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jan uary 15th 2015
English:
Today Mr. Rob teaches us about idioms! Idioms are figurative words or phrases which has different meaning from its literal meaning, and it can be understood by their popular use. Here are the examples of popular idioms:
1. "break a leg!" it means to say good luck
2. "Spill the beans" it means to tell the secret
3. "chicken out" it means getting scared
4. "its raining cats and dogs!" it means its raining heavily
etc.
Mr. Rob gave us some activities to do! First, he gave us a workshop that requires us to draw an idiom literally, and we had to write what we thought the meaning was and a sentence supporting that. I got "smell a rat". i thought the meaning was to tell someone to go way, but unfortunately i was wrong :( apparently, "smell a rat" means to be suspicious that something is going wrong.
The next activity was, we were given an idiom individually, draw it and let the other guess what the idiom is!
I personally think that by doing interactive activities like this is very interesting! i absolutely prefer this kind of activity, rather than listening to a long lecture (i get sleepy all the time :D )
1. "break a leg!" it means to say good luck
2. "Spill the beans" it means to tell the secret
3. "chicken out" it means getting scared
4. "its raining cats and dogs!" it means its raining heavily
etc.
Mr. Rob gave us some activities to do! First, he gave us a workshop that requires us to draw an idiom literally, and we had to write what we thought the meaning was and a sentence supporting that. I got "smell a rat". i thought the meaning was to tell someone to go way, but unfortunately i was wrong :( apparently, "smell a rat" means to be suspicious that something is going wrong.
The next activity was, we were given an idiom individually, draw it and let the other guess what the idiom is!
I personally think that by doing interactive activities like this is very interesting! i absolutely prefer this kind of activity, rather than listening to a long lecture (i get sleepy all the time :D )
January 16th 2015
Biology:
Today Ms. Disty gave us a lecture about ECOLOGY
Ecology is a branch of biology which studies about living and non-living organisms, their environment and how they interact in the environment.
Levels of organisation:
cells -- tissue -- organ -- organ system -- organism -- population -- community -- ecosystem -- biosphere
What is an ecosystem? Ecosystem is an interacting system that consists of groups of organisms and their non living organisms in a boundary. the boundaries are weather, water, climate, shelter/home, and food.
Biosphere? A region on earth, in which life appears
Environment - Made out of living things and non living things.
(Biotic - Things that was or is living)
(Abiotic - Things that is or was never living)
Inside an ecosystem, the animals has a niche. For example: the niche is to become the prey or predator.
It gives the animals purpose. Sometimes the border of the animals overlap, they need to compromise and co-exist. They can co exist by changing their sleeping schedule (nocturnal, doctrinal, and repusular). So, to avoid competition, they migrate and hibernate. They either find a warmer climate or they eat a lot of food and sleep.
There are many types of ecosystem:
1. Oligotropic lake
2. Endrotropic lake
3. rivers and streams
4. wetlands
5. Estuary
6. Intertidal zone
7. Coral reefs
8. Deep-sea vent
9. Tropical forrest
10. Grassland
11. Desert
12. Temperate grassland
13. Temperate deciduous forrest
14. Coniferous forrest
15. Tundra
As for science classes, my favorite way of learning is the opposite of language classes methods. I love science lectures! For me, by listening to a lecture in science class we can get more precise knowledge, because i think science is a study which requires accuracy, like math. Not only in biology, but in every branch of science too!
(p.s I LOVE chemistry and anatomy physiology lectures as well HAHA)
Ecology is a branch of biology which studies about living and non-living organisms, their environment and how they interact in the environment.
Levels of organisation:
cells -- tissue -- organ -- organ system -- organism -- population -- community -- ecosystem -- biosphere
What is an ecosystem? Ecosystem is an interacting system that consists of groups of organisms and their non living organisms in a boundary. the boundaries are weather, water, climate, shelter/home, and food.
