Stories, Storms and Water Cycle

 This week we started working on writing personal narratives during language time. On Friday, Ellie's sister Keira joined us as a guest storyteller to read her own personal narrative book, "The Worst Beach Ever" to us. Grade 3 also started practicing how to write their own short personal narratives about a small moment with someone that matters to them.

In unit time, we stormed into our 3rd unit of the year on how societies prepare for extreme weather phenomena. By chance a large container ship that was damaged in a storm at sea was docked here on Rokko Island, so we went for a walk down to the waterfront to take a look and to discuss this current event that has been on the news all week. 

Students also shared what they felt they knew about the topic, and we sorted out which natural disasters were weather-related and those that were not. The water cycle is at the heart of all the weather on the Earth so we began to look into what the students know about it and we will be doing some science experiments on the water cycle and different states of matter next week.

Upcoming Events Next Week

There's only one week left until the Winter Holidays but it is sure to be a busy one as we will continue with the unit, have a farewell party for Stella and Aruto in Grade 4 as Stella will be returning to Germany during the holidays and Aruto will be leaving DSK at the end of January and will celebrate Christmas with Santa next Friday. For the farewell party, at the end of the day on Tuesday, December 15, students in Grade 3 and 4 will play some games and have some snacks at a small farewell for two of their 4th Grade friends. Ms. Ramani and I will prepare a couple snacks for the students, but you can also pack your child with a small snack to eat in the afternoon. If they would like to bring something to share with others, please ensure that it is something that is individually wrapped.

Also a reminder for those students who bring their own instruments for music to continue to do so next week on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday (maybe they can play the song for Santa!)