Final SMART Blog

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     I achieved this goal over the past 6 weeks because after starting this goal I almost everyday do jump rope and go out for a walk. The biggest challenge I had faced when I was trying to achieve my goal was remembering to exercise and everyday mark the chart of happiness. But my aunt always reminded me to mark the chart and exercise so I could hardly remembered and finally achieved. I think showed enthusiasm and commitment to my SMART goal because I've made a commitment to remembering to mark the chart and remembering to exercise. I will try to maintain my goal, but with little differences. I will do less exercise than this but do more fun things that makes me happy!

Week 4 SMART Goal

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     I think I didn't make good progress during this week because I kept forgot to exercise and check the chart to know whether I achieved or not. The challenge was that if the weather is not good I don't go out to exercise outside and just stay inside. My aunt helped me to achieve my goal because she always reminded me to exercise everyday inside home, even if the weather is not good. I think I am showing balanced lifestyle in my goal because being happy was not just my goal, but exercising also follows because exercise makes me happy too. 

Week 3 SMART Goal

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I think I made good progress during the past last week because by looking at the chart I made I exercised everyday at least 30 minutes which gives me endorphin that makes me feel good. The challenge I had was that I always forget to check my chart every night, even if I exercised that afternoon.  My aunt helped me to achieve my goal because she reminded me everyday to do jump rope and suggested me to have a walk with her almost every night. I think I am showing balanced lifestyle in my goal because being happy was my goal, but exercising helps that which makes me exercise too. I have to work on enthusiasm because I didn't tried to remember and go out for exercise if my aunt didn't reminded. 

Week 2 SMART Goal

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I think I didn't make progress toward my goal because by looking the chart I couldn't see a big change during Monday to Friday except for weekends. The challenge I had during the process of achieving my goal was fighting with my sister, which made me angry and unhappy. Also, remembering to fill out the chart everyday was hard. Playing with my friend at the weekend, watching the TV at night, listening to music helped me be little happier. This Saturday I played with my friend the whole day that made my happiness 10 out of 10. The picture is a quote that I found that I think is related to my goal of being happy.

My Well-Being SMART Goal

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     My goal is to be happy everyday and to not be worried or concerned about something. To know that I'm happy, I am going to check every night by marking the number between 1 to 10 by 1 being not happy at all and 10 being really happy. To be happy, I'll try to share my feeling with others. I think this goal is important to me because when I looked at "my well being data", I wasn't being quite being good at social. I will check my data every week and I'll try to do this for 1 month and if it goes well I would continue.

Reflecting out Exhibition

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     To start with, something that I think we succeeded in our presentation was showing the video because the audience gets boring when we just speak. Also, our script was smoothly connected to our work, we have been doing in past 8 weeks. The most challenging part to me about the exhibition presentation was when our presentation was finished, but the time was left. The area I think we have to improve on is speaking clearly and loudly so the audience could hear us well. During the process of the exhibition I learned how to cooperate and communicate well. I think this experience is unforgettable because many people came to watch and listen to our presentation. 

     I think I did well in presenting because when we were doing the Korean presentation I memorized my script and I didn't need to look down and read of my script at all. Also, I used easy words and clear voice to explain while presenting. I think I was good inquire when I was creating my research question. I think I was also reflective because I wrote the daily blog every night. 

So much thing to finish!

I will start off by writing the list of what we had to finish today. 

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-Display board

-Music composition

-Art installation

-Presentation script

-Presentation Practice

     We had lots to do today, but hopefully, we had all day to finish. We first finished music which we didn't had much to finish. Secondly, I worked on video of art installation and preparation while Gyubin, Zhaoying and Nancy worked on the display board. I was sure that my board was almost finished while the others had little more to do than me. Also, I went to library with Mr. Cavanagh to confirm the material we need for presentation. We were all focused on the things we must complete in school like a display board so we didn't had much time left when we realized we had to practice too! So right after we finished the presentation board, we printed the script and practice. I think practicing the presentation is more important than decorating the display board. 

Music, Art, P.E

School Cafeteria (Art ice freezing)

    Today, for the exhibition we worked on the display board and exhibition presentation. But what I'm going to write today in the blog is something different. For the music, we finished the music and also wrote the script for introducing the music piece. I'm really excited about the music because I think our music shows clearly about our topic global warming and ice melting. In art, our group and 3R group went to cafeteria to put the water in and freeze it. Mr. Hammond said we could bring the ice to the pond tomorrow or the day after tomorrow. For P.E class we recorded the shadow dance this afternoon. Our first shape we created was someone throwing a trash to the trash can. The next shape we created was factory and smoke coming out. Last shape was ice mountain and slowly melting. 

