by 084386 on April 27, 2012
Hello Everyone! The last time I wrote a post was on the day of the Student led learning reviews (which was on the 18th of April). The whole grade 6 has been rapping up the unit “Sharing the Planet”. We had to finish the Sharing the Planet summative assessment in one week! Speaking about the finish of Sharing the planet, the entire grade 6 took a journey back to the unit “Where we are in place in time” to start the Exhibition. We had our first Exhibition talk two days ago and since then we had massive loads of information thrown at us! Anyways my point is, that we have had a really stressful but exiting week in the 6C cookie jar.
By the way everyone our class made a music video with the song “We are Young”. Stay tuned and wait for the music video on my next blog post!
by 084386 on April 18, 2012
Parents Comment:
After the learning review, I was able to learn more about what Nicola has been doing at school for the year. I discovered that she has accomplished quite a lot since the beginning of the year. I was suprised to see more confidence in her presentation when she told me about the current unit. She improved in her researching skills, she was abled to collect an isolate important ideas. Nicola’s ability in time management has improved since the start of the school semester, I hope she can continue the good work because when she gets up to middle school her schedules will change and be more hectic. I think that Nicola needs to take more initiative in learning and not being to afraid when the going gets hard and asking questions.
Students Comment:
While preparing for the SLLR I wasn’t really sure on what I would want to do to better show myself as a learner. Now after going through the process of preparing for it I am abled to identify my strengths and weaknesses as a learner. Before the school year ends I will put all of my effort into making it into the most great learning experience. It has been a fruitful year so far and I hope to do an amazing presentation when it comes to the end of the year exhibition.
by 084386 on March 16, 2012
Hello Everyone!
So as you can see from the title (or the question) What have we been up to? This we were really busy unpacking the central idea. As everyone knows, the unit “How the World Works” is coming to an end. So basically we spent 3 days writing reflections and making last minute touches to our process journals. Thats why we have been really busy unpacking the new unit “Sharing the Planet”.
This morning the whole grade 6 went to the LLAC to watch a movie called “Rabbit Proof Fence” and to reveal the central idea.
The exhibition is coming towards us and we all have to prepare and do some additional research to help us when the actual exhibition comes. The exhibition is the biggest project ever in grade 6, and all of our units during this school year helps us prepare fro the exhibition. So anyways more posts will be coming and I hope everyone has an amazing weekend! : )
by 084386 on March 14, 2012
Hello Everyone! As you all know book club has always been a part of our daily life. For the past few weeks we started our new book club books, the book that I chose was “Running Wild”. Running Wild is a book by Michael Morpurgo, The book is basically about A little boy called Will going on vacation with his mother to Indonesia to have a chance to put things behind them and have some fun, But when Will is riding the elephant the beach begins to act strange. Thats when a tsunami comes crashing in and takes Will’s mother. Now Will has to find a way to survive in the jungle by himself, finding the most possible way to survive.
Now that you have a brief understanding of the book “Running Wild” let me tell you what I think of the character Will. From my perspective Will is a strong and Independent character. When Will’s mother gets taken away by the tsunami he immediately knows that the only way to survive is to take care of himself. For example as I said just know Will is a Independent character he knows how to live on his own and knows what to do to keep himself alive. In one part of the book when the tsunami struck Indonesia Will knew that he had to stay in the jungle. When days past Will knew how to take care of himself and most importantly how to survive. Will is also a really caring person, he cared for Oona and never left her, he stayed in the jungle with her. There was a part in the book were the hunter was spraying water at the orangoutans, Will tried to save the orangoutans before he saved himself. So that showed that Will is a caring person. I hope this post has told you a bit about Will and the book “Running Wild”!
by 084386 on March 7, 2012
Here is task related to our newest math menu on Fractions, Decimals and Percentages!
by 084386 on February 28, 2012
Hi Everyone!
I’m back and back with a brain full of math! Recently our class has been working on activities on the math menu for fractions, decimals and percentages. This is a movie I made from one of the math menu activities I worked on.
