Grade N-5 are selling mugs with homeroom photos printed on them. It will be a fundraiser event for N-5. All profits will be donated to support a teacher to Antarctica and to the creation of a ‘ Green Classroom’ at IST. Each mug is 25 RMB. The last day for order is next Monday, May 27th.

N-5 Mug Order Form

There will be no Homework in the children’s workbook this week. We will still  have the TODAY SHOW(the last round for the year) and Home Reading as usual. 

Congratulations to all the students on a great performance at the Kinder Assembly! You did a super job of sharing your yearlong learning about Celebrations!

Happy Birthday Julia!

We hope you had a lovely birthday on Friday!

Congratulations to Vitor and A Jin for reading 100 books!!!

Thank you to all the parents who  came along to celebrate our Assembly with us. We hope you enjoyed the show. We are very proud of the children and their performance. Thanks for not only the yummy treats but also for your  help in practicing their lines at home. As you could see … it really helped!

Congratulations to Bertram and Louise on being awarded their IST Student Medals! Bertram has worked hard all year and thoroughly deserved being recognised for his contribution to our Units of Inquiry.Louise has settled very quickly into the class and is enjoying being back with all her friends!

When objects are placed in the light, highlights and shadows appear on them.

We can use our imagination to make our own robot!

An inquiry into ways we can make objects look 3D by using shadow and highlights.

Make sure you CLICK on the LINK and have a look!!

http://istianjinelearning.org/amandashaw/2013/05/15/kindergarten-make-it-3d-jumping-robots/

We are all very much looking forward to welcoming you to our Kindergarten Assembly tomorrow! The children have been practicing very hard and are all extremely excited!

As the Elementary School Council have organised ‘Crazy Day’ the children can come to school dressed crazy!

After our assembly Kinder will host a morning tea. We would appreciate if all families could please bring a small dish to share. Looking forward to seeing you all at 8.25 in the 2-5 playroom tomorrow!

We have been having a lot of fun in Kindergarten!  One of the highlights has been Sydney and Saige’s belated 6th birthday party .. 6 chicks! They enjoyed their ‘real’ birthday in the USA but we have to say we loved the very special pop cake today! Here are few photos of what we have been up too.

Last week we said a sad farewell to Aniruth. We wish him all the best at his new school in India! He will be greatly missed at IST!

It was lovely to see Kavish at school today. We got such a wonderful surprise to see him. We had time to award him his 100 reading books certificate. Congratulations Kavish! We took a photo with him, he watched the special PE lesson and then enjoyed some popcorn and fun with his friends. Sadly, he can’t come to school yet but he will join us for the Kinder Assembly and the Spring Show.

Today we went to the science lab and did an experiment to rescue an animal from an oil spill. The children tried a variety of materials to try and get all the oil out of the water. Most found a sponge worked the best. It was a great way for the children to find out just how difficult it is to remove oil from the ocean and how real ocean animals might feel if has to swim in it. Be sure to ask the children about what they observed!

Today we found out just how big a blue whale is. We used trundle wheels to measure in meters how big a variety of ocean animals are. We compared their lengths. We discovered dolphins are 2-3 meters, killer whales are 6meters, whale sharks are 15meters, giants squids are 18 meters and the mighty blue whale, 30 meters in length. Here we are in action!

Another two super dooper readers. Congratulations Abby and Julia for reading 100 books! We are very proud of you!