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Tubes for Days

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3rd round of Toilet Roll and Tube Collecting 

Please save your toilet rolls and tubes to bring in between Monday February 5th and Wednesday February 7th. The ten students with the most tubes brought in over those 3 days will win a Caine’s Arcade Staff T Shirt to wear at our Cardboard Challenge event on Tuesday April 30th.  

Please don’t send in other bigger cardboard boxes til April, as we have nowhere to store it. Please keep them in your home til then if you can and e mail me, kimbra.power@saschina.org if you have any extra special large boxes (like tv’s/fridges/bikes/pianos) as we will do our best to get those from you. 

Thank you to the students who HAVE brought in toilet rolls so far, but again, please save them til Feb 5-7 if possible.

To read more about why we have a day for our Cardboard Challenge and the history of Caine’s Arcade go here https://kpower34.wordpress.com/2021/05/09/cardboard-challenge-2021/  


Stay Tuned for an action-packed Spring in the Library

Everything you need to know about CC

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In 2012, a chance encounter between a filmmaker and a nine-year-old entrepreneur sparked a worldwide movement celebrating creativity, play and the power of imagination.

Inspired by the short film, ‘Caine’s Arcade’, the Global Cardboard Challenge is an annual event presented by the Imagination Foundation that celebrates child creativity and the role communities can play in fostering it.

Here is the Caine’s Arcade video that triggered the creation of the Imagination Foundation; they then founded the Global Cardboard Challenge https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ul9c-4dX4Hk&feature=youtu.be NB you will need a VPN to watch most of these clips if you are in China.

Please read more about the Global Cardboard Challenge and the Imagination Foundation here. http://imagination.org/our-projects/cardboard-challenge/

You can also watch the very first Caine’s Arcade video here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faIFNkdq96U&feature=youtu.be

Finally, here is the TedxTeen talk Caine did https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRCrAT1YcTo&feature=youtu.be

CREATIVE-PLAY-FOR-WEB.001Why aren’t I allowed to take my creation home?

The short answer… because I said so. Are you ready for the long answer?

We want you to focus on having fun, creating something original and using your imagination for its own sake, not for the sake of the end product.

We would love you to collaborate with others; maybe one friend, maybe someone you’ve never worked with before, perhaps a group of friends will work on something together or maybe you’ll create something on your own… possibly a combination of all of the above; you have time to play.

We don’t want people arguing or getting upset about who made what and who gets to keep what and we think if you are given the chance for that to happen, it will happen.

There is NOT room on our school buses for many of the creations; it is not fair for some to take it home and not others, so we are just saying NO.

If you are desperately sad to part with what you have created here are some options for you.

1. Take a photo or get a parent, teacher or friend to take one for you, Mrs. Hossack will be taking photos all day long, so ask her to snap one for you.

2. If it is something that either JUST you worked on, or only students from your class, and it is NOT enormous, ask your teacher if you can keep it in your classroom for a little while.

3. Do it again… it may be even better second time around… invite some friends over and have your own Cardboard Challenge. If you love what you do on the day of the cardboard challenge, go home and keep creating… that is the joy of creating with your imagination, and limited, re-useable and recyclable materials.

WE NEED VOLUNTEERS 

We need you on October 9th if you are available to come in and help us during our Global Cardboard Challenge.The best time to come in would be in the morning, as we will kick off with a brief assembly in the Auditorium first thing.We then require you to help cut/paste/glue/staple/cheer/encourage/supervise/enjoy watching your children create in this amazing hands on event.

Students will be working together in grade levels and we are hopeful for a rain free day!

If you think you can be of assistance in any of the above ways, please contact your child/children’s homeroom teachers and let them know you are ready to help. The ‘making’ part of the day should be over by lunchtime, so then you could have lunch with your child if you wish… in the afternoon, we move on to playing/showing off creations and the all important CLEAN UP, where your help would really be appreciated.

Thanks, and please contact kimbra.power@saschina.org if you have any questions

Power of Creative Play

Give a child a cardboard box and some inspiration and imagination comes to life. We call this Creative Play, and fueling it is one of the most important thing we can do to prepare children for the future. It develops valuable 21st century skills and prepares kids to be next-generation innovators.

 

 

 

4 more

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Four more sleeps people… I’m sorting cardboard in my sleep!

