Happy Birthday To Cikgu Noor Izan

Cikgu Noor Izan was celebrated her birthday with her 6 Marikh class students in their class. One of the boy, Anthony bought a cake for teacher while others brought some food like sugar and candy. They also put some balloons on the wall to decorate their class. Cikgu Noor Izan was very happy and she felt grateful to his students for celebrating her birthday in school. So hopefully next year some boys will buy a cake for Cikgu James during my birthday. I am waiting for that day to come. Bye and take care.

Cikgu James’ Art Project In School

Today during the art subject, I bring the boys to the hall in Tahap two to do the art project.  I give them each one a piece of white paper, and then I ask them to fold the paper to become a small plane. After that, the boys must test fly the paper plane to see whose plane can fly the highest. The winner will get a present. I will also give point base on their plane decorating or coloring. So hopefully they can try their best to do this art project. Thanks again to all my boys for having fun doing this project.

Celebrating Hari Raya In Malaysia

After a whole month of fasting, the Muslim community in Malaysia celebrates ‘Hari Raya’ with joyous family gatherings and open houses. Join in the merry-making and taste the delicious traditional Malay favourites such as rendang, ketupat and lemang.

Have a safe journey back to kampung. Do not drive when you are tired. Have a coffee at Petronas station and take a rest if you need too. And finally, don’t play self made fireworks. Is dangerous! Teacher don’t want you all to get hurt. Wish you all enjoy your holiday and “Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri.”  OK. Bye and take care.

Having Fun With Science Experiment

After the UPSR examination, all the year six students are having fun. So I brought them to the science lab to do some science works. And they really enjoyed it and they suggested to do it again after Hari Raya. Now they can really enjoy science works in science lab after the test. Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri to all my boys.

1 MALAYSIA = 1 NATION

1 Malaysia, which PM has mentioned several times the past few weeks, emphasizes national unity and in his speech at the ceremony to disburse funds to Tamil schools, PM sounded remarkably like a reformer for race relations as well as a re-conciliator.

He said that two things were key in the 1Malaysia concept – mutual respect and trust among the different races in Malaysia. “Mutual respect is not just tolerance,” he said.

“Once trust is developed, Malaysia will be the sum total of all races. We will not be moving as separate communities but as one Malaysia and we will be stronger. It will be a new Malaysia because we’ll change our mindset because we trust and respect each other. I hope all will join me to bring Malaysia to greater heights.”

Primary School Science Experiment

To a child, doing an experiment means ‘doing something to see what will hapen‘. During the experiment, we change an object, an event or a situation to examine the result of such change in a controlled situation. Experimenting is an integrated science process skill because it requires basic skills such as observing, classifying, making inferences, predicting, measuring, communicating, as well as using the relationship between space and time.

Therefore, experimenting is more suitable for older pupils. Nevertheless, investigative experiments can differ in degree of difficulty. With guidance, even young children can carry out experiments that are simple.

Many teachers mistakenly consider all hands-on activities as being experiments. In truth, an experiment involves tow criteria:

1) The children need to have an idea of what to test. Because of this, they change an object, an event or situation for certain reasons. The act of forming an idea and testing it later is called making a hypothesis.

2) The children should change only one varibale at a time. If necessary, they should compare results when a varible is changed and when it is not. This skill is called controlling variables.

In primary school science, an investigation is considered an experiment if it involves changing an object or a situation so as to compare results with when no change is made.

Kool Colours In School Science Experiment

Objective:

Tie-dye fabric using dyes made from Kool-Aid ™ and vinegar.

What You Need:

1. Packets of unsweetened Kool-aid in dark colours
2. Vinegar
3. Small bowls
4. Warm water
5. Measuring cup
6. Rubber bands or string
7. 12-inch square pieces of white cotton fabric
8. Stir or wire, and clothes-pin or paper clips
9. Tray or pie pan as ‘splash’ collector
10. Gloves

To Do and Observe

Make your dye – for each color:
1. Pour 1/2 cup of warm water into a small bowl.
2. Add 1/2 cup of vinegar.
3. Add 2 packages of Kool-Aid
4. Stir the ingredients to mix.
5. Place the small bowl in the tray or pie pan.

Prepare and dye your fabric:
1. Fold and twist the square of the white fabric.
2. Use rubber bands or string to tightly hold the twisted fabric in place. Complicated twisting will make interesting dye patterns. Experiment.
3. Dip the cloth into a bowl of dye. Squeeze excess dye back into the bowl.
4. Remove the string or rubber bands.
5. Hang the fabric square to dry.

What’s Going On

Dyes are substances that colour materials. All dyes are compounds made of molecules. Material may absorb the dye or a chemical reaction between the molecules in the dye and material may bind the dye to the cloth. A mordant is a substance that helps fix the dyes to the material so that the color does not fade.

In this activity, Cool-Aid is used to dye cotton cloth. The colored molecules in Cool-Aid form a chemical bnd between the fiber and dye molecules. The mordant addded is vinegar, a traditional fixing reagent, which helps bind the dye to the cloth. This mordant is not strong enough to hold the dye permanently – it works better for art pieces than for clothes such as t-shirts.

Parent/Teacher Tips:

Try natural dyes made from fruits and vegetables. Frozen blueberries, blackberries, and beet juice work well. Prepare dyes by blending the fruit or vegetable in a food processor and filtering off the pulp. The resulting liquid makes a dye.

Cikgu James Dreams Car

Learning Visual Art During LADAP

Today our LADAP’s topic is Visual Art and our trainer is Pn Lim Boi Chin. She is an experience teacher teaching art subject in primary school. All the teachers will learn how to create Batik Art by just using a piece of tissue paper. We have also learn how to design a bookmark and also some festival’s cards using some easy and simple tools. Hopefully after this training,  the art teachers can use this technique to teach the students to create some special cards. Thanks again to Pn Lim.

Primary School Cadet (TKRS) Activity

Today is Wednesday and  is also our school co-curriculum’s day. As usual, I bring my kadet students for an activity under a big tree. Today our activity is ‘How to cook an egg by using matches and wood only?” These are the photos I took during the Year 6 boys having their cooking lesson under the tree. At the end, only one group can success cook the egg. And the cadet boys really enjoy this activity which prepared by cikgujames.