To everyone across the world, HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR!

Have a nice holiday and best of luck to the new year! A warm welcome to 2013, year of the snake (my birth year!!!) !!! 

Happy Holidays!!!

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We’ve started another math menu again. This time, it’s based on fractions, decimals and percentages. This is my second task. Below is my auditory task itself, a video I made to teach others how to simplify and add fractions. Please enjoy!

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Questions for G6 Blogs from Mr. Steiner

Students are to write in their own words or video themselves (using their laptops) answers to the following questions related to our central idea for team games – “Success in games depends on skills, rules, strategies and sportsmanship.” Students need to post these answers on their blog.  Students are encouraged to comment on each other’s answers in a positive/constructive manner.

What does sportsmanship mean to you/look like to you? Give some examples.

Sportsmanship to me is cooperation, teamwork and just helping each other out on the field. For example, if someone passed to someone else on his or her team and yelled “You can do it! Score a goal!” that would be sportsmanship to me because they were cooperating on the field and passing to one another in order to help their team. Also, after a game, if the two teams hi-five or congratulate each other, that would be sportsmanship too because no only are they communicating to their own team, but with others as well.

Why is it important to follow the rules of a game?

It is important to follow the rules of games because if you don’t, you won’t be able to play a fair match and you’ll be denying what sports is all about. But if you do follow the rules of the game, you’ll be able to play a fair match and have fun as well, without people nagging you about cheating. However, if we don’t follow the rules, what type of game is it if anyone can score or cheat to win?

Why are good team strategies important to success in team games? Give examples of strategies for team handball?  How would you create and/or deny space in team handball?

What is a strategy you/your team used in “Capture the Flag” to be more successful?

Team strategies are important because they are your plan that you run with and take action with. It also is important because with team strategies, everyone knows what to do, how to do it, who to pass to, who to mark, and how to beat the opposing team. That way, there’s no confusion and it’s very simple to score or win the match. One good strategy for any game really, is to spread out along the field first, and then pass to one another until you reach the goal, and there you can score. If the players mark you and deny space, then you move closer to your team player and pass the ball to them and the sequence continues as you try to move closer to the goal. One handball strategy is to pass the ball across the field to different people and move according to how the game is going. The person nearest to the goal shoots and tries to score. A capture the flag strategy would be different. A capture the flag strategy could be where a little less than three quarters of the team stay on defense (for tagging runners who try to steal the ball or people who defend the jail) or as people to save others from jail if they get caught, while the rest run and try to “capture the flag”.

You create space by moving around and away from other people, as well as running in a different direction or turning around to an unoccupied space where you can then move into. You deny space by pushing up against the opposing player, or marking them, and surrounding them so that they can’t find space to pass or score.

Describe why having strong skills helps your team be more successful. Give some examples of skills with a specific team sport in mind.

Having strong skills are important because with these skills you can specialize at scoring goals, staying on defense or passing to one another. Also, if you have strong skills then it’s easier to devise a strategy where you can contribute your skills and win the match. However, if you don’t have good skills, then you are most likely to lose the match because you haven’t practiced or couldn’t contribute anything to the game.

In Capture the Flag it is important to be good at the following skills:

-       Running (for obvious reasons)

-       Stealth (if you’re trying to steal the flag, it’s best to be stealthy because other people don’t notice you as much)

-       Alert (if you’re on defense, it’s best to be alert in case anybody tries to sneak in to your side of the field)

Why does a team that is very physically fit have an advantage over a team that is not fit?

The team that is physically fit has an advantage because they can tower over the weaker team and take the opportunities to score. (Opportunities such as skills, power, stamina and accuracy). The weaker team will not have these advantages, and will not be able to score any goals or win the match if the stronger team can beat them easily at all of these. Also, the unfit team will run out of energy perhaps halfway through the game because they don’t have the endurance to keep going, letting the stronger team have even more chances at winning the match.

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I’m doing another Math Menu task for tessellations and transformations. Since this is an auditory task, I had to write a song about tessellations and transformations and upload it to Youtube. If you would like to hear it, you can watch the video below.

