Greek Creation Myth

Goodbye 6th Grade :'(

Grade six has been a great year full of new experiences, but also full of work. Although most of the assignments were tough and challenging, when I had finished them I felt a sense of accomplishment. And throughout the whole year of humanities I feel that my greatest piece of work would have to be completing the Egyptian Diary. This assignment took a great amount of time, but looking back at it and seeing it finished I feel quite proud for just saying I did it. But not only for this reason. At the start of the year I think the most terrifying thing was to have to write an essay. It just sounded like the most horrible time consuming amount of work you would have to do. I had seen it in movies as a punishment and all throughout elementary I dreaded the day my teacher would say, "for homework a 500 word essay!" but now as I look back I've realized that I have not only completed an essay but many throughout the school year and some well over 500 words. I actually find it funny how now I think of this challenge as so small compared to what might be coming in the future and I hope that this is not the only work that is exaggerated.

Finally all this work in middle school has made me realize how I work in school. I think i've learned that during school hours I like to be a logical learner. I like to have things in order and wroking step by step neatly. But outside of school hours I think I am more of a gestalt learner. I like to see the big picture and I like to be very creative with what I do. Hopefully I will carry on to be both gestalt and logic depending on the situation since I take that as an atvantage, to be able to see both sides of the story.

When looking at the your learining you also have to evaluate the good sides and the bad sides of your learning aswell especially in specific areas. And the area that I have chosen is participation. I think that participating in class is an important factor when learning and that is why I think I should work harder to put more effort in to my activity. I hope for seventh grade and other years I will learn to ask questions more often if I do not understand or answer questions to get a better understanding so I can do well in class and have no doubts.

Based on my relfection as a learner throughout this school year I have come up with two main goals for seventh grade. The first to be more active in class and the second to embrace the work with orginization and a, as Mrs. Smith says a " can do game face :)"

As I said before I think being active in class is very important but so is being an Enthusiastic Learner. When I said I never thought I could write an essay I was letting myself down and not being possitive, I've decided for seventh grade to take work and try my best at it no matter what it is. And maybe this will improve my learning.

If I wanted my seventh grade teachers to know something about me or something related to the way I learn it would probably be to choose our own groups if nessceary. Not because I only want to work with my friends, but if I am to do a group project I would like to do it with people I know I'll work well with and get the job done well. Other than that I think I am fine with expiriencing new ways different teachers teach and new ways of learning. I hope that I will like all my teachers and they will like me! :)

Finally to end this blogpost I will give some advice to the newbies of middle school, and I only have one word, organization. This si the key to being succesful not only in sixth grade but all grades up to highschool. If you want to do something well and get a good grade on it there is no such thing as good last minute work. You need to plan out your work habbits and use your planner! Trust me it might seem like you can remeber a simple assignment or two but my planner has saved my from missing important dates numerous times. Another last thing I want to say to the fifth graders is to just have fun, it's your first year in middle school so enjoy it and don't worry too much about grades they only really start mattering in highschool, and if you ever get a really bad grade just learn form that mistake and use it as expirience and work harder next time. Trust me 6th grade will be a lot of fun if you play your cards right! :)