K2 Weekly Newsletter #10

Week of October 28th, 2013

EC Week 11 UISG EC Division

What Has Been Happening In Our Classrooms?

The K2 friends continued to share the family photos in class. They really enjoy playing with the house and family dolls. We could hear some friends pretending to the father or mother and using different tones to identify them. Some pointed out family members in books and others started to draw pictures that included a family in them. Children compared families in math and found some families have the same number of members as theirs. We started to discuss about roles and responsibilities in class and will need your help this coming weekend to help your child do a related survey in your home. This survey will come home on Friday with instructions; please remember to check your childs folder on this day . The K2Yellow friends did some cleaning this week as we felt the classroom belongs to everyone; and like a family, we needed to take responsibility of keeping things clean. So far, we have cleaned our shoe racks and the big doll house. Lets see what e lse we will clean this week. As well, we focused on Noisy Nicks sound and found out that his favourite number is nine. We worked on number 9 this week and adjusted our Green Speckled Frog song to 9 frogs instead (what a big family). We watched a mini movie about Fall/Autumn and learned that the farmers start to harvest their vegetables during this season. They usually celebrate this harvest with their family by having a big feast, which will lead us to the American Thanksgiving celebration. With our new Korean friend who does not speak any English, a few of our K2 friends decided to learn a little bit of Korean to connect to Jin Yong. It sure was a busy week. K2R met our new student Bonnie, who has quickly made friends and has been welcomed warmly to our classroom. We thought about ourselves and the things we like this week. We also talked about family members and what we call them in different languages. We looked at a map of the world and investigated where K2R families are from. We practiced asking each other where are you from? and looked at a big information book called an atlas. All the K2R children love looking through the atlas and talking to each other about what they can see. We certainly live in an interesting world. Parents can see some photos of this activity on our new weebly website k2uisgz.weebly.com. Remember that the password is k2pl@yground.

Unit of Inquiry Central Idea: Families are unique and make us who we are Trans-disciplinary Theme: Who We Are Key Concepts: form, connection, responsibility Lines of Inquiry: Similarities and differences within family units Roles and responsibilities within the family How family histories influence our identity

We would like to thank last weeks Classroom Helpers

Line Leader Snack & Lunch Helper Calendar/Weather Helper K2R Khalel Ombeline Rachel K2Y An Nan & Florian
Elise & Kyeong Chang

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Calendar of Upcoming Events And Celebrations

Month October st 31 Event/Celebration Character Day Dress up in your favourite book character and bring your book Whole School Professional Development days Family Country Celebration (10am-1pm) Early Childhood Division IB workshop in Hong Kong Mother-Tongue Storytelling 2:45pm No school Comments

November 7&8

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This Weeks Focus

Language: Letter sound Ss (Letterland character Sammy Snake) Putonghua: A classic story called zhu jia's story ().It's about sharing and mutual respect.We will make a mini-book out of it. Mathematics: Numbers: Recognising groups of zero to five objects without counting/ 1:1 correspondence to 10/ Using maths language to compare quantities (more /less) to continue Creative Art: Self-portraits for K2Y, Painting family with water colours for K2R PE: Kidnastics with balancing hoops and various jumps with routine (continued) Music: The book "Mr Pusskins" accompanied by music / the game "Shark Attack" / Jump Jim Joe game

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Please let us know what supplies you need in advance No school for EC parents Please remember to bring your book if you are a parent volunteer Lecture Hall Whole School Celebration School ends at noon

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28th December 13 20

UPTA meeting Festival of Lights More info to come soon End of Semester 1

Any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact us. Ms. Stephanie (K2R)- sfairall@uisgz.org Ms. Chan (K2Y) cchan@uisgz.org Ms. Daoqiong (K2Y)dqiong@uisgz.org

Class Reps : K2R Rachels mum(Gillian) : gilliangao53@hotmail.com K2Y Antonias mum (Nadine):ptnschmitt@me.com K2Y Elises mum (Ulrike): ulrikeranzow@googlemail.com Learn more about IB: www.ibo.org http://k2uisgz.weebly.com/ - password: k2pl@yground