Biosphere? A region on earth, in which life appears
Environment - Made out of living things and non living things.
(Biotic - Things that was or is living)
(Abiotic - Things that is or was never living)
Inside an ecosystem, the animals has a niche. For example: the niche is to become the prey or predator.
It gives the animals purpose. Sometimes the border of the animals overlap, they need to compromise and co-exist. They can co exist by changing their sleeping schedule (nocturnal, doctrinal, and repusular). So, to avoid competition, they migrate and hibernate. They either find a warmer climate or they eat a lot of food and sleep.
There are many types of ecosystem:
1. Oligotropic lake
2. Endrotropic lake
3. rivers and streams
4. wetlands
5. Estuary
6. Intertidal zone
7. Coral reefs
8. Deep-sea vent
9. Tropical forrest
10. Grassland
11. Desert
12. Temperate grassland
13. Temperate deciduous forrest
14. Coniferous forrest
15. Tundra
As for science classes, my favorite way of learning is the opposite of language classes methods. I love science lectures! For me, by listening to a lecture in science class we can get more precise knowledge, because i think science is a study which requires accuracy, like math. Not only in biology, but in every branch of science too!
(p.s I LOVE chemistry and anatomy physiology lectures as well HAHA)
JANuary 19th 2015
english:
Today we learned about FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE.
Literally: Exactly have defined
The jacket is blue
Figurative: Have to think for the meaning
Dont worry, I've got your back!
Simile is a comparison using connecting words such as like or as or others
E.g her hair smells as bad as a one week old unwashed socks
Metaphor is a comparison of two things without like or as
E.g She is a rose. Beautiful, but could harm you if touched indelicately
Personification is giving human traits to object or ideas
E.g The leaves are dancing in the wind
Hyperbole is exaggerating!!
E.g I am so hungry, I could I eat a horse
Understatement is the Opposite of hyperbole, less strength
E.g I will see you in a second
Onomatopoeia is using words to explain sound
E.g Click! Tick tock! Clash! Boom!
Idiom: Don't take the statement literally
Pun: Word play that has double meaning
Proverb: A figurative saying in which a bit of wisdom is given
An apple a day keep the doctors away
Oxymoron: contracting words
Happy tears, pretty ugly
I liked this lesson because not only we listen to Mr. Rob's explanation, but we also played a game! I liked the figurative language jeopardy game, because its fun, competitive and very beneficial for us! Therefore I find it interesting for us to play this game :) my suggestion for this class is to have the students play more interactive games like this! I guarantee you, no students will feel sleepy :D
Literally: Exactly have defined
The jacket is blue
Figurative: Have to think for the meaning
Dont worry, I've got your back!
Simile is a comparison using connecting words such as like or as or others
E.g her hair smells as bad as a one week old unwashed socks
Metaphor is a comparison of two things without like or as
E.g She is a rose. Beautiful, but could harm you if touched indelicately
Personification is giving human traits to object or ideas
E.g The leaves are dancing in the wind
Hyperbole is exaggerating!!
E.g I am so hungry, I could I eat a horse
Understatement is the Opposite of hyperbole, less strength
E.g I will see you in a second
Onomatopoeia is using words to explain sound
E.g Click! Tick tock! Clash! Boom!
Idiom: Don't take the statement literally
Pun: Word play that has double meaning
Proverb: A figurative saying in which a bit of wisdom is given
An apple a day keep the doctors away
Oxymoron: contracting words
Happy tears, pretty ugly
I liked this lesson because not only we listen to Mr. Rob's explanation, but we also played a game! I liked the figurative language jeopardy game, because its fun, competitive and very beneficial for us! Therefore I find it interesting for us to play this game :) my suggestion for this class is to have the students play more interactive games like this! I guarantee you, no students will feel sleepy :D
January 20th-23rd 2015
Biolit:
Today we were asked to continue our biology ecosystem posters and read our class novel called "the island of dr. Moreau". Me and my partner Ashley chose coral reefs to be in our poster. We did a lot of research about the food web in coral reefs. The main producer is phytoplankton. They get energy from the sun. Then, they get eaten by zooplankton, and zooplankton get eaten by little fishes and some sea sponges species. Then, the little fishes gets eaten by reef sharks!
