How much fun did you have today 5KP? Was that cool or what?
On the weekend, Simon and I were out at Hotel Indigo’s CHAR restaurant when we were offered not one, not three, but SIX different types of salt to spice up our steak. We chose between Himalayan Pink, Murray River Pink, Cyprus Flake, New Zealand Natural, Bolivian Rose and Fleur de Sel. After taking photos and oohing and aahing we dug in to one of the best steaks we’ve had in a long time, with one of the saltiest array of condiments which was so much fun, considering that the students and I have been learning about salt for the last couple of weeks in science.
I set the students the challenge of writing me a report on what they could discover about a salty situation. One of the favorite sites the kids found was saltworks.us where they were amazed with how many salts there were on offer. The class searched and copied and cut and pasted their way around the net and their blogs for the remainder of the afternoon; calling each over to share in their learning. It was a really great lesson and exciting to see so much engagement over something many of us just take for granted as being there, white and well… salty!
Our learning today will be a terrific complement to our lesson tomorrow where we attempt to saturate a salt solution… stay tuned 5KP Scientists!
In other news…
Many of you are coming out to SAS this Friday night. Here are the bus details that were e mailed to you earlier.
| Bus Times – Animal Rescue Fun Night March 23rd | |||
| Bus | Bus Stops | Arrive time | Bus Monitor |
| Green | Green Villa I.II.III (No. 777 MingYue Rd gate) | 6:10pm | 庄玲 18917695138 |
| Green Court I (LanAn Rd) | 6:15pm | ||
| Green Court II (BiYun Rd) | 6:20pm | ||
| Yellow | Vizcaya (YunShan Rd) | 6:10pm | 黄珍珍 18930702687 |
| Green Hills (Club House) | 6:15pm | ||
| Shimao Lakeside Garden(MingYue Rd) | 6:20pm | ||
| Purple | Palm Spring Villas (TangLong Rd) | 5:55pm | 郁美华 13917415653 |
| Century Garden (YinXiao Rd) | 6:25pm | ||
| XiangMei Garden (MeiHua Rd) | 6:30pm | ||
| Blue | Regency Park (LiuShan Rd) | 6:20pm | 张惠娟 13818062532 |
| Yanlord Town (DingXiang Rd) | 6:25pm | ||
| Shimao Riviera Garden (WeiFang Rd) | 6:40pm | ||
| Yanlord Garden (PuMing Rd) | 6:45pm | ||
| Brown | Tomson Beautiful Space (GuangLan Rd) | 6:05pm | 戴玉萍 13817508509 |
| Tomson Golf (LongDong Ave) | 6:15pm | ||
| LongYang Metro | 6:20pm | ||
| Portman Hotel | 6:50pm | ||
| Red | Emerald(Clubhouse) | 6:10pm | 陆萍 15800927366 |
| Tiziano Villa(XiuYan Rd) | 6:20pm | ||
| Orange | Mandarin City (Clubhouse) | 6:40pm | 凌丽华 13482849316 |
| Marriott Hotel HongQiao | 6:50pm | ||
| Other options: Links / personal car | |||
| Plese note | Your child will also bring home a letter on Thursday to remind you | ||
| which stop you have chosen, and whether s/he will walk | |||
| home or be picked up. | |||
| Also note | We are hoping that many of you are still planning to hand in | ||
| your 50 kuai donation if you have not done so already. | |||
| Please send the money on March 23rd, in an envelope marked | |||
| Fun Night. | |||
Here are the student led conference times I have for parents so far; please respond to the e mail I sent you confirming your time by Friday.
Thurs April 12th
12:30 – 1:30 – Erika
1:30 – 2:30 – Mia
2:30 – 3:30 – Taeyun, Josh,
3:30 – 4:30 – (My own children’s conferences)
Friday April 13th
12:30 – 1:30 –Annette, Aavia
1:30 – 2:30 – Claire, Sheung Yee, Bevan, Alex L
2:30 – 3:30 – (My own children’s conferences)
Here is a fun Friday photo of our students enjoying their author visit with Kathryn Lasky and her photographer husband Christopher Knight.
Dates for your calendar:
- MAP Testing (Reading) – Wednesday, March 21st at 8:15
- MAP Testing (Language Usage) – Thursday, March 22nd at 8:15
- Last day before spring break – Wednesday, March 28th
- Spring Break – Thursday, March 29th to Sunday, April 8th
- Back to School – Monday, April 9th
- Day Without Shoes – Tuesday, April 10th
- Transition to Middle School Meeting for students – Wednesday, April 11th
- Student Led Conferences – Thursday, April 12th and Friday, April 13th
- Author Visit – Kazu Kibuishi – Friday, April 20th
- Author Visit – Phil Bildner – Tuesday, April 24th
- Fifth Grade Track and Field Day – Wednesday, April 25th
- No School for May Day – Monday, April 30 and Tuesday, May 1
- Band and Orchestra concert – Friday, May 11th
- All Day Field trip to Jinshan Peasant Painting Village – Friday, May 18th
- Grade 5 Soccer Day – Tuesday, May 22nd
- Step Up Day – Friday, June 1st
- Summer Sizzler – Thursday, June 7th
- Moving Up Day – Friday, June 8th
- Last Day of School – Tuesday, June 12th – School closes at 11:30 a.m.
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