Makenna’s Journal

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My Grit & Effort

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When I think about my own grit and effort I think about times when I was faced with challenges but was still able to continue to work towards my goal. An example of this is my passion for horseback riding. There have been times when I’ve felt really confident while riding and time when I have been nervous. The first time I fell off a horse is when I was riding in the outdoor arena with a brand new instructor and a new horse. I was cantering when the horse I was riding started bucking and a flew off. After this I was nervous to get back on the horse but I did.

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My skills

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I show my skills of not giving up when I am horseback riding because I love it so much and I would like to improve and get better.

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Using my skills

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I can use these skills when I have homework and I feel overwhelmed by the amount. I can tell myself that I can do it and organize all the homework so that I do a certain project at a specific time.

Growth Mindset

Fixed mindset

Horseback riding

Tests

Friends

Eating breakfast

Animals

Going on walks

Sewing

Organizing

Doing exercise
(Except for horseback riding)

Trying new foods

Helping my sisters

Going to school

Getting out of bed

Trying new activity’s

Doing hard homework

Sleeping

Eating chips

Drinking water

Watching netflix

Fixed Mindset Paragraph

The fixed mindset I am choosing to use is eating breakfast in the morning. Eating breakfast in the morning is something I hate doing. To move eating breakfast to my growth mindset side of my chart I think I could do things to make me like eating breakfast. To move this I could go to superstore with my mom to find more apealing food I could eat for breakfast. Another thing I could do is start making myself eat breakfast even if I do not want to.

Reflection on learning, beliefs and school

A time when I have received a growth mindset praise is when my riding instructor has told me good feedback or when she has told me she would not make me do it if she didn’t think I could do it. After being told one of those two things I think I have definitely had a change in my success.

My thoughts on intelligence have changed and become a new result of understanding since learning about growth and fixed mindset. Ive learned the importance of not giving up when you have a fixed mindset on something. There’s always something else to learn to improve those fixed mindset ideas.

My thoughts on achievement in school have become a result of understanding because the benefits of not giving up and continuing to learn will help my future in school and having a good education, so that I can enjoy a career that I would like to do.

Why you need to fail drawings

Growth Mindset

Keeps you in the growth part of your learning.

Experiments

Learning

They help you remember everything.

If you do not fail, you can not learn.

My Failure and Persistence

I can’t present out loud yet.

I am willing to fail at reading out loud/presenting in school if that means I will get better at it and learn from my mistakes. The more I talk in front of others and the more I raise my hand to speak even if I’m not comfortable with it, the better I’ll get.

I can Identify some factors which will help me succeed like raising my hand to answer a question the teacher asks if I know the answer, or if I think I know it. I can also just practice speaking and reading out loud.

I will try and keep my growth mindset time over time, task over task, through failure and success by not giving up, and keeping an open mind when I do mess up.