Location Visit

     Today, after lunch we visited the library space where we will be presenting the exhibition presentation. Our group is going to present in area 2 at 9:20 in English and at area 4 at 10:40. Before looking at different location I thought we would need extra table to put the Macbooks on but after I changed my mind because area 2 and 4 had TV to show the music and visual art video. Area 2 and 4 don't have much space, so during rest time (the time between the presentation) we'll have to go out and stay there. I think our presentation time is good because, we can rest and practice after English presentation until Korean presentation starts. For Korean presentation, me and Gyubin have to do all of the presentation in Korean, while Zhaoying and Nancy do all of their presentation in Chinese.  

Area 4

 

Area 2

Transdisciplinary Skills

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Thinking Skills-  Application

     While writing my essay some days ago, I used this skill to put the information that I got from my research. I put some of the information that used to answer my three main questions. I think I did well on putting lots of details. I think I have to improve on using more different topic on my writing not just 1 or 3.

Research Skills- Interpreting data

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     I also in writing time, I used this skill because I thought about the meaning of some of the words in my research note that I couldn't understand. I first thought about that meaning by using the sentence. I figured out some, but some of the thing was not sure so I had to look it up in the dictionary to make sure.

Communication Skills- Viewing

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     I used this viewing skill well because we had to make the display board, but I didn't had a good idea, so I used this viewing skill to look at some others work to get inspired. This skill really helped me to design the display board.  




Self-Management Skills- Safety

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     I used this skill today, when I was using scissors for cutting the bottle for action. I think safety is an important thing because if we're not safe, we might get hurt. I think carefully cutting with the scissors, try to not use a sharp knife could easily help me use this skill.

Station Planning and Presentation Script

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     While writing the script for exhibition presentation, we had to design the station board and write the script with Korean too. To make sure everything gets done by the deadline, we divide our work and what I had to do were designing station board for explaining what we did in music, art and P.E class to represent our issue. I thought the station board would be better if I could put some drawing or symbols in it. So I choose to draw a tree in the middle with the word ART, MUSIC and P.E. Also like a leaf I am going to put some key words, the image of us preparing and the final piece. We didn't start on the board, but I think we can start right away next time because we have a good plan on what we are going to write and draw on the board. 

Presentation of PYPX!

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     I'm right now, a little bit worried about the things we have to do for the exhibition because we have so many things to complete! One of the most important things to complete was the presentation and the presentation board. For the presentation we chose to write the whole script instead of writing the contents. While presenting, I'm going to talk about what we did in music, art and P.E class to represent the issue we are inquiring. For presentation board I don't have idea about unique ways to show our music, art and P.E piece, so I think I have to look at some of the other display board in the google to get some inspiration. Now I will go and get some idea for the display board! 

Assembly about Action

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     Today we had an assembly for us to talk about the action we prepared and planned to take. For our action we are going to teach grades 1 to 4 how to recycle with plastic bottles and together we are going to make things like sandclock, pencil basket, etc. It will be in April 2th for grade 1 and 2 at morning recess and April 3th for grade 3 and 4 at lunch recess which is this Thursday and Friday. We are going to do it at the playground in grade 1 and 2, and in the field for grade 3 and 4. I am not sure if we can have enough bottles for all of them, but I think it's enough because we asked cafeteria to help us collect the bottle and also Yunjin said she would bring the bottle with her to the school when I asked her.

Art, Music and P.E

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     Today I will write the blog about Art, Music and P.E for exhibition. First of all, in art we started writing process journal. In process journal we were told to finish the page of artist intent, planning, list of material, sketch, location picture until next Wednesday. I was not sure about the date we are going to put the ice in the pond and where to put the camera, so we went to school center and looked for the place. Also, to make sure about the date of putting the ice in the pond we emailed Mr. Hammond. Secondly, we made a first draft of our music, but Ms. Lau said that it has really good melody, but it seems like they're not connected all together. So we choose to make a new song with a simple melody, but with a different rhythm. Lastly, in P.E class our shadow dance was not working really well. At the start, we planned to make polar bear but it was so hard to make and didn't looked like a polar bear. Our next plan was making an ice mountain and slowly going down to show it is melting but it didn't worked well either. Next time I think we should put more effort to P.E project. 

