October newsletter 2013

October Newsletter

RAINBOW INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL Provides holistic and experiential learning for grades 1 to 8

October 2013

Mission Statement

Rainbow International School enables students to achieve academic excellence while being encouraged to be global leaders who promote global peace through equity, innovation, diversity, integrity, community, care for the environment and self-respect.

Dear Parents,

Upcoming Events

We are excited about the year ahead of us and hope that we can continue to provide a varied learning experience for all students in our school. To accomplish this, we need your help. Talk with our teachers to discuss any concerns that you may have and share with them the successes that your child is having. Your child’s educational experience can only be better with your involvement.

Have a wonderful school year.

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Rainbow International School

October Newsletter A Good Parent!

Being a parent is one of the most fulfilling experiences a person can have. The most important thing a parent can give their child, however, is a sense of being loved. Just keep in mind that you don't have to be infallible to be a "perfect" parent.

1. Express your Love and Affection Love your children unconditionally; don't force them to be who you think they should be in order to earn your love. Let them know that you will always love them no matter what.

The Grade Fours Have Pen Pals!!

Rainbow International Sc hool and Futuraskolan International School of Sweden have teamed up! Our grade 4 students are exchanging letters with their international friends via a pen pal program.

The pen pal program is a fun way to give our students real-life lessons in Social Studies, Language Arts, Geography, Internationalism a n d m o r e . T h e p e n p a l relationships will provide valuable practice at letter writing, increase awareness of other societies and cultures, and provide an opportunity for our students to

develop lifelong friendships with people who live far away. Maybe one day they will even get a chance to meet in person!

After penning their first letters, the grade 4s walked to the post office to personally mail their letters to their pals. Luckily, our Pen Pal letters arrived from Sweden first!

That meant that the grade fours got to pick their pen pals first. They randomly chose a letter by picking from a "mail bag."

Our pen pals not only wrote detailed letters, they also sent along oil paintings they had made about life in Sweden. It was an exciting morning!!

2. Praise your children Avoid comparing your children to others, especially siblings. Each child is individual and unique.

Celebrate their differences and instill in each child the desire to pursue their interests and dreams.

Failure to do so may give your child an inferiority complex, an idea that they can never be good enough in your eyes.

3. Listen to them Create an atmosphere in which they can come to you with a problem however large or small.

4. Be a Role Model Young kids are like sponges, they notice everything. As parents we are our children's first role model.

Pay attention to what you say or do around them and think about what kind of example you are making.

Character Word of the Month - Fairness Play by the rules • Take turns and share • Be open-minded; listen to others • Don’t take advantage of others • Don’t blame others carelessly • Treat all people fairly Think of dividing an orange into equal sections to share fairly with friends

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holding the spirit week from October 28th to November 1st. Spirit week is to get students enthused and supportive of the school.

The week also serves to get students involved and united on a common goal of promoting the school spirit. During this week students are encouraged to dress-up to the theme and express t heir distinct individuality. We will be looking for best-dressers so participate in this fun-filled week!

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SPIRIT WEEK 2013 Oct 28 Monday

Oct 29 Tuesday

Class Color Day*

Jeans Day

Try dressing from head to toe in your class color!

Wear any items made with jeans!

Oct 30 Wednesday

Oct 31 Thursday

Crazy Hat or Hair Day

Costume Day

Put on your craziest hat! Or impress your friends with your crazy hair style!

Dress as your favorite character!

Nov 1 Friday Pajama day Wear your pajamas to school, but don’t fall asleep!

*Gr1:red, Gr2:orange, Gr3:yellow, Gr4:green, Gr5:sky-blue, Gr6:navy, Gr7:purple, Gr8:white

Rainbow International School

October Newsletter

Feel safe and secure When children feel safe and secure, they learn to trust other people.

Children who don't feel safe can be anxious and unhappy. This can affect their health and learning. But when they learn that they can trust the adults around them, it helps them grow up happy, healthy and to enjoy the world around them.

Firstly, we make children feel safe by meeting their basic needs. But we also make them feel safe by showing them that we love them.

Field Trip to National Museum!

Yesterday October 23, 2013, Grades 2, 3 and 5 Students had the Field Trip to The National Museum in Seoul. It was an excellent opportunity for our students to learn Korean culture and see the significance of Korea`s Cultural assets in the world. Students learned the story of the Golden Crown and tried to make their own crown.

This Trip meant a lot of learning experiences to our Students!

On Friday (October 18) and Saturday (October

19) Rainbow International School had the First Student Led Conference of 2013-2014 School Year. Students were very excited to introduce their portfolios (projects, work, posters, etc.) and share their progress and plans. Parents felt eq uall y as exit ed t o see t heir c hildren demonstrate their learning in the First Quarter. A Big Congratulations for all the students who participated in the Student-Led Conferences on Friday and Saturday. The students all did fantastic job explaining the progress they have shown through the last two months.

Of Course this day would have been impossible without a great help of RIS faculty and supportive parents who took time out of their busy days.

1st Student-Led Conference of 2013-2014 School Year!

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Students will need to commit to this Olympiad preparation for Nobis Orci Aliquam Cras Maecenas approximately four hours every Saturday from now until the competition.

These Senmaris Calla Ipsum Vivamus Nunc Curabitur Leo Saturday sessions will be held on alternate weekends at RIS in Seoul and at Professor Eget Toque Nobis Eget Tortor Rasellus Yavuz's facilities in Daejeon.

Aliquam de Manti Sed accumsan Libero Porta Professor Cafer Yavuz is a Turkish scholar currently teachingQuisque and conducting research at KAIST in Daejeon. Professor Yavuz has offered to lead two groups of RIS students through the process of preparing and presenting projects at two different Science Olympiad competitions.

One group of students will compete at the 22th International Environmental Project Olympiad (INEPO) held in Istanbul, Turkey in May, 2014 . Another group of students will prepare to compete at I-SWEEEP, the International Sustainable World (Energy, Engineering, and Environment) Project Olympiad, held in Houston, USA in May, 2014.

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