My Exhibition is about self - motivation, reliability of sources and organisation, which I found hard because a lot of the time I would give up and not continue on random things like Home Learning which is the reason why I have self - motivation as one of my ATL’s. Another one of my ATL’s is reliability of sources because I will need to research a LOT for finding recipes. Cooking is a good ‘vehicle’ for my ATL’s because sometimes you would be expected to just get on with something without being told directly. Researching recipes is good for reliability of sources because I will need to find good recipe websites like - Simply Recipes & Sally’s Baking Addiction.

In my Expressive piece I have sad/angry/crying blueberries and when they are combined with my happy emotions will make my exhibition with all of its ups and downs. I chose a boxing ring to represent me trying to fight and get rid of my sadder emotions. I also have a blender at the bottom which mixes all my emotions together as if they were ingredients.

My exhibition artwork relates to my learning journey because at some moments I would be very stressed about all the things I wanted or needed to do and there would be times when I’m very proud of myself and my work. I think even though I did not make a smoothie/milkshake, it still represents my learning journey well because I had to ‘fight’ on my own without help.

In my PYP Exhibition I choose handwriting to improve my handwriting and fine motor skills.

The handwriting book is good for my learning but I need so much time to do it. It helped me to make sure the shape of my letter is better. It also helped to make sure my letter’s sit on the line. I also improved my fine motor skill by making a lego model. I had to build the model and someone else gave me the instructions. It was hard to put the lego pieces in the correct place. From my first attempt it is Terrible, unreadable and the word is not siting on the line but now (6th attempt) the word are on the line shape and neat

My Exhibition is about making board games to make my mind more creative.

I made 3 attempts only because I had to do a type of board game for each. And I am proud of each one, and this is because each one I made was fun and not to hard to make. This was to boost my creativity to take less time to get ideas and I’m sure it has been working! I’m sure it’s working because at the start of exhibition It took me hours and hours to come up with Ideas for my exhibition, but now I knew what to do for my artistic piece in a few minutes. And to me they are the same difficulty. I brainstormed ideas for what my final board game could be and I just knew I should do an exercise game. I thought of that because when I think of Boardgames, I know we don’t do exercise and therefore I thought it was a unique idea! So I did it with life, and Risk junior. This developed my thinking skills and building skills. So think of it as my right side of brain is before, and my left side is what I am now! According to my Artistic piece.

My artistic piece was a picture of me on a wall. And I changed it to look like my head was cut off with bad ideas and good ideas were coming out of it. Then The shade to make it stand out more for the bad ideas. This shows my before and after during my exhibition.

I am glad I achieved this task and my board game. Now me and my family play it a lot. And my mom is for sure proud of me! In the future I might think of making a board game from scratch now that I have all the skills I need. And it won’t take long since I have a better, more creative and Imaginative mind! Like the left side of my brain in my artistic piece!

My exhibition, like any other, had many ups and downs. I had to first sort out what I wanted to do, and what I had to do. I then sorted out what sort of origami pieces I was going to do. Then I did my origami pieces, then recorded my attempts in my journal. I would repeat that process a couple of times, then I would do some other things, but mostly that was the base of my process for when I was doing my exhibition. I definitely improved my time management skills and many other ATLs during my exhibition. One of the biggest challenges I faced was contacting people.

My artistic piece represents how I had to be resilient and to not give up during an origami piece. The lotuses represent resilience and how I had to be resilient during the Exhibition. The clutter in the lake represents my time management and resilience skills all cluttered, and how the lotuses helped me, (in a way) “pull myself together”.

One of my main origami pieces was the lotus 🌸, and I think during Exhibition, I slowly started progressing at my Organization, resilience, time management, and following instruction skills. That is one of the reasons that the 3 lotus’s are in the middle of the lake, symbolizing separation.