A Chinese homeschooled learner’s showcase
My brother is 10 years younger than me, which means he’s five in 2020. There still isn’t a lot I can do with him, but we can read books and play simple video games together now. I like reading him Dr. Seuss books because the rhyming is fun for me to read. Reading books to […]
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I practiced my English writing a couple of different ways these years. I started writing a novel about super-intelligent pigs, did writing exercises, read textbooks… This year, I took a different approach, my method was to first read a news/magazine article, and then write my own version, describing the same things. After that, I would […]
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One of my dad’s friends is making an underwater goggle that can record, so when you dive, it records first-person footage. He wanted to make a video promoting at a crowdfunding event called Indiegogo. He wanted to make the video in English but he wasn’t good at it, so he reached out to me for […]
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I can write English, but not very fast, my handwriting also looks like the handwriting of a 3rd grader. If I wanted to improve my handwriting and my speed, I needed a plan. So I looked into online resources and books, I couldn’t find any good exercise sheets that I can download and print, so […]
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I never had a database to keep track of my stuff. And whenever people ask me, it’s really hard to explain my whole learning system. 7 Attempts! So we decide to make a portfolio website, which is a website that helps people get to know me and my learning experiences in a big picture way! […]
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We bought a LOT of picture books at one point in time because we wanted to do a project called the “Story Show”. But even after that project ended, we still had a more than 100 picture books, so I made it my life goal to read them all. For a long time, I just […]
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My name is Felix. I am a Chinese 9-year-old. Brendan is my American friend and mentor. He is 25 years old and graduated from Yale. I have always planned to go to the USA, and at the time, Brendan was planning to go to the USA to visit his friends and his mom, so we […]
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First I was in school and performing in small plays, and later I joined a performing club and practiced performing Cats. After that, I kept performing in school. Later, I came to the Base and we did some performing games and improv things. At that time, I was just practicing and doing games that included […]
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Process This whole book started as a group drawing, which is a drawing that a group makes. This group includes me, Brendan, and Emily, 3 learners at the Base. In a group drawing, you take turns drawing, and each person has 20 seconds. After 20 seconds, you need to stop what you’re drawing and pass […]
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I like doing creative writing because I can write down something that I imagined and that makes me really excited and want to write more. I started doing creative writing when I dropped out of school and started to learn at home, even though now I think what I wrote then is pretty bad, it […]
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Felix's Portfolio 