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

Sportsmanship is when players are showing a nice and good attitude towards each other before, during and after a game of a sport. […]

Just today, we have done something extraordinary, something big, something you may have never laid your eyes on…..The Marshmallow Challenge!

It is a competitive game, where teams of four (picked random) from […]

Ask yourself this: Are good friends and good books the same? That’s something to think about. It’s something so big, that it could start a world war. In my language, world means class, and war means an opinion […]

From the day of Nov 27 to Nov 30, the entire grade 6 took a camp trip to Zhao Qing, which is in China. We were going with the Dragonfly organization, which is the group that coordinating our activities and our […]

From Monday, 12th of November to Wednesday, the 14th of November,something special happened to the grade 6 of CDNIS. The Young Americans  came !!!!! You probably don’t know who they are. They are an organization […]

Hello everybody! This year in grade 6, I’m in 6D. I’ve been in this school since pre-reception (wow maybe I need to change schools) and I have been in D only once. Speaking of classes, I think I’ve never been in […]

I’m back at school and I’m going to continue my epic blog. I’ve ignored the blog during the summer not because I hate my blog, but because I don’t want to do any work during the summer! I’m back at school, in […]

On Thursday, we payed a visit to the Gr. 6 exhibition. You might think: what in the world is this kid talking about? Or maybe you already know. Well, incase you don’t know, the Gr. 6 Exhibition is a big assessment, where grade 6 students use all the knowledge of researching, analyzing, making of presentation, making [...]

In this week, from Monday to Wednesday, we had a G5 camp!!!!! WOO HOO!!!!!! We did interesting and fun activities all day and got to hang out with our friends!!!!! WOO HOO!!!! Except there’s a lot of walking. Awwww! The camp was organized by the teachers and an organization called Dragonfly and the camp took [...]

This week there was a lot of things that happened. We had a new unit, about the human body, we had some hip-hop dancing classes, and we done some mosaic tiling. I thought that these were quite exciting, and interesting. Like I said, the new unit’s about the human body. For example, I think we’re going [...]

In this unit, we have been learning about child rights as told in my previous posts. One of our summatives was to make a PSA- Public Service Announcement- about an article from the UNCRC (United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child). I did a PSA on article #32, which is about child labour. [...]

In this unit, we’re are learning about child rights. I have already told you about my unit in one of my previous posts. “Actions can support or deny access to children’s rights and opportunities.”  this is our unit’s central idea. To me, I think this central idea means is that some of the actions you [...]

Today I had a “Student Led Learning Review” at school. A Student Led Learning Review is an hour of you choose in the day, where you demonstrate your learning to your parents. We choose activities to do with our parents and explain our learning. For example, I showed them my multiplication video, and explained the process [...]

We have recently started a new unit- Sharing The Planet. This time, it’s going to be about children rights! So far, we’ve been 2 weeks into this unit and most of the students got the idea of what the unit’s about, and what we might do in this unit. For this unit, our central idea [...]

Last week, we have been learning about speeches. We chose the things we have to apply to our speech. We said that we needed clear voices, fluency, confidence, gestures, and a good posture. Our first speech was to get into groups and make a speech about the advantages and disadvantages of a waste management strategy. [...]

Today there was a assembly and me, my class, and another class had to lead it. When a class leads a assembly, we just pick some hosts from our classes and they will tell when something is going to happen and what’s going to happen next in the assembly. Also, the classes have to present [...]

We’re having a unit about waste management strategies. We thought about all the ones we knew and one of them was the landfill method. One day we had to type what we thought a landfill was like. This is what I thought: I think is a place which most of the garbage gets transported to. I [...]

Here is a math video. Its about two people arguing about what does 13 x 7 equal. The actors are two comedians called Abbot and Costello. One of them says 13 x 7=28 and the other one says it doesn’t. The other one keeps on making the wrong one do sums. Every time the person [...]

Where We Are In Place And Time In school, we have been working on a unit called Where We Are In Place And Time. This time, we are working on history and the interpretations in history. The central idea is: Different interpretations of the past can be discovered by investigating historical events. In the unit, we practiced doing skits, had field…[Read more]