The Wonderment

Alexamarin

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Supporting Dance In Our Community

Work closely with the local dance studio ELEVATE to put on a production that raises awareness of specific issues around the world. Create a period of time where each one of us...

Inspiring our community by promoting and teaching dance

The purpose of this project is to help support our studio that is facing small challenges with money at the moment. COVID 19 had a great effect on the studio. The loss of part...

Yearbook

Organize and manage my school CAS night event where students have the opportunity to share with the community their project purpose, find volunteers and raise funds from inter...

Supporting the arts

Work closely with the local dance studio ELEVATE to put on a production that raises awareness of specific issues around the world. Create a period of time where each one of us...

Perseverance and commitment! – Nov 28 2022

During this trimester I have been able to persevere through small projects that last no longer than a couple of weeks. However, when facing tasks that are long-term I have def...

Demonstrate how to initiate and plan a CAS experience.

Demonstrate how to initiate and plan a CAS experience. Last week I held CAS night at my school where all project-based projects at my school were showcased to my community. Ov...

CAS Night take 2 – Nov 8, 2022

This week I have finalized the details for CAS night. In class on Monday, I communicated with my classmates all information regarding the event and their roles. A couple of th...

Progress #2 – November 2, 2022

This past week I had a meeting with Miss Amy to discuss our ideas and plans for CAS night since it is approaching soon. We finalized some fundamental logistics such as where t...

Progress – October 27

Over the past week, I have not made a handful of progress. I am in the stage of my project where I need others to contact me in order to move forward. In a discussion with my ...

2-week update – Oct 11, 2022

Over the past two weeks, I have divided my work with Gracie. We had our first yearbook meeting last Thursday which was okay. Not many people showed up and those who did were i...

ATLs – October 6, 2022

How have you used one of the above ATLs while working on your project? Since I am starting a new project and working with a new teammate I have had to readjust the way I work....

SMART Goals for Yearbook and CAS night

CAS Night: Hold an event at Gracia on October 19 in order to present the CAS and Anchor projects of La Paz to the community while raising $10,000 and receiving parent/communi...

CAS night logistics committee – Sept. 6

Organization and set up 5:30 – 6:30 open house, table, and booths 6:30: start presentations for CAS but only those who recognition for founds or volunteers No si...

Activity summer entry – Aug

Over the summer I spent time in northern California where I went to visit my godmother for a few days. While I was there we hiked Mount Diablo with her grandkids and my sister...

Creativity summer entry – Aug

One creative activity I did this summer was to create a mood board and design a home to help my mom with her job. My mom was working on a design and needed inspiration for her...

Service Summer Journal – Aug 25

Before Summer started I had roughly planned to do a three-day dance camp over the summer with my teammates for the kids at CEPIA. We left the majority of the logistics done be...

Motivational theories – June 12, 2022

For my motivational theories I decided on are Herzberg's theory of motivation and Daniel Pink’s. The reason I chose Herzberg’s theory is that it addresses the basic necess...

The Leatherback Trust project – June 3, 2022

Yesterday June 2, my class took a field trip to our local biological center with a few exchange students who came to visit us from Boston. Collectively we went to Playa Grande...

Creativity – May 27, 2022

What does it mean to be creative? When I think about creativity I think about the well-known phrase “think outside the box”. Creativity is generating ideas and possibiliti...

Stage feasibility study – May 6

By creating a feasibility study we were able to clearly state and agree on the goals of this project and what they mean. We established key milestones, benefits, and outcomes....

How are you going to fulfill all the needs of your project? – Pt. 2

How are you going to fulfill all the needs of your project?

It requires weekly love and attention from you to grow and flourish. We are given 1-2 CAS classes a week in order to grow our project. During these classes, I am communicating...

planning and initiation T3- April 22, 2022

What are the goals of your project? As of right now, the goals for our project are all over the place and not completely established. Since we are starting a new trimester we ...

4th grade lesson – March 8, 2022

In order to teach the 4th graders how to properly reflect on their trimester, I created a poster with four areas of improvement that I personally related to. I started by draw...

