Last but not least ....

A small gift from 6X to teachers.

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"Childhood" poster

Design a poster (hand-drawing/painting) to demonstrate your childhood.
The poster should be A4 size and fully colour neatly.
Due date: Tuesday, 11/06 . You also will share with your class about your poster on the day.

Vietnamese famous place project

Kindly be reminded that Vietnamese Culture Homework- Famous Place project will due next Tuesday, May 21.
 
Ensure that I have all the brochures and Power Poin saved in the S-drive by Tuesday morning. ^^

Vietnamese Culture Project

As for this term, the children will work in group of 3-4 to research and have a presentation on a famous places in Vietnam.

The project will last for 3-4 weeks. Children will have time in class to do research and put together information that they found. At the end of the sessions , children will produce
- A Power point
- A brochure
Due: May 21 

Crossing the river!

A small brain teaser activity :)

You must transfer all the people across the river in this flash river crossing game respecting the following rules:

1. The ferry can carry no more than 2 people.
2. Only the Adults (mom, dad and policeman) can operate the ferry.
3. Dad can not be in the presence of the girls w/out Mom
4. Mom can not be in the presence of the boys w/out Dad
5. The thief can not be alone with any of the family w/out the policeman.

Have fun :D

Vietnamese culture: Design a "pick-up" tray

After the fabulous lesson we had in class about "thôi nôi" in Vietnamese Culture, your small task for this week is to draw/paint your own "pick-up" tray (A4).
Criterias for your drawing:
- 4-5 items to choose from
-A small explanation "What is a pick-up tray?" (you can possibly explain each items that you have on the tray.)
- Big, bold, colourful title
- Nice colouring (including the background)

Due date: Tuesday, 12th March.

Brainstorming "Your 1st birthday"

To prepare for our next lesson in Vietnamese Culture, you're set a small task to do this week.
Your task is to find out how did your parents celebrating your 1st birthday (it could be your sister/brother if parents can't remember back to yours).
You can post your comments in this blog so we can share ideas together :)

Tet project assignment

As Tet is approaching, we are continuing with our "Tet book". For this week, your task will be similar to the last assignment, where you will draw a picture of one aspect of Tet and have a small research to go with it.

- Sanny : kitchen god
- Kimberley: visiting relatives
- Nhan Thu: tranh Đông Hồ (famous painting)
- Yuen Yin: Câu đối Têt
- Jessica: chợ Tết ( Tet market)
- Jinny: year of the snake
- Quoc Linh: watermelon

The rest of the class will product a painting about Tet. Think of it as a front cover page, you can include many items, views of Tet. For the front cover, you don't need to have research to go with it, but I'll be expecting a more details and better quality painting.

The assisgnment is due next Monday, 4th January.

See me if you have any questions, especially those with specific item to do. Below are some examples of the cover that you could do.

Cheers,

Tet's items

Below are the list of items that you will need to complete for you Vietnames Culture homework. It'll due next  Tuesday, 29/1.

Nhan Thu: Rice cake (square)
Jinny & Aoi: firework
Kimberley: ao dai
Jessica: Rice cake (banana)
Yuen Yin: fruits (5 kinds)
Sanny: flower (yellow)
Annie: flower (pink)
Nam Anh: Banh day
Son: temple
Quoc Linh: dragon dance
David B: Lucky money
JQ: phuoc loc tho & church
Debbie: fortune teller
Hannah: sweeping house
David D: visiting relatives

Healthy Living Rap Songs

Well done everyone for great effort on your rap. They are all fabulous and high-standard.

Tet assignment

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Your assignment is to sketch an item which relates to Tet and colour. ( Don't forget to colour the background as well!!) Some items that you can draw such as:
- Lucky money pocket
- Dragon/lion dance
- Rice cake
- Food eaten during Tet holiday
- Sweets (mứt , melon seeds...)
- Fire cracker
- Fruits ( a dish with 5 types of fruits)
- Traditional clothes
- Firework
- Flower

Also, there should be a small paragraph regarding the items.

Chinese Zodiac Legend

Chinese Zodiac from James O'Sullivan

Zodiac Animals

 

For a long time there has been a special relationship between humans and the 12 zodiacal animals. It is believed that the years represented by the animals affect the characters of people who were born on that year. This is the order of the animals ( some zodiac animals change according to different culture): rat, ox, tiger, cat, dragon, snake, horse, goat, monkey, rooster, dog and pig.

Your Vietnamese culture homework for this week is to research about one animals and post it as a comment for this blog entry. There are also the 4 mythical creatures that you can do your research on : dragon, Chinese unicorn, turtle and phoenix.
 

Life of Pi, the film

Such a wonderful film. Didn't regret waiting to see it for months. :)
Not as detailed as the book, but was great enough to lighten up my Sunday morning.  

Oliver Audition!!

Started the day with an audition for next term production "Oliver Twist", MP3 children showed that they have great potential for both acting and singing. MP3 teachers possibly will have a hard time choosing main characters. :)
Well done to all children who took part in the audition!

Dragons Den

After much hard work and practicing, Year 6 presented their fairground rides to the Dragons this morning, hoping to get some investment for further work on their rides.

Overall, Year 6 children had done a great job at persuading the Dragons. There were persuasive pitches, great presentations and amazing attitude. The Dragons had a hard time deciding where to put their investment into. Well done everyone!

 

Earthquake at TX

Monday started as calmly and gently as any other Mondays. Until....an announcement exploded that TX was being hit by an earthquake. Children frantically scrambled under tables and tried to protect themselves.
The earthquake ended with everyone still safe and sound. Thanks to the Y4 earthquake "experts", who came to our class last week and intructed us what to do during an earthquake. :)

 

Twins research

"Family structure and relationship" is our topic for this week Vietnamese Culture lesson. During the lesson, children explored the relationship between parents & children and between siblings. There was great discussion on the pros and cons of being the oldest, youngest and the only child.
At the end of the discussion, we crossed the perspectives on twins. Do twins have different ideas, different experiences on the matters?
To help us to have a better idea on twins, Vietnamese Culture homework for this week is: " to search for an interesting fact regarding twins and comment on this post." Your comment can be facts, example, case studies...

I'm looking forward to read your wonderful research.

CAT testing

This week, children are taking CAT test, which stands for "Cognitive Ability Test". These test are designed to find out how good one is at reasoning, being able to think things through. Children do not need to have any preparation since they don't need to learn any facts. These tests will help us to identify strengths, weaknesses and one learning preferences.