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November already? Surely not…

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Alas, it is true…we can now officially start speaking of the Winter/Christmas break as being next month, and in between then we just have conferences, report cards, Thanksgiving, more narrative writing, some essay writing, lots of blogging, a couple of math tests, our cultural studies unit and have I forgotten anything???

Here are the conference times I have you booked for. I look forward to meeting with you all this Thursday and Friday. Please try and be there for the start of the conference as you can see the schedule is tight.

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Here are some great photos from last Friday’s Halloween Festivities. The kids had a really great day and I was proud of their behavior and attitude.

http://portal.saschina.org/video/flv_player/Main.swf

In other news…

Calling All Cute Pets – Photo Competition!

Do you have a cute puppy?  Does your cat pose for the camera like a bright-eyed model?  Then this contest is for you!

Pudong’s HS Animal Rescue Club is creating a calendar of animals to be sold just in time for 2011.  Submit your favorite photos of your pets and we will choose the best to be included as the months of the calendar.  But don’t worry – everyone’s photos will also be put in thumbnail size at the back of the calendar!

You can only submit two photos per family so make sure to pick your best shots!  And if you have a picture that fits a season or month, that is extra great.  Submit via email to marney.rosen@saschina.org by November 15th at noon at the latest.  Don’t forget to include names (yours and your pet’s!)

All proceeds from calendar sales go to Jaiya’s Animal Rescue.

Today we were so fortunate to have two special presentations at our school. The children met Canadian Chinese author Trevor Lai during their LLB block today and before recess they were treated to an amazing performance by Gumboot Dancers from the Kliptown Youth Center in  Johannesburg, South Africa. Here is a great example of their work you can check out if 1. you live outside of China or 2. you have a vpn!

What great additions to our cultural studies unit! Speaking of that, our amazing 5KP students raised so much money for Uganda that I was blown away. Special mentions to Calen, Maddie and Roxy who contributed over 1,000 rmb each through sponsors and a huge pat on the back to Carl Z who not only raised over 2,500 rmb, but contributed a large part of that himself! Our class raised close to the 13,000 rmb that we hoped for. I am so proud of your efforts.

You are all very special kids. x

What’s the big deal about goats?

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Ask your kids tonight if they learned anything about goats today?

Our new Global Ugandan Project was launched today in the school which lead me to read Beatrice’s Goat to the class which then lead me to read Give a Goat by Jan Schrock .

We spent time viewing the website about the Ugandan Global Project and talking about children around the world less fortunate than us and ways we could help them.

Today your child will be bringing home a sheet of paper with information about the Project and how we have come to be involved. There is also a section for them to tally the money they can make by taking part in the fund-raising part of the project which, along with the awareness a project like this creates, is a very important aspect. Considering we begin our Cultural Studies Unit this week and we are celebrating United Nations Day here at school next Friday, this is a very timely project.

UGANDAN GLOBAL PROJECT LETTER TO PARENTS

Parents and students, you can also go to some great links about Uganda as posted on 5th grade teacher, Ms Yick’s blog and read a lot more about the history of the project on Mrs Toa’s blog.

As far as looking into the Heifer organization which we read about and discussed today in class, I will leave that up to families, but here is a link to one of their catalogs.