The Bento-Box project is an interesting way of having of having students express their learning throughout the book they read. The students must choose 5 different artifacts that correlate to the book and write multiple different types of paragraphs on different topics, relating to each object.

My Core Competency reflection:

Communication:

How did you work with others to develop ideas?

During this project I worked with others to develop my ideas in a few ways. During the beginning process of the project, my group ad I worked together to help one another think of objects. We all also offered to bring in objects that another in our group may have wanted and helped circulate general ideas around. As well as when I was in the final stages of finishing my projects, with the help of the others in my group I had some help of thinking of some connection ideas, as well as some help from my teacher Ms. Shong. I overall really enjoyed this project because it is different from any other project I have ever done before.

Critical & Creative Thinking:

What aspects of this activity were challenging?

The aspects of this challenge that I found the most difficult was definitely the word count and artifact ideas. By word count I mean the number of words required in each section, I found this particularly hard in the “Writer’s Style” section. I was trying my best to find different things about the writer’s style, but I kept coming up with the same things. After taking some time, it became easier for me to think of some ideas for the “Writer’s Style”. I was also having a bit of trouble coming up with my ideas for the different objects to put with the book. My group helped me think of a few, but I was having trouble thinking up the last two. However, it became much easier after looking through my writing. A good strategy that I found helped me, was when I couldn’t think of an object, to just write even without an object. That way, the object sort of just came to me after a while. There were few challenging parts to this project but the ones that were challenging I was able to solve with a bit of help from my peers, but mostly, I was able to resolve myself.