{"id":258720,"date":"2017-08-24T06:06:21","date_gmt":"2017-08-23T20:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=258720"},"modified":"2017-08-24T06:06:21","modified_gmt":"2017-08-23T20:06:21","slug":"sis-hosts-korea-musical-group-esl-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/sis-hosts-korea-musical-group-esl-camp\/","title":{"rendered":"SIS hosts Korea musical group in ESL Camp"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-258720 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/sis-hosts-korea-musical-group-esl-camp\/feeding-a-goat\/'>feeding-a-goat<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-258722'>\n\t\t\t\tThis student learns to feed a goat. (Contributed Photos)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/sis-hosts-korea-musical-group-esl-camp\/group-photo-at-koconut-ville\/'>Group-Photo-at-Koconut-Ville<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-258723'>\n\t\t\t\tThe ESL campers have their picture taken at the Koconut-ville farm where they made mwars, cooked coconut candy, sampled fruits, and got to see some animals.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/sis-hosts-korea-musical-group-esl-camp\/liz-church-with-her-grade-5-students\/'>Liz-Church-with-her-Grade-5-students<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-258724'>\n\t\t\t\tLiz Church, right, of the Saipan International School poses with Grade 5 students.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/sis-hosts-korea-musical-group-esl-camp\/making-coconut-candy\/'>making-coconut-candy<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-258725'>\n\t\t\t\tThe campers learned how to make coconut candy at the Koconut-ville farm.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/sis-hosts-korea-musical-group-esl-camp\/musical-cast-pose-with-their-certificates\/'>Musical-Cast-pose-with-their-certificates<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-258726'>\n\t\t\t\tThe cast of of Snow White and the Three Little Pigs show off their certificate of participation.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/sis-hosts-korea-musical-group-esl-camp\/mwar-mwar\/'>mwar-mwar<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-258728'>\n\t\t\t\tThe Korean students, from grades 2 to 9, made mwars at the Koconut-ville farm.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/sis-hosts-korea-musical-group-esl-camp\/sid-seman-presents-certificates\/'>Sid-Seman-presents-certificates<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-258729'>\n\t\t\t\tSid Seman, director of the Office of Personnel Management, presents the students with certificates of participation.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/sis-hosts-korea-musical-group-esl-camp\/weaving-mwars\/'>weaving-mwars<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-258730'>\n\t\t\t\tThe ESL campers learn how to weave mwars at the Koconut-ville farm.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Saipan International School played host last month to 18 students from South Korea, who came here to take part in an ESL (English as a Second Language) Camp at SIS.<\/p>\n<p>The Korean students, from grades 2 to 9, improved their English language skills, learned new games like kickball, sang and danced in English, and much more. <\/p>\n<p>They also learned about the beauty of the CNMI with field trips to the beach, and interactive presentation by Mallory Mu\u00f1a and Jihan Buniag from the Bureau of Environmental and Coastal Quality. <\/p>\n<p>The students also visited historical and geographical sites on Saipan and had a great day at the Koconut-ville farm where they made mwars, cooked coconut candy, sampled fruits, and got to see some animals.<\/p>\n<p>In the evening, the students worked with their teachers from Korea and local children to develop a musical performance of Snow White and the Three Little Pigs. This performance was the culminating activity of the trip and took place in the new ESL suite at SIS. In attendance were members of the Saipan and SIS community. <\/p>\n<p>The evening saw many laughs and good times and finished with a special certificate presented to the students by Sid Seman, director of the Office of Personnel Management.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThanks to Mr. Ron and all the support from SIS so that we could experience lots of thing [on] Saipan. Things were so nice and this was a precious moment for me,\u201d said the group\u2019s lead teacher, Jinny Cha of U.S. Pacific Ltd. <\/p>\n<p>The group hopes to expand their tour offerings in the future, bringing in many children to experience the truly special place that is Saipan and the CNMI. <\/p>\n<p>One of the students, Gyu Min \u201cWilliam\u201d Shin, \u201cI miss Saipan already.\u201d (PR)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saipan International School played host last month to 18 students from South Korea, who came&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":258722,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[26,18046,699,1241],"class_list":["post-258720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-life","tag-cnmi","tag-sid-seman","tag-sis","tag-south-korea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}