Thursday, 27 June 2013

How to design a Newspaper front page

Ha: This is the activity in the art room. We are drawing and decorating the front page of the newspaper. I think it is very interesting and a little difficult but I'm very much enjoying it. Thanks Ms. Dien for helping us to finish!
I worked very hard on the logo. My newspaper's logo is showing the name "The Starlight." My partner Uyen and I worked together well. While I decorated the newspaper, Uyen worked on the article. We had a lot of fun.
Thao and Tabea: The last week we had to create our own newspaper front page for a presentation. We drew many ideas on a paper. Sometimes it was very difficult but also very much fun. We had the idea to make a newspaper in the future (the year 2042). The name of the newspaper is "Newsflash" and we wrote a story and drew a picture of a man who married a robot woman. It was very interesting because we had to find out about the future. We think that in the future, maybe humans and robots will live side by side and there will be flying cars or maby clones.
Toan: I really enjoyed working to create the front page but I didn't like it when I had to write on the front page because I have really bad handwriting.
A newspaper is important in society because it has almost all of the latest news like robberies, thefts, gold prices, stock prices, etc.
Newspapers are getting really important because the businessmen and -women need to know about things like inflation, so that they know what the prices are of the things that they are selling.
The role of a newspaper depends on the country. In Vietnam there are a lot of advertisements on the newspaper, it seems like about half of the newspaper is advertisements. In England, different newspapers have different numbers of advertisements.

Tien: In this Summer program, we and Mr. Casey have a lot of funny activities.  Especially, we make our newspaper.  We have 2 days to design our newspaper and write a story.  First, we design the newspaper with pencil and then we paint it with a lot of colours.  Next, we think about the story and write it on a laptop. 
                My newspaper is called the “GIS news” in the future.  In the future, GIS is the most modern school in the world.  My pictures many not be interesting, but GIS will be like that in the future.  

Vincent: We’re doing a newspaper.  It’s very fun!  I picked a very exciting newspaper topic, it’s about the driverless car that can run by itself, and it is by Google.  My question is, “Will it be safe?”  I don’t know, they are still testing.  And the driverless car is awesome!  Will it crash on the highway?  How about we find out what is going to happen?  And if you want to know what is going to happen, go to the internet and print out the newspaper about the driverless car.Vincent: We’re doing a newspaper.  It’s very fun!  I picked a very exciting newspaper topic, it’s about the driverless car that can run by itself, and it is by Google.  My question is, “Will it be safe?”  I don’t know, they are still testing.  And the driverless car is awesome!  Will it crash on the highway?  How about we find out what is going to happen?  And if you want to know what is going to happen, go to the internet and print out the newspaper about the driverless car.






The rainforest animals

We have learnt a lot about rainforest animals: the jaguar, tiger, monkey, anteater, parrot, snake, cockroaches, crocodiles, lemur, ...

















We went to cu chi we saw a moon bear who lost his leg in a trap and now he can't  feed him self.













The people who work in the wildlife center.Rescue the animal from farm and shops.









We saw a  cute leopard cat in wildlife rescue station.
They are hunted for their beautiful skins.






Tuesday, 25 June 2013

Learning how to build a blog


Today we learned how to upload Pictures from the Computer and from the Internet.


 As their teacher, I was keen for them to do this for themselves. So, I showed two students how to upload images to the blag and then they taught the rest of the class.

By the end of the session, every child had uploaded a photo from the internet or from the classroom camera and had added a caption in their own words.







We made rain gauges

To support all the themes of the Primary Summer school programme, we thought it would be valuable for the children to see and understand the effects of weather on everything in this world. The first simple piece of equipment we built was a Rain Gauge and this is how we did it........


everyone made their gauges in super quick time.
 The children will take readings from their gauges every day for the next three weeks.


Why is the rainforest important?





Two parts  of the rainforest are the floor and the canopy.

The rainforest is very good for the planet because the sun shines then the tree sweats a lot  when the sweat  rises up to the cold air then it makes clouds and rains.

And here is the science bit. They listened intently to the way trees provide us with oxygen to breathe and how trees can even breathe, eat and drink through their roots.






We built a rainforest










The children engaged in a wide range  of craft activities to build their rainforest and to populate it with animals.



we learn about the rainforest



we are making parrot