Tuesday 23 April 2019

Making Things

Our second last unit of the year has Grades 1 and 2 inquiring into how living things around the world build shelters differently for various reasons. We began by looking into where animals and humans take shelter, and the types of homes they build. To develop their ICT skills, Grade 2 began using Padlets to curate all of the information they knew and were finding our about animal and human homes. This was a great chance for the students to learn how to do basic actions such as copy and paste and to use their typing skills that they have been practicing in the mornings at typing.com!


Made with Padlet

The students also looked into how humans build different shelters around the world, and why.


Made with Padlet

They also spent some time outdoors, to sketch some of the homes around the school, and had some fun experimenting and testing out designs for a model windproof house.

Meanwhile, in math, the English students have been learning about shapes, fractions and Tangrams so for art we had fun using the different shapes to create pictures.

We also had some fun together with Preschool and Grade 1 searching for Easter eggs in the library! Check out the video below for all of these exciting activities!


Our fun making things also continues this week as the students will design and build shelters from the materials found in different environments around the world. And of course our big sleepover event will be this Thursday night!

Friday 12 April 2019

Sleepover Ahead! Sailboats Ahoy!

Annual Sleepover only Two Weeks Away!

One of the annual highlights for the lower elementary students in Preschool, Grades 1 and 2 is almost here! To ensure that the teachers, parents and of course students too are well prepared, please read the Sleepover Letter, to find out all the details of what will be happening as well as what the children will need to bring with them on the night of April 25th. Also, to make sure that the teachers know all the relevant details about your children, please complete the Sleepover Questionnaire and Consent Form online via this Google Form. Even if your child will not attend, please complete the Google Form as it has questions and details that are relevant to school on Friday, April 26th.

Sailing Sailboats on the Rokko Island River Canal

Last week, the students in Grades One and Two had the chance to finally sail the sailboats that they had made during our last unit on forces. Mr. Komine and some other volunteers from the Rokko Island Cup Executive Committee, who had helped us with building the models came back to show us exactly how sailboats use the pushing force of the wind to sail in different directions across the Rokko Island River Canal. It was a nice windy morning so the weather was cooperating with us, although it was a bit chilly!

The children's faces really warmed up when they got the chance to watch their very own sailboat sail across the river. A couple took on a bit of water and unfortunately sank, but for the most part, they all survived the treacherous trip across the river and back a few times!