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  January 20, 2021 I have been working on Purella (our spin off of Cinderella) and we have added parodies of ABBA songs to it which has not only been challenging, but also really really entertaining. It is incredibly fortunate that “Dancing Queen” and “Quarantine” rhyme and have the same amount of syllables. Here’s the chorus of our first song   (To the tune of dancing queen) “Cause this is quarantine A-void-ing, Co-vid 19 Quarantine Wash your hands, make sure you’re clean, ooooo yeahahaha You can plant, you can bake, look at the things you can make See the news, watch the streets It’s quarantine!” This was absolutely creativity and I believe that it fell under learning outcome 5 as this entire musical was a collaborative piece put together by the whole J-Term group

  December 9, 2020 Today I worked with my classmates who will be in my J-Term to come up with ideas for what we wanted to make our musical about. We briefly discussed making something loosely themed around the Lorax but that didn’t have much support. In the end, we decided that we were going to follow in the footsteps of British Pantomime and create a spin-off of cinderella set in 2020 titled “purella” I am very excited about this and we have a few jokes ideas already planned that we will incorporate into our actual show that we will perform in January. This was a creative process that I believe fulfilled learning outcome 3 as we were initiating and planning this experience that we will do during our J-Term

November 10, 2020 WE’VE DONE IT! The planter boxes are finally complete and filled! I had taken a bit of a break from shoveling dirt in October because after shoveling dirt for enough time it actually starts to get a bit tedious (crazy, I know) but they are done!! It is a very nice sight to look at and see the progress that has been accomplished. It has been a long and arduous journey. The hardest part about it was keeping continued motivation to keep working on it knowing that we would not be planting anything in it for months to come because it was becoming winter and anything that we would plant would die as the temperature dropped. I am very excited to actually have fresh vegetables later in the year. I believe that the process of making these boxes from the inception of the idea to the completion of the actual finished boxes is a perfect demonstration of learning outcome 4 “Show commitment to and perseverance in a fieldwork experience and falls under Activity as the process of bri...

  October 5th, 2020 As school has been starting up online I have started going on walks with my mom in the morning as we did in the mornings during online school at the end of last year. It has been really nice and having this consistent exercise is undoubtedly good for me. However, it is a stark reminder of the fact that I am not at school in person as due to how far away from school I live it is not realistic for me to have time to go on walks before school during a regular year. It has been very hard for me to continue online school while others are going in person (with many changes from last year, masks, distancing, barriers, one-way hallways, no lockers, no using the fridge or microwaves, and lunch is only allowed outside and very far from others) but it doesn’t seem like going in person would be the best thing for me at this. My brother is at pretty significant risk of health issues if he happened to get covid so we are all being extra cautious for his sake. While online sch...

September 26, 2020 We have finally gotten the dirt that will be going in the planter boxes delivered (It was delivered one week ago). It was delivered on the back of a huge truck that drove up and dumped it all in a big heap on our driveway. I had previously not really understood the scale of what 11.5 cubic yards of dirt would look like. It was about 25,300 pounds of dirt (or 11,475 kg) and the resources that we had to move it were 1 wheelbarrow, 3 shovels, my brother, my sister, and me. Needless to say, we are not nearly done yet. It is a ridiculously large amount of dirt to move but we are making progress (however hard it may be to see) and I am excited to see us getting closer and closer to having the boxes ready to plant in. This was absolutely an act of action and I believe that it demonstrates learning outcome 4 as we have been working on this project for months and have stayed dedicated to seeing it through to its completion.

August 20, 2020 School usually would have started by now and the initial joy of spending more time at home is starting to run out. However, I have started many new things during this time that I find to be very enjoyable, one of which is baking more often. I have started baking bread and it has been rather delightful. As opposed to going out and trying to find people that I think might be safe and spending time with them my family and I have been very cautious with covid and have found more creative ways to spend our time, my baking was one of these. We have considered the ethics of going out and spending time with others and have come to the conclusion that while it would be very enjoyable it is not the right thing to do as we simply don’t know enough. I dug our old bread maker out from the pantry and have been making lots of loaves and experimenting and as I have learned more I have become more creative with the things that I do with it. I believe that this falls under learning outco...