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Last week, the whole of Grade 6 (plus the teachers) went to Zhao Qing, China for our annual camp. Dragonfly, a team that organizes camps around Asia, hosted the camp. We stayed in China for four days and three nights. Over the three days that we were free (on the fourth day we had to leave), we had to do four activities per group. Our grade was divided into five colour groups. I was in the Yellow Group, and we had a lot of fun. Originally, we were supposed to do five activities, but we came later then planned on the first day, so we skipped an activity and did the one we missed instead. We did the Great Race, Ink Stones, Cableway Hiking and Chinese Painting. Each activity was a lot of fun, but the main challenge and disappointment were the bus rides.

To get to China we had to take a seven or eight hour bus ride. It isn’t that bad if you have something to do, but it takes a while. Going through immigrations is also a pain. It takes quite a while, and you wait in the line for ages. Anyways, as soon as we got there, we (me and my roommates) went up to our rooms and dropped our bags off. My roommates were Sara and Carolyn. After that, we met below the reception with our Dragonfly camp leader, Basha. She is from Poland, so she has a strong Polish accent that makes it a bit hard to understand her. We went up to a place in the hills and played a few team-building games, such as “retrieve the tank of oxygen without letting go of each other’s hands”.

In my opinion, the food was the second worst bit of camp. I don’t think it was very healthy, but I was starving so I didn’t really care at the time. The worst bit of camp for me was the Great Race. This was because we got lost twice, and we ended up in a cave that was out-of-bounds. The cave was pretty interesting though, with lots of Chinese characters painted on the wall. Other than that, the rest of the camp was really fun and enjoyable. My favorite part of camp was the cableway hiking because we got to walk all over the hills and on cables. I personally enjoy thrills the best, so this was the most fun for me.

Overall, camp gives us the experience we need to live the rest of our lives. It also helps us participate with people we don’t know, and we can learn some new skills, which (I think) is the whole purpose of camp. However, it also gives us the thrills of life and adventure, as well as a chance to be away from home for a few days.

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Over the past few weeks, we have been completing a Math Menu. A Math Menu is a math activity with several categories and a few activities for each category. Right now, I am working in the “Understand the relationships between area and perimeter, between area” category and the kinesthetic activity. For this activity, I have to practice finding the area and perimeter for rectangles at this website: http://www.mathplayground.com/area_perimeter.html

Then, we have to make our own shape using pattern blocks and then measure the perimeter and area of this shape and explain how to calculate the area and perimeter in a blog post, which is what I am doing right now.

So, first, let’s measure the perimeter. Perimeter is the distance around a shape. To calculate the perimeter of a rectangle, first you calculate one edge of the rectangle. Times it by two, then calculate the edge right next to the one you just calculate. Times that edge by two and add it to the sum of the other edge and you get the perimeter. Now for this shape, I’ll give you the answer right now, and then I’ll tell you how to measure it. The perimeter is 47 kinks. Kinks is a made-up unit since in these pattern blocks you can divide the blocks into squares. One of those squares is 1 kink square. One kink is 2.3 centimeters, which is much harder to calculate so I called it a kink. To calculate the perimeter, you can either count along the edges (which is what I did), or subdivide it into rectangles and count only the edges that stick out. In my opinion, counting along the edges is a lot faster but less organized. So to do this, you should count the edges that stick out in groups, and make sure you have a starting point. In the end, your perimeter is 47 kinks.

Now, the area is a little bit more difficult. Area is the amount of space inside of a shape. For a normal rectangle, calculating the area isn’t that hard. All you have to do is take one edge of the rectangle and the edge not parallel to it, but connected to it (like last time) and calculate both of them. After that, take the calculations and times them by each other. To calculate the area for this kind of shape (an irregular shape), you have to subdivide the blocks into equal rectangles. Keep in mind that you will probably have one squared rectangles. Then, count the squares of the rectangles and add them all up. Remember to add a small 2 or square at the end of the number. For this shape, the area is 35 kinks square. That is how to calculate the area and perimeter of a rectangular based shape.

