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A coin for a thought

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A coin for a thought  This week we had an interesting game called a coin for a thought.First teacher collected a coin from each and every student and put them into a purse.The game was purse must be passed among all students and when teacher taps on the table,the student with the purse must take a coin.And then say a most memorable thing on the year which was written on the coin. Image result for coins in sri lankaThe session was going awesome. My fellow mates brought out their remarkable memories when they got the chance to present their memories. Those were very funny and some are very interesting.Unfortunately I haven't got the chance in this time. But I enjoyed this session by listening to my friends' stories. So the last session for first year was ended by this activity and all those sessions gave us valuable lessons and good precious memories. So all these sessions were awesome. The session was going awesome. My fellow mates brought out their remarkable

Our Personal Goals

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Our Personal Goals   In last GNCT  lecture we had to present our personal goals in front of he class room. We were allowed to use the display our personal goals on the bristol board. Therefore our lecture inform about this in last lecture.                                                                          I divided my personal goal into 6 categories. There are followings Personal goals Educational goals Career goals Family and Friends goals Financial goals Physical goals                       Because we categorize my presentation in to this, Ii is help to explain the my personal goals others. According to details of each category did my presentation.                        This activity was help me to develop my presentation ability. Also I am helped to plan to my future successfully and what do I do for that.

CULTURE

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CULTURE Culture was the topic for this week's PPD session. First we had a discussion on culture, like what is culture and from what it is made of. Culture : the arts and other manifestations of human intellectual achievement regarded collectively. This is the dictionary meaning which was given to the word 'Culture'. Simply the Culture is  people's behavior, customary beliefs, social forms, material traits and norms found in human societies. For the activity of this we were divided into two groups by our madam. We had to create an activity according to a new culture. The activity should contain a name to the country, a specific language according to the culture, an anthem, a dance and a song. Madam gave us time to discuss with the group members and create those above mentioned aspects of our culture. We first discussed on the language. We took the word 'Houba Pipi' as the base words of our language. We took that words as the base w

Most Inspired Leader

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Most Inspired Leader On this day for GNCT we had to learn about Leadership quality. There are many good leaders with leadership qualities. among them the most inspired leader of me is Mother Teresa. When I read the word servant leadership, Mother Teresa immediately popped up into my head. It’s hard to imagine a celebrity who left home at 18 to pursue a religious life, gave up all her worldly possessions except for the simplest necessities of life:    three identical outfits, a pair of sandals, and a tin washing pail to live and work among the poorest of the poor in a remote and unknown country. Back to the servant eldership definition, Greenleaf (1970) stated the origin of this theory that the leader has a need/desire to serve others so that they can develop themselves and therefore perform to meet organizational needs. In turn, those followers develop into servants themselves to help others in the organization which again helps the organization perform. According to se

Egg Cover Game

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Egg Cover Game                           In last GNCT lecture on Thursday we did two games. Egg cover game is one of them. It is a architectonic and very funny game. We were given only one egg, papers and sellotape for  doing this game. We had to bring a egg and others are given by Lecturer.                                                      There are five group for did this game that day and there are 6 members for one team. Also all teams had 3 boys and 3 girls. The main purpose of the game is protect the egg form cover the egg by using the paper. Our Lecturer give 30 minutes complete the game. We had to think most appropriate cover during the game. We decide to make a cover like a cone that is following.                                                                               After we made the cover we named it as Egg Star. And also other team made different type of covers  like this.                                              

Standing On The Paper

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Standing On The Paper   In GNCT lecture in previous week we had to perform a small but very useful as well as a funny activity. It was "Standing On The Paper" . First we were divided into five teams and each team had 7 members. Then our lecturer gave us a paper for above mentioned activity & then gave rules of this game. They are, All members in the particular team must stand on the paper and can not touch the floor. Can not tear the paper. After standing on the paper we had to do some tasks that our lecturer said to do. After game was started, in the first round two teams were eliminated from the game, because they their papers were teared.   Each team tried new thing to stand on the paper. After first round then the paper was folded into half and selected teams had to stand on that new structured paper. In this round our team was eliminated. That was because our paper was damaged.  In the final round of

Lava River

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Lava River On 25th of October for GNCT we had a task called Lava River. It is a game totally different with other games that we did previous days in GNCT. Mrs. Sarasi Senadeera divided us into four groups with each contains five members and we were asked to follow these rules.          keep our feet always on the stones that were provided us. there are lava around the stones and we can not step on lava. If we step on lava ew have to give up the game. we have to go from one bank to another bank of lava river by using stones. We have provided only four stones for each group and we have to manage given time to complete the task. Unfortunately we lost the game because we had no enough stones to cross the lava river but we got second place in this game.  Then we discussed learning outcomes and can mention those as making good stratergy, team working, managing time and limited resources and also tollerance. Not only those but also we had lo