Category: Class w

School started but a few weeks ago in late August. School starting is, of course, the yearly event in which students prepare for the following ten months of learning, and also begin counting down the days until winter break. The beginning of the school year can be stressful for a lot of students, we are thrown into a building with new people and new issues, and have to figure out how to navigate it. But the start of the school year marks our class of learners moving ahead together to form new communities and classes of learners throughout the school. Although it can seem at times like it is easier to learn alone, I believe it is when we can talk to and bounce ideas off other students that we learn the best. So this year I want to be an active learner in our classroom community. I want to learn what my peers have to say about my writing to improve it. I want to read what my peers have written to see how others around me perceive things. I want to be active and not just go through the motions of the activities I do in class. I want to take each activity by the horns and learn from it. I want to be a learner, not just a student.