2015-2016 – Page 3

April 5, 2016

Khan Academy

Liger students is using Khan Academy about two years already and this the useful website that help us to improve our math, teach us new lessons and good for practice. Now I working on Algebra I and my percentage is 18%. It’s hard for me to do some exercises because as my percentage gets higher and higher things get harder. Also this year 2016 in April in math class have an event that if we increase the percentage that percent will turn into points for the auction.
First I’m only have ten percents but I’m having 18 percents so I’m eight percents increased. If you want to improve your math, learn new things and needs more practice to KHAN!
www.khanacademy.org

April 5, 2016

One morning I woke up, and to my surprize…

One morning I woke up, and to my surprize I saw one of the beautiful sunlight shining to my room. Then I went down stair to cook my breakfast. I ate egg with bread and it’s my usual breakfast that I ate everyday. After that I went to prepare my school supply with my father and my two little sisters. We rode the car and sang to each other even there was no music. When I came to school all of my friends were standing to respect the flag. I was late today because of too much fun on the way, but now I’m at school. “Hi! Nary, how are you?” I said. “I am good, and you?” Nary asked. After that I just replied back to her. Many people had fun at school. Oh! That day is the most fun. We all talked and talked about our weekend at school. Finally Dalin came to me and asked “Did you play minecraft yesterday?”. “Oh! I have been play minecraft yesterday, It was fun and a lot of yelling!” I replied back. And then Dalin said “Do you have homework on the weekend”. “Oh no! I forget to do my homework Dalin, what should I do” I replied with an anxious voice. “I think you should talk to our teacher” Dalin said. I replied in a low voice “okay I will try”. In a class Jeff asked for homework shit everyone took it for him except one student, Venghour. Jeff asked me “Jeff said Where is your homework sheets?’ Then I said I forget to do my home work. Then it ok it not a big problem but neek time if someone forget to do homework. At the end of school we went to our activities and I had a lot of fun because Jeff said it was ok when I did not done my homework sheets. But I needed to finish my homework sheets and I will give him tomorrow. Then I went back to my house.

April 5, 2016

Unusual Spiritualism in Cambodia

Hello! This is the fourth exploration of this year and I’m so excited that we’re going to make another episode of podcast about this exploration. Do you think that yourself believe in ghost!? I think ghosts are creepy but never mind. This exploration called Unusual Spiritualism in Cambodia. My feeling kind of scare when I study our this exploration. So this exploration is hardly and stickily on spirits in Cambodia. In our team had been discovered a lot of spirits that we had been know so we can go outside to interview people about those spirits and SUPERSTITION! You know what in Cambodian we believe a ton of superstition in those different places and here are some of the superstition we know:
1. If there is a three-color cat coming to live in your house, you will have good luck.
2. If you dream about snake biting you, then you will have someone love you and want to get married with you.
3. Don’t let the black cat walk over the dead body, or the soul of that dead person will walk around and hunt others.

About our podcast we use the program called Audacity because we can edit detaily on the audio that we need to edit. Also to get this episode established we need to find all the information by going on our trip. So we went to Kampong Cham, Kampong Speu, Kep, Kampot and Sihanouk Ville. We interview many different people to get all the information. Now Cambodia believing are mixed of the Animism, Buddhism and Brahmanism. Go back to the first century Cambodia is believing in Animism but there’re indian came in so involving with Brahmanism and Buddhism and the Angkor Wat is builded up to dedicate to Vishnu, the goddess. For superstition is happening in different places like at the sea, forest, home, etc. All the Animism, Buddhism, and Brahmanism we got it from the Lecturer of Asian Study. We interviewed hi with lots of questions and he’s an american but he married to Cambodian woman, also he speaks Khmer very well.

After we went back from our trip we upload all the audios and transcribed it, split the audios for our podcast and then we made our podcast: ligercast.ligercambodiablog.org. Go to listen now to know about all the unique believes in Cambodia!

