National Museum of Sinagapore

We went to the National museum of Singapore for our social studies unit as we are studying Singapore history.

The most interesting part of the field trip was learning about how Singapore was in the beginning and now how far it has become because Singapore is now so independent that it is hard to believe how it had once been slaved by quite a lot of countries.

Something that I didn't know before was that Singapore used to be ruled by Malaysia, China, India, and America in very different and interesting times. To show that Singapore has been slaved by those countries they have named a part of Singapore after them like India as Little India. I also didn't know that Singapore is a trading post(they deliver goods) that's why Singapore is so expensive.    

Singapore History Timeline

Genre pie challenge

Our genre pie challenge begins today and ends Friday 15th May. We have to read eight different books, each a different genre.

Our genres are: 

• fantasy or humor 
• realistic fiction
• historical fiction or classic 
• award winning
• free choice
• non fiction
• poetry
• double genre 

My strategy to achieve will be to read the genres I don't like as much and have more pages than others first.  

Social studies

A primary source is an original copy of the artifact or text. It is a first - hand account which is used as building blocks to create stories from the past. If they are reporting something the reporter has to be in the time - frame or saw, was there, when the event took place.

A secondary source is an artifact or text that has been edited or thoughts of another person have been added. Secondary items are made after the primary source. Secondary sources have been evaluated.

This is important for me to know because I can now tell if I'm reading an original copy of a book or am reading an edited version. I also need to know primary sources and secondary sources for the social studies museum(need to know the difference)

Semester 2

Last semester I was fantastic at participating because I tried to give my input when needed.

This semester I will be fantastic at doing my quick check faster

My focus will be my goals till March. I will plan my writing for my writing log everytime. I will do my typing training every week for 40 minutes instead of 30 minutes. 

Hour of code

I completed my hour of code of light bot. To prove it I'm gonna show you my certificate

Genre Pizza Challenge

This semester Ms.H set us a challenge to read 8 different genres. We had four months to complete the challenge. The genres we had to read were:

• Realistic Fiction - Wonder by R.J Palacio
• Historical Fiction - Anne of Green Gables by M.Mont Gomery
• Science Fiction - Wrinkle in time by Madeleine L'Engle
• Fantasy - Charlie bone and the time twister by Jenny Nimmo
• Biography - The diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank
• Mystery - Kidnapped #2( The search ) by Gordon Korman
• Non - fiction - Praire dogs 
• Action/Adventure - Kidnapped #1( The abduction ) by Gordon Korman

The thing I liked the best about this challenge was exploring new genres because I like to find out new books.

A new genre I found interesting was Science fiction because Wrinkle in Time was a very good book.

Next time I would try to finish first.

I enjoyed everything as all the books that I read I liked and enjoyed.