Check this out for what is coming around the corner in technology…

Hi all, I stumbled upon this inspiring story while checking out Mr Utecht’s blog
which in turn led me to an SAS counselor’s blog
It contains information about a girl who started climbing mountains when she was the same age as some of my grade 5 students. But not just any mountains, the biggest mountains in the world.
Read about Samantha Larson’s adventures and let me know what you think. It certainly made me want to climb.
                                       
                                             

It is approaching 11.30 am on Thursday the 31st of May. At this time next week I will have some very excited 5th graders on my hands as they take off to begin their summer vacation. I will be spending my holiday in the southern hemisphere so no sunshine for me…but lots of family and friends to catch up with so that will be fantastic.
Only 8 of my students (out of 18) are remaining at Pudong Campus of SAS for the next school year. It will be great to see them in the middle school here and I wish all of my current students the very best that life has to offer.

Go to flickr to see this photo and many more wonderful shots.

5KP NEWSLETTER         

May 21^st 2007

WHAT’S HAPPENING IN 5KP?

We are completing our Charlie assignments over LA time this week and I have given the class an extension until Tuesday the 29^thof May as they have been generally using their time very well and would benefit from the extra weekend on the project.

All students have completed their Nutritious Meal projects. Each student has now presented their project to the rest of the class and been given back an assessment sheet where they can see where their strengths and weaknesses were. Overall I am extremely proud of the effort the class have made and I have been overwhelmed with positive feedback from parents over the bonding that took place during the project, what great news!

In Social Studies we have finished our unit on the 13
Colonies. I was very happy with the effort and planning that many of the
students put into their group activity. Well done 5KP, your presentation skills
are really developing and I am glad you learnt so much.

In Math we completed Unit 11 and are halfway through unit 12. We should complete the final chapter next week and I plan to do the test next Friday June 1st.

Grade 5 Stepping Up Assembly

The Grade 5 Stepping Up assembly is happening this Thusday at 9 am in the lecture theatre

near the H/S library. I encourage you all to come out and get information from
Mr. Munnerlyn about the expectations required from your child when entering
middle school. This session is due to finish at around 10.30 am.

 SAs pudong Yearbook

The SAS Pudong
Yearbook is on sale now. Envelopes were given to your child last Friday. During
the month of May they are RMB230, but in June they are RMB260. So get your
envelope returned ASAP!

 Thanks

Thanks to all
the parents for the Teacher Appreciation Lunch last Thusday. Teachers were very
impressed (like they are every year) with the awesome spread. It seems to get
bigger and bigger every year. THANK YOU!

 Elementary Track and Field Day

The Elementary
Track and Field Days have been split to lower elementary and upper elementary.
The upper elementary Track and Field Day is on Wednesday 23 May.

Don’t forget
to wear your House shirts and come on out for a great day of fun activities!

 Thanks

Thanks to all
the parents for the Teacher Appreciation Lunch last Thusday. Teachers were very
impressed (like they are every year) with the awesome spread. It seems to get
bigger and bigger every year. THANK YOU!

 Elementary concerts

There are two
great  elementary concerts this week. On
Thursday the grade 3 and 4 choir will be performing at 1:30pm in the auditorium
and then on Friday the grade 5 Band and Strings will be performing a concert at
1:30pm in the same venue. We hope to see you all there.

Volunteers
to be recognized

The parents of 5KP have been very visible and
active in the school. Dr. Larkin would like to recognize you for your great
efforts. As per the written notice in the Parent Talk two weeks ago, please RSVP
today if you can attend the May 24 at 3pm service in the Secondary School Lobby. You are to contact
iris.zhu@saschina.org

 ThankYOU
It was a
wonderful opportunity to get together with the majority of the class yesterday,
also their siblings and parents and so a big thankyou goes out to Letitia’s mum
and dad, Theressa and Young for opening up their home and hearts to us. It was
greatly appreciated by everyone. Thankyou to those that organised this event,
brought along food and attended. Your kind words towards your children were
very touching and I feel very fortunate to have been a part of your child’s
elementary school experience.

 What’s on?

Mon 21 May           Lower
Elementary Track & Field Day

Tues 22 May          ES
Spirit Day – Students wear clothes backwards

Wed 23 May                   Track
& Field Day 9-2.30

Thurs 24 May        Stepping
Up Assembly – Mr. Munnerlyn 9:30 Lecture Hall

Parent Appreciation Tea 11 am

Grade 3 & 4 Choir Performance 1:30pm – Auditorium

Fri 25 May            Strings
& Band Concert 1:30 pm – Auditorium

Here is the link I was talking about in the previous entry…

We’ve had Jeff in class this morning giving some tips on all manner of things including a fun thing for the kids to do where they go to a flickr site and type in some letters such as SAS or their name. flickr has pictures of letters that people have taken and you can keep clicking on them to change how they look. Then you can copy that html coding they provide and add it to your sidebar widgets through a text box. See Rahul’s for an example of what we did, or scroll down to the right and check out mine.

We also looked at how to put the students power points on my blog which I will be doing soon so Jeff directed us to a site about slidesharing. I joined up there and here is an informative blog I found there while I was having a look, it won world’s best slideshow at the recent presentation contest. Take a look!
Also we have a few of the health project blogs to look at. Click here to check out Quincy’s healthy meal project.

Christina also completed one of the tasks we discussed this morning in class by going to a site where you can add your own crazy little talking animals, not really my scene, but you check it out and see what you think, the kids loved it.

Here is another 6 minute video that may help students, teachers and parent with their understanding of the blogosphere…

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Many parents and educators have asked this question before…’Why let our students blog?’

Maybe this small video will answer that question for you…

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