Oakland Week 6 (8 - p)

Hello, and welcome back to International Ivy Oakland.  We had a fantastic group of boys and girls this week to wrap up our summer.  We had lots of fun in our classes, which was Minecraft Math, Minecraft Advanced, Website Design, and finally Photoshop/Graphic Design.  Below are little summaries from each class.  Ofcourse, you can find our flickr account by clicking the link here.  This will show you all of our pictures from the week.  It has been a pleasure to have the privilege to work with and learn from your children.  We hope to see each one of them back next summer.  Oakland would not be the same without them.

Minecraft Math + Minecraft Advanced:
This week we offered Minecraft Math in the morning and Minecraft Advanced in the afternoon.  In the morning, children were given math problems based upon their age and abilities.  The better they did, the more in game rewards they got.  In Minecraft Advanced, students were loaded into a happy wonderland where they can build some pretty complex things.  Students worked together to complete objectives set by the teacher, and learned much about teamwork.  Below are pictures from the two classes.  Don't forget all the pictures can be seen on the link above.

Website Design + Graphic Design/Photoshop:
The creativity could not stop flowing this week in Room 4.  The work the kids made is absolutely incredible.  Looking at their artwork, you would never guess it was done by kids.  The websites are top quality, with riveting content.  

Chatham Week 6 Wrap-Up

Happy Friday!

Here is a summary of our STEAM oriented classes this week at Chatham.

SCIENCE - Our science classes this week were very unique.  In our Youngster class the students explored the living objects outdoors during their nature walks and our cooking classes learned the chemistry of the way that some foods change through the heating or cooling process.

TECHNOLOGY - The classes this week that were solely focused on technology were our Scratch, Java, 3D and 2D Video Game Creation classes.  They learned several types of coding languages as well as different ways to write programs.  Each student's unique game truly reflected their understanding and passion of the programming.

ENGINEERING - Our Civil Engineering class was able to build different structures in order to test out how much force a building or a bridge can withstand.  They were asked to complete challenges, build assigned buildings and come up with their own unique structures.

ARTS - The culinary arts class did a beautiful job of designing different desserts.  Learning how to express their artistic talents through cooking was a fun thing to do for the cutie cooks especially. Our Animation Film Making class also did some amazing work on their movie.  Their illustrations were very detailed and their filming talents were very impressive!  Our creative writing classes also used their minds to create lovely anthologies of their stories that were written all week.

MATHEMATICS - Our Java class learned a new understanding of numbers and number sense when coding their programs this week.

Our Flickr page and our weekly Animoto have some great pictures of our students exploring new interests.