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On Friday, we said our goodbye's to Ms.Fei. If you don't already know who she is, Ms.Fei is was our student teacher this year. She has been a wonderful student teacher, teaching us many things through all of these terms. She has taught us so many skills, and they are very helpful. Also, she has put so much effort into helping us learn, and always trying to improve her learning

 
The subject I am finding challenging right now would probably have to be Language Arts, when doing the speeches. The reason why I'm finding it quite hard is because, the process is very long and at times it can get quite stressful. You have to edit over and over then revise. After that get self feedback, then peer feedback, and so on. I'm putting a lot of work into my speeches so that I get a good mark in Language Arts. I do enjoy writing my speech because I do think the topic is very related to me. My topic is being the oldest, and it is about the cons. My favourite activity would probably have to be, when we gave our speeches peer feedback because I understood what I needed to work on and how I can improve it. I can improve my speech my having it memorized a bit more, I think if I had more of it memorized I can show more eye contact. In Language Arts I would like to learn writing stories, because when I was younger I had a big interest in writing stories, so I would love to learn the proper structure 
 
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I know that I haven't been keeping up with my daily blog, but I have been very busy. Although I have to admit that there were a few times I could of posted a blog. Anyway, today we had a basketball game at a different school and unfortunately we lost. Normally there is around fifteen people on the team, but everyone was sick, so we only had about nine people. Even though we lost I personally take it as a great learning experience. I really enjoy playing basketball and having lots of fun. This is one of my first times being on a school team, and it's really fun. 
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Today we learned all the parts that are in the introductory paragraph. We also learned the Introductory remarks. For me and I think for most of the students in my class, the most difficult remark was a statement that is the opposite of the point you plan to make. My favourite is probably a proverb, slogan, saying, or quotation. This was pretty much review from last year in grade six, but there were some new things that I learned.

 
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Today our student teacher Ms.Fei, showed us some chemistry and we had to make observations on what she was doing. Later we went into groups of five and then we got a big sheet of paper and as a group we were writing down questions that we were wondering about or observed. It was very interesting because we had to write down questions that were very... awkward. For example, Ms.Fei used a candle for one of the experiments. Our group had no more questions so we came up with "Is a candle (wax) edible?", and surprisingly Ms.Fei said those questions were fine to ask, only if the question was some what related. I learned many new things and terms. One thing we learned was, open and closed questions, I have learned this in the past but I never knew that is the proper term for those types of questions, plus it was a good review.

 
This is my first post in this section of my website, what I will try to do is post everyday on what I did today in class, it's kind of going to be a reflection and also saying what I do in class everyday.
So today, we researched about different careers, our group got the subject "Social Studies" and it was very fun and really interesting to learn about all these different careers and all the skills that you learn.