Come 1st of March, Cambodia International Academy held its annual academic competition from pre-school to grade 9 students. There are different categories per level; story telling, reading, and numbers for kindergartens, maths, spelling, and essay writing for the higher grades, and speech choir which is combination of different students from grades 2-5.
It’s more than 2 months preparation for my students. Knowing the capabilities of our opponent section – Grade 6B, I gave them a head start in everything they will need to win. 70% of my students have poor English and this makes it hard for my remaining 30%, they’re the ones who are very fast in learning. You can imagine clearly what I need to go through just to pull their senses out of them.
Whenever we do the practice or our lessons, I always remind my students to never give up in things that they want to achieve. Never surrender even though you know things are gonna be complicated. I always teach them that there’s a room for us to win something in the contest despite the fact that the other class has more students than us. I once told them “Quality is better than QUANTITY” so never be afraid.
So the contest came and it’s a knock out style, one question per student and if you don’t get to answer right – you’re OUT! One by one I saw my students eliminated…I never looked down instead I cheered more for the remaining students in the line…it’s okay if you don’t win, for me you’re all my winners!
Then in the end the winners were announced…
Spelling Contest:
1st – Lor Ty (G6A)
2nd – Davinn Tay So (G6B)
3rd – Money Udom (G6B)
Mathematics Bee:
1st – Soth Pich Sorphea (G6A)
2nd – Chenda Arika (G6B)
3rd – Voeurn Sophanith (G6A)
Essay Writing:
1st – Soth Pich Sorphea (G6A)
2nd – Bo Yi Houy (G6A)
3rd – Ly Van (G6B)
What else can a simple teacher like me ask for more than having champions in my class. Grand slam in all categories we have! It’s a blessing from above that we win and I feel great that we’ve harvested the fruits we sowed a couple of months ago successfully. Grade 6A – you are superb!
As a treat, I made chicken macaroni salad for all of them and they liked it 
Sang Him ate too much and now he’s sooooo full!
teacher, i knew dat m not a good student for u,
bt i always try, u know abt me already, i can’t quiet for 1 minute…….sometime i said sth like crazy…..bt i jus want to make u happy, yeah, i accept i always complain. bt every thing i complain to u, i do it, i never think dat m not doing it…bt the same to ma chinese skool, u no, teacher in chinese skool very meant, he minus me 10 points already cos dat time, i jus get sth from ma classmate, and he said dat m tlking and play vit them, from dat day on, i b quiet all the time, and i jus spent dat quiet time in chinese to play in english skool…and i know what should i tlk and shouldn’t tlk….and tomorrow is ma report in geography already, if it not good, pls teacher don mad at me, can b happy….cos is ma first time to report, so i will try ma best… 