OK… nuts and bolts

Before the Day

*Students should be bringing in any and all clean cardboard; dropping it in appropriate marked boxes outside the library.

*Gather and label (if you are serious about getting things back) any classroom supplies like markers/pencils/scissors etc. Many tools will be provided-(see below) but feel free to provide glitter/stickers etc if you are that way inclined. (NO hot glue guns-NO paint)

*Tell your students they MUST WEAR THEIR HOUSE-SHIRTS on Friday (looks great for photos)

*All ES and MS teachers will be told where they should be, and when, and with who (or is it whom?) by Wednesday 3 pm.

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*If students bring in cardboard on Friday October 9th, keep it with you to take to your creative space later that morning

*Once bags are unpacked and attendance taken, please bring your students straight to the Auditorium where we will have a pep talk and show a 7 minute clip of last years event. We aim to start at 8.10 and be out of there by 8.30.

*Move to your creative space where there will be baskets of tape/scissors/exacto knives/string

*Students will attend regular recess/snack/lunch times as usual and create right up ’til they go to lunch/recess (at least)

*Information on after lunch… stay tuned.

 

And so it begins…

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There was movement in the hallway for the word had passed around, that the Cardboard Challenge had got underway…

Well, we have over 2,000 individual small cardboard items brought in by Prek-5th grade so far and the hallways are buzzing with the sound of  ” who is winning?”

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The truth is, we are all winners when our administration allows our children a full day of play, and these two weeks of our cardboard collection competition are just that, a chance to collect the cardboard, providing the incentive of a few little prizes for the kids who bring in the most. We are all really looking forward to October 9th, when we celebrate the imagination of our children who were so impressed when they learned about Caine’s Arcade and the Imagination Foundation.

Don’t forget to keep your eyes open for interesting cardboard over October Break, and have a wonderful, safe holiday.

 

Nitty Gritty Low Down

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1. Cardboard Challenge is on Friday October 9th (one month away, but only FIFTEEN school days away)

2. Students should be collecting and keeping EVERYTHING cardboard NOW!

Check out how much fun we had last year… 

3. Students should bring in as much SMALL cardboard as possible next week, a 4 day week (SMALL is ANYTHING that will fit into an A4 photocopy box, e.g. toothpaste/granola/tissue/cereal/shoe boxes, toilet rolls, saran wrap/foil rolls)

This year, we will have three teams competing to collect the most cardboard.

PreK, 4th grade

K, 1st grade, 5th grade

2nd grade, 3rd grade

4. Between September 21st and 25th students will drop off their SMALL cardboard items in the labeled boxes outside the ES Library by 9 am

(At 9 am, cardboard will be counted, and a Daily Tally will be kept of the number of individual cardboard items submitted per team, a winning team will be announced at the end of the week, each member of that team will win a small prize) 

4.a Students should collect as much big AND small cardboard over October Break

5. Between October 5th and 8th students will drop off ANY cardboard items in the labeled boxes outside the ES Library

(At 9 am, cardboard will be counted, and a Daily Tally will be kept of the number of individual cardboard items submitted per team, a winning team will be announced at the end of the week, each member of that team will win a small prize) 

6. Global Cardboard Challenge is on Friday October 9th, stay tuned for more details about what the day will look like.

Cereal Boxes
Toilet Roll winners 3ED
Shoe Boxes

One Month to Go…the Countdown begins

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Today we kick off the one month countdown to our Cardboard Challenge, being held on October 9th this year. Check out last year’s cardboard challenge here, thanks to Mr. Neill; we certainly had a lot of fun.

Below is an approximate schedule of what to expect in the weeks leading to the event.

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From now-September 14th-we are all promoting the event, asking children and parents to start collecting things in their home, community or even parents workplace (e.g. ask colleagues to save their toilet rolls/tissue boxes etc)

September 15th-September 18th-Students bring small cardboard items into their classrooms, such as cereal boxes, toothpaste boxes, shoe boxes, granola boxes, tissue boxes etc

Weekly Challenge No 1- September 21st-September 25th

This year we are putting different grade levels together to collect materials. Grade Level Competitions to contribute the most small items into the boxes set up outside the ES Library, there will be giant boxes for these grade groupings: 

Pre K and 4th Grade

K, 1st and 5th Grade

2nd and 3rd Grade 

Between September 21st and September 25th, students will drop off their small cardboard items such as cereal boxes, toothpaste boxes, shoe boxes, granola boxes, tissue boxes in the giant boxes outside the library.

