Girl’s football is one of the after school extensions in our school. We had practice a lot of football every week and boys practice, too. We also practice a lot because we have some competition with other school in Phnom Penh. Football is one of our favorite sport in Liger.
I am Sokea
I am 12 years old
I am a quiet person.
I have one older sister.
Family is really special for me.
My favorite colors are red and blue.
Art and literacy are my favorite classes.
I like to draw pictures and design clothes.
I like to read books and play on the computer.
MY BIG GOAL IS TO CHANGE CAMBODIA.
Headline (copy): Health
Lexile Level (different for each): 860L
Summary (10-12 sentences telling the major ideas; who, what, where when, why, how):
This article is about the polluting the air and it can make people have a disease for their lungs. The smog it blew from China and across the Pacific ocean to California. It’s increasing the ozone in Western States when the ozone from China because they have more and more ozone. When the smog blow from China to California it only take about a week to across the Pacific ocean. It was a bad thing and for the people that live in Western States because it can make them have a bd health. One scientist name Faloona said that the ozone (the gas in the air polluting) is come from transportation like cars, trucks and factories. When the smog have blew from China to California then U.S have add more ozone because in California also the drive the cars and have factories. However This two countries would work together to stop the polluting but U.S need to work harder because the smog not go any where else it just stay in California. Also this mean that the pollution have a lot and it really easy to make us sick and die.
Favorite part:
Would you recommend it? (yes/no): Yes
If yes, who would you recommend it to?: (people who like…)
This year I learn a lot of different things in each exploration and in each project that we have here in Liger Learning Center. It also make me think why Cambodia have a lot of concerns? Before I don’t think there a lot of problems but while I learn more and more I see that I need to think how to change it so it will be better. It really hard to think how can we change because people have different perspective and sometime they don’t think kids ideas are better than them.
One important thing that Cambodia need to change is education. Education is really important because most of the time when I went on my trips I see many children not went to school. Mostly they go to work for money to support their family because as you know Cambodia is not a rich country. Also it hard to change other people’s perspective because how they think about education are different from us. Most of the families in Cambodia just think about money to support their family. They let kids do a work anywhere then when they get a salary they need to give most of money to their parents. Also some kids really want to learn more but they have no choice so they go to do a work like homeless people or work at factory.
My solutions are get more people to know how important education is. We can make a poster or kind of flyer to give to community people. In that poster we can write important facts and explain them why it important for kids to go to school. If there are school far away from their house and if I have money I would like to build one place for them to learn. It have teachers and it similar to the school. Then kids can learn there so they don’t need to go to school that far from their house and they can take that time to learn more. While we teach them we can make some project that they can go outside like go to community to interview people so they can have a lot of experiences and be brave. Also we can teach them more about other things such as sanitation because when they go outside they can see how people live everyday.
This year I went outside a lot especially in explorations classes. In Water Sanitation group we went to Kampong Chhnang, Cambodia. At there we went to floating area and learn about how they use the water there. Also we interviewed them about how do they use their toilet. Most people said that they not use a proper toilet they only have toilet that go straight to the river. Then when they need the water to take shower or for clean something they take the water from that river to use. so it make me think if they have a composting toilet it much better for their health. In another exploration I learn about water safety. In this exploration we focus a lot about drowning because there many kids had drowned but people don’t know that most kids death from drowning. Also we have on program that teach community kids how to protect their self from drowning. Our goal it to get them to know how to move in the water and can swim 3 – 5 meters so when they get drown they can protect themselves. Also in our class we have made water safety messages. When we go to one organization call Camkids we explain to most of the kids there so they know what can they do if they want to swim. After we explain them, we hope most of the kids their understand and can share what they learn from us to other people.
One of my exploration this year is about 3D Printing. In class we learn about create a new product from 3D Printing to solve the problem in Cambodia. My product was Book Standing. This product have a lot of benefit such as you can use it while you do housework, cooking the food play instruments etc. We also went to one government school to explain the students in one class about the 3D Printing and our team product and we do rotation when we do it. When I went there I learn a lot from them and also share my knowledge and experiences that I have in this class to them so they can pass the information to other how amazing 3D Printing are because it new for Cambodia and have only one in Phnom Penh.
It is important to know about safety and I want more people to know water safety. I want people to know about it especially kids because they can get drown anytime when to go into the water enough though they knew how to swim. So they should know how to protect themselves when they enter the water. For the parents should know to when they should allow their kids to enter the water. In this exploration we went to Camkids and explain kids there about our messages because we think that when they know how to protect themselves and can help reduce drowning in Cambodia.
This year I have five explorations and in each exploration I learn a lot of things not only in class also from trips. One of my favorite exploration is Water Safety. I like this exploration because I can teach students how to swim and it the time for me that I teach the students how to swim. Also I can give them what I know and what I have been learn in this class to them. As I know that not many kids know how to protect themselve in water so I shared them about my messages. My messages it about if you want to go swim you need to know the weather and water condition and other messages. It mean that I reduce drowning in Cambodia because when they know how to protect themselves they won’t get drown. Also it not only me that help change but other people in my group also help change because in a group we come up this idea and discuss with each other. In every explorations that I learned it new for me and it give differents experiences and knowledge.
