Free Fish!

Free Fish Need A Good Summer Vacation Home!

If you have an aquarium at home,

the fish in Ms. Breedlove's class

would love to come spend the summer with you.

After the summer holidays, some of the fish might like to come back to our class,

but anyone who takes the fish for the summer,

is welcome to keep some of the fish.

The fish are ready for pick-up now.

Please see Ms. Breedlove before or after school.

We had a great week in Prep...

Please check the Photo Gallery and

ask your child to tell you about the pictures.

Portfolio Reflection Day

We would like to invite you on

Friday, May 20th

to our Prep Portfolio Sharing and Reflection time.

8:50-9:15

Prep 1

ChaeHyeon, Yunseung, Arianna, Yuri, Cole, Hayden, Finn, Jordi, Constance, Kyle, Petar

Prep 2

Seoeun, Ryan, Jacob, Mike, Paige, Adam, Svante, Alex, Ole, Tosca Marie, Magnus

9:20-9:45

Prep 1

Mick, Itai, Max, Sophia, Lucas, Laurel, Katya, Yuta, Isabella, Makayla,

Prep 2

Taisia, Henry, Ema, Oscar, Renske, Ties, Finley, Kana, Soji, Julian, Jamie

If you are unable to attend, please inform us in the diary.

No May Conferences

Dear Parents,

Please refer to the letter sent home by Mr. Lorenzini dated October 22nd. A copy of the letter can be found under the tab "Parent Letters". There are no parent conferences scheduled in May.

Sincerely,
Ms. Breedlove and Miss Pells

Library News

IMPORTANT NEWS FROM THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LIBRARY

Dear Parents,

The Elementary School Library is using the month of May to prepare for its move upstairs.

There is going to be a lot of work to do and all of the Library's books and shelving must be packed into boxes by Wednesday the 7^th of June, just two days before the end of this school year.

Because of this there is going to be a change to this year's Summer Check-Out programme.  Summer Check-Out is the term used to describe the borrowing of books for the summer holidays.

This timetable shows the plan we have put in to place:

20 May 2011	All things borrowed by parents and by children must be returned to the Elementary School Library by this date.
23 to 25 May 2011	The Elementary School Library will be closed. In this time we will prepare the library for Summer Check-Out
26 and 27 May 2011	Summer Check-Out will take place over these two days

This is how Summer Check-out will work:

Summer Check-Out only applies to families who are returning to ISD in August and only if all of your family's library books have been returned.

Each family may borrow up to 15 items

Check out will take place from 8.15 to 9.30 and from 3.00 to 4.00 on both days and all books will be due back on 16 August 2011.

Books chosen in the morning will be available in the afternoon.  If you choose your books on the afternoon of 26 May, they will be ready on the afternoon of 27 May.

If you have any questions, please feel free to come and talk with either Mrs Dawber or myself.

Yours Sincerely,

Kirk Owen

Elementary School Library

Prep Portfolio Sharing and Reflection

We would like to invite you on

Friday, May 20th

to our Prep Portfolio Sharing and Reflection time.

8:50-9:15

Prep 1

ChaeHyeon, Yunseung, Arianna, Yuri, Cole, Hayden, Finn, Jordi, Constance, Kyle, Petar

Prep 2

Seoeun, Ryan, Jacob, Mike, Paige, Adam, Svante, Alex, Ole, Tosca Marie, Magnus

9:20-9:45

Prep 1

Mick, Itai, Max, Sophia, Lucas, Laurel, Katya, Yuta, Isabella, Makayla,

Prep 2

Taisia, Henry, Ema, Oscar, Renske, Ties, Finley, Kana, Soji, Julian, Jamie

 

If you are unable to attend, please inform us in the diary.

Happy Mother's Day

We wish all Prep mothers a very

Happy Mother's Day!

Click on the link below for your special surprise:

http://voicethread.com/share/2005967/

Spring Break

We would like to wish you all

a happy and safe

Spring Break.

Sadly, we have to say good-bye to

Laia

in Prep 1.

We wish Laia and her Mom and Dad

all the best in

China.

Spirit Week

Many thanks

for your support

during

Spirit Week!

The children enjoyed dressing up.

Please see the new photos in the Photo/Video Gallery.
For more photos, please see Ms. Kashkari's IT Blog.

Spirit Week for Prep Students

22 March 2011

Dear ISD Families,

Spirit Week is coming soon!  This year Spirit Week will be during the week of 28^th March-1^st April. Spirit Week is a time for ISD to increase our school spirit by dressing up.  Each day of the week has a theme.

