Library Service

We had a new member joining today. Therefore our work started to get finished quite fast.
We've done bookshelves organizing today, we spreaded the groups into three as usual. One for Fiction, non-fiction and mother tongue section. I needed to teach them how to organize in different sections, therefore I put different people for different section from last CAS.
At the end of the CAS, we've discussed about an event we're organizing during the Food and Fun Fair that's coming up next month. We've organized the Read-a-thon, so we'll be in charge of that for few minutes for each person.

Library Service

First CAS day for second semester. We have quite a lot of members in Libray Service, compare to the last semester. There were some new members, and some were from grade 8. I was thinking grade 8 may be too small, and would be a bit noisy to work in the library, where silence is preferred. However, they were very honest, obedient and hardworking. All the members absorbed in to the job fast, and I'm looking forward to see another enjoyment and memorable semester with this members.
8th of February, from 4pm to 5pm is parents' coffee meeting, where we all present out CAS activities. Parents have been asked to sign up the CAS forms, but they don't get a chance to take their time to look at what their children are doing. Therefore we are going to present out CAS, just like in Personal Project, we will be putting pictures and information on a white board, so that parents can have their cup of coffee and look around. So we've splited the group into two. Two were working on making posters and others were organizing the book shelves. Skylord, Charlity and I will be staying on Tuesday for this event.

Second Semester goals

2011 has finally come... woke me up by saying "this is your final semester in IB". I will be graduating in May, and the time is ticking to show that there is only a little bit of time to spend for CAS.

This year, I'm going to keep up the work I have been doing for one and half year;

Creativity;

• continue to learn Sinhala
  

Action;

• try to find some time to swim for half hour
  

Service;

• continue Library Service

First Semester Reflection

Grade 12 First semester was a very fun, tough, but I had a huge satisfaction. I continued Community Service, being the CAS leader of the Library Service, which I found it challenging at first, but got used to it as we went. A lot of members joined in and it was really fun working with them every Thursday after school. Being the leader was a great experience. I gained more confidence leading the members and make them learn new things every time we meet up, such as book shelf organization, ways of organizing magazine section and language section, how to put the numbers to new books, etc.

SAISA Girls' Football was the funest of the fun. Especially this is my senior year, I wanted to do something really active, fun and memorable. And I did. I had four days practice a week, but I was never tired of it. In fact, I was waiting for the practice day to come early, and I was usually the first one to come to Wednesday morning practice and used to sit alone for 20 minutes before everyone else came.

Although it was not part of the CAS, I did the IB Theatre Art Production, which was one of the best memories I made in my high school life. I enjoyed it a lot, and I wish I could include this event as part of my CAS...

I think this semester has made difference and improved my personalities and as a better person. By doing CAS, as well as doing school works, it made me a balanced person, that in the end gave me more confidence in taking more activities.

Library Service

Our aims today were;

• Organize the Language book shelves,
• Put the returned books in the shelves,
• Arrange the books in order.

We worked collaboratively with the members and finished putting the returned books within few minutes.
We splited the team in to half, and two worked organizing the language section and the rest arranged the other book shelves, putting the books in numbers and alphabetical order.

Next week is the last Library Service for this semester, and I may not be coming anymore, therefore I hope I can do everything I need to as a senior and the leader.

SAISA GIRL'S FOOTBALL

Since the field was all wet and muddy, we spent our practice time in the gym. There was a BOY'S BASKETBALL match from 9.30 to 11 a.m, we waited until they finished (we lost).
However, I'm not the type to sit still and wait for the time of our practice to come. I took a ball, grabbed a teammate and started practicing passing the ball on the side of the coat. There were times when the ball was about to go inside the coat... oops!
Other time, I used the wall to practice. Stand close to the wall with 1m distance away. Then kick the ball to the wall softly and use both legs to kick it. This actually helped and was a good exercise.
Another time, I threw the ball to hit the wall that is higher than me, then head it back to the wall when the ball falls. I know I'm struggling with heading the ball during the match, so I need to improve my weaknesses.
Another time, when I had more space, I kicked the ball to the wall in the angle. Stand next to the wall (left), about 1m away and kick the ball 45 degrees to left. Then I start running forward, because when I kick the ball in the angle, the ball bounces in the angle 45 degrees when the ball his the wall. This was a good practice to make me catch up with the ball when my teammate passes the ball to me.

Later on when the basketball finished, we played a small game with two goals on each sides. I was left back. I learned to go in front of the opponent when I get the ball from the goalie. It was an awfully fun practice, I must say.

Library Service

Happy thanks giving!


Annoucement!
Book Week that is coming up! It's from 29th November to 3rd December.
Bring a book to school during this week, as we will get 10 to 20 minutes of reading time in class.
Tuesday, bring your favourite poem, and we will be sharing them with everyone!
Read-a-thon; raise funds by reading books and donate the money to NGO to help build libraries for children in many countries.


We have discussed about the events above during the library service today. We weren't able to make much progress on the Read-a-thon, therefore we will be looking for sponsers who can give the money. This will continue about 4 months, so we are looking forward to raise as much as possible. We will be reminding the students in campus to have at least one book to read for next week.