This semester I’ve grown the most in Athletic leadership 12 with collaboration. I learned how to actively listen, give constructive feedback, and help team dynamics during class discussions and sport events. Over time, I learned how to take more initiative to lead bigger things without being nervous or scared what others would think. We all got to collaborate together as a class and plan events based on all our thinkings put together. This growth has prepared me for the future, so I know how to be a good and helpful teammate in any setting.

Next, I will focus on developing collaboration by learning how to collaborate at the next step. Now that were adults’ collaboration will be different, instead of high school it will be at work or post-secondary. Adults have more of a diverse background so it’s important to hear everybody out and build off their ideas.

In leadership 12 I learned how to communicate and collaborate with others. Both are essential skills for the course, we all have similar goals throughout the semester and we have to work together to do so. We have to communicate with eachother in group discussions, listening and giving feedback actively with our peers so we are all on the right track. Collaborating during big events has taught me teamwork, and how to delegate tasks and share responsibility’s. Engaging in all these leadership activity’s not only taught me how to be a leader but built relationships and prepared me for the future.

For my paragraph I chose to write about Butterflys since they are very cool creatures and I find them interesting. The monarch butterfly population has been severely impacted by human activity, now you may ask why? And I am here to tell you, not only about their endangerment but a few other things. The loss of plants that keep pollinators healthy, deforestation, urban sprawl, the use of herbicides, and pollution are examples of human activities that endanger these species. But as a society we must understand how our actions can impact the pollinators. It is not only human activity that endangers butterflies, but climate change also has a big impact on their endangerment, as the monarch butterflies will shift their ranges to track more optimal conditions. But luckily, we do have good people in the world who like to help with things like this, a good example is a group of people in Fredericton wanted to see how many monarch butterflies make it back through their migration to Mexico and back. So, they started their yearlong project and built a temporary home for these butterflies. Once the monarchs are fully grown and ready to migrate to Mexico, this group of people will tag and track them on their way to Mexico. 

I chose an article about a toddler who dressed up as Queen Elizabeth for Halloween, the family sent a photo to the royal family not expecting a response. A few months later they received a letter from the lady-in-waiting. The family was very excited about this and wishes to go to Windsor Castle one day in the same costume. (summary) 

The first photo is a picture of the royal letter written by the lady-in-waiting. I found this photo on the original news article I saw which was CNN. The second photo is me looking up “A Kentucky toddler dressed up as the Queen. A few months later she received royal mail hoax.” More news websites came up. The third and fourth picture I reverse searched the image on tineye.com. About 3 main news sites came up which I provided pictures of next. The first one was CNN which is where I found this article, CNN is a very big news site it looked very real to me. The second one is The Sun. I heard of this site before, doing this type of thing last year at my old school. It is a trustworthy news site. The third one was Yahoo, they did get the toddlers age wrong, but other than that they have included everything the other 2 sites have. (The steps I took to verify the information) 

I believe this story is true