Name: Sokea
Date: 28/1/15
My last Exploration is Entrepreneurship. In Entrepreneurship class we learn about 3D printing. We also learn a terms that we use a lot in Entrepreneur. The first day we have to think about what is our idea and what we want to do then pick up four best idea to make four group. In each group we have think about a product that we want to make for help people in Cambodia or other countries. My group idea is to make a book standing because we think that it can help people with reading and free their hands. They can do other things while the read the book on our product. When we told Kichong about our idea already we start to do our work. In each group we have different job. My job was to do a blog post and site, Chhoeu was do about the design in 123D Design and Makara she need to write about the Daily that we do everyday. It was hard to make it because when we print out it always wrong. Then we tried to improve it a lot of times and we print it out about ten times until we get a correct one. Then we think that now we have a product already so we just sell it but we don’t know where can we sell it and who is our target audience. One day Kichong told us a good news that Dom will buy 10 products that it can help the students in government school. Dom have bought my group products then on Thursday week six we went to government. We went to government school to tell the students about 3D printing and our products at the last we ask them a question. Then if anyone of them have a right answer the can choose one of TWUM or Climbing products. Before we have a sharation we have a terms test. In that test we need to write how to make a business that in the sentence we need to the terms that we have been learn for seven weeks. I was hard for me because I don’t know the definition for all the terms I just know some of it. However, I thought that I did well on it and I try my best. On Wednesday weeks seven our Entrepreneurship group and two other group went to DI (Development Innovation) for share what we learn in class and what is our products about. It was fantastic because it was the time that Liger to go DI and do a sharation. Also is have a lot of people come and they really enjoy our sharation.
By Lux, Rithy & Sokea
The sickly smell of the rubbish cat.
And the rancid odour of a black rat.
Or the fragrant smell of my sport hat.
The sniff of Matt’s chocolate cake.
And the whiff of bread that I bake
Or the spicy smell of the peppery steak.
The spicy smell of red chilly.
Or the sweet perfumed of yummy honey.
And the tempting aroma of lemon candy.
Entrepreneurship
TWUM PRODUCT
Our class have divide into four group. In each group needed to think of one new product that can help solve a problem. In my group have three members including me. Our group come up with two ideas. First idea was cup and the second idea was book standing. It really hard for us to decide which one is the best. I told my idea to my team I chose book standing because most of people like to read book and it a new idea that people Cambodia never see before. Also if we make a cup the plastic will lead out when we put hot water. However, we all had chose book standing. Our product have two design because we want to put big books and smalls books easily.
Benefit: Mostly when people read the books they just hold it and it can make their hands hurt when they hold it along time. If you put your book on our product it much easier because you don’t need to hold it. Our product can keep the page still so it not waste your time to find which page you on. Also when you put your book on our product you can whatever you want like play instrument, singing and many other things. This product you can last for along time and it easy to take it with you because it not really big.
Who will buy our product?: Many people can use our products because it can help them a lot with read. These are people who will buy:
There are many things to learn in Waste Water Sanitation class but we only focus on two big ideas are Self-Composting Toilet and Wetland. We did a lot of research and learn many things from our classmate. Our goals in this exploration are to solve the problem about our school constructed wetland. We also want to make our own design on self-composting toilet.
When we learn about wetland we were learn with one expert from Wetlands Work name Solyka. She told us a lot about wetland and how it work and what are some benefit about wetland. We also went to Free The Bear to visit the constructed wetland that Wetlands Work built. Solyka is our guide she explain how does it works and what materials that use to build it up.
Our class have a night trip that went to Kampong Chhang. At Kampong Chhang we went to floating area to see how do people that live at there using their toilet and interview some family that they use self-composting toilet. When we interview people at there most of them use simple toilet that straight away to the river and when they need water to cook or shower they use that water. Some people said that they don’t want to use self-composting toilet because they need to do a lot of work so they think it better or them to use a simple one.
After we collect all the information our class had make a design for new wetland and we also make a prototype of new self-composting toilet.
Exploration name: Ecotourism
Exploration dates: August 13-October 3, 2014
Number of students: 13
Essential questions:
(1) What is ecotourism?
(2) How can ecotourism help change our country?
Ecotourism means to travel to natural areas that protect environment and help people life at location became better. Ecotourism was also about helping to preserve the environment. Our ecotourism group went to Chi Phat to study about the ecotourism in Chi Phat. Also we learned about how ecotourism in Chi Phat are different from other ecotourism sites. Our big goal when we went to Chi Phat was to interview as many people as possible. We interviewed different people to get different answers and all the people had different perspectives. After we interviewed a lot of people we came back and studied about the information we found some areas of concern. Our group made a recommendation to Chi Phat community about the areas of concern. Some areas of concern are education, transportation, marketing, collaboration, and energy. After we finished we will send it to Martin and Prom Houng, the CBET (Community Based Ecotourism Site) directors.