Hope you enjoy!
by 084386 on February 21, 2012
Hello Everybody! Sorry for not posting for quite a while, I’ve been so extremely busy that I always miss out on updating my blog. But i can promise you that there is going to be lots of interesting new posts and updates on my blog soon, So remember to stay around. Anyways for the past few weeks our class has been working on individual investigations on different types of landforms. As you can tell by the title above that landform I chose is Peninsula. If you don’t know what a peninsula is or want to know more basic facts watch this video that I have prepared for you to watch! I hope you enjoy my small presentation!
by 084386 on January 3, 2012
Hi everyone! I’m sure you’ve all had an AMAZING Christmas break, I know I did! Since Christmas break is over and a lot of you have gone back to school and work, It’s time for some chat on our New years resolutions! Before boring you with the long lecture “How were all of your Christmas holidays”? What was your favorite part? Did you enjoy the last days of 2011? Well for me today was the first day back to school for me and I missed it because I got sick and had a terrible jet lag from going to London. So after the chit chat now it’s time to get back to the serious business. I have set some new year’s resolutions for myself, some are personal resolutions and some are for school. The first resolution is the most important one which is staying confident and believing in myself more. I feel that sometimes I get really nervous about something (like a sprint meet or a test thats happening) and just always think negatively that I can’t do it. So thats probably the only one resolution that I want to focus a lot on this year! But the second resolution is Staying on task in class more often. The reason why I stated this resolution is because I feel like I get of task sometimes. Whether it’s talking to my friends whiles doing my important work done. The third resolution is again trying harder and pushing myself more in doing different kinds of things that i’m weak at. The fourth and final resolution is a personal one which is getting better at swimming, whether it’s getting faster or getting faster. If that’s what it takes to get better i’m onto it! So thats all of my new year’s resolutions! What are yours?
P.S. HAPPY NEW YEAR!
by 084386 on December 15, 2011
Our class 6C has started book club conversations. There were a couple of books we could vote, But I voted for the book “Because of Winn-Dixie. Every 2 days we have our book club conversations, We are given “Thinkmarks” every time we have a book club conversation.
The book “Because of Winn-Dixie is a very moving and well written book. It’s about a young girl named “Opal” going to a grocery store called “Winn-DIxie” and coming back with a dog she named “Winn-DIxie”. Her dad as she calls “The Preacher” doesn’t pay attention to Opal ever since Opal’s mum left them when Opal was only three. “The Preacher” always distracts Opal from asking questions about her mum. But then one day a thunderstorm occurs and Winn-Dixie gets lost What will Opal do now?
This book as I said is a very moving and well written book. I would recommend this book to people that like stories about friendship. But If you are a type of person that likes action or horror books I would not recommend this book.
by 084386 on August 25, 2011
Our class has been writing about our values and whats important to us and we decided to make a wordle with all of the key words so here it is!
I know I already gave you guys the link to wordle already but i’m still going to put the link below for people who missed out on that post!
If you want to enter wordle click HERE!
by 084386 on June 7, 2011
Tonight, I will prepare for my final exam which is tomorrow and I am super nervous. Well as I said tonight I am going to work on my cheat sheet i’m not really cheating (Its allowed) and i will print all of the diagrams about the human body and stick at the back of my cheat sheet. I will also go on Whack-ABone, Poke-A Muscle and go on Brain Pop to write down information and maybe even add some stuff on my cheat sheet. And maybe I will also ask my mum about the human body systems and maybe ask my gr. 6 friends about how the test was. Well once again I am so nervous for the test and cross my fingers if I get a good MARK!
by 084386 on June 1, 2011
This year is about to end and that means its time to bring our MacBooks home. So today we went to the LLAC (Leo Lee Art Centre) to listen to two presentations one about taking care of your MacBook and one about taking care of your self when your one websites and social networking places that you think might not be safe or appropriate for your age. So we went through all of the websites like Facebook, Youtube, Twitter and Skype. And found out that privacy settings and other stuff are really important and if you don’t have enough privacy settings to protect your account people from all kinds of places can see all your stuff including.
