Thank you to all of the parents, who have supported our learning, activities and fun this year!

Thank you to Ms. Mertice, the most wonderful teaching partner anyone could ask for!

Thank you to Ms. McVean, Mr. Robinson, Mr. Torris and Dr. Jacobson–fantastic administrators who are always there for teachers, parents and students!

Thank you to Sean, Bethany, Coen, Edward, Zachary, Charlotte, Zetian, Celine, Alan, Eric, and Joshua.  My amazing students!!!!  I have loved sharing every moment of your learning with you this year! Have fun in second grade!!!

Please be sure to look me up if you are in Singapore!!!!

The day was HOT and AMAZING!!!!  The students and I had a fantastic time, and thank you to all of the parents who came out to our Celebration of Learning!  The students LOVED sharing their portfolios and doing centers with you!!!  Here are some pictures from the day!

Please read the important information below from our PE teachers.

On June 9th the Summer Sizzler will take place on the upper elementary playground.  It will be a great time with many fun events for our students to participate in.  Parents please feel free to come and watch your students celebrate the end of year.

Pre K, K, Grades 1 and 2 will have their Summer Sizzler in the morning from 8:30 to 10:45

Grades 3 to 5 will have their Summer Sizzler from 12:30 to 2:45

We will have a Tug of war house competition from 10:45 to 12:15 (All grade levels will have a chance before or after their lunch)

Students will need to bring their house shirt, a change of clothes(they will get wet doing some of the games), sunscreen, hat, proper shoes, an extra snack (they will be exerting a lot of energy) and apositive attitude.

It should be a great day and we look forward to seeing you.

The Elementary P.E. Department

In addition our fabulous parents are planning a pizza lunch for the whole 1st grade. This will be followed up with a ‘Celebration of Learning’.  You will be receiving more information about both of these events soon.  We hope you’ll plan on joining us as we celebrate the end of a fantastic school year.

Here are some fun ways to practice putting words into ABC order

We have some exciting silkworm news!!  We have had many moths emerge from their cocoons!!  We think they are extremely cute!

We have both males (who do a lot of flapping of their wings) and females and they look a little bit different from each other.  The females have larger abdomens, and the males have much larger antennae (they look like long furry eyebrows!)  The silkworm moths do not eat or drink, but are producing a lot of eggs!  We observed that they are bright yellow at first, but then after a couple of days they turn gray, which means they are fertile.

Although usually moths stay in their boxes and don’t try to fly away, we have had some escapees!! It has been exciting!!!  We have had to put them back with their friends.  What an amazing science experience!

Here are some highlights!

Listen to the story of The Three Little Pigs and other fairytales.

Click below to visit the DLTK site.

We have spent the last few weeks reading nonfiction in our classroom. We’ve learned about lots of features that help us read nonfiction, such as chapters or sections, a table of contents, an index, a glossary, photographs, captions, diagrams…the list goes on!  A couple of weeks ago we took time to look through the many nonfiction books in our classroom.

We sorted many of those books and gave each group a label, such as “dogs,” “space,” ” trucks,” and “China.” Once we had our nonfiction book baskets, the students spent time browsing the different baskets, deciding which topic they wanted to learn more about. Since then, we have spent part of our reading workshop time with a partner who chose the same topic, exploring the reading clubs! Not only are we becoming experts about our topics, we are learning to talk to someone else about books, learning to share and take turns, making decisions together, and of course, learning to read nonfiction! We’re having so much fun and look forward to sharing our new knowledge with the other reading club partners!

To show how much we’ve learned we’ve created a quiz.

Fact Quiz on PhotoPeach

Our visiting silkworms have been busy lately!!!  Most of them have been continuing to eat, eat, eat, and starting to spin, spin, spin (so incredibly cool to watch!!!!)  They made pupas of different colors and we can’t wait to see what happens next!

Our first graders were a part of the Elementary School China Alive activities today to celebrate our host country and culture.  They had blast!!!  Play the slideshow for the highlights of our day!