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Digital Citizenship Last Friday on the 10th of May, the Grade 5-8 students had the unique opportunity to lean from, and work with, Kim Cofino, the IT Coach at Yokohama International School. The topic of the one hour seminar was on Digital Citizenship and what attitudes, behaviors, and ethics are necessary to have in order to be responsible users of Information Technology. To start the seminar, Kim had the students google her name and asked them to find as much information about her as they could. This lead into a discussion about the importance of never posting anything online that we do...

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Students Celebrate Silly Shel Silverstein For the past few weeks, grade 6 Drama students have been discovering the joy of Shel Silverstein. They read a variety of his poems from Where the Sidewalk Ends and A Light in the Attic and chose a poem to present. The focus of the unit was on voice so they practiced enunciating, projecting and speaking at an understandable pace. They also joined up with another group to act out each others poems. After four classes of rehearsal, peer feedback and constructive criticism they were ready for a real audience. The audiences were composed of the grade...

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Middle School Humanities Quite often I get questions from parents and visitors to the TIS Middle School when they come to my classroom – just what is Humanities? Many parents (and students) probably have studied “Humanities” in their previous academic lives, but depend- ing on the part of the world they have lived in, it may well have been called something else. For example, in some countries, Humanities is “Social Studies”. Or maybe you took subject-specific courses in History, Geogra- phy, Politics, Economics, Psychology, Business Studies, or Media Studies when you were at...

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Global Responsibility Day On 22nd Mar – a Global Responsibility Day – Middle School students and teachers, Des and Lorraine dressed up to take a stand on an issue they are passionate about. Throughout the day, we had many opportunities to learn from each other our global concerns.   There are many Global Responsibility activities and programs going around in TIS, from pre-kindergarten to Middle School. Find out what we do to inculcate Global Responsibility through http://tisglobalresponsibility.wikispaces.com/home.     Kristine Adelsboell MYP...

Important: There is no bus for MS students on Wednesday, Mar 20th

Art News

Artscape 2013 TIS Art students were again represented in Artscape 2013. This major exhibition of art from 22 International Schools in the Kanto Region of Japan featured the work of 51 Grade 5 to 8 TIS students. A wide range of work in the exhibition featured the excellent quality of the TIS submissions. They compared very favorably indeed to the all the other work including the Grade 11 and 12 work from the bigger schools. Works such as Jack Hayes and Emu Yoshimura ‘Planes flown by Gods’ and Nicholas Tubito’s eggshell mosaic ‘Beethoven’ made a very strong statement about the quality...