Here is a video according to what we learned today,
If you want to watch more videos from Common Sense visit:
Common Sense
by 084386 on May 26, 2011
These past two days the grade 9 civics class ask the grade 5′s to try out their simulations according to their unit. They a lot of different activities for us to try out and the topic was basically about people who have no money and comparing with people that do have money and looking at the differences. My favorite simulation was the one about african poverty. They told us about how a lot of people in African live in slums and have about two or three families live in a small and poorly conditioned area, and usually the families listen to strong lighting and rain in the slum and people coming in their homes to rape or cut their children. So basically the grade 9′s wanted us to feel the feeling the people felt by putting us into pairs and the parent had to protect their children from the people in the dark and with annoying sounds in the background distracting them. When they turned of the lights and started their simulation we were SUPER! nervous! But at the end I realized that a lot more people have no proper shelter and food and get tortured in so many different terrible ways. But overall I think me and my group enjoyed it so MUCH!
I think most of you who read my blog know what the SLLRs is. Well if you don’t know what it means here is the definition of the word: A really special event were students show their parents what they have learned and telling them what they have done in the past few months of GRADE 5 In CDNIS! I think that the SLLRs are a really good way show and communicate to your parent about your school life what you do and what you learn don’t you think so too? I think its better that going home and your parents asking you. So why don’t you just show THEM!
If you still want a better understanding of the Student Led Learning Reviews Watch This Youtube Video!
by 084386 on April 29, 2011
Today is the 29th of April and its the time to do the SLLR’s ( Student Led Learning Reviews ). I’m so glad to show my dad what I do at school. My favorite part of the SLLRs is showing my P.S.A. and how I did it. My dad really enjoyed watching my P.S.A. and also enjoyed writing a blog post together. This is a really good learning experience and we had a lot of FUN!
by 084386 on April 28, 2011
Around three weeks ago the whole entire Grade 5 went on a field trip to go to the beach to dig up artifacts that the teachers buried in the sand. Its really hard to find the artifacts because they are broken up into small pieces and your not really sure if you will find all the pieces to complete the activity. We all got into groups or five and had a certain area to look all the artifacts. After everyone found a artifact we went back to school to fill out a sheet called My Found Artifact. And maybe about two weeks later we glued our found artifacts together and put the My Found Artifact sheet on our desk and the artifact and walk around the whole entire grade 5 area to find your own artifact. This was the most fun experience ever and I hope I can do this AGAIN!
by 084386 on March 30, 2011
The movie National Treasure is about a person named Benjamin Gates who is fascinated to know more about the U.S.A history. The Gates family know a lot about the history and Benjamin’s grandfather tells him all about it. They have a attic full of American history and one book full of clues. They only had one clue and that was the clue lies with Charlotte. Charlotte is actually a boat and Benjamin gathered a group of people to go to a certain place to find the Charlotte. And Benjamin just wants to learn more.
The 5 Main Key Events Are…
- Benjamin’s grandfather tells him the story
- The Charlotte burned
- Going to the Museum
- Taking The Declaration Of Independence
- Defending Ian and his men
by 084386 on March 21, 2011
Most of the ways of learning about the past is through computer, books or stories that adults tell you or a story you always discuss with a friend. But their are so many more fun and exiting ways.
Here are the examples,
- Reading books
- Asking your grandparents, scientists or other elderly
- Asking your parents or friends
- Going on the internet
- Listening to the radio
- Watching T.V
- Reading grave stones
- Learning from school or other educational places
- Going to the library
See! Theres so musch fun and different ways to learn about history!
by 084386 on March 15, 2011
This artifact looks like a coin to me. Well now they don’t have coins like this but in the olden days maybe they did. The detail and the design of this artifact is really nice though I can’t really understand the words on the object. Maybe this means that maybe in the olden days people speak and write these kind of words instead of chinese, english etc… . But I also think that this also looks like gold that pirates use to trade for treasures. I think that because skulls represent pirates and there is a skull right at the middle of the artifact. So if you put that together it means this is a certain gold coin that pirates use to trade for treasures or use it for daily use of what we use!
by 084386 on March 10, 2011
Today in the 5D disco we watched a video about Hong Kong’s past. We watched this video because we are learning about different kinds of historical places, objects and artifacts. This video is about what people in the past do in their own daily life in Hong Kong. This video shows the old transportations that people use to get to place to place. Hope you enjoys it!