Transdisciplinary Skills

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Social Skills- Group decision making
     I used this skill today in music class when we were choosing our note for the music we are going to make. We first, record 4 notes and listened to it. Then we voted to figure out which could be our final 4 notes. I think this skill is useful because we need this skill to make a fair and easy decision. 


Thinking Skills- Dialectical thought

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    I showed this skill when I was drafting the writing because I had some idea that was similar to the other idea. So I chose to take one out and put just one in because it is not interesting if you listen to similar idea again. I think this skill is more important when we are writing an essay.  

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Research Skills- Organizing data
     I showed this skill when I was writing the informative essay because I had some of the cause and effect in the 1st question note taking sheet. So in the planning sheet I organized it and wrote the fact again in the right order and space. I think I have to work on organizing the research and putting into the right space when I am recording my facts not after researching it all.   

Communication Skills- Writing

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     I used this writing skill when I was writing the informative essay, art intent and music intent. Also, I wrote the script for Monday assembly too. I felt most hard to write the script because I have to give everyone the fair amount of script to say. I think writing an informative essay is easy because I already have the research so I just have to turn that statement into the sentence.       

       
  

Action and Buddy Class

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     Since our topic is 'Global Warming' we chose teach the student how to recycle and make things with them. It will in foyer between junior pods and it will be at 2015 March 30th (G1~G2) and 31th(G3~G4) at lunch recess time. It will be free and they will get to make different things with different material. Also, they will have different level because grade 1's can't do complicated things, but grade 4's will get bored if they have to do the easy things.

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Tomorrow we have a buddy class and in that time we are going to teach our body about the keywords (global warming, land pollution, air pollution, water pollution, reduce, reuse, recycle, nature) and we are going to do the same activity we planned to do for action with grade 1 too. I was worried if those keyword we chose will be so hard to grade 1 so we made picture to go with it and we planned to do matching game with pictures and the words.

Start Drafting!

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     Today I started drafting informative writing based on my research. I've been researching about cause, effect and solution of land pollution so my writing was about that topic. I started off with an outline and when I finished the outline of 1st paragraph I moved to writing of the first research question. Ms. Archie told us that we have to put the bibliography into our writing piece but in alphabetical order. Also, as we did in light and sound unit we had to put pictures, diagram, graph or illustration to help the writing. The rough draft was due on Friday, so I think we have to use the time wisely to get the rough draft done.          

Writing about Land Pollution

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      Today we started to discuss about writing, we are  going to write and what type it can be. First of all we  looked at 2 types of writing and filled up the Venn  diagram to compare and contrast the writing piece. One  was informative writing and one was persuasive writing.  Differences were that the information has more fact and  no opinion, but persuasive also had the facts but had  more opinions. 
      After looking at two different types of writing I  thought writing informative writing could be better to  show my research because I have more interesting facts  than the prevention or solution to persuade the reader to  do it. Also giving more fact to the reader could be better  for the readers to understand my issue and try to solve it.

Field Trip and Writing Plan

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     Since I didn't write the blog yesterday about what I did, today I'm going to write about yesterday and today exhibition time. Yesterday we went to Sustainable Environmental Education Center. It was a chance for us to research more interview someone in that center. Going there really helped me because my research was about land pollution and that center talked about trashes that made me understand how landfill causes land pollution. 

     Today we didn't have much exhibition time because we had a middle school transition at the morning from after lunch. After lunch, for exhibition we wrote plan for the writing piece. For me it had been just like a mind map of what I had researched about land pollution, but for others, they just wrote down with bullet point and some used graphic organizer to help. I thought about what type of writing I'm going to write and I've thought that explanation writing or report writing could be good for me because I am going to write about land pollution and explain it. 

Transdisciplinary Skill

Social Skills- Cooperating

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     I showed this social skill yesterday, when we were thinking idea for an art piece and writing our artistic intent. I think we made that idea of making shapes (Cities on Jeju) with ice and putting into pond to let it melt, because we all cooperated to make the result. I had an idea of putting ice in the pond and let it melt and others had their own idea and the mixture of all those idea was our final decision. 

