More water fun!!

Here are the children doing us proud during their performance in the Spring Show.The children wrote about it the next day and they said they enjoyed it very much. We hope you had a lovely evening too!

Please read the flyer carefully. The most important things are that the children DO NOT wear their swimmers to school and that EVERYTHING is NAMED!! Come on weather …do your thing!!!

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. 

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 [...]

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 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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

MOTHER’S DAY GIFTS: 9 and 10 MAY: The Elementary Student Council are running a small gift stall for Mother’s Day which is celebrated in many countries this Sunday. For 15 to 35RMB the children can choose between buying a bookmark, a message bear or jewelry on both Thursday and Friday. On Friday ONLY they can [...]

We celebrated a belated birthday today for Ms Lan. The children were all  very excited to hide and surprise her. We enjoyed a cupcake each, after a wish was made and the candles blown out!

Firstly we spoke to Wolf on Skype. It was really great to see him  and his Mum. They are very happy back in Germany. Wolf showed us his home and new room. He said he has some great friends at school and that he is going camping soon in his new van. We said we [...]

Pink or white? This was the big problem we faced when deciding which one of the delicious cupcakes to have to help celebrate Romy’s and MeiLi’s birthday today!  They both were very excited for everyone to share in their special day. We hope you both had the most wonderful of days!