April 5, 2016

Humans of Cambodia (HOC)

This is the exploration that I feel like I get to know and understand about Cambodia nation’s life looks like. Our group comes up a name called Human of Cambodia (HOC). This exploration is mostly focus on Cambodian life by going outside in different places around Cambodia to interview all those people about how their lives going and their personalities. We come up with this idea by on website called Humans of New York (HONY) and you go to visit that page by this website humansofnewyork.com. In this class the whole class needs to know the technique of taking the pictures for first of all by our first practice is shooting our friends with different themes. For myself I love to shoot photograph because I can be an expert of it in one day. We learn all the technique of interviewing by this man, Brandon Stanton who is the owner of HONY. For the first start of our exploration we start to write our own creative story which just posted before.

And here are the techniques of what questions we should ask?
Ask about the person’s action
Specific actions and habits NOT beliefs
Ask “forward” questions
(What keeps you up at night?) specific- (What’s going to keep you up tonight after this interview?)
forward question is talking about the future
Ask open-ended questions
can answer with YES and NO.
HOW or DESCRIBE
Ask dumb questions
If you don’t know what they saying just ask for “CLARIFICATION!!!!!”
Confused = ASK!
Ask pointed questions and light-hearted questions
controversial – lots of debate
light-hearted – funny, something random, brainless
Ask short questions and then follow up
ask something really short and then follow up

In our exploration working so hard on transcribing the audios that we had been interviewing from Khmer to english. For me sometimes it’s hard for to transcribe because I need to transcribe it exactly word by word so we can’t change the speech of the people saying. When we transcribe we don’t have to transcribe the whole this we need to listen and choose the best part of it. Sometimes when I listen to the audio I felt so happy because it’s funny but sometimes it’s normal. One of my big challenge in this exploration is when I go to interview people it’s hard for me approach them but I always think of the techniques that I learn. Our website is in two languages because we want it to balance and we can let all the Cambodians read it and foreigners too.

Here are the techniques to approach people:
energy you are giving off – non – threatening

escalating levels of intimacy

standing alone (it will be more likely to approach someone who alone)

broad? (broad to personal ex. to be optimistic)
→ He wants personal story

ask about moments (most success, most is specific -sadness, happy…)

if it makes you laugh
→ If it makes him laugh he puts on the blog.

We also follow the process how to get things done faster because we have many audios to work on so this is the process: 1. Choose the audio
2. Transcribe (English and Khmer) & Choose the best part
3. Check english with english facilitator
4. Check Khmer with Khmer facilitator
5. Choose the picture of the interviewee
6. Send it to Website Editor
7. Post it on the Website

During we interview we can’t just taking the picture as we want. We need to ask the permission from them and we need to ask them can we post in the website so it’s public. Go to our Websit NOW! To know about all Cambodians lives: humansofcambodia.ligercambodiablog.org

Here the example of our works:

តើនៅក្នុងជីវិតបងមានរឿងអ្វីដែលពិបាកចិត្តជាងគេ?
ក្នុងជីវិតបងអ្វីដែលពិបាកចិត្តជាងគេ គឺពេលដែលបងមានមិត្តភ័ក្តអត់ស្មោះត្រង់នឹងបង ។
ពេលខ្លះគាត់អត់និយាយស្មោះត្រងនិងស្អប់បង គាត់មានរឿងអីគាត់លាក់បង ប៉ុន្តែពេលបងមាន
អីចែករំលែកដល់គាត់ បងអត់លាក់គាត់ទេ បងផ្តល់ភាពស្មោះត្រង់ឲ្យគាត់តែគាត់អត់ផ្តល់ភាព
ស្មោះត្រង់ឲ្យបង។
“What is the saddest time in your life?”
“The saddest time in my life (is) when I have friends who do not (show) integrity to me. Sometimes they don’t talk the truth and they hate me; when they have something, (they) always hide, but when I have something, I always share with them. I don’t try to hide from them, I give them a faithful, but they don’t give me a faithful.”

