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Life without the (Loon) Lakers

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While my classmates were at Loon Lake, I was home. There were like 20 people in the gr 10 PLP class that went to the Loon Lake retreat trip for 5 days. Guess what, I didn’t go but it lowkey wasn’t my decision becuase my parents decided that but they thought Toronto would be such more of an experience. The lakers did a climbing wall
. Fun fact, climbing walls aren’t my thing. Instead of going to Loon Lake, I gave those days to myself. It was only a 3 day week becuase Monday and Friday was pro D, that was a score. The first 2 days I went to my grandmas house and stayed there overnight to hang out with her and help her around the house. The third day my dad and I went on an arrands trip and got stuff done! Then I went to last class so Madeline can have a bit of emotional support there. We made a juicy or streaky video too:

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I didn’t really take notes on my adventurous 3 days but I did take a photo with Tucker in the truck when we were waiting for my dad in the ski shop and sharing a bag of fishy crackers (the fishy crackers didn’t make it into the photo, I’m holding up bread).

Throughout the next 5 days, I want to focus on being ready for bed before 11 so I can get a good nights rest and be ready to conquer the next day. I will keep track of my progress bu checking my clock when I’m done. Unfortunately I wont be able to take photos because I’m lowkey not supposed to be on my iPad or phone past 11
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The big takeaway from that week, is take some time for yourself. Do activities for YOU and not for other people. Go spend time with family! Treat yourself once in a while and get your nails done or something becuase your the person your going to be spending every second of your day with.

Take Your Kid To Work Day- police officer 🚔

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Why hello there. We got asked to do ANOTHER blog post so here we go.

So take your kid to work day is a thing that almost all gr 9 students (and only grade 9’s) participate in each year. You go to work with your mom, dad, uncle, auntie, grandma and so on. But you only chose 1 for the day.

So of course, PLP being different then what the other grade 9’s do, we had to document the entire thing and make a video on iMovie. So anyways, we had to answer a driving question, How does experiencing a workday shape our view of career choices? Which I’ll be answering at the end of this post.

So I went over to the police detachment with my dad for the day. I was meant to wake up at 5, but I guess my alarm didn’t go off, so I literally had 15 minutes to get ready. Work started at 6 and ended at 6.

So we had to make a video on iMovie. We were supposed to interview someone and ask a couple questions like do you enjoy your job, would you recommend it and so on. Unfortunately, weren’t allowed to film inside the police detachment, but I did get my dad to take a couple photos. If you’re wondering, Carmyn, why didn’t you just film outside? Well most of the police officers were either undercover (face cant be shown + posted on social media), or just simply didn’t want to be on YouTube. So I decided, why not just get ready with me while I tell you about my TYKTWD experience. So here it is:

 

To answer the driving question (how does experiencing a workday shape our view of career choices?), I think it shapes our view of career by opening our view to the world and living a day in the life of what the job you have a curiosity about. Obviously 1 day doesn’t show you everything they do in this world but its good to see even if it’s just a day. Who knows, maybe that’ll be your job until you’re old đŸ€·â€â™€ïž

 

Anyways, have a good rest of your day:)

Xoxo, Carmyn 💋

It’s The End Of The World As We Know It Project!

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Have you ever wondered how many steps are in a project? How many assignments you have to get done to reach the end? I sure have. For Humanities we had to do our first project with lots of projects  along the way. At the end of the project, we had to answer the driving question, how can a text help me understand how my worldview is changing. You can see my answer to this if you continue reading. 

 Reading The Outsiders:

S.E Hinton wrote The Outsiders when she was in hight school. It was such an amazing book to read with lots of action. We had to take notes along the way so were prepared if we have any assignments we have time do on it. While we were reading the book, we had to answer something called “Role Sheets”. Role sheets are just sheets that you answer. Sometimes you have to draw something that you could relate to, or you might just be writing a whole bunch of words. Yes, words. Sometimes the questions for me were hard to answer and took a lot of thought. Most of the time it wasn’t fun. Anyways, you get put in these groups, where you’ll share your role sheet with. The groups normally have 2-3 other people and you will do a different sheet every week but there are only 3 in total.

Music Video:

Making The Lyrics.

