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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 [...]

Hello everyone, for the past two days we have been going to different classrooms experiencing “Simulations” which contrast lifestyles and have been acting them out.  Examples of the simulations are getting addicted to a video game, being a physically disable person at Immigration checkpoint, being in a pitch black room with SCARY sounds such as…[Read more]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 ” H ong Kong’s history”. This movie captivates me because it involves action, comedy, study and history . We watched about 80 minutes [...]

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…[Read more]

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 [...]

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 [...]

This is a video that our class watched together.  We watched this video because our new unit of inquiry is about HK’s past. I have to say this was not one of my favorite videos, because I did not find it that interesting and the narrative was complicated. The video did remind me of other movie clips [...]

PSA stands for ” Public Service Announcement”.  They are used to spread a message to a wide audience on important topics, such as child abuse.  Many PSAs are posted and found on youtube and can also be found on blogs or websites. We are making PSAs in our grade on “Child Labor” because we want to raise awareness and to [...]

Hello, everyone!  Today we went on a field trip, not just any field trip but an adventurous one.  We went to a cemetery, because our new unit of inquiry is about sources people can use to inquire about the past. At the cemetery we were organized into groups.  We were all tasked to take pictures so that [...]

Hi everyone.  Happy new year!  You wouldn’t believe where I went again for the holiday. I went to SINGAPORE with my family and  I got to stay in my dad’s new apartment.  We had lots of yummy food and even went to the roof top of the new Marina Sands Hotel on Sentosa Island, named Sky [...]

Our class has been reading a book called IQBAL.  IQBAL is a true story about Child Labor and the main character is a boy named Iqbal who worked in a carpet factory.  The story is about how Iqbal tried to free the children from their evil masters. Let me tell you a little bit about the story.  The story [...]

Hello.  This morning we went to the library in our school.  In the library pit were 2 poets http://www.michaelsalinger.com/ and http://saraholbrook.blogspot.com/ and they told us all about poetry. This meeting made me feel like I have just opened a door to the poem world and there is so much to learn about poetry.  I really hope that [...]

My reading buddy My buddy is 5 yrs old, he likes to play soccer, he goes to CDNIS, he is in Prep E, his name is Aston, he likes to play electronics, his favorite food is pumpkin. Dj23 I go to CDNIS, I love to play soccer and rugby, I like to eat peach with ice cream, I am in 5D, I am 10 yrs old, I like to play [...]

Hi, I wrote this post because I want to show you my Voki character.  A Voki is a fictional character that can be anything – a tiger, dragon, human or even Dracula.  A  Voki can talk and all you have to do is type in a little text box.  To create a Voki you need to first pick a [...]