Video Credit: FRESBERG Educational Cartoon Videos

Hi there!

While researching about my Social Studies project on African countries' economy, I came across this very interesting FRESBERG Educational Cartoon Videos Channel.

In one of the video, it has addressed unemployment whereLee (a child) finds out his dad might lose his job & Mr. Earl (an elder) talks to him about kids and how they can help their parents during these tough times.

It is really educational watching videos on this channel. 

Please share with me in the comment section below if you have subscribed to any such educational channel.

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Blog Post Credit: Mai Thao

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​How do you make a perfect essay? Having good ideas of course but a pile of ideas jumbled together can’t make a great essay. That’s why you need a mind map.
 
We use to draw our mind map on paper which sometimes used to be really messy if you were to write essay almost every day like me. Then our teacher introduced to us Coggle.

What is Coggle? Well, Coggle is an online application that allows you to make mind maps and save them on cloud.

To sign up just fill in your email, name, birth date… simple right?
 
Then login and it is very easy to use after a few minutes of clicking randomly.
 
But here is how to use it if you don’t want to waste your time.
 
To create a new mind map click on the “Create Diagram” on the top left of the screen.
 
Then put in your title.
 
Drag your cursor on the title box and click on the plus sign. One branch will appear.
 
To change color, you click on the branch. You can even change the font, size and color of the text.
 
If you are using an iPad you can even put emoji in it.
 
This is the 21st century. Almost everything is done in computer now.
 
There are even applications to make a timeline or design your own avatar.
 
Check out the link below that will bring you straight to Coggle home page.
https://coggle.it/

Blog Post Credit: Lois

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     Hello and welcome back to my post.

    This week’s activity is to go to other blogs and answer the questions that the author left. There is this one post from Lois that is about health and we all know that health is very important, you can’t do anything if you don’t have good health.

   The question from the author is “Should the government invest more in environmental protection?”

     My answer is yes. Earth is facing lots of problems like pollution, climate change and natural resources disappearing. This is all because of us, so our leaders should be using their power to reduce it.

      Do you know that globally, 9 million people died in 2015 due to air pollution.

     Governments should protect their citizens from diseases and give them clean water, fresh air and none toxic food to eat. Just imagine your vegetables are being planted in bad soil and with dirty water. You could get lots of sickness if you eat those plants.

    In conclusion, we should vote for people who will protect us and give us benefit to be our government. That means they have to use their power to protect the environment we are in.

      Comment down below what do you think!

      Credit: http://www.independent.co.uk/

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     Should schools have uniform or not? It has been a topic of debate in schools everywhere. We also had a class debate on this topic a few days back. The points I presented in favor of the topic are listed below:
      
​     In my opinion I think schools should have uniform and there are lots of reasons for that.

     Uniforms help students get easily recognized.

    They keep students stay focused on their education not their clothes.

    They enhances school pride, unity and community spirit.

    They help you keep more disciplined.

    They help you get ready for school fast in the morning.

    They help you get spotted easily in outside school tours.
   
    And they also help you save money that you will be spending on buying clothes for school every other month.

    To those who say 'No' to uniforms, I would say that school uniforms reduce peer pressure and bullying and they also help parents save time and money. How? You will be spending a lot of time on buying presentable (or expensive) clothes. Of course everybody wants to look nice, so you will be dressing yourself the best way you can. But for poor kids who can’t afford nice clothes, they will get bullied wearing the same outfit again and again. While uniforms look all the same. Also you won’t waste your time, energy, and money going for school clothes shopping. You just need to buy two-three pairs of uniforms and you’re good for the rest of the year. There are even some schools that give you free uniforms.
   
     To those who say that it takes away students' right to free expression, I would say that you can express yourself through many other ways like your personality traits.

    In conclusion I would say, I prefer uniform.They are comfortable, inexpensive and easy to wear. You can just show off your wardrobe after school if you want. 

     Please comment what do you guys think.

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    You might be confused what is this language up there. Well this is a Vietnamese poem/song kids sing while playing a game called ‘O An Quan (O Anh Whan).’ 'O An Quan' is a Vietnamese traditional game that I play with my friends.

     No one knows who invented 'O An Quan'. We only know that it is inspired by a game called Mancala which was believed to be originated in Sumeria a part of Mesopotamia (now known as Iraq.) But O An Quan is smaller and easier to carry, this game was to be played on rice fields when farmers were having their break. These days kid everywhere play it.

     Rules of 'O An Quan' are very simple. There are two player needed for the game. The board is on the picture above and on each square there would be five beads. The two players will do rock paper scissors and the winner will go first. He/she will pick up the beads in any squares on their side and drop the beads in one direction (drop one bead for each square) until there is no more bead left. If next to the last place you drop is another square with beads on it then take those beads and go just like how I mentioned. If next to you is the semicircle then it will be the next player's turn. If next to you is an empty box then tap that box and take all the beads in the next box out of the game because it is yours now. The game will end when the two rulers get eaten. You will get all the beads on your side of the board and start counting all of them. Be sure that one bead equals one point and the ruler is equal to ten points.

     I promise you, when you get the hang of it, you will love it! Since this is a Vietnamese game you may not find it in shops but you can make it yourself by cutting a piece of paper into a board and use pebbles to play. In my point of view 'O An Quan' is easy to learn, no need for lots of players, but you can have loads of fun.

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     There is one question I always ask myself. Does a principal have a hard job? It seems easy to me because keeping a school disciplined with a bunch of teachers helping doesn’t look very hard right? Here is how I imagined my school would be if I were the principal.

     I think snack times are not important because it is just 1 hour and 30 minutes after you had breakfast. I will reduce the 20 minutes time we have for snack to 10 minutes and give an extra 30 minutes for lunch time. My normal lunch time is from 11:45 am to 12:45 pm which is too less for me and some other people because some people think lunch time is for playing with friends. Sometimes I see kids eat their lunch in 5 minutes and run to our school’s pavilion to play soccer. All of us know rushing yourself to eat is an unhealthy thing to do.

     I would make Friday an optional no uniform day but of course with a dress code. Like sleeve shirts and knee length pants. For the artistic students, I will open an art club where student would think of art projects to make the school look nicer. I will not let the students wear accessories like earrings and rings, no cell phones either because the students who don’t have these things will feel embarrassed and shy.

     I would let school start at 8:30 because for a night owl students like me, it is very hard to focus in class when you are still feeling sleepy. Certainly the school hours will be from 8:30 to 3:15 not 2:45. I would assign more responsibility to the students by making them clean their own classrooms. Every month I will come to each classroom and teach for one class period.
     
     I will have to be a strict principal if I want the students to respect everyone but I am pretty sure I will turn the school into a chaos if I become a principal right away. I guess I shall finish the required qualification first and get some experience.

      What is your opinion? Please write i the comment section below.

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