Ms Courtney's Class

Today we had Tashi's Mum come and speak to us about rice. We learnt about the importance of rice in our region and different ways people can use rice. Here are some of the comments the students made about what they learnt: I learnt about the Dragon Boat festival I learnt that in Indonesia they use a yellow rice dish called Nasi Kuning Tumpeng instead of birthday cakes.  There are stories and folk stories about rice from China and Japan For Chinese New Year and winter solstice people make glutinous rice balls Rice is sticky and you can make glue using cooked rice and water There are different types of rice all around the world Japans keeps the best rice grown in Japan for themselves There is long and short grain rice Rice is eaten at festivals and celebrations Rice is useful Rice is a medicine. When people are sick rice water can help you get better.  People wash their face with rice water and water the plants.  Does your family use rice or another st...

Happy Birthday Jodie. On Monday we celebrated Jodie and Joshua's birthday.

A few photos of the Earth Day lunch and Grade 3 Flash Mob.  Have a great weekend! 

We are lucky enough to eat every day so we had a hunger lunch to help us think about what it might mean to be in a group of people who don’t get enough nutritious food. Through random selection (choosing coloured blocks) students were put in groups to represent three different income groups of the world’s population. High Income – 9 students ate pizza, crisps and chocolates. Middle Income – 15 students had chicken fried rice and had water from their own bottles. Low Income – 26 students had plain rice and had to travel for their water. The student reflections were powerful and provoked some excellent discussion. Below are some comments and behaviours we witnessed during the provocation; High Income Group – comments "Best day ever" "I can't eat this but I'll take it home" "Ha ha...we have pizza and you don't" "No you can't have any...its ours, we got the red cards!" "Do you want...

This Friday is Earth Day.  ISPP will be participating in this day. We are asking everyone to wear green on the day and to have a meat free lunch.  The cafeteria will be serving meat free options for the students to choose from. There will be meat available if you do not want your child to participate in this. Please complete the survey emailed to you via Managebac today to opt out of the meat free lunch.  Please take a look at the infograph below to see why we are participating in Earth Day with a meat free lunch. 

G2 and G3 students are participating in an art exhibition with five other international schools in Phnom Penh.  The exhibition is a fundraiser to develop collaborative arts programs among international and local schools next year. ISPP students have created five art pieces about "unity" that will be available for purchase via an art auction on April 30.  One of these is by the students in our class! Come and have a look. See the flyer for more information.

Our Action song we sung at assembly. Students worked together to create the lyrics and actions to the song to perform at the Grade 2 assembly on Action earlier this year. A remixed version of "One Thing" written by Savan Kotecha, Carl Falk and Rami Yacoub for the group "One Direction"

For the past two weeks students have each had a day to work with a partner to create a Compound machine for their summative assessment.  Question Prompts for Parents: Who was Rube Goldberg and what is a Rube Goldberg Machine? What was the objective or goal of your machine? Was it successful? Why or why not? Can you explain the simple machines you used to make it? Taylor and Jodie Vathanak and Yi Lei George and Nicole Eliza and Tashi Lily and Rick Jasmene and Xander Maly and Mollymoon     Hailey and Josiah

Ready, Set, Design is a design challenge to enhance collaboration and creativity. Students were placed in groups of 3, each group received the same materials, 2 pieces of paper to use as surface items, 3 rubber bands to use as fasteners and 3 popsicle sticks to use as structure items. Each group received a different challenge card. They had 5 minutes to brainstorm ideas and 18 minutes to create their design.

Earth Day is  Friday 22 nd   April 2016.  Please see the Earth Day  website for information about the day. To support and raise awareness of Earth Day we ask all members of the ISPP community to dress in green on this day.

Thank you so much for coming and support your child today! The students all worked so hard this week to be prepared to lead their conference.