We were told to read "the island of dr. Moreau". At first, the novel is really interesting, then in. Chapter 3 until so on, i'm starting to get confused because there are too much unfamiliar vocabularies, so i have to go back and forth from the novel pdf to dictionary to novel pdf and to the dictionary again! In the positive side, i learned a lot of new words which helps me improve in writing and speaking in english ;D
We were told to read "the island of dr. Moreau". At first, the novel is really interesting, then in. Chapter 3 until so on, i'm starting to get confused because there are too much unfamiliar vocabularies, so i have to go back and forth from the novel pdf to dictionary to novel pdf and to the dictionary again! In the positive side, i learned a lot of new words which helps me improve in writing and speaking in english ;D
January 26th 2015
ENglish:
Today Mr. Rob taught us about ROOT WORDS! Root words are very common in the english language; it can be found in almost every english word!
For today's activity, we were given a worksheet that had 5 circles in it, the middle circle had a root word and the other circles have words containing that root word. Then we had to find the definition of the root or middle circle by the other words around it. After that, each group had to choose one member that will be the expert and explain the words to the people passing us. The application we used for the definition is the visual thesaurus dictionary.
This activity is very effective for me! As you can see from my opinions in my previous posts, i love learning by doing interactive activities! Because it is much more exciting than long lectures.
For today's activity, we were given a worksheet that had 5 circles in it, the middle circle had a root word and the other circles have words containing that root word. Then we had to find the definition of the root or middle circle by the other words around it. After that, each group had to choose one member that will be the expert and explain the words to the people passing us. The application we used for the definition is the visual thesaurus dictionary.
This activity is very effective for me! As you can see from my opinions in my previous posts, i love learning by doing interactive activities! Because it is much more exciting than long lectures.
January 27th 2015
Biology:
Today we learned about the types of ecosystem and the food chain in it by listening to our friend's presentation about their chosen ecosystem with their posters.
I really enjoyed this project because i love making posters, since I'm such an artsy person! Also, this method of listening to our friends presentation is effective because we can understand better since they're using the easy everyday language!
While listening to my friends' presentation i took some notes:
Cold Desert
- The weather is cold
- The coldest temperature ever recorded is -68 Celsius
- Usually there will not be any sun and just darkness
- There are no plants and has very little rain.
Hot desert
They have less than 30 cm of rain each year.
The temperature is 40-50 Celsius at the day and 12-18 Celsius at night
The animals survive by sleeping underground, therefore most animals are burrowers. If they are not, they find shelter and find replacements of burrowing.
Tropical Rainforest
It has year around warmth an located near the equator.
It is located most in latin america and the biggest one is in the amazon.
There are 30 millions of species in the amazon and it has 50-200 inches of rain yearly.
The difference between tropical rainforest and temperate rainforest is that temperate is further up or more further down than tropical.
Coral Reef (my ecosystem)
Grown at shallow waters of the sea, it grows extremely slowly and also very endangered.
Endangered
Indonesia has big Coral reefs
Fishes lay eggs inside the corals
Savannah
It is located in the tropic grassland
It has almost no trees and mostly just grass. Therefore this is an ideal place for animals to hide or camouflage.
There are some in india, Africa and south america.
The ecosystem is almost like a desert
Tropical Dry Forrest
The average rain in the forrest is 100-140 cm of rain each year.
It could be found in Africa, Indonesia, china, and other places.
It only has one season which is dry season.
It has long leaves and thicker barks as one of the methods of adaptation.
The dominant animals are tiger of cheetah, that is in the asian place. If its american it has mountain tigers or giraffe, or other different animals.
