I La Paz Newsletter, September 2015

Ago, 2015

Students Fabian, Luis and Ludmilla working on a Pollution and Recycling project in 2nd Grade English Class.

Their assigned topic was Ocean Waste, and in demonstrating how the world`s oceans have become increasingly more polluted, the team actually recycled used plastic wrappers to decorate their poster!

In doing so, the team showed how global concepts can be put into real world practice.

The Science Club is filled with experiences that inspire wonder, boost creativity, enhance problem-solving skills and make learning fun.

Our science club gives the opportunity to our students to become role models, learn life skills and induces critical thinking and scientific temperament. The Science Club aims to offer interactive science content in order to develop new scientists of tomorrow. If you want to participate, go find Mr Kevin Ortegon to join.

Jeff Kinney Is an online game developer, designer, the creator of Poptropica.com, and the #1 New York Times best-selling author and illustrator of the wildly popular Diary of a Wimpy Kid series.

Born in Maryland in the 1970s, Jeff spent his childhood in the Washington, D.C., area and moved to New England in 1995. As a young reader, Jeff was inspired by the books of Judy Blume, Beverly Cleary, Piers Anthony, and J.R.R. Tolkien.

Jeff attended the University of Maryland in the early 1990s.

It was there that he ran a comic strip called “lgdoof” in the campus newspaper and knew that he wanted to be become a newspaper strip cartoonist.

Although Jeff started writing down ideas for Diary of a Wimpy Kid in 1998, it wasn’t until the spring of 2007 that his book was published — and quickly became a New York Times bestseller, eventually reaching the number one spot. In 2010, Diary of a Wimpy Kid was made into a movie starring Zach Gordon as Greg Heffley.

In 2009, Jeff was named one of the 20 Artists & Entertainers in The TIME 100, the magazine’s list of The World’s Most Influential people.

Jeff lives Plainville, Massachusetts with his wife and their two sons.

“Kinney has a gift for believable preteen dialogue and narration, and the illustrations serve as a hilarious counterpoint to Greg’s often deadpan voice.” — Publishers Weekly, starred Review, on Diary of a Wimpy Kid “The real and deeper appeal of Greg;s story is the unapologetic honesty of his adolescence; he comes across as a real kid, and his story is one that will appeal to all those real kids who feel just like him.”

www.sciencekids.co.nz

Enjoy a wide range of fun electricity facts for kids. Electricity plays an important role in everyday life; learn more about static electricity, electric eels, circuits, lightning, electric shock and more.

Two positive charges repel each other, as do two negative charges. Opposite charges on the other hand attract each other.

When an electric charge builds up on the surface of an object it creates static electricity.

You have probably experienced static electricity in the form of a small electric shock, which is what happens when the electric charge is quickly neutralized by an opposite charge.

Electricity plays a role in the way your heart beats. Muscle cells in the heart are contracted by electricity going through the heart. Electrocardiogram (ECG) machines used in hospitals measure the electricity going through the heart, when the person is healthy it usually shows a line moving across a screen with regular spikes as the heart beats.

Back in the 1880’s there was even a war of currents between Thomas Edison (who invented DC) and Nikola Tesla (who invented AC). Both wanted their system to be used with AC winning out due to the fact that it is safer and can be used over longer distances.

This year ILP has started an English Science Club in the afternoons, where we will be exploring these facts amongst others in a fun and enjoyable way.

For those budding scientists out there visit this wonderful resource and challenge teacher Kevin in his Science Club and if you would like to enroll let Mr Carlos know.

Stand with the feet together and the arms by your sides. Draw the left foot upward bending the knee and wrap the left foot around your right leg as you rest the back of your left thigh on the right thigh.

Cross your arms at the elbows, left over right. Join the palms of your hands together keeping the fingers pointed upward. Inhale and hold the posture for the duration of the inhaled breath. Exhale and return to the first position. Repeat the posture on the opposite side, wrapping the right leg over the left and the right arm over left.

Please feel free to send us pictures of you doing your Morning Yoga and we will include them in the next issue.

Garudasana (Eagle Pose)

ldeas for pack lunches for children to bring to school.

Ducky Desserts Make a splash on a rainy day by scooping up a flock of these icecream ducklings. They are delicious, fun to make and take no time at all. Just follow these five easy steps.

Ingredients

Ice cream, flavour of your choice Chocolate chips or raisins Orange gumdrop, flattened Fruit leather or dried apricots First spread out a paper cupcake liner and set it on a small plate or in a bowl.

For the body, place a large scoop of ice cream on top of the liner.

Create a neck by topping the body with a spoonful of ice cream and use the bowl of the spoon to flatten it slightly. Place a small scoop of ice cream on the neck for the head. Press chocolate chips/raisins for the eyes.

For a beak, flatten an orange gumdrop and cut it into two pieces.

Finally, make webbed feet with pieces of fruit leather or dried apricots.

Please feel free to send us your recipe ideas and we will publish them in next month’s issue.

1°-2°: Design a poster about your first month in school 3°-4°: Write a story about your first month in school 5°-6°: Design a logo for our new Creative Writing Section 7°-9° Design and write a comic strip to be included in the Monthly Newsletter LAST DATE FOR ENTRIES IS 2Oth October

Cambridge Parent Workshops Thank you to those parents who attended our Cambridge workshops this month.

Remember that ILP and Cambridge will be launching the new Cambridge Examination Portal on our web site in October.

Children will be able to practice for their exams in a fun and interactive way through Cambridge TV, Games and Practice Examination Papers.

Remember to join us for our HPL workshops and discover how we are working together to develop reading awareness.

We invite you to be part of this newsletter by sending us all your recipes, articles and mind games to: colibri@ilp.edu.mx Where we are waiting to be enthralled.

Together we Educate!