My Learning Profile is.... L!!!!!!!

I learn best when I am relaxed and everything is quiet. Once I am relaxed then I listen and understand everything better. I also learn best when I am moving, for example I could be just swinging my leg or tapping my finger on the table.

I need to sit at a place where no one disturbs me or I don't disturb anyone. My profile is L which means that I tend to learn best whilst moving. So I should sit at a place where no one would be disturbed when I tap my pen or swing my legs...

The strategies that would help me in my learning would be to put me in spot where I wouldn't be disturbed to a spot where I wouldn't disturb anyone. For example once when I sat with Kamilla. She started talking to me about the assignment that we were about to begin and then we didn't stop talking until we were aware that we were disturbing the class.

I would like my teachers to know this about me, I get distracted very easily and I like to move about when I am listening or doing my work. When I am writing I tend to tap my fingers on the table and when I am listening I tend to click my pen.

Memories in Response to Taylor Mali

When a famous poet named Taylor Mali visited my school, he encouraged us to write old memories that we could remember.

1. I remember fracturing my finger when I was 7. My cousin fell on it.
2. I remember fracturing my toe when I was 9.
3. I remember falling and scraping my knees, whilst I was carrying Louise, last week.
4. I remember riding on my scooter and falling off and scraping my knees yet again when I was 8.
5. I remember getting my iPod Touch, I was so very very very thrilled.
6. I remember meeting David Archuleta, I was extremely nervous.
7. I remember snorkeling and seeing a shark I got scared and swam away.
8. I remember breaking my AC when i was 4, by poking a stick in it.
9. I remember drinking milk on my white sofa, whilst my father was rubbing my little little head, when I was 1 and a half.
10. I remember hitting my father’s hand when I was 5, because I didn’t want to go in the new driver’s car that my father just hired.
11. I remember when I was 5, my brother, my cousin and I were jumping on my brother bed, my brother’s bed, my brother’s bed. My cousin jumped and hit his head on the edge of the window. His head started bleeding.

My Name

My name is Claire. It is a French and an English name. I think that that is pretty cool because I know English and I am currently learning French. I also found out that my name means clear, bright and famous.

I have never really minded my first name, but I never liked my Chinese name. My Chinese name in English is Ching Li. In my previous school, I went by my Chinese name. In the first grade, I had a dreadful English teacher, Ms Liew. One of the first of many classes we had together, she did a terribly awful thing for a teacher to do... She made fun of students. She started off with a girl named Sabrina. Sabrina had a big nose so she started calling her big nose Sabrina. And she went on and on giving each one of us a nickname according to our flaws. Then she came over to me. And she asked what my name was, I replied in a soft voice “My name is Ching Li, Miss.” Then she started laughing and called me Chili and ever since then, that horrible nickname stuck until the day I left school. Now you must be thinking why didn’t I correct her. Well, I did. But every time that I tried to correct her she would whip me with her bamboo stick. So I never tried to correct her again.

I have never wanted to change my name. Although I wasn’t thrilled with the nicknames. I have, I have never wanted to change them, because that is what my parents named me and I respect that. People can tease and tease if they, butI would still keep my name.

My old school was a local Chinese school. And as you know ,my classmates already teased me about my Chinese name, but they also teased me about my first name. Most of them did not speak English. So when they saw the name “Claire” they would say Clair-ee. One day when they were announcing some of the students who were going to win awards. One of the teachers said Clair-ee Ng Ching Li and the whole class erupted into laughter. Everyone there said Claire in such a way that some times when they say it, it sounds like a cat falling. I prefer it when people say it gently so when they say Claire, it sounds like a river flowing or a gentle blow of wind.

I’m sure you are now aware that I have a few nicknames. And some of them I absolutely dread. But I have a current nickname that isn’t awful like the others and it is Claire Bear. It was given to me by Melina Ankel who has left ISKL. She gave it to me because she was reading a book and in the book there was a character named Claire Bear.

My parents had considered quite a few names. My father adored the names Emily and Vanessa, but my mother absolutely hated those names. My mother loved French names or fancy names, so she came up with Chloe, Zoe, Samantha, Charlotte, Scarlett... They chose Claire because it was the only name both of them could agree on.

Me in 3

3 items that I feel are the most important items to me are my nail sets, my iPod and my stationary.

During the summer holidays, I went to London and Paris. In London, I went to Hamley’s, there, they were selling these really cool nail sets, where you can paint super awesome designs on your nails. I chose that as one of my most important items because as most people know, my mother is very busy and I don’t see her very often. But ever since I got this nail set, we have been spending more time together. During the weekends when she is home, she may ask me to paint her nails for her. So when I paint her nails, we bond and tell each other about the ups and downs of our weeks. So thanks to my nail sets, me and my mother spend a lot more time with each other.

