The latest project the Grade 8s had to do in Humanities was a project called, “The Renaissance: A Change Engine”. The driving question was, “What significant developments emerged from the past and how have they impacted us today?”. The final overall products for this unit were a triptych and a paragraph about historical events from […]
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Learning At Loon Lake!
PLP 8 and PLP 9 had the chance to go on our very first learning extent (or advance) that was over night for multiple days! It took place at Loon Lake Lodge, check the website out to learn more about it! Luckily the ride was only around an hour since it was located in maple […]
Getting Down With DI…
Welcome! A Quick Insight About What Destination Imagination Is: Before I get into this post, what is DI? (DI is the short term form for Destination Imagination.) DI is a global competition that aims to inspire the next generation of leaders, innovators and creative problem solvers. In DI you get assigned a challenge to solve in […]
mPOL 2022
Welcome to my blog post about my mid-year presentation of learning, also known as mPOL. Learning Intent Let’s start with my learning intent from the start of the year: So far, I think I’m becoming better at sharing my voice and opinions. For example, in Scimatics when we were creating a laser display, I […]
“Perfecting” Poems.
:･ﾟ✧If you couldn’t tell by the title of this blog I’ve done something involving poetry. This something was actually writing a bunch of poems (10?) that express our worldview in a way. We didn’t come into this project knowing nothing about worldview though. Check out the project where we learned about worldview here! The PLP […]
Learning With Lasers
Welcome back, today I will be explaining the process of answering the driving question: “How can we test the pythagorean theorem and the law of reflection?” First off, what is the pythagorean theorem? The pythagorean theorem is the sum of the legs of a triangle that equal the hypotenuse (the side opposite from the right […]
Baking Does More Than Just Fill Our Stomachs…
Baking is more than just something that can help stop your hunger cravings, it is a hobby, passion or career that serves more than just filling your belly. Research has shown that baking is good for one’s well-being and it can even help the development of children! The fact it is good for mindfulness is […]
My Future Cookbook?!
Designing my future cookbook cover…! (Probably will be totally different if I ever make one, but that doesn’t matter) Want to see how it turned out?? Well, look down below! ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️ Wow, isn’t it lovely? 🥲 This photo happened to be my 57th photo, out of 60 attempts after trying 6 […]
7 facts you may not know about baking…
Here are seven things you might not know about baking (plus one extra) :D. First off, let’s start with where baking began… 1. You may think it’s some random person you have never heard of, but actually the Ancient Egyptians were the first to ever bake something. They baked bread using yeast that had previously been […]
“A Balanced Diet Is A Cookie In Each Hand” – Barbara Johnson
Here is my very dramatic backstory of how I got into baking. So… It all started with cookies and two young children. My friend and I were visiting Burnaby Village museum, at Christmastime (when we were 10 or 11) , when we went into a 1920’s era house. Inside, a woman was baking ginger sparkle […]