Channa’s Classmate’s Field Trip / Channa
On Saturday February 20th, 2010, I spent half a day on my school trip with my teacher, my classmates, Teacher Sarah and Teacher Vannak. We went to Angkor Wat to find out about storytelling. Teacher Vannak was a wonderful guide for telling us about the bas reliefs on the walls that show different events that happened in the past. We all got information from Teacher Vannak by word of mouth because now we are studying about storytelling from the past.
All the information that we got from Teacher Vannak inspired our brains and we understood about the unit that we study now. We found out a lot of important events and about some kings who fought each other to become the reigning king. Some bas reliefs have short details near them, that our forefathers inscribed words in Khmer. Some of the bas reliefs are very clear for us to see, but some are not because they have been rubbed off.
The trip that we had was very important to us because it connects to our unit that we are studying right now about storytelling.
My Exciting Field Trip to Angkor Wat / Yoeut
On the morning of Saturday February 20th, 2010, I went to Angkor Wat with my class and three teachers: Teacher Tracey, Teacher Sarah, and Teacher Vannak. My class went there because we are learning about storytelling.
When we arrived at Angkor Wat, we walked around and looked at the bas reliefs on the walls in Angkor Wat and Teacher Vannak told us the story about the bas reliefs.
Then, Teacher Tracey gave us some pictures of the bas reliefs that she had taken, and we had to find the photographs like in the guided reading book “The Big M”, Grandma gave photographs to find sculptures in the museum. All of the groups found the photographs from the bas reliefs.
We were very excited and so very glad that we went to Angkor Wat to see the bas reliefs and to hear all kinds of stories about the past. All of the students that I went with were happy and we wish that we could go to Angkor Wat again some day.
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In Grade Five last term, each student wrote a book. Their books were "Choose Your Own Adventure" books similar to the Goosebumps series. At the end of each section, characters were faced with a decision, and the reader had to decide what they wanted the characters to do. Each student's story had eight possible endings.
We will print the books and put them in the library. JPA students will be welcome to read the stories as many times as they wish, choosing different adventures each time.
Here is what Vichea had to say:
In Term three we started a project for writing. This writing was called “Choose Your Own Adventure”. It took us four weeks to finish writing. The story that we each wrote had characters that were faced with two risks and the character needed to choose between them. Sometimes, the consequence that the character chose could be good, but usually it was very bad and difficult. We wrote these stories because in the Open Court Reading book we learned about risks and consequences. We decided to write our own story that had risks and consequences in it.
When we wrote the stories, we had tons of fun and we spent more time with each other to edit our stories. I thought that this writing project was very happy and exciting and we could spend time together to work. I loved this writing project very much.
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First graders at JPA truly live and write like authors. Recently, Grade One students tackled descriptive writing by describing their favorite people. Here are an examples:
Chhet is my favorit person. Chhet is very pretty like the agel in the sky. Chhet is very smart like a jolly elephant. He has big, blue, nice eye like very big frog in the pond. He is very fat like a fluffy rabbit on the ground.
Chhet has big head like the enormous school. He is very jazzy like a impolite big, strong jelly. He has big hand like an enormous school. He is like a crazy monkey.
Chhet has big, pretty, shiny, soft teeth like tiny little ant. He have black, soft, nice tiny silly nose like the corn silk. He have purple shiny pretty shoes like very gigantic giant agel. He have big enormous nose. He has blue shirt like the star.
Chhet make me laugh all the day like a joke, crazy nice snail in the world. He has yellow, nice pretty shorts like the big enormous watermelon on the ground. He has big, heavy, good, shiny neck.
Rachna
Grade One
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What food do students like and dislike?
Most students like food on Friday best, because the mean is 21.3 students per class. However, on average 13.4 students per class don’t like Wednesday. Furthermore, 162 students want to change the food. As for fruit, students like mangoes the most, because the mean is 20.1 students per class.
Sotheach, Tevy, Chakriya
How many siblings do JPA students have?
The class that has the most siblings is in Grade Six (mean 3.96 siblings). However, the least mean is in Grade Two (2.44 siblings).
Sopheap, Srey Noch, Chanty
How much do people work at JPA?
The job that has the most people is students (263 students), who work 9 hrs. a day, but maintenance, gardener, nurse and principal only have one person for the job. There are 15.5 students per teacher.
Phanith, Sorall, Chamroeun
How many students have had a yellow report card?
Grade Six has the most yellow report cards with twenty five students, but Grade One didn’t have any yellow report cards. The data is very different from each other. Grade One don’t be sad, because you will have a chance to get a yellow report card soon!
Moniroth, Mapisan, Rada
How much money does JPA spend on gas for the buses?
Based on our extraordinary project, we can conclude that we spend a lot of money on gas. Siem Reap is the longest distance the bus travels, so it costs much money. In total, in a year we spend $4,240.80 on gas. Do you think it is a lot?
Chivit, Lyfong, Veasna N., Soprom
Which classroom is cooler, Grade Five or Grade Seven?
We can tell that fans are not useful compared to taking off part of the roof. In Grade Seven, the mean is 28.4C and median is 28.5C, but in Grade Five the mean is 30.5 and median is 30.5C. So, my class is cooler than Grade Five. Interesting!
Dary, Rithy Sakk, Sophy
What color and size crocs do Grade Seven, Eight and Nine have?
Most students like pink crocs. Also the median of the size in three grades are mostly the same (Grade Six: thirty seven, Grade Seven: thirty eight, Grade Nine: thirty eight), but the mean of the size is greatest in Grade Seven, but least in Grade Nine.
Srey Ed, Veasna M., Sony, Phearom
How old are students in Grade Six, Seven and Eight?
Grade Six’s mean age is 12.4 years old, but Grade Seven is 14.07 years old and Grade Eight is 14.9 years old. So we know that Grade Seven and Eight are closer in age to each other.
Kunthea, Srey Seur, Srey Pov
We hope you enjoyed looking at our posters and learning more about JPA through numbers.
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Albert Einstein famously said, "Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new".
Einstein was a great physicist who developed the theory of relativity in 1905. He is perhaps the best known scientist of the twentieth century.
Albert Einstein achieved a great many things during his lifetime and it is hard to believe he made mistakes. High school students all over the world learn his theories in Physics class. Maybe making mistakes helped Einstein to become so successful. It sounds strange, I know, but just maybe our mistakes help us to grow.
When we accept that we will not be successful in everything we do, we open ourselves up to possibility. Fear can limit us. Einstein was not afraid of failure and many of his ideas were not successful. Still, he learned from those mistakes and continued. He did not quit. He did not give up.
Einstein’s quote reminds me that it is easy to lead a life without any failures. All you have to do is never try anything new or difficult. As soon as you try something challenging, there is always the possibility of mistakes. Einstein’s life shows us that it’s a risk worth taking.
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