I chose my iPod as one of my most important objects because, well first of all, it was a birthday gift from my parents. I also use it a lot. My bus ride is 40 minutes so I use my iPod to listen to music or play games. I also use my iPod to take pictures like at a friend’s birthday party or when I wanted to record someone who attended the party getting thrown into a pool. I use my iPod for school assignments as well. For example, in IT, I used my iPod for a project where we took pictures and photo-shopped them (with permission of course). I have also used my iPod as a conversation starter with people, especially younger kids. I take a picture or him and put the picture of a head on the body of a fairy. When I did it to a girl, she was delighted and ran off to tell her mother how pretty she looked, if I did it to a boy, he would laugh his head off or ask to be an elf or a superhero instead.

For my third object I have chosen all my stationery. Anyone who knows me can tell you that I LOVE stationary. I chose stationary as one of my most important objects because, I love doing crafts and making cards and stuff like that. So I use the stationary to make special 3D boxes or decorate a pencil holder.....

So those are my special important objects. I hope this tells you a little more about me.

Biopoem

Claire,
fun, loving, friendly, crazy,
daughter of amazing parents, sister of a sensitive brother,
adores singing and acting, loves playing soccer,
experienced love, anger, joy,
alone in the middle of nowhere; seeing a shark;
being stuck in a awful treewell,
won a track and field race,
meeting Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez,
getting A’s in my core classes,
live in the wonderful universe,
Ng

Creation Video

This is my creation story on the Greek Beginning.

The End Is Near!!!

I think that in grade 6, I have many pieces of work that I am rather proud of and I learnt a lot by doing them. Some of my pieces of wark that I am proud of is definitely some of the assignments we have done in the Ancient Egypt unit. In that unit I am proud of my 3 diary entries. I learnt a lot about the daily life of a priestess, like some of them go into a peasants home to bless the peasants. I am also proud of the recent tic tac toe we have completed. In my group we chose the religion rap, the comic and the trail web page. I really enjoyed the religion rap the most. We did it on the main religion of ancient Rome, and that was Christianity. We ( Melina, Sunny and myself ) kind of tried to make some of the words rhyme. But that part didn't go too well. But what we did manage to do was all the lyrics we wrote fitted with the lyrics of the original song. Well most of them anyway.

My greatest challenge was probably lot. circles and time management. I found lit circles challenging because you have to get high level questions and then they have to actually make sense because you the need the examples and evidence to prove some of your statements. Like for the white mountains book, I had a question which was "Are tripods able to mate?" so I told mrs. Narsiman my question she told me it wasnt bad but how could I get examples and evidence to support my statements. I also found time management hard because I am not very organised though I am more organised than I was at the beginning of the year.

I learnt that if I push myself hard enough I can do it. When I push myself I am able to concentrate and focus on what I am doing, putting a lot of effort into it, I an do a good job and sometimes receive a very very good grade. I also learnt that I really need to work on my time management. I sometimes need to work on how I organize my assignments.

a) Behavior

Could be improved
Satisfactory
Perfect - the model student

Explanation: I think that my behavior isn't bad. It isn't super perfect. I thin that my behavior could probably improve more i if organized myself better.

b) Participation

None
Satisfactory
Actively participate in class

Explanation: I think I do usually participate in class. I listen to my teacher so I will know what I am doing.

c) Organization

Needs serious help
Satisfactory
I'm super organized

I think that I could improve on my organization. I need to organize mt work in parts and not stress about it all in one day wether its a last minute thing or not.

d) Effort

Needs serious help
Satisfactory
I always go above and beyond what is required.

I think that I do put effort in to my work, but not all the time. I have to be able to focus on my work. I usually put a lot of my effort in to assignments I really enjoy.

Goal 1, In grade 7 one of goals is to work on my time management. I think that i really need to work on that, because it effects almost everything like behavior, effort...

Goal 2, In grade 7 my second goal is to put in more effort in to my work. I know that if I put more effort in to my work it will definitely improve my grades and I will learn better.

Some information that I like my grade 7 teachers to know is that I work rather well in Collaborative Assignments. My profile is L which means I am right brained, hand, leg, ear and eye. I also work better with people that I am familiar with. I don't mind working with new people though. The teachers tell the Gestalts and the Logics to work together sometimes, but I think that I work well with both.

Some of the advice I would give them is to not leave things to the last minute.