Oct 25, 2013
Dear ISHCMC community, We saw many excited faces happy to be back at school this past Monday with plenty of engaging learning opportunities, including grade 2s voyage to a magical storyland and where they used deductive reasoning to poison the evil villain Timrek. Here at ISHCMC, parents were treated to an information session on reading courtesy of our KG teachers and students participated in ’Pink My ISHCMC’ by wearing pink to raise awareness of breast cancer. Finally, our basketball teams both won their games against AIS (boys won 20-12 while our girls came out on top 20-8). Well done everyone!
Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.” ― Mahatma Gandhi
Electronic sign-up for ASAs finished this week and will continue for conferences until November 1st. Thank you for your patience with this process and apologies for inconveniences caused by our new online system. Our SRC is planning a Halloween dress-up on November 1st with another dress -up taking place shortly after for our character parade (Nov 8th). There will be a number of activities taking place throughout the week to highlight books and literacy in general; for more information, see our article on page 3 of this newsletter. Have a great weekend!
Event
For Whom?
Date/Time
Location
IB/CIS visit
Whole School
Oct 29-31st
School
Conference Online Booking Ends
All Parents
Nov 1st
Online
Halloween Dress-up Primary Students and KG-Gr 2 Movie
Nov 1st (all day and after school)
School
Book Week
Whole School
Nov 4-8th
School
Parent/Student/ Teacher Conferences
Parent, student and teachers
5th Nov (no classes)
Various
Coffee Morning
Parents
Upcoming Events
Nov 7th
Meeting Rm
In This Issue
Primary Principal Update
Passion Projects
Going Green: Upcycling
Book Week Update
Make a Difference!!!
Cardboard Play Date
Passion Projects Some people might know about the passion projects. As most students know, passion projects is for you to have the chance do anything you like, 20 percent of the time. Some Teachers agree to do the passion projects, but not all of them. I like doing the passion project because you can do what you want to do, for example teaching little kids gymnastics, making a movie and lots more. Passion projects have a way of helping us realize that it’s not the money that counts, it’s how you want to live your life. I want to tell you a little story about a banker. It started when he was small and everyone around him told him he must be a banker and make lots of money and he will be happy. Years past and he was a very rich banker. He earns 1 to 2 million a year but he wasn’t happy. He loves making things with lego. Everyone said, “Stop making stupid legos.” He didn’t stop doing what he loves to do but he was so afraid of people laughing at him he and hid his wonderful art works. Soon he start showing people and everyone liked it and even want to buy it. He quit his job and he now Sell lego statues even though he wouldn’t make that much money. The important part of this story is that you are happy with what you do. -Venus
ISHCMC Saves the World When we use these old plastic cups we can make something really cool like this and we can use these sculptures for decoration. When people recycle these cups they help the environment because they reuse the cups instead of throwing the cups in the trash bin. Don’t throw them in the trash bin but throw them in the recycle bin By:Jennifer
Book Week 4 Nov to 8 Nov is Reading Week at ISHCMC. To prepare we have some lovely events:
These old plastic cups can be reused to make something beautiful like this
From Garbage to Sculpture
-Book Swap: Bring up to 5 books to the Achievement Centre next week and during Book Week you can trade them for books. -Morning Rallies: Each day will start on the football pitch with something to get us all thinking about books and reading (drop your students off here!) -Character Dress-up Day: Friday 8 November dress as a book character and join the special assemblies -Home Language Read-in: During Lunch on Wednesday 6 November we will have parent and teacher volunteers reading with students in different languages (encourage your children to join the read-in fun) -Door decoration, big book and 55 word story contest (the 55 word contest starts this week.) 55 Word Contest: Can you limit yourself to story in JUST 55 words? Encourage your child to give it a try and submit a 55 word story to Claire Simms by Monday 4 November at 3 pm).
These plastic cups will look amazing
Make a Difference In Someone’s Life Once in Oklahoma, there was a girl named Elizabeth, her sister Mary, didn’t care to think about what she was saying she didn’t make sure that her words were: Truthful Helpful Inspiring Necessary Kind She never really cared. Elizabeth asked Mary if she wanted to go to the orphanage to help and donate, but Mary said no. Elizabeth said, “Just this once” she pleaded and Mary finally said yes. At the orphanage Mary met this girl named Amanda she was suffering from hunger and thirst, Mary felt bad about it but she would never say it out loud. She and her became friends but she told Elizabeth and Elizabeth was so happy for her. She and Amanda were the best of friends but one day, Amanda grew sick, and Mary wanted to do something about it (for once) but she didn’t tell Elizabeth she saved up as much as she could to help Amanda once she had saved enough, she gave it to the orphanage to help Amanda, she eventually got better and Amanda said, “you made a big difference in my life!” Elizabeth was surprised the next day because Mary had changed BIG TIME!!! And Mary said, “You can make a difference in someone’s life if you tried.” THE END
At ISHCMC we had a cardboard play date and all the grades from EE2/3 to grade 3 all got to play the games and all of them were at least made of cardboard! This was inspired by a kid named Caine who made an arcade out of cardboard. 4A, 4B, 4C, and 4D had games to provide and they were fun. This was to use their imaginations and not just use computer games all the time. Most cardboard games had prizes, membership cards, stamps and lots of other stuff. But some games didn’t really work, but they were fun. Grades EE2/3 to grade 3 got to play these wonderful games including lots of bowling, whack-a-mole, basketball, pin ball, claw machine, archery, and a puppet show and other fun games. Congratulations grade 4 you all did a wonderful job!!!!! Bopha Jones
Cardboard Play Date