May2013

=Announcements =

June 10 - June 14: Green School Gdansk
=From our CAS students. . .= = = =**Because of kids' day in Poland, which is June 1, we decided to give children from Hospice candies and make them happy and hopeful. There will be a box in the WIS corridor where you can donate candy to sick children. Please help us make their lives better. The box will be in the WIS corridor from May 23-29.**= =-- Victoria, Andrea, Robert=

===MYP1: The students are working on their Bridge Unit. The students went on a field trip around Wroclaw including a boat ride to observe how bridges are structured to get ideas on building their bridges for the interdisciplinary unit between Math, DT and Science. === 









===MYP2: The students are working on their energy and electricity unit. The students have been experimenting with different types of circuits and have been measure the current and voltage in both series and parallel circuits. ===





===MYP3: The students have been working on their acid and bases unit. The students used different methods to find the pH of several compounds and solutions. ===



===MYP5: The students are continuing their Redox reaction unit. The students completed a Redox lab in which they demonstrated a single replacement reaction where aluminum replaces copper in a solution, producing copper metal. ===







Middle School Physical Education

All middle school students are in the middle of preparing for their track and field Sport Day competition. This is planned to take place on Monday June 3 and is a school-wide event for grades 3-10 from both WIS and ATUT. Students will be mixed into 5 colored-teams and compete in their grade and gender groups to earn points for their teams. The event that everyone will participate in include 60-meter sprint, distance run, long jump and palant ball throw. Each student on the team with the most points at the end of the competition will receive a gold medal. Members of second and third place teams will receive silver and bronze medals. We want to wish all of the participating students the best of luck !





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World Studies = =

MYP 1 This unit was about Ancient Greece. Currently we are working on our final assessment in which we write about something in Ancient Greece and something similar in the modern world. Something interesting that I learned was about Athens and Sparta. Its interesting because these city- states were very different and even though they were in one same country they were at war sometimes. –Dhaya

Our unit in world studies was Ancient Greece. Currently we are making our cubes we have choose our three topics and write information about our topics. Also our unit question is " **//Where do we see Ancient Greece today?" //**so we also have to answer that question to our topics.The most interesting thing that I learned is Parthenon they are almost the same as Supreme court. –Hojung

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=MYP 2=

We are currently studying the Renaissance, which is about a new way of thinking about science, religion, education, art and many other fields. We recently read passages from Machiavelli’s //The Prince//, about how a ruler should behave to stay in power. We also learned about “paradigm shifts” like the switch from Ptolemy’s geocentric model of the universe to the heliocentric model of the universe. We thought that Copernicus’s discovery was quite interesting. --MYP 2 = =

MYP 3 = = We are working on our summative assessment. We have to write an essay about our system. First step was to choose our system. There were many systems: economy system, prison system, health care system, military system, police system and education system etc. My system is education system. --Jimin = =

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Now in world studies we have a unit about government system and we are working on the Soviet systems for example prison systems, education systems and army system. This unit is about governments and how they control their country. During this unit i found interesting the governments and how they rule the country if they rule it by democracy or communism. I found this interesting because there are different countries that can border each other but they have a different system in government. The thing i found hard is the essay that we are working on because it is complicated. --Hania = =

MYP 5 <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">What is our current unit?

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Economics, we learned about demand curves, scarcity, production possibilities curve, home loans, origins of financial crisis and more. --Unna

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">What are we currently working on?

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Economics such as the factors of production, non-price determinants of supply: technology, joint supply, competitive supply, stocks, finance and the securitization food chain that led to the financial crisis. --Minhae

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">What have you found interesting and why?

