KidZania
Job World
Gyeongbokgung
RIS Field Trips
Kidzania
Gyeongbokgung
By: Ms. Susan Thompson
Last Friday Grades 1 and 2 went on a fun fi l l e d fi e l d t r i p t o Kidzania where students got to see a little glimpse into the future of what they may want to be when they’re older. Students had a chance to “work” in different job fields where they were paid some hard earned Kidzania cash! Jobs included stocking shelves at E-mart, learning how package and deliver mail at the KZ Post Office, learning and practicing some golfing skills, and being a journalist by conducting research and writing an article for a newspaper! Our students had a great time, and some definitely started to think about what they want to do when they grow up!
Job World
By: Mrs. Alison Ricard
On Wednesday, May 20th, fourth grade students went to the Gyeongbokgung Palace for a guided tour. Students in fourth grade have been learning about the Joseon Dynasty and this was a great chance for students to actually see where the King’s family lived. We were amazed at home big the grounds are and wondered if they would have gotten lost. This tour really helped to reinforce the concepts taught in class and helps students to make connections from class to what they were seeing.
By: Mrs. Kimberly Ahn
On Friday, May 20, the grade 3 students went to Job World, where they learned about and were able to try out many different professions. Students were magicians, paleontologists, fashion designers, pizza chefs, construction workers, scientists, auto mechanics, electrical engineers, nurses, animators, and beauticians. The students took away a lot of knowledge from this field trip. They liked earning money by doing things they enjoyed, which got them thinking about what they might like to do as adults. Students also noticed that some jobs paid more than others, so they had to make a choice between doing a job they might love compared to one that earns more money. Job world was a great way for students to begin thinking about what special talents they might have and what their interests are for the future! Overall this was more than a regular field trip, it was an enjoyable and interactive way for students to learn some of life’s valuable lessons.
School Newsletter Volume 1 Issue 6, May, 2015
Science Fair
Family Day
By: Mrs. Kimberly Ahn
This past month, RIS students had the chance to participate in a Science fair project. There were a total of 9 participants at the science fair on Friday, May 8. The projects were displayed in the lobby at school, and each student was graded on the following criterion: the problem, hypothesis, procedure and materials, results, conclusion, presentation, and visual display. The amount of information involved varied by grade level with grades 1 and 2 students, grades 3-5 students, and grades 6-8 students competing together. The judges, Mrs. Ahn and Mrs. Ricard, were impressed with the effort shown by each student. Choosing the winners was not an easy decision nor did they take it lightly. The first prize winners were Elim and Humaira. They each received 20,000 KRW to spend on the book fair. The second place winners, Mothanna and Abdur Rohman, each received one free homework assignment.The third place winners, Asiya and Haroon, each received 10 free minutes on their iPads. Congratulations to all who participated. It will be great to see the projects that happen during next year’s science fair.
By: Mr. Muhammed Ali
Family Day is an RIS tradition that brings students and their families together for a full day of fun. It is a chance to meet other families, enjoy a catered lunch and participate activities. This year’s RIS family day was also a huge success thanks to all of the parents, teachers, and family members who joined us! We had a great time participating in many different games and activities, eating lunch together, and enjoying the beautiful weather. What a fantastic day!
RIS Faculty Barbecue By: Mr. Abdullah
All of teachers and staff at RIS gathered and had a great time together having a barbecue party in Yangjae Citizens Forest Park. It couldn’t be nicer for teachers to be able to come together, enjoy a delicious lunch, and share their lives in the beautiful weather. Keeping strong relationships between co-workers makes better collaboration for teaching occur. This relaxing day was a great chance to strengthen our team. Above all, we had a lot of fun!!!
Congratulations Graduating Class of 2015! Abdulrahman Rami Sairafi Alexander Kwon
Latham Jashua Ratnam Mine Park Ozturk
Roanne Hazel Jose Banks Shakhina Sharipova Wang Chun Lam Juel Nissi Park
On May 29th, RIS held their annual Year End Program to celebrate all the accomplishments from this year. Before the program began, parents filled the lobby to enjoy a gallery walk of student work that was displayed. At 2:00, the program began with a Parade of Nations and was followed by many student performances which included a dance by the hip hop club, an adorable grade 1 song, a Korean fan dance, and many other wonderful performances. The program then moved into the graduation ceremony for grade 5 and grade 8 students who were graduating from elementary and middle school. To finish the program off, the teachers sang a rendition of "Count on Me" to remind the students of RIS's continued support. We want to congratulate all the students on their amazing efforts and to wish them the best of luck in future endeavours!
