Ni Hao!

*Thanks for your help in creating this masterpiece on the first day!!

Caring

I am Caring.

I am Caring.

I am kind.

I am kind.

I’m a bucket filler.

I’m a bucket filler.

See me shine.

See me shine.

Our caring Explorers are sure expressing this Learner Profile at every possible opportunity.  Have they shared with you what it means to be a Bucket Filler?  This is something we talk a lot about as they use our giraffe language to communicate.  If you are interested in following up at home, below is the book we read in class that explains it all in great detail.

Our Unit of Inquiry, Who We Are, had us focusing on what is the same about everone and what make us unique.  We explored this in great detail.  We even explored how we were like M&M’s!  *We are all different on the outside, but on the inside we are just the same.  Those light bulb moments are so much fun to watch in our eager learners.

Thank you for taking the time to complete the special homework assignment with your child.  As they explored how children around the word go to school, it was great for them to learn how their families went to school too.  Making these special connections is an important part of their learning.

We are working on our numbers too and took a walk around the school on a quest to find numbers in our environment.  Wow, they sure are in a lot of places!  People use numbers in lots of different ways.  As you go around your home or community please help you child look for numbers too and exporer how they are being used.  Your children are wonderful observers!

Here we are with a partner ordering numbers from 1-10 with tiles.  It was so much fun to see their interactions and discussions.   

The children are having a lot of fun using our interactive board to reinforce the skills we are learning.  Here they are putting children on the school bus that matches the number and number word.

Mandarin has been a lot of fun and so interesting.  Our Explorers are learning how to communicate and a lot about the culture and customs of China.  We know how to say hello, good-bye, how to greet a teacher, how she will greet us and how to raise our hand (China has a special way).   

Hanging on our first floor is a masterpiece that every student at Campus International helped to create with Ms. Lipka.

A stunning use of broken crayons!

We hope you have a fantastic Labor Day weekend!  We look forward to seeing everyone on Tuesday.