Up above you read about how we had groups that we discussed our role sheets with. Well surprise surprise, I was with the same group this entire project. Yup, a lot of time with the same people. They were great to work with and kept me on task lots of the time. We got lots of work done as a group. Anyways, back to about the lyrics. Everyone in the group had to write lyrics for the same song, Its The End Of The World As We Know It by R.E.M. My group and I decided that my lyrics went smoother with the original song and just were the best in general. My group members had to change a couple of words because apparently they didn’t make sense.

Singing The Song.

It probably took us 5 times to sing the song as goos as we could do it before getting it right. The lyrics were hard to read and sing really fast because if you listen to the song here you can see that it gets a bit faster throughout it. Our voices are all different. My voice was probably the highest (I don’t know if that’s a good thing). Sorry, that doesn’t really have anything to do with this, but I guess you can hear me in it 😁. I think the recording ended out being pretty good. I had a couple of moments but its all good 👍.

Making The Music Video.

We have 2 music videos. One that we could post on YouTube and one that has a whole bunch of pictures of us and our friends that we don’t want all over YouTube. I did lots of the work on the second video but then another member of the group took out all the photos of us for it to be posted on YouTube. Here is the video:

 

Worldview MindNode.

This a project that we did closer to the start of this all. We wrote this to help us understand our own worldviews. There were 7 sections we had to write about and how they relate to our own worldview. I did this really last minute so it isn’t the best I could’ve done. Here it is:

Thanks:

Thank you for reading to the end of my post! Have an amazing rest of your dayđŸ«¶.

My Maker Reflection Post!🐒

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Hi guys, welcome back to another post! Today I’m reflecting on my PLP work that I have done so far.

This is my Memoji video that we had to make. It didn’t take me long to screen record and all that but if you watch the first three seconds or so, you’ll see that I couldn’t edit out the music I was playing in the background. Something I could’ve done differently was not listening to the music before screen recording. I also had to re-do my voice overs because there were a lot of noises in the backgrounds before I re-did it. This is my video:

 

We had a Keynote presentation that we had to fill out with all these cool fidgets and drawings you could make. I am really proud of a Nike shoe we had to design using colour fill. I didn’t use colour fill for the small bits because it was hard to do that without it looking splotchy. I think one thing I could’ve done better was not rushing through it because we still had lots of time. Here it is:

In an app called WordPack, we had to make a WordPack of words that describe yourself. I think I could’ve used some “better”, juicier words to describe myself because some of them don’t really make sense. I could’ve been more creative with the colours. Check it out here:

So who am I as a PLP learner?

I think I am a curious, flexible, open-minded learner. I always have a question about every project and always want to know more. I am flexible and open minded and will normally adjust if a plan gets changed last minute. I love working in groups because then I get to share and hear other peoples ideas on the project that we’re working on.

Thank you for reading to the end of my post!! Have a great day😉.

 

🏐Volleyball🏐- and why you should try it!

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This is my first post!!! In Maker we had to write a post about something you really like. Like many other people, I like so many things. It’s hard to only like one thing, but I had to chose. But I decided to write about volleyball.

Volleyball is such an amazing sport to play. It is fun, easy to learn and it makes you fitter! But dont worry, I will explain more on why you should play it. Volleyball is fun for so many reasons. For me, having an amazing spike or overhand serve that goes over the net, is such a great feeling to have. Making sure that volleyball is fun is very important. If you aren’t having fun, they why would you continue playing? You can tell all your friends to join a league so you can play volleyball together to make it even more fun. If not, take your volleyball (if you have one) over to Myrtle and practice bumping and setting to each other! Volleyball is also really easy to learn. To start off all you need to know how to bump and set. It’s pretty simple but I cannot explain over writing. You can search up how to do this on YouTube. Here is a video of the postions in volleyball:

Here is a video of a drill that you can do to improve your bumping:

It’s actually way easier than you think if you actually try to learn how to play. Volleyball also makes you fitter because you’re moving around, but doesn’t tire you out. I love volleyball for so many reasons and those were only some. I would play volleyball every day if I could and hope someday I could. Thank you for reading my choice post. Hopefully you can try volleyball!