The Purpose of Life is to be Happy

English Literacy-round4

The theme for this round is about Happiness. It is a very helpful to learn about since it is related to our life. In our life, happiness is the most important thing, without happiness your life won’t be meaningful. We did a lot of reading in class on CommonLit which help us to understand a lot about happiness before getting to write our own essay about happiness in a life-circumstance or situation of our own choice. Learning about this theme helps me a lot including lives and specially myself. When we have a better understanding of ourselves, we are able to experience ourselves as unique and separate individuals. We are then empowered to make changes and to build on our areas of strength as well as identify areas where we would like to make improvements. Happiness is not only that huge smile on your face. It’s a sense of being, a conscious choice on how to live your life. To me, happiness is the thing that helps  me to become the best version of myself. Throughout the process of learning this theme, it inspired me to write a Found poem about Happiness.

Failing is What Make our lives Meaningful

Life is like a book

There are a thousand of pages I have not yet read

Thinness needs to be feed

And the golden bridge will be lead

 

This golden bridge is leading, meaning life goes on

Decisions are now on my own

Whether I choose to move on and take a chance is unknown

 

If I don’t like the way the bridge is leading

Start building another one with lighting

 

I can guarantee that on the way, there won’t be any stop sign

Because problems are not the stop sign instead, they are guidelines

 

I am a simple person who hides a thousand feelings behind a happiness smile

You might see me cry

But I cry, not because I am weak, but it’s because I’ve been strong for too long

You might see me fall and fail

But life told me that, the person who falls, fails and gets up is so much stronger than the one who never fell

 

Facing problems will always be a part of life

But it’s how you face those problems that is the key

So, do not quit

Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champain.

This poem was inspired by my English Literacy teacher, Hannah. When I felt stuck in my life or feeling like I am in a hole, I usually find someone to talk with. Because I was facing too many problems at the same time, so it made me felt stuck and couldn’t do anything beside crying. I said “my teachers would be the second best choice to help me after praying”. I talked to her and she gave me a lot of advices like “facing problems will always be a part of life, but it’s how you face those problems that is key. I believe that I don’t have to face problems alone. I have God fighting for me. He doesn’t want me to carry the heavy load”. From all of her words, it just change the whole me, from a little frog with mud to a shining frog with love.

Programming teaches me how to think

Multimedia – round 3

The Python programming language is of the way that we use to solve a computer problem almost as easy as writing out your thoughts about the solution. The code can be written once and run on almost any computer without needing to change the program.

Throughout this round, I’ve learned a lot about python including Booleans, Comparisons, If statement, Elif statement, Else statement, For loop, Break statement, Continue statement, Range function, and Python while loop.

  • Booleans value are the two constant objects False and True
    • For example:
      • “hello” is not “goodbye” – true
      • 5 is 5 – true
      • 1 is not 1 – false
      • “one” is “one” – true
  • Comparisons
    • Equals: a == b
    • Less than or equal to: a <= b
    • Greater than: a > b
    • Not Equals: a != b
    • Less than: a < b
    • Greater than or equal to: a >= b
  • If statement
    • An if statement is a programming conditional statement that, if proved true, performs a function or displays information.
  • Elif statement
    • The elif is a statement that allows us to check multiple expressions for TRUE and execute a block of code as soon as one of the conditions evaluates to TRUE.
  • Else statement
    • An else statement contains the block of code that executes if the conditional expression in the if statement resolves to 0 or a FALSE value.
  • For loop
    • We use For loop when we want to perform some actions a fixed number of times
    • For example:  
      • for letter in ‘Python’:   

                  print letter

    • Out come: The code will print each letter in Python
  • Break statement
    • It is a statement that we use to stop the loop even if the loop is still true.
      • For example

fruits = [“apple”, “banana”, “cherry”]

for x in fruits:

     print(x)

     if x == “banana”:

     break

    • Out come: apple, banana because you tell it to stop the loop when the value of it equal to banana
  • Continue statement
    • We use the continue statement to stop one repetition of the loop and goes onto the next repetition
    • Meaning  that the continue statement is used to skip the rest of the code inside a loop for the current iteration only and continues with the next iteration of the loop.
  • Range function
    • We use the range function to generate sequences of numbers in the form of a list.
    • For example

for x in range(6):

    print(x)

    • Out come: the code will print the number from 1 to 5
  • Python while loop.
    • While loop performs an action until the condition is False
    • For example
    • count = 0
      while (count < 9):
           print ‘The count is:’, count
           count = count + 1

      print “Good bye!”
    • Outcome: It will perform action until is is false
    • The count is: 0
      The count is: 1
      The count is: 2
      The count is: 3
      The count is: 4
      The count is: 5
      The count is: 6
      The count is: 7
      The count is: 8
      Good bye!