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Learning about how the stock markets work, and also how the marketing on houses works since it’s something that we’ll probably use later in life so I thought it was interesting cause it is something I’d actually use. –-Emmi

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Language B Polish <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">MYP 1 - Phase 1 <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Phase 1 students have finished their unit "My place". They can describe their closest environment. For their final project they were suppose to make a video "room tour". Please see one of them <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">media type="custom" key="23134968" <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Students reflections on unit

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Currently students are learning how to tell about their everyday activities using verbs in singular forms. It's quite challenging for them because except of new vocabulary they have to learn verbs' conjugation

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Phase 2 <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Student have finished their unit "Biography". The biggest challenge during it was to learn how to use perfect and imperfect verbs. For final assessment students had to interviewed the Polish teacher (from WIS or ATUT) about her or his life and after write the biography. They done very well thus it was very stressful for them <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;"> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">The current unit is "My future". During it students still had to practice using perfect and imperfect verbs but in future tense. At the beginning student got know some Polish songs. Just as in previous unit the most stressful moment in the unit was meeting with Polish students and interviewed them. Right now students are working on their final presentation "My plans for future"

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Phase 3-4 <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">This school year met Polish authors: poets, writers. As a desert students currently are learning how to make a good movie critique. For the final assessment they will watch Polish movie and after write a critique of it.

=<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">VISUAL ARTS AND DESIGN TECHNOLOGY =

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Entire month May went under the preparation to 2012/2013 WIS Art Festival. As the Spring Concert is a final performance for Music as The Art Exhibition is the highlight for Visual Arts and Design Technology. This is moment when not only students get feedback from the others but also teachers evaluate their work. Both Mrs. Thomson and I received many positive opinions. We were more than happy and very proud of our students. I would like to thank to all students, teachers, parents who has helped to organize and lent class to this event. Special thanks to CAS students who helped in preparing stunning gym decoration for The Spring Concert. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Mrs. Daniela Tagowska

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Student's reflection: //<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">The Art Exhibition organised in Wroclaw International School was a fantastic show of students works. There were all different types of artworks from Pre K to Grade 10. The theme of the Art Exhibition was “The Mad Hatter Tea Party”. This name was chosen for it since most of the art works created by children were tea and coffee cups, etc. There were different kinds of artworks; Normal paintings, canvas paintings, 3-D art and many more. I personally think that all of the works were wonderful but the most eye-catching creation in the exhibition was the grape tree which was prepared by the teachers. It was at the entrance and put the people in the art mood the second they came in. Somethings I did when setting this awesome event was helping to set up the works on the stands, finishing our work and carrying stuff to their right places. Also Oliver and I were the masters of the ceremony so we welcomed everyone to the event and opened the event. Something I could’ve done better was my art works themselves. I should’ve picked topics that I could make pretty. I was especially not happy with the two tree canvas paintings because I // //<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">didn’t plan it out and it came out pretty ugly. // //<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Overall I’m happy how the art exhibition looked like when the event was starting. It was a lot different from last year since this year there were 3D-shapes, canvas paintings, powerpoints and many other things that weren’t present. I hope that next year this art exhibition will be at least as wonderful as this year’s. //

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Unna MYP 5

= **MUSIC** = Congratulations to all of the students for your great job on Spring Concert! It was your success and a result of your hard work. Special thanks to Mrs. Daniela Tagowska and Mrs. Misun Thompson for creating a program and making decorations with the students, and to all of the teachers for their help during the rehearsals and the concert!

During the next music lessons we will be talking about music in 20th century, focus on popular styles in entertainment music.

On June 5th, chosen students will go to the studio at University of Music in Wroclaw to record "Unshakeable". We are talking part in "Voices Around The World 2013" project, which links the voices of young people around the world through music, making an international recording of this song.

= Mathematics =

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">MYP 1

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Simphiwe:

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I did like Mathletics because it was an easy way to learn and it helped me be able to see my results right away and I say that we should always use it. The unit we are doing is pretty fun and I think it is a new challenge to me.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Dhaya:

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">In Math, we finished learning about decimals. Now we are learning about area, perimeter and measurement. I learned how to convert metres,kilometres, centimetres and millimetres to each other. I enjoyed reviewing on how to calculate Perimeters. Because it was fun and easy. I need to work on my converting more.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">MYP 2

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Chiharu:

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Our current unit was percentages. It was sometimes hard for me, but it wasn’t so so so hard for me. I liked this unit, because sometimes easy. The hardest thing was to remember the word that we need for percentage, and convert decimals to fraction.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I liked mathletics, because mathletics have so many programs such as “percentages” and “word problems”. It was so useful, especially “word problems”, because I make some mistake by don’t understand the language.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Yeon Soo:

