Thursday, 10 March 2016

Friday Update March 7 to 11

We have been busy!!  So many learning adventures and explorations going on! We celebrated Jasper’s birthday (HAPPY BIRTHDAY JASPER!) and had an amazing field trip!  Thank you to Neetu and Mina for organizing blue cupcakes to celebrate our new baby, and for so many thoughtful presents and beautiful handmade cards! 
Our explorations and activities included…
*We took a field trip to the Ulu Pandan Community Theatre to see Elephant and Piggy are in a Play! The kids LOVED the bus, LOVED the show (they were laughing all the way through it!) and LOVED being together!  What a great day!
*Our mark making and maker space areas still continue to be popular!  Thank you again for sending in envelopes, paper, stickers, paper towel tubes, water bottles….you name the item and they are using them!  Many great inventions happening!
*Some of our students had the great idea to use some of our materials to make a theatre! (It seemed to be inspired by our field trip that was coming up when they first started this!) They used many of the recycled materials, but also looked through the shelves to find tiles, wood pieces, popsicle stick people…the list is endless and the project is still ongoing, but listening to the discussion as the kids were working was amazing.
*A different group of students started making an airplane and airport! There were wings, a cockpit, pilots, travellers, suitcases, and signs to show what was happening. There was much discussion that it was a Singapore Airlines plane going to Canada or Thailand!  More documentation will be posted so you can see how elaborate these projects were becoming during this week!
*There was a lot of practicing of letters, numbers and sounds this week, through games, writing, and fun movement activities.


REMINDERS/IMPORTANT DATES
Wednesday, March 16: I am at school but at a PLC leadership meeting so there will be a sub teacher in the classroom.
Thursday, March 17th and Friday, March 18th: PARENT-TEACHER CONFERENCES.  Our students do not come to the conferences and do not have school these two days. *If you would like to talk to Ma Laoshi about Chinese, please sign up on her schedule (the same page that my sign up is on.) Ms. Laura’s is also there, however she is away for the conference days and will be doing her meetings on a different day.
March 19th to March 27th:  SPRING BREAK: NO SCHOOL FOR STUDENTS
*Please return the red library bag and books on Monday!!






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