Jamu Seller
We invited a Jamu seller to our class. Her name is Mbak Parni. She sells jamu everyday. She had been taught by her mother. Most of people in her family are jamu sellers. Jamu is traditional medicines made of herbs. The ingredients could be ginger, tamarind, sambiloto, mint leaf, brown sugar, honey, rice or betel leaf.
Jamu could help people if we get sick. Like coughing, bone aching, fever etc. It is good also for body stamina, also good for children. Mba Parni has to start making her jamu from 3 am then she starts making the jamu. She washes all the ingredients, grinding, squeezing and the last is boiling it. She separates the the jamu into different bottle because it has different use. We invited other classes to come and watch this event. Everybody tried and taste the jamu. Most people like it. The one I had was like mint and sweet taste. Gaby & Avi
The second photo is when I had a play as a jamu seller, I wore a wig, I had to play as a pregnant woman. We wrote our own conversations first between a jamu seller and customer. The task was to convince the customer that jamu was a good product to have. Dyllan
Below are some of the scripts. Class Drama
We have been learning about entrepreneurs and having a business. We shared what happens in a market place where people bargain for the price. We then looked at something that was common in the past which was bartering. Barter is a trading. It is different like we want to buy something and we pay with money. We divided into two groups and made a play to show this. In our play there was a man who wanted to trade his goat with a snake but there was difficulties because the characters spoke different languages. Alaka
Spelling Bee
In class we had a practice Spelling Bee. We needed to select the best spellers to join a JASIS Spelling Bee in Jakarta next week. Our class spelling bee was in teams. We had to use our brains in different ways because we needed to spell words backwards, count how many letters in each word, replace vowels with names and animal sounds and much more. If we got the word incorrect it was ok we were not eliminated.
ISA TESTS (INTERNATIONAL SCHOOLS' ASSESSMENT TEST)
Last week students sat for the ISA tests in the Grade 3-5 class. This included Mathematics Part A and B, reading, narrative writing and persuasive writing. Students reflected on their performance at the end of the test, shared what questions were challenging and what part of the test they felt they did best at. They also wrote a letter to grade 2 students giving some advice on what to expect when they do the ISA test for the first time in 2016. Below is an example of a letter;
We had our ISA test. You would probably think oh no, I'm going to fail but you should just not worry, take it easy, chill bro, chill because if you get worried the pressure is on, so just calm down and if you do the test it is actually not really that hard for you to do. The main thing is to relax. If you are stuck on a question skip it and then go back to it.
Reward systems for children. Are they a good idea?
Our current central idea is, "Humans create systems that support human endeavor and enterprise." While investigating the word SYSTEM we discovered different human systems but also a reward system. We recorded both the negative and positive for parents using a reward system with their children. I wonder what parents think and will they be similar or different when the students are parents in the future?