We learned three textbooks at the same time because of our facilitator, Sam thinks that they all have the same lesson, but they get more advance at each level. Those three textbooks are 5B, 6A, and 6B. One of the lessons this round is angle. I don’t think I’m good at angle anyway. In addition, I was on a trip the whole week, while my other classmates learn about angle. On 1st April, I came up to class and there’s a practice exercise on the board. I paused because I don’t know how to solve that problem. Later my friend asked me if I want some help. With my friend help, I could solve it. This was the first time that I was not able to solve a math problem in math class. The reason was that I don’t know the secret of angle, and I want to tell you so then you would able to solve angle problems. The secret is, a triangle has three angles and the sum of those three angles equal to 180 degrees and quadrilateral has four angles and the sum of those four angles equal to 360 degrees. Later I could solve angle problems easily when I know those secret.
Technology/Multimedia Round 4
In multimedia/technology class this round, we continued coding by using the Python program. However, it’s getting more advanced. We studied the function, list and Python dictionary. Coding is really useful in some sort of way. To practice our lesson, we also use code club as our assistant. We can learn things that are helpful for our daily life such as team chooser, rock paper scissors game and password generator. In code club, we look at the assignment and then write the code base on the description. Writing code base on instruction is easy, but to choose by challenge I challenge myself to do all of the challenges that they provide. My favorites are team chooser and password generator. In other classes, especially math class, we use random.org to choose a team. However, now we can use our code to choose the team for us. For password generator, I can create a complex password at anytime I want. I admit that technology is really useful for our daily life nowadays.
Here are the link to my coding:
Little Pop,Pop!
Haiku is one of my favorite type of poem to write. They are short and simple. This type of poem is originated from Japan with three lines. The first and the third line have five syllables while the second line has 7 syllables.
Little Pop, Pop!
Little frog, pop! Pop!
I take a look and hop hop!
Under my legs, Opps!
Indigenous Community
My round 3 exploration is indigenous community. In Cambodia, there are at least 19 groups of different indigenous people all over in Cambodia. Some of them such as Pnong, and Kreung. However, the other indigenous groups, not many of Cambodians know that they exist. After my facilitator, Bunthan saw this problem, he created an exploration which is indigenous community to promote and to raise everyone’s awareness that they actually exist. The two indigenous groups that we were focusing on are Stieng in Krate and Kui in Preh Vihear. There are 16 of us and we were divided into two groups, which are video group with 7 members and 9 members of the book group. By the end of our exploration, we expected to create 7 videos about Stieng and one book about Kui. I am one of the book members.
We went to Krate and Preah Vihear to collect all of the information about their community. During the trip, I’ve noticed that they were just like us, accept their daily life and their langue. For Stieng, I think they are no longer an indigenous group anymore because of their daily life, clothes, langue, and tradition is time by time turn into typical Cambodians. However, Kui people still speak their langue and follow their belief with the big population.
When we back from the trip, we were trying to write a book and editing our video. After we finished our book, we think we should come back to the community to verify the things that need to be changed. We’ve print our first version of the book along the trip. We finally, made a lot of changes. Hopefully, we can print our second version book soon and hand it out to different places to promote Cambodia indigenous groups.
STEM Round 3
In the 3rd round, we are learning by doing experiments. Our facilitator, Da planed out the week like this, on Monday is the day that we start the new lesson, we also can list down some questions for Tuesday. On Tuesday we discuss our question that we have listed down. On Thursday we experiment to know more about the topics. On Friday we celebrate our knowledge, which is a quiz of the week. One of my favorite experiment is the black snake experiment. This experiment explained everything even though I was on trips for the rest of the week. We need 5 gram of banking soda, 20 gram of sugar, a bowl of sand, lighter fluid, lighter, bowl, and aluminate wrap. Here is the instruction:
- First, add 5 gram of banking soda to 20 gram.
- Then mix the banking soda and sugar until they mixed well.
- Wrap the bowl with aluminate wrap
- Place sand in the bowl
- Then pour lighter fluid into the bowl sand until the whole bowl of sand wet well.
- Put the mixture of soda and sugar in the middle of the sand bowl
- Light up the sand
- Let the black snake continue it journey
*note: If you want to extinguish the light, pour some water in.
I think it is marvelous and well explain the whole idea of the lesson. Hopefully, we can do more experiment like this.
