Nate and Young Seo's Weekly Update...

Welcome back to Clayton Network™! This week, we have your host Young Seo and our guest star Nathaniel, talking about this week’s Weekly Update. We would like to tell you about our week, which includes Counseling, Principal Lunch, Tech, and a rugby game. So sit back, relax, and enjoy! During Counseling, we took part in two very interesting activities. One activity was continuing our mindfulness lessons. We’ve been working a lot on keeping calm, but today we worked on mindful eating. Mr. Filice gave each of us a raisin, and he told us to first observe the raisin. Then, we put the raisin in our mouth’s and felt it with our tongues. Next, we each took ten bites of the raisin, and then swallowed it. It taught us to slow down, observe food, and be thankful for what we have. In the second activity, we played a game kind of like musical chairs.  If you didn’t have a chair, Mr. Filice would give you a statement. You had to tell him if it was rational or irrational. Rational means realistic, and of course, irrational means the opposite.

Later that week, we had Principal Lunch! Principal Lunch is where Mrs. Graham and Mr. L’Heureux (pronounced Lora) come to eat lunch with us. Sadly, Mr. L’Heureux couldn’t come because he’s looking at schools in the East Coast, America. Most of us ate pizza, while others ate hamburgers, sandwiches, or brought their own lunch in. We all got half of our plates full of salty french fries. While we were eating, Mrs. Graham asked us if we had any suggestions for recess. The american football players suggested that we turn one of our soccer fields into a football field, because they don’t have much space to play football. Another suggestion was that we cover the whole swing playground with a roof. Everyone agreed, but Mrs. Graham said that it would cost a lot of money.

During Tech, we learned about visual literacy. We watched a video to show how we can make non-living things, such as lamps or computers, look like they have feelings. It’s called personification. We first watched a commercial about a lamp getting thrown away, and the camera angles, setting, etc. It made us feel sorry for the lamp (to find the video, search ikea lamp on YouTube). After that, we got a camera and took photos to show the emotions of anger and happiness. We eventually uploaded the photos onto our computers and put them in a presentation called Visual Literacy Emotions.

And now for the sports on Clayton Network™. TAS (Taipei American School) won to ISM (International School Manila) 6-0 in rugby. Our class made posters to cheer for our teams, because half of us rooted for TAS and the other half rooted for ISM. Many people don’t know the rules of rugby, but it was still very interesting to watch and cheer. Taipei won by kicking two field goals (worth three points each). Manila almost got a try (worth six points each) in the end, but Taipei managed to tackled Manila out of the field to end the play. The end of the game was very exciting, and we all got to give our posters to fans of the team. We even got to stay an extra ten minutes to watch SAS (Singapore American School) play against JIS (Jakarta International School). That was a fun way to end of the week. Thank you for tuning into Clayton Network™, and reading our Weekly Update about Counseling, Principal Lunch, Tech, and rugby. We thought we had a very interesting week, and we hope you did too. Tune in next week to hear from our guest stars Luis and Johan. Tell us in the comments which part of the week was your favorite!