by 084386 on March 2, 2011
Today the whole entire grade five went to a field trip to the Happy Valley cemetery. It is full of Hong Kong history. Soldiers and people who where at war and died in Hong Kong are buried in this cemetery. All of us had to go in groups of fives. One student from each class went in to a group. Each group got a video camera to take pictures and to make a video about Hong Kong history. We found out that people don’t just die of old age they die of war and sicknesses that they don’t even know know of. I saw this grave that said that this girl was born on 29 – 01 – 61 and died on the 31 – 01 – 61 she was so young and she only lived for 2 days. And I also figured out that rich people can only get a grave. The cemetery is really interesting it was a great experience .
by 084386 on February 25, 2011
In our current unit of inquiry we have been learning about children’s rights and how they should be abled to live a normal life like we do. A lot of children don’t get proper food and care and respect like we do they don’t go home and play they work work work everyday. So we had to make a P.S.A ( Public Service Announcement ). About child abuse, child labour and etc… And we had to choose an issue that we wanted to research about and just worked on it. My P.S.A is about child labour. It is basically about that Children shouldn’t be kidnapped and soled to other people. My P.S.A is about 38 seconds and its all about the issue.
by 084386 on February 9, 2011
On my chinese new year holiday I just stayed in Hong Kong to hang out with my family and friends. But I got to bring my awesome macbook home so I basically went on my computer for the most of the time. But on the weekend on my vacation I went to see a movie in Elements I went to the Grand Cinema to watch a movie called I Love Hong Kong. The movie was really funny I had a blast at the movies. The next day I had to go my grandparent’s house for a chinese new year dinner. Because we do that dinner thing every year. On the second last day I saw fireworks and the lion dances and stuff. And on the final day of my vacation I went shopping with my mum and sister. And BOOM its school time !
by 084386 on January 27, 2011
I think our class read Iqbal because it is related to our new unit of inquiry about sharing the planet. I think it relates to our unit because it is about children who are not getting their share. They are being sold into slavery and have work for greedy masters. In our unit we are learning about children’s rights. The most important thing that I learned from this book is that different children from different places don’t all get access to education, medicine, shelter and clean and healthy water. The challenging part was focusing in some boring parts and vocabulary that was a bit challenging. I would like to learn more about different types of ways children are being sold to slavery. And also how bricks and carpets are made by children. I would pay more attention to the teacher and focus more on the vocabulary words. I really enjoyed this book it really made me think more about peoples rights.
by 084386 on January 20, 2011
Today wonderful and talented authors stopped by to our school to talk about how to write different kinds of poetry and their own inspirations for writing their poems. The author that came to visit our school was the famous author Sara Holbrook and Michael Salinger. They basically answered all our questions and wonders for poems and they also introduced different kinds of poems to us like verb poems and definition poems. We also did a fun game like when they say something we have to repeat them. It was really a pleasure to meet Sara and Michael I really enjoyed my time with them !
by 084386 on January 18, 2011
Hi, my name is Dean I study at the Canadian International School of Hong Kong. I am in class Prep E. Today I want to talk about my hamsters. Today I want to introduce my hamsters to you and what they usually like to do at home. I have two hamsters they like to eat hamster nuts and also they like to drink a lot of water. Usually after I come home from school I like to see my hamsters and hold my hamsters up side down like they are a baby. I also like to give them a walk around the kitchen I love my hamsters very much and I like to hold them !
by 084386 on January 5, 2011
On the last day of school me and my friend ( DJ 20 ) watched Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part1 together and after words we had to say goodbye for 2 weeks. But
On My Winter Break, I went to Los Angeles with my mum dad and sister. I had to take a 16 and a half airplane ride and I just spend the time sleeping and watching T.V. When I arrived there we had to have a 1 hour long check up because of the chaos in the U.S now a days. After the check up my mum’s friend and her daughters and sons came to pick us up in the airport to go back to the hotel. When we got there it was like 11: 30 but I was like starving so we had to go to a fast food 24 hours restaurant called Dennys. Afterwords We went back to the hotel and played until 4:00 am. The next morning we went to target to get some rain boots because it was pouring rain so hard that we all got so completely wet ! The next day we had to go to the airport and fly to Seattle because I wanted to visit Seattle and they happen to have moved to Seattle so we could stay at their house for 1 week.
