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Last Friday evening , ILA celebrated the successful completion of the school year with an entertainment extravaganza that featured songs, dance, mime, sketches, and an original piece of musical theater based on the classic children”s book ” Tacky the Penguin”. Music range from classical (excerpts from the Peer Gynt Suite) to jazz ( a selection [...]
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Bonjour to the families and friends of the International Leadership Academy! As we wind down a terrifically busy and fun 2012-2013 school year, we are looking forward to the delights of summertime. Here are some highlights from the month of May: A family Science and Engineering night on May 16 brought our school community together [...]
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From Wednesday, May 22nd through the afternoon of Friday, May 24th, ILA’s elementary students stayed at OMSI’s Camp Namanu, nestled in the idyllic temperate rain forest by the Sandy River, While there, they participated in the camp’s Cascade Science Program, an excellent intensive educational program which had them hiking to the Sandy River, testing the [...]
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Today we embraced the weather, the forest, and our friends with games, hikes and rain at camp Namanu, a place of enchantment and beauty near the Sandy River. This was a great opportunity for the children to spend quality kid-time enjoying freedom outside (jumping in ponds) and connecting with our natural world, their own self [...]
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There were rockets flying, boats floating and slime oozing at the ILA Science and Engineering family fun night. The kids enjoyed many different hands on experiments where they learned the how and why of things. One of the children’s favorite was a stomp rocket. The children made their own rocket and by the force of [...]
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For the past month, the ILA students have been the proud foster parents of 12 Painted Lady Butterfly offspring. The tiny caterpillars arrived by parcel post early in April, and were set up into two “nursery cages.” Since then, the children have raptly observed them growing into larger caterpillars, then climbing their container walls, suspending [...]
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The forest is alive with sounds of laughing children and excited voices these days as the children of ILA have been building houses and other feats of engineering using all the abundant resources our forests have to offer. It is wonderful to watch how harmony reigns as the children work together to create structures of [...]
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This spring will bring new activity outside as the children learn about planting seeds, nourishing the earth, and taking care of plants in all their stages of growth. Keep your eyes out for new garden beds being built at the school in the next few weeks. At the same time a composting project has been [...]
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