Blog 3.1 - 'So Much Has Happened, Yet It Has Not'

It's the second week of 3rd term, but the first class of AEP is today. On the first week of the third term, FIS held a science congress. Everyone except ABM and HUMSS students was busy, stressed, and nervous. I went around with the judges, watching every group's amazing experiments, they tried their best and I was very proud of each one of them! That is why grade 11 is left behind compared to all the other grades regarding AEP.

I would like to do a ride back to 2nd term and everything I have accomplished, am proud of, and I wasn't able to fulfill, starting with what I have learned and the lessons I have gained through it. 

In the first week of the second term, we planned out our planner for the term. As we did it as a class, I think it gave us a clearer understanding of what we had to get done, and later feel more motivated with a plan for the days ahead. 

The next week we proceeded with vocab, the topic being 'Different Kinds Of People'. I still remember that I was able to get done with a lot; of matching words with their definitions, an example is 'affable', let's say an affable person is one who is friendly, warm, and polite; a person who is easy to approach. Later on, we matched each one of our characteristics with the words we learned. I was able to see how my friends see me and everyone else, it was fun and practical to make use of the words we learned. 

In the third week, we used the same miro board and did a few more group works. Basically, we used the words we learned the previous week and placed them on the appropriate blank lines present in the sentences. Overall I'd say that learning these few words expanded the vocabulary part of my brain. I'm excited to learn new words next week😆. Additionally, we did personality tests, it was so much fun! I hadn't done one in a few years, so I was curious to see whether it would change, and to my surprise, It really did change. My result was an 'adventurer', I do not disagree with this one. 

In the next week, only me and Hanis were present in class, so we only played scrabble together with Miss Disa, It was so much fun, and our board looked quite nice. I personally find scrabble a great game to expand your vocabulary and improve your literacy skills. I also was curious to see google's opinion on this, so when I searched 'why is scrabble a good game' it said it improves your memory and I definitely need that so I am looking forward to more scrabble games!

We were given the time to do our poems the next week. I did a few phrases but ended up hating them, so I didn't continue. While everyone else was recording their reading of the poem. And unfortunately, I was too busy with exams that I ended up forgetting and not doing the project(poem).

In our last meeting for the second term, we did origami as a class, it was so much fun as well. I did a table, chair, and a star-like thing(I forgot what it is called). But yeah that was a great way to relieve at least a little stress from the exams.

Overall this term was odd. I still don't know why, but it felt like I wasn't able to achieve that much and my grade went down by a lot. But anyways...everything else was great. I was able to expand my vocabulary and learn a few interesting things. I am looking forward to the third term!

Thank you Miss Disa<3

Ayse - Retrospective Blog

Since I came back from a two-week break, I can't get back on track. Honestly, I haven't been able to get myself physically and mentally fully prepared yet since the school year started. Additionally, I have joined badminton, volleyball, and table tennis varsity teams. So now I have 3 to 4 days of training after school. Don't misunderstand, I am not complaining about it, I signed up myself for this and am actually having fun, but it is also draining my energy by a lot.

Today is Monday, and it is our third meeting in AEP since the break. In the first week of our meeting, we completed our semester planner as a class. We were told to place our ideas on a micro board.

Before I started complaining about how my speech went, I should say that it was a unique experience. I experienced the same level of nervousness that you would have before giving a speech in front of a huge crowd. I've never been very fond of giving presentations, let alone speeches. We had to discuss problems that young people face, and we had to pick our own topics. My topic was how school affects young people these days. It was one thing to prepare the speech, but it is quite another to present and speak. I was stuttering and constantly being in a movement showing how anxious I was.  I don't really know how to handle it, but I make an effort every time to remain cool and get through the anxious feeling. Though I wouldn't say that it really works. Nevertheless, I was able to complete my speech in success and as well as everyone else in the class!

Next is the Miro board! This is probably the most fun I have had in AEP classes. The reason for this is we all get to collaboratively do assessments and learn new words at the same time, And it's not just some random words. 

 

Blog 1.1 - Ayse

 10/12/2022

It’s Been A While

Greetings everyone👋🏻👋🏻

I haven’t been here for a while, not going to lie, I don’t miss typing one bit, but I do like reading back on my blogs later so I’m going to begin now, apologies for the wait.

My brain cells are working hard right now figuring out what we were doing in AEP class about 3 months ago. Hmm.. we certainly started of with Wordle, then continued with our coverage for the first semester. When I heard that we weren't going to write down essays, I was over the moon!!🥹

Im totally not exaggerating right now, maybe just a little.😅

August 10 was a fun and relaxing day, all I was missing was a cup of tea. More than a class, it felt like a get-together where everyone shared their thoughts and feelings. Miss Disa's story about her luggage was hilarious. 😆

Anyways while all these conversations were going on, I was drawing the outline of my word cloud. I could have definitely made it better, but I lacked the creativity at that moment, I was also as slow as a snail, not gonna lie. I hope to learn more in the upcoming class. Learning about the political world must be fun....right??? 

August 18 was an informative class, we did a dictionary box. I think the class went by pretty fast even though I was exhausted before I entered the classroom, since I had economics and business for a long amount of time during the day. Overall, it was fun, but I was ready to lay down in my cozy bed.

On August 31st, we started off with Wordle and got the news of having a project. It honestly gave me a shiver at first, but as Miss Disa explained further on what had to be accomplished as the final result gave me a sigh of relief. 

Basically, we were instructed to create an appreciation letter to anyone we feel like doing so and of course I did it to my mom. As I was typing down my feelings to the letter everything sounded so cliche.😆 Moving forward, in the next period we played scrabble and it was a quiet one I can say, which I'm not complaining about since it was an exhausting day itself. It was a nice way to relax myself physically and mentally.😪

On September 7,  As usual, we started AEP class with Wordle...but there was a twist to it. It was 4 Wordles at once. I truly enjoyed it. After succeeding on the wordle as a class, Miss Disa gave as a short announcement and for the first time, since I've known Miss(around 8 years), it was the first time she gave a time to do other subject tasks. So we were able to do our values project and chat about different topics which was interesting and enjoyable.❤️

On September 22, we started the day with Codeword and finished it in 6 minutes.

After that we created our own mind maps on the topic 'Issues facing young people'. After we finished our mind map, we placed our ideas in miro board. It was nice to see everyone's ideas come together.

On September 28, we continued our miro board that we started the week before, it certainly grew. We were also given three worksheets to do as a class in the same miro board, it was quite challenging. I was frightened and nervous for next weeks orals. 

Last week, we had teachers day, so I was the teacher for the class, so we just played scrabble with Hanis and Miss Disa. And lastly, today we played hurdle wordle and letter box and now I am typing down this blog! I am feeling sleepy today, honestly for the past week, my sleeping schedule has been messed up because of the English Culminating Day on Friday!

That is it!!