K2 Weekly Newsletter #11

Week of November 4th, 2013

EC Week 12 UISG EC Division

What Has Been Happening In Our Classrooms?

On Friday, we sent home a survey with your child to share with you. We hope you were able to find some time with do this with your child. It is important to talk through the roles shared within your home. Once we received all the surveys by Wednesday, we will tally the xs to see which family member does the most housework; we will do some reflection also. The Family Country Celebration is just a week away. Ms. Chan has ordered the Thanksgiving turkey dinner for our luncheon. Each country will have a tent with a table available for displays. We will also add a low table for parents who need it for arts and crafts. Please let us know if you need any additional supplies for your activities. In K2 we watched some short videos about families and these have especially helped the ESL children build vocabulary and understand the concepts better. K2Y introduced a reading booklet called My Family last week that K2R will be working on this week. This booklet has repetitive words to help children build on their pre-reading skills and gain new vocabulary. Last Thursday was Character Day and most of the children came in their character costume. We had princesses, pirates, a subway train driver, Harry Potter, Superman, Spiderman, cow, witches, Jesse from Toy Story, a parrot, a bubble bee, policeman, a pirate, and some princesses. Those who did not have a costume wore our costumes from our Home Corner. The children from both classes had an opportunity to share their books with their peers during our morning session. Again, this is a short week as we invite IB experts to come to our school to provide us with workshops that will help us gain more understanding of Action in the PYP. We tell the children that teachers also need to go to school and learn new things Enjoy a long weekend!

Unit of Inquiry Central Idea: Families are unique and make us who we are Trans-disciplinary Theme: Who We Are Key Concepts: form, connection, responsibility Lines of Inquiry: Similarities and differences within family units Roles and responsibilities within the family How family histories influence our identity

We would like to thank last weeks Classroom Helpers

K2R Line Leader Von Snack & Lunch Helper Tatsuya Calendar/Weather Helper Richard K2Y June & Jin Yong Oscar &Tim Dima

Calendar of Upcoming Events And Celebrations

Month November 7&8 Event/Celebration Whole School Professional Development days Family Country Celebration (10am-1pm) Please send back the reply slips asap. Early Childhood Division IB workshop in Hong Kong Mother-Tongue Storytelling 2:45pm Comments No school

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Please let us know what supplies you need in advance No school for EC parents Please remember to bring your book if you are a parent volunteer Lecture Hall Whole School Celebration School ends at noon

This Weeks Focus

Language:No letter sound introduced due to a 3-day trip. Making passports for next weeks special event. Continue with My Family booklet for those who did not finish yet/Introduce Family Fun booklet Putonghua: Matching the flag picture with the country name, an activity to preview the Family Celebration Mathematics:Numbers: Recognising groups of zero to five objects without counting/ 1:1 correspondence to 10/ Using maths language to compare quantities (more /less) to continue Creative Art: Where is your country? Looking at maps and colouring their own country/countries. PE: Jumping with good form safely. Jumping high and jumping long with two feet together. Music: Story " Rascal takes off" by Paul Jennings (children to accompany it with tambourines) /New musical game "dum-dahdadam"/ Familiar action songs: Jump Jim Joe game

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UPTA meeting Festival of Lights More info to come soon End of Semester 1

Any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact us. Ms. Stephanie (K2R)- sfairall@uisgz.org Ms. Chan (K2Y) cchan@uisgz.org Ms. Daoqiong (K2Y)dqiong@uisgz.org

Class Reps : K2R Rachels mum(Gillian) : gilliangao53@hotmail.com K2Y Antonias mum (Nadine):ptnschmitt@me.com K2Y Elises mum (Ulrike): ulrikeranzow@googlemail.com Learn more about IB: www.ibo.org http://k2uisgz.weebly.com/ - password: k2pl@yground