International Children Day

I have a plan to make an International Children Day in my town. It will held every 21th December. For 2014 the celebration will held it at  Convention Hall, which theme is Health. I will invite many children and their parents to come to this celebration. I choose health because recently health is important specially for children. Many children get malnutrition  especially in remote areas, because in remote areas rare nutriment. I will invite pediatrician to give many information about child health and sharing about many problem which experienced by parents. So in this celebration i'm sure parents will get many new information.

Maybe i will invite CJR because many children like CJR (cowboy junior) to start this celebration.The other famous person is Kak Seto, i will invite him to give many information about children's psychology. To food and drink i will give healthy food like spaghetti from spinach, soup, vegetable fried rice etc, The drink i will give juice, milk with many flavour but in low sugar and calory.
There are many activities in this celebration. There are drawing competition, model competition, fashion style competition, singing. Every competition there are judges, and every competition there are 3 champions. I give gift fo every winner. This Celebration just for child who have 3 until 10 years old.
But if there are don't join the competition its not a problem, The competition just for child who want to win and interest with the competiton.
I will give  a souvenir like key chains from this celebration and in the key chains there are name of the child and their parents. So this souvenir will be reminded that they had attended Internation Children Day.


- Natalia-
(speak up elementary 2)

festival in surabaya

              Hi guys,i think you ever hear this word "FESTIVAL".Many Festival we found in Surabaya.But,now i tell about festival food.One of them is festival Gado-gado.The composito are vegetable,peanut,a water,etc.Many pople follow the competition to made a gado-gado because it's very funny.

              And in the festival food we can choose what food do you like,in fact it's free.Maybe we can try to go to festival food.In Surabaya ever held a festival food.Many people go there.Maybe now,we tried go there.Thank you....




-AGNES-

Rujak Uleg Festival

Indonesia has many kinds of rujak, one of them is rujak uleg. Rujak uleg is one kind of traditional food in Surabaya, East Java. Rujak uleg made from petis with peanut, chili, and onion. The vegetables on it are bean sprouts, kangkung, lontong, tempe, tofu, cucumber, etc. Every years when we celebrate the anniversary of Surabaya,  Rujak Uleg Festival is held. Why does rujak uleg? It does because rujak uleg is surabaya's icon of food. There are more 1000 participants gathering in Kembang Jepun for held this festival. Usually, there are many women on that festival. The participants are local people or people who come to Surabaya. On that side, the participants are rujak uleg seller from East Java. The participants must wear a unique clothes for add the happiness from this festival, example: an army clothes, Gatot Kaca, clown, fisherman, etc. It will be fun, won't it? So, come to Kembang Jepun every 31 May to see this festival!

-Tiara

Interesting Place in Surabaya - Cheng Ho Mosque

Cheng Ho mosque is located on Jalan Gading Surabaya. This mosque has an oriental architecture with the art of it. The art is a symbol of China, Java, and Moslem culture. The colors of it are green, yellow, and red.  The architecture of this mosque is from China and Java. Cheng Ho is taken from Laksamana Cheng Ho who entered  Moslem when he in Majapahit. The model of Cheng Ho mosque is inspiration from Niu Jei, a mosque in Beijing, China. The capacity of this mosque is more than 200 people. In that mosque, there are an Arabic language made from dragons and lions from wax. In the left of the mosque, there is a bedug to tell people that we can pray at that time. The mosque has 8 sides and every number has the meaning from Moslem and China belief.  The size of Ka'bah  is symbolize by number 11, and Wali Songo is symbolize by number 9. Lucky is symbolize by number 8. It's interesting! So do you want to go there?



-Tiara

Interesting place in Surabaya (G-walk)

Surabaya, if you hear that name. What's in your mind?
Surabaya it's a beatiful city and beatiful place. Surabaya have many famous place which you should visit. But i will describe about G-WALK. Maybe many people who do not know about g-walk. Because g-walk is a place which built by Ciputra company. But i suggest you to come to g-walk. 
G-Walk is a favorite hangout place for not only tourists of the city but for the local youth as well. You will find a great array of nightlife, entertainment, bazaars and the widest choice of food stalls in its most alluring venue, the Citra Raya. With the concept of culinary and entertainment, GWalk which is part of the elite housing in Surabaya Western Citraland offers 98 cafe and restaurant are lined with local and international menu. There's a gado-gado, lontong racing, know the typical mix of Surabaya, corn rice, sticky rice durian and Hor with a portion of the fitting.
So this place can be considered as an interesting place in surabaya. 



This is the gateway of G-Walk

   This is the situation in the evening.

G-walk called house of food. Maybe if you're lucky you can meet a foreign people from many country. Like my friend experience, she met a foreign from Korea hehe :)
This is other picture in Gwalk

   

But if you will go to G-walk, i suggest to come in the evening because in the evening there are many kind of lamp so you can take a photo in there. And about price, emm i suggest you to bring more many because you will buy many food hehe.
This is enough for my blog and happy reading :))

(Natalia)

#mssilvanachallenge #interestingplaceinsurabaya

Ms. Silvana's Challenge

I thank my beloved students Ema and Fifi whom without them I would not finish my study. They were the most active contributors for this class blog for almost two years. They were subjects for my research. Research about this blog can be found in this link. Abundant thanks for my awesome former students.

Now I challenge students of my two classes. Both are speaking program classes named Speak Up Elementary Level 2 and Speak Up Pre-Advanced level 2. I meet and teach each classes once a week for 3 hours or two session per class. As always, it is a lot of fun teaching them and of course one meeting a week is not enough. Thus, I make a special challenge for them. I call it SILVANA's CHALLENGE. I challenge all students from both classes to write email regularly (of course I need to reply for their email too) and the second challenge is to write posts on this blog. I really wish that this blog will be continued by Emma and Fifi's juniors. The juniors that teach me more about how to be a good teacher and the juniors who have big spirit in writing too (hopefully). So, students, I call your names:
1. Natalia
2. Cindy
3. Alif
4. Tiara
5. Agnes
6. Ibram
7. Rifda from Speak Up Elementary 2 class

and
1. Rika
2. Dwiki
3. Ella
4. Ayu
5. Mela from Speak Up Pre-Advanced 2 class to answer my challenge.

I wish you all best of luck and of course prizes are awaiting for you. Please support this challenge and give comment to each of the students posts dearest readers.

:)

Silvana - The teacher