Each Day at 9 am, the items collected will be counted, and a running tally displayed on the wall. The Group with the most items contributed by Friday 9 am will be the winner and a small prize will be given to each student. 

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Weekly Challenge No 2- October 5-8th

Stay tuned for details

Friday October 9th

Global Cardboard Challenge

Stay tuned for details

If you’d like to know more about the origins of this challenge, have a look at the Imagination Foundation website here.

While this is an All Elementary Event, we also have an increasing number of helpers and participants from the Middle and High school which adds to the fun and great community feel. Parents and community members are not just welcome, but necessary, so please please e mail me at kimbra.power@saschina.org if you’d like to come along.

Cardboard Challenge Changes Children

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OK, well it’s not that the children are PHYSICALLY changed, or shorter now, or actually changed at all really… but doesn’t that alliteration sound great?

Thank you to Amy Hoosack for all the wonderful, no, BRILLIANT photos taken on Shanghai American School, Pudong Campus’s Elementary Cardboard Challenge.

You can see here what an amazing day the kids had from the smiles on their faces, it really was incredible to see students, teachers and parents having so much fun playing with cardboard… and using their imagination.The only complaint I kept hearing was that they were not allowed to take the materials home with them… and we did tell them why, but it’s hard when you’re 6 to not be able to take things home right.?

Apart from that, there was joy, laughter, teamwork, adaptability, enthusiasm, thinking on your feet, decision making and problem solving displayed EVERYWHERE to be seen.

Winners are Grinners

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A big, huge, wonderful, enormous, gigantic CONGRATULATIONS to 3ED for bringing in 89 toilet rolls last week to contribute to our Cardboard Challenge mini-challenge! Runners up were KEV and 2KH and the most exciting thing for me was just how many different classes we had in the top three each day… it really was a whole ES effort and the total of over 600 toilet rolls will surely add to our fun on September 26th when we imagine, create and build with all of our cardboard goodies.

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This weeks mini-challenge is for students to bring in as many empty granola boxes and empty toothpaste boxes as they can. Students should also be thinking about our final challenge next week, September 15th-19th, which is to bring in shoe boxes and cereal boxes, but for now, keep those, and any other cool cardboard items you’re collecting, AT HOME please. Details of these challenges were written about here, complete with more images.

Toothpaste box

Toothpaste box

Granola Bar box

Granola Bar box

Remember you can read more about the Global Cardboard Challenge here, and be sure to check out the boy who started it all, Caine, as you watch one of the Caine’s Arcade videos on youtube… (you’ll need a vpn)

18 more sleeps…

 

Cardboard Challenge Update

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Here are some of the things that can be collected in your home. Ignore the weekly challenges, as this was from 2014, but see the photos for ideas. We would love you to hold on to anything small, toilet rolls, tissue boxes, cardboard food packaging, anything cylinder shaped, anything super large, or unusually shaped…we once had a GIANT BOX that had contained a grand piano. True Story!

1. Challenge of the week September 1st-September 5th is toilet rolls. We want students to bring in EMPTY toilet paper rolls; so when you finish using a roll of toilet paper at home, instead of throwing it out, please bring it in to school and drop it off in the classroom basket outside the ES library. The class that has the most toilet paper rolls by Friday, is the winner of this week’s challenge, and each child will win an ice cream.

2. Challenge of the week September 8th-September 12th is toothpaste boxes and granola boxes. We want students to bring in EMPTY granola and toothpaste boxes; so when you finish using these at home, instead of throwing them out, please bring them in to school and drop them off in the classroom basket outside the ES library. The class that has the most of these items by Friday, is the winner of that week’s challenge, and each child will win a free book from the library to keep.

Granola Bar box
Toothpaste box

3. Challenge of the week September 15th-September 19th is cereal boxes and shoe boxes. We want students to bring in EMPTY shoe and cereal boxes; so if you have any of these at home, instead of throwing them out, please bring them in to school and drop them off in the classroom basket outside the ES library. The class that has the most of these items by Friday, is the winner of that week’s challenge, and their class will win a pizza party.

Cereal Boxes
Shoe Boxes

During the week of September 22nd-26th, we are asking you to send in EVERY CARDBOARD ITEM you can get your hands on. Please save as many things as you can over the next four weeks, and bring them in to class during that final week leading to October Break.