Blog 3.1 - Crafts and Speeches! [Izzah] Gr12

Crafts!

This lesson for AEP, we got to be more hands-on with our activities, instead of writing or reading anything we learned to be more practical, and that is, by learning how to tie knots into cute little keychains or a WEAPON. As well as making origami frogs have a tense competitive competition, the survival of the fittest frogs.

Tying a knot seems harder then most people think, you need to be very good with moving your fingers around a string, Hanis and Darren's fingers were literally blue doing the activity, and a lot of us struggled with keeping the baby in the string, it was hilarious to watch each other attempt at being patient. With a few anger issues popping out from a piece of string, it was surely a fun activity to complete despite the stress of our musical coming up. Hanis’s baby ball really turned out nicely, I wonder how she's so patient with it. In the end, it was just me smacking my defective ball on the table and on Nurin, very entertaining. 

Our next activity was frog origami, I was particularly excited about this one, I used to be obsessed with origami, especially miniature ones, cute delicate ones. Instead of making one, I made two, my frog no 1 Albert which was about the size of my palm, and frog no 2 jr, the size of the tip of my finger. We had a race, I raced against Ayse in the first round and I absolutely WRECKED HER, just kidding, I guess cause my frog was miniature which meant that I could leap higher cause of how light my frog was, the second person I ABSOLUTELY DESTROYED, was William. My frog is literally the one and only undisputed champion of all frogs despite how tiny it was, it would be fun to have a competition of all the winners from each grade

We also did speech reading, and I may say this has probably been the best app lesson we've done yet. Everyone had a great laugh to see each other possess ourselves into these iconic and influential people in the past. People who have shaped history changed lives eventually to what has become of the world to this day good or bad. I played the role of Elizabeth the 1st giving a speech to the English army as they set off to fight the Spanish. I wonder how hard it must have been for her to rule England as a woman. She really shows us how strength is not defined by our gender or sex but rather by how minds.