Birthdays, Buddies and Mystery Reader

This week we have helped two of our classmates celebrate their seventh birthdays. On Monday we helped Floyd enjoy his day, a very happy birthday to you. I know you had a lot of fun at your party on Sunday. Thanks for sharing the yummy custard egg cakes.

On Friday we helped Eito celebrate his birthday. A very happy birthday to you and I hope you had a great day. Even better when school has a half day! Thanks so much for the delicious cake :-)

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A very big THANK YOU to Erin Fellows (Anna's Mum) for coming in a second time to read to us! We are so grateful to you for giving up your time and for taking on the task of reading to us just after Sports Day! It was perfect timing for us all to relax and cool down from all of our exercise :-)




Erin read "Marzipan" written by Virginia Arpadi. It is a lovely story about a Siamese Cat called Marzipan who comes from a line of royalty. He had a very happy and safe life, but it was very boring and he was forever looking for some kind of excitement and adventure. The story told 




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Buddies

Our class were so excited to show their Grade 5 buddies their 'Oceans' exhibition. 

We made it! We have completed our first semester of Grade One. I am so proud of everything the children have accomplished and I know there is lots more to come in Semester Two!

I would like to wish you all a very happy and relaxing holiday and looking forward to seeing you in the New Year. School starts back on Monday, January 11. 

Sports Day!

What a great morning we had. Thanks so much to all the parents who came out to support their child and the class. We all had such a great time. 

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Friday December 18 we have assembly from 10:45am with KG hosting. We also have only a half day, school is out at 11:30am on Friday. We will all be back after the winter break on Monday 11 January.

3-Way-Conferences

A huge THANK YOU to all the parents, siblings and relatives who came to the conferences today. It was so nice to speak with you all and to see your child sharing their learning with you. A very proud teacher moment :-)

Photos of today thanks to Ms Nhoep :-)




We practised with our classmates before sharing our process journal with you all today. Here are some pictures of yesterdays practise. All the children did such a great job and were so knowledgeable about their issue.



Everyone helped to set up the piazza and worked out where they would display their work. It took a lot of moving and redecorating but we think it looks fantastic!

Here you all are learning from your children!



Also a huge THANK YOU to everyone for doing "2 stars and a wish, on a fish" for your reflection on the expo. We were over whelmed by your response.

Sports Day tomorrow! 8am to 10:30am

3-Way-Conferences

I am looking forward to seeing you all tomorrow for the 3-Way-Conferences. Below I have attached the times for your convenience.

Break

Lunch

Sports Day will be on Wednesday 16th December starting at 8am. Students will participate in their class groups a variety of running, throwing and jumping activities. Students should wear their PE uniform and bring a water bottle. Parents are encouraged to come and support their children. It really is lots of fun and the children have a great time.

Research, research, research.....

Wow we have had such a busy week getting our ocean projects ready for the exhibition. The children have done such an amazing job with these and their supporting art piece. I am very proud of all their hard work and ability to research and share the information they have learned. I know they are all very excited to show you around the exhibition on Tuesday during the three-way conferences.

I don't want to spoil it for you so here are just a few pictures of them hard at work :-)

In Maths we have been learning about fractions: whole, half, quarter and sharing items equally. We have had gummy bears to help us share with our friends, shapes to cut in halves and quarters and learning which piece of pizza you want for yourself!

We also looked at capacity and had to figure out which cup, jug or glass was the fullest, emptiest and closest to half full. The children enjoyed recognising, discussing and colouring the correct quantities. We then worked as a team and completed a puzzle....sadly our world map was missing a piece but the worst part was that it was the piece that had New Zealand on it :-( 

Some of the students made a short movie on the app 'Explain Everything'. Please take a look on your child's page to see them skip counting in twos, fives and tens. We also did some problem solving and sharing equally.

*Please note that under your child's individual page, Art and Music have added some short videos.

We helped Dita celebrate her seventh birthday on Thursday.  A very happy birthday to you Dita. I hope you had a great day and enjoy your party this weekend at Monkey Business.  Thanks for the awesome Minion cupcakes, they were delicious! 

Have a great weekend everyone!

What's been happening....

On Monday we helped our friend Anton celebrate his seventh birthday. A very happy birthday to you Anton. I know you had a very fun party last Sunday and enjoyed sharing your dinosaur adventures with your family and friends. Thanks for the delicious cake pops!

Three-way conferences are coming, Tuesday the 15th December. Your child will have brought home a notice to inform you of the time you have been scheduled to come and see me. Please let me know as soon as you can if you are not able to make the time. The children will be sharing with you some of the things they are very proud of. Four pieces from their portfolio, three things that they feel they have done really well so far this year and one goal. There is also a teacher set goal and parents you will get to make a goal for your child too.

Looking forward to seeing you all at the conferences.

It's never too late to sign up to read to the class! We have many spots available, so please don't be shy. Come and share a story with 19 very careful listener who LOVE being read too.

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Movie 'night' is on Monday 7th December. 

The KG - G1 movie will be Peter Pan. They will watch the movie in the Grade 1/2 piazza. This is just at the end of our corridor.

International Day will be held this year on Saturday 16 January, 2016 - 10am to 2pm.

To represent your country by creating a country booth  please complete this form as soon as possible.

