School Closure and How We Organize ourselves Week 7

With an unexpected shortened week at school we have only 3 and a half days of school left. We have been completing a ice-cream van math project which requires incorporates all the math skills we have learnt this week. We have also been writing about our upcoming summer holidays and taking the time to prepare for change for our leaving students and thinking of ways we can keep in touch with them. As well as this we write letters to next years Grade 2 students with some words of advise and tips.

School Closure - Home Learning

ISPP has been closed, Friday 2nd June 2017, please complete the activities on the Home learning tab.

Please try to complete up to 2 hours of work today. Email me at courtneysmedes@ispp.edu.kh when you have finished (before 2.30). Then you will be marked as present.

If you have any difficulty logging in to your email, Raz-Kids, blog or Mathletics account please email Mr Matt matthewdolmont@ispp.edu.kh

Special Gymnastics Assembly
Please take note of the special gymnastics assembly on Tuesday at 2pm and read this message from the PE Team:

Dear Parents,

On Tuesday the 6th of June we will be holding an extra Gymnastics assembly with students from KG to Grade 4 performing. Parents are especially welcome to join us in this celebration of learning. The assembly will be held in the main Gym, next to the swimming pool, and will start at 2pm.

We look forward to seeing you there.

All the best,

Mr Ben and Mr Andy

Important Dates for next week

Final assembly - Thursday June 8th, 7.45am in the Black Box Theatre. (This is different to the original time on the school calendar.)

Library - Summer borrowing starts next week. Please be prepared that your child may be bringing up to ten books home early next Tuesday.

Books coming home - Students will begin bringing their books and work home from next Monday. It may be helpful to provide an extra bag from Monday to Wednesday to help transport these home. 

Early dismissal Thursday 8th June - School ends at 11.45 on the last day of school.

ISPP Caps - Caps were sent home for washing yesterday. Please return them to school on Monday.

If you wanted to order a new cap for next year, please send $2 to the school office. These will be sent to their new class at the start of the school year.

Happy Birthday Phallyka!

On Tuesday we celebrated Phallyka's 8th Birthday. Happy Birthday, we hope you had a wonderful day, thanks for the cake! 

Podcasts

On Monday and Tuesday we started to talk about media and podcasts. We brainstormed was media is and how we are able to learn new information. After this we listened to an episode on Wow in the World. The students were engaged with a lot of questions and made good connections to other knowledge they have. If you are looking for some Podcasts over the summer Wow in the World and Brains On have some very good science based Podcasts for children.

Skyping with a Lego game designer

We have been making games in UoI. To help with our games, Anton's father helped us set up a Skype interview with Jesper at Lego in Denmark. We had some trouble connecting but Eito and Angela were able to ask some questions on behalf of our class. We were interested in his responses. Here are some of the things we found out:

• He works for Lego - working with people to design new toys.
• He heard about the job through a friend of his who was working there.
• The ideas for his games never come to him the same way...but they usually start with either a theme or a mechanism that capture his imagination.
• Games need different features to make them successful - it really depends on who is playing the game and whether it is for fun or a strategic game. Successful games can't be too easy to win...otherwise the players get bored.
• The most popular games at the moment are strategic and cooperative games.
• A game takes 1/2 year to 8 months to design and another year to release. They test the games throughout the process.

We really appreciated Jesper taking the time to talk to us and have started applying what we learned to fine-tune our own designs.