As the students in Grade 5/6 begin preparing for their Exhibition, I am recalling all of the hard work they accomplished over the past year. From portraits inspired by Marcel Dzama to silhouette compositions, African masks, cardboard pop-ups, and all of their online projects, Grade 5/6 has proven to be creative and inventive and productive […]
This past month, all of our students have been preparing for our annual ART SHOW! For the June 1st opening of this year’s Arts Festival, the upstairs art gallery will feature student works created about and inspired by the artworks of Henri Rousseau. Henri Rousseau is a French post-impressionist painter whose work exerted an extensive […]
Is jump rope challenging for kindergarteners? It may be. It may take a lot of practice and focus to acquire and refine jump rope skills but we know that young children enjoy the challenge of trying to jump and land over a rope. Therefore, during the learning process, it’s appropriate to allow Kindergarteners explore the beginning […]
It was Earth Week as well as the 5th Reading Festival Week. In celebration of Earth Day, we did not just read books on that special day, and not being nice to our earth for just one day or one week. They should be long-term practices. Our PYP students know this very well. The students […]
Since the first day of school reopened, K1 students were taught and reminded to protect themselves against the vicious COVID-19. On top of putting on a mask at all times and kept a distance from friends; they were trained to foster regular handwashing habit and applied the eight (8) handwashing steps. Here, Yuki using the […]
In this unit of inquiry, we are discovering about different ways communities are organized and the roles people play in diverse communities. The students watched a video on brainpop.com and did online research to find out about the topic. They learned that a community is a group of people living in a particular area. Community […]
在茫茫的太空里，有一颗爱的行星，她养育着所有的生命，她就是地球母亲。如今她已是伤痕累累，银河中传来她痛苦的呻吟。来吧来吧，爱惜一滴水，它是母亲的血液。来吧来吧，护养一颗树，它是大地的身躯。来吧来吧, 放飞一只鸟，它也是地球的儿女。善待地球，用我们的良知。善待地球，用我们的热情。善待地球，用我们的行动。善待地球，就是善待自己。 世界地球日（Earth Day）即每年的4月22日，是一个专为世界环境保护而设立的节日，旨在提高民众对于现有环境问题的意识，并动员民众参与到环保运动中，通过绿色低碳生活，改善地球的整体环境。
As our first day back together was Easter Monday, we celebrated with an egg hunt outside in a courtyard meadow. The children found not only chocolate, but fun words to put together to make sentences. They also revised their classroom agreements (aka rules) to include how to practice safe learning while at school during this […]
感受春天的美丽，折出好看的树叶! K1：认识点，线并用它们装饰面具 K2 ：颜料的学习与使用，感受色彩美
How we organize ourselves Central Idea: Religious structures share commonalities that nurture and at times, conflict. Line of inquiry 1: Structure of the world’s major religions In unit 5, we are looking at the structure of the world’s major religions for this term starting with Hinduism. It is the oldest active and third-largest religion in the world. […]