Mid project update – Feb. 24, 20022

What have you done in the past couple of weeks? In the past few weeks, I have gone through the initial stages of my updated project. I started off by choosing the music for th...

Feb. 4, 2022 – What makes you really excited about your project?

Why is this project important to you? This project is important to me because it provides the opportunity to kids who otherwise would be unable to dance. Dance is a big part...

What is happening in my project? – Jan 30, 2022

This week, discuss what you have done the past two weeks of your project. During the last two weeks, I have been setting up and planning all upcoming events. I had a meeting w...

Global significance – January 14 2022

How do you make a difference in your community? What are you doing to create change? The difference we are making is bringing and encouraging young people to incorporate dance...

CAS Video Elements

Why does the story of your CAS project need to be told? The story of our CAS project needs to be told in order to show others the importance of art in our community and the ro...

Planning and initiating journal entries

How did I feel about the planning process? What could I have done differently? What did I do well? During the planning process of my event, I worked collaboratively with G...

End of trimester quotes – November 26, 2021

“You gave me your time, the most important gift of all.” Dan Zandra No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another. Charles Dickens I always wo...

Night of the Arts

What are some interesting aspects of your project that you think people should know about? - The December recital is not the typical performance my studio puts on every year. ...

Stakeholder Journal entry

Encourage and influence I have a group chat with Gaby, Hunter and, Ava that allows us to communicate on a daily basis, in order to plan logistics, coordinate schedule and disc...

Free right

Last Saturday I started to teach my choreography to the little kids at ELEVATE for the end of the year recital. I choreographed this dance a few weeks ago but did not take int...

Show and tell

It has been 7 weeks since the start of the trimester and the beginning of my project. During the span of these few months, my team and I have changed our project and adapted c...

Activity journal entry

What new challenges have I taken on when doing this activity? I have done dance for about 5 years now. I decided to challenge myself by choreographing a number to include in m...

Creative field trip journal entry (ART TRIP)

On Friday, October 8 my art class accompanied the 12th-grade art students to the beach to help them create their land art. We were separated into three groups. I helped Ashley...

Trio rehearsal

On Saturday, October 2 we began choreographing our dance for the production in December.

Meeting with Gaby

On Saturday, September 25, Ava, Hunter, and I met with ELEVATE owner Gaby Abarca to discuss the logistics of our project. The three of us had an initial plan to put on a perfo...

True Colors Journal Entry

What did you take away from reflecting on your own personal color style and that of others in the group? The process of reflecting on our personal color began with determini...

Mentor Journal Entry

September 10, 2021 What is your objective? To raise sufficient funds to donate to ELEVATE in order to pay for new equipment and support the competition or scholarship kids. We...

Gantt Chart

A Gantt Chart is a graphical representation used in project management that will show the length of time a task in a project should take. A way to monitor timelines of tasks. ...

Week 2 journal entry

How are you feeling at the beginning of the project? Describe your feelings and how you are using strategies to manage them. I am excited to see what my project creates and th...

My team at dance class

Mission Statements

Personal Mission statement: My mission is to explore and foster new interests by competing and connecting with my peers and community. This statement motivates me to take ch...

Summer Journal Entries

Creative This summer I challenged my creativity by creating several art pieces using different materials. I started by tracing images and then painting them using acrylic pa...

Journal entry 1

What is the meaning of CAS to you? Why is it something that is required by the IB and the MEP? Why did you choose to do your project? What resources are available to he...

SWOT analysis

Objective: To be able to provide scholarships and dance opportunities for kids that don’t have them. Strengths Teamwork Experienced dancers Hard Workers L...

Speed dating?

We each presented our projects to 3 distinct classmates, who asked us specific questions and provided feedback. Here’s one of mine: Transportation Think about COVID prot...

The Future is Bright

My CAS project was inspired by my love of dance. I wanted to provide the opportunity for kids to express themselves and be given the chance to dance because when I was given t...

Alexa

By Alexamarin

Guanacaste, Costa Rica