World School Month #1 Done. Annika

8/20 Sounds of letters, beginning sounds, ending sound, short vowels, blends, Add 3-digit numbers with tiles
8/21 Add three digit numbers with carrying over the units, simply algebra, coloring for business card, Chinese tea ceremony, Hike to sacred cliff dwelling, Tanah Lot
8/22 Classical music, reading her stories, business card drawings, add 3-digit with 2 carrying over
8/23 Classical music, game theory, paper airplane contest, re-writing her Tea story, adding, intro to fractions, nature hike, rice cultivation
8/24 Cooking class, writing fractions, Assisted next town research
8/25 Walk through local town, Bali architecture, traditional Bali reed weavings, subtracting, subtracting with borrowing, presenting Tea Ceremony story
8/26 Subtraction, drawing research pictures, technology: uploading photos, creating documents, email with attachments
8/27 Culminating activity: ATV, fractions, story time, kite flying, exit interviews
8/28 Travel day. Car bingo. Site reading with day. Visit to sacred lake. Story time.
8/29 Fractions, adding with tiles, grouping tens, spelling list 1, story time
8/30 Equivalent fractions, subtracting with carrying over, spelling list 2, story time, reading
8/31 Ubud with parents, French
9/1 Green school. Reading with parents
9/2 Reading with parents, clock intro, shapes intro
9/3 Time, spelling, congruent sides, French
9/4 Geometric shape dissections, vocabulary, practice speech, story time, parts of an insect, exit interviews
9/5 Travel Day, Carpe Diem boat, water activities
9/6 Komodo National Park, spelling, sea creature art, story time, water activities
9/7 Adding carrying over paper, spelling, story time, water activities
9/8 Spelling, math equations, place value, story time, comic book writing, water activities
9/9 Water activities, video-taping commercial, French
9/10 Travel day
9/11 Time, rounding, place value, Singapore video, classical music, reading, writing, story time, insects
9/12 Art & Science Museum of Singapore. Travel to Tokyo, time, TM geometric shapes, reading, Japan videos
9/13 Travel morning. Walk to Imperial gardens
9/14 Buddhism, Shintoism, Sumo, Tokyo research, reading, add WP, spelling, compound words, Planet Earth science, bus ride & train rides through city, reading
9/15 NYC video, Japanese business card ceremony, Planet Earth science, Museum of Innovation, reading, time, producing a business card

World School Month #1 Done. Alexander

8/20 30 minutes reading, 30-minute essay writing on physics paradox, prefixes
8/21 Eclipses, equations step 1 to 4, reading, start business cards, Chinese tea ceremony, hike to sacred cliff dwelling, Tanah Lot (Temple by the ocean)
8/22 Classical music. Eclipse story. Adding integers, Story time, Business card drawings
8/23 Classical music, game theory, paper airplane contest, nature hike, city research, multiplying integers, rice cultivation, reading
8/24 Cooking class, operations with integers, writing recipes, reading, story time
8/25 City presentations, Black hole videos, walk through local town, Bali architecture, traditional Bali reed weaving, operations with integers, reading
8/26 Subtracting integers, equations step 1 to 3, Activity research: monkeys, nature walk, origami, reading
8/27 Culminating activity, exit interviews
8/28 Travel day. Adding/subtracting/multiplying/dividing fractions, circumference area of a circle, reading, bingo car game.
8/29 Fraction skills, monkey research, asteroid research and writing, reading
8/30 Volcano hike
8/31 Reading 2x, Bali info, vocabulary, video script, equations, math puzzle, science octopus, estate walk
9/1 Green School visit. Video volcano production,
9/2 Volcano paper, bug search and research
9/3 Geometry shapes and markings, reading, vocab, white water rafting
9/4 Video editing, reading, exit interviews
9/5 Travel day, Carpe Diem boat, reading, water activities
9/6 Komodo National Park, reading, writing, math, vocab, water activities
9/7 Equations combining like terms, reading, water activities
9/8 Reading2x, short story writing 2x, water activities
9/9 Water activities, reading, editing short story, intro to graphing
9/10 Travel day
9/11 Singapore video, writing, classical music, tenmarks intro, reading
9/12 Art & Science Museum of Singapore. Travel to Tokyo, writing, TM adding integers, Japan videos
9/13 Travel morning, opposites, multiplying rational expressions, reading
9/14 Buddhism, Shintoism, Sumo, Tokyo research, reading, multiply rational expressions, Planet Earth science, bus ride & train rides through city
9/15 NYC video, Japanese business card ceremony, Planet Earth science, Museum of Innovation, producing a business card, reading, writing, all operations one step equations
9/16