April 4, 2016

Hidden Voices Exploration

This is the first exploration of the fourth year in my school and this exploration called Hidden Voices. This is the most favorite exploration that I’ve ever had because it’s about Cambodian Singers and all the endangered songs in Cambodia that our next generation needs to preserve and it’s threatening to live this world. Our goals in this exploration are trying to collect many songs as we can by contact to some people on phone, went outside to interview all the people. In my exploration we have three facilitators are our Khmer teacher, sophorn and our foreign teachers, Rich and Trish. All these three main teachers always help us to get everything done and help us to get everything in place. Our exploration had a trip to different provinces in Cambodia to discover all that endangered songs by interviewing people there. We went to Phnom Penh,
Kampong Spue and Mondulkiri. Also we aren’t just trying to get our old Cambodian songs we want to save the traditional Phnong musics and dances. So we went to Mondulkiri to see the show of the Phnong singing and dancing and record some of them talking about how all of their tradition arts important to them. During our trip we met a lot of people that gave us the precious songs and some of them we never heard before. At the end of our exploration we came up a product is Podcast. We created a podcast for our Hidden Voices exploration and it’s the first episode of our school. Our group worked so hard in the process to make this podcast. We transcribe all the Khmer audios into english. In our podcast we have two hosts, producers and the interviewees. My friend, Dalin and I are the main host in the podcast. Trish, our facilitator gave us a great opportunity to perform the songs that we have in Hidden Voices exploration to audience at Luna. I feel very excited and proud of my group because we can share all of our endangered songs to others. After that we have a sharation and we can share all the information to the visitors that came to our school.

You can listen to our Podcast by ligercast.ligercambodiablog.org and visit my host, Dalin by dalin.ligercambodiablog.org.

February 16, 2016

Artist of Cambodia Description

Exploration Name: Artist of Cambodia
Exploration Dates: January 8 – September 28
Number of students: 5 students
Essential Questions: 1. What is ART?
2. Why ART is important to Cambodia?
3. How ART can make Cambodia develop?
4. How to use art in a business?

Description: Artist of Cambodia is an exploration that the students need to create your own exploration as known as CYOE. Sovannary, Sythong, Vornsar, Sokea and I create this exploration and the ideas up. Our exploration also collaborate with other create your own explorations too such as: Khmer Interior Design Exploration and Robots Exploration. Why we collaborate with them because both of these explorations are focus about recycling stuff. So our main ideas in our exploration are try to create a lot of recycling products. Our goal is to change Cambodian perspective by showing them our products through having a trip with different places. We had a campaign near the market because we want to show what our exploration is doing, also we feel strongly to change Cambodian perspective to see how trash recycles into the useful products. For the first time we arrived the market we set the table full of the our products and there weren’t a lot of people come to us. Then we start to execute our plan by holding our products and talk to people. At that time it was hard but we try our best. Also we had the plan that we collaborate with the villager near our campus that every weeks we collected the dry wastes from them and they need to pack the wastes for us.

Then we had a trip to Takeo Province. We went to NFO and invited the students to join us. The students at there were welcoming us a lot and at that time I felt so excited to share them all of our projects. Our plan to go there is trying to teach the kids to understand how wastes is affecting to our country. All the students at there are smart and enjoy of what we did. So we came up with an idea to have a competition let the students think what can they make the the dry waste. After that we gave a topic to make a school material like pencil case, bottles to keep pencils, pen, ect. Then we divided the students into nine groups because we thought that if we had more groups of student there will be more ideas. Each group had there own cool name Electric Boy, Red Ant, etc. At the end the Electric Boy team won the competition and we gave them the handmade books to them as the prize.

When we arrived back to our school, we needed to prepare everything for sharation. Our sharation was an unusual sharation that we never had in our school before. In the event we had ten explorations. Each team had ten minutes.
I was very happy to share what my team had done in the project and we showed all the products of our project on the big table to the audience. Also we shared all these projects to our parent too and they were very impressed with us and enjoy what we had done.

