Hello, and welcome to my 7th grade reflection I’m going to tell you about some of the projects and work that I have done here at STEM school that might allow my future to be bright. We have worked on many projects that will strengthen us as students and those skills will help us when we are grown up and going into collage or applying for a job. This reflection is a way for me to show how I have grown in those skills in a way that will make me a stronger person in the future and a better student now. Those skills can be collaboration, inquiry, creativity, persistence and communication. I feel I have grown in persistence because I feel like I can take my time and get work done to the best of my ability. I will show you why I think this and talk about the project I have done in my STEM foundations class that helped me grow stronger in that skill and how that will help my future as I get older.

One big project that I have done in my STEM foundations class is the story book project, that project helped me grow in the skill persistence. I know I will need that skill when I’m older and when getting a job or when I’m applying for collage in a few years. The story book was a project where we had to write a story for the age group of 3rd to 5th graders, and the story had to have wellness content that taught them how to solve problems that they might find as they grow up. We had to draw, paint or collage every picture we wanted in the story book, my partner and I chose to paint our story. First we started by practicing character drawings then we started to draft the characters on some character brain storm sheets, we brainstormed with are partners what the characters would look like on them we drew a sketch and kept practicing until we got the character we wanted. Then we started to draft the story line. Later on we started the painting process because my partner and I chose to paint our story. Soon after all the paintings where finished we out them all into power point, while we did this we could easily see how our pictures had improved by looking at the old pictures of the characters. One specific character was mommy pickle, I painted her and at first she did not look as good as we imagined so I kept asking miss Whitman-Allen to critique my work and after I had feedback a few times I had finally got the look my partner and I had wanted and the teacher approved it. Then soon the pictures were all in power point and we got the books printed then we had to send the books away to an owner that would use the book to teach some kids with our final product the story book! The left over artifacts that I have used to show my growth are my brainstorm sheets for the characters, I also still have one of my painted drafts of one of the characters in the story. During this whole process I had to use persistence and the process helped me grow in it.

During the whole process I had learned some things that would help me as an artist but would also help me be persistent in my art work like the painting techniques. One is called layering, when you put layers of different colors on top of each other but still leaving room to see the color before it and it can be used as a background. Another technique is cross hatching for drawling, when you make a pattern that can be used to show a rough surface like animal skin of a floor like concreate. Another technique is called shading also used with a pencil, when you make a drawling more lifelike by adding some shaded colors to also add effect to the piece of art.

After all the work my partner and I had done I felt that I had really grown in persistence because at times  during the project I could feel myself wanting to just rush through the work and get it done but I kept myself away from that temptation and kept going and taking my time as well as I could. Now in my future I can use this new skill and show the people around me how I have grown and also show them I have grown by using this new skill that I know will be helpful to me.