Swimming

Since I planned swimming for CAS I started to swim once a week (every sunday) . Every sunday I go to 'world class' which has swimming pool. When I was really young I learned how to swim but actually I did not swim over about 10 years.  I heared that swimming is very good exercise for muscles and lungs. When I just started swimming again it was really hard to swim even just one lap. But I practiced swimming every week and I can swim 2laps now. But also I exercised for my muscles because for swimming I need really strong muscles that can afford swimming for 2 laps. By swimming actually I also lost my weight.

There are many outcomes from swimming
First, I increased my awareness of my own strengths and areas for growth/
I had undertaken new challenges
I developed new skills

Guitar (finger style)

I have been playing guitar for almost one year. I never had lessons with a teacher and I just studied about the guitar alone and I played it. Last time I played very basic song which does not require very difficult techniques. But this time I tried to play more difficult song which requires more techniques.
 Last time I needed to play guitar only with 'stroke' but this time the style of my playing was 'finger style' which plays the guitar lines one by one. This time I also had to remember some chords to play this song. The chords were B#m,E,Em7 and F#m. These chords are also much difficult than before becaus B#m and F#m are high chords. For playing high chords I had to press all of the lines with my index finger and it really hurts and difficult. And the biggest problem was that if I play high chords it does not sound really clear because I did not press all the lines. But I continued to practice again and again and finally I succeeded in playing high chords with very clear sound. 
By learning guitar. I had undertaken new challenges by playing different style.
I had shown perseverance and commitment by playing it for one year.
I also developed my new skills

Badminton club

Badminton club is an activity that I don every week on tuesday after school with a teacher and students from all year group.. I started to play badminton in the badminton club since year10, I have been playing for the tuesday badminton club for 3 years. At the beginning of this club in this year, there were only 3 IB students and one teacher who were doing this activity. However, We advertised this club and we invited many students from all year groups. Now, we have more than 8 people who are joining this club and the club is becoming more big and more interesting.Since, young kids from year 7 and 8 students come to the badminton club we , IB students, tried to teach them basic rules of badmintons and skills that are needed for playing. Most of students found difficulty to serve and smash but we spent long times to teach them how to serve and smash and finally most of students got the skills.

 There were some learning outcomes from this activity. First of all I have been playing for the tuesday badminton club for 3 years now and this shows my commitment and perseverance towards badminton club. Also we play badminton 2 against 2 so we work collaboratively with others. Also I increased my awareness of my own strengths and areas for growth by teaching new students how to play badminton.

Weather club

Since I started my IB diploma program, I am joining the weather club which is run by our geography and ESS teacher Mr. O’Conner. At the beginning of this activity we learned how to use new unfamiliar equipments and we measured the air pressure, precipitations, temperatures etc. The aim of this activity was proving that the global warming is becoming serious problem and the average temperature of the globe is rising. For proving that, the weather club students are measuring the temperature of our school and then we compare it to the average climate of Russia.  However, in this term we did something new. Not only measuring the temperatures, but also we drew an enormous graph with using the data. We drew a graph of our measurement of our school and also the average climates of Russia. So we could easily compare them.

By doing this activity there are some learning outcomes.

I had shown perseverance and commitment in my activity. Because this work should be done through the whole year.

Also I am developing new skills by graphing the data. And I had engaged with issues of global importance because we are doing this project because of the global warming.

Winter Activity Day

Today, 2013-03-13, is winter activity day and IB students organized activities that are related to the winter.

I organized a hockey play with two other students. Before other year groups come to our activity, we set up the goals prepared balls and sticks. We made some rules for the safety of students. For example students were not allowed to swing their sticks over their waist.We explained the basic rules and we let them play hockey. Students were very enthusiastic and they really enjoyed them selves. We gave inter-house points for teams that won the game. I was really happy that kids enjoyed our activity

 There were some learning outcomes from this activity. First of all, it was first time to be a referee. So I had undertaken new challenges. I also planned and initiated activities. Also I was the side-referee and another student was the main refree, So we worked collaboratively.