A Class Act

Last Day of School

2007-11-15T15:15:00.000+08:00

Hey 5B(2007)!

Today is the last day of school. Wish you people luck for next year(PSLE)! And, by the way, Miss Lam, can we don't delete this blog? Please?

To Vanessa: Hey, Vanessa. I'm trying to make the story funny!!

Wen Lin

"Misunderstanding"

2007-11-07T18:21:00.000+08:00

Hey all.
You must be wondering what i mean by "misunderstanding". Well. If you would proceed on to read Wenlin's last post (Ghost Story 2 - The Grand Piano) , you'll get what i mean. Wenlin added some parts, like the "Vinegar Factory".

For the original story, comment so and i'll get my friend to tell me the whole story over again and i'll post it here word for word (LOL!).

Okay...
CYA!

Vanessa

Ghost Story 2 - The Grand Piano

2007-11-01T15:12:00.000+08:00

This is a ghost story which Vanessa told me, when Miss Lam didn't come... Pretty creepy! Only the four of us(Karen, Vanessa, Vivian and me!) at the back of the class!

Do not blame me if you have a phobia for piano after reading this story!

There was this couple. The woman was not able to be pregnant. One day, they ***. Surprising, the woman got pregnant. Nine months later, she give birth to a beautiful girl. She used to be sweet and kind. But as she grown up, she started to turn bad and proud.

One day, the couple *** again. And opps! The dad forgot to put on a con***! BOOM! The woman was pregnant again! Once again, she gave birth to this girl who was much more beautiful than the first child. All the troubles started... The first child was jealous. Very jealous. So jealous that the "vinegar" she "ate" was able to open a vinegar factory.

The second child had piano lesson when she was 5 years-old. Amazing, she was able to sing the exact key. Like "Do", she was able to sing "Do" perfectly. As she loved to play the piano,she plays it every single day. The first child hated the sound of the piano. So, one night, she sneaked out of her room and play the piano loudly. Just before their parents opened the door, the first child ran back to the room. When their parents went to the living room, they didn't see anyone playing the piano. They didn't care because they thought they having the same dream where someone was playing the piano loudly. As if they were sleepwalking, they went back to their room. The first child played the piano for the second time that night but their parents were too tired to go out of their room again to see who was playing the piano. The piano was spoiled by the first child. When their parents realised it, they kept the grand piano in the store room and they bought a new piano for the second child.

One day, their parents went for a holiday. As usual, the second child played the piano(the new one). Slowly, the first child went up to the second child and killed her. The first child hid the second child's head into the grand piano and hid the body somewhere else. When "their" parents came back from their holiday, they realised that the second child was gone. They ask the first child but she said she did not know where she went to too.

As the second child was gone, they decided to keep the grand piano. One day, the mother went to see the grand piano. (Remember! The grand piano was spoiled!) She pressed one key. "Do"

"It sounds like mei mei's voice,"the mother thought. She pressed that key again. "Do" She decided to call her hubby(haha) to hear. Her hubby pressed one key. "Ti" He pressed other key. "La"

Then he pressed another key. "Jie Jie killed me". He was shocked. He decided to try again. "Jie Jie killed me"

The End

Posted by Wen Lin

Ghost Story - The left eye is black

2007-10-23T13:56:00.000+08:00

Guys and girls,

I thought that maybe you people will like to read a ghost story... Well, this ghost story is similar to the ghost story Miss Lam told us, the lady whose eyes are red.

Attention: Please do not read if you are already scared of the ghost story Miss Lam told us.

Here is the story:

There was a man. He was a broke man. One day, he went for a holiday. His first holiday in his whole life. As he was broke, he stay in a "zero star" hotel. No fresh water, dirty washroom and bed with perspire smell and a hole in the wall that is able to see the room beside his. On the first night, he slept soundly until 12 midnight sharp. When midnight stroked, "someone" from the room beside his showered. That someone stop showering when it was 1 am sharp. As he was curious, he went to the hole and see through it. He saw nothing as it was all black. The second night, the same thing happened. He see through the hole again, but, again, he was nothing as it was all black. The next day, he woke up earlier than normal. He decided to ask the manager what is going on.

