Essay On Learning Artifact

I started out my life in Salt Lake City, Utah at St. Marks Hospital a month early. I then had to stay at Primary Children’s Hospital for the first three months of my life. About the age of four I went to pre-school, on the last day of pre-school is when my mom gives me a locket which is what my learning artifact is. Later, when I was old enough to go kindergarten, I went to Oakdale Elementary School and I was also involved in dance at Utah’s Dance Arts Center. Halfway through kindergarten, I moved from Midville, Utah to a small little town called Hoytsville, Utah. It was during my time in Hoytville when my mom died.
When we first moved to Hoytsville my family and I stayed with my great grandma. Moving half way through Kindergarten wasn’t too hard at that age, but when I moved at age nine, having to leave my friends, was one thing I found most difficult. I had found, …show more content…
When I was living in Hoytsville I went to half of Kindergarten to the end of third grade. Now with that and still having my mom alive the locket didn’t have much of an impact during those years.
When I moved to Idaho that was a part of when the locket had started meaning everything to me. I had to start at a new school, school being taught a little differently than Utah made it difficult, and having to make new friends which when your new is really tough. The learning artifact I have chosen is a necklace/locket that has a picture of my mom in within the locket. My mom gave the locket to me at a very young age, so the locket had been with me for numerous years. When I moved to Idaho around the age of nine, the locket got lost in chaos of moving, I haven’t seen the locket since. Although I had lost the locket almost eight years ago, the memory of the