Reflective+Statements

On this page I will record my reflection statements. I will be asking myself things like:
 * Something important I learned from this week's work was:
 * A queston I have from this week's work is:
 * Something new I learned about people in my group was:
 * Something I did this week which has extended my learning was:
 * Something I achieved this week which has surprised me was:
 * Some difficulties I am experiencing are:
 * I did these things really well:
 * I need to work on the following things:

Dates for reflective statements: TERM 3 TERM 4 August 1st October 17th August 22nd November 7th September 12th November 27th

Reflection statement: Aboriginal Day, Wednesday 24th July 2008.

On the 24th July three Aboriginals, Big Al, Leonie and Tristan (Pancake) came to tallangatta to teach the year 9 and 10 students about the Aboriginal culture. Some of the things that Big Al told and talkedto us about were really interesting, because you could understand how the aboriginal culture told their storys and why they told them. Big Al told everyone about a young aboriginal man that thought be was the best at everythin, and he never listened to what the elders were saying to him, that something bad would happen. So one day he went to a waterhole where he knew that there was a crocodile in that water hole, but he still went and thinking he was the best at everything, both the crocodile and himself died that day. The stary tells you not to brag about how good you are, because someone will beat you at something, also to respect your elders and what they say because they know what they are talking about because they have had more experince.

The aboriginal culture has mant similarities, but there are so many more differences, not saying that the way of the aboriginals is not correct, but they do all of the same things as we do, but the aboriginals do those things in a more enviromently friendly way, because they use their resourses very smartly, for example aboriginals can get many uses out of a tree like, they can make shelters, they use the wood as heat, also for weapons like spears and axes also they can get medicines out of trees. In the aboriginal culture all the children in the family take their mothers family name, as we take our fathers family name. Tristan took us over to the RSL hall, and talked to us about the traditional aboriginal dances and what animals they dance as. Some of the boys had to dance the Goanna dance, in that dance you get on the floor and walk like a goanna and flicker your tounge, the girls danced the emu dance where we walked around like an emu moving our emu head. We also done the Kangaroo dance, where you would jump aroung like a kangaroo looking very serious.

Leonie was showing us the aboriginal paintings and their meanings, it was really interesting for her to explain that the symbols on the paintings represent an animal or type of land they live on. She got us to copy all of the symbols down onto a piece of paper, when we all done that we drew a meeting place on another piece of paper and to draw things around our meeting place. The things that we had to draw like the Goanna tracks, Kangaroo foot prints, emu tracks etc, they had to tell a story about where and how you llived, like the Kangaroo foot prints represented that the kangaroo protected their tribe from evill things.Leonie drew a painting that showed us how she lived or how her ansesters lived a while ago and like they lived in the mountain area with rivers.

Reflective Statement: First 3 weeks of PB. 14th July to the 1st of August.

In the first three weeks of school, I organised my new skill and expedition and event. For my new skill I knew that i wanted to do Photography so i had to explain the what i alrealy knew about photography, brain storm what i needed to do, identified ways to digitally caputre the progess (because its photography i will be taking random photos of Danielle and I doing the developing of the photos), make a time line of planned action, decide how i will know that my project is successful and what evidence i will be collecting and set up a recording processes. I had to ask a far few questions because i didnt really know what the questions meant and how i was goning to do them, but when i asked i understood them better. I have learnt a little bit about phototgraphy already because granny recomended that we should go to the libary and borrow some boks about photography also that we can get some background information about the different genres and how the actual developing of the photos is done and what process have to be done to make them come out in the correct way. I was really surprised that i will be learning actually how to develop the photos in a dark room and that Danielle and I will be going to Sydney by a plane and getting an awesome experience of photography. I reckon that I orgenised thing pretty well, because i got reight into it and tryed getting things done asap, but Danielle really needs to help a litle bit more with the writing and things like that. For my expedition and event planned for Danielle and I to go to sydney and get our new skill done, and i e-mailed my grandmother because i needed for her to say that she agrees to supervise us and help complete our project under some conditions like not to go anywhere without her permission and not to go anywhere without her at night. I need to work on some things that i am doing like my organisation also that i need to focus more on some of the writing things like reflective statements a little bit more, and to think more about what i am writing. Some of the things i have been having to do, have been a little bit confusing like finding the right thigs to put into reflective statements, because i dont really understand what they are for and why we need to write them. Overall i think that i have done a good amount of work for the first three weeks of school, and i am happy with what i have organised so far with all my projects.

Refective Statment for the second three weeks of school. 1st of August to the 22nd of August

Throught out these couple of weeks i have got my New Skill, Expedition and Event and Health project fully signed off. I also have half completed my community service planning, but i plan to finish that soon so i can make a start. I thought about my beliefs and values module, but i dont really understand what i have to do, or what i want to do, i am sorta confused with that. To do with my health project Jazmin and I completed our beep test, which i got a 6.7 in. My expediotion was awesome and it was extremaly successful, Danielle and I enjoyed the experiance very much so that we learnt alot of interesting fact about black and white photography.

Reflective statement. 22nd of August 12th Septmeber.

Reflective statments. september 12th - 17th october.

For these couple of week I didn’t get a lot of things done in these three weeks of PB. I did get another expedition and event signed off which was my ice cream eating contest that we have planned for the 29th of October, entry fee of $5 and the left over money will go towards the breast cancer foundation. Throughout the weeks I have completed many of my scrap booking paged. I am very proud of what I have done in my scrap booking. It displays what I have experienced in Sydney talking my black and white photos.

Reflective statement.