My 2 Personal Display Items

     

     These are my two personal display items. The first is from our retreat talent show when we started grouping up. I chose this because it was the first time i've ever actually been to anything like this, and it was probably the highlight of that retreat. We made a lot of changes, and worked really hard on this, so it means a lot. I think that we did great and i'm really proud of how we did, and worked. Though we made mistakes, it was something I could laugh off in the end. So it wasn't that bad.

     The second item, are the fliers from Parent Night. Parent Night was my first ever leadership event (or at least that i've been to). I was able to pass out ballots and briefly explain to parents what they had to do with it. That was probably other than retreat one of my best leadership days just because of what we did at Chad's birthday beforehand. This event was probably other than my daily jobs one of the first main things I did since joining Leadership.

Magic Notes

      This week was great. Friday was a Teachers Holiday, so we didn't have school. Time is going by way too fast because it felt like I don't remember having TV duty. Anyways, I went on TV for the first time with Deriecka on Thursday. And Miah went with Chad on Wednesday. I watched ISA dance on Monday and Wednesday. And on that Wednesday afterschool, me and Chad made intro. For my Period 1 (Math): We are learning even more integer problems. Period 2 (Science): Now this one, I have low grade due to my notebook being ruined on the wrong day. I can just turn it in, but I can't get full credit, just half on each. Period 3 (Keyboarding): There hasn't been a lot of typing going on, it's just CFA and our Bubble Map. Period 4 (English): We are still doing Embedded Assesment 2 and we did SBA practice tests. Period 5 (Leadership): We put our Magic Notes mailbox on the blue board. And then, we went on our phones. Period 6 (Social Studies): Our seats just changed to face another way, and we received two new students.

      My Highlights of the week are: I went on Ilima CCTV on Thursday, and only made one mistake, which is good because I've never been on a broadcast before. I learned how to make an intro, and the one Chad taught me how to make looked really good. I am keeping up a good grade in my core classes except Science. My Lowlights of the week are: My blogger is acting up, I still can't really post  a picture of my Magic Notes or anything else. My Science grade was lowered because my notebook got wet on INB check day. And I didn't know that, so I wanted to leave my notebook because it'd rip. Another lowlight of my week is that we didn't get our cones out on time during intramurals, and we had to rush. In relation to that, when i was on walkie, i kept forgetting to say 10-4 or answer back in general.

     My lesson of the week is to be more attentive. Being Attentive is important because you won't know what's going on around you. During one of our Intramurals, we weren't paying attention to what was going on and we didn't put up the cones. Neither did we move the soccer goal far enough. If we can't pay attention in class we'll get a bad grade on something if we don't even know what we are doing. There are so many reasons to be attentive, but basically the big reason is you won't know what's going on around you.

     This Magic Note was chosen because of how long, descriptive, and you can tell how much effort was put into this. It'll probably be obvious who wrote this for me once I put the topic of it, and that would be how much potential I have, and how happy the person was when I got into leadership. It was very decorative, and had nice hand righting. It shocked me how long it was compared to the others, but very descriptive and neat. This was very motivational as well, and it made me feel special because I feel like I can be useful in Leadership and wanted. It made me feel great and I was very happy.
   

This Week of School :-)

