Updates

June 11 – 13

June 8, 2012

Notes and Reminders: Monday: The children will need to attend Chinese lessons before the party, please remind them to bring their Chinese folders to school.  You might want to send a light jacket to school for the skating party at AMC.  Finally don’t forget their swimming kit for the pool party! Tuesday:  Please join us [...]

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June 4 – 8

June 1, 2012

Action: To reinforce what we have been doing during math lessons this week, please talk to you child about using number operations to plan an event (i.e their party) and how multiplication and division can be useful in different situations. Next Friday is our beach party, I hope to see as many of you there [...]

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May 28 – June 1

May 25, 2012

Three teachers from Ark Eden Foundation came to class this afternoon to teach us about sustainable living, shopping and composting of organic wastes. Composting is just one of the ways we can help our world and it has opened up questions about global warming, something that we will inquire into next week. Action: After today’s [...]

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May 21 – 25

May 18, 2012

This week, we started our new UOI, Sharing the Planet, and a stand alone fairy tales unit. Please study the information brochures that have been sent home about these units.  The 3D Lorax was a great way to tune into the unit.  The children were very engaged in the movie; I could not believe how [...]

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Happy Mother’s Day ! (May 14 – 18)

May 11, 2012

We have had a full week of art activities to celebrate the Festival of the Arts.  On Wednesday, we created a collaborative batik fabric using hot wax and on Thursday we designed our Beijing opera masks, both of which were taught by local artists.  We also went to two student showcases to be entertained by [...]

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May 2 – 4

April 27, 2012

Dear Parents, The children will be presenting their significant person next Thursday.  Over the weekend, can you please help your child to do any last minute research on their individual and practise their speech. I am sending home a typed copy his/her speech and a checklist of oral communications skills as a reminder when they [...]

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April 16 – 20

April 13, 2012

Dear Parents, Harriet and Tiana are this week’s bloggers and they would like to tell you about their week: We are happy to come back to school after the Easter holidays. We liked the guest speaker today talking about Sir Edmund Hillary.  We had fun making the SLLR presentation boards and we are looking forward [...]

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Mar. 5 – 9

March 2, 2012

Today’s Resources Market was a valuable lesson on working collaboratively in small groups and sharing, sometimes limited, resources with the other grades.  The children had the opportunity to experience and learn about supply and demand, then they saw how resources that a country has can have an effect on the production for that nation.  They [...]

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Feb. 13 – 17

February 10, 2012

Portfolios come home today and progress reports are going to be issued electronically. Please fill in the Parents/Student reflection that is located at the front of the “How the World Works” section of the portfolio with your child before returning it. We had our barter market in the classroom this morning and then traded with the [...]

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Feb. 6 – 10

February 3, 2012

Although it was a short week, we kick started our new currency unit by discussing the central idea, brain stormed a bunch of student questions,  worked on tuning in activities and pre-assessed the children 2-digits addition and subtraction with regrouping in mathematics and a piece of persuasive writing. This week’s blogger is Emma: I enjoy [...]

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