Hey guys! We just finished a project called New Beginnings. To start our project we made a Seycove advertisement. The Seycove part of it had nothing to do with our actual project, but the photo part of it was meant to fine-tune our photo editing skills.

Then we learned about fur trade some more and watched this video: It is AMAZING!! I highly suggest watching this series of videos, about Canada’s history. It is VERY interesting.

After that, we practiced some nature photography, and I have a few photos here that you can check out.

Then we got on to making our image. We pitched our idea to our teacher, then once the teacher approved it, we went out and took a final photo. Here’s my pitch and my final photo:

My topic is beaver trade.

The photo that I’m going to take is a photo of a little pond that is on the way of where I walk to school. It is sort of beside Myrtle.

For my visual one I’m going to have what’s good about beaver trade. I’m going to have a beaver on a log, the half beaver coin, and a gun.

For my visual two, I’m going to have what’s bad about beaver trade. A gravestone, a French flag, and a British flag to represent the conflict of the two sides. (at the end I didn’t actually add the two flags I thought something else would look better).

After that, we went on and made our final product! The website we used is Flourish, and it is great to make stuff just like this!

Here you go! (Slide the white line with the dot on it left and right to see the beauty of Flourish)

Hey guys, today I’m going to be talking about the end of DI. If you haven’t read my mid-DI post yet, please do so. In my DI group I had Sofia, Cameron, Keenan, Jessie, Mackenzie, and Max.

I learned a lot of important things on this project, mostly about teamwork. You cannot do a whole DI project by yourself. It just doesn’t work. You must have a working team, and all of the team members must be willing to do work. I think another very important thing that I learned is that communication is VERY important. Without proper communication, some people may not show up to an important work session.

We worked very hard to build the hazards and devices on time. They were the most important part of the performance. Yet the performance didn’t work out to well. One of our daring devices broke when we were coming in, and the other device didn’t go over two of the hazards. You can see the performance here.

There were many major steps in DI.

1. We needed to get to know the challenge. We had to highlight different parts of the rule book to make sure that we understood it.

2. We had to write the script, build the hazards, devices, and props.

3. Then, there was dress rehearsal 1. We presented what we had so far to the teachers, and they gave us feedback on how we did.

4. Using that feedback, we prepared for dress rehearsal 2. The same thing happened, they gave us feedback for dress rehearsal 3.

5. Then we had dress rehearsal 3. In this one we had everything we needed for the presentation, because the presentation was that weekend! I couldn’t believe how fast it snuck up on us.

6. We had our presentation. Then, we made this blog post!

Thanks for reading! Bye!

Hi everyone!

We recently did a project on the Renissance. We had to make a paragraph and a triptych. On our triptych, we need to have three different inventions, artists, engineers, or someone/something of value in the Renissance.

I chose eyeglasses, time, and music in the Renissance.

“Eye” thought that eyeglasses are important because they helped blind or poor sighted people see and make money for their family. Because eyeglasses have helped a lot of members in my family, I think that they are very important.

Another thing was music. I love music as you can see in some of my other blog posts. I chose a royal conservatory book, a painting, and a Renissance composer to represent it.

The third thing that I chose was time. I chose to show how it has changed. It has changed from a sundial to a watch or Apple Watch.

Here is my paragraph and tryptich!

Time Throughout the Renaissance

Is time so important/not important? Why? How does the invention of time effect us today? I find that the invention of time has been very helpful. The idea of time started a while ago, but it was only measured in years, weeks, days, and sometimes hours. Time began with sundials in ancient Egypt, and has continued on to today. According to my research, time in the early Renaissance was told by sundials. Because of the sundial, it depended on where you lived and what time of year it was to see how long the hour was. So the sundial was not very accurate. The clock was invented in the late Renaissance by Christiaan Huygens. Now, time can be hours, minutes, and even seconds. Different activities start at different times. Eventually, humans figured out how to make an electric clock that you can wear on your wrist. This has helped kids to keep track of time, so we can be more organized and so that our parents can give us a certain time to be home by. I find time important because it gives people a chance to make a certain time to meet or go to an activity. Time also has made some people over-schedule, causing stress or anxiety. Overall, I think that time has effected us in a good way. I’d rather have many activities because of time than have little or no activities because there is no time. 

Sources:

https://www.britannica.com

https://rauantiques.com/blogs/canvases-carats-and-curiosities/when-time-was-born-renaissance-period-clocks

Recently, we went to Loon Lake Lodge and Retreat centre to advance. Sounds weird right? Anyways, we went to Loon Lake, which is in maple ridge to advance our learning. We had many amazing experiences there and I made a book about it.

Book creator is an app that you can use to make Ebooks. I also have another Ebook on poetry. This was meant to be a short post to showcase my book. I’ll show you the book, but first I want to tell you a little bit about my experience with Loon Lake.

When I got there, I was a bit surprised that there were no loons. I thought that I’d see one. They might only come out in spring and summer. My favourite part was either laser tag or battle archery. In battle archery you hit other people with arrows with styromfoam tips.

Here’s my

Learning Advance 2022

Click to read this book, made with Book Creator

https://read.bookcreator.com

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Hey guys and welcome back to my blog! Today I’m going to be talking about our Destination Imagination challenge, The Daring Escape. I’ll also talk about how much I think that D.I. This year was different from last year.

It is hard to make a post about DI because I can’t say anything about what we are designing for the challenge. My teammates in DI are Jessie, Sofia, Keenan, Cameron, Max, and Mackenzie.

Our challenge this year is to make 2 Daring Devices to go over three Hazards. One of the Daring Devices must be electric, and the other can’t be electric. In this challenge, a Hazard is either a barrier, a hole, a hoop, a moveable object, a tunnel, uneven terrain, or a team defined hazard. We chose uneven terrain, a tunnel, and a barrier.

The DI definition of a barrier is a Hazard that blocks a path along the tournament-provided floor. To successfully overcome the hazard all parts of the Daring Device must start on one side of the Barrier and travel completely over the Barrier to the other side. The Daring Device must not travel around, under, or through the Barrier.

The DI definition of a tunnel is a Hazard that is physically enclosed on its sides and top, with openings for an entrance and an exit. The entrance and exit may be any shape. To complete the challenge, the Daring Device must enter at one end of the Tunnel and exit at the other end of the Tunnel. All parts of the Daring Device must be fully within the Tunnel before it exits.

The DI definition of Uneven Terrain is a Hazard with a surface that is not smooth. To complete the hazard, all parts of the Daring Device must cross over the surface of the Uneven Terrain. The weight of the Daring Device must be fully supported by the surface before leaving the Uneven Terrain.

How is DI different this year than last year? DI is a lot different this year than last. Last year it was online, so it was sort of difficult to do the challenge. We got second place in the main challenge, and I don’t know how we did in the instant challenge. The instant challenge was also different, because we had about a day to complete it.

Thanks for reading! Bye!