Cambodia is my country. I want to develop it a lot. Now I am the kids it really hard for me if I want to change some thing. So now I have many different knowledge that can be my foundation for me. So at the future I can use them to change my country and my self future. At Liger I learned many different subjects. But the most that I interested at them are: Forest Ecology, Public Relation and Architecture. These three things make me so excited a lot because in Forest Ecology I had the chance to went to the forest to have a looked at Cambodia forest and knew about the problem that Cambodia had now. This make me want to protect that forest and animals a lot so when I grow up I also can use my knowledge in this exploration and aother extra study to help my self understand more about that. So at the future it also can be my job too. It make the positive thing because I got the more ideas to help change Cambodia. Other thing was Architecture that I can draw the floor plan of the house and side view. I can make the different for Cambodia because it not easy for the students like my old in Cambodia that have the chance to learned about that liek this. So I really happy because I can learned many knowledge that my young in here not have the chance to do. The last thing was Public Relation the different that I made in that was I can shared my knowledge to the other students that not very good at that. So if I don’t know they teach me and if I don’t know they teach me. Anther thing is it make the different between my old school and here. At my old school everyone alway chasing each other to get the best by them self not like in here is to teach each other. But we both had the same goal was to change Cambodia to get the bright future.
Video Expertise
This is a video that my group and I made during our video Expertise. This Expertise is one hour per week. I really enjoyed in this Expertise and the video is about our school core values.
“I go an unusual school”
Name: Neang L
Group: B
Date: September 3rd
English Writing
I go to an unusual school. This school is located in the city of Phnom Penh, Cambodia. This is a boarding school and the students in the school were selected from many different places around Cambodia. There are 50 students and we are the first generation of the school. Liger is providing free education for all 50 students and also food, housing, learning materials and many other things. In our education system we are learning many things, such as Khmer and English Literacy, Math, STEM (which we learn from many staff) Expertise is the subject that we can pick our own topic to do and that’s call Independent Discovery, or we will be assigned by teachers to learn if that is important to our Exploration, Exploration is learning to explore things and every Exploration is seven weeks. In every Exploration there will be a goal, but the big idea is that we want to change Cambodia. Sometimes we have off campus trips to explore. Some trips can be in the country and some trips can also be in the other countries, so we could get the opportunities to meet people and learn about the world. My life has changed when I came to Liger, My unusual school.
Football
Besides school time I have got some after school extension and this is one of my favorite sports. Football makes me feel fresh because when I got stress in class football can make me feel better and also makes me sleep well at night when I used my energy to play this sport.
Who Am I
I
am Neang
I am a student
I am a 13-year-old girl
I am the youngest in my family
Having fun with friends is my free time activity
Football is the sport that I like
I am learning at Liger
I have two best friends
This is just
me
This is my Literacy work that I did in my English writing class.
Changing Cambodia 2014 – 2015
This is the third year that I have been learning at Liger. During this years I have improve many things. One of them is my my english reading skill. My english level have moved so far from other any other students when I did my reading test with my Literacy teacher Caro. At Liger if we do something good like this or you get best at something teacher will give you some prizes. So that mean I also get to choose a prize from my teacher too because I get to be the best at my reading skill. I also have learned Grammar Bootcamp. Grammar is one of my challenging skill because I am not good at that skill at all even khmer. But after I have learned grammar bootcamp I have improve a lot. I can understand about grammar more than I have expected. I also have learned many Explorations. I have been in an Exploration called Cambodian Economy. I have done many research about that. I also went on a trip to Men Sa Run rice mill factory to learn because this is one of the sector that help the economy in Cambodia grow. I have met a man at there. He is the director at that rice mill factory. We have asked him about his factory and also about how he can export his product to the international market. We went there is not just the purpose of learning, but our goal in our Exploration is we want to publish a book about Cambodian Economy in the present. I also have learned about Water Sanitation in Cambodia. I have went on two trips to Battam Bang and Siem Reap. I have learned how is the filter work at there. The one that I am really interesting at is at Siem Reap because lots of tourism go to visit there, so there are many hotels and restaurants are located in Siem Reap. The system is also very interesting because before they build the filter system they need to think about the sun, wind and many thing because they don’t want the stench to go into the city by how the wind blow, so they need to build it far from the city. Beside what I have learned in school at on that trip I also get to join a option project call Technovation. I always spend my whole Sunday weekend to go to meet my team at a place call Development Innovation (DI). This project is all about girls around the world with technology. The intention of this project is for all girls that have divided in team to make an app to help their own country. There are about 1000 teams have joined to compete. So everybody worked really hard to finished our work. It took us about three months every weekend on Sunday to go to and work at DI for the whole day. According to what I have learned I think I am a child in Cambodia and I can do all this things, which is challenging, but I can do it. Even I am the girl, but I still can do many thing with technology to help my country. I think if there will be more girls know more about technology our country will become a developed country because we can generate many new thing out of technology. Also water is one of the thing that we need to think of and also have some idea with water. I know that I can share to other people to know how important it is to keep the water clean, so when they are really understand about that it will be a great thing for people to know like our country that is still developing.
Diary of a Wimpy Kid- Rodrick Rules
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n this year I had moved my level from P-V. I am so happy because I made a biggest jump in my school, so I have got a prize from my Literacy teacher.
Phnong Indigenous Minority
Name of course: Phnong Indigenous Minority
Learning Facilitator: Phearun, Jaime
Number of students: 11
Course Description:
Our group have been working hardly to reach the group intention which is to publish a photo book that show about Phnong indigenous minority in Cambodia, especially over to the southeastern of Cambodia. Our whole group went to visit Phnong community and asked many questions to the people at the community there. To get information there are some challenges that we faced. On the way to a community at Mondulkiri it was slippery and muddy. We didn’t know anything about the road condition, so we drove our big bus there and our bus got stuck, so came out the bus and help each other to get the bus out. We couldn’t. The people are so kind to us there. When they see that our bus was stuck they came and help us. This was a trip that makes me feel that how important it is when you help someone when they need help.
Giddy Up Winnie
This book has a title of Giddy Up Winnie. This book is a level P which I used to read with my reading group. Most of the part in this book is about magic and adventure. I was really enjoyable with this book on the fun part like Winnie broke her wand then she want to have her wand back, so she grow the broken wand to make a wand plant and at the end she finally got lots of wands from her wand plant.
Water Safety Description
Name of course: Water Safety
Learning Facilitator: Max
Number of students: 10
Dates: 4/27 to 6/15
Course Description:
Water Safety was such a busy Exploration for me. Our group had one big intention, is to reduce drowning in Cambodia. We had learned from data that was researched by UNICEF and UNICEF is an agency of the United Nations that works in Cambodia to help protect rights for children. This organization had found out that drowning is the number of people cause of death in Cambodia. In average when they compare males and females together they found out that the amount of males who died from drowning is more than females. The things that cause kids to drown the most are playing/swimming in the water. Also, the really awful thing is that kids die every four hours from drowning and the estimation for one year is 2090 kids in Cambodia. After we learned all of this data we did some research on the internet to check out if this information that we had is right or wrong. Besides that, we went on an overnight trip to an organization called Camkids. We prepared some questions to ask them because we wanted to make sure that the data that we looked at is the right one that we could learn from, so some of the data that we found at Camkids matched with what we had learned in class. To reduce drowning in Cambodia, our group created the swimming lessons for seven weeks. We invited kids from our nearby community to come over to our school and our intention was to help reduce drowning as I had mentioned at the top and we did reached our intention because after the community kids learned the swimming lessons they were pretty good at it.