Good Luck to Sam and Erin who are swimming today at the opening of our new swimming pool.

The World Maths competition will end for the students at 7 pm tomorrow night, that is Thursday the 4th of March. The students have certainly honed both their typing skills and their fast math facts playing these one minute math games. It has been really great to see you all so excited 5KP.

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Here is a note from Mrs Denton:

“Winter Eyes” CONCERT DVD’s for grades K-4 are now for sale in the EAGLE store. The cost is 50 RMB each,  all proceeds will go to the “Hands On Shanghai” charity. This is a volunteer organization that has recently started teaching art and music classes in migrant schools. We have made a limited number of DVD’s, but will make more if needed.

Here is the web site.
http://www.handsonshanghai.org/
Joy Denton

Right now in class we are working on…

Math…Unit 8.4 This will be a short unit with a test late next week, it is mainly revision of fractions. I keep reminding the kids that they should be revising over their lesson every day, not just the night before the test. Students who scored more poorly than they would have liked will be doing a re-test of unit 7 tomorrow.

Writing…Poetry and Current Events. We are looking at Sara Holbrook poems as she visits next week. We are also looking at what makes news newsworthy and how articles are put together. The students will be starting and finishing their own newspaper page next week.

Reading… We are reading the fantastic memoir, Small Steps by Peg Kehret, the class (and I) are fascinated and many of the students blogged about polio last night, the disease the author suffered from.

Social Studies… Current Affairs including the Winter Olympics, disasters in Haiti and Chile and Shanghai’s Expo are all being discussed as we delve into this unit which we are also studying in our Writing Time.

Our own ‘current events’ at SAS include…

Wednesday, March 3 – World Math Day! Don’t stop until 7pm Thursday night 5KP!

Thursday, March 4th and Friday March 5th – Swim Tryouts at 3.15

Monday, March 8 – Sara Holbrook Assembly and meeting with all of 5th grade.

Thursday, March 11 – Treat Day – our middle school is preparing the treats, bring 5 RMB

Friday, March 12 – Love of Reading Week begins.  Put a poem in your pocket day.

Friday, March 12th Unit 8 Math Test

Friday, March 12 – Poetry Slam at 12.45 pm

Saturday March 13th – Join Mr Power and I at the St Regis for the PTSA trivia night

Monday, March 15 – Snuggle up with a good book – PJ DAY!!!!  Yay!

Tuesday, March 16 – Exercise your mind, read!  Wear your favorite sports gear.

Wednesday, March 17 – Go Green for Reading!  This is St Patrick’s Day, wear as much green as you can.

Thursday, March 18 – Book Character Day!  Dress up like your favorite book character.

Friday, March 19 – Hats off to reading day! Wear your favorite or silliest hat.

Saturday, March 20 – Spring Break begins!!!