          This was a week I barely could completely remember all of my classes because I was focused on this new thing we first heard about before retreat, called "Intramurals". Intramurals is refereeing, scorekeeping, and responsible for bringing the needed supplies for flag football. We had 7th first on Wednesday, which was extremely more tame and not super crazy compared to eighth graders that would take it way too seriously and could actually get hurt. During the eight grade game, there was one student on field A that kept running and always slipped in front of us, sometimes hitting us. Then we had 7th again after eighth the next day. Now for my classes. Pd. 1 (Math): Not a lot that actually had to be done, just a brand new unit started. Pd. 2 (Science): We just started learning about cells, which was had a bit of extensive vocabulary, because I couldn't understand most of the terms. Pd. 3 (Basic Keyboarding): This was very upsetting because this is the first time I received a B on my accuracy test, I think I just gotta remember my key location and slow down again and build it back up. Pd. 4 (ELA): We just started reviewing for our second Embedded Assessment even though we just finished the first before break. Since it's another one i'm assuming it will be another 25% of my grade. Pd. 5 (Leadership) We had only 2 leadership periods this week, the first one I can't recall very well, but we just learned about the personal display board, what to do, and when it's due. Chad and Deriecka were also on a FT so Kaylin was in charge of us and they weren't there for pd. 5. Pd. 6 (SS): This week we did a timeline on King Kamehameha the Great. I didn't get a lot of information off of my notes, probably because the video I saw wasn't the best for notes. One of the facts I learned was that he was named "Paiea" at a young age and trained in secret due to the order to kill him by another ali'i.
           My Highlights for the week are: My Intramural jobs were a success, other than the fact I almost forgot to count shaking hands because I was in a confused state. We were able to finish Markee or Marquee on time before recess. I know how to do my leadership job myself and learned how to give the fall pictures to everyone who ordered. It was really funny, because when I asked if they were sure they bought fall pictures, one of them said they didn't buy and some told me they didn't know and sounded like they didn't. I don't understand the point in coming by if you didn't buy, and if you come saying you don't know, then tell me nevermind. It's a waste of time and there were other people who were waiting too. Some of this is a low light, and speaking of lowlights, I should probably get to that now. My first lowlight is that I received a B in Basic Keyboarding for the first time. Like I said,  I should get used to remembering the keys first. Being a week away from school can really affect your skills. The second lowlight, is that our group leaders were missing on Tuesday because of a FT and Thursday took up all over our Period 5 time because of Marquees and coloring in the Letter Display Boards. To top it all off we had lockdowns that same day that took like 20 minutes.
           The lesson I learned this week is doing your best, or trying with your best effort. This was a lesson I somewhat thought of while I was watching flag football. Everyone was giving it their all and most that did probably scored more goals (even though it's not exactly counted compared to the other things) and those people did great. Even if you give it your all, there's no need to be so salty about not winning or making things go your way. Sportsmanship is important because it shows people that giving it your all doesn't mean you'll take it badly and you'll seem like a nicer person. Let's say your in class, about to take a test, but you don't actually do anything to prepare for it because you think you know it all, but you get a C on it. That's not trying your best because if you didn't study and you thought you knew it all, that's not trying at all. This is why trying your best is very important, and in my opinion, mostly important in academics.

My First Leadership Retreat!! (Retreat Blog)

