Year-End Reflection

This year has been very long and hard, yet in some ways it seemed short. I definitely had a lot of fun. From the beginning of the year when I learned about the Middle Ages, all the way until now, when I have completed my inquiry project about paper from Ancient China, I have grown and learned so much. I have enjoyed having my own blog; it is a fast and efficient way of showing my understanding of the lesson and is easy to access from home as well. We have learned about the Middle Ages: Charlemagne, the Magna Carta, medieval monks,  knights, castles, and the Black Death. Next was the Renaissance: we had the dinner party where we research a certain person from the renaissance, and also determined what made someone a genius. The next unit was the Age of Exploration: we learned about what life at sea was like for the sailors and found out about a particular explorer from that time. Then, we learned about the Indigenous Peoples of Canada and how the environment shaped them as a nation. In between these studies, we did numerous Current Events such as on the US election in October 2016, on the quality of First Nations’ water, and on the topic of border crossing. Some assignments that I enjoyed doing this year were the investigations we did going around the classroom finding out about the Black Death, the Explorer project we did on Ferdinand Magellan, and the inquiry project I did to find out how paper spread from China to all around the world. I’ve thoroughly enjoyed my grade 8 year, and I can’t wait to learn even more next year in grade 9!