January 27, 2016

Creative Writing “Ferocious Schnowlzer: The Strange and Brave Creature”

On the sunny day in the dead forest filled with snow, a group of visitors and a dog named Schnauzer came to do a trip around there. In that dead forest there were a lot of aggressive animals hiding in the holes, on the trees and on other places. While the visitors were walking around the forest, a massive and strange situation happened. A strange creature just rushed to them and that creature was called “Towel.” This creature is from a tiger and an owl who have joined with each other and live in the forest for a hundred years. The visitors didn’t know what they were going to do because they were all full with fear. They ran immediately into the forest. After they ran into the forest for a while, they just knew they had lost Schnauzer, so they needed to break into small groups to find him. Schnauzer was a brave dog, so he had left the visitors without letting them know. He had to leave because he knew himself that he had a strong magical body that he could attach to other flying animals. After that, he saw an enormous owl named Ferocious, who had just flown to him and that owl was very kind to Schnauzer, so they became friends. Five minutes later, Schnauzer’s face was getting depressed and Ferocious wondered why Schnauzer was sad. Then Schnauzer told Ferocious that his visitors were in danger and only one strategy could help them: they need to attach both of their bodies to become the strongest and bravest creature in the dead forest. Next, Ferocious and Schnauzer just attached to each other and marvelous magic appeared. They became a huge creature called “Ferocious Schnowlzer.” Usually, birds lay eggs, and mammals have babies, so this creature can’t reproduce. It was just made from an animal and another animal by magic. Ferocious Schnowlzer flew to the Towel and attacked him. While Ferocious Schnowlzer and Towel were attacking each other, all the visitors saw their dog attacking. They all were very happy that their dog was brave and strong. Finally, Ferocious Schnowlzer killed Towel and everybody just screamed out loud with excitement. Suddenly Ferocious and Schnauzer just became normal again. The visitors gave them a prize; Schnauzer got the beef and Ferocious got frogs to eat. So both of them were very happy with their prize.

January 26, 2016

Independent Discovery

Discovery Title: Expert of Cambodian Art

This is my specific art and it’s about our traditional art that show on the temple’s walls, such as Angkor wat, Bayon.ect. Why I chose this project because I want Cambodian kids to turn their feeling to appreciate our art that our ancestors are keeping for us. Also I want to make a small hands about our works and designs in the small hand book too.

My goal is to create a new style of the traditional art because I like and enjoy it. Also it can help me to improve my brain to think quicker because when we in the process to design the new style. One more of my goal is I would like to teach the students about what I have done. Example: When I design a new traditional style, I can teach them how to get an idea of a new style of art.

This what I drew for the first week. This drawing is all about the small designs in each part. I found this image from Google Images. When I saw my feeling was falling with it. I start to draw it for my practice .

First I drew the grid on the picture I had printed. Then I use another clean paper have a grid on it. Next I drew each design in each block.

January 17, 2016

Ministry Day

On January 12th of 2016 in our school (Liger Learning Center) had a big event is ministry day. We present to the minister of education youth and sport, other minister and some principles are from the school in Phnom Penh. This is our special day that we had in Liger’s history and this event. All the students in the school is presenting to the minister about Liger’s curriculum, such as Khmer and English literacy, STEM, Liger Model, Recruitment team and more. For me, I present about Khmer and English literacy that we tell about what are the project that we do in class. In our literacy class we had a lot of projects, such as an idiom project, English Speaking Challenge, reading test and more. For myself I focus on fun projects are the idiom project and English speaking challenge and I feel so happy and proud of myself that I can share all the principals. The goal of this day is wanting the government school principals to get some ideas that we have in our school to do at their school. For this big event in our Liger’s history, it is a marvelous opportunity for us to change Cambodian government schools and a great pleasure for us to give them a great chance to try new things that we have made.

October 3, 2015

Physical Educator (PE) Description

In our first seven week we have different expertise classes. This post is about Physical Education (PE). Our teacher name Karen she from USA. This class is about sport and we had play a lot of different activities that related to sport. In PE we played activities such as: football, capture the flag and a relay activities. Relay activities means there’s a lot of activities in one row. This game is after we finish one activity we need to change the partner. These are some activities in relay activities are arm wrestling, running around sport court five rounds, 100 jumps with jump rope, ten pushups and more. For sometimes in this class we had the competition like a race between girls group and boy is by laying on the ground and use our legs to pick the ball and pass to our teammate. At that time my group won two times but we all have fun.