Thank You and Best Wishes in the Future

It is with great sincerity that I write the final blog post for the school year to you. To the parents, thank you for your constant support, communication and understanding. To the students, thank you for your dedication, questions, answers, determination, smiles, laughs, hard work and leadership. Each of you will always hold a special place in my heart.

I encourage you to email me in the near and distant future with pictures of you and your family, school mates or just anything at all. The internet has made our world a small world after all.

Don't forget to "show off" your awesome dancing skills to your friends/family in the future with We're All in This Together. Let that song be a reminder that this year we were all together, as one unit/class, and that is a special bond/relationship that no one but the 17 of us shared together.

Let me leave you with this quote:

~~~Winners never quit and Quitters never win~~~

Which means, always try your best in whatever you do in the future. You are my stars.

Love: Ms. Meyer

Year End Concert Performance!

Year End Events

No School-Monday, June 6th
Talent Show-Tuesday, June 7th (Those performing are: Monica J, Taki, Lora/Hana/Rufat, Monica G, Hana and Sena)
Picnic, Pizza and Park-Wednesday, June 8th (Report Cards go Home and Farewell for Summer)

Homemade Ice-cream

Our students made Ice-cream last week ... for a few reasons!

-It's getting hot outside!
-Back in March the students wrote persuasive writing, and one was asking if they could have ice-cream in May (Congrats Sena and Pranu on your persuasion!)
-In Math we are learning about capacity and volume, what better way to understand cups, ml, pints and gallons than it fill up some measuring tools and EAT!

The method is quite easy:
http://crafts.kaboose.com/ice-cream-in-a-bag.html

Although we did not use Vanilla Extract for dietary reasons. But we did use lots of toppings, sprinkles and cookies afterwards!

Maybe your family can try it soon at home!

Temperatures Around the World

Students,
For Monday's Math test (May 23rd), you will have to know 5 countries, their JULY temperature and their DECEMBER temperature.

Ave Temps

FAMILY SPORTS DAY INFO

SPORTS DAY MAP

Song Lyrics

We're All IN this together

Important Days in May

May 5th-Children's Day (No School)
May 10th-No School
May 14th-Sports Day and Sena's Birthday

Year End Celebration SONG!

Dear Students,
Please practice singing every night :)
Big day is JUNE 2nd!! We will change the word WILD CATS to DOL-PHINS sing along ... !

Also practice the dance as we begin to learn it :)



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYATjOZCXng

Everland Field Trip!

Solar Systems! (Science Unit)

REMINDER: IF YOUR SON/DAUGHTER WILL ATTEND EVERLAND (FIELD TRIP) ON WEDNESDAY, PLEASE SEND 20,000 TOMORROW. THIS MONEY GOES TOWARDS THE ENTRANCE. THE SCHOOL IS GETTING A 13,000 DISCOUNT PER CHILD~ WE ARE CHECKING THE WEATHER CLOSELY. IF WE SEE IT WILL RAIN WEDNESDAY WE WILL GO ON THURSDAY AND WILL MAKE THE FINAL DECISION TOMORROW. I WILL UPDATE YOU ON THE BLOG. THANKS

SOLAR SYSTEMS

SPRING has SPRUNG!!!

International Fair!

RIS IF

My apologies

When I made the Word Doc about the money around the world, I accidentally copy and pasted the Afghanistan Money onto the Saudi Arabia table. I didn't realize it until a student pointed it out. I'm sorry! Here is an example of the Saudi Arabian Riyal :)

Homework: Thursday, April 21st

Dear Students:

http://www.pitara.com/activities/quiz/online.asp?qname=currencies

For homework tonight, learn about even MORE currencies (money) from around the world! Your job is to tell me ONE more currency you learned about tonight, tomorrow morning at school :)

http://www.primarygames.com/holidays/earth_day/games.htm

Also, to try to save our planet our homework will be all online for Earth Day! Here are some stories and games to play for Earth Day. Tomorrow I'm going to ask you which one you played or read :)

Ms Meyer

Money from Around the Globe

Check out what our students did in Math Class today!!

Also, Friday is International Day! Students are encouraged to wear traditional clothing. If they don't have any, please ask them to wear their uniforms.

Thanks

Inferring Song

Here is the Song we sing in Language Arts: http://reading.ecb.org/teacher/downloads.html Click the Inferring Song MP3! The words are beside it!

Reading at Home Program

Dear Parents/Students: We have started a new online reading program. Students can read books from their own level. When they read 30 books from this level and do the quiz (and pass) then they receive "points." With the points they can go "go online shopping" to fill up a special place that they choose (you will understand how it works once they start reading and receiving points). I ask that if they can, to record their voice reading, if you have a microphone. Under the book, you can see listen to or read. If you read the book (the eye), then you can record your voice. Please finish the quiz when you are done reading BEFORE you go onto the next book. Ms. Meyer can check from home to see how much you are reading AND hear your voice! :) Have fun! http://www.raz-kids.com/ Log In and Password: rischool2 Then click on your name! :)

Math: Money from Around the World (Or at least our class!)

Instead of focusing on ONE currency, I've decided to ask students to learn about each of their peer's currency. Wednesday they will be tested on: 1-How to draw the flag for the country given 2-The name of the currency 3-They should recognize the money, but not have to draw it


MONEY BLOG -

Math: Korean Money

Students will be asked to learn: 1-What the money looks like (not draw it, but recognize it) 2-The value/worth of each coin/bill 3-The name of each coin/bill They will be tested on Thursday, April 21st :)


Korean MOnety -