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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

During the Significant Persons Showcase, the children had the opportunity to use their oral communication skills to explain to their audience why their individual is a significant person.  Please watch some of the […]

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 […]

Dear Parents,

Judging by your Two Star and a Wish reflections, I think you would agree with me that the children did an amazing job during the SLLR on Wednesday.  I hope that you now have a better idea of what […]

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 […]

Dear Parents,

Just a couple of notes before the holidays:

-There is no school on Monday, April 9.

-Tuesday, April 10 is our first swim day, please prepare your child’s swim kit.

-Grade 2 Let’s Make It […]

As part of our tuning in activities, the Grade 2 teachers dressed up on Thursday as Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, Anne Frank, Princess Di, Florence Nightingale, Amelia Earhart and Michelle Obama. We wanted the children […]

During the Options Market, the children were given $2,000 to budget how they would spend the money for needs, personal wants, gifts to others, charity and savings.  They learned about what people value and the […]

The Amazing race was a lot of  fun, and it complimented our unit of inquiry on Currency and mathematics strands perfectly. Thanks so much to our seven volunteers for their […]

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 […]

It was lovely to see so many parents here to support our assembly today.  I think you would agree that the children did an exceptional job; we are so proud of their performance.    Please watch the video.

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On the HKMA field trip, the children learned about the different security features and the time line of Hong Kong currency.  This morning, we explored more than 30 different currencies and had the children use XE […]

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 […]

This week, we consolidated telling the time in mathematics with the orbit of Earth.    Please see the videos on how the children demonstrated their understanding by role playing the sun, Earth and moon’s rotation […]