In this term, I have learn so many thing in this class, especially new words. In this class in one week, we learn ten new words. Also we have homework packet to do every weeks and different root words. We also read some articles especially from Newsela and Readwork. For the first week, I were learned about The gods behind the days of the week
According to some information about Newsela, they said that there are seven days of the week and all those day, it was name from all the planets in the solar system. These names started with the Romans, who ruled over much of Europe about 2,000 years ago. The Romans spoke a language called Latin. Such as like :
- Sunday was “dies Solis,” the day of the sun.
- Monday was “dies Lunae,” the day of the moon.
- Tuesday was “dies Martis,” the day of Mars.
- Wednesday was “dies Mercurii,” the day of Mercury.
- Thursday was “dies Iovis,” the day of Jupiter.
- Friday was “dies Veneris,” the day of Venus.
- Saturday was “dies Saturni,” the day of Saturn.
How those days were named by :
There One of these groups, the Anglo-Saxons, brought their gods and language to what is now Great Britain. In English, Saturday was named after Saturn, Sunday after the sun and Monday after the moon. The other four days, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, were named after Anglo-Saxon gods.
- Tuesday is named after the god Tiu. This god was probably a god of war, just like the Roman god Mars.
- Wednesday is named after the god Woden, who is like the Roman god Mercury.
- Thursday is Thor’s day, or the day of thunder. It is related to the Latin “dies Iovis,” or the day of Jupiter.
- Friday is the only weekday named after a female god, Frig.
It was kind of surprise for me, because in Cambodia the name of all the days were taking from all the planets too.
In this class, we are not only learn from our teacher but we also read some articles from Newsela and Readwork.
Newsela is a website that we can read some news or articles. Newsela is a great website for me because it has a lot of articles. After we read all those articles, we also can get some more information. There are so many category in this website. There have some block in this website such as Library, news, text set, collection and we also can research some articles that we want to read about. If you click on Library there are so many information for you to read. If you try it, there will have more interesting thing for you . After we read those articles, we also can take quiz to know how much that we can understand about that articles. Our facilitator can also assign some works for us to do. www.newsela.com
Readwork also the great website that can help us with our learning. In this website, we also can read some articles. This website is similar to Newsela but I think Newsela is a global website because everyone can get to read the articles. For Readwork, we can read only when our facilitator assign us to read . It’s also kind of easy because it has some vocabularies of some difficult words for us when we don’t understand. It also has some quiz for us. www.readworks.org
After we finish some of our work in class, we also independent reading. Our class is at led studio center, which the place that we store our books in there so it’s really easy for us to choose the books to read. We also have literacy on Wednesday. After we finish those books. We were doing inspire piece of art. I were a book, which is The humming room and I were writing a poem about it. Here is my poem:
The Humming Room
Roo is a little brave girl
She live in the world that no one care
She also look like a little bear
No one was care when her parents pass away
After a while her aunt took her to live in a house
It seem only the mouses that live in there
When She went in, she just look and stair
See what in there why it was so quiet
First time living in there was so mystery
And it was not free like living alone
But her heart was like a stone
Cause she had grown by herself
That house was really scary
So Roo wanted to see were happened
So she went into the room had been abandoned
It was like a heaven when she go in
When she went in seeing a boy
And all those voice were come from him
Every night he always scream, cause all his dream, it had been gone
He dreamed to see his mommy
But suddenly his mom had pass
It seem like him losing a brush
And all the dust come in his life
Knowing all the problem that he has
She start to clean all the mess
Growing the plants that have been dead
From thing were flat to be thicker
His mom had left a dead garden
But Roo comment to grow it back
Make all those plant to become shake
It can also make, him to remember
After a few month the garden turn green
And all the wind brush dust a way
That what he want and had been pray
And his new day were starting now
That cause some help from little girl
She like a pearl shine for a person
She help a boy with no reason
What she has done is her kindness
She teaching me to be more brave
She also drive me to kindness
Even the start it was a mess
But she try her best helping other.
Brave is the shield of fearness
Kindness is the weapon that kill selfish