When we got to the airport we found out that our flight delayed to like two o clock and we had to board on like one forty five. Well anyway we got on the plane flew for 2 and a half hours and when we got there it was like eight o clock. On the next day we went to the snow mountain to play with the snow we made snow mans. I love this Christmas holiday
IT IS AWESOME !
by 084386 on December 16, 2010
In my class the 5D Disco the whole class had to choose a book from the library or at home and they had to finish it within ten days.
The book I read was Anneli The Art Hater it is by Anne Fine. So basically the book Anneli the Art Hater is about a girl called Anneli and she hates art more than anything in the world and when she goes to art class at school she just wants to find a excuse to tell the teacher why she can’t stay at art class. But one day after school Anneli goes home and when she went up the secret storage room to look for something she found a hidden door that leads her to an amazing adventure. After the adventure Anneli changes her mind about Art and likes it after all.
by 084386 on December 15, 2010
Jib Jab is a website were you can take a picture of yourself and after that you pick a picture or a video and you drag your head on that character. And after you finished editing it you can watch it. If you go on Jib Jab you can also make mugs and cards. Jib Jab is the best place to express yourself and hang with your friends and family and just laugh together. If you want to go to Jib Jab and make your own go to http://sendables.jibjab.com/ and have a really good time !
by 084386 on November 30, 2010
Well from looking at the picture from the global news. I think that this picture tells us that Christmas is here, and Amazon’s staff and workers are all very exited and happy to spend time with their families. But the orders that the customers provide for them Wow ! A lot of work to do for them. But I really hope that all of the staff and workers can finish the load of Christmas boxes and spend some Christmas time with their families and friends ! You can check out more photos at http://www.theglobeandmail.com/.
The Picture I wrote about is down here
by 084386 on November 29, 2010
This is a Wordle you can make one at http://www.wordle.net/
by 084386 on November 25, 2010
I think the word perspective means your own point of view of something or your own interpretation of something. Or the word perspective is also everyones interpretation also. Perspective is a point of view of something that someones sees. I use the word perspective when I like look at a certain sculpture and I think it looks wonderful but the other person thinks it looks odd and dose not like it at all thats the kind of perspective that I use. Well in my point of view everyones perspective is different because everyone has their on interpretation of something. Well I can tell by seeing listening about their own opinion about something.
by 084386 on November 16, 2010
Today me and my class watched a series called wasted. The series wasted is basically about a group of people going to different families and helping them to lower their bills and help them to be more eco friendly. So the one I watched today is called farmers. In this episode the group of people go to a family of farmers. And the eco friendly group found out that the family gets rid of their rubbish by burning it with fire. And the problem with burning it with fire is that the smoke can cause cancer. The smoke that effects your body is called dioxin. So the eco friendly group ask each of the family members to do a job. And the eco friendly group would count every dollar they saved and give it back to them in after 3 weeks and see how much they saved. So that is what the series Wa$ted is about.
by 084386 on November 15, 2010
What I already know about this unit ?
I know that this unit is about solid waste ( garbage ). And that if you throw too much garbage all of the used things such as your garbage all land in the landfills. If there is too much garbage in the landfill the landfill will get polluted and it will cause a damage to our environment. And I also know that a lot of people like me throw out stuff that I can still use and that is an example of solid waste. A lot of people waste thing ( objects ) that still can be used like phones, i pods and laptops ( computers ) etc……. But they don’t even have a second thought about where it goes.
What I exited to learn about
I am exited to learn more about solid waste and how it really effects landfills and our planet. and I also want to learn about waste plastic bottles and different kinds of liquid that people waste. Finally I want to know if we filled up our planet with garbage what kind of other space that we use ?