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Well, since the new update, it seems like the other pages on my blog don’t appear on the tabs at the top. I have a few other pages that I will put the links up on my blog to make it convenient for visitors to follow. Here are the links:

About me - http://sites.cdnis.edu.hk/students/053518/about-me/

Riddles, Jokes and Stories - http://sites.cdnis.edu.hk/students/053518/riddles-stories-and-jokes/

Hope you enjoy!

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Well, today we had our second fill of the Young Americans. We sang, we danced, we acted and we practiced. It was just like yesterday, only better. We had a dance class and an improv class in the morning, then we practiced a new song called Happiness. We rehearsed our other songs as well (including our finale). It was a lot of fun and time went so quickly it was like nothing had happened. Yet we got so much done! Overall, it was amazing and incredible. Also, when the Young Americans performed the finale to us, it made me feel rushed and refreshed. I have never seen something so energetic.

My favourite part of today was practicing the finale. I especially loved it because we got to be just like them on stage. I hope that when our parents see us we’ll seem just as strong and lively as the Young Americans. Basically, I can sum it all up into an amazing day.

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Last week, our literature study was due. Our literature study is based on a book that we chose from a selection. I chose the Atomic Weight of Secrets, which is actually a really interesting book. Then, we were given a small booklet to fill out, with things like the descriptions of characters or figurative language used. After we completed the booklet, we had to make either a detailed review on the book, or a trailer on iMovie for it. I chose to do a trailer, and I’m going to put it on this post.

Hoped you enjoyed it!

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Today, we had a group called the Young Americans come over and do a workshop with us. They’ll be staying with us for three days, and this was our first. The Young Americans are a group that love to dance, sing, act and perform – and now they’re here to teach us how to do it. So today, we got separated into three groups. There were two girl groups; an Alto and a Soprano group. I was in the Alto group (which I think is great). We also learned how to dance to a wacky song. The steps were difficult, but after a while I got the hang of it. Then, we went off into our groups and learned how to sing parts of two songs in an Alto voice: “Don’t Stop Believing” and “Let it Be”. After that, we danced to “Dancing Queen”, “Twist and Shout” and “Shake, Baby, Shake”.

We are all going to show this in our performance on Wednesday night when everyone is going to watch what we’ve learned over the past three days. Personally, I can’t wait for tomorrow! I think that the Young Americans are creative and original. I especially like how they get all of us to perform and have fun.

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Well, if you’ve noticed, I haven’t updated any posts on my blog for quite a while. Grade 6 is so busy! Anyway, I’ve finished my summative assessment on story-telling. One of the books I had to recite was The Hobbit, from Lord of the Rings. In The Hobbit, there are some pretty good riddles which I would like to share with you today. The answers will be at the bottom.

1. What has roots that nobody sees,

Is taller than trees,

Up, up it goes,

Yet never grows?

2. Thirty white horses on a red hill,

First they stamp,

Then they champ,

And then they stand still.

3. Voiceless it cries,

Wingless it flutters,

Toothless bites,

Mouthless mutters.

4. An eye in a blue face,

Saw an eye in a green face,

“That eye is like to this eye”

But in a low place,

Not a high place.

5. It cannot be seen, cannot be felt,

Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt,

It lies beneath stars and under hills,

And empty holes it fills,

It comes first, and follows after,

Ends life, kills laughter.

6. A box without hinges, key or lid,

Yet golden treasure inside is hid.

7. Alive without breath,

As cold as death,

Never thirsty, ever drinking,

All in mail never clinking.

8. This thing all things devours,

Birds, beasts, trees and flowers,

Gnaws iron, bites steel,

Grinds hard stones into meal,

Slays kings, ruins towns,

And beats high mountains down.

Answers:

1. A mountain

2. Teeth

3. The wind

4. Sun on the daisies

5. Darkness

6. An egg

7. A fish

8. Time

Well, I’m afraid that’s it for today! I hope I can update some more posts like this one!