          This retreat was a blast! It was fun bonding with the whole leadership like a family and being able to meet our chaperons which used to be in leadership. The day started out when I arrived to the school, I forgot my mailbox inside the class so I ran to retrieve it. It turns out, it was found with the rest of my envelopes after I was about to design my new one.We moved all our bags to the garage then eventually upstairs as we settled in. We then began our Session 1 which was reviewing our groups strengths and weaknesses and us individually. Then the Quarter 1 review. Session 2 was rearranged to be our ISA job planning and for our Period, door decorations. Before session 2, we had lunch. After our planning, we got to have a break and swim. I forgot if it was the first break or the second, but Deriecka got stung by a jellyfish. Since then I was scared to go in the water especially because if I got deeper, I don't know how to swim. Then, we went crab hunting and found a huge one compared to the smallest ones we found later after that day. During night time, we had Breakouts, in which my group (boys) were rehearsing orientation dance with Korey and Laila. We didn't do Personal Interviews or Memory Jars this year. Then we had dinner and after that we had Talent Show practice, Period 1 chopped, then it was lights out.
           The second day, we woke up early to have breakfast. I then finished all of my bucket filling messages (magic notes) Session 5 which was supposed to be Q3 planning, we did both Q3 and Q4 planning at once. Then we had another break so I went swimming again, but I had sand stuck in my hair. Then we had lot cleaning, our Period chose the back where we picked up leaves, and sides of the house. That took a lot of time, so we had yet another break. Then lunch, then free time. I don't think this is completely in order as I don't memorize the day 2 schedule. We rotated our breakout activity, and this time we were with Jolene. We worked on our cape of self esteem and that included our short, mid, long term goals. I made 3 short, 4 long, and 3 mid in this order. Then we had dinner. Then after that we had time left over from lunch and made small changes to our talent show cheer. Then we had our talent show, we won 2nd place. Then we went in for chopped, we made rice crispies and a smore bar. Even though it's already a smore, Mr. Ing still let us make smores later on after chopped. We also received 2nd place for that as well.
          The third and final day there, we had breakfast once again. Packed our bags, and eventually moved them to the garage when we were cleaning inside the house. We had Breakout sessions again but this time with Shayna. We played Jenga with the #'s listed on the blocks and those were questions listed. We had another short break. Then lunch, took pictures, and learned how to play flag football. Then after that another 1 hr. break and we finally cleaned up. Took the bus, and arrived at Ilima.
          My highlights for our retreat is that we got to increase mostly our period's bond and with the rest of leadership. We were able to figure out what we were gonna do for our plans with creativity and great themes. I enjoyed the retreat and had long breaks in which we could we swim at anytime we wanted to. We got second place in our Chopped and Talent Show. We had successful sessions and breakouts and I got to meet Remy, a local Peacock. I got to meet the previous Leadership students which included 2 Sophomores and 2 Seniors. Even though we did a lot of work at the retreat, it wasn't boring and it didn't consume a lot of time, I especially can't say that after getting hour long breaks. My lowlights are that time passed so fast and I already miss being there. We also ran into some drama around the second day. The last lowlight was our chopped, even though we did everything fine and how we were supposed to, our food didn't have a lot of taste and wasn't as good as it was supposed to be.
          My lesson learned during that retreat is not only working as a team, but trying your best to be very creative.We needed Teamwork to think up idea's for our planning, such as how in door decorations, for winter we thought of Winter Wonderland and Snow in Hawaii, as for Halloween, Crime Scene, Nightmares, and Cabin in the Woods. I forgot which Halloween theme was voted for already. Creativity was used to make these themes more unique and exciting. Snow In Hawaii is somewhat creative because it never snows in Hawaii and during Winter time it usually always snows in other places. For Halloween, Crime Scene and Cabin in the Woods are really creative because Crime Scene is like a mystery where there's blood and you have to find out what happened. Cabin in the Woods is somewhat self-explanatory, but if we will make it like the movie then that's too much because there are a lot of different monsters/killers. Nightmares I am not very certain about, I believe that it is about the horror that can take place, like people dying, blood, and scary monsters.
          The final paragraph is about a quote that we have to explain the significance of. The meaning of this quote "Leadership is not about ability, it's about responsibility." This quote means that, having just ability won't make you qualified as a leader, being a leader means that you have to accept and deal with the challenges that arise and make sure that what's done is done. You can't just be like "I can do this and you can't, so I should be the leader." You have to be ready to accept the challenges and that means that leadership isn't all about being able to boss people around, in fact if you say that, then all I have to say is that you'd make a horrible leader by saying that. As a leader, you shouldn't be afraid to make decisions and you should make them wisely.

First Quarter in Leadership! :)