English Literacy Round 3
On the third round of our English literacy class, we focused on identity as our theme. I also learned about who I am. Well, everyone would love to know about themselves, so do I. On the second week of our round, we were writing poetry about where we are from. To me, writing poetry is a great idea. Below is I am from poetry written by me. Basically, it explains where I am from and what defines who I am.
I am from
I am from my favorite person and my first love
With the hair oil, I can see the sunshine
I am from the chalk & marker on the board
In a box with big monsters
But I had my mom and dad at that time
I am from my grama morning bread and coffee
That wakes me up all day long
From the scorched rice and spicy fish sauce
The taste tamarind
With the smell of fresh rice but crunchy
Also from the sweat eyes because of Koku
I am from the white blood cell
From my doctor grandpa’s magic
I am from the bike
From the fail and get up
Break my knee and tare my clothes apart
I am from the sparkling rainbow living thing in a jar
Once I can’t breath
The legs up the sky and face in the water
I am from the boss of the boss team
Also the fight for the right club
Blood on white clothes
No need any opinion because I did it just for the right
I am from “ Can I try”
And “ I get it ”
The pen chewer
That’s what I call myself
I am from the lion and the tiger scholar
The greatest academy of all
I am from the change agent group
That is cleaning and training to be the glossy diamond
I am from the theatre
The mirror actress
But the opportunity sucker
I am from the write, recite and express club
I am from the I-can-do-it
And I’ll-try mindset
I am from the root of a tree
The hero and heroine that I haven’t seen
I am from the small eye
White skin, and the little meow meow blood
But I am the lion and I’ll roar
By Reaksmey Date 16th January 2018
Technology/multimedia Round 3
Coding! I have never dreamed of learning it. It used to always gives me a headache. I didn’t need to code to get that stressfulness, only looking at all of the letter and number on other people screen able to make my brain explode. Recently, I started to like coding since I have entered the Python programming world. Python, that what we learned in technology/multimedia class. We learned string, boolean, and loop on the 3rd round. In my free time, I would choose to code because I really like it now. In my calendar, there would at least 30 minutes of coding exist every day. I think that Coder is smarter than coding.
Khmer Literacy Round 3
Grammar is always important in every language, I think. However, in Khmer, we don’t focus on grammar much in speaking. Some sentence does not need any to be adjective or possesive pronounce. Such as that book is me. I know it sounds odd, but it would make sense if we speak Khmer. But still, it’s important to keep the grammar right in writing. In Khmer class this round we were focusing on grammar. I was assigned to do research on the adjective. Adjective is the conflict one because, in Khmer, there are two types of adjective, which are regular adjective and limitation adjective. Limitation divided into five which are demonstrative adjective, indefinite adjective, possesive adjective, interrogative adjective, and quantitative adjective. Moreover quantitative adjective divided into two which are ordinal adjective and cardinal adjective. To be clear click this to learn more about Khmer adjective.
Math Round 3
On the first week of the round, we moved to the next level, which is 5 B. The first lesson that we learned was decimal. Similar to fraction, it’s always amazing and makes my day so stress out. There are so many math works such as multiplying, subtraction, division and adding. Multiplying is always make me so confusing and I made a lot of mistake such as 6 * 8 = 56. Plus, with decimal, it made my brain explode. This mistake always keeps my class so crowded because of hearing me and my teammates laughing. To them it is funny. However, to me, it is a headache and stressful. I meant I am fine to do the multiple. However, when it came to the checking point, I’ve used the most of my eraser. Hopefully, I can get better with multiplying.
English Literacy Round 2
For this term, we are focusing on social and environmental justice. One of our goals is drawing evidence from literary or informational texts for support. One of our activities is debating. For me personally, debating is not what I am interested in. However, our topic was so interesting which is “School should stop the practice of giving a letter grade to students, instead they should only writing feedback”. I was in disagree to the topic because grade tells where students are so they can improve, and they are standard and understandable for parents, so parents would not find any difficulties of understanding how their children’s performance in classes. For my classmates, there are 6 people disagrees to the topic, 7 people agree and the other two were absent. Different opinions are added to this debate because people are different in their own way. During the debate, everyone was trying to support their idea with different credible references with respect. For my class, 55 minutes of debating is too short since it went so smoothly. By the end of this debate, I am more into it now.