"Oh! You mean that room beside yours? About 3 years ago, someone was killed inside. Man, that person was cruel... After killing that person, he cut the head off. He put the body on the bed, while he tied the head to a string and hung it on the celling, the head facing the room you're staying. He dug a hole in the wall... so that the head could see what was happening to your room. The weird thing is, the left eye of that dead person is black," the manager said.

The man then realised that for the past two days, he had been looking directly into that dead person's left eye.

Posted by Wen Lin

19 Sept 2007

2007-09-19T07:59:00.000+08:00

Please do MPH Unit 10 worksheet 1, mcq only.

Congrats Teen Fong and Kai Wei!

2007-08-27T16:52:00.000+08:00

Dear Students,

A piece of good news - Teen Fong and Kai Wei got a -high- distinction award and a distinction award respectively for the New South Wales Science Paper!

Do congratulate them and give them a pat on their backs!

Miss Dawn Lam

Unit 9 Worksheets

2007-08-14T17:25:00.000+08:00

Dear students,

Please finish up the entire set of Unit 9 worksheets, except for the last 2 pages due to a printing error.

Thanks and have a nice day.

Ms. Lam

help her

2007-06-27T21:12:00.000+08:00

Where are you???!!!

2007-06-27T08:09:00.000+08:00

Where are you,Miss Lam??????????????????

Wad should we do??

why didn't you post?

the blog team

I am that person meme

2007-03-30T08:50:00.000+08:00

Dear students,

Remember when I got you to write the "I am that girl/boy" exercise in your journals? It was actually an idea I got from a few personal blogs here and there. Here are some samples I would like you to read, that I got from these personal blogs.

"I am the girl who love animals yet eats meat. I am the girl who love trees yet uses paper. I am the girl who loves the rain yet uses an umbrella."

"I am the child that lingered behind after church on friday afternoons, wanting to see if god came down to accept the donations. I am the child who passed by 'toyland' and glanced longingly at the puppy doll in the corner. I am that same girl who cried when it dissappeared."

"I am the girl who is a crybaby and goes to bed each night hoping that tomorrow would be a better day."

"I'm that quiet guy that leaves his room door open, in the hope that someone will stop and talk to him. I'm that guy who replies "I donno" with a smile when asked how it's going. No one figures that it means I'm down."

"I'm that shy little boy, who followed the popular kids around from a distance so that I might learn their secrets and be popular too."

"I was the girl who tried hard not to care what other people thought, but the tears made it obvious that I failed."

"I was the student that was much liked by teachers and this never sat too well with my school mates"

"I'm the girl who forgives but never forgets, and once you hurt her so badly, the trust is broken and can never again be retrieved."

Who are you?

Here's one from me:

"I am the girl whom you called an emotional weakling because I cried when a caged kitten reached out to me. I'm the girl you called obssessed when I wrote letters endlessly to authorities about animal rights and human irrationality."

Do contribute if you would like to.

Miss Dawn Lam

The Guillotine

2007-03-28T19:43:00.000+08:00

Hey guys
This is the illustrated form of The Guillotine:

Vanessa

2007-03-27T12:00:00.000+08:00

These are some links to articles on the French Revolution (which I told you about last Wed):

The Guillotine

Marie Antoinette

The French Revolution

Interesting Story

I'll reward a star to groups who can tell me what the very famous misquotation that that Marie Antoinette said was. (Tell me when I return to school on Thursday)

*mis-quotation - a well-known phrase attributed to someone who, in fact, did not say it.

Yours, in pursuit of greater knowledge,
Miss Dawn Lam

2007-03-27T11:44:00.000+08:00

Dear Students,

I've got a rather serious eye infection and will return on Thursday. In the meantime, I would like all of you to make sure that you've got your blood group type verified by then. Also, bring your diagnostic test with you - we'll go through the comprehension OE on Thursday so you can complete your corrections.

Missing all of you,
Miss Dawn Lam

The Egyptian Princess and the Mummy

2007-03-20T14:32:00.000+08:00

2007-02-20T12:05:00.000+08:00

Dear Students,

I got this story from an email from Mr Lam and would like to share it with you. Think about these questions before you read it:

- Have you ever told a lie?
- If your parents did what the writer's father did, would it have worked on you?

