February 28

Reflecting as a learner

1. Right now some of the stuff that I am enjoying learning is in math. I am finishing chapter 7 which was mainly about percents. I think that math this year is more fun then the years before because I can go at my own pace. In bible we are learning of Jesus’ last hours. I think it is fun to dive deeper into the meaning of some of the things that Jesus did and said. Through that we can see how we are to respond when the devil sends thing our way.  Also in my devotions in the morning I am studding some of the things Jesus says by predicting his death or the parable of the Tenants and then in bible we are studding the completion of Jesus’ prediction. In science I think that it is really interesting the way that earthquakes are formed and some of the different things that they can learn through earthquakes. For example, through the movement of the tectonic plates they can tell more things about the layers of the earth.

2. A skill that we are learned in Language Arts is how to expand and add more to a sentence by adding a subject Verb split to the sentence and give it more information.  In health class we learned how to be physically healthy, spiritually healthy, emotionally healthy, and socially healthy. We also learned how to change fractions and decimals into percents. We also learned how to make and take a survey then calculate the results and put them into different types of ways to display them. Such as, we learned how to take the totals and put them into box and wicker plots, how to tally them up and write them as a frequency  and how to put the totals into line plots. 

3. In bible we did a video on Jesus interviewed by the sanhedrin and Peters denial. This was a fun and educational way learning to work the green screen and how to show others the things that we learned while searching our project. In Social studies we spent a few days learning how to search to find as much information as we can and then put the information on display in fun but educational ways to that kids can learn the information in an interactive way instead of just reading it. I think that I myself learn best while doing some projects and being interactive but when I do page work I learn better by doing the page alone instead of in a group.

February 20

Stress

In Health class we are talking about spiritual health and one of the topics that was addressed is stress. There are many things that can cause us stress but some of them that cause me stress can just be little things like when my little sister is bugging me and I am already annoyed or when I don’t have my homework done, or I have a test coming up. I think that with stress that is with tests or sports games the most stress in the few moments that there are before the event actually takes place. But with that kind of stress it often goes away on its own. The test is done, the game is done or I start to feel comfortable. With stress like being annoyed at my little sister that is stress that doesn’t always go away on it’s own. I have to have ways to deal with my stress. In health class we also are talking about how to deal with stress in  a positive way and not make it negative stress. Sometimes I just walk away and that can be a positive way to deal with it unless I walk away really angry, then it doesn’t fix anything it just makes it worse. Some ways to deal with it negatively would be to throw things or yell. I think that some ways to make it positive have to be controlled really well or they will turn into negative stress. I could just listen to her and try to ignore her but then I might again get angry. Also for a test I can keep myself ready and study. Praying helps a lot because we can never do anything without Gods help. Stress can be a really good thing but we have to learn how to deal with our stress.