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Over the past few weeks, we have been reading a book called Ties that Bind, Ties that Break. It is about a girl in olden day China who refuses to have bound feet. We were asked to write a descriptive paragraph about the main character. Here it is:

Ailin is a headstrong, determined girl. She also seems like a stubborn, rebellious person who is willing to do anything she wants. If other people tell her to do something she doesn’t like, she’ll alter it to her liking. Sometimes she does listen, but only to the people she loves, such as Grandmother or Father. She has continuously argued and rebelled against having bound feet. This shows that she is determined and can be set on one thing. When she is, no one can move or budge her. Another example would be when the Warners gave Ailin the decision to come to America with them, and Ailin chooses to say goodbye to her family. This proves that Ailin is courageous and a little bit headstrong because she was brave enough to meet Big Uncle again and tell him she was leaving for America. Overall, Ailin is a strong, reasonable girl and is adventurous enough to go to America. I predict that she will make a reasonable decision once she arrives in America, because so far in the story, her choices have made sense and they have improved her life. For example, when she became an amah, it gave her different opportunities to learn about the world. This allowed her to follow her dream and keep open-minded to the rest of the world.

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I’ve started a new year now, and I’m going to write a blog post about the first week of school, because it’s Friday. We are the 6E Elite Empire now and we’ve had a fun start. We’ve done all the usual subjects (P.E., Chinese, etc.) but I think already that 6E will be more exciting than 5D. On the first day (Monday), we came to school and did some math and brainstormed some names for our class and learned things about our amazing teacher, Ms. Kinsinger, then did 60 Seconds in the Spotlight, where we told our class some things about ourselves. We also had 6B come into our classroom. On the 2nd day we had Chinese and were given a task: to make a non-text based art piece on what we think of inquiry. I eventually made (and presented it today) a crunched-up newspaper ball, painted it, so the words wouldn’t show, then taped newspaper photos on it. We also made a name puzzle which we put into a big 6E on Thursday and we learned about process journals which we use to record the things we learned.

On Wednesday we visited the new art studio, which is exciting because it means that we will have an art class regularly (which I’m looking forward too) and did some reading and more math. Yesterday, we listened to some stories and looked at reflections, what makes one good and one bad. Today, we looked at our goals and made some notes to decide what our new ones should be and voted on our name. We also had the 12-minute-run where you run straight for 12 minutes. Then we presented our art pieces and finished our reading comprehensions.

Overall, I love Grade 6 and think it will be a super fun year and can’t wait for it!

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Our new unit is about the human body and how it changes during your life. For example, getting old, walking for the first time, becoming an adult, etc. We are also having this unit because right now we are going through puberty. We also learn about bones, muscles and organs.

We now know some weird, unusual facts about the human body, such as:

Babies’ eyes are blue when they are born and turn into their natural color once they see ultraviolet light.

When you die, some cells in your body are still alive and your nails and hair keep growing for a while.

You can live with half a brain.

Your brain cannot feel pain; it only sends out pain signals.

Later in this unit, we have to make an independent inquiry. We have to choose a change that happens in the human body. I’m thinking that I will pick how you fast you grow when you are a baby and what new things happen in your body. It interests me a lot because I want to know why you grow so fast and why you don’t have some things when you are newborn, such as teeth. My three big questions are: why does your body grows so fast when you are young, why babies have systems that don’t work well yet, and why people don’t have as good body organs when they are babies.

So far we have discovered weird facts about the human body, played games to learn bones and muscles and used workbooks to answer questions about the human body. I’m looking forward to our independent inquiries because I want to answer the questions and learn about the human body.

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Artist: Dynamo 6

Date Finished: Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Tools: Mosaic, Paper, Color

Description:

This is my masterpiece. It is for our geometry math unit, and It has a flower-like piece of paper on it, which I made on the computer with a program called InspirArtion. Then, I cut four circles of green paper and put them on too for a tree. Afterwards, I put cut up pieces of paper in triangles and squares only and put them on for a trunk. I did the sky the same too, and then finally used light blue and dark blue to draw shapes as the background. I used circles, triangles, squares and rectangles and fit them all together. This is my final masterpiece in our geometric unit.

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This post is about the PSA we have done for the summative task in this unit.

A PSA is Public Service Announcement, which tells people something or leaves them a message to take action. The reason why we did a PSA is because of our unit (which is about Child Rights) and it tells people to take action and help children all around the world who don’t always have their full rights. My PSA is about Child Right Article #2, which states that any child, no matter what religion, what nationality, what bloodline, gets their rights.

