Reflections on ' Girl who never let cancer get her down'

     Koh Li Min exhibited the value of perseverance. She showed us she lived up to her personal mantra by continually trying to train for physically demanding activities, such as cross-country running. She  also tried to attend her classes on time, even when on medical leave.
     My personal  'mountain' is my shyness. I get really nervous standing in front of a whole body of people to present. I hope that someday I will be able to overcome this challenge.

品德教育读后感

    这个故事告诉我们要宽厚待人。一天，小刚的妈妈被一个小男孩撞了后，他感到生气。可是妈妈说他不应该生气，因为小男孩已经道歉了。另一天小刚放学回家，妈妈发现他的膝盖擦破皮。她以为小刚在回家的路上跌倒了，但是小刚在膝盖擦破皮是因为休息时候被同学不小心绊倒。他告诉妈妈同学已经道歉了，而且他不是故意的，如果再告诉老师他会很难受，所以没告诉老师。妈妈夸他能够宽厚待人，是个好孩子。
  我觉得能够宽厚待人是一个很重要的技能。因为假如一个人做错事后，道歉了，你还想骂他或者教训他，他会很难过或会想骂你。如果你可以宽厚待人，他会比较开心，因为你原谅了他。
   每次我撞到人，我都会道歉。那些时候，我很怕被我撞到的人会骂我。但是，因为我已经道歉了，他们不会骂我，只是提醒我要小心而已。
  

学习挂毯

我们今年的学习挂毯是关于植物的。我们去了植物园看花。 我们学到了哪些植物是坚韧不拔的，好像:胡姬花，芦荟，仙人掌，勿忘我花，太阳花和菊花。也学到了哪些植物需要很多照顾，比如：薰衣草，茉莉花,三色堇和蒲公英。我喜欢学习挂毯，我一定要再去另外一个地方。

Learning Tapestry- Plants

It's Term 3 and our Learning Tapestry has just begun. My group members this time were Danushan (leader), Cheyenne, Haziq, me and Matthew.We did the FILA (Facts, Ideas, Learning issues and Actions) table last term.

For our Learning Journey, we went to the Singapore Botanic Gardens. I was ECSTATIC as I had never been there before and was always hoping to go there.  It was mobile learning, so each group was given an iPad. We started by going to the Heritage tree (also known as the tembusu tree). Next, we went to somewhere outside the National Orchid Garden. There we had to take a photo with the national flower - the Vanda Miss Joaquim. We next visited the ginger garden where we bumped into Mrs Goh's class - 5G. For this station, the pictures in the  activity sheet were very confusing- we  couldn't figure out which plant we were supposed to be looking at. Luckily, Mrs Goh helped us by pointing the right plant out. There were 2 mini waterfalls there with a sort of small cave/tunnel where you could go behind the waterfalls. All of us crowded into the cave/tunnel and took pictures. We then lined up and proceeded to the lily pond where we composed an acrostic poem with the word "lily".

Finally after visiting the Heliconia Walk, we went to the cafe and had a break. Mum gave me a scrumptious bento to eat (there is a picture of it below :D ). We shared some of our food such as chips, "M&M's" and crackers. On the way back to school, Danushan was engrossed in typing in the answers onto the iPad. When I looked to my left, I saw that Matthew had fallen asleep!

When we reached school, we had another short break to finish uploading the answers. Then,  we had a whole period of free time!!!!

June 27th
The next day, we started discussing about what to do for our projects. My group decided to do the characteristics of different seed dispersd that our slides were yoo wordy.als. Mrs Sharma gave each group a laptop and we started our research. First, we started off by looking for Google Chrome. Danushan then searched for the Wikipedia and then searched seed dispersal in the search bar when he could have just searched "seed dispersal wiki" in the URL bar.  We transferred all the information to  Microsoft Word whether we needed it or not. Danushan and the other boys were hogging the computer, so Cheyenne and I could do nothing but watch them do their slides.  Finally, they allowed us to do a slide on wind dispersal. During Science period, Mr Lee came over to our group and said our slides were too wordy. He asked Danushan to look for Steve Jobs' presentations. Danushan then wasted quite some time looking at different ways of presenting Powerpoint slides. At the end of the day, he deleted our slide without even asking us! We were going to edit it but he just deleted the WHOLE THING!

June 28th
Danushan finished most of the slides and let us do the one on animals. We finished our slides and added transitions and animations etc. We copied out the things we were going to say and gave them to Cheyenne to print out.

June 29th
Presentation day. We were last to present our slides. Cheyenne had printed out the script but Danushan had printed out something else to say and it was much much longer! He only gave it to us when we were at the AVA room. He told us to memorise all that. In the end Cheyenne and I got developing in effective communicator because we read from his paper wholesale. How could we memorise all that in such a short time?! We were supposed to listen to the other groups too! It was so unfair to us. At least we all got a long weekend.

Reflection on Term 1

Term 1 is over. It contained many enjoyable events such as Sports Day and Chinese New Year. I learnt many new things I have never learnt before and I also learnt my teacher's expectations for us. Being in the top tier class, the expectations are quite high. I am sure that with our teachers's help we will be able to meet those expectations.

In Maths class, I learnt things like order of operations, using a calculator and am currently learning fractions. There is one exciting new thing we have done in Math. That is our speed tests. We have to finish ten questions in ten minutes. The questions are not always easy. We have a chart and when at least three-quarter of the class have got either nine or ten, we raise two bars.

In Science, we learned about the plant and human systems. We also learnt about different types of gases. We had one lesson in which we conducted an experiment on limewater.

In English, we did a lot of things. There were many packages and booklets and In The News and journals to do. Most of the things in the practice papers that we did were the same as what we did last year. We now have to do Grammer and Vocabulary exercises in the book.

Mother Tongue is pretty much the same.

My most favourite events were Sports Day and my birthday. On the whole, I enjoyed myself very much in Term 1.

The Pied Piper of Hamelin Part 1

For two weeks, we have been doing the Pied Piper of Hamelin for English literature.It was written by Robert Browning. We were given the poem and told to read it. We then watched a few vidoes on the story and poem on Youtube. It was quite fun. There was one video of man called Ron Reagan who recited the poem along with some facial expressions.
The next day, we had to find the meanings of twenty words we did not know. Some of the words I chose were: drysaltery, noddy and consternation.
Then we had to summarize the stanzas in groups. My group did stanzas 1,2 and 3. We copied the summary on pieces of jigsaw paper.
I enjoyed doing the Pied Piper. I hope to do more things like this.