Deciduous Forrest
- has all the four seasons and is ofter categorized as very leafy. But at the winter the leaves ill fall and will make the soil bloom more.
Swamp
- The thing that Shrek lives at. The food chain in it is the zoo planktons gets eaten by the fish, then the fish gets eaten by the crocodile. Then the crocodiles die and be eaten or decomposed.
Estuary
This is the type of ecosystem where the salt water and fresh water meets.
The food chain in the estuary is first, planktons will act as the producers. Then it gets eaten by the krill, then it gets eaten by the fish. At last the fish will be consumed by the bird. And then the cycle will repeat itself.
Rice Fields
These ecosystem grows on warm or cool humid in sub tropic climate. In this ecosystem there are so many biological components.
I really enjoyed this project because i love making posters, since I'm such an artsy person! Also, this method of listening to our friends presentation is effective because we can understand better since they're using the easy everyday language!
While listening to my friends' presentation i took some notes:
Cold Desert
- The weather is cold
- The coldest temperature ever recorded is -68 Celsius
- Usually there will not be any sun and just darkness
- There are no plants and has very little rain.
Hot desert
They have less than 30 cm of rain each year.
The temperature is 40-50 Celsius at the day and 12-18 Celsius at night
The animals survive by sleeping underground, therefore most animals are burrowers. If they are not, they find shelter and find replacements of burrowing.
Tropical Rainforest
It has year around warmth an located near the equator.
It is located most in latin america and the biggest one is in the amazon.
There are 30 millions of species in the amazon and it has 50-200 inches of rain yearly.
The difference between tropical rainforest and temperate rainforest is that temperate is further up or more further down than tropical.
Coral Reef (my ecosystem)
Grown at shallow waters of the sea, it grows extremely slowly and also very endangered.
Endangered
Indonesia has big Coral reefs
Fishes lay eggs inside the corals
Savannah
It is located in the tropic grassland
It has almost no trees and mostly just grass. Therefore this is an ideal place for animals to hide or camouflage.
There are some in india, Africa and south america.
The ecosystem is almost like a desert
Tropical Dry Forrest
The average rain in the forrest is 100-140 cm of rain each year.
It could be found in Africa, Indonesia, china, and other places.
It only has one season which is dry season.
It has long leaves and thicker barks as one of the methods of adaptation.
The dominant animals are tiger of cheetah, that is in the asian place. If its american it has mountain tigers or giraffe, or other different animals.
Deciduous Forrest
- has all the four seasons and is ofter categorized as very leafy. But at the winter the leaves ill fall and will make the soil bloom more.
Swamp
- The thing that Shrek lives at. The food chain in it is the zoo planktons gets eaten by the fish, then the fish gets eaten by the crocodile. Then the crocodiles die and be eaten or decomposed.
Estuary
This is the type of ecosystem where the salt water and fresh water meets.
The food chain in the estuary is first, planktons will act as the producers. Then it gets eaten by the krill, then it gets eaten by the fish. At last the fish will be consumed by the bird. And then the cycle will repeat itself.
Rice Fields
These ecosystem grows on warm or cool humid in sub tropic climate. In this ecosystem there are so many biological components.
January 29th 2015
English:
Today Mr. Rob asked us to continue updating our weebly! He also gave us two questions about the class novel we read this term, here are the questions:
1. How did the narrator and the other three men in the dingey help constants? Why does the narrator say its lucky that constants never reached the men in the dingey?
The narrator said its lucky for constants because he died without feeling the pain of being stranded in an island and they run out of food supplies
2. Why do the narrator and the other men in the dingy agree to draw lots? What evidence is there that the narrator is willing to go through the terrible pact?
I think the narrator does not have a choice, so he's forced to draw lots.