The days this year are:                    

Monday – School colours. Please wear red and white. (Please note this is different from the rest of the school)

.

Tuesday – Flag Day. If possible please wear the colours that are in your country’s flag. ( Please note this is different from the rest of the school)

Wednesday – CHANGE: Japan Day. Wear red to show support for Japan. On Wednesday at morning recess we will have a fashion show.

Thursday – Dress up as you want day

You can dress up in your best clothes, as a clown, superman or anything else you can think of!

Friday – Career Day

Dress up as what you would like to be / a job that you think is cool.

Please encourage your child/children to participate in Spirit week!

Best regards,

Student Council

New Student Welcome

Welcome to ISD!

Prep 1
would like to welcome

Petar Fabinger

to our class.


Pencil Boxes
will be sent home this Friday, March 18th.
Please check your child's supplies and replenish
pencils, glue sticks, scissors, erasers and pencil sharpeners.

No markers or crayons are needed
as we have a classroom supply.

The pencil box must be returned on Monday.
Thank you for your help!

Crazy Hat Day

Reminder:

Friday March 4th, 2011 is...

CRAZY HAT DAY

Wear the craziest hat you can find!!!

Parent Letter

Please check the 'Parent Letter' Tab for NEWS from Mr. Lorenzini!

Math Day

What:        Math Day

Where: Your child's Prep classroom

When:       Wednesday, March 2nd

       9:00 - 9:40

Who:          YOU

We look forward to seeing you! Come play and enjoy a variety of math games with your child! If you have a child in Third, Fourth or Fifth grade, you can join them in

their classroom from 9:45-10:45.

New Students

Welcome to Prep 2!

We are happy to welcome Ole and Taisia to our school.

World Maths Day 2011

It is coming...

World Maths Day - March 1st, 2011

You can participate from school, home and now also by

downloading an app for your iPod Touch, iPhone and your iPad.

The free App is called:

WMD2011

World Maths Day 2011

Everybody can use their normal mathletics username and password to join Maths Day.

Here is the link for World Maths Day:

http://www.worldmathsday.com/ 

 You can go to that link NOW and practice, practice, practice before the BIG DAY comes!! 

Enjoy ;-)

Ms Kashkari

Invitation to Math Workshop

Elementary School Mathematics Workshop

Mark your calendars for the morning of Wednesday March 2nd.   We hope to build on the success of last year's math day.  So please join your children in their classrooms for our second parent –student math open day.

You are invited to participate in one of our regular math workshops sessions. During the session we will play some of our interactive math games on the computers and the whiteboard. This is an opportunity for you to deepen your understanding of our constructivist approach to mathematics as your children move through the school. We hope to do this in a way that will be informative and fun for you and your children.

We will offer two sessions. The first will be from 9:00-9:40, when prep, grade one and grade two will be open for parents. The second will be from 9:45 - 10:25, when grades three, four and five will be open for parents

For parents who arrive early or who finish the session early we will be serving coffee in the foyer from 9:00-10:30.  This will be a good opportunity for you to socalise with other parents. Please check out our in-house television screen over your coffee. You will see some of our budding mathematicians demonstrating their learning.

 We look forward to seeing you there.

Teresa Coffey

 Deputy Principal

New on our Blog!

Please see our new photos of Prep 1 and Prep 2 in the Photo Gallery!


In addition, all parent letters will be posted in the Parent Letter tab. Please check regularly.


Enjoy your weekend!

Math Invesigations

Math Investigations

Measuring and Counting

Unit 4

Focus Points for Investigation 4:

Linear Measurement: Understanding length and using linear units:

Understanding what length is
Comparing lengths of different objects
Developing strategies for measuring the length of an object

Counting and Quantity: Developing strategies for accurately counting a set of objects by ones:


Connecting number words, numerals and quantities
Keeping track of a growing set of objects
Developing and analyzing visual images for quantities up to ten

Whole Number Operations:
Making sense of and developing strategies to solve addition and subtraction problems with small numbers

Combining two amounts
Decomposing numbers in different ways
Adding to or subtracting from one quantity to make another quantity
Exploring combinations of a number (e.g. 6 is 3 and 3 and also 5 and 1)

Counting and Quantity:

Developing an understanding of the magnitude and postion of numbers:

Comparing two quantities to determine which is more

Whole Number Operations:

Using manipulatives, drawings, tools and notation to show strategies and solutions:
Recording measurements with pictures, numbers and/or words
Using numbers to represent quantities and record how many

Welcome back!

We hope you and your family had

a restful, fun break.

It’s good to see everyone again.

A big welcome to our new student, Jamie, in Prep 2!