If your child would like to participate in the parade of nations please complete this form.

Any general questions regarding International Day can also be directed to Sokleng Heng @ soklengheng@ispp.edu.kh or 077 990 857.

Sports Day will be on Wednesday 16th December starting at 8am. Students will participate in their class groups a variety of running, throwing and jumping activities. Students should wear their PE uniform and bring a water bottle. Parents are encouraged to come and support their children. It really is lots of fun and the children have a great time. More information to follow closer to the time.

Individual Pages

Everyone has been working so hard this week. A lot of our work has been recorded on the iPads so I thought this week our blog update won't be on the main page. Instead it is on your child's individual page. 

Please take a look at all of the fabulous work they have done: 

Writing a fable, creating questions and statements, a reflection of our trip to Aeon Mall and a short movie of a positive or a negative interaction! Phew it has been a busy week for ICT!

Guest Speaker

On Thursday morning we had a guest speaker via skype. We spoke to Mr Jon's friend Meghan Begaly. She lives in America and is a marine biologist. We watched a slideshow about the ocean and how we use it. We saw that it is a source of energy, food, transportation, research and recreation. But there are consequences when we use the ocean too. To further our understanding about the consequences we asked Meghan a lot of different questions. She was very knowledgeable and gave us lots of interesting information. 

Issues

In small groups the children were given a range of photos to do with the ocean. The had to discuss each photo together and then organise them however they liked. Here is what the groups thought.

We were very lucky today to also have two birthday to celebrate! 

First we helped Nak celebrate his seventh birthday. A very happy birthday to you Nak, hope you had a great day and enjoy celebrating with your family and friends tonight. Thanks for sharing your delicious cake :-)

Second up we had Adam celebrating his seventh birthday. A very happy birthday to you Adam, hope you have a great day next Wednesday. Thanks for the cool Minecraft cupcakes :-)

Finally just a friendly reminder that school is closed all of next week for 'Water Festival.' We will be back to school on Monday the 30th November.

Have a great holiday everyone! 

Fun Friday!

We were very lucky on Friday to have another guest speaker come and talk to us. This time Ross Sinclair, who is Itzia's dad from Ms Corey's class, shared his knowledge about the oceans and the animals that live in it. He talked about the five oceans and the problems that the oceans face everyday. We talked about pollution, the rubbish patch, over fishing and drift netting. We also learnt about the food chains and what happens when one of the elements is taken away.

A very big THANK YOU to Ross for a fantastic talk that all the children thoroughly enjoyed!

A Friday is never complete without a visit with our Grade 5 buddies. We have finished our ocean mural and it is now on display outside our classroom. 

Our finished product!

We also watched this clip from Youtube about drift netting. The children were really interested in it and it sparked a great discussion about all the issues caused by this type of fishing.

Also we have been learning through singing song, Ms Corey shared this one with us at team time.

Have a great weekend everyone!

Oceans, Guest Speaker and Field Trip

Monday morning we were very lucky to have a secondary teacher, Ms Ethel come and speak to us. She is a very experienced diver and shared with us first hand what it is like exploring the ocean and what you might see. 

Ms Ethel explained to us that when you're diving you need to move slowly through the water so that you don't disturb the animals or use up too much of your oxygen. She also told us the most important rule of all - Never touch anything in the ocean, we can look but we must never touch. Ask your child why we can't touch things in the ocean. 

We also watched a video of Ms Ethel and some of the secondary student going on a dive. The children in Grade One were amazed at what they saw on the dive. A big thanks to Ms Ethel for taking the time to come and speak to us.

Finding Out

In the afternoon we had four centres that we rotated around. We have a great time building on our prior knowledge and recording the things that we have learnt so far.

We are creating a mural for outside our classroom:

We went on an app called 'Bitsboard' and listened to information about the ocean:

We wrote and drew the positive and negative effects humans have on the ocean:

We organised many different items on a table - glass and plastic bottles, plastic bags, polystyrene, cardboard, cans etc. This is what each group did with those items.

Each group had a very unique way of looking at the items and as a group they worked out how they wanted to categories them. I was really impressed by how they organised the items :-)

Field Trip

We had such a great time on our field trip. Aeon supermarket has a lot to explore!!

A very big thank you to all the Mums and Dads who came to help us on the trip. They did a great job guiding the children around the supermarket and helping them to locate all the items on the checklist. I hope you all received your 'thank you' cards!

Mystery Reader

A very big THANK YOU to Roland Ly (Adrien's Dad) for coming to be our mystery reader on Wednesday. After the excitement of our field trip and the party to follow with all the treats we brought from the supermarket, it was nice to have some quiet time listening to a story. 

First Roland read 'Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!' written and illustrated by Mo Williams. It is a hilarious story about a little pigeon with big dreams and he will stop at nothing to drive the bus! Mo Williams is a very talented author and illustrator and one of my absolutely favourite writers of children's books.

The second book that Roland had for us was 'The Pigeon Needs a Bath!' written by Mo Williams. This time however Roland ask if someone else in the class would like to read it. Champa was a risk taker and read the story to the whole class. She did a great! Again it was a hilarious story about a very stinky pigeon who doesn't want to take a bath. But once he finally gets in the bath he realises that he loves it and never wants to get out.



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