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Percentage is very useful. we are use to make sure what is the small change or When do we necessary the decimal and fraction. Percentage have very many way to get it the answer. so It is attractive.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Robert:

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Percentages are easy for me; I may take a lot of time on them, but I find them very simple. I have some trouble on converting money into percentages; for example, the original price for the pencil case is is $5.00 and there is a 17% discount how much does the pencil case cost with the discount? I am not sure how to solve this.But, that is my only problem with percentages.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Hyoung Jun:

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This month, we learned about fractions and percentages. Fractions was easy but percentage was a little hard because we had to simplify when we change to fraction. I didn’t really like percentage but I liked when we worked on the mathletics on computer. I think it is a good idea to use mathletics. Use it every year please!

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">MYP 3

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Shivangi:

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">We are now learning about Statistics and Probability, but before we started this unit we also learnt about Graphing Relations which was a short unit. We also used Mathletics which is a program that helps you practice these topics by asking questions. I think that the Mathletics helped me alot with the problems that I had. I think I didn’t have problems during this month.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Oliver:

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">On math we have worked on graphics relations that i found very hard and i still have to practice more on it. Now we are working on statistics that it also quite hard and i am still working on it. I like working on Mathletics. Overall it was fun and i still need to practice to understand it better.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">MYP 5

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Minhae:

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This unit was a combination of logic, sets and probability. Sets and probability were something I had encountered before, so they weren’t difficult, but logic was tricky to understand. We used mathletics.com to practice these areas, and I liked how it was a different approach to the normal textbook kind of learning.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Emmi:

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">We have been learning about probabilities in diagrams, we learned about box whiskers, venn diagrams the means and modes and other things like that, its pretty hard since we have to remember a lot of names and different things that the names have and thats something that i'll mix the names up in some ways.

=<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Language A = =<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">MYP 1 =

The MYP 1 students are half way through our unit on Greek mythology. All the students conducted research into one or more of the gods or goddesses from Greek mythology and presented their findings to the rest of the class. Dhaya decided to do a presentation comparing the ancient Greek Gods with some Hindu gods which was extremely interesting.

After reading a number of hero myths and nature myths, the students are now working on writing their own myth, which is the final assignment of the unit. =<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">MYP 2 =

In MYP 2. the students are working on the scenes they have chosen to perform to the rest of the school. The Approaches To Learning focus of the unit is collaboration. The students therefore have to work together to decide how the scenes will run, what props and costumes are needed etc. Each session a different student takes on the role of group leader. I will let you know when the performance is ready!



=<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">MYP 3 =

The MYP 3 students continue to read __To Kill a Mockingbird__. When we came to the trial scene, we reenacted the scene, with students taking on the roles of the different characters. While reading the novel, we are discussing the issue of prejudice, as it appears in the novel and as it appears in real life.

Through the course of the novel, the narrator, a young girl named Scout, learns a lot about courage, prejudice, respect and tolerance amongst other things. The final assignment for the unit will be to create a scrapbook for either Scout or her brother Jem. They will demonstrate their understanding of the novel through diary entries, newspaper stories, quotes and keepsakes.



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<span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;">Last night was the Personal Project Symposium. This is the culminating event of the Middle Years Programme and gives the the MYP 5 students an opportunity to explain their experience of the Personal Project and show the community what they achieved. <span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;">They all looked professional and confident and did a great job explaining their projects.

<span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;">Emmi's topic was Stop Motion Animation and she explained how she had used the Personal Project as an opportunity to improve on a project she had begun in a DT unit the year before.

<span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;">Minhae talked about how she realized her dream of creating her own room through a 3D computer programme, after years of living in rented accommodation, constantly moving from one place to another.

<span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;">Unna's topic was Raising Awareness through a Sporting Event. She talked about her experience of organising the event for WIS grades Pre-K to 5, that many of you attended on April 13th. She also revealed that she had raised 1,122 zloty for the orphanage that she had done voluntary work at the year before.

<span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;">Ola's topic was Story Telling through Art. She decided to learn more about the culture of her native country by researching Slavic myths and legends and then portraying her interpretation of them through three pieces of art.

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<span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;">Congratulations to the MYP 5 students for their achievements!

<span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;">Thank you to everyone who attended the symposium and supported the students.