Our unit is about Child Rights (as I said before) and children around the world. It’s also about how some children don’t have their rights, and how they don’t get opportunities like us. Some don’t go to school, some don’t have enough clean water and food, and some are slaves working for harsh, cruel masters. In this UOI (unit of inquiry), I’ve learnt that even though you are disabled, poor or rich you deserve these rights. I’ve also learnt how people in different places in the world live, and what they eat and do all day. The thing most important that I’ve learnt though, is the fact that even though there is so much unfairness in the world, we can make a difference, and help children around the world who don’t get the same opportunities as us, and take action. The questions I’d still like to ask are how we can help children other then donating, and how we can make enough of a difference to change the world.

I think that I’ve demonstrated my responsibility that I have by making my PSA. My responsibility is to help other children around the world like me, but in poverty, or with serious diseases, because I am just like them. A child. So it’s what I have to do if I get the chance and I think that it’s really important, because by taking action, I can help children around the world, and that’s what I want to do.

This is why I would really encourage you to watch my PSA, which I have put on this blog post below. It talks about taking action and helping children. Thanks for watching!

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This is a picture of a man using thousands of rubric cubes to make a portrait of Martin Luther King Jr.! I am amazed, because he puts them into the right color that he wants and then glues them onto is picture. But he has to change the color exactly to make the right spot of color, and I find that this is extremely difficult to do. Then, he glues this in strips into the holes in the portrait. I’m really wonder what the exact number of the rubric cubes he used are, but I feel that the plastic he uses is wasted and whether it will be recycled of sent to the landfill. Apart from that, I am amazed how the color is perfectly in place and the sheer size of it.

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Today is the student led learning review for our school. I went with my mom and we did ten stations – Unit of inquiry, mathematics, literacy, technology, art, Stop!, Chinese, French, physical education, performing arts. They were each approximately 5 minutes long. I particularly enjoyed the technology station and the poetry station because I got to show her my blog and we got to write Haikus together. Mom enjoyed my U.O.I. station because of the speech I did for my last unit. She also enjoyed the performing arts station because of the program we used called Finale and the chord melodies. We just finished and we are writing this blog post together! And we decided that we would play Stop! and Capture the Flag at home.

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Here’s an odd, funny raw egg story from Dynamo 25 on his spring break:

They were at a japanese restaurant and the chef was juggling an egg on a pan. Dynamo 25 decided to have a go and tried it. He aimed the egg at his brother’s head, and threw it, only it landed on the floor and nearly broke. Then he threw it again, and it landed on his friend’s drink. It was a raw egg!

Here’s my story during the spring break:

I stayed in Beijing for an exchange program during the spring break. On Qing Ming festival, we went to pick strawberries. My host family invited my Beijing buddy’s friend, who also had someone from CDNIS. We went to pick strawberries, but she (the buddy from HK), needed to go to the bathroom. In Beijing, there are hardly any western toilets, so my friend used a squat toilet with no flushing water. So she took a bottle of water and and used that to flush. It was quite disgusting, as you can imagine!

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Our unit is about child rights and how children in the world aren’t getting their proper rights, and instead put in child labor or the army or other harmful places. Our key concepts are for this unit: responsibility and causation. I’ve learned that children are being put to labor in lots of countries, most commonly in Iran, Pakistan, and undeveloped countries, unlike Hong Kong. I’ve also learned about some of the charities involved in helping children’s rights and some of the rights. I think that the most important that I’ve learned so far is about child heroes, and how they’ve helped. Like Iqbal Masih, who helped children escape out a child laboring carpet factory. Also like Ryan Hrejiac, who helped make a well with clean, fresh water by getting people to help donate money, who was just an ordinary kid. The most surprising thing I’ve learned is also about child heroes, and how they’ve helped so well even when they’re extremely young! If I could join an organization that helps children, I think that I would join UNICEF or Spread the Words, because they are both great charities, although UNICEF is more well known, Spread the Words is great too, because it was founded by a child hero named Tatiana Grossman, and still works as hard as UNICEF. People can deny children’s rights by forcing them to do child labor, or not HIV/AIDS, or denying them the chance to make a difference, or denying them a chance to have education, or denying them the chance to be what they want to be. I think that the one article of child rights I will be doing a PSA on is the right to have the right. I think I’ll do this because this I think is overall the most important, and if you look at just this one, you’ll see all the other rights and how important they are. This unit makes feel about all the injustice and unfairness that people are doing to children. If a child is poor, what makes it so that they especially will be chosen to work in carpet factories or other factories? There are millions of kids that are being held in labor or in the army, and it seems that nobody is caring! Even though the charities are working hard, it’s not making much of a difference. I feel that the child rights should be enhanced by a lot, so every child has the right to be free and determine their life. I think that we should help the children that do not have their proper rights and make sure that every child will live their life freely.

