Yesterday,  I had a little goodbye class party since I am leaving CDNIS for Singapore in a few weeks.  I also made a short Speech to tell my classmates and teachers about how much fun I had in grade 5 and how much my class meant to me.  This year meant the world to me because it was a very remarkable year , we not only learned about global issues such as children’s rights under the UN Convention, we also learned about bodies of the opposite gender!!!  The Disco DJ’s were the only grade 5 class who made a class music video, totally original and super fun to take part!  Although it  feels like I will be losing many friends, I am still proud that I will soon be going to UWC and I will make new friends there…  I will really miss my friends and especially my teacher Ms Cahusac, SHE is what made our class the best one ever!!!  Goodbye, my mates :):):):):):)

A SLLR is basically a day when you show and tell your parents what has been happening in class when you are at school.  I did not think I needed the SLLR because my parents already always ask me when I get home what I did at school.   Also, at dinner I talk about the highlight of each day so they know pretty well what we do in school.

So when it was time for me to do the SLLR, it felt repetitive and I was a bit nervous that it would not be very interesting.  My friends felt the same way. Fortunately it didn’t go badly, my parents were actually happy to see how much I have learned.

I think what made it fun was the different stations we had set up to show our parents what we learned, we did this in different classrooms and different floors.  The way we showed it made the whole SLLR more fun.  At the end, my parents were proud of me and this made me realize the SLLR helps my mom and dad to understand how we learn.

This is my 2nd SLLR, so I am a little bit nervous but excited at the same time.  I rehearsed with my script a lot at home but we left in a hurry and I forgot to bring it with me.   Good thing is that I know it in my head so it is going well so far.

My Parents are asking me loads of questions but I am keeping my fingers crossed that I have all the answers.

This blog is just to show my Mom and Dad how to post a blog, so it will be short.  Ok time for the next station!!!

Today, I am going to write about our class field trip which was to find the artifacts that the class had made in a previous activity.  It was very fun because we got to go to South Beach to find other people’s artifacts and put them back together.

There were three parts to the activity.  First, the artifact that I built was a Chinese coin that was broken into 5 pieces.  One of the students in 5B had to look for the pieces deep in the sand and put it back together.

Second, my challenge was to find an artifact that was buried in our plot, but it was very difficult because it ended up being in 17 pieces.   I found all the pieces but only had time to glue back 6 pieces at the site.  It was a really hard challenge.

Third, I had to look for my artifact in the 5B classroom.  It ended up being on one of the first desks I looked, so I guess it wasn’t that much of a challenge.

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Hello, for the past few weeks we have been watching a movie called “NATIONAL TREASURE“.  This movie is about people who are obsessed with history.  We are watching this movie because our unit is about “Hong Kong’s history”.

This movie captivates me because it involves action, comedy, study and history. We watched about 80 minutes of the movie so far – it is about a little kid named Benjamin who grows up wanting to find a treasure that his grandpa told him about when he was young, so he brings a few friends with him to look for clues in their adventure.  Unfortunately one of the friends wants to steal that treasure and betray Ben.  So Ben has to try and stop him but does he?   Watch the movie and you will see!!!

Thanks for reading this post, please add a comment if you have questions.

Later

Today, my class and I have been talking about different ways to learn about history.  I wrote this blog post to tell you about all the ways we brainstormed:

1. Newspaper

2. T.V.

3. Lectures

4. Cemeteries

5. Commercials

6. Magazines

7. Movies

8. Asking people

9. Blogs

These were my favorites!

Maybe you can come up with better ones.  If you do, please add a comment below.  Thanks!!

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Hi, today my class and I went on a field trip, which was to the Hong Kong Museum of History which has a lot of exhibits about old HK.  It was very interesting so let me share some of my experiences with you.

First of all, the museum was a really big place.  The most interesting topics to me were the exhibits on war, how businesses evolved particularly the restaurants and shops, as well as the information on the wildlife of HK.

The exhibit on wars were about the ones that took place between the Japanese and the Chinese.  The pictures showed soldiers carrying rifles with knifes at the tip.  I guess this was used to ensure your opponent could be killed by shooting or stabbing.  Very violent unfortunately…

I also saw an exhibit about shop houses from the past which sold herbal tea and very weird types of food which I did not recognize.  I know it is not but one item looked like Beef Wellington, because it had a beef steak inside and a pastry wrap outside.  It looked really tasty.

So this trip to the museum was actually very helpful for our new unit about HK’s Past.  I do recommend you to go there if you need information about the city’s history!!!

Hello, this is the usual writer,Dj23.  Today I am going to talk about an artifact game that we always play in the morning, just to get our brains started.  Let me tell you how to play.  1st I will give you a picture and you have to answer the questions below, it is a really simple game, why not give it a try?

Where do you think this picture was taken?

What do you think this is?

When do you think this picture was taken?

Did you like the game?

Please participate below and thanks for reading this post.

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