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New years resolutions

On the first of January 2010 many people around the globe made new years resolution. This year I want to make some resolution. I will tell you my top 5 and why. My first resolution is to get good grades this year for as many subjects as I can. I want to do this because if get good grades it will be on my permanent recored which means in my future I will get a good job. My second resolution is that I want to start taking the steps into becoming a better person in my future. I want to do this because if I'm a better person in the future then I will have more friends and more people to rely on. My third resolution is that I want to start to learn new things and try to be open minded because I do not to try out new things and this means that I could miss out on the good things in life. My fourth resolution is that I want to try to be much more organized because I tend to loose some thing like my planner and waste money on buy a new one. Its also important because if you loose something important like a 850 Riggit i pod touch you will get in to lots of trouble and loose something that you had lots of fun with. My fifth and final resolution is to make many more friends by trying to improve my communication skills. This is because communicating with someone will make you get to know them better. Then you start to become friends.

My Christmas holiday:

On the last wednasday of school before the holidays ended everyone was looking forward to the holidays. The holidays started at Friday but some people had to leave early. This included me because in my old school at Singapore, Friday was a half-day and not a holiday so I wanted to visit them. The only way I could see them was if I missed school on Thursday and went by bus after lunch. I spent my morning packing all my bags and so did my mom and my brother. After lunch we went to the bus stop where the bus was scheduled to pick us up. we got inside of the bus and were amazed at how cool it was. The seats reclined, there were movie screens at the back of each seat and much more! We set off on our journey to Singapore. I watched a few movies such as transformers and the fast and furious. the journey took long but before we knew it we were in Singapore! We stayed at the Orchard Grand Court hotel. We unpacked and went to sleep. I woke up at about 9:00 am and got ready to go to my old school called UWC. I saw everybody there and had lots of fun. The next day I played with my friends at my old condo which I used to live in. My mom had left after that back to K.L and left my Brother and I at Singapore. I stayed at my friends house for 3 days. It was really fun! We watch moves and did so many fun things! After a few days we had to leave. We went back on the same bus back to K.L. I had lots of fun visiting all of my friends in Singapore.

In the first six months of sixth grade I have achieved many goals that I have set for myself both socially and academically. This is my first year in ISKL and I think that it is a great school that teaches you about everything! Let me tell you about my goals: I wanted to make many friends in ISKL and I did. I wanted to make good friends on this school and I have. These were my scocial goals which I mostly achieved. My adcademic goals were that I should get at lest a "B" in all my grades which I am still working on that goal. Another goal is that I should do most of my homework on time and I have done some of it on time but I still have to work a lot on that one. Overall I have done most of my goals.

In my first six months in ISKL I have leaned many skills that will help me become a better person in the future. Some of these skills I have learned not only from teachers but from the people around me. At my first few days here I observed how all the people here have different personalities. Some nice and helpful. Others Talkative and friendly. Each have something to tell me. One skill I picked up is that how to be nicer and more sensitive about the people around me. Some of the skills I have learned are the SLR's. Because of them I can take more steps in to becoming a better person.

Some of the skills I want to learn in the next 6 months of sixth grade are that I want to become a more honest and trustworthy person. I want to become a better person by any steps necessary. I also want to improve on my communication skills because I feel that the only way to make some kind of decision is by communicating well. These are the skills that I most want to learn in the next six months at ISKL.

My goals for the next six months are to play in my first concert with my trombone in beginner band because I think it will be a great experience and I like to play my trombone so i want to play it in a concert. Another goal I have for the next six months are getting into lots of tournaments in tennis. I like tennis I want to play in lots of tournaments and a lot of matches and get better at the same time. I also want to improve on my grades for all subjects. I would like to get above an A- in math and science because I am not very got at humanities and math and science are the next two core subject.

Letter to Supeet

To Supeet,

I have read your story about saving Jacobs father, the elephants and preformed the rain ceremony. It was truly amazing how you did this. I liked the part when you teach Jacob about surviving in the wild. You thought him how to almost become invisible and how to see properly in the wild. To be honest, I don't think that Jacob would have gotten anywhere without you. You were a truly amazing friend and you had only known him for less than a week. It was great!

I have always had some questions for you. Here the are they are: What happened after the story? You went back to the Masai tribe but did Jacob come to visit you? Or did you save lots of money for a trip to America where you could live better. Another question I have for you is that why did you go back to the Masai tribe when you could have gone to live with Jacob in America? Is it because you still think that you belong in the Masai tribe?

I really liked your story! Can you persuade the author to make another? Thanks! Those story has thought me a lot about friendship because Supeet and Jacob are two totally different people with different quests but the still manage to become friends and complete their respective quest by helping each other. I will never forget this story!

Literature Circles #3

In this discussion, My group and I were talking about Thunder Cave and were sharing ideas and answering questions about the book like what we normally did but we all noticed That Jacob the main character in the book had passed out in the African plains because of dehydration and Supeet saves him. Now in the later chapters of the book Supeet is also becoming more of a main charter in the book. The story still comes from Jacobs point if view but Supeet is kind of stealing the spotlight from Jacob. Jacob is the main character in the book but I predict that Supeet might be as or even more important than Jacob in the book. I think that Supeet makes the book more interesting because you will get so many more questions abut the book which make it more interesting. I feel that Supeet and Jacob have much in common. They are both determent to find what they are looking for without giving up, they both are very creative and they both have a great sense of humor. This is why I think that the book would not be the same without Supeet or Jacob. Them traveling together makes the story more interesting. I cant imagine the story without either character.

Literature Circles #2

One of the important passages that I wrote on my discussion sheet about Thunder Cave was When Jacob Got his Visa to permit him to get into Kenya. I thought this was important because his whole plan to go to Kenya and find his father could be ruined if he did not get his Visa to enter Kenya. M group agreed that this was an important part in the book and my explanation was alright but we decided to find out more.

My group and I had some ideas like what if Jacob had not gotten his visa ? We answered that question and our answer was he could have found out if there were any planes or boats that were going to Africa and hide himself in the cargo area. Once he arrived, He could use the money he saved to get him some transport to get to Kenya.

Before the discussion I did not realize how important this part of the story is. Now after the discussion I have a deeper understanding of not just that passage but the chapters we had to read. The discussion really helps me understand the parts of th book i do not understand and helps me have a deeper understanding of the parts I do understand.

literature circles

Literature circles is a very good idea because I think it's good to share our opinions about the book and make predictions with our group. I think our group would have been better if all our group members did the the literature circles homework. Discussing what we thought of the book made me thing of how this happened and why. I had questions I had never though of and was able to answer them with the help of my group members.

The book we were reading was called "Thunder Cave" it was written by Roland smith. First our group discussed what we thought was important in the book. Most of us though the part when Jacobs mother died was a key part in the book. We then Asked questions about the book. The person who asked the question would tell us what he thought, then we would say what we thought and from that we make a solution. From all these questions I thought of many more questions about that. We then discussed words that we did not understand. There were lot of passages we did not understand too. From this I was able to get a better understanding of the book. Then we predicted what would happen in the next few chapters of the book. After much discussion going on we reached the idea of Jacob would go to Africa and travel across the savanna to find his father.

This activity was very helpful to me for making me understand more about the book. The key SLR's I used were: communicate effectively, Think creatively and Reason critically because I think I communicated effectively by talking with my group, Think creatively by thinking about how this will happen and Reasoning critically because I spoke f what I thought was important. Literature circles is a great activity and it is fun.