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As homework, we need to do a book review on a book we’ve read recently. I’ve read Brisingr, the third book of a series called the Inheritance Cycle.

Brisingr is a good book, an important continuum to the second book. It is an adventure/fantasy novel, meant for the age of nine or above. It relates about Eragon, the last free Dragon Rider in the kingdom of Alagaesia, and his dragon, Saphira. In this book, they continue on their quest to kill Galbatorix, the evil king of Alagaesia. With the help of the Varden, the army attacking Galbatorix, and the ancient elves, also opposing Galbatorix, they train with the elves in the realization that Saphira is one of the last dragons, and Eragon is probably the last free rider to live in Alagaesia. This book is mysterious, interesting, adventurous, and  sublime. If you like a style of adventure and fantasy, you’ll love Brisingr. I especially love the time when Eragon creates his sword, Brisingr. I would rate this book an 8 out of 10.  Go read it!

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We are now doing spelling activities in 5D, and we had to pick 10 words that are tricky or confusing to spell. Here are my ten (do not be too surprised, I am a good speller):

1. leachate

2. meerschaum

3. spielgeleissen

4. uintaite

5. proceleusmatic

6. aiguille

7. cordierite

8. erythite

9. restaurant

10. peristalsis

Most of these words are names of mirenals or rocks as I love rocks and they were the hardest ones I could find in dictionary. One of these words in the blog post are spelled wrong. Can you guess which one? Leave your comment!

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When you hear that, it might sound like you want to throw art into the garbage can. But were doing the opposite. Instead, were turning trash into art. Our class just started a project on this, and we all have to pick one specific type of trash to make our sculpture out of. I’m going to do cracker or cookie plastic wrappers. We need to collect as many as we need because, (as you can imagine) were going to need a lot to make a sculpture. Each sculpture will have a message: mine is to stop throwing garbage everywhere as animals can easily choke on it. Every message needs to relate to our unit, which is about waste management. My sculpture will be a big white tiger choking on a plastic wrapper. We haven’t started making our sculpture yet, but we will soon. I can’t wait!

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Hi! It’s been very long since I wrote my last blog post so here is a post about an eco-park field trip we went to today. We started with an hour long bus ride, and when we arrived, we got taken on a tour. We had these SmartCards that allowed us to watch a mini presentation or game about all of the waste produced in Hong Kong. I learned that there are four major types of waste: Domestic waste, Construction waste, Chemical waste and Special waste. I also learned that there are 3 landfills in Hong Kong, and they will all get filled up in around several years. The second part of the tour was more interesting, as we got to see the recycling plant, and  we learned that the there are 7 types of plastic and in order to be recycled, it has to go through sorting, slicing and then melting where we get these plastic pellets that can be made into things. I found that this tour was very interesting and amazing because we got to see it actually being recycled, which is a thing not many people really do get to see.

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School is over! Merry Christmas to one and all! We finally get to bring our Macbooks home for the first time ever! It looks like we are the first Grade 5s ever to bring our Macbooks home on Christmas. So far my Macbook hasn’t broken yet, so that’s good news. I’m so glad for the Christmas holidays! I hope you all have a wonderful time on your vacations! Have fun! Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Since I think this will be my last post for the year 2011, I’ll add a small poem here:

Merry Christmas to one and all,

It’s time to shop at the mall,

For you and for some,

Enjoy Christmas and here we come!