These are what I’ve been learning with my teacher, Cindy 🙂

Word Problems are Really Useful

Math–Round 2 

As we start a new round, the lesson is also new. This round is a little bit different from the last round. Last round we were focused on Whole Numbers, More Calculation With the Whole Number, Fractions and Multiply and Divide Fractions, but for this round we are mostly focusing on Geometry which are mostly related to the area and perimeter of the polygons like, rectangles and triangles. While we are learning geometry, the code.org is also introduced to our class. Code.org is just something that is related to math that we could learn outside of the class. To add on that, Khan Academy is my favorite website to learn math because it has a very good sound when we finish the lesson. It also provides us some videos that teach about the lesson we are doing when we are stuck at some point or we don’t know what the lesson is about.  It is a really great website to learn math. On the last unit of the book, we learned about ratio. A ratio says how much of one thing there is compared to another thing. We need to make sure that the number is in a simplest form as we would do with fraction (The simplest form must be in a whole number). For example, the ratio of men to women is six to three, so we would write it as 6:3. We call the “:” as “to”. Finally, because this number can be simplified, so it would be 2:1 or two to one. To make sure we understand the content well, we did a lot of fun projects and games relating to recipes, budgeting, shirt colors and number of staffs and students in school. We also did some word problems related to ratio to make a clear understanding of what it is and to know how to do both exercises and word problems. To me, word problems are a little bit difficult from a normal exercise, but I found out that word problems are really useful because they help me both with the math and the words usage with math. I found this lesson really fascinating and more exhilarating for a new math book, 5B.

Exploration round 2 (Cambodian traditional food)

Cambodian traditional food is my exploration for this round. The purpose of this exploration is to bring back the old Khmer food and to gather people’s stories about how Cambodian foods impact on them. We have been brainstorming a lot about how to ask a good question so that we can get good stories from the interviewee before we went on a trip. Siem Reap is one of the places we went to. Before we went on a trip, we were assigned into three teams, Photo essay, Video, and Journalism. I was a part of the Photo essay team but doesn’t mean that I cannot join the Video or the Journalism team, we all need to learn those skills and if we know it already we can practice more to get better. On a trip, we got to interview a lot of chefs in an individual restaurant that serves traditional foods. They were really friendly and welcomed us warmly. I have been taking a lot of pictures while I was on a trip, but I realized that I didn’t involve much in asking people question while interviewing, so I started to set a goal for myself that I am going to ask people lots and lots of questions and I won’t be afraid of talking to people anymore. Finally, I achieved the goals that I have set for myself, I asked people a lot of questions and got a lot of stories from the interviewee. I really encourage everyone to set a goal for your life or anything that you are doing because Goals Help Us Believe In Ourselves. Setting goals for yourself is a way to fuel your ambition. Goal setting isn’t just about creating a plan for your life and holding yourself accountable, it’s also about giving us the inspiration necessary to aim for things we never thought possible.

That is what I have learned from my lovely teacher, Cindy. Back on the Photo essay that is a job that I was assigned to be, basically a photo essay is a collection of images with some caption or it can be a short paragraph, too. So far I have created two photo essay which was written about the Khmer rice noodle and the Bamboo Sticky Rice. Click here to see my first product and click here to see my second product. 

Adobe Software

Computer Science and Multimedia-round 1 

There are five essentials total. Computer Science and Multimedia is one of those essentials. For the first week of this essential, I have learned about the Researching skills. This topic taught me to become a good researcher. The teacher has taught me a lot about the Researching Skills such as, how do we research, why do we research, what is research and the main goals of doing research. Our teacher, Cindy also teach us about the three methods of a good researcher.

These are the three methods

She has told us that before we research, we have to list down as many questions as we wondered. The questions must be related to the topic that we want to research.

 

This is the second method that we could use to help us.

 

And this is the third method. I think that this method is really helpful for the researcher.

The link below is an example of what I have done on the Research topic.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Gi0shLyBYRoSY2o-2zjl0Ki2Tpk_sJoIDIVVPyPErhc/edit

For another week, I have learned how to use the Adobe app. In the Adobe, we have focused on the InDesign, Photoshop and the Lightroom Classic. In class, our teacher has given an opportunity to those who are really good and know how to use those three things to explain the whole classmates. I really appreciate to those who were teaching and explaining to others student. They explain really well, so I understand a lot. I understand a lot about using the InDesign, Photoshop, and Lightroom. I studied the Photoshop on my own because I was on a trip while they were studying about the Lightroom. In my opinion, I think that the Photoshop and the Lightroom are really useful for people. The picture below is an example of I have done with the Indesign, Photoshop, and Lightroom.