Mr. Rob also gave us some vocabularies for us to look up:
Dingey: A small boat propelled by oars or sails
Privations: The act of depriving someone of food or money or rights
Thwart: A cross piece spreading the gunnels of a boat
Schooner: Sailing vessels used in former times
Gunwhale: Wale at the top of the side oft he boat
Fore: Front part of a vessel
Tacking: A loose temporary sewing stich to hold layers of fabric together
Sodddened: Tonned down
1. How did the narrator and the other three men in the dingey help constants? Why does the narrator say its lucky that constants never reached the men in the dingey?
The narrator said its lucky for constants because he died without feeling the pain of being stranded in an island and they run out of food supplies
2. Why do the narrator and the other men in the dingy agree to draw lots? What evidence is there that the narrator is willing to go through the terrible pact?
I think the narrator does not have a choice, so he's forced to draw lots.
Mr. Rob also gave us some vocabularies for us to look up:
Dingey: A small boat propelled by oars or sails
Privations: The act of depriving someone of food or money or rights
Thwart: A cross piece spreading the gunnels of a boat
Schooner: Sailing vessels used in former times
Gunwhale: Wale at the top of the side oft he boat
Fore: Front part of a vessel
Tacking: A loose temporary sewing stich to hold layers of fabric together
Sodddened: Tonned down
January 30th 2015
Biology:
Today Ms. Disty told us to continue working on our proposal about our terrarium! My group chose swamp to be our ecosystem. We decided that I'm going to be the one who's in charge of bringing plants to school. So, I planned to bring a lot of mosses and ferns. Natasha is in charge to bring the terrarium. While Ren and Fariz, they're in charge to bring the animals. We planned to put some crickets and frogs in our terrarium. We're actually confused whether we should put frogs or salamander, but we decided to choose frogs because salamanders are WAY to big!
Other than working on our proposal, Ms. Disty explained us about scientific names and species in Biology, and i took some notes:
-There are 1.5 million species recorded so far
-2-100 million of species predicted to not have been classified yet.
Why should be classify? To study the diversity of life. to organise the name of organisms
Why gives scientific names? Common names are misleading (starfishes are not fishes )
CAROLUS LINNAEUS developed a system of classification
-Binomial Nomenclature, which means two naming system. The first is the genus (noun), then the species (adjectives)
RULES:
-It has to be in latin, dead language,
-Genus has to be capitalised and the species is lowercase
-The name has to be in italics of underlines
Order: kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species
Groups are based on evolution
Kingdom System:
Eubacteria - Things that makes you sick or good bacteria
Archaebacteria - Lives in harsh places, lava or the deep sea or black smokers or gyzers
fungi, mushrooms, molds, cheese?
Protista - amoeba, simple mold, pond or swamps are their source
Plantae - Plants
Animalia - Animals
Domain System: eukarya - protista / plantae / fungi / animalia
Archea - Archebateria
Bacteria - Eubacteria
Other than working on our proposal, Ms. Disty explained us about scientific names and species in Biology, and i took some notes:
-There are 1.5 million species recorded so far
-2-100 million of species predicted to not have been classified yet.
Why should be classify? To study the diversity of life. to organise the name of organisms
Why gives scientific names? Common names are misleading (starfishes are not fishes )
CAROLUS LINNAEUS developed a system of classification
-Binomial Nomenclature, which means two naming system. The first is the genus (noun), then the species (adjectives)
RULES:
-It has to be in latin, dead language,
-Genus has to be capitalised and the species is lowercase
-The name has to be in italics of underlines
Order: kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species
Groups are based on evolution
Kingdom System:
Eubacteria - Things that makes you sick or good bacteria
Archaebacteria - Lives in harsh places, lava or the deep sea or black smokers or gyzers
fungi, mushrooms, molds, cheese?
Protista - amoeba, simple mold, pond or swamps are their source
Plantae - Plants
Animalia - Animals
Domain System: eukarya - protista / plantae / fungi / animalia
Archea - Archebateria
Bacteria - Eubacteria