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The project work this year was quite an interesting one. We were able to decide what plants we were planting, had a visit at the Bottle Tree Park, and also did the planting with your hands.

The Bottle Tree Park trip was an important trip, which allowed us to make the decisions for today’s outcome. We were given a talk on the different types of plants available to be planted by us, and also the types of the fruits we would obtain and also the soil we were using to plant our plants. After some discussion, our group decided to plant cucumbers. After the talk, we were toured around the park by a guide, to introduce us to the different plants and also its features.

On one of the Project Work sessions, we were given our seeds. Every member was to plant the seeds individually, then the survivals were then be able to be transplanted to the soil, with the class. My group was quite pathetic, as only one of the five survived. We did the pulling of weeds, adding of top soil, mixing of the soil, flattenning of the mixture, before the transplantation of the surviving plants.

In all, this year’s Project Work was more fun, interesting and enjoyable then the last year’s one. I have had done my very best for the group and hope that my group can do well in this MPW.

Blogged by Sheng Yao

     In term 3 and term 4, I had learnt a lot about farming. The first thing I learnt was the planting of the plant. It can considered as one of the hardest things to do as it dies really fast. The second thing I learnt is the transferring of seedling into the soil. Like planting the seed, it is also really hard as the seedling may have died if not handled properly.

  We went to Bottle Tree Park in one of the Tuesday a few weeks ago. My group members were quite attentive, especially me I guess, as I am one of the RESEARCHER in the group. The notes given to us were useful and it tells us a lot about the plants we are going to grow.

   What I liked about this MPW is the learning of attentiveness because we would need to grow our plants again if they died if we were not attentive towards it, in conclusion, I liked this project quite much.

Wrote by Jun Kong and blogged by Brandon

   We are given MPW session every Tuesday in which we learnt how to grow plants and seedlings. There were much challenge in bring up a seedling as it is not as easy as we had thought it would be. I find growing the seedling the hardest as I am the one which ‘killed’ the seedling twice, once when I left in class, the second I forgot to water it.

   I still remember the time when we went to a place called Bottle Tree Park. We had a learning session carried out by PowerPoint by one of the lecturers. It was quite noisy in between times, maybe due to the excitement, and I had difficulty taking photograph of particular slides and recording the lecture’s notes.

   In this MPW project, my role was quite unique as other group I am a 24/7 secretary and I was always running out of ink writing sources. But it’s all worth it, exchanging my ink for the fun I had and the smooth cooperation I had with my group members. This MPW project had benefited me in much ways. (e.g. Team work, co-operation work, it also improves my handwriting)

Wrote by Nixon and blogged by Brandon

I really enjoyed the lessons prepared by my teachers. They are both enriching and fun too. The project work lessons turn out to be much better than I first thought of it when the class was informed that we will be taking Project Work this year. The teachers even took out their time to organise trips like the Bottle tree Park located in Yishun. I apprecieted the hard work of my teachers. During the trip, I have learnt alot of new things about the plants in Singapore and even surprising facts too! When we reached our destination, we had a ‘tour guide’ to bring us around the park and showed us many interesting plants. I was totally mesmerised by the Bottle Tree Plant, it was fabulous! After the trip, we were told that we will be growing a plant and yes as what Brandon had mentioned earlier, we had a very difficult time indeed to choose what plant is the most suitable for us to grow. We need to consider the climate in Singapore, whether does the plant take hundreds of years to grow, ect- in which my team mate Junkong had researched. I feel quite relieved that we kept our notes that were given out during the trip to the Bottle Tree Park as that really did help when we were growing our plant. And with that, I wish my group the best of luck as we continue hand-in-hand in our journey to see our plant nurture and grow up well. To the zenith we go UTY!

Blogged by Jordon

From the start of Term 3, I knew that I had to do Project Work as my curriculum activity for the next half year of 2007. When I knew that we had to grow plants and do up a blog for this Project Work, I felt relieved as I had been in the Environmental Club in my Primary school as a Co-Curriculum Activity. When we go to the Bottle Tree Park as part of our lecture for this project, I did not realised that Singapore can have so many plants planted, despite the fact that Singapore is a tropical country. When it was the time to choose what plant we want to grow, we took a long time to discuss. But in the end, we decided to grow cucumber. When we got the seed, we were instructed to water the plants two times a day. I watered my plant as instructed and in a month time, my plant was growing well. But today when I go and checked it, I found out that my plant was going to die. I was shocked and sad. I had decided to plant a new seed and hopefully, it will grow better than the past, although not as successful than the others.

Blogged by Brandon