Monday, July 23, 2012

Hello Everyone,

Week four has just begun and there is another family here from China! They just arrived yesterday and already have an action packed schedule. The parents are doctors and are meeting with local doctors in the area to learn how medicine is different here than in China. Their children are already gaining experience making movies in our film making class and interacting with other international students in English class. During English class, they are learning about American culture through reading, student-teacher interaction and watching famous American films such as The Blind Side. That is not all, for the two weeks they are here they will be experiencing many famous American cities including New York City, Boston, and Washington D.C. More updates and pictures to come!

Erin
International Ivy ESL teacher

Counselor Post #6

Hello everyone!!  This is the beginning of our fourth week at International Ivy.  Last week finished strong, with a really wonderful group going home having learned all new things.  Our students had an amazing time, an we had so many return for this week!  We also have two new international students, and there will be posts from them and their teacher throughout the week about their trips.


Here are our classes in the morning:



  • Movie Making
  • Race Car Video Game Creation
  • Reading an Study Skills
  • Chess
  • Brain Training
Our afternoon classes are:
  • Hocus Pocus Magic
  • Advanced Video Game Creation
  • Weird and Amazing Science
We have already made some interesting videos and we took some great pictures, so please keep checking back!  You can read the blog posts from our film class students today, and there is one more poem from our writing class last week that is going to be posted! 

Here are some things that you can do to help us out the next few weeks:
  • Take the student/parent survey
  • Take the polls on the side of the blog
  • Comment on our posts
  • View our videos on our Youtube Channel
Our schedule of events for the week are:
  • Tuesday - T-shirts go home
  • Wednesday - Halloween in July > wear a Halloween Costume! 
  • Thursday - Wet Day.  We will have a water balloon fight, so please have your child bring an extra shirt and a towel.  A complete change of clothes is also a good option just in case. 
  • Friday - Wear your International Ivy Shirt.  We would like to take class pictures on Friday will all the children in their shirts.  
Thank you!  Please check back again tomorrow. 

Santa Trap

I am in movie making camp.  I am making a fake commercial advertising a product I made up with L.Z and O.P. called Santa Trap.  It is really funny and cheesy.


L.C. 

Movie Making

I'm in movie making and today we started a short.  It was great the teacher said you could do anything as your topic.  Our topic was great so take movie making and start making movies.  


L.Z.

Week 4 Day 1

Hi, my name is L.C.  I go to movie making camp at Ivy.  I really like break because we get free snacks.  We also get to play with the frisbees and balls for 30 minutes.  


L.C.

Movie Class

I would like to finish my movie.  It would be cool to add cool effects.  I like Movie-making!


O.P.