Gooooooooodbye 2011!

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Today we went to the ice rink in Elements to go skating for fun. The bus ride took quite long and when we got there, almost 30 minutes of our skating time was wasted. We got our skates on and started skating. We skated in big circles, all in one direction but we didn’t get dizzy. In the middle of our skating I got my camera out and started taking photos of my friends skating, and one really amazing video of a girl doing fancy tricks and spinning on the ice really fast. We ate lunch and then had a Grade 5 photo, with everyone included. I’m afraid I didn’t get it on my camera. Then we went back to school.

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Over the past week in our class, we have watched National Treasure since it is related to our unit. In the movie, Benjamin Franklin Gates (Ben for short) and his friends, Riley and Abigail Chase decipher clues to find the biggest treasure in the world, apparently, but there are problems since Ian – the bad guy – is trying to find the treasure too, and wants it all to himself. It involves a whole bunch of different characters who come in eventually.

I personally would mark this movie as a favorite, since the plot is excellent, and the movie is full of chases and riddles and so on, and it is a really enjoyable movie for everyone, and at the end the outcome is quite amusing. I would recommend it for anyone who loves a bit of action, and riddles/clues. My favorite character would be Riley (whose last name I don’t know), since he is the funniest character in the movie and is a bit of nerd, and a technology master. Overall, I would recommend that you watch it right now!

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This afternoon, we watched a poetry performance called SPLAT! where they performed poems by acting them out and reading them. This was done by the company FAUST, a acting production. Afterwards, we were given a little bit of homework, we were supposed to pick a section to do as homework. I picked a section called A time for learning, where you make rhymes and make a poem both with specific words.

For rhyming, here are the rhymes and words:

Green – seen, lean, bean, screen, keen, mean

Dog – hog, bog, log, blog

Nose – hose, ambrose, dose, pose, doze, rose, toes

Dream – gleam, team, beam, seam, deem, seem, scream, cream

Tip – hip, lip, nip, sip, rip, skip, trip, grip, flip, ship, whip, zip

Moon – soon, toon, cacoon, june

Here is the poem:

Can you imagine a gleam dream?

Or a beam scream?

What about a toon moon?

And a June cacoon?

From a mean green,

To a flip tip.

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The artifact game is a game we play in class. The artifact game is a game where the teacher picks an artifact and we write down what we think about this artifact, how it was used, where it came from, etc. We have to be silent, or else the game will be ruined. Then we share our ideas. The artifact game only requires a image of an artifact that no one knows about, a few people (3 of 4 is fine), a writing tool and a piece of paper (preferably a sticky note).

5D plays it like this:

Ms. Cahusac shows us an image of an artifact, and we get sticky notes and write down what we think about this artifact, for example how it was made, what is it used for, and so on. We are still very silent. Then, with a group of people or with our entire class, we discuss it for a few minutes what we wrote. After, if there is a description of this object, Ms. Cahusac reads it out to us. Then we throw away our stickies and finish the game.

This is a picture of an artifact. Please guess and leave a comment of what you think about it. You could write about where you think it came from, who used it, or anything you want about this artifact. (Please be reasonable.) ALso, after I have a lot of comments, I will post what it really is. So quickly comment!

I think that the artifact game is related to our unit because our unit is about perspectives, interpretations, and basically how we learn about history, and we play it because in this game, we are writing our perspectives about an artifact that we are trying to interpret.

Now that some people commented on what they thought it was, I’ll tell you. It is an armorial candlestick used by a Mamluk from Egypt and is worth around 2,000,000 euros.

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I chose this photo for my blog post today. The reason that I chose it was because this photo was taken in New York, where I used to live for a few years. And as you can see, it’s a horse carriage in Central Park, and the driver is actually not even looking where he’s driving.There were also a few accidents that happened with horse carriages, and people want now to ban horse carriages again. When I lived in New York, I don’t think that horse carriages were allowed, and now that it’s allowed, there might be even more accidents than before. I think that it isn’t fair to the horses, because New York is a big city, and the horse could easily get scared. I also think that this horse doesn’t want to be in a city, and it would rather be in a farm or field.