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Thinking Skills- Evaluation

     I used this skill while researching because I've used lot's of different sources and I had to put just important things and things related to my topic to research note. I think I used this skill the most today when I was summarizing the note from our field trip today. Next time I would try to use better source, so that I don't have to evaluate all the sources. 

Communication Skills- Reading

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     I showed this reading skill when I was researching because I got lot's of information by reading articles, databases and books. I think this skill is important because we need good reading skill in order to research with higher level sources that has more detail on it when we are researching with articles, databases and books.  

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Researching Skills- Recording Data

     I used this skill also when I was researching. I found lots of different information from lots of different sources, so I needed this skill to put the information organized. I sometimes used a picture or diagram to understand more about my topic. Next time I would also draw that picture or diagram to my notebook to look at it again when needed. 

Art makes me get rid of researching!

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      Today we did lots of research that really made me tired. I  researched about causes, effects and solutions of land pollution. I  just used 2 or 3 pages of my researched note each, but I thought it  would have enough information, and also our group is going field trip  tomorrow so I think I could research more tomorrow. Because I was  tired of researching it was really good when I heard that it was art  time. In art class we finished our artist intent and planned what we  are going to make. Our final idea was making Jeju island that has  high building with ice and then putting that to the pond in front of  the library and putting small ice in there to show the situation of  sea level going up because of global warming. I wanted the person  viewing to see and feel sad about the fact that global warming  became a real serious problem that can impact many living things.  

Exhibition for Today

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     Today our exhibition started with researching. I researched question 2 and 3 with book and website. The website Gyubin found was good website that had lots of different facts. Using that website, I answered two of my research questions. At the morning recess we had a mentor meeting. With ms. Matthews we talked about action piece and what can we do for that. Also, I wrote 3 different interview questions which was one of the 'what next' things we said that we had to complete. Tomorrow I will research all of my questions with different kinds of sources, but without website because I used website so much today. I will try to use databases for tomorrow research and keep siting my source and put it into the bibliography. 

Art and Music Piece for Exhibition

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     In Music and Visual art time during our process of exhibition we are going to create a music composition and ephemeral art to represent the central idea. For this morning we planned on what we are going to do with four circles. In the 1st circle we wrote our central idea (Humans have a responsibility to reduce the impact of global warming on living thing). For the 2nd one we wrote the feeling and emotion about our topic, the central idea (sadness, hope, angry). For the 3rd circle we wrote genre and element of music and art (rhythm composition, art installation) and for the 4th circle we wrote what material or tools we need (ice, water, Garageband, sound). It was exciting to me that we could create our own music and art piece, with cool material such as Garageband or ice and water. The picture on the top is an example of an ephemeral art piece which means that will not stay there forever.      

3rd Mentor Meeting

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     It was the 3rd mentor meeting we had with Ms. Matthews. We were up to researching based on our three research questions and planning for our field trip. Our next step is making interview question for our field trip with each of our research questions. Also, we could send the interview questions to the interviewer if needed. Ms. Matthews helped me with researching by giving me lots of synonyms I could use instead of land pollution. It really helped me when I was trying to find the book on library because I find the book about acid rain which was one of the words Ms. Matthews gave to me. It is really nice to have a mentor teacher who could help me well through our exhibition process. 

Transdisciplinary Skills

This is what I think I used during this week exhibition time.

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Social Skills- Adopting a variety of group roles

     I think I showed this skill when our group was researching about field trip because I had to research, record the fact (place, time available, thing in there that we can look at), and also had to call because Zhaoying and Nancy can't speak Korean and we have to speak in Korean with the person we were calling because they couldn't speak English. I think next time I will do less thing and give more chance to other people in the group to do some more work.   


Thinking Skills- Synthesis
     

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    I used this skill when I researched about land pollution because I looked at different sources like books, website, database and also image. I think using different sources is important because if we look at website and find it again with the image it helps me to understand more about that topic I am researching about.      

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Researching Skills- Planning

     I think I especially showed this skill when I were planning for our field trip and making our interview question for the interview. I planned where and how to go to field trip, but also what I will be going to say to that person and what is some of the questions I am going to ask when I got to interview them.  





Self-Management Skill- Informed Choices

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     I used this skill when I was planning about the field trip because I looked at the website, call the center to make the right decision about where we are going to go. I thought this skill is important because the this kind of decision will make our experience easier or harder.