Stage Fright Speaking in public terrifies Eric, but when the star of the school play gets sick, who will take his place so that the rest of the class’s hard work won’t go to waste? Eric Denison smiled as his third grade class filed into the crowded auditorium. Today was the first performance of their long—awaited school play, and he wasn’t in it! Yea! Terribly afraid of speaking in public, Eric had instead been given the job of practicing lines with his best friend, Phil Peterson, who just happened to have the lead in the play. Although Eric quickly got bored reminding forgetful Phil of this line or that line, he never once complained. After all, Eric knew it was a much better job than saying those lines out loud, on stage, in front of three or four hundred other students just waiting for a chance to crack up and laugh at him! As he settled into a cushy front row seat, he imagined the hectic scene backstage as the rest of his class made last—minute adjustments to their costumes or checked their makeup. “Poor old Phil’s legs must be shaking a mile a minute,” Eric thought to himself as the audience waited anxiously for the play to begin. Just then, Eric’s teacher, Mrs. Hightower, came rushing out to find him. “Eric,” she yelled. “Phil just fainted from stage fright!” “How terrible,” said Eric, wondering why Mrs. Hightower was bothering him with the news. It sounded like a job for the school nurse. “You better tell the principal to postpone the play.” “No, Eric,” said Mrs. Hightower frantically. “You don’t understand. I need you to replace Phil in the play.” “M—m—m—e—e—e?” stammered Eric, feeling faint himself. “Why me?”
“Because,” said Mrs. Hightower, desperately clutching at his hand, balled up in a fist in his lap. “You’re the only other student who knows his lines!” Eric felt like crying. Or screaming. Or yelling. Or running. There was no way he could be in that play. No way at all. He’d faint, too. He was just sure of it. Still, he saw the rest of his class poking their concerned faces around the sides of the curtains, waiting 0 see how he’d react to Mrs. Hightower’s news. They’d worked so long and hard on this play. They had dragged their dog—eared, high lighted scripts around with them everywhere; you could always see scripts sticking out of back pockets or backpacks. For four long weeks, they’d spent every reading period rehearsing their lines and practicing their parts, until they had them down perfectly. But only two people knew the lead part in the play, and one of them had fainted dead away. Now it was up to Eric to do the thing that he was most afraid of doing, in front of the people he was most afraid of doing it for! Otherwise, everybody’s hard work would be for nothing. So, he reluctantly let Mrs. Hightower clasp his hand and drag him backstage. Before he’d even opened his mouth to say his first line, he’d received his Very first standing ovation——from his classmates! They knew how scared he was, and what it meant for him to be standing on that stage, ready to perform for a crowd of kids who might laugh, or joke, or point at him. And with this bit of encouragement from his “audience,” Eric knew he could play the important role.
School Newsletter Volume 1 Issue 6, May, 2015
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Building Courage at RIS By: Ms. Alison Veneziano
For the month of May, RIS focused on courage as our primary character education trait of the month. At RIS, we define courage as not the absence of fear, but the ability to identify a fear you have and still move ahead to confront or overcome that fear. To learn about what courage really means, teachers and students participated in many activities. Student Council members helped in teaching the meaning of courage through an activity they planned. The activity involved every student in the school identifying a fear that they would like to overcome on a courage slips. These slips were hung on RIS’ “Tree of Courage” in the lobby during the rest of the month. We also met to look at the fears we wrote down and make plans to overcome them. Then we proudly displayed our courage plans on our “Courage Wall” outside of the auditorium. At the assembly on June 2, one student from every grade who had shown the most courage received a special award. Overall, the lessons RIS students learned this month reminded us all how important it is to have courage in life. Instead of letting our fears control us, RIS has learned that venturing out there in the world and overcoming our fears can be empowering and help us continue to grow as lifelong learners. As William G. T. Shedd once said, “A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are built for.”
Its Summer!
How to Stay Healthy
With Mrs. Julie and Ms. Bella 5 Strategies to Stay Healthy this Summer
For kids, summer vacation symbolizes freedom, free time and fun. However, without the structure of a school day routine, it can be easy for kids to fall into bad habits, such as watching too much TV, playing too many video games or spending too many hours on the computer. While kids may enjoy this type of freedom, spending too much time engaging in sedentary activities like these can quickly lead to unhealthy weight gain. In fact, a study of more than 5,000 elementary students found that children’s’ body mass indexes (BMI) increased by twice as much over summer vacation when compared to the previous school year. To prevent unnecessary weight gain, here are a few tips on how to keep kids healthy over summer vacation.( http://www.absopure.com/blog/healthy-living/5ways-to-keep-your-kids-healthy-over-summer-vacation/) Set a schedule While sleeping-in is a summertime luxury, it can impede the purpose of having a routine. To prevent bad habits that result from boredom, add some structure into your child’s day. Getting up around the same time, planning activities and having scheduled meal times are all great ways to incorporate structure into lazy summer days.When planning daily activities, limit the amount of time your child spends on the TV and/or computer, and use the extra time to keep your child intellectually and physically fit. Sit down with your child and make a summer bucket list that includes some new activities they want to try, summer camps they want to attend, crafts they want to make or books they want to read. Stock up on healthy snacks While some people may argue that schools contribute to childhood obesity, studies have actually shown that kids gain less weight during the school year. This is because schools have scheduled meal times, which prevents kids from snacking excessively throughout the day. Without a structured routine, kids are more likely to snack out of boredom over summer break.Since snacking is more prevalent in the summertime, it’s important to have healthy options readily available for your children. Taking your child to the grocery store can be a great opportunity to teach your child about healthy eating habits. By having them help you pick out some healthy snacks, they’ll be more likely to enjoy eating healthy alternatives to junk food.