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Remembrance day is a day when everybody honors those who fought in the war and died for a good cause. We wear paper poppy pins and we are very solemn on this day, November 11th. We sometimes have an assembly for this day and we listen to poems and songs. I wrote a poem about Remembrance Day, and here it is:

What the world needs

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I think that CDNIS loves Halloween because Halloween is the only day in the year where you can be funny and do whatever you dress up and be someone you aren’t, unless you’re dressing up as yourself! Also, I think it’s because CDNIS loves celebrating holidays and festivals as a fun school, and Halloween is so full of spirit and fun.

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This October break I stayed in Hong Kong, and it was quite boring, but I had a lot of fun. On Monday and Tuesday, I went to my friend’s house for a sleepover. At the front of her house, she has a driveway to bike, a trampoline and a lot of swings. We spent a lot of time biking, and once I bumped my friend on her bike. Luckily, she didn’t fall, but I did and got a big scrape on my knee. We went back to her house to stop the bleeding and bandage it and she kept joking to replace my leg with a taser. Afterwards, we went back to biking and we played in her living room that was made into a club. We had lunch at a club called LRC, and played at the library. Then we played some more. On Tuesday we were reading and went to LRC again to swim. In the swimming pool at LRC, there are three diving boards. A low one, a medium one, and a really high one. I finally was able to jump off the high one at last, and my knee was stinging by the time I hit the water. After we had dinner there, and went to the library again, and I went home. On Wednesday, I was quite bored and stayed home the entire day with my brother and read. On Thursday, again there was nothing to do but I went to an art class and had some fun. On Friday, another friend came over and she pretended she was a 14 foot tall worm and lay in my hammock. We had a lot of fun. On Saturday, we went to the Police Museum Park which is close by, me and my brother played tag and I kept going on the flying fox. On Sunday, we had planned to go swimming, but my mother was sick and we stayed home and watched a movie. I think the October Break was really fun though, and I wished we had more days of holiday.

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In class, we had to do our own survey or with a another student. I did my survey with my friend, Dynamo 1. I would be glad if you answered it. Here is the link to answer the survey:

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/RQV7SZM

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My class has been working on a project to make an invention for the future to communicate and connect with other people, or an idea. I called my invention the conecsphone, because it connects people around the world. We made our presentations on Prezi, a place where you can make slideshows or other neat stuff. Click below to watch my Prezi.

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On Wednesday, we went to Art Jam, a place in Causeway Bay (in Hong Kong) where we paint. Painting in Art Jam is called Art Jamming. We were supposed to pick a color and paint whatever we could think of that was that color, as well as portray a feeling. I chose green and we painted for around a hour and a half. My feeling was calm. My pictures had a green background, plants, lizards and frogs, as well as some other things. We carried it back to school in a cardboard box. Tomorrow, we will have an exibit where we will present our paintings.

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I express myself using email, phone, Keynote, PREZI, the internet and blogging. I usually send emails to my friends and write to them personally, but sometimes I write to others, and write formally. But when I write to my friends, I don’t really care how I write. When I use my phone, it’s just usually to call my family and problems  but sometimes I call friends and ask how they are doing. On Keynote, I just do projects, but I sometimes just one for fun because I still don’t feel like I know how to master Keynote. Prezi is something new, and I am still getting the hang of it. Also Prezis go online, so everybody can see it. The internet I usually use to play games, or go on websites, but I like reading blogs and commenting (which is a new thing). Blogging so far is really amazing and I can’t wait to write more posts, and add more widgets, but I really like how everybody can see what you publish (like Prezi) and write.

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Our class is going to contribute to a charity called Walls of Wisdom. Walls of Wisdom is a charity not well known, but it builds schools in different places around the world who don’t have schools, or places where schools have been destroyed. We have been to their website and watched their current project video. We are planning to do a lot of things like sales, movies or more to raise money for this charity. If we manage to raise 300 or more US dollars, the Walls of Wisdom website will put us on their contributors list.

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