          Many things escalated this quarter in a way that was a little bad at first, but it all worked out great at the end. I feel like this sounds like a end of the year blog, but really this is a really big change in my quarter. If it weren't for this change, I wouldn't be able to make this blog where I can talk about how I felt about this quarter. First off, I was completely accepted into Leadership about 2 days after my conditional acceptance and that was such a fulfilling moment for me. There were exactly 3 jobs for three odd periods. First I was on Music where we provide music daily during morning and recess. Then, ID's where we would just be in the class and sit near the computer to print out ID's, that felt really slower than the other jobs but it was still fun. ID's were also responsible for lunch music, in which you play it during first lunch and pick it up before the end of second lunch. TV was probably the funnest but with Mr. Bonilla's speech problem that ruined my experience of my first week on TV job. The rest of the days were fun, but man to be caught up on a speech he SHOULD know that most students won't really care about, really a drag. Basically, TV goes on the school CCTV announcing upcoming events and gatherings also providing daily information. They are in charge of afterschool sales which students stop by the class everytime we have, and they just buy ice cream or snacks. Sometimes, they even sell boba tea that last Leadership period gets to help make. I've worked on a Biocube, Cubby Cover, and made weekly blogs. I was able to use the extra credit I received from Parent Night and save my AR which I was able to complete today! We also rehearsed our retreat cheer, discussed what we will bring to our retreat and our packing list. For the jobs we learned how to make NEW ID's and make TV intros. Right now I don't have my final grades as my assessments for most of my classes haven't been graded yet. Though I know that today is the last day i'll be having the odd periods and I won't see those teachers (except Leadership) till next quarter.
          I don't even know where to start with this whole list of Highlights! and Lowlights :( but by the end of the quarter, most of my Lowlights turned to great Highlights. Starting with my Lowlights, there was a possibility I wouldn't be able to be in Leadership, as my acceptance was only conditional due to one C that was fixed the day after. My AR goal was almost a fail, which I needed about 6 points since Monday and it was due on Tuesday. It was so scary, in the process of getting my AR goal complete, i've had to failed quizzes which really dropped my percentage, thankfully those failed tests were able to get deleted! And if it stayed like that well then "goodbye to Leadership retreat." Another lowlight was that I had to put my name on the detention board with Mr. Nishimura for tomorrow because when I was swapping seats due to my computer having no internet, I put on my bag to go back to my seat but when I left it on, I guess it counted as packing too early because even though it was end of the day, he never gave instructions to do so yet. So I owe detention for tomorrow even though I have a recess job. Now for my highlights!!! For starters, I got accepted into Leadership this quarter and assigned to a period group where I feel i'd fit in the most out of the rest of them, Period 5! With Chad, Deriecka, Kaylin, and Miah which we got in at the same time. The biggest highlight, is that I reached my AR goal in time! Which was such a rush and struggle, but that's the lesson of procrastination and only finding out last minute, then again finding out last minute was still my fault obviously. I used an Extra Credit to extend my goal dues for today instead of Wednesday and right now, i'm so thankful I went to that Parent Night thing. My goal was 17.0 which initially was 32.3 but thankfully it lowered, also my goal percentage was 85 and it was not being nice to me at first. Although I can go on the retreat, i'm still a little upset because i'll lose my Leadership recognition for failing to meet my Reading Level goal of 6.5. My ZPD is 4.7 to 10.0 and I was kind of surprised to find that was my goal, because I thought they would slowly raise it but 6.5 is already halfway and it's not even the whole first semester yet. The final highlight of this whole list, is Laila unbanned me and let me go on the Leadership Retreat! YAY
          My lesson for the quarter, use your time wisely. When I say wisely, I MOST DEFINITELY MEAN IT. I have a problem with time management, but this is just straight out how did you not do this. I found my AR goal last minute and unfortunately I almost failed my whole AR goal and I wouldn't have been able to come to the Retreat, and if I couldn't, then I could've missed a lot of important details. This whole thing started when I began playing with my playing cards and rubik's cube. I didn't go on my AR thing because I thought that I set my own goal and well, I should've double checked way earlier. I found out about my AR goal a week before it was due, and that was a huge mistake. It was initially 32.3 points but thankfully lowered to 17.0 and I still hardly got past that. I got boosted 10 points by a hunger games quiz. Then I took 2 quizzes after that and failed both of them. Sadly, one of  those quizzes I took almost 5 pages of notes on and I got a lower score than the other quiz I took. I had another fortunate moment when I was able to get those failed tests deleted, and that wouldn't affect my percentage after that. Then today I just barely passed using my extra credit, and reading 2 diary of a wimpy kid books and some fake repunzel based off of growing and keeping hair clean, it was also kind of nasty. The point is, if you keep procrastinating and waste the time that you can utilize into important matters like this, then obviously you won't get anywhere and I wouldn't even be in this situation if I just read when I was supposed to and here I am complete with my goal having to complete this using an extra credit just because I couldn't fulfill my goal on the supposed due date. This is why using your time wisely is the most important lesson of this quarter.
          One of the first things I really need to work on is obviously timing and procrastination. Either or, both are so affecting that it's the most i'll need to work on. Especially if I wanna progress in Leadership due to the importance of this type of thing. Timing is very important when it comes to assignments given, important or not they will add up eventually. Second, is quality. Quality is one of my most important things i'd like to work on, now having quality and doing the best of your effort is pretty different. Doing the best of your effort doesn't mean you did quality work (it can depend on how you think it is but when teachers grade it's different). Quality is something I also have to work on as it's very important so that all of my papers and drawings seem really fun to grade and teachers would be happy to grade my paper. It's pretty much GLO #4 Quality Producer. Finally, out of all of the important things this quarter, this is my last and something that has been popping up since my leadership interview and it's never been that bad. My case of Self-Confidence this has been such a bother that this added on to a bunch of things and I was on the verge of not being accepted into Leadership and that's how I found out about how serious this is. If I wanna be successful, I definitely need to work on this because if I don't I won't be able to pass another interview I might have and if I get that nervous again, then I won't be able to speak correctly and know how to say what I want to properly with out saying it wrong or continuously pausing. Self-Confidence is something I need to increase by the end of this school year, especially if I want to return next year as I know that interviews for returnees will probably be much harder as they have actually had experience on this and why they should be back again or questions in that category. These are the main things I need to work on if I really want to be successful.