As the concluding project, the students of IBSH worked long and hard on group presentations with their fellow peers to teach their Colombian friends about various aspects of Taiwan culture, ranging from noteworthy landmarks to exciting festivals, from very traditional games to more newfangled activities.
Taipei Songshan Airport
Taipei 101
Chinese Lantern Festival
Sun Yat Sen Memorial
President Ma's Office
Chinese New Year
Thursday, June 14, 2012
Friday, June 8, 2012
WORLD FESTIVAL
Colombia-China-Ghana
What a day it was for
the 2nd graders as they each came to school that morning all dressed up in
their costumes and prepped for their presentations of the "WORLD
FESTIVALS"... Each class was responsible for representing 5 aspects,
namely Cuisine, Music/Art, Dance, Costume and general information about
selected Festivals from Accra (Ghana - West Africa), Barranquilla (Colombia)
and Beijing (China). Teachers joined in the fun, all dressing up in costumes
for their corresponding festival. Parents, teachers and other students joined
in the celebration which was also a closing activity for their integrated
project for this academic year, combining concepts from each subject as well as
values and cultural awareness.
2A proudly
showed of their dance in their handmade dragon costumes from the Chinese New
Year Festival, whiles others explained their stir-fried noodles to their
audience with soft Chinese music playing in the background. This group, which
was depicting an Asian culture, had the opportunity to share their experience
from the exchange with counterparts from IBSH (Taiwan) with other students and
parents who visited their stands. Classroom was decorated with Chinese
lanterns, hats etc to set the mood for this special day.
Next door in 2B, at the "Homowo" Festival which is celebrated to "laugh at hunger caused by droughts many years ago", the music was upbeat as the dance group, wearing red, gold, green costumes (colours of the Ghanaian flag) demonstrated their prowess at Ghanaian Kpanlogo dance. Girls had their hair specially braided just like typical Africans and all students had on white short sleeved clothes with beads on arms and legs. The music group played a specially prepared composition on their African drum whilst the food group had to ward off excited students who wanted to taste the spicy peanut soup.
The "Carnaval de Barranquilla" in 2C was all about salsa and enjoyment which depicts the typical slogan from this city in Colombia: Who lives it,is who enjoys it (Quien lo vive, es quien lo goza). This festival, which is one of the biggest carnivals in the world depicts the Caribbean part of Colombian culture. Students dressed up in typical costumes like the "La Marimonda" a hooded figures with long noses, floppy ears and bright trousers and vests and danced to Cumbia, salsa and other local music from that region which also has African Origins. There was food of course, ranging from "Cocadas" or coconut candies etc.
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
Colombian Postcards Sighted!
A bulging yellow envelope awaited us on Mrs. MacLeod's desk this past week, full of mysterious treasure. Everyone couldn't wait to get a hold of the postcards. The excitement could rival that of Christmas Day! Students received postcards nicely written in cursive and even received a beautiful bracelet. What a treat!
Monday, May 28, 2012
IBSH Family Trees
In class, we discussed the appropriate names for members in our direct and extended families. Each student shared his or her depiction of family members with the class. Some families were noted to be small and cozy, while others were large and extensive.
IBSH Recipes (Mostly Taiwanese)
Seeing as to how our school's population is predominantly (mostly) Taiwanese, the bulk of our recipes are Chinese dishes. With the recipes, we hope you can get a taste of our culture and experience the delicious food that is found in Taiwan. The Taiwanese are very serious about eating and that's why it comes as no surprise that it ranks in the top as one of country's favorite leisure activities.
Students had 3 options to choose from:
Two of our students, both coincidentally named Ethan, took to the challenge and produced fantastic videos on "how-to" cook a Chinese recipe. Check out our little chefs!
Click on the links below for even more delicious recipes! Try out the ones that sound interesting for you and let us know how it turned out!
Recipe for Pearl Milk Tea
Recipe for Hungarian Stacked Pancakes (Rakott Palacsinta)
Recipe for Vitality Soup
Even more recipes! YUMMY FOOD!
Students had 3 options to choose from:
- Typing out the recipe
- Typing out the recipe with pictures included
- Making a video with the recipe
Two of our students, both coincidentally named Ethan, took to the challenge and produced fantastic videos on "how-to" cook a Chinese recipe. Check out our little chefs!
Click on the links below for even more delicious recipes! Try out the ones that sound interesting for you and let us know how it turned out!
Recipe for Pearl Milk Tea
Recipe for Hungarian Stacked Pancakes (Rakott Palacsinta)
Recipe for Vitality Soup
Even more recipes! YUMMY FOOD!
Sunday, May 27, 2012
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Learn Mandarin Chinese!
IBSH students were asked to act as Chinese teachers to teach Colombian students how to say and recognize simple Mandarin Chinese words. All of them were asked to include a pronunciation guide along with the Chinese character.
Here are a couple samples of us acting as teachers! What a different feeling!
We didn't want to crash the website, so we listed the links to the rest of the Chinese Teacher videos below. Check them out to learn more Chinese words!
http://youtu.be/CmUdHs6zVDo Cheng Cian
http://youtu.be/E8UsRCorT1g Hao Sen
http://youtu.be/b-P3iX1kPeo Wesley
http://youtu.be/XW4j0j-CPxg Maxine
http://youtu.be/a1SugsYPEvg Kimberly
http://youtu.be/9CgddJVTVfc Geetika
http://youtu.be/q7-edoggz7A Jing Yu
Mollie
Jason
Ian
Heike
Cyril
Chi An
Cheney
Allyson
Ethan
Erin
Angel
Ryan
Daniel
Kohei
Jonathan
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