How I feel about this unit
I feel happy because we are going to learn about garbage and recycling. And I kind of also feel kind of sad because we have to see what we have done to the planet and how many parts of the world got polluted because of the solid and liquid waste that we wasted. And what it did to our environment.
by 084386 on November 12, 2010
Recently my class has started a new unit of inquiry called How We Organize Ourself it is about saving the environment and cleaning up all garbage that has been thrown out. Our new central idea is : Decisions made about solid waste management affect societies and the environment. This new U.O.I is really interesting because we get to learn about different people throwing out garbage that can be recycled or can be used again. So that is what my new U.O.I is about.
by 084386 on November 10, 2010
I need to think about digital footprints and that if you go to a certain website they mark that you went to that website before. And also I need to think about being a good digital citizen and not sending spam messages and not sending mean and hurtful messages to other people. Also I need to keep safe online and don’t trust everything I see online.
I always feel that when I am online and I go to a certain website people like mark that I went to that certain website and they suddenly know my email and suddenly send spam or junk messages to me.
I need to talk about my safety online and how to keep safe online more with my parents. And ask them to help me set passwords and pins for everything. And I also need to ask them to help me block certain websites that might not be safe.
And sometimes I wonder if people can see my personal information and my other websites online. And I also wonder if the ads that people send me are actually real or true. And I also wonder if I should trust everything online.
by 084386 on November 8, 2010
Last week on Monday November 1st 2010 me and my class the 5D Disco went to over to TST to go to Art JamaLama. ArtJamaLama is a place for you to paint ( sketch ) anything you want. But we had to draw a self portrait of our selfs that most represent our selfs. First we had to listen to the staff at Art JamaLama and they tell us the rules at Art JamaLama. After that we choose the color we wanted for our background we got to choose colors like Pink,Red,Blue,Green,Orange and etc…… After we used a sketchpad to sketch our drawing onto the white plain canvas. The canvas that they give us is a squared shaped and it is quite big so that why we had a lot of space to insert our ideas. After we drew out our drawing we got to color in our hair. eyes, nose, mouth etc….. I had so much fun doing that with my friends. After we finished our paintings we helped the staff and teachers clean up our area and went back to the bus to eat lunch. I was so exited to go art jamming because after words the teacher would hand our portraits on the LLAC and we had a party there after school. The link to the Art JamaLama website is artJAMaLAMa rtJAMaLAMa and you can take a look at it that place is AWESOME !
by 084386 on October 25, 2010
For my entire mid-term break I stayed in Hong Kong,but it was quite fun because I went shopping with my mum and dad and bought a lot of stuff . I really like I bought the Glee season 1 part 2 and I also bought a really nice and awesome thing that you hang on your phone and I also bought a book that was so interesting . Basically I watched TV through my whole mid – term break, But I really enjoyed this mid term break just hanging around with my family and watching TV . I loved this pass few days It was so fun and relaxing, but my favorite part was buying this really cute small bag. It is so awesome . I loved this mid term break it was so interesting and FUN especially watching TV. = D
by 084386 on October 15, 2010
A lot of people are drinking dirty water from the sea. The reason why they can’t get clean and fresh water is because people throw garbage in the sea and the people drink that dirty water.A lot of people have thrown garbage such as
- plastic bags
- glad raps
- tin foils
- finished food
- garbage bags
And used objects too.
PlEASE HELP THE BLOG ACTION DAY HELP THE PEOPLE IN NEED !
by 084386 on October 7, 2010
What I already know about the unit
I have heard about the five elements of matter solid , liquid , gas , plasma and Bose – Einstein. Everything AND Everything is matter. Matter can not be destroyed it can only change also matter is everything thing in this world.
What I want to learn ( don’t know )
I want to learn more about the properties of matter. I also want to learn the scientific principles also I want to find out more about the atoms and chemicals.
How do I feel about the unit
I really exited and happy to learn about the scientific principles and learn about the properties of matter.And I am also really exited to learn how the world works !
by 084386 on October 4, 2010
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by 084386 on September 29, 2010
For our unit of inquiry we created presentations using PREZI.
Every DJ invented a communication technology of the future.
Click HERE to see mine.
by 084386 on September 28, 2010
I am from Hong Kong
I hate hong kong public bathrooms
I love eating lollipops
I hate Hong Kong taxis
I love eating sushi
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