Do share personal experiences(about lessons your parents have taught you) in the "comments" section if you can.

Dr. Arun Gandhi, grandson of Mahatma Gandhi and
founder of the M.K.Gandhi Institute for Non-violence,
in his June 9 lecture at the University of Puerto Rico
shared the following story:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I was 16 years old and living with my parents at the
institute my grandfather had founded 18 miles outside
of Durban, South Africa, in the middle of the
sugar plantations. We were deep in the country and had
no neighbors, so my two sisters and I would always
look forward to going to town to visit friends or go
to the movies.

One day, my father asked me to drive him to town for
an all-day conference, and I jumped at the chance.
Since I was going to town, my mother gave me a list of
groceries she needed and, since I had all day in town,
my father asked me to take care of several pending
chores, such as getting the car serviced.

When I dropped my father off that morning, he said, "I
will meet you here at 5:00 p.m., and we will go home
together."

After hurriedly completing my chores, I went straight
to the nearest movie theatre. I got so engrossed in a
John Wayne double-feature that I forgot the time. It
was 5:30 before I remembered. By
the time I ran to the garage and got the car and
hurried to where my father was waiting for me, it was
almost 6:00.

He anxiously asked me, "Why were you late?"

I was so ashamed of telling him I was watching a John
Wayne western movie that I said, "The car wasn't
ready, so I had to wait," not realizing that he had
already called the garage.

When he caught me in the lie, he said: "There's
something wrong in the way I brought you up that
didn't give you the confidence to tell me the truth.
In order to figure out where I went wrong with you,
I'm going to walk home 18 miles and think about it."

So, dressed in his suit and dress shoes, he began to
walk home in the dark on mostly unpaved, unlit roads.

I couldn't leave him, so for five-and-a-half hours I
drove behind him, watching my father go through this
agony for a stupid lie that I uttered. I decided then
and there that I was never going to lie again.

I often think about that episode and wonder, if he
had punished me the way we punish our children,
whether I would have learned a lesson at all. I don't
think so. I would have suffered the punishment and
gone on doing the same thing. But this single
non-violent action was so powerful that it is still as
if it happened yesterday.

That is the power of non-violence.

Miss Lam

A nice picture

2007-02-14T17:48:00.000+08:00

Miss Dawn Lam

13th February

2007-02-12T17:39:00.000+08:00

Dear 5B,

I have left instructions for my relief teacher for the things you need to do in class tomorrow (13/2). Here are your instructions:

You will get:
1) A set of "reported speech" worksheets with notes which you will finish in class. After you finish the worksheets, please get the teacher to go through the answers and peer-mark it with your green pen. Finish your corrections in green and hand it in back to the teacher. If you have any questions, you can ask me on Wednesday.

2) Your spelling exercise books - finish your corrections and get your parents to sign on the latest spelling. Spelling will be on Thursday as usual - no test. Claim your stars on wednesday from me if your have three or more members in your group with full marks.

Thank you.

Yours,
Miss Lam

2007-02-12T16:44:00.000+08:00

Heyya dudes and dudettes!
We have decided not to have a leader in the blog team. So the post that Vivian posted previously... well don't care bout it! =) hahas. Anyway, have fun with this blog! If you have any queries, feel free to ask us through the tagboard. By the way, the tagboard is NOT FOR CHATTING. We hope you will understand. One more thing... do not use vulgarities!

Very very very sincerely,
The Blog Team ( vanessa, vivian, wen lin ).

Should the Tagboard go?

2007-02-12T14:50:00.000+08:00

I have just received a report from the blog team about people abusing the tagboard and using profanities (spelt in an alternate manner - because there is a language filter). While I like the idea of having a tagboard, I have an intense aversion to others (or even our own students!) abusing this blog or "polluting" it with profanities.

I have decided to do a little poll - to keep the tagboard or not? Students of 5B, please vote. This is your blog, after all.

You may leave comments about your decision.

Miss Dawn Lam

An Interesting Story

2007-02-08T10:32:00.000+08:00

Students, this is an interesting story - give it a read.

A man and his dog were walking along a road. The man was enjoying the scenery, when it suddenly occurred to him that he was dead.

He remembered dying, and that the dog walking beside him had been dead for years. He wondered where the road was leading them.

