Deakin Blogs about the Summative Task

 

Mr. Chan took this picture when I wasn't looking while I was doing my UOI summative task. I really like doing my summative task. Mine and everyone elses summative task is on our families migration story. My family migrated to singapore because of my step dads work.

Blogged by 5DC student, Deakin

Field Trip to Fort Canning and the National Museum of Singapore

On Wednesday, 5DC and 5SB ventured out into Singapore to learn more about the early Migrants of Singapore. The sites that we visited were Fort Canning and the National Museum of Singapore.

From the trip, some old student questions were answered, but we all acknowledged that we could learn more about early Singapore.  Currently, the students have taken a question further and initiated a mini-research exercise to satiate their curiosities.  Using some old and new IT skills, they have been challenged to put their research together and collaborate using Google docs to write a paragraph about the area they are curious about.

Looking forward to sharing the fruits of early year collaboration work.

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25 Hours till the Exhibition

ISS' 5th Grade Exhibition kicks off tomorrow.  Most of the presentations have been setup, and are only in need of a few polishing strokes.  If you are a parent, come in to help celebrate the work of your child at 8:30 am, tomorrow (March 12th).  The displays will be open between 8:30 am till 2:00 pm on Tuesday and Wednesday only.  

See you here!

Singapore Museum Field Trip

The Singapore museum was sort of fun I saw lots of things and learned lots about the history of Singapore. One of my favourite parts was when we learned about the convicts and how there life was. When the guide talked about them being shipped to Singapore to do labour I was surprised that they did this just because the convicts stole something. It could be something like a piece of bread. The labour they had to do was make bricks or build drains and what confused and surprised me was that they chose to stay in Singapore once they were set free and I thought why? I thought why because it was a place they worked hard and did labour in and they weren’t paid for it because they were prisoners. I thought that bit in the museum was good and the artifact and rooms around it were cool. My least favourite part of the museum was when they talked about the Chinese women dress makers because I wasn’t interested in the style they wore or that they had to make embroidery. I liked the artifact which was the rickshaw and I learned that it was the way wealthy people traveled around Singapore.  Overall I thought that the field trip to the museum was interesting and so worth going to!

Emily

Olivia Blogs about our morning Exhibition session

During the morning session, students had the chance to look at the cover of a couple books and the contents of these books. We talked about a few key words using our prior knowledge and students were asked to write down what they think the words, "Human Trafficking" and "Asylum" mean.

We will explore these two ideas further this afternoon.

Human Trafficking:
I think human trafficking is when women are being killed for money, sold as slaves and being smuggled into different countries for being sold too. Maybe people will do something worse to them, like trapping them in their own houses, and nobody (and that’s including the government) does nothing about it. Do the people want to do something as horrible as human trafficking? No one should be heavily encouraged by this act of behavior. It might be that people keep it a secret on what they are doing to the poor women. Also, the government might have not noticed it.


Asylum:
I think asylum is when people or a group are forced into hiding because of the wars.The people who are doing this have no money or food to survive, but no one can see that. It might be that the people who are doing asylum are being hunted down by bad people who are hungry for more money. It’s so sad, because some women who are in asylum might have small children, like babies. The babies have a high risk of being killed or kidnapped. It’s very sad and unfortunate for them.

Olivia