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100WCT4W2

The prompt: ‘But where do dit go?’ She shouted.

That night the clock struck 12 as the mysterious black hooded figure swept through the room, silent and sly like a fox. Swoosh went the shadow dancing across the floor. Under every bed and desktop, through every cabinet and drawer until there was only one room left. The master’s bedroom. The sleeping master was tossing and turning and when she turned to face the figure the precious diamond ring slipped off her finger. And like that, he was gone. The screams bellowed through the night: “But where did it go?” She shouted “And who took it?” And until this day the question remains.

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100WC T4W1

“As I accepted the role of the CEO I knew it would be tough but the weight being put on my shoulders was heavier than I expected. Being the first female CEO of this brand is making me feel like I have to do it right, perfect even. That I have to show women that it isn’t hard to become one unless you try. But I can’t deal with the pressure any more.”

I cried as I sat there at my mothers grave. She would tell me I could do it, that nothing is impossible! But ever since she left, nothing is possible.

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100WCT3W10

This week for 100 word challenge about these words: bicycle desperate yellow warned greedily. This week was a hard one because we had to do it about our exhibition topic. My topic is gender inequality so fitting those words into a story about that is really hard.

‘I want a job.’ I looked at my father right in the eye while I was wearing his favourite yellow dress of mine told him what I wanted.
‘You won’t get it honey, you’re acting a bit greedily,’ my father warned me. I was used to that answer, like it was a wheel on a bicycle. I was desperate for a job.
Why? Why am I trapped inside these walls? I saw men with briefcases and hospitals filled with male doctors. My body filled with anger. I want to change who I am to live freely and be myself. Why aren’t we all equal?

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Week 10 Exhibition Reflection

Week 10 has definitely been the most stressful week because we had to finish making conclusions for the holidays. I have currently finished my 3 information reports and my dance in P.E. I am currently working on my poems and my bar graph. I am struggling on my second poem because I am having trouble with finding inspiration. I have started to think about what I want my Exhibition to look like and how I am going to design and arrange it. I have created quote sheets and I am going to pin them up scattered around. I will also have a mind map of the interviews I did. It will start with a page that talks about why I wanted to do interviews and then it will going in a order of when I interviewed them. My art poster is a real struggle to do because I can’t find a ‘punchy’ message.

I am freaking out for the exhibition but I am super exited for the actual night!

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Responding to Feedback

Responding to feedback is a really important stage towards a successful learning experience. Mr Huebl proved that to us when he gave us the task of making a graph about the birthdays in our class until it was perfect. We watched Austin’s Butterfly, a video were this man teaches us how important it is to ask your friends for help on how to improve, keeping all of your drafts and to try again and again. Here are the drafts I made: P.S. please click on the image to read the description.

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Sorting out and Going Further Reflection

Sorting out and going further is almost over and we are about to enter the making conclusions stage. It was stressful realising how much research I have done and how much I need to do. I was also successful because I wrote a letter to a gender inequality specialist.

All of my lines of inquiry have been finished and my researching is all sorted but I am still worried that I haven’t done enough research. I’m not sure why I am still worried because I have interview a lot of people like our principal, my exhibition classroom teacher, my mum and dad and my teacher.

Those primary sources were a real boost for my exhibition research and gave me a whole different perspective on gender inequality. I am hoping to record some extra information on the weekend before it is all due on Monday.

This weeks mentor meeting went well and our dance is improving every second especially because we have got our 2 Howcast moves and have included it into our dance. We have started the exhibition in Art, we are doing a poster about our topic. It has to short sharp and shiny, not too crowded and powerful. In music we have been told that we are going to be doing something about our exhibition but the secret of what it is hasn’t been revealed. In media arts I am super behind and I need to catch up. I would enjoy talking to Mr. Steel about gender inequality.

I am super exited for the next step in our exhibition journey and I am ready to take on the challenge!

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100WCT3W8

The men just stood there still, lifeless, over 100 years ago they were real. Always bickering, always fighting. William and Thomas, brothers for life and frozen together. Both holding the scroll of power that made them who they are. In the 1920’s William and Thomas were both sons of the queen. William was older so he was going to be king and Thomas was not. Thomas was a jealous person and was always annoyed that he wasn’t going to be king. Thomas found the scroll of power and made the next person who touched it frozen. He handed it to William and now they are frozen together forever.

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Presenting 3D objects

We have carried on with our learning about 3D objects. This task was a bit of a struggle as we had to find as many cube nets as we could.

All of the ones I tried were correct and the way I checked them was by using this really cool website where it has a bunch of nets and you have to decide whether it makes a cube or not

And then I tested all of the other options and decided whether they folded to be a cube or not. I got one wrong because I think I was rushing a bit.

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Exhibition reflection: Week 6

We are at the end of our finding out stage, about to delve into the sorting out stage of our PYP Exhibition. I have done a lot of research and it has been a bit of a struggle trying to find resources that give me the information I want and trying to find out if it is a trustable website has also been difficult.

Staying on task and making a lot of progress has been one of my goals for this week and I think I have achieved that with a bit of difficulty as I can get distracted at times. I have recently discovered that at the end of the exhibition we are going to write a booklet or a report so that information has only made me more determined to stay on task and reach my goal.

Our dance in P.E. is going well and we are about to start doing exhibition in music. This week has been productive and I am a bit scared about finishing our finding out stage.

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Book week: Reading is my super power

Last week was book week and the theme was Reading is my super power. In writers writers workshop we made a comic about our character and what their secret power is. Drawing Mary Poppins and the doll was difficult and the way i had to word it was definitely time consuming but it was worth it because I am proud of my work.

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