Thursday, January 29, 2009

Total Defence Day

I will defend greenery. They make the environment better for us and also make it more beautiful. I will defend clean air.Sometimes Carbon Dioxide makes people fall sick,clean air do not let people for sick easily.I will defend racial harmony or a riot may happen.

Wednesday, January 28, 2009

T1W4 Journal Writing : Festivals

Chinese New Year, festival based on the lunar calendar and falling between January 21 and February 19. It is the most important event in the Chinese year and festivities traditionally last for two weeks. During this period, towns and villages are decorated with coloured lanterns, floral displays, and brightly coloured banners emblazoned with New Year greetings. In Chinese communities in Britain, Hong Kong S. A. R., and elsewhere in the world outside mainland China, this is usually the Cantonese greeting Kung hay fat choy, meaning “May you prosper”. In the home, preparations begin in the week before New Year when, to honour the kitchen god, the house is thoroughly cleaned and decorated with flowers, food is prepared, debts are paid off, and on New Year's Eve fireworks are let off. In the New Year people put on new clothes to symbolize the discarding of the old year and its misfortunes and take gifts to friends and relatives. These usually include foods such as special rice flour cakes and kumquats that signify prosperity. Other familiar gifts believed to bring good fortune are the small red paper packets containing money that married couples give to unmarried relatives, friends, and children.

Among the most spectacular communal events are the dragon and lion dances which are performed to the sound of gongs and drums as they parade through the streets and reach up to take red money packets and fruit and vegetables which are hung from shops in the hope of good fortune. The celebrations end with the Lantern Festival when, traditionally, children parade through the streets with lighted lanterns.

Saturday, January 24, 2009

tooth fairy

The Tooth Fairy is a mythical character depicted as a fairy that gives a child money in exchange for a baby tooth that has fallen out. Children typically place the tooth under their pillow at night while they sleep. The fairy is said to take the tooth from under the pillow and replace it with money. early Europe, there was a tradition to bury baby teeth that fell out.[2] Some believe that the Tooth Fairy evolved from the tooth mouse depicted in an 18th century French language fairy tale. In "La Bonne Petite Souris," a mouse changes into a fairy to help a good queen defeat an evil king by hiding under his pillow to torture him and knocking out all his teeth.In some Asian countries, such as India, Korea and Vietnam, when a child loses a tooth the usual custom is that he or she should throw it onto the roof if it came from the lower jaw, or into the space beneath the floor if it came from the upper jaw. While doing this, the child shouts a request for the tooth to be replaced with the tooth of a mouse. This tradition is based on the fact that the teeth of mice go on growing for their whole life, a characteristic of all rodents.
In parts of India, young children offer their discarded baby tooth to the sun, sometimes wrapped in a tiny rag of cotton turf.

Tuesday, January 13, 2009

T1 W2 School's Vision, Mission and Values

The school vision is "A school of distinction Nurturing Future-Ready Citizens of Character."

The school mission is "Providing Quality Education to Equip Pupils with the Values,knowledge and Skills for the 21 Century."

The values are "Self-disclipline,Passion for learning,Integrity,Courage,Excellence and Sincerity."


I think the school's vision, mission and values are meaningful.


I believe in the school values.They guide me to study better.

students do not think of the school values when engaging in activities in school. They do not behave themself.


I live up to the school values by behave well in and outside the school.

I think the teachers can help students learn the values in class and in school by giving rewards to pupils who behave themself.