Here are some things that we have learned this week:
Youngster Math - The students have learned how to strengthen their mental math skills through stories that contain math problems. They are able to practice seeing math in real world situations through assorted videos and they strengthened their ability to memorize math facts and numbers through memory games.
Youngster Program - The Youngster program had another adventurous week. They explored the beautiful outside grounds at Chatham Day School. They are extremely talented at photographing objects outside and uploading pictures on the computer. They have also explored the theme of ocean creatures to celebrate summer at International Ivy.
Public Speaking - We have welcomed back a veteran teacher this year for our public speaking class. He worked on building the confidence of the students with speaking games and exercises. The campers learned to organize their thoughts and plan ahead clearly all week while they planned their speeches on a topic that they chose themselves.
Biomedical Engineering - This brand new class at International Ivy is so exciting! Our students are learning how the different joints of the body work, as well as how to build structures that support an injury. They spent class periods performing experiments on other campers and they carefully worked on learning how to design and build knee braces.
Sewing - These students have learned how to use the arts to plan out and construct an object of both their own designs and patterns that were given to them. They also learned how to use a sewing machine and brought home many beautiful products all week.
Mobile App Design- These amazing Ivy campers raced ahead this week and went above and beyond what the curriculum asked of them. They learned how to program five types of games as well as designing at least one unique game of their own. These lucky campers get to take home a lot of fun games at the end of the week!
Minecraft AM and PM - This week the Minecraft classes were exposed to a variety of useful skills. They used teamwork and collaboration to build towns and design a town infrastructure, engineering to go into space in order to explore the moon and Mars, and they learned about skills used in architecture to recreate national landmarks such as the Golden Gate Bridge.
Robotics AM and PM - The robotics classes at International Ivy are some of our strongest in terms of the STEAM initiative. They use engineering skills to build and design their robots and they incorporate technology with the NXT programming system. This week the classes used a number of different sensors to program their robots to work around different obstacles. The different sensors that they used were touch, ultrasonic, color, light and sound. They build explorer bots, racecars, hardwired and bluetooth controllers, and power tools. The animals that they built for the life forms class made me think that we actually had inchworms and crabs in the hallway!
Brain Training - Our brain trainers had our students raise their IQ's and memory retention all week. They used different study and memorization skills and played games to sharpen their reaction times. At the end of the week all of the students take a cumulative test and they can see how many years they added to their brain age.
Debate - This week the Debate students learned many useful skills that they can carry on into the future. They learned how to research using unbiased and credible sources. They were also taught that in order to properly research a topic they must learn to research both sides to an argument, even if they feel strongly about a certain topic. They focused most of their research on the influence of technology in society.
Civil Engineering - This week the class learned the physics of different structures in society. They had team-building exercises to practice building things together and followed up with the building of models of different types of structures. Our ivy campers learned how to build bridges and buildings that withstand earthquakes and different storms and made some pretty impressive models.
Overall, in addition to all the fun they are having the children can walk away with a knew understanding about new topics that they may not have known about before. Please browse through our pictures here and visit our Youtube channel here to see videos of some our accomplishments this week.
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