Our school is Shanghai American School. We are international Students from around the world who love to learn. |
We are a class of third graders. Our goal this year is to grow as learners. Reading with fluency, writing from our hearts, growing independence, gaining ‘multiplication fact power’ in math, keeping our bodies and minds healthy are just some of the things we need to do to be successful third graders. Having a passion for learning, wanting to celebrate our successes, and learn from our mistakes is a must in grade three…watch us as we rise up to the challenge, grow wings and fly into grade four!
Our Blog is a great way to see what we have been learning this year. It is also a great way for us to connect around the world and for the world to connect with us.
I have been working in Shanghai American School since 2000.
I trained as a teacher at Auckland College of Education in New Zealand and have taught children from year 1 (kindergarten) to year 8 (Grade 7).
I am also trained in Reading Recovery.
My passion is teaching. I like seeing students grow in their reading and writing, having ‘a-ha’ moments in math, and WOWing in science. I like seeing children rush to the class in the mornings, get excited over using technology in the classroom, and laughing with friends. I am constantly growing as a learner and therefore changing as a teacher.
dear mrs.toa I think or class will go to the big cafataria. when every one in or classis very good thank you from wen-hsin.
dear mrs.toa are we going on a field trip I hop its coming soon bye mrs.toa
Hello Ms. Toa,
I understand that you love Roald Dahl. One of your students, Ally, found her way to our Brainwaves blog, http://thebrainwaves.us Check out our Charlie and the Chocolate Factory green screen video.
We would love to establish a relationship with your class. If you visit our blog you will see videos of Skype calls that we made this year with New Zealand, Russia and Hannibal, MO. We are also involved in a Global News Paper and an Olympic 2010 project. I’d like to invite your class to join us in both or either of these projects. Please email me for details.
Regards,
Bob Greenberg
Dear Mrs Toa and class,
My name is Miss McGeady and I teach Grade Two at Leopold Primary School in Victoria, Australia.
I found your blog after two of your fantastic students left comments on our class blog.
You are doing some fantastic work! It must be very interesting working at an International School.
I’d love to keep in touch and have added your blog to our blogroll.
Hope to hear from you,
From Kathleen McGeady
HI Team Toa!
We found your blog from our friends in class 3L, Canada.
We hope you have a happy new year. We would love to hear what you are going to do to celebrate.
From Mr Alderdice and 3B, Brookburn Primary, Manchester, England.
We hope you have a good new year.
What are you going to do to celebrate the new year?
from Eliya and Mia Manchester England
We hope you have a brilliant new year.
How do you celebrate the new year? Hope you have a fantastic new year.
my name is Orlaith and I am from manchester
Dear Mrs. Toa and class,
I am very glad that we have been able to connect with you through our class blogs. My students really enjoy checking out the students’ pages.
I can tell that you do very exciting and interesting things in your learning. It would be great if we could collaborate on a project sometime! I think I mentioned that we will be doing a global kite project next month. It is a fun way to use math and also learn a little bit more about our amazing world. Let me know if you are interested and I can send you more information.
I’m open to other ideas!
Your blogging buddy,
Mr. Salsich
Hi Team Toa,
Your school is really cool and I would want to be a falcon because they can fly.Please click on our name
because you can go on our website!We’ll keep blogging on your blog!
Hi Mr. Salsich
We would like to know more about the global kite project that you are doing. Let us know what you are planning
Mrs. Toa and 3ST
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Hi team toa
come and look on our blog at
Brookburn priary.net
we are year 3
from Mimi in manchester England.
Hi Mimi
Thanks for leaving a comment. I did take a look at your blog but it took me a while to find it because you didn’t give me the correct address. Be sure to spell correctly when you are leaving a comment.
Also, remember to write something about the blog you are reading.
Happy Blogging
Mrs. Toa
Team Toa
Thankyou for the opportunity to look at all the lovely things you do in your classroom. I love the way you have displayed your art work using Flickr. I also like the idea of showing the clocks from around the world. If you would like to check out what Class MLY from Geelong, Victoria Australia has been up to you will find us at http://llpsmiddle.globalstudent.org.au/
Regards, Mrs Lynch
Thank you for your comment Mrs. Lynch
We have just finished our school year so will pick up the blog again in August with a new class.
I am always excited to check out new blogs. I will be sure to take a look at yours.
Mrs. Toa
Team Toa
Dear Mrs. Toa,
I enjoyed your blog, and I enjoy the wise advice you impart to your students. I teach k-4 computers in Chicago. We are looking for classes from all over the world to collaborate to study the differences and similarities between different continents. If you are interested in joining us, please sign our spreadsheet:
http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AhhBwrpPFyDidFNwX1ZkVDVBb011RkozWXF2WVVKdXc&hl=en#gid=0
We are not sure how we will collaborate, but we are thinking of using google-docs, a wiki, blogging, Voicethread and/or Skype. You can email to be directly at: yayafaith@aol.com
All the best,
Faith Shabat
Lower School Tech Coordinator
Bernard Zell Anshe Emet Day School
Chicago, Illinois