Oct 4, 2013
Dear Parents and Guardians, It has been a wonderful week of inquiry and creativity throughout our school as numerous students brought in cardboard box games they created at home and at school. The ingenuity and collaboration that went into many of them is something to be admired. Well done to all! Parent-Teacher-Student conferences have been changed to November 5th in order to accommodate our upcoming IB/CIS visit taking place on Oct 29-31st. We apologize for the change in dates and hope it has not caused too many difficulties. Students will soon be taking home Raz-Kids information. Raz-Kids is an online reading program that can help students read at home and makes reading more enjoyable for all involved. A special workshop will be organized in the near future to help parents become familiar with the program.
“Imagination is better than knowledge.”
Reminders
Please do not allow your child to wear excessive jewelry to school (earrings ok)
Keep your child at home if there are signs of conjunctivitis
We hope to see everyone at the Celebration of Cultures this coming Thursday! Have a great weekend. Kurtis Peterson
Event
For Whom?
Date/Time
- Albert Einstein
Location
Celebration of Whole School Parent Cultures and Students
Oct 10th at 9.00am
Parkland
School Photos Grades 2-5
21-25th Oct
ISHCMC
In This Issue
Sign-up for Conferences
All parents with more than 1 student in school
Oct 21st
Primary Office
Comics
Moon Festival Report
Sign-up for Conferences
All parents with 1 child in Oct 24th school
Fiction: Clean Up Your Mess!!!
Upcoming Events
Primary Office
These are the lions dancing with Ong Dia
The Moon Festival Recently at school we had a moon festival in the MPR and grade 1, 2 and 3 performed something special to celebrate the occasion. Grade 1 performed a song, small dance and a mini play, the song they used was a Vietnamese song that was sensational! Grade 2 sang a traditional Vietnamese song and a dance that is unforgettable! Grade 3 performed the dragon
dance with Ong Dia trying to tease the dragon, with a little music. The Vietnamese people believe that Ong Dia is the god of the Earth that is a little chubby and he is very cheeky and naughty. Then we had an announcement from Mr. Peterson and ended the assembly. And that was the end of our moon festival assembly.
By: Bopha Jones & Emma Shadwell
Clean Up Your Mess!!! There was a boy called John Mac. He never cleans up his rubbish and all the cleaning ladies get very tired. Every day one of his friends would say, ‘’Clean up your rubbish!’’ John would say, ‘’Ok one minute…’’ But he never cleans up. One day all his friends had an idea. They thought of tricking John into cleaning up his mess but how? They thought and thought and one of them Joey Miller (John’s best friend) told everybody his plan. On the next day Joey met up with John then Joey said, “My big brother never cleans up his mess’’ he cried ‘’and a really big monster came and said, you better clean up your mess’’ ‘’I don’t believe you, your just tricking me,’’ replied John. That night John went to sleep he heard a noise and woke up but it was the middle of the night and he was still sleepy so he went back to sleep and then he heard it again, ‘’Who’s there?’’
John cried and then a big monster came, ‘’Clean up your mess and if you don’t you’ll get pay back!’’ ‘’Ok’’ he got a fright but then he went back to sleep. At school at lunch time John ate his lunch and said, ‘’I’m going to clean my mess today and see if I don’t’’ ‘’Wow’’ everybody sitting on John’s table were in amazement and he continued that and every cleaning lady was very happy and so was John.
The End By: Bopha Jones