ISK | 1 NEWSLETTER 29 JANUARY 2014 Seollal ‘설날’ (Lunar New Year) One of the most significant traditional Korean holidays is coming up at the end of this week: Seollal, Korean New Year! Seollal is the first day of the Korean Lunar Calendar. Korean New Year is typically a family holiday. Many Koreans dress up in colorful traditional Korean clothing called hanbok ‘한복’. You will hear many people say the words saehae bok mani badeuseyo ‘새해 복 많이 받으세요’, which translates to “Receive many New Year blessings”. From Year 1 to Year 8, the students have been making Jegi ‘제기’. Jegichagi is a Korean traditional outdoor game. Jegi looks like a badminton shuttlecock, which is made of a small coin (quarter size), paper, or cloth. In Korea, children usually play alone or with friends in winter seasons, especially on Lunar New Year! To celebrate Seollal , all of the ISK students were given Bok Jumoni ‘복주머니’ which is a ‘Fortune bag’. Made with colorful Korean silk fabrics, this pouch will bring you happiness and good fortune! From ISK, we wish all of you a Happy Lunar New Year! 새해 복 많이 받으세요! - By Ms Oona
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NEWSLETTER
29 JANUARY 2014
Seollal ‘설날’ (Lunar New Year)
One of the most significant traditional Korean holidays is coming up at the end of this week: Seollal, Korean New Year! Seollal is the first day of the Korean Lunar Calendar. Korean New Year is typically a family holiday. Many Koreans dress up in colorful traditional Korean
clothing called hanbok ‘한복’. You will hear many people say the words saehae bok mani badeuseyo
‘새해 복 많이 받으세요’, which translates to “Receive many New Year blessings”.
From Year 1 to Year 8, the students have been making Jegi ‘제기’. Jegichagi is a Korean traditional outdoor game. Jegi looks like a badminton shuttlecock, which is made of a small coin (quarter size), paper, or cloth. In Korea, children usually play alone or with friends in winter seasons, especially on Lunar New Year!
To celebrate Seollal , all of the ISK students were given Bok
Jumoni ‘복주머니’ which is a ‘Fortune bag’. Made with colorful Korean silk fabrics, this pouch will bring you happiness and good fortune!
From ISK, we wish all of you a Happy Lunar New Year!
새해 복 많이 받으세요!
- By Ms Oona
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Tiger Chocolate Exit Point – by Lily Cole During our IPC unit Chocolate we learned many new things! The Tiger class shared their learning with parents and other students last Thursday. We set up stations to display things we learned about. Our first station was Geography. In geography we learned about where cocoa beans are grown and about importers and exporters. Our second station was International Studies. In International Studies we learned about cocoa farmers and Fair Trade. Fair Trade means that the people who grow and work on cocoa farms get a fair amount of money for their cocoa beans. Our third station was about Science. In science we learned about tooth decay and Fair Tests. We learned that the sugar in chocolate can cause tooth decay. We also learned that in a Fair Test, one thing stays the same or constant and one thing about it is changed to compare. In History we learned about European explorers who first brought cocoa to Europe.
Our final station was the Chocolate Shop! We made hot cocoa, truffles, chocolate covered raisins and plain milk chocolate. We designed our own chocolate wrappers and hand wrapped our chocolates. Instead of selling our chocolate products we took donations. We raised more than 100,000 WON for Aikwangaon Orphanage!
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Scanvenger hunting for Clues… Cooperating to Unscramble the Puzzle…
On Thursday the ‘Amazing Race Club’ (ARC) had their first race. Members drew ribbons to see which of the two teams they would be in (Blue or Green). Team Blue were led by their team leader, Shreyan (Tiger class) while Team Green were led by Leif (Lion class). For their first challenge, teams had to do a scavenger hunt to find 7 envelopes which would point them to their next location. Their second challenge tested both teams on their knowledge of the teachers in the lower school. In their third challenge, teams had to each do 5 rounds on the hula-hoop. Both teams breezed through the challenge and it was a race to the finish line after they had solved their final clue. It was a close race but the blue team managed to have all members arrive at the ‘Pit Stop’ just before the Green team, making them the champions of the first race. Both teams showed great resilience, communication and cooperation as they completed each challenge and solved the various clues. Congratulations to all members of the ARC for successfully finishing their first race!
Working Together to Match the Teachers to
their Classes!
Race # 1 Winners: Blue Team!
Enjoying an
After-Race
Snack!
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‘JUST DANCE’ CLUB!
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JUNIOR GEOJE RUGBY CLUB The Junior Geoje Rugby Club always welcomes new players, boys and girls, from age 5 to 11. We train every Saturday from 11.15am to 12.30pm at the SongJeong Fulsal (323, SongJung-ri, YeonCho-Myeon, Geoje-si). Note that there won't be any training during Lunar New Year.
Don't hesitate to come and just try !
And check the photos on our Facebook page : https://www.facebook.com/groups/677489085629265/
20 PTA Coffee Morning @ 8:30am in the LS Staff Room After School Activities begin! IMYC Parent Information Night @ 19:00-20:30 at the Upper School 24 Pizza Day 28 Informal Concert 30-31 Lunar New Year (No School)
FEBRUARY
4 Student Reports 5 Term 3 Starts 13 House Day 14 Valentine’s Day 18 100th Day of School 21 Movie Night 28 Pizza Day
