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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 […]

We were given an assignment by Mr. Humphrey to write about a quote made by Amon Bronson:

“Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable”
I looked at this quote and […]

It was a real legendary trip for me to take part of this school camp. My school organized this annual camp with a company called Dragonfly to bring all the Grade 6 students to Zhaoqing, in southern part of China. […]

For the past 3 days 32 people who were aged 17- 30 came to our school. They were part of an organization called the Young Americans. The Young Americans specialize in performing arts such as drama, singing, […]

It has been one month into Grade 6 and I can already feel how great this school year will be! I am in 6D, the name of our class is the 6D Dobbies. My homeroom teacher is Mr Humphrey, he is a great teacher. Mr […]

Four weeks ago my class started a math project. We started drawing a floor plan which was a scale of 40 by 30 meters. We could build anything we wanted e.g House, park, hotel or a race track. When we drew the floor plan we had to label the area and color the areas. Ms. Cahusac [...]

The present Unit of Inquiry I am learning at school is about “The Human Body” which is one of the transdisciplinary themes for “Who We Are”. We’re learning how the body goes through different changes through our lives such as when you are born, making your first step, coming to puberty, becoming an adult, getting [...]

The Unit Of Inquiry (UOI) I am currently learning at school is about sharing the planet, and the central idea of this unit is to look at the social issue – “Actions can support or deny access to children’s right and opportunities”. I am pushing through the limit to look into some circumstances. Some children [...]

It is a long post over 2000 words, “Read It At Your Own Patience!” On March 30th 2012, my parents and I left home to the airport after a light meal. We were dropped off  at Terminal 1 where the check-in counter of Malaysian Airlines was. The check-in was fast as no one was in the line. [...]

KONY 2012 is a video created by Invisible Children. The film’s purpose is to promote the charity’s ‘Stop Kony’ movement to make indicted Ugandan war criminal Joseph Kony internationally known in order to arrest him in 2012. Joseph Kony is a person who kidnaps children and uses them for multiple purposes such as  fighting in wars. Joseph Kony is [...]

Todays Picture Of The Day is very interesting. This man is making a art piece made out of rubix cubes. I interpret that there there will be 2 people in this art piece, you already see one person (which is Martin Luther King Jr.) and I think the other person is John Fitzgerald Kennedy. The person who made [...]

Today, there was no school because we had the annual Student Led Learning Review. My mum came with me to school, my dad couldn’t come because he was on a business trip. First, I set up my table ready for the review, then I explained to my mum the SLLR schedule which included 10 subjects from [...]

One day when I was in Maldives, I went on a fishing trip with my family. We boarded a local made boat and went to the middle of the ocean and started fishing. The bate was fish and red meat. The first catch of the day was my dad he caught a small coral, it looked [...]

This Unit of Inquiry is about children’s rights; how and why some of the children in the world aren’t getting their rights properly in their living situation, and instead put in child labor, fighting in war, slaves etc. For this unit our key concepts are responsibility and causation. So far I have learned many facts and information such [...]

I would like to be as handsome as Tom Cruise, I would like to have a personality just like Sebastian Vettel , I would like to be as brave as Benazir Bhutto , I would like to be a good speaker just like Barack Obama , I would like to play tennis as good as Roger Federer , I would like to be a great actor just as Tom Hanks , I would like [...]

Me & Dynamo 5 made a formula 1 race car out of cans! It’s a pretty cool contraption. Mr. Hughes allowed us to put it on display in the 9th floor foyer. I would like to thank all the people who helped me and Dynamo 5 like Dynamo 4, Dynamo 13 and Dynamo 20! This is [...]

Business Stripped Bare is a business book written by global entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson. This is a great book for people studying business or economics. He is the founder and CEO of the Virgin Brand, which is a very successful brand. Virgin has more than 400 companies worldwide. In Business Stripped,  Sir Richard Branson shares the inside of…[Read more]