After a while, they came to a high, white stone wall along one side of the road. It looked like fine marble. At the top of a long hill, it was broken by a tall arch that glowed in the sunlight.

When he was standing before it he saw a magnificent gate in the arch that looked like mother-of-pearl,and the street that led to the gate looked like pure gold. He and the dog walked toward the gate, and as he got closer, he saw a man at a desk to one side.

When he was close enough, he called out, “Excuse me, where are we?”

“This is Heaven, sir,” the man answered.

“Wow! Would you happen to have some water?” the man asked.

“Of course, sir. Come right in, and I’ll have some ice water brought right up.”

The man gestured, and the gate began to open.

“Can my friend,” gesturing toward his dog, “come in, too?” the traveler asked.

“I’m sorry, sir, but we don’t accept pets.”

The man thought a moment and then turned back toward the road and continued the way he had been going with his dog.

After another long walk, and at the top of another long hill, he came to a dirt road leading through a farm gate that looked as if it had never been closed. There was no fence.

As he approached the gate, he saw a man inside, leaning against a tree and reading a book.

“Excuse me!” he called to the man. “Do you have any water?”

“Yes, there’s a pump over there.”

“How about my friend here?” the traveler gestured to the dog.

“There should be a bowl by the pump.”

They went through the gate, and sure enough, there was an old-fashioned hand pump with a bowl beside it.

The traveler filled the water bowl and took a long drink himself, then he gave some to the dog.

When they were full, he and the dog walked back toward the man who was standing by the tree.

“What do you call this place?” the traveler asked.

“This is Heaven,” he answered.

“Well, that’s confusing,” the traveler said. “The man down the road said that was Heaven, too.”

“Oh, you mean the place with the gold street and pearly gates? Nope. That’s hell.”

“Doesn’t it make you mad for them to use your name like that?”

“No, we’re just happy that they screen out the folks who would leave their best friends behind.”

Miss Dawn Lam

The double water bottle loss

2007-02-07T13:39:00.000+08:00

Hi, good afternoon.

I want to tell everyone about a strange thing that happened last week. I wanted to write this in my journal at first but now, I can write it in the class blog so that Miss Lam will not scold me for writing entries that are not needed in the journal.

Last week, on Monday, I had lost my water bottle. I could have sworn that I had put it in the water bottle holder of my bag. I went to the lost-and-found tabe which is located outside the canteen the following day but it was not there. I decided to give up. But the following day, which was a Wednesday, alas! my new replacement water bottle was missing! And I could'nt find it the next day at the lost-and-found table! Either I was too careless, or a sneaky thief is lurking somewhere.

He is not going to get away on his third attempt, I swear it!

Teen Fong

Class Blog Rules

2007-02-06T22:00:00.000+08:00

Dear students,

I'm glad the idea of having a class blog is so warmly received. However, in all your excitement, some might have forgotten what I told you earlier today in class. So here's a gentle reminder of the class blog rules:

Rules

1)No anonymous posts are allowed. (And for this reason, I've deleted the previous "Hello" post)
2)No slants against anybody please. (that means your classmates, friends, anybody)
3)Remember that you (5B) are not the only people reading the blog - be careful with what you say.
4)Please do not edit or delete posts - leave it to the blog team. You are only to post, that is, if you have anything to say.

Thank you,
Miss Dawn Lam

The Blog Team

2007-02-06T09:04:00.000+08:00

These are the students who will be in charge of maintaining the blog:

Vanessa (Leader)
Vivian
Wen Lin

Miss Lam

2007-02-05T14:32:00.000+08:00

Dear students of 5B and all,

Salutations!

Welcome to the class blog of 5B!

This blog was created by myself, and maintained by the blog team, in order to make learning for my students more fun and meaningful. The internet is a huge, huge bank of information and knowledge and I believe that besides research, within it lies many valuable lessons that students can learn.

Here, you'll find posts by and for students of 5B. There are useful links that I've provided in the sidebar, which I will keep updating over time. There is also a "Class Action Suit" tagboard which I've added for students who have problems/complains/issues/anything that they might want to address/share with the class and everybody.

Have a nice time surfing this blog!

Miss Dawn Lam