Programming 2020-2021 Sprint 2 Week 3

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Weekly Updates

Preschool / Spark Studio (PS) Update

Happy Deepavali / Diwali

On Friday, the PS Eagles hosted a special cross-Studio Deepavali/Diwali celebration when they invited the ES Studio to join them in their morning exercises. The exercise was a special Diwali Dance, and everyone was encouraged to dress up in colourful colours.

ES Eagles and Parents/Grandparents/Siblings joined the PS in stretching and warming up before the Dance.
YouTube Credit: Bollywood Groove – Multiple Locations across Chicagoland
The Eagles and Parents were so energetic! Some participated with colourful clothes and traditional dress!

Home Challenge

Only a few (3) PS Eagles attempted the Home Challenge this week. They were praised and encouraged for their efforts, and they helped us brainstorm easy Home Challenges that they would like to attempt next.

Home Challenges provide learners with responsibility over house chores, and a way for Eagles to practise responsibility at home. Once they have achieved their Home Challenge targets, the feeling of accomplishment spurs them on to keep it up and tackle more responsibility. We hope more PS Eagles will take on future Challenges.

AN watering the house plants for the Home Challenge on Monday and washing dishes on Wednesday.

Quest: Distant Learning/ Montessori Cultural – Geography

This week saw the PS Eagles open Mystery Bag 3. They were challenged to recreate their own Continent Map based on a Control Card with colours and the names of continents. The PS Eagles completed this Challenge quickly and independently, they are adept at doing things on their own by now.

AL photographed her own Continent Map.
SO completed her map and displayed it proudly.
JO photographed her own Map too.
AN proudly displayed his Map that he used the Control Map to complete.
AD and her Map.
AS and his completed Map.
AAD and ABH hard at work cutting their Maps.
AAD with his completed Map.
ADH and her completed Map.

Fun, Funny Fun

Being together means mucking about, even in a virtual setting, and the PS Eagles love mucking about! Zoom calls means … funny faces! An Afternoon Huddle saw an explosion of silliness and games.

The PS Eagle’s favourite Afternoon Huddle game of the moment – Making Funny Faces.
“Do you want to make funny faces?”
AAR completes 5 rounds of ‘I Spy With My Little Eye’. I see something yellow!
“I see something pink!”
 

Elementary Studio (ES) Update

Keeping Connected

We are now in our third week of the Sprint, and it’s still virtual. The ES Studio keeps connected via Google Meets and Google Chat; discussions, the exchanging of ideas and play are often done via these platforms.

This week we had a Hero Sharing with Dr. Shien.

Dr. Shien is a Professor of Practice at the Asian School of Business. He co-founded a Computing Society which organizes the annual Malaysian Computing Competition (MCC). His experience and interests include Computer Science, Education and Finance.

During the call, the ES Eagles had the opportunity to share their programming work with him. The Eagles were delighted and encourage to have the opportunity to learn from him.

 Programming can be fun, as the ES Eagles have been seeing. Dr. Shien brought it even more to life in his lively session.

Learning From Setbacks

Two mid-day launches were led by the MS Eagles. The first one didn’t go as smoothly as it was supposed to; the Eagles struggled with a technical issue. The Eagles reflected that they needed to be better prepared beforehand.

The result of that reflection was evident in the second launch of the week. The launch ran smoothly. The lesson learned the second time around was to give clearer instructions when communicating how to play a game.

 

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