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Sign up for a summer sports league Experts recommend that children should exercise at least 60 minutes each day. Getting your child involved in a summer sports league is a great way to keep them active, help them make new friends and teach them the importance of teamwork. Start by asking your child what sports they’re interested in playing and sign them up. Make fitness a family affair While it can be hard to juggle work, family and fitness, summer is a great time to get the entire family active. Without the need to help your children finish homework and study for tests after dinner, you can use this extra time to get outside and play. Instead of watching sitcoms after supper, play some catch, shoot some hoops, take an evening bike ride, walk the dog or go to the park.For families who like variety in their exercise routine, fitness centers like the YMCA, offer plenty of family friendly activities. Whether you enjoy participating in aerobics classes, taking swimming lessons or playing racquetball, there’s something to satisfy every member of the family. Drink plenty of water No matter how you choose to keep your child active this summer, it’s important to make sure they’re staying hydrated. Experts recommend that children should drink at least half of their total body weight in ounces of water each day, especially when playing sports in warm weather. So, whether you’re taking your child to soccer practice or to a friend’s house to play, make sure your child has a water bottle with them.
Have a safe and happy Summer! We will miss you! -Nurse Julie and Ms. Bella
With Mr. Bulut
Emerging Technologies that will Transform K-12 Education The New Media Consortium (NMC) publishes annual educational research reports that identify and describe key trends and emerging technologies that they think will have a large impact on education worldwide. On this issues, I would like to gather together some educational technology trends that NMC points out in their K-12 horizon reports in the last 5 years. It is important to know about these technologies because they are likely to change the way how we teach and learn in our schools. 1) Cloud Computing: Already has a huge impact
3) Open Content: Estimated time to impact, soon! More schools are starting to make their curriculum content available to their parents and to the public. This notion is expected to become a global trend within a year or so.
4) Mobile Learning: Estimated time to impact, soon! M-learning is learning through the content provided by a variety of personally owned mobile devices such as mobile phones, tablets, laptop computers, mp3 players etc. This is already happening in many developed countries yet it will become a word-wide phenomenon very soon.
5) BYOD: Estimated time to impact, soon!
Our corporate emails have been in the cloud for long time since Gmail became so popular. After that school wide applications such as LMS, SIS and standardized testing became all web based. Students are already using cloud applications such as Google Docs and Apple iCloud rather than using locally installed software. Network infrastructure such as MDM, user management and WAP controllers are also moving to the cloud which is more convenient and cost effective.
Schools are starting to change their policies regarding to the use of cellphones to allow them in school premises even in the classroom during sessions. Teachers are integrating use of SMS, chat, blogging and mobile apps into their classes in order to improve and make use of multi-way interaction.
2) Game-Based Learning: Starting to impact
7) 3D Printing: Estimated time to impact, 2 years
Educational games, serious games, simulations or even gamification. Whatever you call it games are greatly engaging. We are finally figuring it out that they can also be instructive.
6) Augmented reality: Estimated time to impact within a year or so You probably heard about Google Glass, well AR is actually closer and more accessible than that. With mobile apps like ZooBurst and Acrossair cellphones and tablets can easily bring AR into classroom.
3D printers are for sure one of the next big things. Yes they are expensive but it is expected to become more affordable in a couple of years and then we will start seeing them around in every school.
School Newsletter Volume 1 Issue 6, May, 2015
Poetry Winner
Author Studies
Summer reading
With Mrs. Grace
Spend your summer reading! I've read all my books at home, where can I find new ones?
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Author Studies In library, students have been studying the life of one very special author: Dr. Seuss. Students used their research skills to collect information from different sources. The featured authors for May were: Eric Carle and Louis Sachar. Both are excellent children's authors and are very unique in their own way.
ALL LIBRARY BOOKS WILL BE DUE JUNE 5! DON'T FORGET!