Month: May 2019

Today, I want to talk about “How to study Math?”

Study Math is not hard, you just need to spend much time and focus on it.

Step1: Understand the meaning of the equation or others. There are many equations or formulas are in the world. If you want to remember all, I think it is impossible. Going to know it.

Step 2: Remember formulas. Remember the formulas because it can help you smoother.

Step 3: Bring numbers into the formula. Put the numbers into the formula and get the solution.

Step 4: Calculate the answer as required. Get answers according to the formula.

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How to play cello best

Playing cello is not easy. If you want to play the cello well, you have to follow these steps.

Step 1: You have to be ready.

1. Prepare the chair, sheet music, and music stand in place
2. Wash your hands because the oil from your hands can damage the cello and strings.
3. Open the cello case and remove the cello.

Step 2: Tuning cello

You need a correct pitch. If you don’t do this part, You won’t have a good practice result. Sometimes I use my ear to tuning, but if you want to be correctly, you need to use the tuner.

Step 3: Pair of hands put on the cello

Before you play you need to put your hands correctly. If you are right-handed, The left is on the neck.The right hand will hold the bow.

Step 4: Warm-Up

You will pull the bow back and forth, and practice scales. After you warm up your hands, you can practice a song. To start, practice an easy song as part of your warm up.

Step 5: Do your main song

First, you need to know the structure of the song.

Second, you have to practice for a while.

Third, do the whole song one time.

Step 6: Add more emotion body language.

You need to know which section you need to add emotion. This can help people clearly know what do you want to express. You can use size, sound, speed, and other ways to accomplish this.

Step 7: Just remember, after your practice, you need to wipe down the cello with a dry cloth.

After you follow these steps and become better, you will enjoy the music you produce and others may even enjoy it, too.

 

Today, I want to talk about my reflection.

I feel so cool when I am a blogger because this is my first time to do it. I like to be a blogger because it can let me share a lot of my ideas. I learn how to make a comment to each other and write the paragraph about something. When I was making a paragraph, I would think many things and write it down, that can make me happy and excited! For example, If I have my favorite title, I will be excited and write many experiences in my blog. When I don’t have any ideas, I will ask my teacher and my friends.

I like to be a blogger because it can let me have more time to write a paragraph and practice my English. The blog can let me know how to communicate with people in foreign countries. What I like most about doing this blog challenge is to share something correct to the strangers. People commented on a question about the title in my blog. When I see interesting comments I can reply to the comment!

I enjoy reading people’s comment on my blog! There are titles in my blog: About the Christmas, Taiwan, Contrast TAIS to Previous School…

In this year 2019, the Dragon boat festival was on the date of June seventh.

 On the dragon boat festival day, we usually eat rice dumplings in memory of Qu Yuan. In 278 BC, the Chu State is defeated by the Qin State. On hearing of the defeat, Qu Yuan was in great despair and committed suicide by drowning himself in the Miluo River on the 5th day of the 5th lunar month. When the local people heard of Qu Yuan’s death, they were very sad and rowed out on the river to search for his body, but they were unable to find him. To prevent his body eaten by the fish, the locals paddled their boats up and down the river, hitting the water with their paddles and beating drums to scare the fish and evil spirits away. They threw lumps of rice into the river to feed the fish so that they would not eat Qu Yuan’s body.

Traditionally, people also drink realgar wine and use wormwood to purify their body and their houses. These two things are very good at preventing infectious disease in hot summer.

I’m in 9th grade at Taiwan Adventist International School. As you may have guessed from the name, it’s a Christian American international school located in the mountains of central Taiwan. Here are five things I’ve noticed where it differs from Taiwanese schools.

In this school, we live in the dorm, but in the previous school, I lived at home. The dorm has many rooms, each room has four beds and four desks. The room is not big but it is enough for us. The dorm has a very comfortable living room. We have to do the laundry by ourselves. I think lining in the dorm makes me more independent.

In the previous school, the courses are fixed and everyone has the same schedule despite the differences in the individual level. In our school, all courses are taught in English, everyone has their own schedule according to their level. We still learn Chinese, but we don’t use the textbook, the Chinese is still difficult to me. We also have Bible classes. We do our homework on the internet.

I love our school and I am very to be in it.

I’m a high school teacher who is teaching an ELL Composition and Writing class. I was told about the Student Blogging Challenge by my principal. One of the big things in my classes is I want the learning experience to be as authentic as possible. I want students to feel like they’re doing something that’s useful, rather than just another assignment that’s required for a grade. I hoped that having a broader audience for their work would encourage them to put their heart into writing as I do.

