Back-to-School Night 2015

Dear Parents,

Welcome to ICT!

Thank you for entrusting your child with us this year. As we are about to start anew, we cannot wait to meet you and launch into learning together. 

This is our EY/PY ICT Blog. I believe that communication is the key to a successful classroom experience. Our EY/PY ICT Blog is your window to our classroom learning. You will read about what's happening in our ICT classes. We will share our learning and our projects in this blog. On the right side navigation panel, you will find links to all grade level ICT classes and some USEFUL LINKS to websites that you and your child can visit and learn together. Also, you can SUBSCRIBE by email to get notifications for newest posts and updates from our class.

What's new this year in ICT? 

Our school has purchased Apple Computers (iMac) to replace all Windows-based PCs in our EY/PY Computer Room! This is a great opportunity to  learn a new operating system (OS X) and new applications for a fun and engaging learning experiences. 

All first graders and new students will be provided with school email account (Google account). For parents of Grade 2 through Grade 5, your parent permission form was received last school year 2014-2015 or the previous year. For parents of Grade 1 and new students, a permission form is needed for your child to receive his/her school email account. I have sent this form together with the details regarding the PURPOSE and SCOPE OF USE of school email accounts to your email address and or you might have received it through your child's homeroom class. 

To review the PURPOSE and SCOPE OF USE of school email accounts  Click HERE to start reading. 

For this School Year 2015-2016, you will find links below to all grade levels the ICT learning outcomes. Please click the appropriate link of your child's grade level.

Grade 1

Grade 2

Grade 3

Grade 4

Grade 5

K2

K3

Our door is always open. If you have anything to share or any inquiries, please do not hesitate to send us an email. 

Thank you in advance for your cooperation.

Sincerely,

Ms. Alpha Paquibo
PY ICT Teacher
G1-G5
alpha@concordian.ac.th

Ms. May Balingit
EY ICT Teacher K2-K3
may@concordian.ac.th

CONCORDIAN PTA EVENT

Do you love movies?

Are you a fan of Concordian Dragons?

Are you COURAGEOUS (RISK-TAKER)?

Then this is your chance to see a movie about dragons, courage, and being a risk-taker!

COME! JOIN US! IT'S TGIF!

You could also win TOYS in the LUCKY DRAW!

*FREE SNACKS!

*The Flying Toothless

*The Mighty Night Fury

*The Dragon Catcher

HOLIDAY ICT LEARNING EXTENSION (K3)

Hour of Code

K3 - Grade 5 students of Concordian International School are participating in the Hour of Code from December 9-15, 2013.

www.code.org

Watch the video to find out what most schools don't teach in the classrooms. We, at Concordian International School are learning how to code starting from K3 - G5.

Computer Programming for K3 & Grade 1

We live in a world surrounded by technology. And we know that whatever field our students choose to go into as adults, their ability to succeed will increasingly hinge on understanding how technology works. But only a tiny fraction of us are learning computer science, and less students are studying it than a decade ago.

That’s why our entire PYP and K3 joined in on the largest education event in history: The Hour of Code. During Computer Science Education Week (Dec. 9-15), every one of our students will be amongst over 2 million worldwide spending one hour learning the basics.

Our Hour of Code is a statement that Concordian International School is ready to teach these foundational 21st century skills. To continue bringing programming activities to your students, we want to make our Hour of Code event huge.

First graders and K3 students will use the iPad app Kodable to learn to code. Here is a peek of our first graders doing programming. 

PROGRAMMING APPS FOR CHILDREN (IPAD)
*Click the link to see details of the app. 
1. Kodable
2. Light Bot
3. Move the Turtle
4. Cargo Bot

AN HOUR OF CODE FOR EVERY STUDENT

MOUSE

Using a Mouse 

A computer mouse is similar to a mouse because they both have long tails.  A computer mouse, or mouse, is used to communicate with the computer. It is held in your hand.  

Click these websites to practice using the mouse.

Baby Rose

Bobby's Busy Bakery

Bloople's Colors

Build a House

Christmas Tree Fun

Mousercise!

Fire Flies

Meddybemps Ghost Walk

MICROSOFT PAINT

Paint is a drawing tool you can use to create simple or elaborate drawings. 

These drawings can be either black-and-white or color, and can be saved as bitmap files.

Student Work Sample

VIRTUAL FIELD TRIP

GOING PLACES SAFELY

Students will be able to discover and understand that Internet can be used to visit places around the world and learn new things.  They will also discover that visiting places online is similar to visiting places in the real world and we need to stay safe all the time. The rules that apply in real world also applies on the Internet when visiting places.  

INTERNET FIELD TRIP

Students will learn the the key vocabulary term WEBSITE.  They will be visiting websites from real places.  Visiting the San Diego Zoo in California and watching live animal cams of the residents of the zoo. They will watch what the panda, polar bear, ape, and elephants are doing to prepare to get ready for their night nap. It is night time in San Diego and it is day time in Bangkok. They will explore other pages of the website to find interesting facts, pictures and movies about the other animals and the animals they love. 

Students will understand the difference between an in-person field trip and an online field trip. But both types of field trips offer different ways for students to learn new things. Students will reflect on their virtual field trip by making a drawing of a place they visited on the internet and what they saw on the internet.

At the end of this lesson, students will learn and must follow the following rules before using the computer and the internet:

(1)  Always ask your parents (teacher) ;  
(2)  Only talk to people you know;
(3)  Visit places that are just right for you. 

WHAT IS A LINK?

A link (from World Wide Web) is a source to another page. When a link is clicked, it will take you to another page of the website. K3 learned that when the mouse is pointed to a link in a website, the mouse pointer becomes a hand pointer. 

K3 students explored the website http://www.abcya.com/abcya_paint.htm to practice clicking a link and to master mouse skill by painting.

Screenshot courtesy of: http://www.abcya.com/abcya_paint.htm

RULES RULE!

It is important that students know and understand the rules around the school. Rules are placed to help and guide students how to be a respectful student. Rules will help students to be respectful of themselves and others.

In this activity, students will choose a specific rule and they will draw and create a poster about the rule.


*NOTE: Grade 4 and Grade 5 student work for this activity, please click STUDENT BLOGS tab and click you child's name to open his/her blog.

SCHOOL RULES

It is important that students know and understand the rules around the school. Rules are placed to help and guide students how to be a respectful student. Rules will help students to be respectful of themselves and others.

MIX & MATCH 

In this activity, students mix and match the RULES and WHY to be able to fully understand why we have the rules to follow at school.

*NOTE: Grade 4 and Grade 5 student work for this activity, please click STUDENT BLOGS tab and click you child's name to open his/her blog.