Tuesday, July 3, 2012
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。
Sunday, July 1, 2012
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.
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.
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