From The Darkness of Nu

This is my Creation Story Trailer, from my Ancient Egyptian Myths. Hope you enjoy! :P 

My Grade 6 Year

The 6th grade year has unfortunately come to and end. All through the year, there has been some ups and downs. Yet, even the year had it's bumps, I shall ever miss it. Especially my teachers; Mrs.Narsiman, Mrs.Smith, Mr.Smith, Ms.Fox, Ms. Thompson, Ms. Fulcher, and other teachers that taught me during this year. But there is always an ending for everything, nothing lasts forever. Now the time has come to move on to seventh grade. Seventh grade teachers do not know much about me, except, probably my name. Here is a reflection, that may help the teachers to understand my learning habits and me, more!

This year, I worked at my best, trying to create perfection out of my work. Even my learning, I've grown this year in many ways. My portfolio holds proof of that, for the portfolio From all the pieces of work I have done through this year, the one that I feel I've excelled at is the blog post that composed a story of a memory that frightened me. It was the Tiger Picture Blog post. This particular piece of writing stood out, because here I added details of emotion and action. Using descriptive words to clear out what I was feeling, what it looked like, what it sounded like, and so on. It was like taking a snap shot of the event, and going through the details slowly and carefully. Unfortunately though, that week was the week that I had to go back to the US, and it totally slipped my mind that we had that there was blog-post. So, this was turned in late, not exactly my best pieces, but I still feel I outdid the content. As there were times that I felt proud of, there were also times where I felt challenged.

During the course of this year, one thing that challenged me the most was communicating. It's always been in my nature to be quiet and shy. Making new friends or meeting new people was weird, especially when I had to start the conversation. This year, I was separated from my friends from last year, and at the beginning of the year I had been almost alone, but gradually, I became to know some of the kids in my class. Still throughout the year I had some troubles when working in groups or pairs. I still hadn't gotten any better at being less bashful, so being around students who I don't know all that well makes me quite close to sounding mute. All the same, even if I hadn't grown on the skill of not-being very wary of my surrounding, there were other opportunities where I grew.

Looking at my growth, what I've learned about myself as a learner is that I could write better than the style I wrote last year. The writings from last year, just went straight to the point of the story. Now, using bigger and more vocabulary in well structured paragraphs I writes essays, narratives, diaries and so forth. Evidence comes from my very first blog-post, where I introduced myself, that shows how I wrote before, to the blog-post I recently wrote for a Lit. Circle post, one The Giver book, by Lois Lowry. It was the letter from Jonas to his little sister, where upon we had to explain all that Jonas learned during his employment as the Receiver or Memory. Also, learning our Learning Profile helped me learn myself better. The learning profile showed my learning habits that I hadn't realized before, to help me understand what would be best for my learning though the duration of class. My profile letter was BB, which stated that I was a logical learner, who tends to learn better when there are written or spoken work to be done. But that's just a stereotypical statement that shows, but if I were to grade my learning habits, I'm sure it wouldn't match perfectly.

My evaluation of my working habits are:

a) Behavior

Could be improved

Satisfactory

Perfect - the model student

Explanation: Most of the time, well actually nearly all the time, I'm well behaved, but there are some times, where my mouth opens out too much. I don't become talkative during class for most of the time. The cause is there might be something out of the ordinary going on, or something fascinating that occurred, or something close to that. All I can say though, that generally I don't step out of the line.

b) Participation

None

Satisfactory

Actively participate in class

Explanation: Even though I pay attention as much as I can. Occasionally, when the class begins to bore me, I start reading during the lesson, or when the book that I may be currently reading might be very riveting. But for whatever reason, I have a tendency to read a book. I've become a book worm, since fourth grade, because I caught the it from one of my friends who just happens to be a book worm. I can't help it, but when I'm reading a captivating book, I try not to, but I just read at every possible second. It's one of my quality that I don't like. Reading is fine and all, but too much isn't good.

c) Organization

Needs serious help

Satisfactory

I'm super organized

Explanation: I could be a neat freak, but I'm not. I don't bother keeping everything organized all the time. When I'm in a hurry, I could leave my locker in a mess, but later, not very long after, I'll get it back into it's original format. Nine out of ten times you'll find my locker, desk, and even my bag neat and clean. I take the time to place everything in order so later there would not be the bother to ruin my time by cleaning it out, over and over again. Keeping this in order, I'm able to find my work, books, and other things that is needed for my class.

d) Effort

Needs serious help

Satisfactory

I always go above and beyond what is required.

Explanation: Although there is no need for it, I try my best to go above the required goals. Especially in my writing work. It there instructions are: Write a 3-paragraph essay on ....... I'll end up writing at the very least four paragraphs. Not just the length, in my details too, I add extra information that is, obviously, related to the subject.

Of all the things, a goal I have for seventh grade is most probably try harder in math. I understand and everything, but I go too fast and make silly mistakes. I'm not careful at doing my work, I think that I try my best, but I know that I could do better. It may seem that I'm being critical about myself, but to me, math is really important in everyday life, even at the simplest things. So all in all, I want to make sure that I double check my work or that I work through the problems with more care.

Another goal that I have made for next year is not to get distracted during my studies at home. I have a knack to visit other unnecessary sites like Youtube and unneeded google searches. Choosing a song to listen on Youtube takes a lot of my time and so does searching things that aren't school related. I wouldn't mind if it were done during my free-time, but it's usually while I'm doing work. This causes me to sleep late, and spend more time on the computer, which, I've found out isn't good for your eyes. Then there's chatting on Google Apps, one way or another I end up chatting with someone. It's hard to get way once you start a conversation, so another distraction causing me to stay off task. I'm in hope next year, I'll have more will power to stop going on inessential sites.

I'm as ordinary as an ISKL girl can get, even if I may not show it, I'm pretty cheerful inside with a obsession for books and cats. I'm most probably suited to be a girly girl, rather than goth, punk, emo, and so forth. I absolutely love listening to music (but who doesn't), but it depends on the type of song.... I hide away from people, but once you get to know me, I'll my colors at you! I do like to work to perfection, adding anything to make it more so. I like being colorful and bright. And like most girls at this age, I've got a passion for hair and shoes.

Moving from ES to MS is hard. Adjusting to it's different atmosphere, not being the oldest anymore, but actually the youngest, and all those things and more. But believe me, sixth grade is a roller-coaster ride. At the beginning it's loooong ride down, then later comes the bumps, and as it skids to a stop, you wish it didn't end. As I said, there are bumps on the way. One of them is homework, it's alright and all, but finishing it off at the last minute is horrid. Unless your absolute A+ student, you can't scrape up more B. Not just home work though, any class work actually. Never leave anything to the last minute. Socially speaking, there are bumps too. Now that you feel older, better, new and more mature, there is a time when your friendship tables get turned around. You make more new friends as there are different classes with dissimilar students. Now there isn't any more of boys and girls nonsense, where boys and girls exclude each other for their gender. But that doesn't leave out the ups, like .... many kinds of teachers, new friends, now campus, lockers, lunch (where there isn't anyone to order you around on how to spend your lunch time), no more lines (student line ups), and MS parties!!! With all of the drama going on and all, I'm sure the new sixth graders are going to LOVE IT (just like me :P)!!

As the seventh grader teachers know me hardly, I'm hoping this will help to know me better. And of course, there's always next year to learn more! However, I shall dearly miss sixth grade, everything about. Including the down bits, which now amuse me and evidently the high lights. As mentioning before, "Everything comes to an end at some point. Nothing can last entirely forever, only for a length of time." - ME :)

"Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning." -Winston Churchill

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