 

World School Month #1Done. Nicholas

 

8/20 30 minutes reading, 30-minute essay writing on video editing, prefixes
8/21 Eclipses, equations step 1 to 5, reading, Chinese tea ceremony, Hike to sacred cliff dwelling, Tanah Lot
8/22 Equations steps 1-6, Chinese tea ceremony writing, Classic music, Story time, Business cards
8/23 Classical music, game theory, paper airplane contest, nature hike, City research, literal equations, reading, rice cultivation, business cards
8/24 Cooking class, simultaneous equations with substitution, writing recipes, story time
8/25 City presentations, walk through town, Bali architecture, Bali reed weaving, elimination method, reading
8/26 Elimination method harder problems, reading, nature walk, origami, city research, reading
8/27 Culminating activity, exit interviews
8/28 Travel day. Sacred pool. Car bingo
8/29 Reading, research Hurricane Harvey, Early walk to sacred pool, system of equations
8/30 Volcano hike
8/31 Simple probability, special system of equation, reading, vocabulary, video script, math puzzle, estate walk
9/1 Green School visit. Video volcano production
9/2 Video volcano production, tea ceremony five paragraph essay
9/3 Geometric shapes and markings, tea ceremony essay, vocab, White water rafting, video reading
9/4 Video editing, exit interviews
9/5 Travel day, Carpe Diem boat, water activities
9/6 Komodo National Park, writing, reading, vocab, water activities
9/7 Graphing intro, slope of a line, reading, editing writing, water activities
9/8 Equation of a line, slope intercept, intercept-intercept, descriptive writing, reading, water activities
9/9 Combining like and unlike terms, water activities, video editing
9/10 Singapore video, writing, reading, x&/ exponents, classical music, tenmarks &physics intro, editing paper
9/11 Singapore video, writing, classical music, TM intro, reading
9/12 Art & Science Museum of Singapore. Travel to Tokyo. Reading TM graph interpretation, Japan videos
9/13 Travel morning. Walk to Imperial gardens, essay writing, video production.
9/14 Buddhism, Shintoism, Sumo, Tokyo research, reading, equations, interpret graphs, Planet Earth science, bus ride & train rides through city, reading
9/15 NYC video, Japanese business card ceremony, Planet Earth science, Museum of Innovation, reading, NYC video, Japanese business card ceremony, Planet Earth science, Museum of Innovation, equations with fractions, vocabulary, writing vocabulary sentences.

Green Day, Bali, Indonesia (Guest Post from Professor Gugick)

Today we visited the Green School, a non-profit, private, international, K -12 school set in the heart of the Bali jungle. The Green School’s vision is to educate students to become eco-friendly global leaders through innovative educational pedagogy.

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From their web site:

The school’s mission statement: A community of learners making our world sustainable.

The Green School Way: We educate for sustainability, through community-integrated, entrepreneurial learning, in a wall-less, natural environment. Our holistic, student-guided approach inspires and empowers us to be green leaders.

Values: We believe in three simple rules underlying every decision: be local, let your environment be your guide and envisage how your grandchildren will be affected by your actions. The eight iRespectvalues that guide us are:

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The school has its own hydroponics garden, regular gardens, and is nearly self-sustainable with its array of solar panels.

Each building in the entire school is made from bamboo. There are separate buildings for the pre-school, kindergarten, lower grades, and middle school, but the most impressive building was the high school. No rectangular spaces. No corners. An entirely open building concept.

Everything was made out of bamboo: bridges, auditoriums, and stadiums

The school was a bit too non-traditional for me. I would only consider sending children to the school for a year or two during their middle school years. There seemed to be a lack of rigorous studies for kids in high school.

Read more about the school at www.greenschool.org