part of our health and career unit about education and career. This part consisted of a bunch of mini projects including a gifted writing prompt, a timeline of events in our life so far, a couple of career tests and a movie about my future. The first thing we did was…

What I Carry

At the beginning of our health and career unit, we were introduced to a project called “What Do I Carry?” This was kind of an introduction paragraph to explain to the class who we are. We first started off the assignment by reading the requirements of the project and then learned that we would be using Keynote , an app we…

My Future

Since the beginning of this term, we have been working on a new unit on the geography of Canada which led up to a big final video assignment called Project Frankenstuffy. We started this unit off by learning the introduction to geography including climate, physical regions, cultural landscapes, natural regions and precipitation. At the same time that we started learning…

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