Highlights: The topics for the student blogging challenge were very well chosen. They were quite broad for my application. Giving my students too many choices confuses them. But I could always find one or two topics that were intriguing. I would then present the one or two choices to my students, rather than the whole blog post. I particularly liked when we described our country. We made slideshow videos and the students recorded narration for them. Since most of the audience has never been to Taiwan, I thought they would find it interesting. The holidays also produced interesting posts, as Chinese cultural holidays are very different from western ones. We ended up writing Limericks for one, but I can’t remember if that was even part of the challenge. One of our students got a huge number of comments about his because it was featured. I really appreciate Kathleen featuring several of our posts, because it really attracted a lot more traffic and interest.

Comments and Interactions: I appreciate the effort at the start to teach the students to make good comments. As I mentioned, we got a bunch of hilarious comments about the limericks. Those were genuine. I did feel like a lot of the commenters were directed to do so by their teachers and didn’t really care about the blog. They would always post a link to their blog. I visited many of them, but I felt like it was just a plan to get more traffic. Most of those blogs were not of a high quality either.

Suggestions: I know that a lot of planning and work goes into this process. Kathleen and whoever else was involved did an excellent job keeping things organized.

I like the concept of class blogs, but I had a bit of trouble with those features on the website. The students who made their own blogs, were never properly added into my class. Other students were posting directly to my class blog, which is fine. I ended up linking in half the class and the other half were on my blog. I understand that Word Press is a well-respected platform, but I don’t really like the interface. I use it for my school’s website, and I don’t find it intuitive, even though I do a lot of tech stuff. Next time, I’ll use Google’s Blogger because it’s much easier to navigate and use. I spent a huge amount of time at the start of the semester teaching students to use the platform.

My other suggestion is for other teachers. It seemed like they didn’t really know how to help the students produce a quality blog. I understand that a lot of teachers have so many students in their classes that they can’t give constructive criticism and help, but a lot of the blogs I looked at were clearly done as an assignment and didn’t seem ready for a broader audience. I do understand the challenges teachers face, though, with time and resources.

Conclusion: Thank you to Kathleen and all the others who went out of their way to make this experience one of learning and fun. I think it’s a great idea and I’ll be doing it in the future if I’m teaching a class in this area of study. I believe that this is the direction we need to go in education, authentic learning opportunities with real-world skills and application.

Jerry’s Reflection

 

I have done at least 10 blogs. Everytime I write a blog I like it very much but always have a new problem or question with me. I will always solve it. In this time, I important learn is go look other people blog. Learn what did they write and how can I imitate. Also, I learned how can I give a good comment. I very liked the Limerick Brain freeze challenge. Because this is very fun and the comments I received all write “Wow, your ideas are very cool, this poem I like it.” This is my favorite challenge.

Every time I got comments, I was laughing. The comments were very funny. When I give the comments I will think funnily is good, bad, will it hurt too much. So I will go check again. I haven’t seen any blog I like a lot so far, just a few blogs I found interesting.

I think I will improve writing. In the future, I will write more interesting and make a blog beautiful. I think will also give more comment to other people.

I enjoyed this chance to post my blog. I like it. I will go back to see my blog and comment again. I wish next time I can do better, get more interesting and learn more. Posting blogs are very fun!!

Today, I want to talk about contrast TAIS to Previous School.

I’m 9 grade at Taiwan Adventist International School. As you may have guessed from the name, it’s a Christian American international school located in the mountains of central Taiwan.

Here are some things I’ve noticed where it differs from Taiwanese schools. The study method is different. We use computer apps to enhance English, making powerpoint or do the paragraph, but in Taiwan’s schools, all the students only use books.

In Taiwan Adventist International School, we just focus on English and practice English grammar. The teachers are a little different from Taiwan’s. The teachers speak English with us because it can make our English better.

Next, I will talk about dorm life. Some students live in the dorm because it will be more convenient. My friends and I have more time to understand each other.

I am happy here because I make a lot of friends and the teachers are kind. Before I study at TAIS, my  English is terrible and I speak English only have a little time. But now, my English is progressing.

 

 

 

I’m in 10 grade at Taiwan Adventist International School. As you may have guessed from the name, it’s a Christian American international school located in the mountains of central Taiwan. Here are five things I’ve noticed where it differs from Taiwanese schools.

1. In TAIS cafeteria is eat vegetarian. Taiwanese school we eat meat at every meal. (we called nutritious meal)

2. In TAIS just have 5 periods, and the lunch break is long. Taiwanese school has 8 periods even 9, and the lunch break also short. It is very tiring.

3. TAIS need to use a computer to do the homework in class or dorm. Taiwanese school just use book or paper. Not too many projects.

4. TAIS teachers are all foreigners just a few is Taiwanese. and the teachers are personable. Taiwanese school teacher will only tell you to finish what you have to do. (Is very boring)

5. TAIS does not have many students, so I can’t make many good friends. Taiwanese school most are greater than 500 people, so making friends is easy.